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Baptism
reminder of Send Off for the Tills / have him pray
Time of Prayer for the Troell Family
reminder to turn off the livestream
According to the Bible, there is no such thing as a closed country.
However, there are places and groups of people that reaching them come with an elevated risk.
Two weeks before 9/11 I first learned of the religion of Islam
Thankful to be at Crown College the day of and the weeks to follow 9/11
I was surrounded by good, Bible thinking people as I processed this new world.
Shortly after 9/11, Osama bin Laden told a reporter: “We love death.
The U.S. loves life.
That is the big difference between us.”
This was a statement based on his understand of martyrdom in the muslim world.
Bin Laden was wrong.
America sent her sons and daughters.
America proved they loved liberty than we love life.
At this same time America, as a nation, was responding we watched to see how the church would respond.
Would we send our brothers and sisters to share the Gospel with people with whom many hated us.
This is when I first heard of the name Stephen Troell.
Here is a picture of his family.
[slide]
Christians do not love death.
We love Christ.
If he bids them come and die, they count it an honor to suffer and die for the sake of the name.
Acts 5:41 “41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.”
There is a long history of Christian martyrdom.
It started with Christ and will not stop until He rules and reigns for eternity
An Iraqi milita group shot Stephen in front of his wife this week in Baghdad
He was known as a loving father, who like to laughing with the people on the street, he learned arabic so he could teach Christ
His children are from 2 years of age to 17.
We should pray for them.
We share in sorrow with the family.
We do not “say what a waste” but say what a savior.
We say God bless this family and thank you God for them.
On Fox News: The family's statement concluded: "Stephen often quoted the words of two Moravian young men who gave their lives for the cause.
We echo them again: 'May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering
Bible Reading
Matthew 19, Mark 10, Luke 18, also share this same story.
We call this the story of the rich, young, ruler because of what we learn of him here and in Matthew.
This section in Luke is all about the kind of people that are in the kingdom
the kind of people that are not in the kingdom; Pharisee & Publican
the kind that are entering the kingdom; shown in not forbidding the children
the kind that are barred from the kingdom; story of the rich, young, ruler
This is not a parable, this is a real account.
Story starts with a character that we could all envy and it appears he is about to have it all.
Wealth, youth, power, and now he is reaching for the Kingdom.
We which watch a man “come short of the glory of God” though he reaches
Romans 3:23 “23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Luke 18:18–27 (KJV 1900)
18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good?
none is good, save one, that is, God.
20 Thou knowest the commandments,
Do not commit adultery,
Do not kill, Do not steal,
Do not bear false witness,
Honour thy father and thy mother.
21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
26 And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?
27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
Luke 18:28–30 (KJV 1900)
28 Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.
29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,
30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.
Sermon Introduction
Life can be eternal, starting now
Money can be damning, if mishandled
Jesus is abundantly clear, when He calls us to follow Him
Life can be eternal, starting today
This portion begins and ends with a question and a truth about eternal life.
The expression “eternal life” is used about fifty times in the Bible
Luke 18:18 “18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 18:30 “30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.”
What a great question
The question all of us who love the Gospel would love to have someone ask “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Unprepared for the questions of the kids in Northern Ireland
What is eternal life?
Jesus provides an explanation in John 17:3 “3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
Knowing God, the knowledge of God; that's eternal life.
Eternal life cannot be separated from God and Christ.
It is to know God. 1 John 5:20 “20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God, and eternal life.”
It is to possess the life of God, the deep intimate knowledge of God.
Phil 3:14-15 “14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.”
It is the life that God possesses in the heart of man so that man and God have fellowship.
It is fellowship with God.
It is the love of God shed broad in our hearts.
Romans 5:5
It is when the light of the knowledge of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ shines in us, 2 Corinthians 4.
It is the peace of God that passes all understanding, Philippians 4.
It is the joy unspeakable and full of glory of 1 Peter 1.
Life that makes one spiritually alive, that brings us into true communion with God.
It is life that is unaffected by death.
It does go on forever, but it is a quality of life.
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