Acts #72 The One True God Is Inescapable

It is the fool that says in his heart there is no God (Psalm 14:1). But his foolishness in denying God begins by saying, “No, God” (or “Not now, God”) to God’s revelation in nature, and “No, God” (“Not now, God”) to God’s revelation in Scripture. When we will not say, “Yes, God”, and will not say, “O Lord, I believe, and love, and will obey what thou has revealed”, God will give us over to our own unbelief to the point that we will even deny that God exists or will construct a god of our own imagination. In either case (to deny the Lord God or to reconstruct a new God in our own image), the end is the same—we will stand before the one true living God whom we have denied in order to be judged by Him for our refusal to submit ourselves in faith to the God who has made Himself known by revelation within us and all around us and especially by revelation in the gospel of grace found in Scripture.

We continue today Paul’s defense before the Areopagus in making known to them the one true living God they did not know, trust, love, obey, or worship. The main points from our text are the following: (1) The One True God Is Inescapable (Acts 17:27-29); (2) The One True God Commands All to Repent (Acts 17:30-31); (3) The Different Responses to the One True God (Acts 17:32-34).