Chapter 17 of Acts reveals the apostle Paul in Athens, more precisely in the Areopagus, being in that place, the following inscription on an altar: TO GOD UNKNOWN , holding her Paul begins to preach, certainly does so in a masterful way, could not be otherwise, given where he was and the audience was even quoted excerpts from writings known to the Athenians (vs. 28 quoted the Cretan poet Epimenides), only with the objective that these men lost their religiosity that God knew they did not know the result, the truth does not differ much from today we could see to a good sermon, some mocked by many stakeholders from the manifest intellectual point of view and some thought as in the case of Dionysius and Damaris. like Paul in Athens, today we are called to preach to the same God, God is not known, many say, but today perfectly know that God, and I wonder, do you really know? Or just an image but we have made God.
Among the Athenians of Paul's time and today's world there is no major difference in religiosity, many without knowing or accept it, go in search of God and this product offering is multiple gods and religions and varied, however, the only true God, the Almighty is still unknown and the God as happened in the Areopagus, those who hear him laugh sometimes, sometimes not interested unless you accept and agree.
Worse still is what happens to some who say they know and yet show only the as a worker of miracles, healings, the giver of prosperity, they unfortunately do not know him, just make a caricature of God for personal gain.
is our mission to show the world Jesus Christ and tell them "Nowhere else is there salvation" (Acts 4:12), "there is no other mediator between God and men" (1 Timoteo2: 5), "which who believes in him, even though he live "(John 11:25)," That Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life and no one will go to the Father except through him "(John 14:6), when you know, "know the truth and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).
Our God is a god Moreover, he is the GREAT I AM , which gives us life and life in abundance, which promises to lead us beyond death.
Today millions are dying without knowing it is time to introduce the world to the unknown God and thus fulfill the great commission that the Lord himself commanded us.
God bless.
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