This morning Bible Study at the Barn will begin a new study of a book by John MacArthur entitled Twelve Ordinary Men. This looks to be a really carefully guided insight into how God takes ordinary people who have the most fantastic thing happen to them. That fantastic thing is something that many of you have experienced. Coming into a relationship with Jesus Christ is without a doubt the most important and impactful thing that happens in anyone's life.
The ministry of the 12 men that Jesus Christ called to be his disciples were called out and then used of God to change the world. Each changed from who they were as ordinary men into extraordinary men of God.
The men who attend Bible Study at the Barn come from many professions and many different backgrounds but we all have one thing in common we are in a relationship with Jesus Christ. So the study we do there is not to glorify or put on a pedestal any other man but to see how that man interacted with Jesus and how The Lord used that person to do His work.
I am excited too as we has a new group being birthed today. Some of the Officers cannot make a meeting at 6 am due to their work schedules so they ask Chaplain Glenn Chapplear to start a study in the late morning time slot. He agreed and ask me to back him up to lead the study when he would need to travel. I agreed with and as it would happen today as the group begins Glenn must travel. So I am blessed to start the group this morning in it's first meeting. These are ordinary Cops who can become extra ordinary.
No other life has ever effected the rest of the World like Jesus Christ Dr James Allan Francis wrote a poem in 1928 to note how ordinary Jesus really was as a person. But the fact of who he was and who he is today because he rose from the dead changed everything. Here is the poem. You have probably read it but it is definitely worth another moment to realize who Jesus Christ really is in your life. He will change you from ordinary to extra ordinary today.
One Solitary Life
He was born in an obscure village
The child of a peasant woman
He grew up in another obscure village
Where he worked in a carpenter shop
Until he was thirty when public opinion turned against him
He never wrote a book
He never held an office
He never went to college
He never visited a big city
He never travelled more than two hundred miles
From the place where he was born
He did none of the things
Usually associated with greatness
He had no credentials but himself
He was only thirty three
His friends ran away
One of them denied him
He was turned over to his enemies
And went through the mockery of a trial
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves
While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing
The only property he had on earth
When he was dead
He was laid in a borrowed grave
Through the pity of a friend
Nineteen centuries have come and gone
And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race
And the leader of mankind's progress
All the armies that have ever marched
All the navies that have ever sailed
All the parliaments that have ever sat
All the kings that ever reigned put together
Have not affected the life of mankind on earth
As powerfully as that one solitary life
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