Proclamation:
“For
in Him we live and move and have our being.
As some of your poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’” Acts 17:28 (NIV)
Explanation:
These
words were written by Luke, the physician, under the influence of The Holy
Spirit of God. Luke records that Paul
and Silas had to leave Thessalonica because after they preached that Jesus was
the Messiah, the non-believing Jews had formed a mob there and were looking for
them. (Acts 17:1-10) They went to Berea
but the non-believing Jews from Thessalonica heard that they were preaching
there and came to Berea and stirred up the crowd against them. (Acts
17:10-15) Paul then went to Athens and
noticed that the city was full of idols and was disturbed. (Acts 17:16-18) While there he found an altar with the
inscription, “To The Unknown God”, and he preached to them about Him. (Acts
17:22-23) While he was speaking to them
he said that it was because of The Lord God that we live, move, and have our
very being.
Application:
There
are a lot of intelligent and well educated people who believe in scientific
things but do not believe in Jesus, The Christ, or His death, burial, and
resurrection. They do not believe that
God created the earth and all things therein. (Revelation 10:6) They do not believe that man was made from the
dust of the earth and God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a
living soul. (Genesis 2:7) It is because
of The Lord God that we live, move, and have our being. When we die, our soul will return to The Lord
(2 Corinthians 5:6-8) and our bodies will return to the dust from which it
came. (Genesis 3:19, Psalm 104:29, and Ecclesiastes 12:7) Our souls will not die but will spend eternity
somewhere. (Matthew 25:46) Where will
you spend eternity?
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