Tell 'Em Who You're For! Slides, 1/16/14
- 2. Tell ‘em WHO you’re FOR! (not what you’re against) ACTS Series January 26, 2014
- 3. Paul in Thessalonica And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and aHacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. Acts 17:4-‐5 (ESV)
- 4. Paul in Berea Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men. But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitaJng and sJrring up the crowds. Acts 17:12-‐13 (ESV)
- 5. Now while Paul was waiJng for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?”
- 6. Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign diviniJes”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrecJon. And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenJng? For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” Acts 17:16-‐20 (ESV)
- 7. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Philippians 4:4 (ESV)
- 8. So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscripJon, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 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 is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
- 9. And he made from one man every naJon of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined alloHed periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
- 10. 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 imaginaJon of man. The Jmes 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 in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” Acts 17:22-‐31 (ESV)