Sermon: The Prime Number
Preacher: Jeff Strite
Text: Ephesians 4:4-6
Today is May 7th, 2023 - or 5-7-23. Those are all PRIME numbers, which means you can't divide them by 2, 3, 4, or anything else. Primes are numbers that can only be divided by themselves and 1.
Now, I've never given much thought to "prime" numbers, but there is an entire discipline of mathematics that seems to get real excited about them. Believe it or not, (in the math circles that are dedicated to prime numbers) there's a
-"Prime Number Theorem (PNT)";
-"Twin Primes";
-"Goldbach's Conjecture";
-"Palindromic Primes";
-And the "Riemann Hypothesis" - every one of those dealing with PRIME numbers.
Now, I don't understand any of that - and you wouldn't care - but at the thought of prime numbers the mouths of various mathematicians water.
But you don't have to be a mathematician to get excited about numbers. There are people who Gamble and buy lottery tickets who swear by their "prime numbers"... they call them "lucky numbers." But, of course there are no lucky numbers, and gambling's not a very good idea but people can talk themselves into about anything when it comes to their lucky numbers.
And then there's a group of cultists (people who say they can predict your future) based on the power of numbers that they call Numerology. They teach that Numbers have "power" and creative energy. Each number even has its own "color" (7 is the color violet). They go so far as to say the letters of your name can be translated into numbers and those numbers can be used to predict your future. But Christians shouldn't do that! We shouldn't do horoscopes or palm readings or Tea Leaves or Numerology. God hates all that! So I wouldn't do that!
But there are numbers that God considers "prime" and you see a lot of in Scripture.
For example, the number 40 is popular with Him.
-During Noah's flood it rained 40 days and 40 nights;
-And when Moses went up on the Moun ...
Preacher: Jeff Strite
Text: Ephesians 4:4-6
Today is May 7th, 2023 - or 5-7-23. Those are all PRIME numbers, which means you can't divide them by 2, 3, 4, or anything else. Primes are numbers that can only be divided by themselves and 1.
Now, I've never given much thought to "prime" numbers, but there is an entire discipline of mathematics that seems to get real excited about them. Believe it or not, (in the math circles that are dedicated to prime numbers) there's a
-"Prime Number Theorem (PNT)";
-"Twin Primes";
-"Goldbach's Conjecture";
-"Palindromic Primes";
-And the "Riemann Hypothesis" - every one of those dealing with PRIME numbers.
Now, I don't understand any of that - and you wouldn't care - but at the thought of prime numbers the mouths of various mathematicians water.
But you don't have to be a mathematician to get excited about numbers. There are people who Gamble and buy lottery tickets who swear by their "prime numbers"... they call them "lucky numbers." But, of course there are no lucky numbers, and gambling's not a very good idea but people can talk themselves into about anything when it comes to their lucky numbers.
And then there's a group of cultists (people who say they can predict your future) based on the power of numbers that they call Numerology. They teach that Numbers have "power" and creative energy. Each number even has its own "color" (7 is the color violet). They go so far as to say the letters of your name can be translated into numbers and those numbers can be used to predict your future. But Christians shouldn't do that! We shouldn't do horoscopes or palm readings or Tea Leaves or Numerology. God hates all that! So I wouldn't do that!
But there are numbers that God considers "prime" and you see a lot of in Scripture.
For example, the number 40 is popular with Him.
-During Noah's flood it rained 40 days and 40 nights;
-And when Moses went up on the Moun ...
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