I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (18 OF 28)
Scripture: Matthew 18:1-35
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Title: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
Theme: "Jesus teaches us about order in the kingdom and offenses"
Text: "Matthew 18: 1 - 35"
Author: Donald Cantrell
Matthew Series - Sermon 18 of 28
I - The Desired Order (1 - 5)
II - The Damnable Offense (6)
III - The Dramatic Offer (7 - 9)
IV - The Divine Overseers (10 - 11)
V - The Deliberate Outreach (12 - 14)
VI - The Disciplinary Obligation (15 - 17)
VII - The Denoted Outcome (18 - 20)
VIII - The Definitive Outline (21 - 35)
Story Behind "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
When Marvin Gaye said in 1968, "I heard it through the grapevine," people at the time knew what he was referencing. Today, we may know that this is an allusion to the gossip mill, but we may not know "why."
Hearing something "through the grapevine" became an expression widely used in the mid-1800s, around the advent of the telegraph. Back in those days, people didn't have text messages. But as we do, they found the need and desire to send (relatively) quick and brief correspondence. For a very long time, people used methods such as carrier pigeons, drum beats, and smoke signals.
But with this new technology known as the telegraph, you could visit an office and pay to send a message (called a telegram) to someone in a much more reliable manner than any method previously known. The office would then send your message over electrical wires to the city of the person whom you wanted to receive your message. The office at which your message arrived would then deliver it to your intended recipient. This became the fastest and most reliable way to communicate during this period. But it was also hard for those in traditional information dispensing industries to keep up. Because of that, people used telegrams to, you guessed it, spread misinformation. So, if someone heard an item of shocking news, it could be advocated or dismissed as something that was "heard through the grapevine" or via this network ...
Theme: "Jesus teaches us about order in the kingdom and offenses"
Text: "Matthew 18: 1 - 35"
Author: Donald Cantrell
Matthew Series - Sermon 18 of 28
I - The Desired Order (1 - 5)
II - The Damnable Offense (6)
III - The Dramatic Offer (7 - 9)
IV - The Divine Overseers (10 - 11)
V - The Deliberate Outreach (12 - 14)
VI - The Disciplinary Obligation (15 - 17)
VII - The Denoted Outcome (18 - 20)
VIII - The Definitive Outline (21 - 35)
Story Behind "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
When Marvin Gaye said in 1968, "I heard it through the grapevine," people at the time knew what he was referencing. Today, we may know that this is an allusion to the gossip mill, but we may not know "why."
Hearing something "through the grapevine" became an expression widely used in the mid-1800s, around the advent of the telegraph. Back in those days, people didn't have text messages. But as we do, they found the need and desire to send (relatively) quick and brief correspondence. For a very long time, people used methods such as carrier pigeons, drum beats, and smoke signals.
But with this new technology known as the telegraph, you could visit an office and pay to send a message (called a telegram) to someone in a much more reliable manner than any method previously known. The office would then send your message over electrical wires to the city of the person whom you wanted to receive your message. The office at which your message arrived would then deliver it to your intended recipient. This became the fastest and most reliable way to communicate during this period. But it was also hard for those in traditional information dispensing industries to keep up. Because of that, people used telegrams to, you guessed it, spread misinformation. So, if someone heard an item of shocking news, it could be advocated or dismissed as something that was "heard through the grapevine" or via this network ...
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