Welcome to Tim Minut Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. Right now now we're learning how to follow Jesus by working our way through the Gospel of Luke.

I just want to set up our time together by asking you a couple questions and the first one has to do with an

email that we get probably once a year and I want to know how you would respond to it.

So let me set it up for you. It's the days approaching a veteran's day or Memorial Day which of course are the days

that we as a country have set aside to honor people who have fought in our military and even given their life for the sake of our country.

And so the email comes in and says, how are we as a church going to participate in Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and honoring these people who have fought

and died for our nation.

How would you respond to that email?

Would you, if you were a pastor of the church and got to make the decisions, would you do

something in the worship service? Not? What would you do? What wouldn't you do?

Okay, the second question is a little bit of a thought experiment.

Imagine that right before he is killed by the US forces,

Osama bin Laden has put his faith in Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Let's don't worry about how it

happened because I have no reason to believe that this is true at all. Let's just

pretend for our thought experiment that it did happen though and that right now

Osama bin Laden upon his death entered into the presence of God and is filled with

joy and peace and the glory of Christ and he will experience that for all of eternity.

You could do the same kind of thought experiment with someone like Adolf Hitler.

Would you be excited to know

that Adolf Hitler had become a Christian

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