Sunday 2021.11.14
This morning I read chapters 17 to 19 of the Acts of Apostles in the New Testament.
In Acts chapter 17, the Apostle Paul described his God to a gathering of philosophers of the Areopagus in the city of Athens, as follows:
Acts 17:24 - 31 NIV New International Version
‘The God who made the world and everything in it
is the Lord of heaven and earth and
does not live in temples built by human hands.
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything.
Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth;
and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
“For in him we live and move and have our being.” As some of your own poets have said, “We are his offspring.”
‘Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone – an image made by human design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.’
Brothers and Sisters in the Lord Iesus the Anointed One, let us remember that we are the offspring of our God who created the heaven and the earth and everything in it - God who does not live in temples nor resemble any image of gold or silver made by human hands.
Let us seek Him and reach out for Him. He is not far from us.
Let us hold fast to our faith and hope in God Almighty who has set a day to judge the world by Iesus his Anointed One whom he has raised from the dead and made to be seated at His right hand.
