Ephesians Part 22 (Wonderful Work of Salvation)

INTRO: Salvation, what a wonderful word. When I was about 12 years old a terrible accident happened at my Dad's sawmill. The man who was running the edger was just putting a timberbound cant through the edger. This particular edger could make several boards at one time. The cant he was pushing through would make two boards and of course, two slabs. Of course you cannot easily tell if a particular piece of log is timberbound and this one was. When it was almost through it bound up badly enough for the saws to grab it and shoot it out the back of the edger. One 2x4 hit him in the hip, breaking bones. The other hit him in the head. He lived for a number of days. It was a hard time in our home. I went to school with kids related to this man. And every day we would get all the last bit of news. Then news came that he was doing better and our hopes rose. Then news came that he was not doing so well and finally news came that Jake Elias was dead. There was no salvation from his injuries.