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Life on Wings
by Terry Fullam
Text: Proverbs 30:18-19
Topic: How an eagle's life is like that of a Christian
Big Idea:Conversion, maturity, a Spirit-led life, and a Christian death are keys to a faithful Christian life.
Keywords: Born Again, Maturity, Holy Spirit, Death, Eternal Life
Introduction:
- Fullam has been fascinated with eagles his whole life, and he's learned a lot from them.
- An eagle is a picture of the kind of life we are called to live.
To grow up as an eagle, one needs to be born an eagle.
- If we're ever going to be Christians, we need to be born one, or born again as one.
- This can only happen by the Holy Spirit.
- We have to appropriate this gift.
Mother eagles are out to mature their young.
- Illustration: Mother eagles nudge their little eagles out of the nest to teach them to fly.
- Illustration: Mother eagles break apart their nests to take away their little ones' place of security.
- This is how God trains us in maturity.
Eagles soar with the movement of the wind.
- Illustration: One day when the late Steve McQueen was air gliding, he saw eagles at 20,000 feet, riding the currents.
- Eagle Christians need to wait and respond to the leading of the Spirit, the wind of God.
- Eagle Christians don't flap around like other birds doing lots of tiring good works; they soar when they follow the Spirit's leading.
- In the end, it's not the good works we do but our cooperation with the Spirit that makes a difference to God.
Eagles know how to die.
- Illustration: Eagles die facing the sun.
- Illustration (extended): Fullam's father died like an eagle, setting his affairs straight, with tenderness to his family and confidence in his future.
- There is a Christian way to die; for eagle Christians it is a triumphant entrance.
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