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(A sermon delivered to the good people of Stockbridge Presbyterian during the season of Easter…)<\/em><\/p>\n

Today we\u2019ll spend some time in the\u00a0book of Acts<\/a>\u00a0looking at the\u00a0apostle Paul\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0missionary visit to the great ancient city of Athens, Greece and his famous speech there.\u00a0 But before we do that, let\u2019s recall that up until this point, Paul and his companions in the early church are carrying out the instructions that Jesus has left prior to his departure.\u00a0 They have received the Good News that God is alive and intimately invested in their lives and this world; and now, in the light of the resurrection of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they have been sharing this Good News with new-found zeal, not just in Jerusalem but beyond to the farthest corners of their world- and this has gotten them (especially Paul) into some nail-bitingly suspenseful close calls.<\/p>\n

Just prior to where we pick up today, Paul is in Athens preparing to catch up with his pals Timothy and Silas after being essentially chased out of Macedonia.\u00a0 And while he\u2019s there, Paul begins touring Athens and, we\u2019re told in v. 16 that he discovers to great distress \u201ca city full of idols.\u201d\u00a0 Now, we might think that at this juncture in his journey Paul would be licking his wounds and planning retirement to some quiet Grecian villa, but instead we find him right back in the middle of things, literally- first in the synagogue with the Jews and in the marketplace of Athens, and then eventually in the Areopagus, where we meet him today.\u00a0 The Areopagus was a large, open-air amphitheatre perched on a hill top overlooking the city and it was the place where the Athens city council publically debated new political and religious ideas.\u00a0 It was essentially a great big public forum presided over by the city\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n

And here we pick up with Paul\u2019s speech (Acts 17:22-34)\u2026<\/p>\n

Then Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely religious you are in every way.\u00a0<\/em>For as I went through the city and looked carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence and the boundaries of the places where they would live, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him – though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’ Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals. While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”<\/em><\/p>\n

When they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; but others said, “We will hear you again about this.” At that point Paul left them. But some of them joined him and became believers, including Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the Word of the Lord\u2026Let\u2019s pray.<\/p>\n

Last weekend some of you may have caught the NPR interview of the Endeavor space shuttle commander, astronaut Mark Kelly.\u00a0 Kelly, you may recall, is the husband of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering from gunshot wounds to the head from an attack this past January, and he was interviewed while commanding the space shuttle program\u2019s final mission into space.<\/p>\n

From his perch at the International Space Station, looking down on the great big, blue orb of planet Earth serenely floating in space, Kelly had a one-of-a-kind perspective.\u00a0 A perspective that few people will get to experience.\u00a0 And it was that perspective that led Kelly to exclaim how hard it was to understand all the conflict and violence on \u201csuch an incredibly beautiful planet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perspective.\u00a0 The right perspective puts\u00a0everything<\/em>\u00a0into focus: it\u2019s a bit like being able to see clearly in a room after fumbling for and finally finding a light switch.\u00a0 And in today\u2019s passage the apostle Paul is speaking from a resurrection perspective.\u00a0 In fact, you could say that the whole book of Acts, including the story of Paul\u2019s own dramatic conversion, hinges on the\u00a0resurrection of Jesus Christ<\/a>. So that by the time we meet Paul here in the Areopagus, the resurrection of Jesus Christ had become an indisputable fact for first-century believers.\u00a0 The church of Paul\u2019s time, to be sure, had as many disputes as the church of our day- but the resurrection of Jesus Christ and whether it really happened were not one of them.<\/p>\n

So Paul had a resurrection perspective.\u00a0 He was looking at the earth and, in this case, the people of Athens, through resurrection-colored lenses, with the result being a whole new reality, a whole new mode of existence grounded in who God\u00a0 is, who we are, and why that matters.\u00a0 And this whole new way of being and perceiving and experiencing is \u201cgood news\u201d- hence, the title of this sermon:\u00a0 \u201cWho God Really Is, Who We Really Are, and Why That Really Matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul knew that the good news begins with who God is.\u00a0 And so that is where he begins, too.\u00a0 Sure, Paul is quick, rhetorically speaking, to meet the Athenians where they are, and he does this by drawing attention to one of their objects of worship.\u00a0 But in no time, this object of worship, – (which in this case is an altar with the inscription, \u201cTo an Unknown God,\u201d)-\u00a0 this object of worship becomes a pointer to Paul\u2019s first big piece of headline-grabbing news about who God really is.\u00a0 Did you know, Paul essentially says, that this God you have been worshipping unknowingly is really the God who made the world and everything in it (v. 24)?\u00a0 Did you know that this God doesn\u2019t live in temples made by human hands (v. 24)?<\/p>\n

This God, Paul goes on to say, doesn\u2019t need to be looked after as though he needed something, since He is the One who gives life and breath to everyone (v. 25).\u00a0 This God made all of us: he made from one stock every race of humans to live on the whole face of the earth, allotting them their properly ordained times and boundaries for their dwellings (v. 26), so that they would search for God and perhaps find him (v. 27).\u00a0 And this same God is not far from us, Paul says in v. 28.\u00a0 So in essence Paul is making a dramatic, \u201cthis just in\u201d statement about who God is here:\u00a0 he\u2019s saying that the real God, as the Creator of the world, is living and alive, and while untamable by human beings is also near and available to us when we seek Him.<\/p>\n

And from where we sit today, as 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century Christians, it may be easy to initially miss the full import of Paul\u2019s message. So it\u2019s helpful to remember who Paul\u2019s audience was.\u00a0 These were people steeped in the various philosophies of their day.\u00a0 Athens in Paul\u2019s day, not unlike America in ours, was a \u201cmelting pot\u201d of world views and religions.\u00a0 There were the Epicureans, for instance, who viewed the gods as distant and disinterested in human affairs, with the implication being that human life was meant to be enjoyed and nothing more.\u00a0 And then in contrast there were the Stoics who believed that an impersonal, divine spirit infused all of nature (along the lines of what we today call \u201cpantheism\u201d), and that it was the job of human beings to live in harmony with nature, according to the guiding principles of reason and duty.<\/p>\n

Into this mix were thrown the many Greek gods that many of us studied in elementary school, Zeus, Hermes, Athena and Aphrodite, for example. These were gods made in the image of human beings: their images and stories, graven on marble temple walls and columns and in statues, had been, as Paul puts it (v. 29) \u201cformed by human skill and ingenuity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of you are familiar with the Mini-Me character of the Austin Powers movies.\u00a0 If you are not, please don\u2019t run out and get the movie- this is in no way an endorsement; but the movies, as some of you may recall, are about the ridiculous rivalry between a James Bond-like knock-off, Austin Powers, and his arch enemy Dr. Evil. In the second and third movies, Dr. Evil and his minions, in their plot to take over the world, make a clone of Dr. Evil that is identical in every way but size.\u00a0 \u201cMini-Me,\u201d as he\u2019s called, is one-eighth the size of Dr. Evil, and in the film, he\u2019s silent most of the time, except for when he\u2019s lip synching to a rap song or laughing along with Dr. Evil.<\/p>\n

The gods of Athens were essentially \u201cMini-Me\u2019s\u201d- they looked a lot like human beings, were silent most of the time, and were powerful only to the degree that they were ceded that power through image and myth by the human beings who made them.\u00a0 These false gods were as capable of being in real relationship with human beings as the distant, indifferent god of the Epicureans and the impersonal, pantheistic spirit of the Stoics.\u00a0 They were, in short, unknown and unknowable, so that the inscription, \u201cTo an Unknown God,\u201d sums up what would have been an environment of spiritual chaos and confusion.\u00a0 The people of Athens were, largely speaking, in the dark and fumbling for a light switch, and Paul, in his speech, was trying to help them find it\u2026<\/p>\n

Because if our god is just a \u201cMini-Me,\u201d then we are ultimately worshipping our own deepest desires. Today we may not bow down to the god of the sea before we get in a boat, but how many of us value security above all else in the storms of life?\u00a0 We may not have a bust of the goddess of love and beauty in our bathroom, but how many of us spend far too long in the mirror worrying about how we measure up in the looks department?\u00a0 How many of us lose ourselves in unhealthy relationships?\u00a0 And yes, we may not light incense before an actual altar to Ares, the god of war, but how many of us pay taxes to a government that far outspends the world in fighting wars around the globe?<\/p>\n

You and I- we, all of us- have our \u201cMini-Me\u201d gods.\u00a0 Sex, money, youth, health, pleasure, the\u00a0status quo<\/em>, an ideology, even virtue, can all become Mini-Me\u2019s.\u00a0 What is your Mini-Me?<\/p>\n

\u2026Because Paul wants us to know that what we\u2019re holding onto today, what we\u2019ve labeled as of greatest value, what we\u2019ve said is the thing that gives us meaning or purpose or makes us feel alive, that thing pales in comparison to a relationship with the Living God who created us.<\/p>\n

And in case we\u2019re still unsure, Paul reminds us of\u00a0who\u00a0<\/em>we really are because of who God really is.\u00a0 Here again Paul turns reality on its head.\u00a0 He has begun by noting that the Athenians are \u201cextremely religious.\u201d While in Paul\u2019s day this would have probably been heard as a compliment; nowadays a better starter would probably be something along the lines of \u201cvery spiritual.\u201d\u00a0 By illustration I want to conduct a brief survey: how many of you have heard the words, \u201cI don\u2019t care for organized religion, but I\u2019m very spiritual.\u201d\u00a0 I can\u2019t count the number of times I have.)<\/p>\n

But then Paul goes on to expand on this theme of who we really are because of who God really is.\u00a0 He goes on to declare in v. 28 that it\u2019s \u201cin God that we live and move and exist\u201d and that we are \u201cHis offspring.\u201d\u00a0 Paul here is very skillfully using language that would have been familiar to a largely Stoic audience, but he is reapplying it- because what Paul is talking about here is not pantheism; what Paul is talking about here is what it means to be truly human.\u00a0 He is saying that what it means to live as human beings is to be totally dependent on God for every thought, movement and breath.\u00a0 And then he goes on to quote from a Stoic writer: \u201cwe are God\u2019s offspring,\u201d he says, which is really another way of saying that we are made in God\u2019s image.<\/p>\n

So when Paul draws attention to all of the things that we worship in place of the real God, he is essentially saying, \u201cDon\u2019t you see? When you worship these things in ignorance, you\u2019re not being who God made you to be.\u00a0 You\u2019re not being your most authentic self.\u201d\u00a0 If the real God is living, as opposed to something that we carve out of stone or our own imaginations, then those who worship Him above all else will be fully alive also.<\/p>\n

The second century church father Irenaeus put it this way: he said \u201cthe glory of God is a human being fully alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

If God is really alive and seeks to be in relationship with human beings, then we, as those made in God\u2019s image, are meant to be fully alive and in relationship, too.<\/p>\n

But why does any of this really matter?\u00a0 Paul gets to this in the third section of his speech starting in verse 31.\u00a0 Who God really is and who we really are matters because God is going to judge the world in the person of His Son Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

Now, when we think of judgment, many of us think of fire and brimstone and a righteous but mostly angry God out to get us for all of the messes we caused.\u00a0 And while some degree of fear of God\u2019s judgment is probably healthy- \u201cthe fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,\u201d we\u2019re told in Proverbs- a preoccupation with this one-dimensional understanding of God\u2019s judgment is not healthy and is in fact not biblical.\u00a0 It misses the fullness and depth of God\u2019s goodness, which is really what Paul is talking about here, because a more accurate way to describe what Paul is talking about has to do with what the New Testament scholar, N.T. Wright, in interpreting this passage, renders as \u201cfull and proper justice.\u201d\u00a0 This kind of justice is better construed as restorative- it\u2019s the making of rough places smooth (to borrow from the imagery of the prophet Isaiah), or the imparting of wholeness to something that was once broken (shalom<\/em>in the Jewish vocabulary).<\/p>\n

The other day I had the chance to hear someone share in his own words what it was like to have just received a heart transplant after living with congestive heart failure for over ten years.\u00a0 This man, only in his forties, had been on a long list of people in need of new hearts.\u00a0 After a long, uncertain wait, he had finally received a new heart, thanks to a 22-year-old donor- of whom this man with a new lease on life had this to say: \u201cHe gave me a heart, so I\u2019m still alive, but I gave his heart a life, so it\u2019s still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul is saying here that you and I and all creation are on a waiting list to receive new life.\u00a0 We, too, have a degenerative condition, and without an operation we will surely die. And in case we\u2019re unsure about where that new, restored life will come from, Paul points us to the donor- Jesus whom God raised from the dead.\u00a0 When we repent, when we turn away from the idols we erect for ourselves and when we turn and return to Christ, we allow God to do a transplant operation on us, with the result being that we can say, \u201cJesus gave me His Spirit, so I\u2019m still alive, and I gave His Spirit a life, so His Spirit is alive in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The promise that Jesus leaves his first disciples- that they will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon them and will be Christ\u2019s witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and all the world- that same promise is true for us, too.\u00a0 When we give our lives to the one, true God, seeking after Him with our whole heart, we get to see that promise in action, and we\u2019re given a new lease on life.\u00a0 We get to see who we really are and why that uniquely matters to the world- all because of who God really is.<\/p>\n

Because God is alive and wants nothing more than to be in relationship with us, and because we, made in God’s image, were created for real, abiding life and relationships, too\u2026so that you and I and we together matter regardless of where we sit today or what we\u2019ve experienced; we belong to that cosmic purpose and have a unique role to play in sharing with our world the truth about who God is, who we are and why that matters.<\/p>\n

Because in Christ there is a rhyme and reason and purpose to the events of our lives and all of history that will one day be summed up in the full and proper justice of God.\u00a0 How can we be sure of this?\u00a0 We can be sure of this, Paul says, because God raised Jesus from the dead.\u00a0 A little perspective can make all the difference in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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