Life or Death (2 of 4)
Series: The Perfect Gift
Jeff Strite
Galatians 4:1-7
OPEN: Today is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the state of Indiana. Today we have members of the Cass County bi-centennial group present in worship. (We showed pictures of the group on the screen) We've had women dressed up to portray the various walks of life, a Union soldier, a frontiersman, and we even had Chief Logan - considered to be the founder of Logansport.
I'm dressed up as an old time preacher named Barton W. Stone. He was a famous preacher of our brotherhood from early 1800s and was involved in the founding of the Spring Creek Christian church on the north side of Logansport.
The folks we're representing have several things in common. They'd all been Indiana.
They'd all been in Logansport. And they have one more thing in common. Do you know what it is?
(PAUSE) They're ALL DEAD. 200 years will do that to a person.
George Bernard Shaw observed ''the statistics about death are very impressive-one out of one dies.''
Now you may ask: why I'm talking about death this morning? Well, the reason I'm talking about death is because the Christmas gift from Christ that we're talking about this morning is the gift of eternal life. And you can't talk about eternal life... without talking about death.
Jesus was born in a manger over 2000 years ago to give us the gift of eternal life. As Hebrews 2:14 said: Jesus came to ''deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.''
People fear death!
- Now one comedian said he wasn't afraid of death. It's just that he didn't want to be there when it happened!
- But Aristotle called death the thing he feared most because it appears to be the end of everything.
- And Jean-Paul Sartre (an existentialist philosopher) said death ''removes all meaning from life''
One survey I read said that nearly 70% of Americans feared death which leads me to believe the remaining 30% aren't payi ...
Series: The Perfect Gift
Jeff Strite
Galatians 4:1-7
OPEN: Today is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the state of Indiana. Today we have members of the Cass County bi-centennial group present in worship. (We showed pictures of the group on the screen) We've had women dressed up to portray the various walks of life, a Union soldier, a frontiersman, and we even had Chief Logan - considered to be the founder of Logansport.
I'm dressed up as an old time preacher named Barton W. Stone. He was a famous preacher of our brotherhood from early 1800s and was involved in the founding of the Spring Creek Christian church on the north side of Logansport.
The folks we're representing have several things in common. They'd all been Indiana.
They'd all been in Logansport. And they have one more thing in common. Do you know what it is?
(PAUSE) They're ALL DEAD. 200 years will do that to a person.
George Bernard Shaw observed ''the statistics about death are very impressive-one out of one dies.''
Now you may ask: why I'm talking about death this morning? Well, the reason I'm talking about death is because the Christmas gift from Christ that we're talking about this morning is the gift of eternal life. And you can't talk about eternal life... without talking about death.
Jesus was born in a manger over 2000 years ago to give us the gift of eternal life. As Hebrews 2:14 said: Jesus came to ''deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.''
People fear death!
- Now one comedian said he wasn't afraid of death. It's just that he didn't want to be there when it happened!
- But Aristotle called death the thing he feared most because it appears to be the end of everything.
- And Jean-Paul Sartre (an existentialist philosopher) said death ''removes all meaning from life''
One survey I read said that nearly 70% of Americans feared death which leads me to believe the remaining 30% aren't payi ...
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