MAKING THE LORD KNOWN (PART 5)

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

“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.”

Acts 17:29 

This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Over the past four days, we have taken a micro-look at Paul’s message to the Areopagus, a group of ruling elders in the city of Athens. Disturbed by an altar he passed in city that was dedicated to an unknown god, Paul chose to let the Athenians know about the Lord they were seemingly unaware of. He drove home the following main points:

1. We serve an almighty God, the only true God who created and then rules over all things in heaven and on earth.

2. This Lord sits in ultimate authority over everything but He is not a God who lacks compassion or caring. Rather, He is a God who loves and forgives perfectly, providing for all He has made because all created things are totally dependent upon Him as they live to serve others in obedience to His calling.

3. Since God is Lord over all, possessing infinite power to make the impossible possible, He holds history in His hands, ordering events across time while placing His people within the borders He draws up. He and He alone ordains the rise and fall of nations.

4. Finally, God is always near His people. He created all human beings and so He is the Father of everyone. All living people are His offspring and they have their very being because of Him.

This is the God of all creation, the Maker and Master over all living things. But as the old saying goes, “Wait! There’s more.” For as we see in our final two devotions today and tomorrow, Paul has a few more things to say about the Lord God Almighty. Look at his words from the 29th verse of chapter 17:

“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.” Acts 17:29

Paul wanted the Athenians to know that the God who made all living things was, and still is, alive. Unlike the idols the Athenians worshiped all over the city, idols fashioned by human hands out of gold or silver or stone, the only God, the one true God, was real. Nothing made out of gold, silver, or stone could give birth to a human being. Something lifeless could not beget life into anything else. But a living God, one with ultimate and matchless power to do anything, could develop a human being or anything else living that He wanted to.

Today, we see living beings created by other living beings but the offspring of every procreated event belong to God for He is over all things in heaven and on earth, and all living things belong to Him.

That was the point Paul was driving home to his audience as the Areopagus was in session and it’s the message he drives home to all who read about his message in present times.

Tomorrow, we’ll look at the conclusion of Paul’s dissertation in our final devotion as we see how he closes out making the Lord known to the Athenians.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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