Title: The Tale Of Two Trees (3)
Series: Reversing The Curse
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Revelation 22:1-5
Years ago, a magazine called Collier's published a story about a little girl in an orphanage. The little girl was very unattractive and had VERY annoying, And as a result, she was shunned by the children and disliked by the staff. In fact, she was so annoying that the director of the orphanage was looking for a way to ship her off to another institution. Now for some time it was suspected this little girl was writing secret notes to people outside of the orphanage. And then, one afternoon their suspicions were confirmed. One of the other children reported "I saw her write a note and hide it on a tree near the stone wall." So, the director hurried to the tree, found the note and he read it. Then he quietly passed the note to his assistant. And this is what it said: "To whoever finds this: I love you." (from a sermon by Melvin M. Newland)
There was a TREE that held a note that spoke of the hopelessness and despair of a little girl.
And in the Garden of Eden, there another tree that spoke of hopelessness and despair. And that tree was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God had left Adam & Eve only one command "Don't eat of this tree!" and they blew it. They ate of the low hanging fruit and disobeyed God - and their sin devastated their lives, robbed them of their hope. and placed them under a curse. And now everything was a mess! (Pause)
What's interesting is that there's a verse we can read in Galatians 3:13 "Christ redeemed us from the CURSE of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree."
We live in a fallen world and we live in a world that is cursed, and because we have personally sinned, our sin has placed US under a curse. Our sins have declared us guilty. And there come times that our sin so shames us that we want to cry out "Whoever finds this: I love you!" We want ...
Series: Reversing The Curse
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Revelation 22:1-5
Years ago, a magazine called Collier's published a story about a little girl in an orphanage. The little girl was very unattractive and had VERY annoying, And as a result, she was shunned by the children and disliked by the staff. In fact, she was so annoying that the director of the orphanage was looking for a way to ship her off to another institution. Now for some time it was suspected this little girl was writing secret notes to people outside of the orphanage. And then, one afternoon their suspicions were confirmed. One of the other children reported "I saw her write a note and hide it on a tree near the stone wall." So, the director hurried to the tree, found the note and he read it. Then he quietly passed the note to his assistant. And this is what it said: "To whoever finds this: I love you." (from a sermon by Melvin M. Newland)
There was a TREE that held a note that spoke of the hopelessness and despair of a little girl.
And in the Garden of Eden, there another tree that spoke of hopelessness and despair. And that tree was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God had left Adam & Eve only one command "Don't eat of this tree!" and they blew it. They ate of the low hanging fruit and disobeyed God - and their sin devastated their lives, robbed them of their hope. and placed them under a curse. And now everything was a mess! (Pause)
What's interesting is that there's a verse we can read in Galatians 3:13 "Christ redeemed us from the CURSE of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree."
We live in a fallen world and we live in a world that is cursed, and because we have personally sinned, our sin has placed US under a curse. Our sins have declared us guilty. And there come times that our sin so shames us that we want to cry out "Whoever finds this: I love you!" We want ...
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