• Acts 17:16-34 - The Athenians desired to constantly hear new things.

  • What are we spending our time on?

  • Do we desire to hear new things? II Timothy 4:3-6

  • Do we thing of ourselves as wise? Romans 1:22

  • The Bible teaches us that God is wise. I Corinthians 1:20-25

  • When the Bible speaks about man being wise, it speaks of following His word and winning souls!

  • Proverbs 11:30

  • Ecclesiastes 12:13 - True wisdom = following God

  • Who is wise in this passage (Acts 17:21?

  • Those that spent their time in nothing but to learn new things?

  • Paul who was seeking to save souls? (Acts 17:34

  • “New things”

  • When we start talking about new things today we are talking about man’s wisdom, not God’s. I Corinthians 13:10

  • Conclusions

  • If we want to be wise, we should spend our time seeking to save souls.

  • Increase in knowledge of God’s word (Hebrews 5:12.

  • We should always search the scripture for truth (Acts 17:11.