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IT DEPENDS WHOSE HANDS IT’S IN
A basketball in my hands is worth about $19
A basketball in Michael Jordan’s hands is
worth about $33 million
It depends whose hands it’s in
A baseball in my hands is worth about $6
A baseball in Mark McGuire’s hands is worth $19 million
It depends whose hands it’s in
A tennis racket is useless in my hands
A tennis racket in Pete Sampras’ hands
is a Wimbledon Championship
It depends whose hands it’s in
A rod in my hands will keep away a wild animal
A rod in Moses’ hands will part the mighty sea
It depends whose hands it’s in
A sling shot in my hands is a kid’s toy
A sling shot in David’s hand is a mighty weapon.
It depends whose hands it’s in
Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in my hands
is a couple of fish sandwiches.
Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in God’s
hands will feed thousands It depends whose hands it’s in
Nails in my hands might produce a birdhouse
Nails in Jesus Christ’s hands will produce
salvation for the entire world.
It depends whose hands it’s in
As you see now it depends whose hands it’s in.
So put your concerns, your worries, your fears,
your hopes, your dreams, your families and
your relationships in God’s hands because
It depends whose hands it’s in.(Author Unknown)
D. L. Moody, the great evangelist of the nineteenth century, assigned some ministerial students to conduct evangelistic tent meetings throughout the city of Chicago. The students were to preach nightly sermons as a means of winning souls for Christ and to practice their preaching. Dr. Moody personally showed up one night unannounced at one of the meeting places to hear one of his fledgling young ministers preach the gospel. The young man did quite well expounding on the death of Christ on the cross for the sins of the world. At the close of the service, he announced that everyone should come back the next night when he would “preach on the resurrection of Christ.” After the people left, Moody said, “Young man, many of these people will not be back tomorrow night and consequently have only heard half the gospel!” (Source unknown).
Theologian Charles Hodge explained the relationship between divine grace and the human heart. “The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.”
A TIME FOR TESTIMONY
What if we had each person that witnessed the resurrected Lord come up here this morning and talk for 15 minutes giving a testimony to what they saw.
If we listened to the testimony of all the people that Jesus appeared to, we would be here all day, and all night, and Monday and Monday night and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and sometime early Friday morning they would just be wrapping up the tes...
Heres what Cambridge scholar N.T Wright has to say about the subject, "Why did christianity arise, and why did it take the shape it did? The early Christians themselves reply: We exist because of Jesus’ resurrection…. There is no evidence for a form of early Christianity in which the resurrection was not a central belief. Nor was this belief, as it were, bolted on to Christianity at the edge. It was the central driving force, informing the whole movement."
Charlie “Tremendous” Jones has come up with a way to tell his entire life history in 15 seconds or less. He says, “I am not what I used to be, I am not what I shall be, but, by the Grace of God and through the Blood of the Lamb, I shall become what I am supposed to be.”
I don’t know why we carry our sin along with us. I do it too – instead of quickly running to Jesus, instead of running to the cross where I find forgiveness, sometimes I carry my sin around. I feel badly about it, but probably because of shame I don’t take it to Jesus right away. I’m ashamed to admit that, yes, I did it again. You know what this is like? It’s like getting all dressed up for an important party. And then as we walk out the door we see a big mud pile, and for whatever reason end up falling (jumping?) into it. But then instead of running back inside and getting cleaned up, we sit there feeling bad. Feeling sorry for ourselves. Feeling too ashamed. But while we sit there, we are missing the party. The festival is going on without us! My friends, let us hurry back and get cleaned off. Let us come quickly to the cross when we have sinned, and confess it and ask for forgiveness. Our Lord promised through John that “If we confess our sin, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (1 Jn 1:9).
ALL THE EVIDENCE
Professor Thomas Arnold, for 14 years a headmaster of Rugby, author of the famous, History of Rome, and appointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford, was well acquainted with the value of evidence in determining historical facts. This great scholar said:
"I have been used for many years to study the histories of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them, and I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair inquirer, than the great sign which God hath given us that Christ died and rose again from the dead."
Brooke Foss Westcott, an English scholar, said: "raking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no historic incident better or more variously supported than ...
“That IS Nifty!” Psalms 66: 1-20 Key verse(s): 3 “Say to God, ‘How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you.”
“The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost when thinking about it” –– Blaise Pascal, Pensees
A young boy traveling by airplane to visit his grandparents sat beside a man who happened to be a seminary professor. The boy was reading a Sunday school take-home paper when the professor thought he would have some fun with the lad. “Young man,” said the professor, “If you can tell me something God can do, I’ll give you a big, shiny apple.” The boy thought for a moment and then replied, “Mister, if you can tell me something God can’t do, I’ll give you a whole barrel of apples!” As I was growing up, perhaps the “niftiest” thing that I understood about God wasn’t His great wisdom, or even His unbounded love. I guess I reserved those two divine characteristics of God for my father and mother respectively. Sure, I had been taught that there was no one or nothing in this world that was smarter than God. Fact is, whenever something went really wrong in my life, my Dad, the wisest man in my little world, was quick to tell me that “God knew what He was doing. Don’t complain about it; He’s smarter than you are!” And love? Well, for a boy growing up in a world of scraped knees and daily disappointment, nothing or no one could rival Mom for that. It just seemed that her embrace and her smile were the source of all the love that I would need; at least when I was ten years old.
Of course I learned of God’s unsurpassed love in Sunday school and especially from my Mom. I recall sitting in my bedroom as a small boy listening to my sisters blue and white, J.C. Penny’s portable record player. I was putting one after another of those handy little 45 rpm singles over the fat spindle. I plunked a “Jesus Loves Me, This I Know!” selection on and sat and sang along. “For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong. They are weak and He is strong!” My Mom just happened to walk into the room with folded laundry in her hands and complimented my singing. “That’s right, dear! Jesus loves you! I just love to listen to you sing, Mark!” “They are weak, but He is strong!” Yes, I knew that Jesus loved me. But, to a boy of ten, the fact that God was strong seemed far more important to a young boy striving to be the fastest, strongest, and smartest kid on the block. Strength was the key to survival in my world and that’s what impressed me the most about God; He was so powerful, the most powerful being in all the universe. Now that’s something to write a song about!
If I could have shared just one characteristic of God at that young age, there was no doubt about it. It would be omnipotence, all power. Wisdom seemed like something that would come in handy later in life. And love? Well, let’s just say that was something for girls. I really didn’t understand clearly what omnipresence meant, so that didn’t register on my wish list much. But all power? Now that would be really nifty! That big kid who picked on me? Toast! And being able to break through the line over tackle? They’d never see me coming! Typically, power to a ten year old boy was something pretty self-defining and absolutely self-perpetuating. Thank God that He chose to use His power to perfect His creation rather than His authority. Not apparent to a ten year old boy, it would be years before I understood the real meaning of an all-powerful God. His power resides and is most effective in what He created not in what He deems to do to it. He is glorified not in His power over His creation but in His authority through it. We often use our power to disturb, change, and even destroy. God uses His power to continually build and perfect. Whereas our use of power can often lead us to do that which we should not, true power, omnipotence, acts as a curb to itself. It’s like trying to square a circle. There are some things that God’s power prevents Him from doing because these are not perfected in His power. Power in our imperfect hands can often lead to imperfection. Power in the hands of the Almighty God can only lead to perfection.
God’s power through His creation is absolutely awesome. When we look around at this marvelous world filled with so many remarkable creations, there can be no doubt in our minds that perfection lies behind every blade of grass, every drop of water, every handful of cool, rich earth. Our awesome, all-powerful God has seen to it that nothing has been missed and no detail left out. This is a perfect creation. I must admit, now, despite the fact that I am well down life’s highway, I am still awed by that power. And, it would probably still be my first pick on the talents scale. But, what really seems nifty about the whole thing now isn’t so much what God is able to do with His power; it is really what He hasn’t done that leaves me breathless. Now, that is truly nifty!
[Illustration: Winston Churchill’s first speech to the house of commons three days after becoming prime minister, at the beginning of World War II]
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for."
