A Killer Sermon Eric Frisch July 16, 2017 Series: Strange Stories of the Bible

with them, intending to depart on the next day, On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered. And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from... (cont’d) --Acts 20:7-12 (ESV)

...the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.” And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed. And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted. --Acts 20:7-12 (ESV)

Two important elements of this passage: the miracle and the worship

The importance of corporate worship

The power of corporate worship

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. --I Corinthians 1:17 (ESV)

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me --Galatians 3:20 (ESV)

in your hearts through faith... (cont’d) For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith... (cont’d) --Ephesians 3:14-19 (ESV)

--Ephesians 3:14-19 (ESV) —that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. --Ephesians 3:14-19 (ESV)

A Killer Sermon Eric Frisch July 16, 2017 Series: Strange Stories of the Bible