BEING A WISE WATCHMEN (2 OF 4)
Scripture: Ezekiel 3:17-21, Mark 13:32-37
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Title: Being a Wise Watchmen (2)
Series: Each One Reach One
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Ezekiel 3:17-21 & Mark 13:32-37
I - The Watchman His Role & Nature
II - The Watchman His Responsibility & Need
III - The Watchman His Regret & Neglect
IV - The Watchman His Reward & Nobility
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Watchman
Let me remind you again of a story from my hometown of Chicago that I have shared with you many times before. It is about a railroad crossing in that city and a man whose job it was to give drivers a warning when the train was about to cross at that point.
This was at a time before flashing lights and gates that lowered so that cars and trucks would not get caught on the tracks as a train was passing by.
In this instance, the only warning system there was involved a man who sat in a shed along the tracks at the point of the crossing with a schedule on his wall, a pocket watch in his jacket and a lantern at his side that he was supposed to light and wave whenever a train was approaching.
He was the early warning system for the railroad.
People had come to believe that as long as the light was not flashing it was safe for them to cross the tracks. One night a train came rumbling through right on schedule, but the man in the shed had fallen asleep.
He was awakened by the blowing of the train's whistle and he quickly grabbed his lantern and went outside and began waving it to warn a truck that was coming that way.
As the train got closer the truck kept coming. As the truck kept coming the man waved his lantern more and furiously, but to no avail. For some reason the early warning system was not working.
Finally, in one horrible second, the train and the truck arrived in the center of the tracks at the same time and, of course, the train crushed that truck into a mass of twisted metal and broken glass.
An investigation was held a few weeks later and ...
Series: Each One Reach One
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Ezekiel 3:17-21 & Mark 13:32-37
I - The Watchman His Role & Nature
II - The Watchman His Responsibility & Need
III - The Watchman His Regret & Neglect
IV - The Watchman His Reward & Nobility
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Watchman
Let me remind you again of a story from my hometown of Chicago that I have shared with you many times before. It is about a railroad crossing in that city and a man whose job it was to give drivers a warning when the train was about to cross at that point.
This was at a time before flashing lights and gates that lowered so that cars and trucks would not get caught on the tracks as a train was passing by.
In this instance, the only warning system there was involved a man who sat in a shed along the tracks at the point of the crossing with a schedule on his wall, a pocket watch in his jacket and a lantern at his side that he was supposed to light and wave whenever a train was approaching.
He was the early warning system for the railroad.
People had come to believe that as long as the light was not flashing it was safe for them to cross the tracks. One night a train came rumbling through right on schedule, but the man in the shed had fallen asleep.
He was awakened by the blowing of the train's whistle and he quickly grabbed his lantern and went outside and began waving it to warn a truck that was coming that way.
As the train got closer the truck kept coming. As the truck kept coming the man waved his lantern more and furiously, but to no avail. For some reason the early warning system was not working.
Finally, in one horrible second, the train and the truck arrived in the center of the tracks at the same time and, of course, the train crushed that truck into a mass of twisted metal and broken glass.
An investigation was held a few weeks later and ...
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