Sermonette: Laying Aside Every Weight

Sermonette: Laying Aside Every Weight

Accepting Reality and Choosing Our Response
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David C. Grabbe
Given 21-Apr-07; 15 minutes

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description: (hide) David Grabbe, using the example of the Polish concentration camp inmate nicknamed "Wild Bill Cody" who learned to endure hardship by learning to love every person he encountered (including his hardened German captors), examines the reason why some people can thrive under duress and trial while others succumb and perish. Wild Bill’s ability to forgive gave him a reservoir of strength to endure all of the bitter experiences life threw at him. Paul and Silas similarly did not obsess about the abject misery of their imprisonment, but instead praised God, becoming conduits for God’s power. At the conclusion of the faith chapter (Hebrews 11), Paul refers to people who have endured against unspeakable odds by setting aside burdensome weights of negativity or bitterness and tapping into God’s gift of faith.