The Weakest Link
Jerry N Watts
John 13:34-35
Most of us have heard the phrase, ''A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.'' In the deep rural South, we know about this because we use chains for towing. Every man (and likely most ladies) know that when we use a chain to move a tractor or vehicle, that every link must be able to withstand the pressure which will be brought to bear. If you have a weak link and you exceed the pressure which that link could withstand, you'll be unsuccessful in making a move and likely, instead of having ONE CHAIN, you will have two. Please keep this concept in your mind today.
John 13-16 takes place in the Upper Room during what we refer to as ''The Last Supper.'' Jesus had been known for saying, ''My time has not come.'' But John opens the 13th Chapter with these sobering words, ''When Jesus knew His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father,'' so we realize that everything Jesus did was done to get His disciples ready to face this world without His bodily presence. He washed feet, He instituted what we call ''The Last Supper'', He identifies His betrayer, and the tries to give the disciple the ONE THING that would hold them together and make them attractive to the world.
It is the ONE THING which, the world wants and doesn't have, the world cannot argue with, it is the one that will make God's people so appealing to the world that, if they saw it in us, our meeting houses would not hold the people, and it is the one thing which truly seems to be the 'weak link' in the American Church. And we are going to find it in the words of Jesus today.
In days past, when the preacher stepped to the pulpit, people expected to hear a Biblical truth or message that they may no want to hear, but understood they needed to hear. In this new millennium, things have changed. Today, people get angry, opposed His message, and at times, will cause problem because, in our affluence, we tend to think 'We Have arri ...
Jerry N Watts
John 13:34-35
Most of us have heard the phrase, ''A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.'' In the deep rural South, we know about this because we use chains for towing. Every man (and likely most ladies) know that when we use a chain to move a tractor or vehicle, that every link must be able to withstand the pressure which will be brought to bear. If you have a weak link and you exceed the pressure which that link could withstand, you'll be unsuccessful in making a move and likely, instead of having ONE CHAIN, you will have two. Please keep this concept in your mind today.
John 13-16 takes place in the Upper Room during what we refer to as ''The Last Supper.'' Jesus had been known for saying, ''My time has not come.'' But John opens the 13th Chapter with these sobering words, ''When Jesus knew His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father,'' so we realize that everything Jesus did was done to get His disciples ready to face this world without His bodily presence. He washed feet, He instituted what we call ''The Last Supper'', He identifies His betrayer, and the tries to give the disciple the ONE THING that would hold them together and make them attractive to the world.
It is the ONE THING which, the world wants and doesn't have, the world cannot argue with, it is the one that will make God's people so appealing to the world that, if they saw it in us, our meeting houses would not hold the people, and it is the one thing which truly seems to be the 'weak link' in the American Church. And we are going to find it in the words of Jesus today.
In days past, when the preacher stepped to the pulpit, people expected to hear a Biblical truth or message that they may no want to hear, but understood they needed to hear. In this new millennium, things have changed. Today, people get angry, opposed His message, and at times, will cause problem because, in our affluence, we tend to think 'We Have arri ...
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