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366 - O Where Are the Reapers
Firing Squad
The sun had just risen on a hot August day in 1944 in the small village of Plelo, in German-occupied France.
The 15-year-old boy did not know why he and the other citizens of Plelo had been lined up before a firing squad in the middle of the town square.
Perhaps they were being punished for harboring a unit of French underground freedom fighters.
Perhaps they were merely to satisfy the blood lust of the German commanding officer who, the evening before, had routed the small group of freedom fighters scouts.
All the boy knew was that he was about to die.
As he stood before the firing squad, he remembered the carefree days of his early childhood, before the war, spent roaming the green of the French countryside.
He thought about all he would miss by never growing up.
Most of all he was terrified of dying.
How will the bullets feel ripping through my body? he wondered.
He hoped no one could hear the whimperings coming from deep in his throat every time he exhaled.
As the guns were lifted, the boy looked down the barrels.
Waiting for death to seize him, he held his breathe.
Suddenly, the boy heard the sound of exploding mortar shells beyond the limits of his little village.
Quickly rolling tanks could also be heard.
The Germans were forced to abandon the firing squad and face a small unit of U.S. tanks with twenty GI's led by Bob Hamsley, a corporal in Patton's Third Army.
A freedom fighter captain had asked Hamsley for help.
After three hours, fifty Nazis were dead, and the other fifty were taken prisoner.
The boy and many others were rescued, and not a second too soon.
Urgency.
sometimes, is a
life or death matter.
Urgent: “a situation requiring immediate action or attention.”
Important vs. Urgent
When training efficiency
you might here
comparison between
important and urgent.
Graph - possible options
explain....
Make a list of to-do’s.
categorize.
How did Jesus categorize?
Jesus says,
don’t waste time
building treasure
here on earth.
Instead,
invest in the stock
of heaven.
No need to
diversify your portfolio.
This stock is sure!
But what does that mean?
How do you
store up treasures in heaven?
Simple question.
Look around the room,
of what you see,
what thing are going to heaven?
No things...
Only people...
So,
the way to
store up treasure in heaven,
invest in people
spiritually...
Spread the Gospel...
So far,
we have established.
Jesus felt
evangelism was important
preeminently important.
But what about urgent?
The title of the sermon
“End-Time Evangelism.”
We are not talking about
evangelism in any age
but specifically
end-time evangelism.
I emphasize end-time
because we talk about
the idea that
Jesus is coming soon.
Therefore,
we must be living
in the end-times...
Let’s take a look at
other “end-time evangelism”
scenarios in the Bible.
Jesus used two
Bible stories as examples
of what life would be like
just before His
Second Coming.
Noah and the Ark.
Sodom and Gomorrah.
According to Gen 6:3
Noah preached for
120 years
before the flood came.
Depending on how you
look at this,
you might say,
that does not sound
very urgent to me!
But fast forward now.
Now,
it is going to rain in 7 days,
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