Christ Jesus, who was preached

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Christ Jesus, who was preached

• (Just how exactly was this done?)

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• Preachers preach everything
• Politics
• Church creeds
• Personal agendas
• Positive thinking
• Health and wealth
• Etc., etc., etc.

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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion

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• Religion is usually tied to ones comfort, hope
  guidance, and faith in a superior ability. It
  could be
• Humanism
• Science
• The occult
• Self
• A false gospel
• Paganism
• Power
• Wealth
• Suffering
• Pleasure

But most all men are worshippers of something.
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Ecclesiastes 311

• He has made everything appropriate in its time.
  He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so
  that man will not find out the work which God has
  done from the beginning even to the end.

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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion
• Then he appealed to their open mind

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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion
• Then he appealed to their open mind
• He proclaimed God a God of Power

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Psalm 191-4

• The heavens are telling of the glory of God And
  their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
  2. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to
  night reveals knowledge. 3. There is no speech,
  nor are there words Their voice is not heard.
  4. Their line has gone out through all the earth

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Romans 118-20

• For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
  against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
  men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
  19. because that which is known about God is
  evident within them for God made it evident to
  them. 20. For since the creation of the world His
  invisible attributes, His eternal power and
  divine nature, have been clearly seen, being
  understood through what has been made, so that
  they are without excuse.

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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion
• Then he appealed to their open mind
• He proclaimed God a God of Power

Creation
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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion
• Then he appealed to their open mind
• He proclaimed God a God of Power

Creation
Purpose
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In All His Works God has Desired
Ecclesiastes 1213 The conclusion, when all has
been heard, is fear God and keep His
commandments, because this applies to every
person.

• To be sought

• To be served

• To be glorified

Isaiah 437 Everyone who is called by My name,
And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have
formed, even whom I have made."
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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion
• Then he appealed to their open mind
• He proclaimed God a God of Power

Creation
He Quickly Proclaimed God
Purpose

• A personal God

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Matthew 77-11

• "Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you
  will find knock, and it will be opened to you.
  8. "For everyone who asks receives, and he who
  seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be
  opened. 9. "Or what man is there among you who,
  when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a
  stone? 10. "Or if he asks for a fish, he will not
  give him a snake, will he? 11. "If you then,
  being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
  children, how much more will your Father who is
  in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion
• Then he appealed to their open mind
• He proclaimed God a God of Power

Creation
He Quickly Proclaimed God
Purpose

• A personal God
• An unlimited God

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Isaiah 558-9

• "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are
  your ways My ways," declares the LORD. 9. "For as
  the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My
  ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than
  your thoughts.

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What did Paul Preach in Athens?

• He started with their religion
• Then he appealed to their open mind
• He proclaimed God a God of Power

Creation
He Quickly Proclaimed God
Purpose

• A personal God
• An unlimited God
• A holy God

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Concluded with Evidence that This God was
Different

• Raised his Son from the dead
• Gave evidence in the prophecies
• In nature
• In archaeology

Only 3 Responses

• Some sneered
• Some wanted to hear more
• Some believed and joined

What will be your response?