Wired For Worship! You and I Are Going To Worship Something…

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Leviticus 13,14; Acts 17

Wired For Worship!

You and I Are Going To Worship Something…

Scripture

Acts 17

²² So Paul, standing before the council, addressed them as follows: “Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious in every way, ²³ for as I was walking along I saw your many shrines. And one of your altars had this inscription on it: ‘To an Unknown God.’ This God, whom you worship without knowing, is the one I’m telling you about. 

 ²⁴ “He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples, ²⁵ and human hands can’t serve his needs—for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need. ²⁶ From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries. 

 ²⁷ “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us. ²⁸ For in him we live and move and exist.

Observation

God has wired all of mankind to worship something. We were created for worship. You and I were created to worship Him.

You will worship something. If it is not the One and Only True God then it will a substitute. For you it may be a boat, a woman, a man, wealth, a car, a false god, but you will worship something. Paul found his self in Athens with people who he described as very religious. They were just worshiping all the wrong things. He found that they wanted to cover all of their bases so they even had a shrine to the unknown God. 

It was the God who was unknown to them who Paul said they needed to get to know. Paul shared with them that their unknown God that they had made a shrine for was the only true God. He created the world and everything in it. Then Paul drove home the point that they needed to repent of their sins and turn to God: 

“God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. Then he shared with them that He would judge all of us by the man who He raised from the dead. (Jesus) Acts 17:30

³¹ For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.”

Some of the Athenians became Christ Followers that day after hearing Paul speak, but other laughed in contempt. 

How do you know what or whom you are worshiping? What dominated most of your time this week? What or whom did you spend the most money on this past week? What or whom consumed your thought life? Your answer to these few questions may let you know who or what you worshiped. 

Application


I have someone that I am getting to know who is a practicing Buddhist. She is worshiping, but the focus of her worship is misplaced. Over the next several weeks I will work at sharing with her the reason why trusting in Jesus would be so much better for her than trusting in someone who is dead.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, I pray that many people will find true worship in Jesus this Sunday at Christ Fellowship. I pray for my Buddhist friend that her eyes would be open to the truth about Jesus. Work in her heart Lord. Work in her heart. Thank You for all the volunteers that we have serving at CF. It is amazing what You are doing within our fellowship. We give You all the Praise and all the Glory! 

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