#772 – Gospel Opportunities All Around (Acts 17:26–27)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.5 | Acts chapter 17, verses 26 and 27. |
| 0:11.9 | And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, |
| 0:18.9 | having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their |
| 0:23.1 | dwelling place, that they should seek God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. |
| 0:31.1 | This is an incredible description of the sovereignty of God over the nations of the world, all the people groups |
| 0:42.3 | in the world, all the ethnicities of the world, and even the places where all kinds of |
| 0:47.9 | different people groups live, where different ethnicities and nations live. |
| 0:59.7 | God made from one man every nation. So we all came from Adam and Eve. So we have a picture of all nations, all kinds of different people groups |
| 1:06.4 | that have come from one man. So we're all a part of the same race, the human race, yet we have |
| 1:11.8 | different ethnicities, we have different languages, different cultural backgrounds, different |
| 1:19.2 | ethnicities, but we all are made by God, and God has determined allotted periods and boundaries of our dwelling place. |
| 1:32.4 | So when you think about the movement of peoples, you even just think about refugee crisis today. |
| 1:39.8 | I'm not just talking about refugees in this part of the world or that part of the world, |
| 1:43.7 | like all over the world, you see a migration of peoples due to all kinds of different circumstances |
| 1:50.3 | and all kinds of different places. |
| 1:51.7 | You see all kinds of movements of peoples. |
| 1:55.5 | I'm guessing wherever you live probably doesn't look exactly the same today as it did 10 years ago or 20 years ago or 30 |
| 2:04.3 | years ago. There's likely more diversity or there might be just movement of different people's |
| 2:10.1 | in different places. The whole picture here is that even in a sinful world and all kinds of |
| 2:15.5 | sinful factors that may even cause migration of |
| 2:18.7 | peoples in some circumstances, God is ultimately sovereign over that, and he is drawing people |
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