BECAUSE OF THE LORD GOD WE LIVE MOVE AND EXIST

PROCLAMATION

“For in Him we live, and move, and have our being;  As certain also of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ ”  Acts 17:28 (KJV)

 

EXPLANATION

These are the acts of the apostles of Jesus, The Christ, as written by Luke, the physician, under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.  Here Luke records that Paul and Silas had to leave Thessalonica after they preached that Jesus was the Messiah.  The non-believing Jews had formed a mob there and were looking for them, so they fled. (Acts 17:1-10)  They went to Berea, but the non-believing Jews from Thessalonica heard that they were preaching there, and they went 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 he 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. (Acts 17:24-28)  Paul told them that God was not made of gold, silver, or stone, and He was not made by the hands of man.  He now demands that those who worship those idols repent and worship Him.  He said Christ whom God raised from the dead will return and judge the world. (Acts 17:29-31)

 

APPLICATION

There are a lot of intelligent and well educated people who believe in scientific things, but they 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 not our place to convince them to believer in God, we are only to tell them about Him.  The Holy Spirit of God will convict, convince, and convert them as He see fit.  Believers know that 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 of the earth from which it came. (Genesis 3:19, Psalm 104:29, and Ecclesiastes 12:7)  Our bodies are just the house that we live in while we live on earth.  When we die our souls will not die.  The will return to The Creator, and be judged, and will spend eternity with Him or somewhere else. (Matthew 25:46)