Christ's Answer to the World (Daniel Whyte III Preaches Adaptation of One of Billy Graham's Sermons)

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TEXT: Acts 17:30-34 In the context of this passage, we find the Apostle Paul going throughout the Mediterranean world proclaiming the good news to people in frustration, fear, and sin. In his travels, he comes to the city of Athens. Athens was the cultural and intellectual center of the ancient world. It was the city of Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus. If you take all the universities of America and roll them into one, you have what Athens was to the intellectual world of that day. As in this day, in the midst of intellectual achievements and scientific advances, there existed both confusion and frustration. They were searching for an answer. And things haven't changed very much in two thousand years. The world is still searching for answers. The great intellectual minds of Athens did not have answers to their dilemmas, so when Paul got there, some of the philosophers came and said, "Paul, we've heard about your message. We'd like to hear more of it. How about going up to Mars Hill and giving a lecture?" So Paul did. He went up to Mars Hill, and there he preached his famous sermon. That day, he had a great audience of people who regarded hundreds of different gods and religions. Yet, they did not know about the one true God; they still sought for answers.