Our Today Daily With Christ FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2022

FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2022

TEXT: Acts 17:22-34

22. Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.

23. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

24. “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 hands.

25. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

26. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.

27. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

28. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

29. “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone-an image by man’s design and skill.

30. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

31. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”

32. When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”

33. At that, Paul left the Council.

34. A few men became followers of Paul and believed. Among them was Dionysius, a member of the Areopagus, also a woman named Damaris, and a number of others.

(New International Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: BEWARE OF RELIGION!

Paul was concerned about the people of Athens who were very religious and committed to the worship of the god they did not know. He made it clear that their “unknown god” would not save them because it is a god that cannot answer their prayers or bless them in any way.

Having spoken the truth to them, he made it clear that after hearing the Word of God there is no more excuse. In our churches today, we can see the promotion of religion instead of Christ.

No wonder, there is hardly anything called life in our fellowship groups anymore. What do we preach in our churches today?

QUESTION: Do you know that if you are involved in religion you are detaching yourself from Christ?

PRAYER: Father, please help me to know You personally and teach Your Word to others so that they may know You and not be in the chains of religion, in Jesus name, Amen.