IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING

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ACTS 17

By Jose Alberto Muñoz on Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 8:04pm

In this account, God is showing us His Plurality or Oneness through the apostle Paul, so let’s take a look at it; Acts 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.

 The word superstitious is G1174 “more religious” and is only used in this verse. So we gather that he is talking to people interested in the mystic, zealous for the religious things but void of the truth.

Acts 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.

So we have to know the true character of God to rightly worship Him, and one of the main things about His character is His Oneness, or His Plurality.

Acts 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;

The first thing we notice is that He is not necessarily in the “temples” as if we could put Him in a box. I said necessarily because He’s also in the temples for He is everywhere, He does not have a physical dwelling place, but yet He compasses all the physical for He dwells in the spirit; 

Psa 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 
Psa 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
Psa 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Psa 139:10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Psa 139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Psa 139:12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Now, Paul is saying that because he notice that they do just that, put God in a box and go “visit” Him whenever they feel like or whenever they need Him. That actually is the whole problem of mankind, through sin we have separated ourselves from God believing we are gods, a separate entity. 

That is why Paul was preaching, 2Co 5:18 "And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;” 
knowing that it is only in our wicked mind that we have separate ourselves from God for in actuality that is not possible, so we missed the Oneness of Almighty God YAHWAH, the One and only ETERNAL God who is Plural because He is everywhere and Infinity.

Acts 17:25 "Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things"

Again, he’s trying them to see that God is not physical like men but a Spirit and must be; Joh 4:24 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

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

Acts 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:

It is a little hilarious how Paul puts it right here, I picture in my mind a blind man feeling things, like in a dark room, feeling the wall searching for the light-switch, but Paul is saying that there is no need to do that because God is not out there, He is inside as well as outside, so He is not far FROM US.

Acts 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.

Now, this is the bombshell, IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING. Wow! Is He saying that all things that exist in the physical realm as well as the spiritual are IN HIM, there’s nothing outside of Him? Yes that is what he is saying, which means that we are really ONE with God, we cannot come out of Him and be a separate entity as our carnal mind wants to think. Now I can understand the Lord’s prayer in John 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Joh 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Joh 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.  

No wonder David said; Psa 139:8 "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there".

I would just add, thou are in heaven, in hell, in the light, in the dark, in me, in them, everywhere; For in him we live, and move, and have our being.