Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 14, 2007
                
                
                
                    In you mind put yourself on the western prairie in the summer of 1866.   Imagine being asleep at night when you are awaken by the smell of burning weeds.  That prairie brush fire smoke would strake fear into your heart.  It is impossible to out run the fire.  It moves fast as the wind and wide as
                    
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                    After choosing the title of this sermon I began looking for an illustration that captured the sense of what I meant by a “black market sacrifice.”  And to my great distress I found one – kind of.  The search for an illustration became the illustration.  Confused?  Let me explain.
	When I prepare
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Tow on Apr 4, 2023
                
                
                
                    There was a young soldier in Napoleon’s army who committed an offense worthy of death. The day before he was scheduled for the firing squad, the young man’s mother went to Napoleon and asked him to show mercy for her son. Napoleon harshly replied, “Woman, your son does not deserve mercy.” “I know,”
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the days of the pioneers, when men saw that a prairie fire was coming, this is what they did. Since not even the fastest of horses could outrun it, the pioneers took a match and burned the grass in a designated area around them. Then they would take their stand in the burned area and be safe
                    
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                    Dwight L. Moody talked about the greatest regret of his life.  22 years after the event in 1871, he recounted what had happened.
 "I was preaching on the life of Christ.  I had spent 4 Sunday nights on the subject and had followed Christ from the manger along through his life to his arrest and
                    
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                    The poet William Blake wrote a poem about Pentecost. Part of the poem says:  Unless the eye catch fire, God will not be seen. Unless the ear catch fire, God will not be heard. Unless the tongue catch fire, God will not be named. Unless the Heart
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, gold and tellurium occur mixed as tellurite ore. The refining methods of the early mining camps could not separate the two elements, so the ore was thrown into a scrap heap.
One day a miner mistook a lump of ore for coal and tossed it into his stove. Later, while
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 13, 2009
                
                
                
                    RUN TO THE REFUGE
Bunker gear, over 1,000 degrees of heat, protection from fire scene elements, provides a refuge/safety for self... importance of ARFF truck...refuge, responsible for protection of firefighters, T3000 3,000 gal. of water, large truck, nozzles, discharge 1,000 gpm...truck was place
                    
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                    Contributed by Brian Harvison on Sep 30, 2008
                
                
                
                    What is more alarming that an outbreak of fire?
The fire of sin broke out in Eden
And has spread over the whole world
The only way of escape is to be pulled out
There is a ladder of escape like the ladder Jacob dreamed of, that reaches to heaven it is
John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
                    
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