JESUS IS RAISED (11 OF 11)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 1 Corinthians 15:12-19, 1 Corinthians 15:30-32
Jesus is Raised (11 of 11)
Series: The Greatest Week in History
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 12-19, 30-32
Many of you watch annually It's A Wonderful Life. George Bailey, the movie's main character, has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. Bailey loses $8,000 through no fault of his own and fears he will be sent to jail and his company will collapse. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to earth to help George Bailey. The angel shows George Bailey what things would have been like if he had never been born. You see the town of Bedford Falls without the positive life of George Bailey. In a nightmarish vision, Bedford Falls sinks into a deep pit of sex and sin, those George loves are either dead, ruined, or miserable. Bailey realizes that he has touched many people in a positive way and that his life has truly been a wonderful one.
Imagine a magic eraser that can erase any event in history. With just a stroke of this eraser, a moment of history would be gone forever. The question is - if that was true, what impact moving forward would that have in our lives? What if history was rewritten? There's a whole field of study called Alternative History. The question becomes what would be different in the present if certain things did not happen in the past? The idea is to look back at a past event, and to identify a point divergence - and start there by hypothetically erasing it. You then extrapolate forward what the consequences would be by erasing that moment in history. ''What if Robert E. Lee had won the Battle of Gettysburg?'' ''What if John Wilkes Booth had missed when he shot President Abraham Lincoln?'' Even recent TV shows have picked up on this kind of thinking, a Hulu TV series entitled, 11.22.63, is based on the book by Stephen King. An English ...
Series: The Greatest Week in History
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 12-19, 30-32
Many of you watch annually It's A Wonderful Life. George Bailey, the movie's main character, has spent his entire life giving of himself to the people of Bedford Falls. Bailey loses $8,000 through no fault of his own and fears he will be sent to jail and his company will collapse. Thinking of his wife, their young children, and others he loves will be better off with him dead, he contemplates suicide. But the prayers of his loved ones result in a gentle angel named Clarence coming to earth to help George Bailey. The angel shows George Bailey what things would have been like if he had never been born. You see the town of Bedford Falls without the positive life of George Bailey. In a nightmarish vision, Bedford Falls sinks into a deep pit of sex and sin, those George loves are either dead, ruined, or miserable. Bailey realizes that he has touched many people in a positive way and that his life has truly been a wonderful one.
Imagine a magic eraser that can erase any event in history. With just a stroke of this eraser, a moment of history would be gone forever. The question is - if that was true, what impact moving forward would that have in our lives? What if history was rewritten? There's a whole field of study called Alternative History. The question becomes what would be different in the present if certain things did not happen in the past? The idea is to look back at a past event, and to identify a point divergence - and start there by hypothetically erasing it. You then extrapolate forward what the consequences would be by erasing that moment in history. ''What if Robert E. Lee had won the Battle of Gettysburg?'' ''What if John Wilkes Booth had missed when he shot President Abraham Lincoln?'' Even recent TV shows have picked up on this kind of thinking, a Hulu TV series entitled, 11.22.63, is based on the book by Stephen King. An English ...
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