A Passion for God’s Glory

Sunday, January 18, 2026
Pastor Alex Chen

Sermon Video

Outline

  • Compelled By A Passion for God’s Glory

  • Compelled By An Assurance that Christ Saves

  • Trusting that God Will Save His Own By His Word

Compelled By A Passion for God’s Glory

  • Acts 17:16-17 -- 16 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

  • Isaiah 42:8 -- 8 I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.

  • Isaiah 48:11 -- 11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another

Compelled By An Assurance that Christ Saves

  • Acts 17:22-23 -- 22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

  • Acts 17:24-25 -- 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

  • Romans 1:19-20 -- 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

  • Acts 17:30-31 -- 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” 

Trusting that God Will Save His Own By His Word

  • Acts 17:17-18  -- 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

  • Acts 17:32-34 -- 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.” 33 So Paul went out from their midst. 34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

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