Patriots Of Fire Essay

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Let’s open our Bibles together to Exodus 20. We are continuing our sermon series “Resolutions That Really Matter: Spiritual Challenges from the Ten Commandments.” Various biblical passages and church history remind us that spiritual renewal often begins with spiritual resolutions. In this series of messages, we are allowing the Ten Commandments to challenge us to make specific resolutions that can lead us to spiritual renewal. This evening we are looking at the Fourth Commandment found in verses 8-11: “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female …show more content…
Eric Liddell is a Scottish Christian, who runs for the glory of God. Harold Abraham is a Jewish Englishman who runs to overcome prejudice and prove to the world that Jews are not inferior. The film focuses on both men as they train for the competition. When the time came to go to the Olympics, Liddell finds out that his 100 meter race will be on Sunday. He refuses to run the race, despite strong pressure from the Prince of Wales and the British Olympic committee, because his Christian convictions prevent him from running on the Sabbath. In the meantime, Lindell’s teammate proposes to yield his place in the 400 meter race on the following Thursday to Liddell, who gratefully agrees. His religious convictions in the face of national athletic pride make headlines around the world. Furthermore, nobody believes that Lindell would be able to do well in his now far larger 400 meter race. But Liddell wins the gold medal and breaks the existing Olympic and world records with a time of 47.6 seconds. At the end of the movie, the onscreen text tells us, that after the Olympics Liddell continued to compete but never on Sundays. Later in life, he goes to China to serve as a missionary.

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