MID-WEEK MANNA FROM PASTOR NAT’S DESK:
January 14, 2026
God’s Purposes Revealed by Inspiration
GOD’S PURPOSE IN NATIONS (Part 2)
ALL NATIONS ARE OF ONE BLOOD. In apostle Paul’s public address as he stood in the midst of Areopagus (Mars’s Hill) before the Athenian Jews, the pagan philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics, he declared:
“Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 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 I declare unto you.
“God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with [human] hands. Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though He needeth anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
“And hath MADE OF ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS of men
for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before, and THE BOUNDS OF THEIR HABITATION;
“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.
“For IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING; as certain as also of your own poet have said, For we are also His offspring.
“Forasmuch then as WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, we ought not to think that the GODHEAD is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.” (Acts 17: 22-29, KJV.
Indeed, it is God alone (the one God of the Godhead, made up of the three Persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) who “made all nations of one blood,”—is the One who establishes the boundaries of all nations, according to His will and purpose, not the “great men and kings of the earth” who, in their foolish pride, forget that they are but fallen, sinful, finite, mortals whose bodies simply “return to the dust of the earth” at death! Note this:
“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee: WHEN THE MOST HIGH DIVIDED TO THE NATIONS THEIR INHERITANCE, when he separated the sons of Adam, HE SET THE BOUNDS OF THE PEOPLE, according to the number of the children of Israel” (Deut. 32: 7, 8).
To be continued next MWM, God willing. Bless all, NMF.