THE BOTTOM LINE (11 OF 31)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:1-9
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The Bottom Line (11 of 31)
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 5:1-9
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5. I want to talk to you tonight a message I've entitled The Bottom Line.
Now, if you were like me in high-school English class, especially when you had to read a book, like a Shakespeare-type thing, I still remember, I don't know if it was in 9th grade or 10th grade, but we had to read the Shakespeare play, Othello. And Shakespeare wrote in the, I think 1600s, 1400s, somewhere back there. He was a long time ago. Well, he wrote in ways that we don't speak that way anymore, so it's difficult to understand him and probably one of the greatest writers to ever live, but difficult to understand. And so, when you're a 9th grader, 10th grader and you got to read Macbeth or Othello or something like that, you're drowning in these words and thinking, What does this mean? And so they developed something that many of you might have used in high-school and that was a thing called CliffsNotes. Do you remember CliffsNotes? I had CliffsNotes for Othello because CliffsNotes tell you what the story's about in regular language and it can cut your reading time down quite a bit. Now it says in the CliffsNotes, it's a supplement. It's not meant to take the place of the actual book or the assignment that you had been given. But for most of us, you could pass the test with that thing. And that thing was going to be just a fraction of what the whole work was going to entail in terms of reading it. So the thing about CliffsNotes, now they have SparkNotes is what my daughters read, they give you the bottom line, enough about the story from reading that to know what it's about and to probably do fairly well on the test.
Well, when it comes to the Christian life and it comes to the Word of God, many people get intimidated by the Bible because it's a lot of pages, it's a thick book, it covers thousands and thousands and thousands of yea ...
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 5:1-9
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5. I want to talk to you tonight a message I've entitled The Bottom Line.
Now, if you were like me in high-school English class, especially when you had to read a book, like a Shakespeare-type thing, I still remember, I don't know if it was in 9th grade or 10th grade, but we had to read the Shakespeare play, Othello. And Shakespeare wrote in the, I think 1600s, 1400s, somewhere back there. He was a long time ago. Well, he wrote in ways that we don't speak that way anymore, so it's difficult to understand him and probably one of the greatest writers to ever live, but difficult to understand. And so, when you're a 9th grader, 10th grader and you got to read Macbeth or Othello or something like that, you're drowning in these words and thinking, What does this mean? And so they developed something that many of you might have used in high-school and that was a thing called CliffsNotes. Do you remember CliffsNotes? I had CliffsNotes for Othello because CliffsNotes tell you what the story's about in regular language and it can cut your reading time down quite a bit. Now it says in the CliffsNotes, it's a supplement. It's not meant to take the place of the actual book or the assignment that you had been given. But for most of us, you could pass the test with that thing. And that thing was going to be just a fraction of what the whole work was going to entail in terms of reading it. So the thing about CliffsNotes, now they have SparkNotes is what my daughters read, they give you the bottom line, enough about the story from reading that to know what it's about and to probably do fairly well on the test.
Well, when it comes to the Christian life and it comes to the Word of God, many people get intimidated by the Bible because it's a lot of pages, it's a thick book, it covers thousands and thousands and thousands of yea ...
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