to the text of God's word coming from the 17th chapter of the Book of Acts and verse 17,

verse 24 through 28 in the NIV version of the scriptures.

There you'll notice these words, the God who made the world and everything in it

is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands

and he is not served by human hands

as if he needed anything

rather he himself gives everyone life and breath

and everything else.

From one man he made all the nations that they should inhabit the whole earth.

And he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

God did this so that they would seek him

and perhaps reach out for him and find him,

though he is not far from any one of us.

For in him we live and move and have our being.

As some of your own poets have said,

we are his offspring.

I'm talking today from the subject,

the purpose of identity.

The purpose of identity.

You may be seated.

This is the recordings here Dr. Luke as he's recording the acts of the apostles. I'm so glad that we get a medical doctor here giving us the

perspective because they pay attention to particular things

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