Unforsaken (4 of 7)
Series: Bucket List
James Merritt
Matthew 27:45-49
Introduction
Note: Need to add ''Measure''
1. A leading psychotherapist said that after 25 years of speaking with his clients, he said easily the number one fear people have in life, to his surprise, was not death or dying, it was not terrorism, or even financial reverses. He said by far the greatest fear people have is ''ultimate loneliness.'' Of all the human emotions we possess, perhaps the most devastating is loneliness. The silence of loneliness is deafening. You can hear it in the abandoned child, the quiet home, the empty mailbox, the long days, the longer nights, a forgotten birthday and a telephone that never rings.
2. Prisons have learned this. They know that one of the worst things you can do to a prisoner is put them in solitary confinement. There are more than 80,000 United States prisoners that are housed this way more than any other democratic nation. They are confined to a 6x12 cell, 23 hours a day, with nothing but a small sink and toilet to look at. Interestingly, solitary confinement is an American invention.
3. It was first used in the early 19th century in a State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Prisoners were put in solitary confinement so they could contemplate their crimes and perhaps become repentant. Imagine 23 hours a day, in a bathroom-sized cell, under florescent lights that never go off, under 24 hours video surveillance, not really speaking or hearing from anyone. Maybe it is why prisoners in isolation account for just 5% of the total prison population, but nearly half of its suicides.
4. On the cross, Jesus Christ took loneliness and solitary confinement to another worldly level that no other human being should ever have to experience. [Turn to Matthew 27]. We are in a series that we are calling ''Bucket List''. In the last 6 hours of His life, through His last words, Jesus gives us 7 things that should be on every bucket list. These are th ...
Series: Bucket List
James Merritt
Matthew 27:45-49
Introduction
Note: Need to add ''Measure''
1. A leading psychotherapist said that after 25 years of speaking with his clients, he said easily the number one fear people have in life, to his surprise, was not death or dying, it was not terrorism, or even financial reverses. He said by far the greatest fear people have is ''ultimate loneliness.'' Of all the human emotions we possess, perhaps the most devastating is loneliness. The silence of loneliness is deafening. You can hear it in the abandoned child, the quiet home, the empty mailbox, the long days, the longer nights, a forgotten birthday and a telephone that never rings.
2. Prisons have learned this. They know that one of the worst things you can do to a prisoner is put them in solitary confinement. There are more than 80,000 United States prisoners that are housed this way more than any other democratic nation. They are confined to a 6x12 cell, 23 hours a day, with nothing but a small sink and toilet to look at. Interestingly, solitary confinement is an American invention.
3. It was first used in the early 19th century in a State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Prisoners were put in solitary confinement so they could contemplate their crimes and perhaps become repentant. Imagine 23 hours a day, in a bathroom-sized cell, under florescent lights that never go off, under 24 hours video surveillance, not really speaking or hearing from anyone. Maybe it is why prisoners in isolation account for just 5% of the total prison population, but nearly half of its suicides.
4. On the cross, Jesus Christ took loneliness and solitary confinement to another worldly level that no other human being should ever have to experience. [Turn to Matthew 27]. We are in a series that we are calling ''Bucket List''. In the last 6 hours of His life, through His last words, Jesus gives us 7 things that should be on every bucket list. These are th ...
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