WHY DO WE HAVE TO DIE? (3)
by Brad Whitt
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
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Title: Why Do We Have to Die? (3)
Series: Big Questions, BIGGER God: Life, Death, and What Happens Next
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and turn with me to 1 Corinthians 15. We're in a series of sermons on Sunday mornings at Abilene dealing with the pressing, personal, and perplexing questions of life that I've entitled "Big Questions." We're looking at and learning what the Bible teaches about life, death, and what comes next.
JOKE
For several months, a little boy watched his mother's stomach get bigger and bigger and bigger. It was becoming harder and harder to sit on her lap. Finally, the little boy asked, "Mommy, why is your stomach getting so big?!"
His mother told him that his little sister was inside her stomach. "Mommy, why is my little sister inside your stomach?" He was told that he used to be in her stomach, too.
When the boy's father got home, the boy asked his father if he could talk to him privately. They went to the boy's room. "Daddy, I need answers to two questions: First, why does Mommy keep eating little kids? And second, how did I escape?"
JOKE
The Dunning-Kruger effect says - "A toddler seems to know all the questions...A teenager seems to know all the answers."
JOKE
A wise man once said, "One who asks a question is a fool for a moment. One who does not ask questions is a fool forever."
That's why we're asking the Bible the BIG questions about life, death, and what happens next. If you don't ask the right questions to the right person, you won't get the right answers.
- Job asked this question - "If a man dies, will he live again?"
- Habakkuk asked the Lord - "How long will I cry, O Lord, and you not hear?"
- The Rich Young Ruler asked Jesus - "What good thing can I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Nicodemus came to Jesus one night and asked these questions after Jesus told him he had to be born again - "How can a man be bo ...
Series: Big Questions, BIGGER God: Life, Death, and What Happens Next
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: 1 Corinthians 15:21-22
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles this morning and turn with me to 1 Corinthians 15. We're in a series of sermons on Sunday mornings at Abilene dealing with the pressing, personal, and perplexing questions of life that I've entitled "Big Questions." We're looking at and learning what the Bible teaches about life, death, and what comes next.
JOKE
For several months, a little boy watched his mother's stomach get bigger and bigger and bigger. It was becoming harder and harder to sit on her lap. Finally, the little boy asked, "Mommy, why is your stomach getting so big?!"
His mother told him that his little sister was inside her stomach. "Mommy, why is my little sister inside your stomach?" He was told that he used to be in her stomach, too.
When the boy's father got home, the boy asked his father if he could talk to him privately. They went to the boy's room. "Daddy, I need answers to two questions: First, why does Mommy keep eating little kids? And second, how did I escape?"
JOKE
The Dunning-Kruger effect says - "A toddler seems to know all the questions...A teenager seems to know all the answers."
JOKE
A wise man once said, "One who asks a question is a fool for a moment. One who does not ask questions is a fool forever."
That's why we're asking the Bible the BIG questions about life, death, and what happens next. If you don't ask the right questions to the right person, you won't get the right answers.
- Job asked this question - "If a man dies, will he live again?"
- Habakkuk asked the Lord - "How long will I cry, O Lord, and you not hear?"
- The Rich Young Ruler asked Jesus - "What good thing can I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Nicodemus came to Jesus one night and asked these questions after Jesus told him he had to be born again - "How can a man be bo ...
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