The Shadow of the Almighty (6 of 6)
Series: Summer Psalms
Jim Perdue
Psalm 91:1-16
Intro/Attention
Today, we're concluding our Summer Psalms series. Turn to Psalm 91 as we study this sermon subject, The Shadow of the Almighty. I'd like to recommend a book by that name as well. It was written by Elisabeth Elliot as a biography of her husband, Jim Elliot. She borrowed a phrase from this psalm as the title of her book. READ TEXT
*READ 1-2 On January 8, 1956, Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Flemming, and Roger Youderian were speared to death on a sandbar called ''Palm Beach'' in the Curaray River of Ecuador. They were trying to reach the Huaorani Indians for the first time in history with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Elisabeth Elliot told their story in her book, Shadow of the Almighty. The title comes from Psalm 91:1. This is where Jim Elliot was slain - ''in the shadow of the Almighty.'' Elisabeth had not forgotten the heartbreaking facts when she chose that title two years after her husband's death. When he was killed, they had been married three years and had a ten-month-old daughter. The title was not a slip - not any more than the death of the five missionaries was a slip. But the world saw it differently. The death of these young men was called a tragic nightmare. Elisabeth wrote, ''The world did not recognize the truth of the second clause in Jim Elliot's credo: 'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.''' She called her book Shadow of the Almighty because she was utterly convinced that the refuge of the people of God is not a refuge from suffering and death, but a refuge from final and ultimate defeat. God did not exercise his omnipotence to deliver Jesus from the cross. Nor will He exercise it to deliver you and me from tribulation. Has it ever hit home to you what it means to say, ''My God, who loves me and gave Himself for me, is almighty''? It means that if you take your place ''in the shadow of the Al ...
Series: Summer Psalms
Jim Perdue
Psalm 91:1-16
Intro/Attention
Today, we're concluding our Summer Psalms series. Turn to Psalm 91 as we study this sermon subject, The Shadow of the Almighty. I'd like to recommend a book by that name as well. It was written by Elisabeth Elliot as a biography of her husband, Jim Elliot. She borrowed a phrase from this psalm as the title of her book. READ TEXT
*READ 1-2 On January 8, 1956, Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Flemming, and Roger Youderian were speared to death on a sandbar called ''Palm Beach'' in the Curaray River of Ecuador. They were trying to reach the Huaorani Indians for the first time in history with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Elisabeth Elliot told their story in her book, Shadow of the Almighty. The title comes from Psalm 91:1. This is where Jim Elliot was slain - ''in the shadow of the Almighty.'' Elisabeth had not forgotten the heartbreaking facts when she chose that title two years after her husband's death. When he was killed, they had been married three years and had a ten-month-old daughter. The title was not a slip - not any more than the death of the five missionaries was a slip. But the world saw it differently. The death of these young men was called a tragic nightmare. Elisabeth wrote, ''The world did not recognize the truth of the second clause in Jim Elliot's credo: 'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.''' She called her book Shadow of the Almighty because she was utterly convinced that the refuge of the people of God is not a refuge from suffering and death, but a refuge from final and ultimate defeat. God did not exercise his omnipotence to deliver Jesus from the cross. Nor will He exercise it to deliver you and me from tribulation. Has it ever hit home to you what it means to say, ''My God, who loves me and gave Himself for me, is almighty''? It means that if you take your place ''in the shadow of the Al ...
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