The First Church Members Part Two
Rex Yancey
Acts 2:41-47
We are looking at the first church members. They were saved people, separated people, and steadfast people. Tonight, I want us to continue with part two of this text.
4.THEY WERE A STIRRED PEOPLE.
Luke says in verse 43, everyone kept feeling a sense of awe. The KJV say Fear came upon every soul. This was not fear in the sense of being frightened, but fear in the sense of reverential awe. It was the fear of denying their Lord, or not being holy as he was holy. They were stirred to the depths of their souls by the wonder of Christ and by the wonder of who they became in Christ.
I sat across the isle from Dr. R. G. Lee back in the early seventies on a flight from New Orleans to Memphis. I introduced myself as a young seminarian and asked if I could pick his brain. He willingly agreed. I said Dr. Lee you have been preaching for 67 years, what do you see different now from when you first started preaching? Dr. Lee said, ''When I started preaching, I could preach a message on the cross and there would not be a dry eye in the house. Today I can preach on the cross and people will sit there like a knot on a log.'' I asked him why the people responded that way. He said, ''People have a low threshold for amazement.'' He continued, ''we have seen the Viet Nam war fought on our televisions.
Nothing moves us anymore.''
Sometimes I think our theme song should be I shall not be moved. We have become unimpressed and unimpressible by the wonder of miraculous grace and redemptive love.
Someone pointed to a radiant, excited Christian and said, ''What's up with him?'' His companion said, ''Oh, he was saved about twenty years ago and he never got over it.'' What about us? Where is our sense of awe in the presence of Christ?
I've learned to know a name I highly treasure.
O how it thrills my spirit through and through
O precious name, beyond degree or measure,
My heart is stirred when-ever I th ...
Rex Yancey
Acts 2:41-47
We are looking at the first church members. They were saved people, separated people, and steadfast people. Tonight, I want us to continue with part two of this text.
4.THEY WERE A STIRRED PEOPLE.
Luke says in verse 43, everyone kept feeling a sense of awe. The KJV say Fear came upon every soul. This was not fear in the sense of being frightened, but fear in the sense of reverential awe. It was the fear of denying their Lord, or not being holy as he was holy. They were stirred to the depths of their souls by the wonder of Christ and by the wonder of who they became in Christ.
I sat across the isle from Dr. R. G. Lee back in the early seventies on a flight from New Orleans to Memphis. I introduced myself as a young seminarian and asked if I could pick his brain. He willingly agreed. I said Dr. Lee you have been preaching for 67 years, what do you see different now from when you first started preaching? Dr. Lee said, ''When I started preaching, I could preach a message on the cross and there would not be a dry eye in the house. Today I can preach on the cross and people will sit there like a knot on a log.'' I asked him why the people responded that way. He said, ''People have a low threshold for amazement.'' He continued, ''we have seen the Viet Nam war fought on our televisions.
Nothing moves us anymore.''
Sometimes I think our theme song should be I shall not be moved. We have become unimpressed and unimpressible by the wonder of miraculous grace and redemptive love.
Someone pointed to a radiant, excited Christian and said, ''What's up with him?'' His companion said, ''Oh, he was saved about twenty years ago and he never got over it.'' What about us? Where is our sense of awe in the presence of Christ?
I've learned to know a name I highly treasure.
O how it thrills my spirit through and through
O precious name, beyond degree or measure,
My heart is stirred when-ever I th ...
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