Making Jesus Famous Volume 4

As we look at this passage and meditate over the places that God calls us to in His Will, we once again can draw strength in the fact that doing God's work is not about results, that is left to God in his time. While the world continues to judge our lives based on results, God affords us the blessed privilege of just enjoying the process of doing His Will. Knowing that He is calling us to move and speak in His Name is the JOY of life because we know our name is written in his Book. "If GOD be for us, who can be against us" Romans 8:31. "What can separate us from the love of CHRIST" Romans 8:39. "Who can lay charge to GOD's elect" Romans 8:33. "Is there anything too hard for the LORD" Genesis 18:14 . All of these affirm our hearts that we are in the right place at the right time to do the Will of a perfect God! Every place that we get called to and every person we encounter to make the name of Christ famous, has an impact on conforming us more to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ!!! If we can help and love our neighbors as we love ourselves, please the One and Only true God of this Universe who has adopted us into his family through the complete sacrifice of His Son, and be made more like the only man to ever walk this earth in complete harmony of balance and perfection, our response has to be, "Send Us We'll Go"!!! 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.