
Worthy Is The Lamb Who Was Slain!
March 31, 2021
Leadership Notes
I love this passage. It's from Acts 17:29-32:
"Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is
like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of
man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all
people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will
judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of
this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But
others said, "We will hear you again about this.”
This is part of a sermon Paul preached to philosophy lovers on Mars Hill in Athens about 20 years after the death of Jesus. In this quoted section of the sermon, some of his listeners cut him off and mocked him because of the claim that Jesus was raised from the dead. The key point of all that is to understand that the amazing spread of Christianity in the early years did not happen in a gullible world that thought resurrections were normal.
1 Peter 1:3-5 says: