Resurrection Power
Jeff Strite
Matthew 27:62-28:15
OPEN: Women: are there times when your husbands don't seem to be paying attention? One man wrote: The ears are a marvelous creation: A piano has 88 keys, but each of your ears has a range of 1500 keys. They are so finely tuned that you can hear the blood running through your vessels. The outside of your ear can catch up to 73,700 vibrations per second He continued: My wife used to think I needed my hearing checked... there's nothing wrong with my hearing... I just don't listen to her. It's not that I don't love her... it's just that there's something else that has caught my attention that I regard as being more important.
APPLY: I can identify with that. How about you other men? It's not that we can't hear our wives. It's just doesn't seem as important as what we're doing at the moment. It's a guy thing.
BUT it's also true of everybody. That which we consider important, that which we value, that which has worth at moment - that is what gets center stage in our minds. That's what grabs our attention. Everything else fades into background.
ILLUS: Michelangelo observed this when he visited several great art galleries in cities across Europe. He was deeply impressed by the overwhelming number of paintings that showed Jesus hanging on the cross. Michelangelo asked: ''Why are art galleries filled with so many pictures of Christ upon the cross - Christ dying? Why do artists concentrate upon that passing episode, as if that were the last word and the final scene? Christ's dying on the cross lasted for only a few hours. But to the end of unending eternity, Christ is alive...''
In other words, the crucifixion - vital and critical to our salvation has grabbed our attention. But what about the resurrection? Did the resurrection have any value? Was the idea of the resurrection important?
I. The idea of resurrection was so important that the Chief Priests and Pharisees did everything to make sure there woul ...
Jeff Strite
Matthew 27:62-28:15
OPEN: Women: are there times when your husbands don't seem to be paying attention? One man wrote: The ears are a marvelous creation: A piano has 88 keys, but each of your ears has a range of 1500 keys. They are so finely tuned that you can hear the blood running through your vessels. The outside of your ear can catch up to 73,700 vibrations per second He continued: My wife used to think I needed my hearing checked... there's nothing wrong with my hearing... I just don't listen to her. It's not that I don't love her... it's just that there's something else that has caught my attention that I regard as being more important.
APPLY: I can identify with that. How about you other men? It's not that we can't hear our wives. It's just doesn't seem as important as what we're doing at the moment. It's a guy thing.
BUT it's also true of everybody. That which we consider important, that which we value, that which has worth at moment - that is what gets center stage in our minds. That's what grabs our attention. Everything else fades into background.
ILLUS: Michelangelo observed this when he visited several great art galleries in cities across Europe. He was deeply impressed by the overwhelming number of paintings that showed Jesus hanging on the cross. Michelangelo asked: ''Why are art galleries filled with so many pictures of Christ upon the cross - Christ dying? Why do artists concentrate upon that passing episode, as if that were the last word and the final scene? Christ's dying on the cross lasted for only a few hours. But to the end of unending eternity, Christ is alive...''
In other words, the crucifixion - vital and critical to our salvation has grabbed our attention. But what about the resurrection? Did the resurrection have any value? Was the idea of the resurrection important?
I. The idea of resurrection was so important that the Chief Priests and Pharisees did everything to make sure there woul ...
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