To An Unknown God.
—Acts 17:23
Paul told the intelligentsia of Athens that he was going to introduce them to the God they worshipped in ignorance. He then proceeded to point out five aspects of God’s nature in his message recorded in Acts 17.
God is the Creator. The uncreated Creator “made the world and everything in it” (v. 24).
God is the Sustainer. He needs nothing, but “gives everyone life and breath and everything else” (v. 25).
God is the Ruler. He “made all the nations . . . and marked out their appointed times in history” (v. 26).
God is the Father. “In him we live and move and have our being. . . . We are his offspring” (v. 28).
God is the Judge. “He has set a day when he will judge the world” (v. 31).
The judgment will be fair and final.