SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/17/2018 8:55 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Recognizing Who God Is”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts
17:24-29
Message of the verses: “24 "The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; 25 nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; 26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, 27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ’For we also are His children.’ 29 "Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.”
As we begin looking at this rather long stretch of verses
in Acts 17 we will be looking at several sub-points under this main point, the
first is the fact that God is the creator, and then God is Ruler, and then
Giver, Controller, and finally God is Revealer.
John MacArthur writes the following as he introduces this second main
point. “Having established that God
exists and can be known by men Paul introduces his hearers to Him.”
Now I think that I should have put into the focus portion
of this SD “PT-1 Creator,” as I don’t think that we will get through this first
sub-point today, for one thing it is evening, and I usually do my Spiritual
Diaries in the morning, but it did not work out that way this morning.
Creator: “The God
who made the world and all things in it” (Acts 17:24a).
I can remember listening to a sermon tape from someone
that I have a great deal of respect for who was talking about how the world and
the universe were created. He got some
of info from sources that I would never trust and I know he would not trust
them either. At any rate the percentage
given to the world being created as the book of Genesis tells us was, if my
memory has not failed me, was around 10%.
So you can see that as Paul begins to talk to these Greek leaders like
the Athenians and the Epicureans that they would have a great deal of trouble
understand or believing what Paul is telling them. I find this short sermon has a lot of things
in it that I can go to such as Paul, being led by the Holy Spirit telling these
Greeks that God is the One who created everything. John MacArthur actually has written in his
commentary similar things that I have written here in that people in our day
have just as much trouble believing this as the Greeks did. I continue to mention that the reason that
people do not believe the God created the earth, along with the universe, is
that they would then have to be accountable to Him, and that is something they
do not want to do.
We are going to begin to quote from John MacArthur’s
commentary as he states “The impressive scientific evidence against evolution
can be briefly summarized as follows.
First, the second law of thermodynamics shows that evolution is
theoretically impossible. Second, the
evidence of the fossil record shows evolution in fact did not take place.
(Among the many helpful books presenting the scientific case against evolution
are Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis [Bethesda Md.]. Next Duane T. Gish, Evolution: The Fossils Still
Say NO!; Henry M. Morris, The Biblical
Basis for Modern Science; Henry M. Morris and Gary E. Parker, What is Creation Science?
“The second law of
thermodynamics, one of the most well-established principles in all of science,
states that the natural tendency is for things to go from a more ordered to a
less order state. Noted atheist Isaac
Asimov acknowledges that ‘as far as we know, all changes are in the direction
of increasing entropy, of increasing disorder, of increasing randomness, of
running down’ (cited in Henry M. Morris, ed., Scientific Creationism…Yet,
incredibly, evolutionists argue that precisely the opposite has happened. According to them, things have gone from a
less ordered state to a more ordered one.
Attempts to harmonize evolution with the second law of thermodynamics
have not been successful, and it remains a powerful witness against evolution.”
We will continue
to look at more from John MacArthur’s commentary in our next SD.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Samaritan” (Luke 10:33).
Today’s Bible
question: “Why did the Galileans receive
Jesus?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/17/2018 9:26 PM
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