Day 37: Psalm 17, Proverbs 22:7-8, Acts 17, Zechariah 3-4
Engage With People
..for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.
Acts 17:28-29 NKJV
In reading Acts 17, we will not miss the long discourse that Apostle Paul gave to the philosophers at Athens. 1st, he related with the philosophers by identifying something that Apsotle Paul could start a conversation in spiritual things. He identified that the philosophers prayed to an unknown God and what is unknown to them, Paul enlightened them. 2ndly, Paul referred to their own poets' saying. 3rdly, he persuaded them to return to the truth by reasoning with them that if they were the offspring of God, they ought not pray to gold, silver or stone. Once these are effectively communicated to them, Paul declared that the God who created the whole universe commanded all men to repent as He will judge the world in righteousness. God has given assurance of this by raising Jesus from the dead (v30-31). By using these 7 Rs: Relate, Refer, Return, Reasoning, Repent, Righteousness & Resurrection, let us be alert of our surroundings and start engaging with people in spiritual matters and lead them to our beloved Jesus Christ Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). https://twitter.com/EstherOngHC (please click to view a visual)
Engage With People
..for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.
Acts 17:28-29 NKJV
In reading Acts 17, we will not miss the long discourse that Apostle Paul gave to the philosophers at Athens. 1st, he related with the philosophers by identifying something that Apsotle Paul could start a conversation in spiritual things. He identified that the philosophers prayed to an unknown God and what is unknown to them, Paul enlightened them. 2ndly, Paul referred to their own poets' saying. 3rdly, he persuaded them to return to the truth by reasoning with them that if they were the offspring of God, they ought not pray to gold, silver or stone. Once these are effectively communicated to them, Paul declared that the God who created the whole universe commanded all men to repent as He will judge the world in righteousness. God has given assurance of this by raising Jesus from the dead (v30-31). By using these 7 Rs: Relate, Refer, Return, Reasoning, Repent, Righteousness & Resurrection, let us be alert of our surroundings and start engaging with people in spiritual matters and lead them to our beloved Jesus Christ Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). https://twitter.com/EstherOngHC (please click to view a visual)
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