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ROPES OF GOLD
ROMANS 1: lL1-16
MANY YEARS AGO IN A CITY ON OUR NATION'S EAST COAST
THERE WAS A ROPE FACTORY WHICH MANUFACTURED THE GREAT
DOCKING HALTERS FOR SHIPS - THOSE VITAL, GIANT ROPES THAT
ANCHORED THE SHIP TO THE DOCKING PLACE. OVER THE ENTRANCE
WAY TO THAT FACTORY A MESSAGE WAS PAINTED, "THE WORKER IN
THIS FACTORY WEAVES HIS CONSCIENCE INTO HIS WORK - FOR LIVES
ARE AT STAKE.'
IN THE FIRST CENTURY GOD HAD A MAN WHO LITERALLY WOVE
HIS CONSCIENCE, HIS LIFE, HIS ALL INTO HIS WORK. WHEN HE
WROTE HIS LETTER TO ROME, HE WAa COMMUNICATING- WITH HlIS
PEOPLE HE HAD NEVER SEEN. HE WAS WILLING TO LAY BARE HIS
HEART SO HE COULD SHARE GOD'S TRUTH, SO HE WROTE, "I AM
DEBTOR BOTH TO THE GREEKS AND TO THE BARBARIANS; BOTH TO THE
WISE AND TO THE UNWISE. SO, AS MUCH AS IN ME IS, I AM READY
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO YOU THAT ARE AT ROME ALSO. FOR I AM
NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: FOR IT IS THE POWER OF
GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH; TO THE JEW
FIRST, AND ALSO TO THE GREEK." AND THEY KNEW PAUL WORE
SCARS TESTIFYING TO THE VALIDITY OF THAT STATEMENT.
ON A POST IN THAT SAME FACTORY PRODUCING THOSE IMPOR-
TANT ANCHOR ROPES WAS A BRONZE PLAQUE CONTAINING THE WORDS OF
2
A POEM ENTITLED, "ROPES OF GOLD."
OUR LIVES MUST BE ANCHORED WITH GOLDEN ROPES
THAT GIVE US PURPOSE, MEANING, HOPES.
KNOW THE ROPES. KNOW THE ROPES AND YOU'LL BE FREE.
TO KNOW THEM NOT MEANS SLAVERY.
WHAT ARE THOSE PRECIOUS GOLDEN STRANDS
HOLDING FREEDOM UNKNOWN IN OTHER LANDS?
WELL PAUL AND THAT POET KNEW SOMETHING WE ALL NEED TO
LEARN, THEY KNEW THE SECRET OF A LIFE, OF A CHURCH, OF A
NATION IS FOUND NOT IN DETACHMENT, BUT IN COMMITMENT. WHEN
PAUL SAID, "I AM UNDER A-GREAT OBLIGATION, A SEVERE SENSE OF
DUTY TO SHARE THIS THING I KNOW ABOUT CHRIST," HE WAS NOT
LOOKING FOR PITY OR APPLAUSE. HE WAS EXPLAINING HIS POWER.
.THIS WAS A GOLDEN ROPE,
WE LIKE TO SING IN OUR CHURCH "BLEST BE THE TIES THAT
BIND OUR HEARTS IN CHRISTIAN L ...
ROPES OF GOLD
ROMANS 1: lL1-16
MANY YEARS AGO IN A CITY ON OUR NATION'S EAST COAST
THERE WAS A ROPE FACTORY WHICH MANUFACTURED THE GREAT
DOCKING HALTERS FOR SHIPS - THOSE VITAL, GIANT ROPES THAT
ANCHORED THE SHIP TO THE DOCKING PLACE. OVER THE ENTRANCE
WAY TO THAT FACTORY A MESSAGE WAS PAINTED, "THE WORKER IN
THIS FACTORY WEAVES HIS CONSCIENCE INTO HIS WORK - FOR LIVES
ARE AT STAKE.'
IN THE FIRST CENTURY GOD HAD A MAN WHO LITERALLY WOVE
HIS CONSCIENCE, HIS LIFE, HIS ALL INTO HIS WORK. WHEN HE
WROTE HIS LETTER TO ROME, HE WAa COMMUNICATING- WITH HlIS
PEOPLE HE HAD NEVER SEEN. HE WAS WILLING TO LAY BARE HIS
HEART SO HE COULD SHARE GOD'S TRUTH, SO HE WROTE, "I AM
DEBTOR BOTH TO THE GREEKS AND TO THE BARBARIANS; BOTH TO THE
WISE AND TO THE UNWISE. SO, AS MUCH AS IN ME IS, I AM READY
TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO YOU THAT ARE AT ROME ALSO. FOR I AM
NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: FOR IT IS THE POWER OF
GOD UNTO SALVATION TO EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH; TO THE JEW
FIRST, AND ALSO TO THE GREEK." AND THEY KNEW PAUL WORE
SCARS TESTIFYING TO THE VALIDITY OF THAT STATEMENT.
ON A POST IN THAT SAME FACTORY PRODUCING THOSE IMPOR-
TANT ANCHOR ROPES WAS A BRONZE PLAQUE CONTAINING THE WORDS OF
2
A POEM ENTITLED, "ROPES OF GOLD."
OUR LIVES MUST BE ANCHORED WITH GOLDEN ROPES
THAT GIVE US PURPOSE, MEANING, HOPES.
KNOW THE ROPES. KNOW THE ROPES AND YOU'LL BE FREE.
TO KNOW THEM NOT MEANS SLAVERY.
WHAT ARE THOSE PRECIOUS GOLDEN STRANDS
HOLDING FREEDOM UNKNOWN IN OTHER LANDS?
WELL PAUL AND THAT POET KNEW SOMETHING WE ALL NEED TO
LEARN, THEY KNEW THE SECRET OF A LIFE, OF A CHURCH, OF A
NATION IS FOUND NOT IN DETACHMENT, BUT IN COMMITMENT. WHEN
PAUL SAID, "I AM UNDER A-GREAT OBLIGATION, A SEVERE SENSE OF
DUTY TO SHARE THIS THING I KNOW ABOUT CHRIST," HE WAS NOT
LOOKING FOR PITY OR APPLAUSE. HE WAS EXPLAINING HIS POWER.
.THIS WAS A GOLDEN ROPE,
WE LIKE TO SING IN OUR CHURCH "BLEST BE THE TIES THAT
BIND OUR HEARTS IN CHRISTIAN L ...
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