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HE WAS A BAAAAAAD MAN (4 OF 16)

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:11-16
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He Was a Baaaaaad Man (4 of 16)
Series: The Fixer
Donald Cantrell
1st Timothy 1: 11 - 16


I - The Appreciative (11 - 12)

II - The Alarming (13)

III - The Abundant (14 - 16)

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Theme: ''The day God converted and called the chiefest of sinners''

The Bridge is Adequate

''The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their tramping now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by the thousands, by their myriads, err since that day when Christ first entered His glory. They come and yet never a stone has sprung in that mighty bridge. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them, trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.''
Spurgeon, Charles

DO YOU HAVE AN AWARENESS OF SIN?

A basic mark of true spirituality is a deep awareness of sin. In Scripture those who most despised their sinfulness were often those who were the most spiritual. Paul said he was the chief of sinners. Peter said to Jesus, ''Depart from me, for I am a sinful man.'' Isaiah said, ''Woe is me, because I am a man of unclean lips.'' Spiritual people realize they are in a death struggle with sin. For Paul, ultimate spirituality was to be like Jesus, and that is not something you could attain by any one-time experience.
John MacArthur

The Bridged That Spanned Two Countries

Robert Lewis writes, ''In 1851, many of the most accomplished engineers in the country thought James Roebling was out of his mind. That year, he began to work on the unthinkable: building a bridge over the Niagara River Gorge.

Disaster was nearly universally predicted. There was the sheer mathematics of the thing: 825 feet across and more terrifyingly 200 ...

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