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Acts 17:16–21 · BSB
17:16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
17:17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace with those he met each day.
17:18 Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
17:19 So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, where they asked him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
17:20 For you are bringing some strange notions to our ears, and we want to know what they mean.”
17:21 Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.
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…our worship must be governed by the Word of God. Number three, theology is necessary to worship. Theology is necessary to worship. This comes fromActs chapter 17, when the apostle Paul is there in Athens and he's about to address them, and he says, he stands up in the midst of Mars Hill and he said, You men…
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…not have access to the word of God, it's okay. He has created the witness of creation that will move them to worship the unknown God, right? AsActs chapter 17clearly demonstrates. And in light of that, someone came and gave them the word of God. That's how it works. But he also gave them their conscience…
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…a brother in Christ or a brother in Adam. The principle is the same because there we see this principle that we have— we're in the same family.Acts chapter 17and verse 26. Or if we're in Christ, Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 3, we have the same Father and that ought to soften our view of our brother. And…
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…turns his focus to Agrippa, we know what Paul would say to people who think he's crazy because of the resurrection. We've seen him say it. Back inActs chapter 17, Paul went to the Areopagus, speaking to philosophers, great minds, the great minds of those times when he was in Athens. He went to the Areopagus…
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…the way it comes about is it's a letter that the Apostle Paul wrote to this young church in the city of Thessalonica. And we find the background inActs chapter 17. And the story is this. The Apostle Paul, along with two other guys, Silas and Timothy, traveling through the province of Macedonia, they come to…
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…other Israelites or some Jews that preached the gospel because Moses also is part of them. Paul is part of them, right? So let's go to Genesis intoActs chapter 17. Let me just jump some things. Acts chapter 17, Acts 17. What we are going to see is that did the word of God reach the Gentiles also? We're going…
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…of sacredness in every human being. I've come to an understanding that even in our humanity, even in our humanity, we're all children of God. InActs chapter 17, Paul quoting the uh philosophers, he said, even your own philosophers say that we are God's offspring. In Ephesians chapter 3, uh, Paul he's…
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…a political term that was for the uh local legislative government called out body in a city, in an area. For instance, when Paul goes to Athens inActs chapter 17, and he is talking to at the Eragopacus, he's talking to the leaders there in Athens, and of course he sees the sign on the wall that says to an…
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…the sake of them meeting a good God? The second thing Matthew understood is that God has positioned you to make a difference right where you are.Acts chapter 17says that God positions people. It says that he has placed people in appointed times and appointed places so that people, so they could and so that…
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…that he is concerned with where we live. It's not that just he's aware of it, but that in his knowledge, he is concerned with where we are. InActs chapter 17, one of my favorite chapters in Acts, Paul is in Athens and he is preaching and teaching to this very religious city. Even they have this shrine to…
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…word. In fact, that's Luke's word there, with all readiness of mind. And then in Athens, we see ridiculing. The word. That's going to take place inActs 17:16-34. It's always good for us, and I think in Bowling Green the answer might be different than it is other parts of the country, even other parts of the…
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…person on planet earth has a fatherly relationship with God because God created them and God continues their existence. Paul mentions this inActs chapter 17. He's talking, he's preaching to people, trying to get them to worship the one true living God. And he says, hey, listen, we're all offspring, in…
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If you have your Bibles and you want to turn with me, we'll be reading fromActs chapter 17. Acts chapter 17, and we'll be reading down through to verse 34. Acts 17, verse 15. Remember that what I'm about to read is God's holy and inspired…
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If you have your Bibles with you, you could turn together with me toActs chapter 17. Acts chapter 17, we'll be reading verses 1 through 15. Acts 17, verse 1. Remember, as you listen to this, this word that's read, this is God's…
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…leave women like this out. Women like Joanna and Susanna, who supported Jesus' ministry in Luke chapter 8, or Demaris, who gets a brief mention inActs, chapter 17. Scholars note that Luke describes his purpose for writing this gospel. He says, I want to give a well-ordered and believable account. And bringing…
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…and the Bible and hell. But today we close with a question that a lot of people ask. Is Jesus really the only way to God? And I want us to turn toActs chapter 17together. There are passages that answer this question more simply and directly. But I really love this passage where Paul is in Athens and he's…
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…Because he's God. If God needed anything or anyone, he would not be qualified to be God. God is self-existent. I am that I am. Look at uh Paul inActs chapter 17. Y'all will remember this is the uh Paul when he was debating, or rather preaching to intellectuals on Mars Hill, when he was telling them about…
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…uh, so I'll have to use my glasses, I do apologize, but what I'd like to do is just read a part portion of scripture that we'll be in, will be inActs chapter 17. Um read a portion of scripture, pray, and then jump in. Acts chapter 17, verse 22 through 25. So uh so Paul, standing in the midst of the…
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…in a prison, they're singing in the middle of weakness because they know in the middle of that dark place that Christ is with them. But we get toActs chapter 17and verse 5, and we find that Paul begins to bring the gospel forward, and things are troubling. Philippi's not just the end of it, he's driven out…
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…exist. They exist to protect life. Paul touches on this, and this is this is one of the areas where the founders pulled this phrase from inActs chapter 17. When Paul is standing on the great, the great uh uh pinnacle of Greek thought on Mars Hill, and he's arguing for the existence of God. He explains…
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