Talk

Is There a God?

Louie Giglio
December, 31, 2020

Louie Giglio breaks down how our senses prove that there is a living God and challenges us to live in a way that puts Him as our reference point. We are encouraged to have our lives orbit around God rather than expecting Him to orbit around us. When we make Him our reference point, we can anchor our purpose in this world in Him.

Scripture References

16While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols.
17So he reasoned in the synagogue with both Jews and God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
18A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others remarked, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
19Then they took him and brought him to a meeting of the Areopagus, where they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?
20You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears, and we would like to know what they mean.”
21(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas.)
22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious.
23For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:

to an unknown god.

So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

24“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.
25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
26From 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.
27God 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.
28‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29“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 human design and skill.
30In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
31For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
14I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well.

Psalm 115

1Not to us,

Lord
, not to us

but to your name be the glory,

because of your love and faithfulness.

2Why do the nations say,

“Where is their God?”

3Our God is in heaven;

he does whatever pleases him.

4But their idols are silver and gold,

made by human hands.

5They have mouths, but cannot speak,

eyes, but cannot see.

6They have ears, but cannot hear,

noses, but cannot smell.

7They have hands, but cannot feel,

feet, but cannot walk,

nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

8Those who make them will be like them,

and so will all who trust in them.

9All you Israelites, trust in the

Lord
—

he is their help and shield.

10House of Aaron, trust in the

Lord
—

he is their help and shield.

11You who fear him, trust in the

Lord
—

he is their help and shield.

12The

Lord
remembers us and will bless us:

He will bless his people Israel,

he will bless the house of Aaron,

13he will bless those who fear the

Lord
—

small and great alike.

14May the

Lord
cause you to flourish,

both you and your children.

15May you be blessed by the

Lord
,

the Maker of heaven and earth.

16The highest heavens belong to the

Lord
,

but the earth he has given to mankind.

17It is not the dead who praise the

Lord
,

those who go down to the place of silence;

18it is we who extol the

Lord
,

both now and forevermore.

Praise the

Lord
.

Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.