Acts 17.16-34 Sermon on Mars Hill

In today's lesson Paul is invited to go up on the Areopagus, or Mars Hill, and share his philosophies to the leading philosophers in Athens in those days. In doing so he identified their religious propensity and desire to understand the unknown. The Greeks were so interested in making sure they honored all "gods" they built a temple or an altar to the "Agostic Theos: the Unknown God". Paul seized on this point to make his revelation that the "Agnostic God" was Jehovah who sent His Son for all people, not just a few. This was especially important since the Grecians believed they were superior to all other races, but the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was available to "whomsoever will" and no one group or race is superior to another in the eyes of God.

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Don