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WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY (1)

by Scott Maze

Scripture: Luke 12:35-48


Title: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility (1)
Series: 40 Day Challenge
Author: Scott Maze
Text: Luke 12:35-48


Happy New Year to your family and you!

We begin a new series for a new year, the 40-Day Challenge. I want to invite each of you to take the 40-Day Challenge with me. As you begin a new year, I challenge you to devote 40 days to grow spiritually. I want you to take a 40-day challenge with me.

40 days of Bible reading.
40 days of prayer
40 days of serving.
40 days of giving.

More details to come in a few moments.

How will you spend your time in 2024? How will you spend the minutes, the seconds, and the hours God gives while here on earth? Let me get serious with you and ask you: what if you knew you had but one year to live? What if you knew that your life on Earth would be done on December 31, 2024, at midnight? What kinds of things would you make sure you did in the next 350-plus days? What kind of words would you say to those around you? How would you spend your money?

If you have a Bible, I invite you to turn to Luke 12 with me.

Let me share with you how one teenager recently spent 38 minutes. I want you to see Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old teenager from Oklahoma. He recently reached level 157 in the Nintendo classic video game, Tetris. I imagine all of you have played Tetris at least once.

Who doesn't love a good game of Tetris as each level becomes harder and the tiles come even faster? When he reached level 157, the game crashed and Willis said, "I'm going to pass out, I can't feel my fingers." His story made the BBC because no one thought it was possible to play past level 29 in Tetris until just a few years ago. But the Oklahoma teenager went way past level 29. He beat the game which no one thought was possible. Willis broke the world record, and he even crashed the game in the process! And did this all in JUST 38 minutes.1 Sky News Jayne Secker reported on the event in recent days. After showing a You ...

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