If you haven’t read the Friday 10/22 post, pleased do. It ties in with Sunday’s message.

Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 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. Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 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; 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.' Therefore, since we are the 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 devising. Acts 17:22-29

Longer passage, shorter observations:

(1) Paul countered the “philosophers” (and everyone is a philosopher since everyone has a worldview), with talk about the God of the Bible. Let us not get so sidetracked with political wrangling that we forget our message is about GOD, HIS SON, and the Gospel!

(2) Paul words headed toward our obligation to the GOD of the Bible, which is essential, since HE is not an idea, but our Creator to whom we owe worship and obedience. We need not worry that people may or may not believe this. It is true and must be spoken. From there, we explain that we have all failed, and are therefore guilty—which is why we need a Savior, who is Christ the Lord!