• Was (Still Is)
• Was With God (Still Is)
• Was God (Still Is)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. NIV

Only God Could Precede the “Beginning”

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• Asleep (Dead Until Resurrection’s Awakening)
• Buried (with His Fathers– all the way back to Abraham, Symbolically)
• (Still) Entombed (Physically Decayed)

“For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.” NIV

David Fulfilled God’s Purpose in Life and Served as a Significant Example, even in death

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• Heaven
• Earth
• Sea
• Everything in Them

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.” NIV

Paul & Barnabas Find It Harder to Avoid Misplaced Worship than Death

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• Life
• Breath
• Everything Else

God’s Purposes in Creation & Ordering of Human History: So That Mankind Would …

• Seek Him
• Reach Out for Him
• Find Him

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• Live
• Move
• Have Our Being

He is a Divine Being, Not Like Man-Made, So-Called “gods” Made of (note the descending order of value) …

• Gold
• Silver
• Stone

“And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. [...] God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each 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.’ Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill.” NIV

God is the One Who Makes Us Up, Not the Other Way Around

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• Born A Jew of Cilician Tarsus, Brought Up in Jerusalem
• Thoroughly Trained Under Gamaliel in Forefathers’ Laws
• Equally Zealous for God as the Mob Members Attacking Him

Then Paul said: “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. Under Gamaliel I was thoroughly trained in the law of our fathers and was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. NIV

God opened a well-trained but narrow-positioned mind when He temporarily closed Paul’s eyes.

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