Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
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… God who made the world and everything in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. nor is he worshiped with men's hands as though he needed anything. Please understand you're not doing God a favor raising your hands and even being in church this morning. He doesn't need anything from you. He, we need him. He doesn't need us. He needs nothing. as though he needs anything since he gives to all life, breath, and all things. And he has made us from one blood. This is so important. You think you're better than somebody because the color of your skin or the lack thereof. this is telling you where the human race came from for he has made us from boy don't isn't this a time for that verse to be highlighted in the world he has made us from one blood every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling. …
… but it does fill us in on a secret that affects the way we pray. Look at Acts chapter 17, verse 24 and 25. This is Paul talking on Mars Hill, a bunch of people that were completely opposed to the gospel. Look at what Acts chapter 17, verse 24 says. 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 hands. Now here's the verse I want us to think about, verse 25. 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. And that's the secret. I want you to think about it with me. The God who made the world is not served by human hands as if he needed anything because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. Here's the secret that the early church knew. The early church knew that the secret to seeing the power of God in the church is not found in serving God. …
8. This God is a Spirit; not having such a body, such parts or passions, as men have. It was the opinion both of the ancient Jews and the ancient Christians, that He alone is a pure Spirit, totally separate from all matter; whereas they supposed all other spirits, even the highest angels, even cherubim and seraphim, to dwell in material vehicles, though of an exceeding light and subtile substance. At that point of duration which the infinite wisdom of God saw to be most proper, for reasons which lie hid in the abyss of his own understanding, not to be fathomed by any finite mind, God “called into being all that is;” created the heavens and the earth, together with all that they contain. “All things were created by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” He created man, in particular, after his own image, to be “a picture of his own eternity.” When he had raised man from the dust of the earth, he breathed into him an immortal spirit. Hence he is peculiarly called, “The Father of our spirits;” yea, “The Father of the spirits of all flesh.” 9. He “made all things,” as the wise man observes, “for himself;” “for his glory they were created.” Not “as if he needed anything;” seeing “he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.” He made all things to be happy. He made man to be happy in Himself. He is the proper centre of spirits; for whom every created spirit was made. So true is that well-known saying of the ancient Fathers: Fecisti nos ad te: et irrequietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te: “Thou has made us for thyself; and our heart cannot rest, till it resteth in thee.” …