Sermon Notes
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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
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v16-21 - A CITY FULL OF IDOLS
v22-28 - YOU ARE VERY RELIGIOUS
1. God does not live in temples
2. God made the nations
3. God made mankind for himself
v29-31 - GOD IS NOT US
THE REALITY OF RESURRECTION
Colossians 1:15–16
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
Kent Hughes
The Epicureans believed that everything happens by chance, and death is the end—extinction with no afterlife. They believed there are gods, but those gods have nothing to do with the world. They were practical agnostics who believed pleasure is the chief end of man and that a simple lifestyle is the most pleasurable. The Stoics were pantheists, believing that everything is god and that whatever happened to them was their destiny. Consequently, they sought to live with apathy and detachment—fatalistic resignation. Together, these two philosophies represented the popular pagan alternatives for dealing with the plight of humanity apart from Christ. Epicureanism? Simple lifestyle. Stoicism? Apathy.
