Making Jesus Famous Volume 1

The apostle Paul's life goal after his transformation was to make known the name of Jesus Christ, to Jew and Greek. His life was constantly being poured out to make known this true God and the salvation that comes from believing on the name of His begotten Son who died on the cross for our salvation. As we read in the text below Paul used opened doors in order to get this message out. When we are consumed with our own lives and the needs thereof we tend to miss the doors that God opens for His Gospel to be known. When we are trusting in our Father and our Savior we can set our eyes on the work of the great commission. We must love others greater than ourselves in that we share with them the love that has been poured out on us, in spite of our fears of rejection or our shyness towards strangers. This was Paul's calling in life to go and evangelize to the world. Have we started with our own sphere of influence??? Have we made know the preciousness of Christ to our family, friends, and coworkers??? If our heart is for our Husband's return we must continue the mission of growing and perfecting His Bride!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of making Jesus famous on purpose!!!!!

Acts 17

In Athens

16 While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. 18 A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. 19 Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Arapahos, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.” 21 (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)

22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Arapahos and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[b] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[c]

29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

32 When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” 33 At that, Paul left the Council. 34 Some of the people became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysus, a member of the Arapahos, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.