Royalty (3 of 5)
Series: Jesus in Narnia
Jeff Strite
Revelation 1:4-7
OPEN: Possessions of the powerful or famous - no matter how common - can become extremely valuable. Even priceless.
Some years back, Napoleon's toothbrush sold for $21,000. This was an old USED toothbrush! I seriously doubt you or I could get 10 cents for one of ours!
Hitler's car sold for over $150,000. I have a 1996 Mercury Villager that probably runs better than it does and if anybody is willing to offer me $5000… you can drive her off the lot today.
People have paid extraordinary amounts for Winton's Churchill's desk, a pipe owned by C.S. Lewis, sheet music handwritten by Beethoven, and a house once owned by Ernest Hemmingway. All were sold at many times their intrinsic value.
At one of the large auction houses Jackie Kennedy Onassis's FAKE pearls sold for $211,500 and JFK's wood golf clubs went for $772,500. And I have it on good authority that (name a member of the congregation who loves to golf) bought them.
These items didn't demand great prices because they themselves were worthy. They went for those prices because they once belonged to someone who was important.
I. That's the same message Scripture has about those of who belong to Jesus. We have great value because we belong THE MOST IMPORTANT someone in the world.
We belong to Jesus Christ.
APPLY: In C.S. Lewis' ''The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe'' Aslan - the resurrected King - enthrones the children of the story - Lucy, Peter, Edmund, Susan - as Kings and Queens in Narnia. They become royalty -not because they deserved it anymore than any other creature in the story - but because they were the ''Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve''. They became Kings and Queens because they were descendents of the first man and woman created by God.
In the Bible, we're told that ''Jesus Christ… washed us from our sins in his own blood, and has made us KINGS and priests unto God and his Father...'' Revelation 1:5 ...
Series: Jesus in Narnia
Jeff Strite
Revelation 1:4-7
OPEN: Possessions of the powerful or famous - no matter how common - can become extremely valuable. Even priceless.
Some years back, Napoleon's toothbrush sold for $21,000. This was an old USED toothbrush! I seriously doubt you or I could get 10 cents for one of ours!
Hitler's car sold for over $150,000. I have a 1996 Mercury Villager that probably runs better than it does and if anybody is willing to offer me $5000… you can drive her off the lot today.
People have paid extraordinary amounts for Winton's Churchill's desk, a pipe owned by C.S. Lewis, sheet music handwritten by Beethoven, and a house once owned by Ernest Hemmingway. All were sold at many times their intrinsic value.
At one of the large auction houses Jackie Kennedy Onassis's FAKE pearls sold for $211,500 and JFK's wood golf clubs went for $772,500. And I have it on good authority that (name a member of the congregation who loves to golf) bought them.
These items didn't demand great prices because they themselves were worthy. They went for those prices because they once belonged to someone who was important.
I. That's the same message Scripture has about those of who belong to Jesus. We have great value because we belong THE MOST IMPORTANT someone in the world.
We belong to Jesus Christ.
APPLY: In C.S. Lewis' ''The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe'' Aslan - the resurrected King - enthrones the children of the story - Lucy, Peter, Edmund, Susan - as Kings and Queens in Narnia. They become royalty -not because they deserved it anymore than any other creature in the story - but because they were the ''Sons of Adam and the Daughters of Eve''. They became Kings and Queens because they were descendents of the first man and woman created by God.
In the Bible, we're told that ''Jesus Christ… washed us from our sins in his own blood, and has made us KINGS and priests unto God and his Father...'' Revelation 1:5 ...
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