Don’t Ignore & Reject Your Creator & Savior
It is a warning: Watch out. The ignored and rejected Creator came as a man who was the Crucified and Risen Savior, but He will return as the Angered Judge.
Listen to Paul actually use this three-part division as He introduces them to their Creator:
The Creator: 24 “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.
The Savior: 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
The Judge: 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the man He ordained. He has assured all this by raising Him from the dead.”
How did the Apostles describe the proper response to the ignored and rejected Creator, who became the crucified and risen Savior? Listen to what Paul says in Acts 17:30: “But now commands all men everywhere to repent”!
There is Only One Acceptable Response
Wow, that is getting to the point with a group of seekers.
Why repent? What was the motivation Paul gave them?
Look again at v. 31: “because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained.”
What could Paul have meant by that “judge the world” statement? Now stay with me; this is amazing. Let your eyes drift up to a word in v. 1 of this chapter (Acts 17:1).
Where does it say Paul was just prior to Athens? Thessalonica, right? Does that ring a bell? It is the church that got Paul’s first two letters or epistles. If we turn there, we will see that one theme found often in Paul’s teaching:
Impending Doom is Central to the Gospel
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