PAUL EXPLAINS HOW TO KNOW THE UNKNOWN GOD @ Agora (Athens-16)

Today's visit to the Agora is when we focus on the "altar to the unknown god" that Paul spoke of in Acts 17.
What a lesson for us all this will be.
What did Paul do when he was confronted with paganism? When he went to Athens do you remember he walked into Athens and he had just gotten done with a wonderful ministry in Philippi but he left there and came down to Athens? In Acts chapter 17 he was walking around Athens and he went, Oh, an altar to unknown God, oh there’s another one, and he walked all around the city and looked at all those altars.
Then he said I’d like to tell you about the unknown God. What’s interesting is in 600 BC, 600 years before the Apostle Paul, what had happened was a black death hit Athens. The people were dying like flies and an old seer, an old prophet of some sort came in from the hills of Macedonia. He came down, he said to them - you have offended a God you don’t know.
What you have to do is you have to offer him sacrifices. He said what you do is bring in a whole bunch of sheep and let them loose and wherever they sit down pile up rocks and slaughter those sheep on top of those piles of rocks and make sacrifices to this unknown God. So, they brought in hundreds of sheep, let them loose.
They built little altars and killed them and sacrifice them and left those altars in Athens. In Paul’s days, there were altars all over the city right in the middle of the road. If a sheep had stopped there, they killed him right there and put the altar up and they never moved those altars. What’s interesting is, according to the legend from 600 BC the plague stopped. So, there was kind of a vestige of a past memory of 600 years before in Athens that there was some unknown, they didn’t know who he was but when they had killed these lambs their plague stopped. Paul said I’d like to tell you who the unknown God is, and he told them about Christ.
(Athens-16)
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