Journey From Death To Life 1

Hello Everyone,

If you want to fascinate a child with a great story, one of the best ways to do that is to make the child a main character in a story. 

Nearly a hundred years ago, a little boy in England received a stuffed bear as a gift on his first birthday.

Soon after, his father, a playwright and novelist, began writing stories that featured the little boy, his bear, and other toys in the boy’s playroom, as characters.

You know the bear as Winnie-the-Pooh.

You know the boy as Christopher Robin.

Since then, Winnie-the-Pooh stories have been loved by generations of children, translated into more than fifty languages, and featured in songs, movies, and television specials.

But it all began with a little boy and a stuffed bear as characters in a simple story.

Everyone here has a story, whether you have a stuffed bear or not.

I have a story. You have a story.

Some read like tragedies, some like comedies.

Some are mysteries, and others are romances.

Some are much longer than others, and some are just getting started.

But everyone has a story.

All of our stories, different as they are, are parts of a bigger story:

A story that is older than any of us, a story that defines all of us, and can—if we let it—guide us.

It is the story told in the pages of your Bible, from the first words of Genesis to the last lines of the book of Revelation.

My prayer is that at the end of this five-week 30-Day Experience series you will:

1) See stories from the Bible like you never have before;

2) Gain a better appreciation for God’s redemptive plan for mankind through Jesus Christ;

3) Experience greater insight into God’s LOVE for you.

The story we will start with today is found in the first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis, chapter 22.

It is when Abraham offered up Isaac or some refer to it as the Binding of Isaac.

Now, some of us have read that story and heard it many times. 

It is a story of great faith, the story of a father who was so obedient to God that he was willing to make the greatest sacrifice imaginable.

It is a story usually told from Abraham’s perspective, as a display of his GREAT faith.

But have you ever looked at it from Isaac’s perspective?

This story, from Genesis 22, is not just Isaac’s story; it is the story of all of us in at least three very important ways that we will be looking at this week.

Greater Things Are Still To Come!