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POWER FOR THE CHURCH understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep
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Ephesians 3:1421 that is, you will know the love of the Messiahwhich transcends
knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to the
Opening Thought one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according
1) Imagine that in your town there is a homeless person who is notorious
to the power that is working among us21 to him be glory in the church
for his unkempt appearance and desperate existence. He sleeps on the
and in the Messiah Jesus to all generations, forever and ever! Amen.
street and eats out of dumpsters. He spurns all offers of help. Now imagine
that this man dies, and authorities subsequently discover he was actually
an heir of a vast fortune. In fact, the papers report that he died with more Understanding the Text
than a billion dollars in the bank! What would you conclude about him? 2) Why does Paul pray for strength in your inner being? (vv. 1419)
If you think our galaxy is big enough, think again! Our galaxy has a
diameter of 150,000 light-years, and beyond our galaxy are other galaxies,
where we are all located inside what astronomers call the Local Group:
The higher a spacecrafts speed, more propellant is needed. Therefore, the To protect against damage from space debris, a spacecraft needs some kind
spacecraft has an exponentially higher mass problem from the need to of armour. However, armour means more mass, which means more
move the spacecrafts payload [the total weight of the passengers, crew, propellant to move the added mass. But more propellant means even more
instruments, and life support supplies]. Micrometeorites [fractions of a propellant to move that extra propellant. Thus the problem escalates.
millimetre across], punched holes in the Hubble Telescopes solar panels: While space debris poses a lesser risk at lower velocities, lower velocities
also means greater travel time. The probability of damage from space
debris rises in proportion to the amount of time spent in space, and it rises
with v2. Therefore, in terms of damage from debris, E.T. faces deadly
dangers at any velocity, slow or fast. A spacecraft travelling at just 1% the
speed of light [10,792,528 km/h] would need 23,000 years to travel a mere
230 light-years! A last resort is the suggestion that E.T. may find a way to
use wormholes [called an EinsteinRosen Bridge] to travel in a short time.
On closer examination, this idea offers no help in solving the distance and
time problems. General relativity says that massive objects distort the
curvature of space and time in their vicinity. John Wheeler [20th century
physicist] famously said: Space-time tells matter how to move; matter
tells space-time how to curve.
If the telescope had been moving a thousand times faster [relative to the
micrometeorites], the damage would have been a million times worse. In
terms of space debris, micrometeorites are the least of E.T.s worries.
Computer modelling indicates that there are at least 100 billion comets,
surrounding our own solar system:
The greater the mass-density of an object, the greater the degree of space-
time curvature it produces in its immediate vicinity. General relativity
predicts that when matter becomes sufficiently compressed by its own
gravity [like a black hole], a discrete region of space-time will develop
where the curvature becomes infinitely sharp. Therefore, a singularity will
develop at the centre of the mass concentration.
If a black hole that is connected to a sheet of space-time, happens to make General relativity dictates that wormholes would be extremely unstable.
contact with another black hole that is connected to a different sheet of The longevity of any possible wormhole is far too brief to allow any
space-time, that point of contact may hypothetically offer a travel corridor. physical being to travel through. Finally, the most devastating evidence
The point of contact must be singularity to singularity so that a traveller against wormhole travel comes from the application of physical laws to
funnelling into the centre of one black hole can come into contact with the discrete physical objects. In short, any physical object would be destroyed
centre of another black hole: beyond recognition by the intense gravitational forces in the vicinity of a
wormhole. Physicists call this spaghettification: