Two weeks on the Life and Teachings of Paul: Day 3 – Scenes from Paul’s Missionary Journey (Acts 17)
Notice the importance of the Scriptures for both public ministry – ‘reasoning with them from the Scriptures’ and private devotion – ‘examining the Scriptures every day’(2,11). We need the Word of the Lord on the Lord’s Day. We need the Word of the Lord every day. God is not the ‘unknown God’. He has made himself known to us. For many, He seems to be the ‘unknown God’. We must seek to lead them beyond a vague awareness of ‘the God who made the world’ to a real knowledge of Jesus Christ who died and rose again for our salvation (24,3). When our faith is grounded in the Scriptures, we will not think of God as the ‘unknown God’ about whom we can know very little. We will make it our ambition ‘to know Christ and the power of His resurrection’(Philippians 3:10). ‘Let us press on to know the Lord’(Hosea 6:3).
