Acts 17: ¹⁶While Paul was waiting in Athens, he was upset to see all the idols in the city....  ²²So Paul stood up in front of the council and said: People of Athens, I see that you are very religious. ²³As I was going through your city and looking at the things you worship, I found an altar with the words, "To an Unknown God." You worship this God, but you don't really know him. So I want to tell you about him. ²⁴This God made the world and everything in it. He is Lord of heaven and earth, and he doesn't live in temples built by human hands. ²⁵He doesn't need help from anyone. He gives life, breath, and everything else to all people. ²⁶From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.
    ²⁷God has done all this, so that we will look for him and reach out and find him. He isn't far from any of us, ²⁸and he gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. "We are his children," just as some of your poets have said. ²⁹Since we are God's children, we must not think that he is like an idol made out of gold or silver or stone. He isn't like anything that humans have thought up and made. ³⁰In the past, God forgave all this because people did not know what they were doing. But now he says that everyone everywhere must turn to him. ³¹He has set a day when he will judge the world's people with fairness. And he has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death. (CEV)
1. Why should people search for God with open hearts because of His wonderful Creation?

John 3: ¹⁶God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. ¹⁷God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them! John 14: ⁶"I am the way, the truth, and the life!" Jesus answered. "Without me, no one can go to the Father. Romans 6: ²³Sin pays off with death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord. (CEV)
2. Why did Jesus come to us with a message of faith, hope and love, instead of to condemn us?

Romans 5: ⁸But God showed how much he loved us by having Christ die for us, even though we were sinful. ⁹But there is more! Now that God has accepted us because Christ sacrificed his life's blood, we will also be kept safe from God's anger. ¹⁰Even when we were God's enemies, he made peace with us, because his Son died for us. Yet something even greater than friendship is ours. Now that we are at peace with God, we will be saved by his Son's life. (CEV)
3. What is there about Jesus that makes both His death and His life important to us?

Philippians 1: ⁹I pray that your love will keep on growing and that you will fully know and understand ¹⁰how to make the right choices. Then you will still be pure and innocent when Christ returns. And until that day, ¹¹Jesus Christ will keep you busy doing good deeds that bring glory and praise to God. (CEV)
4. How does God's Spirit use the Message of Jesus to help us grow and make right choices?

Please study the above references and then add your observations and applications:
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