Judgment Is Coming, Ready or Not.

The place called Mar's Hill exists, it is a part of our reality, part of our past and existing in our present.

'The Areopagus or Mars Hill is a bare marble hill next to the Acropolis in Athens. It is especially popular with travelers for its connections with a speech made by Paul the Apostle.' (Wiki)

Yesterday I mentioned Mar's Hill in connection with the altar with the inscription- TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Today I want to read that passage more in-depth.

Act 17:22  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. 

Act 17:23  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. 

Act 17:24  God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 

Act 17:25  Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 

Act 17:26  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 

Act 17:27  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: 

Act 17:28  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. 

Act 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. 

Act 17:30  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 

Act 17:31  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.

God MADE THE WORLD AND ALL THINGS THEREIN.

GOD IS LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. 

God does not dwell in any temple made by man.

God does not need man to worship Him- God existed before man existed and would continue to exist without man.

God gives life and breath to ALL things. Nothing has life or breath without God. All mankind shares the same life giving blood, not a single person exists without this blood.

God arranged things for us so that all mankind are capable of seeking the Lord should they choose. God is NOT far from any of us.

God can't be far from us, we live because of Him, we move, we have our form, we are the children of God.

Because we are God's children we have to realize that God is NOT gold, NOT silver, NOT stone, and can NOT be captured in such likenesses. No man can depict God in any tangible object.

God will overlook our ignorance when we do not comprehend His truths. God however, expects us to REPENT as soon as we realize the truth of our place and God's place as Creator, as Redeemer. We owe our very lives to GOD and God will not be worshiped falsely, He is above all! We need to repent of our audacity to presume that we are above God in any way, that we can bring God down to our level, that God needs us. 

Act 17:31  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.

God has APPOINTED A DAY to JUDGE the world in righteousness through Jesus Christ our LORD. God gave us ASSURANCE of this truth to ALL MANKIND when He raised our Savior, Jesus Christ, from the dead!

You cannot believe in the Savior Jesus Christ without knowing there is a Day of JUDGMENT.

Act 10:42  And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. 

JUDGMENT.

Mat 25:31  When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 

Mat 25:32  And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 

Mat 25:33  And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 

Mat 25:34  Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 

Mat 25:35  For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 

Mat 25:36  Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 

Mat 25:37  Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 

Mat 25:38  When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 

Mat 25:39  Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 

Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 

Mat 25:41  Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: 

Mat 25:42  For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: 

Mat 25:43  I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. 

Mat 25:44  Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 

Mat 25:45  Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 

Mat 25:46  And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. 

This is truth! Judgment! We will be blessed of the Father and inherit the kingdom or we will be punished with a punishment whose results are everlasting, never to be undone.

We cannot believe in our Savior without believing in our own judgment.

Rom 2:16  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel. 

Our secrets will be judged, there are no secrets from God, none.

Rom 14:9  For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. 

Rom 14:10  But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

We shall ALL stand before the judgment seat of Christ!

1Co 4:5  Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. 

The Lord will come in judgment!

2Co 5:10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 

ALL of us will appear before the judgment seat of Christ!

2Ti 4:1  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom

The LORD JESUS CHRIST will judge us!

Jud 1:14  And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 

Jud 1:15  To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 

TRUTH!

Judgment is coming, ready or not.

Come, Lord Jesus, come!

Rev_22:20  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.