God Reveals Himself
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God Reveals Himself through His Authority, Power and Presence which Demands a Response
God Reveals Himself through His Authority, Power and Presence which Demands a Response
1 O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
2 From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.
3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
4 What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
1 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.
God’s Wisdom
God’s Wisdom
Paul reasoning-using the truth of Scripture
10 To whom shall I speak and give warning
That they may hear?
Behold, their ears are closed
And they cannot listen.
Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them;
They have no delight in it.
11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
I am weary with holding it in.
“Pour it out on the children in the street
And on the gathering of young men together;
For both husband and wife shall be taken,
The aged and the very old.
Man’s Folly
Man’s Folly
7 Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness”;
20 and again, “The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.”
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
They believed in the existence of many gods, but argued in deistic fashion that the gods took no interest in the events of everyday life. Consequently, Epicureans were critical of popular religion with its localising of gods in many temples and its concern to supply their needs (cf. vv. 24–25).
The Stoics believed that the human race was one, proceeding from a single point of origin. Through logic and discipline, they sought ‘to live in harmony with the natural order, which they believed was permeated by a rational divine principle or Logos’.57 They were essentially pantheistic and thought of the divine being as ‘the World-soul’ (cf. vv. 26–29).
David G. Peterson, The Acts of the Apostles, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, England: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009), 490.
The “Epicureans” (followers of Epicurus, 341–270 BC) were the agnostics of their day, believing that the gods had nothing to do with human affairs and just found happiness by themselves. So pleasure or happiness is the highest good and means remaining free of excess living and of fear, avoiding tension and pain.
The Stoics (followers of Zeno, 340–265 BC) were materialists and pantheists who believed the world consisted of material objects infused by divinity that held everything together. The rational side of humankind is the highest faculty and virtue is the highest good. To achieve that people must live in harmony with nature and make good, rational choices.
Grant R. Osborne, Acts: Verse by Verse, Osborne New Testament Commentaries (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019), 316.
God’s Authority
God’s Authority
God is Active
God is Active
God is creator
God is sustainer