The day that the Lord has made and we come to rejoice and to be glad in it for the scripture says that we are to enter into his gates with thanksgivings and into his courts with a priest oh magnifi the Lord with me and let us exalt his name
Together amen as we open up on tonight um we want to invite you on tomorrow evening at 700 p.m. um there’s a gathering here at the church um parents against chaos and that Gathering is called parents against chaos is being led um by I believe um current mayor teenburg
Um for those of you that are interested I’m sure that you can find this information um on social media it was on the radio and on his website but that is tomorrow at 7 p.m. also want to invite you on this Saturday um between the
Hours of 8:30 and 2: p.m. um the St James Anglican church across the street has invited all to their fall market um festival and that will be on this Saturday morning from 8:30 to 2 p.m. we received word sister Kathy be McQueen um reached out to me a little while ago and
Said that she was announcing the passing of brother Lloyd be and this is the father of lesan Derek and Andre and we want to keep them lifted up in our prayers amen also receive news that one of our members U was just in the car
Accident um on his way to Bible study so we want to keep him lifted up in prayer amen amen mont mont testers okay amen going keep them lifted up in PR monester see there you go I thought that was right let’s keep him lifted up in prayer
Amen Amen on tonight uh we will continue our Bible study in the book of Acts and I believe that we are now in chapter 17 amen may we stand and open up do we have a song on [Applause] Tonight blessed be theck blessed be [Applause] theck oh Blessed Be [Applause] theck come on and [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] magnify Oh oh [Applause] [Applause] amen amen let us pray now Lord let the words of our mouth let the meditation of our heart be acceptable in your sight you are our strength Our Redeemer we pray now that you please keep brother Montas in your kind and keeping care and keep the be family in
Your kind and keeping care and all that’s going through the hour of bement hear our prayer in Jesus name amen amen amen we’ll be going to the 17th chapter we know that on last week we had a little break but the Lord still allowed us to uh Minister last
Wednesday from the book of Acts and on last Sunday morning from the book of Acts and so just to recap where we left off a week before last we left off with um Paul and Silas continuing on their journey and as they were continuing on their Journey Paul was headed in One
Direction going towards Asia and right around the sixth verse of chapter 16 uh the Holy Spirit forbid him and put a stop sign and then he was getting ready to head in another Direction which is going down to Bia and the Holy Spirit forbid him put a stop
Sign and then finally in verse number nine the Bible says that he waited on the Lord and the Lord came to him in a vision and in the vision he saw a man waving and crying out for help saying come to Macedonia and help us and so it shows us
That sometimes even with Paul being um having an intimate relationship with the Lord and and walking in the spirit it shows us that sometimes even the closest got to wait on Lord for clay understanding and for direction and so what we learn out that passage of
Scripture is that yes we can be zealous of going in the right direction but sometimes we got dist sto be willing enough for God to do the rerouting amen and for when God reroutes us that’s where obedience come in because sometimes we can see where we can be productive or have
An idea where we can be more successful and God is still saying I still got to work for you immediate your immediate attention someplace else and so that’s what we see in this text that that’s still a teaching lesson for Paul that at any moment God can do the rerouting and the
Redirecting and the Bible says that we would read a little bit more further that the reason why they were calling out for help in Macedonia is because we would we found out in the scripture that in Macedonia they didn’t even have enough men to gather to have a
Synagogue and so there was a greater and a more dying need in Macedonia we also found out on week before last that as they went through Macedonia they got into a little trouble um they got arrested but at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and do a Divine miraculous
Miracle they were loose they were set free and the Jailer that were watching them was converted he and his household amen and so in the midst in the midst of trouble how many know God still got another move now w Hallelujah and which also shows us that
In the midst of what we’re going through if we still be faithful in our worship and we still be faithful in our praise God can still bless in the midst of trouble this is another one of those scriptures where you can also apply David that even in the midst of my
Enemies he prepares a table before me thou anointest my my head with oil and the cup of Salvation still ran over in the jail house and that shows us that even with our own brothers and sisters who may be incarcerated locked up right now this shows us that God still
Move in the White House in the jail house and in any house can I get a witness cuz he’s able he’s omnicient and he’s Omni present his Spirit can dwell at any place at any time only thing you need is a sincere heart amen and so we find out that’s now here
We pick up in in after the conversion of the jeers and his whole entire house we pick up now in chapter 17 are you with me on tonight all right and so amen now now when they had passed through and Phil and philippus and abalonia they came to
Thessalonica where there was a synagogue of Jews and I want to pause there when I talk about the synagog of Jews because Macedonia teaches us a lesson that when I say or when we see in the scripture reading that Paul went to a synagogue when Paul went to a synagogue we see
That chapter chapter after chapter I don’t want us to get in our mind that these synagogues are all like a cathedral or all of them are or that these synagogues is a a a place of established place of worship because when they talk in the text about a synagogue sometimes the synagogue is
Just a group or a gathering an established group or a gathering of people and so I don’t always want us to always think that when we think church we think synagogue or Temple because a lot of these places did not have a building they just found some place and
Met regularly and so that’s like uh fraternity can be an established fraternity but don’t have a frat house and so when we say synagogue that means that where they are there are more than at least 10 Jewish men that can gather together and assemble and study the scriptures and so when
Paul them go to each City they would go looking where are they gathering on the Sabbath and somebody is say oh they over there they under the tree they down by the river or sound most cases sometimes they’re outside of the city Gates and so that’s what we’ll see all right are we
There all right so he found a Gathering of Jews and then Paul as his custom was this is what he customarily do every time he go to a new place he go find the Jews because the gospel was brought to Salvation through the Jews first went to
Them and for three Sabbath reasoned with them from the scriptures explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and Rise Again from the dead and saying this Jesus whom I preach to you is Christ and so customarily Paul comes to do one job that’s to reveal to them through the
Truth of Revelation that all that you study in the Old Testament points to the Messianic Christ points that this is the Prophet this is the Messiah this is the savior that you’ve been looking for thou art Christ and so he applies and he meets his audience to what he knows that they
Know he teet them where he can connect with them and show them in the scripture who you looking for he has already come and so he reveals to them and try to bring the knowledge of Truth to their carnal understanding and their closed-mindedness of not knowing that the scripture is being revealed to
Them that’s all I do every every Sunday when I stand up there is to try to show us Christ through the scriptures being revealed to us through the truth of teaching through Revelation right and sometime that Revelation can be given to me through a subject sometime through a sermon topic but at
The end of the day if you dig down to the meat of it it’s revealing the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with a plan of action that leads to Salvation every message ought to bring us to a place that reveal the truth enough that somebody would want to say I
Want to know Jesus you can dye it you can fry it you can bake it you can twirl it you can curl it but after all of that it should bring us to the pleas that somebody ought to see where I’m convicted and I need to repent and I need salvation
Amen and so Paul is trying as he’s reasoning with them and the Bible says watch this in verse number two that it takes him three sabbaths so he didn’t go in there just trying to preach a one night Revival trying to do a quick shift and expecting to convert them it
Took took time it took patience it took time it takes patience it takes time and it takes patience everybody who walk through the door on Sunday morning they they they they just might not come right up to the altar that Sunday sometime it’s going to take time sometime it’s going to take some
Patience but every time they come you keep giving them the the word you keep showing them that God got a better life for you than the life that you’re living the question is this morning how patient are you how patient are you CU everybody who come through new member class ain’t
Going to grasp it just like that they don’t understand they have to they have to come to a spiritual understanding to realize what’s a watery grave what do you talk about what’s a watery grave what you mean the old man die and the new man come in that
Sometimes it’s going to take a little bit more time to understand spiritual talk church talk can I get a winess and so we have to be in a place where we can have and be equipped to teach not to hear ourself talk but to teach in a way that people can grasp and
Understand amen and that comes through training that comes through the teacher being taught praise the Lord lights and so we find in the text that he takes his time and he goes back and he goes back and he goes back that lets us know that whatever we
Do Paul shows us right here in verse number two I ain’t got to rush tonight that lets us know right there in verse number two you got to be compassionate enough in Ministry you got to be committed and you also got to be compassionate enough to
See people and want to see people get to know the Lord Jesus Christ for themselves amen amen explaining and demonstrating that Christ had to suffer and Rise Again from the dead you can’t explain and you can’t demonstrate nothing unless you know it for yourself that’s why we here
Tonight that’s why we push that’s why we study that’s why we learn because we want to study to be able to show ourself appr proove verse number four and some of them were persuaded no what is that word in verse number four it didn’t say all but it did say
Some one win is a good win because one can chase a thousand oh y’all quiet tonight we ain’t going to get all all the time oh but you can do a whole lot with some can I get a witness in here watch this at the text some of them were
Persuaded and out of the some there was a great multitude of devout Greeks and not a few of leading women joined Paul and Silas out of this group of people some of them were prominent people respected people and people that others look up to to people that had
Influence we who God has blessed to be put in the place of of leadership and to and when I say a place of leadership I’m just not talking about in the church but I’m talking about on the job in the community a place of leadership uh of
Your seniority in your family there are some people that’s looking up to you they value your opinion they are watching you you have some nieces some nephews some grandchildren some co-workers inspired by you that’s right by your walk by your your testimony and you might not know how
Ever underestimate how you touch people while you walk along this journey that might say in the days of day you I want to be just like brother Brown even here in the church I want to be just like Deacon so and so y’all follow me in today and sometimes just like Paul we
Might not get all but God who’s Sovereign he knows exactly who he needs because he knows sometimes who have the out Outcast of connections that when they throw their Nets it’ll far even scattered and further than getting the whole group right so what that I bring us to the
Text don’t ever underestimate the power in you to share the Plan of Salvation you might can’t tell it like somebody else but that don’t matter you got something you can say if it had not been for the Lord who’s on my side you got something you can say
People ought to see you giving God glory for all the great things you’ve done for me you know people who be inspired by you ought to know that whatever the Lord has done for you you didn’t do on your own you ought to let them know who been the who been the
Promoter you ought to let them know who been the provider y’all ain’t going to help me here today so watch here in the text and out of them here you go I know they don’t like this but not of a good bit of them were leading women respected women and they joined
Paul and they join Silas verse number five but the Jews who were not persuaded becoming envious took some of the evil men from the marketplace and gathered a mob and set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the
People verse number five somebody say hold up re now you had a group of people watch this that Paul and Silas are ministering to and revealing and teaching the scriptures now a good bit of the leading devote group of Jews and leading women and some of the Greeks join on the
Christian band singing I’m on the battlefield for my Lord and I promised him that I serve until I die but then there were others that that we’re not persuaded that’s why we go back to that that verse number four and S not all there were some that were not
Persuaded because in every group you going to always have some people that’s not open-minded they’re closed-minded they only see one way their car don’t have um they the steering wheel in their car don’t turn left they don’t turn right they just got forward stop and go their car were built from the manuf
Factur with no signal lights they just one track one minded and ain’t nothing you can see they change their mind that’s what the scripture talks about uh falling on death is and so here we find in the text but what we will find in the text is that they do not
Refute Paul and Silas theology the problem in the text is that they taking our people and not only they taking our people they taking some of the good paying people they’re they’re taking some of the prominent people the people that when we stand by them make us feel even
Better well y’all a’t like make us look even better make us feel even stronger and so the Bible says that they not refuting what he’s saying but they got a problem about losing their popularity and their position and their status right because if we continue to let Paul and Silas preach this thing
They preaching this Jesus that they’re preaching what’s going to be in it for us when there more of them and less than us so this is not a new tactic now because we remember Paul was doing the same thing when he was saw so we don’t know this game and so
Here in the text be the Bible say in verse number five becoming envious and jealous that maybe this Jesus thing is going to work better for them then Jewish laws is working for us verse number five where do we find ourself and our lives acting just like these Jews
Sometime oh they build a bigger Church than us they got the whole corner where do we find ourself acting acting like these Jews becoming envious and jealous they they got a promotion and I didn’t get one where do we find ourselves see we can’t read the text y’all know that’s
How I teach you just can’t read the text all the time saying hallelujah to everything Paul and Silas do and sometimes we act just like the Greeks and the Jews everybody ain’t no hero all the time sometime we the villain and now the lesson throughout the text is to show us
And everybody in the text amen somebody and so when we don’t control our emotions when we don’t check ourself and especially for them when they don’t realize that this work is greater than them is greater than their little synagogue the Bible say you begin to do crazy things when you start to allow
Your emotions to get out of whack when you start allowing your emotions to take over you and you start allowing the Devil to use his tools envy and jealousy leads to conspiracy and trickery and everything else find a good neighbor and tell them you better check yourself for you wreck yourself
Now because when you don’t watch this in verse number five in verse number five the Bible said they became envious and in their being envious they begin to conspire and they went and they found some people who they know that they can manipulate the bible say that they
Took some of the evil men from the marketplace fool people people who already mix up in the head who can easily be manipulated and persuaded these are tools of the devil the spirit of M manipulation is a tool of the devil now these people were evil yeah they might have been doing
Their own thing but the bible say that now these Jews go to them with a strategic plan to uproar and to upset the city sound like the moms of Liberty to me watch this in the text they took some of the evil men from the marketplace and gathered a mob a click a
Gang and set the whole city in uproar a few people using their influence in the wrong way can tell City apart and watch this at the text okay and the city is in uproar and attack the house you see the words uproar the next word in the in the text is what
Attack when we allow the devil to get a good hand on us he will make a good fool of us who are we allowing the Devil to attack make us attack our own brothers and sisters watch this in the they attack the house of Jason who may have been one
Who’ve been showing Hospitality to Paul and Silas who’ve been hosting them sponsoring them doing whatever he can so that the work of the ministry can go forward he’s just an innocent bystander he’s guilty by association finally Good Neighbor been telling that song all right to me I don’t mind being Guilty By Association
Long as I know I’m doing the right thing I’m Standing on the Promises of God can I get a witness in here you can call me holy rly whatever you want to do but I don’t mind being Guilty By Association because I know that my redeemer live oh Hallelujah
Ujah the bible say that when they called them they they sought them out verse number six but when they did not find them because Jason was Guilty By Association they dragged Jason oh yeah people will drag your name they’ll drag your character they’ll drag your integrity they’ll drag your church
Title watch this in the text somebody here know about being dragged and some brethren to the rulers of the city crying out these who have turned the world upside down have come here too Lord have mercy what will people label your work in the Kingdom the Bible said that they went
Through the magrip and they say these people are turning the world upside down little did they know they were turning the world right side up can I get a witness and so now Jason has harobed them listen listen that how the devil use his words now Jason hared them that
That that’s that word is when you hiding a criminal y’all see that a fugitive the know how to put a plan together now and Jason has hared them and these acts and these are acting these are all acting contrary to the degrees of Caesar saying that there is another King
Jesus and they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things they know that they couldn’t go and take them to the high courts talking about no religious disputes but they brought him up on charges that made it sound like treason y’all see that in the text and
The devil will try to use all kind of different Avenues to get what he want accomplish but how many you know that no weapon that form against you shout Prosper he will try every trick try to cut through every corner go around every curve he can watch this in the
Text and they troubled the crowd and you know that there are some crowds verse number eight it don’t take a whole lot to trouble them cuz a lot of crowds are fickle they don’t take a whole lot to trouble them some people just like trouble they like to be in mess it don’t
Take a lot to ruffle their feathers well y’all ain’t going to help me to the problem is are you are you grounded enough are you rooted enough are you solid enough to have something to stand on that even when people bring foolishness it does not easily trouble you because I’m
Anchored like a tree planted by the rivers of water I shall not be moved because in his word do I meditate both day and night but this crowd was easily troubled tonight the question remains in the church theight is are you are you rooted and are you grounded enough that
When foolishness come in the family you don’t easy trou you that you don’t just get on the phone and start cing you just don’t go crazy on your niece or on your nephew it don’t trouble you and then when you know you growing he God you know you start maturing in the Lord
Things don’t trouble you as easy as they used to even when sometimes we pick up that phone and get that call they gone one time you would just throw the phone down pass out roll all over the floor saying Lord why us how we happen this
That and the other but now since I’m anchored and have been rooted and and grounded in the Lord what what the devil was sitting there waiting to see me do I’m responding different I just say lift my hand and say Lord you know all about this I’m putting it in your hands my
Child I get in trouble but Lord I’m going put this in your hand Lord I don’t find myself in this situation but I’m not going to let this thing tear me down I’m going to put it in your hand and ask you to lift me up in it don’t let your trouble trouble
You but I know somebody who can solve some problems now I lift my eyes to the hills from when come if my help but this crowd here you know they were already lost Lo and so they were easily troubled right what verse am I on now verse number eight and they troubled
The crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things and so when they had taken security from Jason and the rest they let them go they make them pay they arrested them and they was able to get a prond ain’t that what they call them
They had to put up a bond in order to get out in other words when we read closely in the scripture they had to put up a bond but the bond was kept as long as they don’t continue doing what they were doing watch this in the text then the
Brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas Away by night to Berea and when they ared they went into the synagogue of the Jews wait a minute now come on now Saul come on here Paul listen you just left from trouble you just barely got out of the
The way of trouble and soon as you get the Berea you go right back into a looking for a synagogue to tell somebody about Jesus I think that’s a good place for you to tell your neighbor I’m committed I’m committed I’m committed to not neglect the Assembly of the
Saints I I I’m committed not to just laying my bed on Sunday morning and say man I catch him on the screen I’m committed I’m committed not to say I’m going to take you all these things in where you know whereever I left I get to the
Church I’m committed to paying my tithes and my offering I’m committed of giving to give God some of my time some of my talent some of my treasure the question tonight is as we read about Paul and Silas who face trouble who endure Affliction who go through long
Suffering will you still be committed do you have a hunger and a thirst after righteousness this man just left and then he had to take the Midnight Train to Georgia y’all Ain going Bible said he had to get him out of town at night y’all thought who sang that song di Ross P
Glight I know you know I know you know he had to take the Midnight Train To Berea and when he got there he said you know what we still got work to do we can’t easily we can’t be so easy to give in and give
Out we got to learn how to take a licking keep on tiing you can’t give up cuz people talk about you man please y’all want to have Pastor number zero people if I if people talk about you you know why I say Matt tell me something new that’s old give me something new
Give me something juicy Lord have mercy that’s all you got that’s what you ought to start telling the devil man soon and so man please you all to say man yes that’s all they got a sh that ain’t enough for me to stop coming they didn’t wake me up this
Morning you dig one ditch that ain’t enough for me to start coming they didn’t start in me arm my way they didn’t take a nail in their hands and feet for me they didn’t go down into a dark cold grave they didn’t stay in there 3 days for me they didn’t get get
Up on a Sunday morning and the showing sitting at the right hand of God the father right now making intercessions for me you ought to be committed Hallelujah watch this in the text and they went into the synagogue to the Jews and these were more fairm minded open-minded people than those
That were in Thessalon here you know sometime God will give you a little relief from dealing with Helens all the time sometime God will give you a little bit more relief but there’s something that I tell all of my I tell all of my preacher friends is that if you can
Preach in a dead Church you still can’t preach in a jumping church if you can’t preach to a small grp group of people I don’t know what you going to do when you get into a massive group of people and so that’s that’s what we we
See here in the text the Lord the lord gave them just a a little bit more relief of being in the trenches find a good name and tell them better days will come after a while yeah yeah better better days will come after a while now can I get a
Witness amen amen now watch this in the text now there in I’m little fair-minded than those in thessalonia and in that they received the word with all Readiness and searched the Scriptures Daily to find out whether these things were true now you see these people I will I call them the 2023
Church because they just don’t take what a preacher say that’s what we find here in the text now and that’s how we all ought to be the bible say that they were open-minded to listen to Paul and listen to Silas but they also search the Scriptures Daily for themselves cuz I
Got to make sure this preacher straight now y’all ain’t going to help me tonight sitting here talking about Daniel been in the fiery furnace and y’all just missed it watch us in the text therefore many of them believed and not and also not a few of the Greeks but again prominent
Women as well as men people of influence people that can reach people can I get a witness in here but when the Jews from thica learned that they excuse me when the Jews from thessalonica learned that the word word of God was preached by Paul at Bia those
Jokers oh I’m sorry they don’t say that they came there also and stirred up the crowd trouble will follow you the devil is persistent he’s on his job the question is are you on yours and then immediately the Brethren sent Paul away to go to the sea but both Silas and Timothy remain
There he’s On the run again oh on to run again see if I got enough time to C the rest I to go as much as far as I can maybe God moved the way he did and putting them before these fair-minded people because he already knew trouble was coming
Which shows us that you got to move when God say move and Paul had got there and said you know Lord I’mma take a two week vacation and chill out and those folks from the last place they wear me out but when he got there he hit the
Ground running and because he was motivated he was eager he had a yearning he had a burning God move in a mighty way he went there with the spirit of expectation I want the Lord to do something great here and it didn’t take a long time but something great was the
Result verse number 15 so those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens and receiving a command from Silas and Timothy to come to him when they all speed excuse me to come to to come to him with all speed and then they later departed now when Paul waited for them
At Athens his Spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given totally over to Idols so now we see a great change in demographic in demographics because Athens is all the way near Greece and we ain’t talking about much Jews now we talking about Greeks we talking about
Romans so here we find that you know this is the whole center now of philosophy and literature and astronomy and Science and so that’s where we find now that is a different ball game but Paul is equipped to talk to talk because he’s been trained by gleo and he’s also
Greek watch this in the text but as he walks and he looks at the city he see that there’s all these Idols of gods who have ears then cannot hear and the Bible said that it Grieves him because with all of this knowledge this pra of knowledge and great mind
You got a big collage of lost people smart but lost Geniuses for loss those who in find medicines and and work out mathematical problems all of these great things but lost I’m show you how lost they are watch this in the text and therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews
And with the Gentile worshippers and in the marketplace daily with those who happen to be there so now he shift he shift not only just going to the synagogue not only just talking to uh uh the Gentiles but but he’s also going in the marketplace because I need to also graas
Some of these Romans attention and if I just preach Jesus hard enough somebody going to hear me and somebody going to want to know who gave you the authority and who are you and this is what he’s doing he’s being strategic about it he’s trying to make his way into the Right audience
That’s right can I get a witness in here the problem with some us we try to make our way into the wrong audience he’s trying to make his way to the Right audience to get before the right people and his style his style that we see over and over again is not
Starting from the bottom is trying to get to the people who are in leadership and influence and have status because things come and things are changed from the top watch intent and in verse number 18 the Bible says then certain epicurian and stoic philosophers encountered
Him and this is like a a a we would call like a Supreme Council of philosophers one of them um the epicurian are more fleshly desired um fall after you live your way only however you want to and that kind of and the stews are more like
Conservative we don’t do that it don’t take all of that that’ll help you a little bit and so what this reminds us of is almost like the Sadducees and the Pharisees but these great philosophers and he’s now before them and he’s getting ready and get an opportunity to
Encounter them and then one of them says what does this baber has to say I don’t know but y’all that’s all like some fighting words to me what does this baber has to say and only thing I can interpret from my spiritual Insight that they’re calling him a babbler because he’s speaking
Something that they’ve never heard before and that they don’t understand is foreign to them watch this in the text and others he seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection and so this lets us know that Jesus and the sto and the gospel of
The Resurrection is forign to them and so they don’t know and you can’t help but you don’t know and they took him and brought him to a place called areopagus which is a Hillside where they would usually have uh a court high counil and that place sit up on the hill
And look down on the city so they took him to this place of the High Council and the Bible say saying may we know what this new doctrine is of what you speak can you explain to us what are you talking about not that we really want to
Know but it’s new news to us and we want to know more about it watch this in the text for you are bringing some strange things to our ears how can a man be whipped crucified by the way we designed crucifixion buried in the grave and then rose again on the thirsday morning
That’s some strange stuff how can you open blinded eyes and we study medicine unstopped de ears and make a lame to walk we we the ones who made a crutch these are some strange things finally good nebor and tell him I seen some strange things
Too every time I look in the mirror I see some strange things every time I wake up in the morning I see some strange things every time I lay down at night and I don’t know when I fall asleep and don’t know when I wake up some strange things there are some
Things I may not know there are some places I may may not go but this one thing I do know God is real and I can feel him down in my soul anybody can testify yes God is real he’s real in my soul yes God is real for he has
Was going to stop with y’all and trying to get through this thing real quick um I don’t y’ I don’t even know what verse I’m on no more 19 20 for you are bringing to us some strange things to our ears therefore we want to know what these
Things what it means for all the Athenians and the foreigns foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but to tell or to hear some new things and then Paul stood in the mid of the arpus arus and said men of Athens I preceive that in all things you are very
Religious for as I was passing through and considering the objects he notice he didn’t say Idols notice he didn’t say God he said as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship ship I even found an altar with this inscription to the unknown God and that was his
Door because these Greeks and these philosophers even though they had Idols of worship for different things they still had an idea that there is an unknown God cuz if these gods have a a a plan or if these gods have a meaning then who made them y’all understand if there’s a god
Of the sun who put the sun there a god of the Moon who put the moon there the god of the Stars the god of water the god of air the god of land y’all following me here and so so Paul says as I walked around I hear you
Preacher and I considered your objects of worship I even found an altar with the inscription to the unknown god well before I get to unknown God I I need to go back just a few more words to help the church tonight when people see you oh Lord and when they consider your
Lifestyle and they walk around and see your objects of worship what will they see what will they see will they see your object of worship as being just career-minded and career focused and trying to get to the next level will they see your object of worship be your house and your car and
Your money in your bank will they see your object of worship being mess cuz some people eat sleep and breathe foolishness or will they see your object of worship being as for me in my house serve the Lord oh you ought to lean over to your neighbor and tell your
Neighbor I knew you had some object all God everybody done had some objects everybody done had some objects now can I get a witness in here don’t even act don’t even get cute Baptist with me tonight everybody done has some objects but he said unto them that even
When I consider your objects I see that you still have an altar that has the inscription on it to the unknown God lord I can preach right there and so therefore watch this in the text therefore the one whom you worship without knowing I know
Him and Paul was the first one to write that song I Came to tell you what Jesus says repent from your sins and be baptized oh Hallelujah and the the Bible says now now one of them one of whom you worship without knowing him I Proclaim unto you
God who made the world and everything in it Paul establishes by talking about the sovereignty of God I ain’t talking about no sun god and no no moon God and no Pluto and plate and everything else I’m talking about Elohim I am that I am the God who
Stepped out of nowhere reach into nothing grab a hole of something brought it back to somewhere and made it something I’m talking about God who don’t take something and make something I’m talking about God who takes nothing and makees something he’s not an inventor he’s a Creator Paul tell him I know him
Question is tonight do you know him he said God who made the world and everything that’s in it since he is the lord of the heavens and the Earth does not dwell in temples made with hands nor is he worshiped with men hands in other words you can’t mix this God
You can mold him no matter how big of a stature you make he’s not in there oh y’all ain’t going to help me any he needed he as though he needed anything since he gives to all life breath in all things and he has made from one blood
Every nation of men to dwell on the face of the Earth y’all see that in the text Paul preaching is he and has determined their pre-appointment times and the boundaries for their dwelling Lord have mercy so that they should seek the Lord in the hope that they might grow for him and find
Him though he is not far from each one of us for in him we live and move and have our being as also some of your own poets have said for we are all also his offsprings find Paul finds a place to meet them and connect with them
With what they already know verse number 39 therefore 29 29 in one of them nines 999 watch this in the T therefore since we are all the offsprings of God he establishes something here that mean we all are brothers and sisters all of One blood there is no division between
Humanity since we all are one one offspring of God we ought not to think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone something shaped by Art and man’s deviousness devising truly these times of ignorance God overlooked but noun commands all men everywh well to
Repent Paul tells him he’s not going to judge you for not knowing what you don’t know but now since you have been enlightened and the truth of the spirit has been revealed unto you there should be conviction and Now commands all men everywhere to do what
Repent because he has a appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained who is that man he has given Assurance of this to All by the raising him from the dead that’s our will judge y right now he’s our mediator but one
Day he’ll be our judge and when they heard Lord Jesus don’t don’t change your voice R stay right there I almost shift gear and when they heard of the resurrection of the Dead some mocked While others said we will hear you again on this matter and so Paul depart Ed from among
Them however Lord have mercy don’t get discouraged you do what the Lord placed on your heart to do you fulfill an assignment you can lead the horse to water now can make them drink but the thing is are you doing what God has placed your hands to do and so Paul
Departed from them and the Bible says however some men join him and believe how many you know God can do a lot with some and not only are we see in this text that these are just some Jew blue and brown brown Mary these men are there from the arig opius
Men on the high councils high philosophers the echelon and they had the spirit of Truth to be revealed within them and they walked away they left a lot behind but they walk away we can’t run over this portion of the text in the last verse because the truth of the matter is how
Many still receive the spirit of conviction this truth be revealed to them but they still hold on the status they still hold on to a place of seat of Authority or they still hold on to a position even when they’ve been shown through the spirit you need to walk away what prophets a
Man to gain the whole world and loses Soul the question tonight is is is it worth it when they were there in that place in verse number 34 these men made up in their mind I have decided to follow Jesus the World Behind Me and the cross before
Me and the rest of them Mark some of them mock you know way no man get up from no dead others say we want to hear more on this matter because they trying to decipher they want to be so intellectual they can’t see the spirit they’re trying to
Reason that’s what they were doing they wanted to reason and some folks they are reasoning with the gospel and more you reason the more you resisting because your reasoning questions doubt and unbelief even on Sunday morning there people that show up and they still reasoning what re Mar talking about God
Is able to do it exceedingly in abundantly I can see that because you’re still trying to reason with God he is God you can’t understand him he’s too big for us to control he doesn’t show his hands y’all and when the more you reason the more you the more you allow for
Unbelief and doubt the set Thomas was trying to reason this is not reasonable what are y’all talking about I I saw them beat him I heard him on the cross we all saw the blood everywhere and now you telling me he’s walking around Galilee unless I
See show me some proof find a good neighbor and tell him I’m glad you asked me cuz you’re looking at the proof right now oh and the Bible say however some of those men some of those men say listen here I’m leaving this hill I’m getting up from under this
Tree and I’m going with this man I’m going to follow Jesus and the Bible say they joined in Di dianus and the arag and women named and a woman named dearis and I others was with them and so we see we what we see here
In this text we see that even in the midst of trouble even in the midst of Trials and conflicts and adversity the work of the ministry has to go on what we see in this text is that we can’t get discouraged when we don’t reach all we got to take whatever the
Lord Place in our hands and do the best that we can with it can I get a witness in here and sometime that’s a good thing cuz you can have all and get less done but when you get those that’s the Bible call them fairm minded when you
Get those that’s open-minded and have a yearning and the burning or we can put the devil on the Run can I get a witness amen let’s get a song before we close we have a song on tonight We Are Climbing [Applause] CH oh we We Are CL oh [Applause] take singing We
Oh I’m s soldier of the Cross sing in every room War around oh higher and oh every round oh I oh sing every [Applause] oh oh I’m a soul oh if you love him [Applause] why Hallelujah you [Applause] oh sing in you oh oh I’m a soul oh come on Church hey
Oh oh you are R oh and shine why don’t you give God oh you are The [Applause] [Applause] And oh I’m A Soldier [Applause] of the Cross oh come on yes sir Hallelujah and so now Lord as we prepare to to leave this place never from your presence May the love of God the grace of God and the sweet communion of the Holy Spirit rest Rule and abide with us
Henceforth now and forever more amen amen amen God bless you Charles um yeah Ro m
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