Unstoppable - Tomb Of The Unknown God Series

In thinking on this moment, I’m reminded of a sermon intro by Spurgeon on God’s Immutability.

It’s been said by someone that the proper study of mankind is man. I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God's elect is God; the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity… Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound; in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the influence of the H.S., there is a balsam for every sore. Would you lose your sorrows? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in the Godhead's deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated. I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

Paul was inviting the Athenians into a musing of the Divine – affording them a chance to meet the H.S.

Before we partake in communion, I’d like to take a few min. to contemplate Paul’s defense on Mars Hill.

I God EXISTS

“People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar w/ this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.

Paul recognizes and commends them in their belief of God. Truth is in every culture/society in history, there’s been a deeply held belief there is a higher being than man.

In a recent Pew Research Poll – 77% of Americans across all religious lines still believe in a superior being w/ only 7% claiming to be agnostic/atheist – 16% believe nothing.

A few years ago I taught on this subject in the series – Call Me Crazy. Let me encourage you to go online and watch it. the topic of God’s existence, we discussed the common sense of what I call the Big 3.

Cosmological Argument says b/c a universe in existence there had to be someone to have caused it.

Teleological Argument says b/c we have a complex design w/ order there had to be a Designer.

Axiological Argument Morality Argument says b/c man has a moral conscious to a moral law there had to be a Lawgiver.

II God Existence can be EXPERIENCED

Paul explains that God is not some unknown, distant entity – but that He can be seen/understood as our creator/sustainer – b/c In Jesus, He is the sovereign ruler/Savior over all.

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ “Therefore since we are God’s off-spring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone – an image made by human design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world w/ justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”