- God cannot and will not be served by you and me. vs 24-24
- We do not satisfy the needs of God.
- God is not sustained by our actions.
- If you're looking for life, look to God. vs 25-26
- God gives you life, you do not give God life.
- Nothing in this world happens outside of God’s knowledge and/or control
- God is not hiding from you. vs. 27
- If God is the reason for everything then we are called to seek him.
- God is not unreachable.
- Have you met your dad? vs 28-29
- We exist because of God
- The reason we are here today is because we have a Heavenly father who cares for us.
- You have a place at the table. vs 29-30
- There is a fly in my soup. Yep, that’s right I’m just like the prodigal son.
- There is a place for us to return to God.
- God will make a visit to Indy. vs. 32
- Sin, brokenness, drifting away, whatever you call it. . . will be judged.
- The righteous Judge is Jesus.
Acts 17:24-31
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ 29 Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
