REMEMBER WHAT YOU'VE GOT (4 OF 12)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Ephesians 2:11-21
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Remember What You've Got (4 of 12)
Series: Unlocking The Mystery
Jeff Strite
Ephesians 2:11-21
OPEN: The year was 1905. There was a baseball game between the Rhyolites and Beattys in Salt Lake City. The batter stepped up to the plate and hit a ground ball toward First Base - but it struck a small rock and shot off at an angle. Fortunately, the 1st baseman (William Giffiths) easily fielded the ball and beat the runner to first. Not wanting the rock to affect the game again he went over and picked it up meaning to throw it off the field. But when he took he took a closer look at it... he put it in his pocket.
Later that night he returned to the ball park with a lantern and spent an hour picking up most of the rocks on the field and putting them in a bucket. The next day, he took the bucket to the assay office and the man there told him that he'd found what he thought he had - GOLD!
So he called 2 friends and they quietly bought the ball park... and became very wealthy men. The name of the mine they dug? First Base Mine. (The Saturday Evening Post July/Aug 2000 H. Allen Smith and Ira L. Smith)
How did this man become rich? He became rich because he found something others hadn't noticed - and when he found it he knew what he had. And it made him very well-off!
(PAUSE)
In our text today, Paul tells us WE have found something others may not have noticed, and he says that it is important that we KNOW what we have found, because WHEN we know what we have... it can make us very well-off.
Paul told the Christians at Ephesus ''REMEMBER that (before you'd become Christians, you had been) separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.'' Ephesians 2:12-13
Paul's saying: REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE!
And that is the purpose of Church/Sunday School and Bi ...
Series: Unlocking The Mystery
Jeff Strite
Ephesians 2:11-21
OPEN: The year was 1905. There was a baseball game between the Rhyolites and Beattys in Salt Lake City. The batter stepped up to the plate and hit a ground ball toward First Base - but it struck a small rock and shot off at an angle. Fortunately, the 1st baseman (William Giffiths) easily fielded the ball and beat the runner to first. Not wanting the rock to affect the game again he went over and picked it up meaning to throw it off the field. But when he took he took a closer look at it... he put it in his pocket.
Later that night he returned to the ball park with a lantern and spent an hour picking up most of the rocks on the field and putting them in a bucket. The next day, he took the bucket to the assay office and the man there told him that he'd found what he thought he had - GOLD!
So he called 2 friends and they quietly bought the ball park... and became very wealthy men. The name of the mine they dug? First Base Mine. (The Saturday Evening Post July/Aug 2000 H. Allen Smith and Ira L. Smith)
How did this man become rich? He became rich because he found something others hadn't noticed - and when he found it he knew what he had. And it made him very well-off!
(PAUSE)
In our text today, Paul tells us WE have found something others may not have noticed, and he says that it is important that we KNOW what we have found, because WHEN we know what we have... it can make us very well-off.
Paul told the Christians at Ephesus ''REMEMBER that (before you'd become Christians, you had been) separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.'' Ephesians 2:12-13
Paul's saying: REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE!
And that is the purpose of Church/Sunday School and Bi ...
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