The Power Core (4 of 4)
Series: Iron Man
Jeff Strite
Romans 8:1-16
OPEN: (Video from the first Iron Man movie of Anthony Stark having his assistant Pepper Potts replace his power core. Begins with Stark contacting Potts asking "How big are your hands" and ends with Stark thanking her for her help)
What you just saw was Iron Man's assistant replacing his power core or Arc Reactor. According to the legend, this reactor is the source of his power as a superhero. At one point in the movie, the hero informs us that this power core/arc reactor is capable of generating 3 gigajoules (gigawatts) of energy. That's roughly the amount of power that 3 large nuclear reactors can create, and in movie that power is wrapped up in a piece of metal the size of a tennis ball.
Most everyone in the REAL world admits that's not even remotely possible. There's no way anything that small could generate that much power.
But - hey - Iron Man is a comic book character.
He's not supposed to be bound by the laws of physics.
That's why he's a superhero and we're not!
But in the Bible we're told that (as Christians) we have an advantage that Iron Man didn't have. We actually do have a power core inside of us and that power core is far more powerful than any nuclear power plant.
Romans 8:11 tells us "… the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you,
he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you"
The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside of YOU who are Christians.
Imagine the amount of energy that would be required to raise someone from the dead.
That energy, that power is inside your heart.
There isn't a nuclear power plant on face of the earth could hope to create that much power
And it's all, right there, inside of you.
Now, that wasn't always how God did things.
In the Old Testament it appears that God rarely placed His Spirit INSIDE of people. Bezalel (Exo ...
Series: Iron Man
Jeff Strite
Romans 8:1-16
OPEN: (Video from the first Iron Man movie of Anthony Stark having his assistant Pepper Potts replace his power core. Begins with Stark contacting Potts asking "How big are your hands" and ends with Stark thanking her for her help)
What you just saw was Iron Man's assistant replacing his power core or Arc Reactor. According to the legend, this reactor is the source of his power as a superhero. At one point in the movie, the hero informs us that this power core/arc reactor is capable of generating 3 gigajoules (gigawatts) of energy. That's roughly the amount of power that 3 large nuclear reactors can create, and in movie that power is wrapped up in a piece of metal the size of a tennis ball.
Most everyone in the REAL world admits that's not even remotely possible. There's no way anything that small could generate that much power.
But - hey - Iron Man is a comic book character.
He's not supposed to be bound by the laws of physics.
That's why he's a superhero and we're not!
But in the Bible we're told that (as Christians) we have an advantage that Iron Man didn't have. We actually do have a power core inside of us and that power core is far more powerful than any nuclear power plant.
Romans 8:11 tells us "… the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you,
he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you"
The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside of YOU who are Christians.
Imagine the amount of energy that would be required to raise someone from the dead.
That energy, that power is inside your heart.
There isn't a nuclear power plant on face of the earth could hope to create that much power
And it's all, right there, inside of you.
Now, that wasn't always how God did things.
In the Old Testament it appears that God rarely placed His Spirit INSIDE of people. Bezalel (Exo ...
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