Title: Heavenly Minded (2)
Series: Outside In
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Acts 1:9-11
Years ago, a famous Supreme Court Justice named Oliver Wendall Holmes said: "Some people are so heavenly minded, that they are no earthly good." Now, I'm not exactly sure why he said that, but it has been true in the past.
ILLUS: In 1823, there was a Baptist minister by the name of William Miller. He began to teach that Jesus was going to return to earth VERY soon. His teachings seemed so well researched that at one point he had nearly 100,000 followers (called Millerites). Then he put a date to the return of Christ - somewhere between March 21st of 1843 and March 21st in 1844. But Jesus... didn't come. Still, Miller was so sure of his conclusions that he assumed he was off by just a month or so... and he set a new date of April 18, 1844. But again, Jesus didn't return.
Finally, there was a follower of Miller - a man named Samuel Snow - who had closely studied Miller's research and concluded that Christ was absolutely returning on October 22, 1844. There was so question about it. He was very firm on this. Snow's prediction became so popular that when the big day came, 000s of the Millerites sold all their possessions and refrained from planting crops... and gathered in homes and churches, on mountains and meadows and looked anxiously to the sky looking for Jesus' return. They were convinced THIS WAS THE DAY! And they all watched and waited - for hours - for Jesus to return. But he didn't come on October 22nd, and they all went home. (https://www.cracked.com/article_34313_in-1844-americans-sold-all-of-their-stuff-because-jesus-was-coming-back.html)
Quite literally, these folks had become so heavenly minded that they had become of no earthly good. They meant well, but their thinking was... wrong.
In our text today, that's probably WHY the Angels told Jesus' followers: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you in ...
Series: Outside In
Author: Jeff Strite
Text: Acts 1:9-11
Years ago, a famous Supreme Court Justice named Oliver Wendall Holmes said: "Some people are so heavenly minded, that they are no earthly good." Now, I'm not exactly sure why he said that, but it has been true in the past.
ILLUS: In 1823, there was a Baptist minister by the name of William Miller. He began to teach that Jesus was going to return to earth VERY soon. His teachings seemed so well researched that at one point he had nearly 100,000 followers (called Millerites). Then he put a date to the return of Christ - somewhere between March 21st of 1843 and March 21st in 1844. But Jesus... didn't come. Still, Miller was so sure of his conclusions that he assumed he was off by just a month or so... and he set a new date of April 18, 1844. But again, Jesus didn't return.
Finally, there was a follower of Miller - a man named Samuel Snow - who had closely studied Miller's research and concluded that Christ was absolutely returning on October 22, 1844. There was so question about it. He was very firm on this. Snow's prediction became so popular that when the big day came, 000s of the Millerites sold all their possessions and refrained from planting crops... and gathered in homes and churches, on mountains and meadows and looked anxiously to the sky looking for Jesus' return. They were convinced THIS WAS THE DAY! And they all watched and waited - for hours - for Jesus to return. But he didn't come on October 22nd, and they all went home. (https://www.cracked.com/article_34313_in-1844-americans-sold-all-of-their-stuff-because-jesus-was-coming-back.html)
Quite literally, these folks had become so heavenly minded that they had become of no earthly good. They meant well, but their thinking was... wrong.
In our text today, that's probably WHY the Angels told Jesus' followers: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you in ...
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