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October 19, 2022 • Nancy Teague • Episode 37

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E37 Are these words difficult for you – command, repent, judge? Paul spoke of these things to the philosophers in Athens when he referenced their idol “To an Unknown God”. If we understand a few Greek words, we’ll discover Paul was telling them really good news – for them and everyone. That means us too!

E37 TRANSCRIPT Why God commands change your mind How will God judge the world Happy news

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Nancy Teague

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Oct 19, 2022

Hey there, welcome to crazy Good God podcast. I'm Nancy Teague and thanks for listening.

00:15 When God commands something, how does it make you feel? What about God judging the world? Is repent a happy thing to do?

00:27 If you found a passage that felt negative, what if you looked up the Greek for the words? You might really be blessed and not depressed. BibleHub.com is great help. I give information in the Transcript references.

00:42 Let's key in on this seemingly negative passage about seeking, commanding, and judging in Acts 17. Here's a portion, New King James version. “…they should seek the Lord in the hope that they might grope for him and find him...these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which he will judge the world.” Sounds challenging and scary.

01:13 Well, let's look at it in light of some Greek meanings.

The context - Paul was in Athens, was provoked by all the idols and he began to speak of Jesus and the resurrection to the philosophers. Then Paul referenced their idol with the inscription “To the Unknown God”. It's like they're covering all the bases just in case they missed a god.

01:35 Paul says, “The one whom you worship without knowing Him, I proclaim to you. God who made the world and everything in it He is Lord of Heaven and earth. He doesn't dwell in temples made with hands, nor is He worshipped with many hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to ALL life, breath, all things. God determined our appointed and our opportune time, our boundaries and dwelling.” Now why would God do that?

02:12 The Greek reads simply – “to seek (in the Greek desired, required, demand to investigate to get to the bottom of a matter).

02:23 “To seek perhaps - now this word perhaps has an element of surprise - in the Greek, it emphasizes an aspect of hesitation and anxiety or impatience.

“To seek perhaps…” now Paul surprises us with the word Indeed.

“To seek, perhaps indeed to touch/to discover/to feel on the surface Him.

02:51 The new King James version says “…they should seek the Lord in the hope they might grope for Him and find Him…” Doesn't this translation make it sound hard to find God?

Paul is saying God is touchable!He's not an inanimate idol who cannot hear or speak.

03:11 Paul goes on – “Really, He's not far/He's not distant from each one of us. For in/inside Him, we live/we’re alive, on top of this we move/we get stirred up, moreover, we are ‘I am’.

03:29 Paul then affirms, ‘Even your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’” Now look at that, Paul said their Pagan poets were speaking truth!

“Therefore”, Paul goes on, “since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think of the Divine Nature like silver, gold, stone, something shaped by man.” Paul continues, “God overlooked/He took no notice/ He disregarded these times of ignorance/of willful blindness.

04:01 Truly now (and the Greek word now is a present now - and it's because of in light of what God disregarded) God commands all men to repent. Command is NOT an order, a do this or else. The Greek is paragello. para means close beside. agello means to inform/to notify. God is close and notifying all men to repent, that is change your way of thinking.

Now why is He doing this?

04:36 Paul goes on – “because God set in place a day (and the Greek for day is a period from sunrise to sunset) in Who He judges/comes to a decision/chooses the world in righteousness in the Man whom He ordained as a guarantee (it also means faith or faithfulness) to ALL, having raised Him out from the dead.

05:02 Now look at that, God’s command is not wearisome, it's informing, it's about life! It's for ALL. Paul told the Athenians that God’s judgment of the world through the Son of Man’s resurrection made us right.

Jesus said, “If I be lifted up, I will draw all men to myself.”

05:22 God has always been for us. We've been ignorant of this eternal truth and the righteousness Jesus imparted to all through His resurrection.

May you have a ‘GOD IS FOR US’ lens when reading Scripture. You will begin to see like you've never seen before and change your mind!

Until next Wednesday, Bliss to you and never forget God is absolutely crazy about you!

References:

Acts 17:27 Acts 17:23-31 1Jn 5:3 Jn 12:32 Rom 8:31-32 Rom 12:2

How to use https://biblehub.com/ for looking up Greek words NT verses or Hebrew words OT verses.

· On Bible Hub website type in desired verse

· Various translation of the verse populate – if want click on desired translation

· Above the verse is a gray sliding bar – move it left until see appropriate GRK or HEB – tap

· A graph lays out each word in the verse

· Tap on the far-left number of the word you want to see for GRK or HEB meanings

· GRK or HEB word, pronunciation, summery meaning and nuances, other scripture references at your disposal