EMPTY PRAISE (1 OF 3)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Luke 19:6, Luke 19:28-45, Luke 19:47-48
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Empty Praise (1 of 3)
Series: Empty
Bob Ingle
Luke 19:28-48
Take out your bible and turn to Luke 19. I want to show you a picture that is absolutely fascinating to me. Some of you have seen this; it's from this past October. The guy leaping off that little space capsule thing in the astronaut suit is Felix Bumgardener. Felix is a crazy 43-year-old high altitude jumper from Austria. That little space capsule that he jumped from was hooked to a balloon that took him to the edge of earth's atmosphere some 25 miles up into outer space. Then Felix took one step off the ladder, and he rapidly descended those 25 miles from outer space to earth. As he was falling, he fell at a super sonic speed of 834 miles per hour for nearly five minutes, and he eventually pulled a parachute and landed in a desert in New Mexico. When he did this, it was one of the largest live stream events in history. Over 8 million people watched it live-stream on the Internet. Of course, since then millions have watched it on YouTube and other places.
Now, what's interesting to me is that the media kept saying that this was the furthest anyone had descended from the heavens without a plane or spacecraft. And when you first hear it it sounds legit because you think who would be stupid enough to go even further than that? Right? But, as Christians and believers in God's Word, we know that's not completely accurate. There is one who has come from much further than 25 miles in outer space. The bible says that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, stepped out of heaven (which is outside our universe) and descended all the way from heaven to the earth. Jesus said it Himself in John 6:38, ''For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of Him who sent Me.'' Felix did it for fun. But Jesus did it for a purpose. And the bible makes clear that His purpose was that He might die as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of mankind. That through His voluntary, vicarious sacrifice on th ...
Series: Empty
Bob Ingle
Luke 19:28-48
Take out your bible and turn to Luke 19. I want to show you a picture that is absolutely fascinating to me. Some of you have seen this; it's from this past October. The guy leaping off that little space capsule thing in the astronaut suit is Felix Bumgardener. Felix is a crazy 43-year-old high altitude jumper from Austria. That little space capsule that he jumped from was hooked to a balloon that took him to the edge of earth's atmosphere some 25 miles up into outer space. Then Felix took one step off the ladder, and he rapidly descended those 25 miles from outer space to earth. As he was falling, he fell at a super sonic speed of 834 miles per hour for nearly five minutes, and he eventually pulled a parachute and landed in a desert in New Mexico. When he did this, it was one of the largest live stream events in history. Over 8 million people watched it live-stream on the Internet. Of course, since then millions have watched it on YouTube and other places.
Now, what's interesting to me is that the media kept saying that this was the furthest anyone had descended from the heavens without a plane or spacecraft. And when you first hear it it sounds legit because you think who would be stupid enough to go even further than that? Right? But, as Christians and believers in God's Word, we know that's not completely accurate. There is one who has come from much further than 25 miles in outer space. The bible says that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, stepped out of heaven (which is outside our universe) and descended all the way from heaven to the earth. Jesus said it Himself in John 6:38, ''For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of Him who sent Me.'' Felix did it for fun. But Jesus did it for a purpose. And the bible makes clear that His purpose was that He might die as a substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of mankind. That through His voluntary, vicarious sacrifice on th ...
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