Kingdoms in Conflict (San Francisco)

³For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. ⁴For the mweapons of nour warfare are not of the flesh but have odivine power pto destroy strongholds.

Paul Addresses the Areopagus

²²So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. ²³For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: p‘To the unknown god.’ pWhat therefore you worship qas unknown, this I proclaim to you. ²⁴rThe God who made the world and everything in it, being sLord of heaven and earth, tdoes not live in temples made by man,3 ²⁵nor is he served by human hands, uas though he needed anything, since he himself vgives to all mankind wlife and breath and everything. ²⁶And xhe made from one man every nation of mankind to live yon all the face of the earth, zhaving determined allotted periods and athe boundaries of their dwelling place, ²⁷bthat they should seek God, cand perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. dYet he is actually not far from each one of us, ²⁸for

e“‘In him we live and move and have our being’;4

as even some of fyour own poets have said,

“‘For we are indeed his offspring.’5

²⁹gBeing then God's offspring, hwe ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. ³⁰iThe times of ignorance jGod overlooked, but know he lcommands all people everywhere to repent, ³¹because he has fixed ma day on which nhe will judge the world oin righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and pof this he has given assurance to all qby raising him from the dead.”

³²Now when they heard of rthe resurrection of the dead, ssome mocked. But others said, t“We will hear you again about this.” ³³So Paul went out from their midst. ³⁴But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius uthe Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

³⁶Jesus answered, b“My kingdom cis not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, dmy servants would have been fighting, that eI might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”