![]() ![]() They went to the rich man with their accusation. The servants decided that he must be stealing things and hiding them in that room. He would enter, lock the door, and remain half an hour, then come out, locking the door behind him. They noticed that once a week he would sneak off to a room which was always locked, and to which he alone had the key. Other servants with seniority were jealous of this intruder so they sought to ensnare him. To express his gratitude the boy’s father gave him the position of Butler in his household. ![]() A man saved the young son of a rich man from the thugs who tried to kidnap him for ransom. Let me illustrate the importance of considering the past from which we have come. We are not perfect, but we can be like the old fellow who testified, “I ain’t what I oughta be and I ain’t what I’m gonna be but Praise the Lord, I ain’t what I usta be, neither!”Į. He brought us from hate and anger and malice.ĭ. He brought us from the domination and deception of this world and Satan which led to foolish living.Į. He brought us from the power of sin which had separated us from Him.ĭ. He brought us from bondage to the lusts and illicit desires that ruled and ruined us.Ĭ. He brought us from the pit in which we were mired.ī. It is a good thing for us to remember from where He brought us:Ī. “For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.” Titus 3:3 (NASB).ģ. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:1-7 (NASB).Ģ. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Think about what used to be and from whence He brought you and press on:ġ. “Roll back the curtain of memory now and thenĬ. ![]()
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