Paul’s Sermon to IntellectualsActs 17:22-28Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. 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.’ So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.“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 human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. “God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ “As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

The World - from Adam to Noah

Noah

Genesis 5:4After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

Adam

I Chronicles 1:1-4Adam

-> Seth -> Enosh

-> Kenan -> Mahalalel

-> Jared -> Enoch

-> Methuselah

-> Lamech

-> Noah

-> Shem, Ham and Japheth.

God Loves All Nations

AbrahamGenesis 18:17-18Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

Deuteronomy 4:18-19 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Moses

Psalm 67:1-3 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us—so that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.May the peoples praise you, God; may all the peoples praise you.

David

Jesus

Mark 13:9-11“You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them. And the gospel must first be preached to all nations. Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 28:18-20Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Luke 24:46-48He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

JohnRevelation 10:11Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”

From the Beginning of Human History until the End of Time,

God Cares About the People of All Nations.