DO YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF POWER YOU'RE SITTING ON? (2 OF 12)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Ephesians 1:15-23
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Do You Know What Kind of Power You're Sitting On? (2 of 12)
Series: Unlocking The Mystery
Jeff Strite
Ephesians 1:15-23
OPEN: The first church I served was in a quaint resort town called Hamilton, IN. It was a nice little town. A peaceful and quiet community.
Well, except for that one time when the State police sent several officers as well as (pause) a bomb squad to the home of one of the residents there. It seems he had something in his basement he shouldn't ought to have had. Whether he put it there, or he inherited the house and found these items there, I never found out. But down in his basement there were several boxes of dynamite.
Now, outside of the fact that it was illegal for him to own dynamite, these boxes had passed their acceptable shelf-life. You see, the active ingredient in dynamite is nitroglycerin and, while nitro is relatively stable in a stick of dynamite, when dynamite gets too old it becomes highly unstable.
According to research I did on this, if you happened to be messing around in a basement with a box of this aged dynamite, all you'd have to do is accidently kick it and you'd probably level an entire city block - and you may as well kiss goodbye the chances of people ever finding a trace of you ever again.
And this man had several boxes of it in his basement. He had a dangerous explosive in the basement of his house, and he had no idea what kind of power he was sitting on.
APPLY: In our text today, we read about a different kind of power.
Paul tells the Ephesians that he had been praying for them - that they would understand ''... the immeasurable greatness of (God's) POWER toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might.'' Ephesians 1:19
The Greek word for ''Power'' in this verse is ''dunamis.'' That's the Greek term that we get the word ''dynamite'' from.
So Paul was praying that the Christians in Ephesus would understand what kind of dynamite power - explosive power - they were sitting on.
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Series: Unlocking The Mystery
Jeff Strite
Ephesians 1:15-23
OPEN: The first church I served was in a quaint resort town called Hamilton, IN. It was a nice little town. A peaceful and quiet community.
Well, except for that one time when the State police sent several officers as well as (pause) a bomb squad to the home of one of the residents there. It seems he had something in his basement he shouldn't ought to have had. Whether he put it there, or he inherited the house and found these items there, I never found out. But down in his basement there were several boxes of dynamite.
Now, outside of the fact that it was illegal for him to own dynamite, these boxes had passed their acceptable shelf-life. You see, the active ingredient in dynamite is nitroglycerin and, while nitro is relatively stable in a stick of dynamite, when dynamite gets too old it becomes highly unstable.
According to research I did on this, if you happened to be messing around in a basement with a box of this aged dynamite, all you'd have to do is accidently kick it and you'd probably level an entire city block - and you may as well kiss goodbye the chances of people ever finding a trace of you ever again.
And this man had several boxes of it in his basement. He had a dangerous explosive in the basement of his house, and he had no idea what kind of power he was sitting on.
APPLY: In our text today, we read about a different kind of power.
Paul tells the Ephesians that he had been praying for them - that they would understand ''... the immeasurable greatness of (God's) POWER toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might.'' Ephesians 1:19
The Greek word for ''Power'' in this verse is ''dunamis.'' That's the Greek term that we get the word ''dynamite'' from.
So Paul was praying that the Christians in Ephesus would understand what kind of dynamite power - explosive power - they were sitting on.
...
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