Acts 17:14
14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.
Acts 17:16
16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Acts 17:17
17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Acts 17:18a
18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him…
Acts 17:18b
…And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Acts 17:19
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, (Mars Hill) saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
Acts 17:20-21
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
Acts 17:22-23
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, HIM declare I unto you.
The God you need to know the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS.
Acts 17:24a
24 God that MADE the world and all things therein,
Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
There it stands in all its naked force, the opening statement of Scripture. No attempt is made to water it down, to apologize to a skeptical age, even to prove that God is.
The Holy Spirit simply deems certain truths to be self-evident, the first and foremost, that God is.
In one sublime statement He sweeps aside atheism by asserting His existence, polytheism by declaring Himself to be one, and pantheism by separating Himself from matter.
John Phillips – Exploring Genesis
The God you need to know CONTROLS ALL THINGS.
Acts 17:24
24 God that made the world and all things therein, he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands
Acts 17:26a
26 and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth…
Acts 17:26b
…and hath determined the times before appointed…
Acts 17:26c
and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation;
Acts 17:27
27 that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Acts 17:28
28 for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
The God you need to know can’t be CONFINED
Acts 17:24
24 God that made the world and all things therein, that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands
Acts 17:25
25 neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
Acts 17:30
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
The God you need to know is COMING AGAIN
Acts 17:31
31 because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Acts 17:32-34
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. 33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.