What God Wants    Acts 17:26-30

This post concerns what God wants from His creation and describes what the Bible says about God’s wishes for us.

In Acts 17, the Apostle Paul preached the gospel to an audience of pagan philosophers in the Areopagus in Athens. He began by introducing the crowd to the one and only true God who created the universe. This idea, foreign to them, seemed to attract their attention. Paul continued, Acts 17:26-27.

“And he made from one man every nation to live on all the face of the earth… that they should seek God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him.”

Note that God says that everyone descended from one man (Adam). Also, God desired that people seek after Him and find Him. That’s something we need to do.

Then, Paul explains that God desires the audience to repent of worshipping idols.

Acts 17:29-30. “Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,”

Then, Paul tells why, Acts 17:30. “… because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

So, this judgment will occur by a man appointed by God (His Son, Jesus). The proof and evidence that this man would judge lies in the resurrection of that man, Jesus, from the dead.

This broke up the meeting because some of the philosophers would not believe in a resurrection. Others did believe.

So, is needed?

1…believe that God is the creator of everyone.

2…seek Him and find Him.

3… know that Jesus will judge the world on the day of judgment, the end of the world.

So, what did we learn?

1.We need to believe in God and seek Him.

2.The resurrected one, Jesus, will be our judge.

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