The Unknown God   Acts 17:23-31

This post covers the unknown God.

‘The Unknown God’ provides information about God and how to please Him. The Apostle Paul preached in Athens about the real God, because they worshipped idols. Paul’s starting point was an altar to the unknown god, Acts 17:23. “…What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.”

Then, he told them of the characteristics of this unknown god, Acts 17:24-25. “The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor…served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all… life and breath and everything.”

In addition, God made of one blood all people, appointed where they should live, and at what time. All this had a purpose, Acts 17:27-28. “that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him… ‘In him we live and move and have our being’… For we …indeed his offspring.”

This means we should not think of God as an idol but seek to know Him. We are His children.

Then Paul continued by quoting a command issued by God,  Acts 17:30-31. “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world …by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

At this point, most of his audience left, unbelieving. But unbelief does not change the fact of a future judgment.

This sermon helps us today to believe in God. We can gain deeper understanding  by studying the Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 provides what we need to know. “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.”

So, what did we learn?

1.An all-powerful God has given us life and commands.

2.We need to obey the God found in the Bible.

3.The Bible provides God’s commands and proof of his nature.

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