Let me close off with a baptism I was able to witness in Lexington. A man after the service was baptized, he was in a wheel chair, he had MS. Before he was baptized into Christ, he shared this story. He said that he was so pumped about being baptized that he woke up at 4 in the morning. And when he woke up he had a thought – he said it was like a dream – the thought was of someone coming up to him, standing over him as he sat in his wheel chair and asking him this question; “Bob if you had one wish and it would be given to you what would it be?”

He said it was obvious that the person quickly assumed that he would say that his greatest wish would be to get up out of

...

Continue reading this sermon illustration (Free with PRO)