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Story Of The Fireman
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007 (message contributor)
Story of the Fireman
A. Flames surrounded firefighters fighting a forest as they backed up a mountain trying to put out the fire. They had no where to go. There was fire behind them and only a home and more grass in front of them. The firefighter moved ahead into the grass in front of him struck a match and burned the grass between them and the house. Just in time as the fire he had set went out he stepped into the already burned grass. The wild fire went around him and the house because it had no fuel to burn and the fire fighter was saved.
B. Today there is wild fire of sin coming toward our home. Sin has never been more available than it is today. People can destroy their lives and those around them without ever leaving home.
• The wildfire of sin comes at you through:
? TV
Internet?
Books?
Telephone?
atches, he sees a door open below & his grandmother standing there beckoning the white boy to escape through the open door. The little boy says, "At first I was glad because my grandmother had opened the door so the white boy could escape. Then I remembered my mother bleeding & suffering on the bed, & that white people had done that to her. Then I was angry at my grandmother for opening the door."
He goes on, "The trouble is that when people hate each other, the people who are the objects of the hate want to hate the people who hate them, & hurt the people who hurt them, & insult the people who insult them. Soon we find ourselves in a vicious cycle of hating, hurting, & insulting. And nobody opens the door. So we just keep on hurting & hating & insulting." Melvin Newland @sermoncentral.com
Are there some doors you need to open in your life? Life is too short to live with anger, hate, bitterness, and depression.
m in prayer, & seeking His guidance for your life through reading His Word. Remember to put these BIG ROCKS in first or you’ll never get them in at all.
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