ARE YOU A BASKET CASE?
by Steve Wagers
Scripture: Exodus 2:1-10, John 6:1-5, John 6:7-14, Acts 9:4, Acts 9:19-23, Acts 9:25-31
Are You A Basket Case?
Steve N. Wagers
Exodus 2:1-10; John 6:1-14; Acts 9:19-31
1) A Basket Case of God's PROVIDENCE
a) She Turns It Over to God
b) She Takes It Back from God
2) A Basket Case of God's PROVISION
a) Jesus is Sovereign
b) Jesus is Sufficient
3) A Basket Case of God's PROMISE
a) The Danger that Awaited Paul
b) The Destiny that Assured Paul
Have you ever heard, or used the phrase ''He/she is a 'basket case?''' Perhaps you even feel as if you are a ''basket case.'' You might wonder where just such a phrase came from.
The phrase first appeared in a bulletin issued by the U.S. Command on Public Information in March 1919 (during WWI), on behalf of Major General M. W. Ireland, the U.S. Surgeon General:
''The Surgeon General of the Army ... denies ... that there is any foundation for the stories that have been circulated ... of the existence of 'basket cases' in our hospitals.''
A similar denial was issued in WWII. In both cases, a basket case is a reference to a soldier who had lost both arms and legs during a conflict and because of this had
to be carried in a basket.
A basket case therefore is someone who through some traumatic even has been immobilized and reduced
down to complete dependence.
Have you ever felt like a basket case? You are in a situation that is completely out of your control. You are at the mercy of circumstances. You can't move forward or backward. There is no way out for you to the left hand at to the right hand. No escape door below you.
All you can do is look up and say, ''Lord, I'm a basket
case!'' If that is your situation, it might interest you to know that there are a few places in the Bible where people found themselves in their own personal ''basket case'' experiences.
1) A Basket Case in God's PROVIDENCE!
(Exodus 2: 1-10)
This particular ''basket case'' is identified:
(3) ''And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ARK (BOX, or BASKET) of bulrushes, ...
Steve N. Wagers
Exodus 2:1-10; John 6:1-14; Acts 9:19-31
1) A Basket Case of God's PROVIDENCE
a) She Turns It Over to God
b) She Takes It Back from God
2) A Basket Case of God's PROVISION
a) Jesus is Sovereign
b) Jesus is Sufficient
3) A Basket Case of God's PROMISE
a) The Danger that Awaited Paul
b) The Destiny that Assured Paul
Have you ever heard, or used the phrase ''He/she is a 'basket case?''' Perhaps you even feel as if you are a ''basket case.'' You might wonder where just such a phrase came from.
The phrase first appeared in a bulletin issued by the U.S. Command on Public Information in March 1919 (during WWI), on behalf of Major General M. W. Ireland, the U.S. Surgeon General:
''The Surgeon General of the Army ... denies ... that there is any foundation for the stories that have been circulated ... of the existence of 'basket cases' in our hospitals.''
A similar denial was issued in WWII. In both cases, a basket case is a reference to a soldier who had lost both arms and legs during a conflict and because of this had
to be carried in a basket.
A basket case therefore is someone who through some traumatic even has been immobilized and reduced
down to complete dependence.
Have you ever felt like a basket case? You are in a situation that is completely out of your control. You are at the mercy of circumstances. You can't move forward or backward. There is no way out for you to the left hand at to the right hand. No escape door below you.
All you can do is look up and say, ''Lord, I'm a basket
case!'' If that is your situation, it might interest you to know that there are a few places in the Bible where people found themselves in their own personal ''basket case'' experiences.
1) A Basket Case in God's PROVIDENCE!
(Exodus 2: 1-10)
This particular ''basket case'' is identified:
(3) ''And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ARK (BOX, or BASKET) of bulrushes, ...
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