Genelle Guzman was 31-years old on 9/11

• She was on the 64^th floor

• Racing down the stair-case

• As the building around her collapsed

SHE FOUND HERSELF BURIED

• In what is known as

• A ‘Triangle of Life’

• That is where objects fall

• And end up creating an open space

• She was in one of those spaces

SHE WAS THE LAST OF 4 PEOPLE

• Who were pulled out of the rubble …. Alive

• Her leg was pinned down

• And there she lay … for 27 hours

IN THE WEEKS BEFORE 9/11

• She had started going to church

• And as she lay there in that darkness

• She started thinking of all she’d learned

AND IT WAS IN THAT DARKNESS

• That she finally and totally surrendered to Jesus

• And between short periods of peaceful sleep

• She began to pray in earnest

Shortly after noon on Wednesday the 12^th

• She heard voices

• She screamed as loud as she could

THEY ASKED IF SHE COULD SEE ANY LIGHT

• She couldn’t, but she found a piece of concrete

• And began banging the slab above her

• They heard it and nearly a half hour later

• They pulled her out of the rubble

WE ARE BURIED UNDER OUR OWN RUBBLE

• The Bible calls this rubble ‘SIN’

• We have no way of crawling out - - by ourselves

IT IS ONLY THROUGH JESUS

• That we can be rescued

• As He reaches out to us

• We need only to grab His hand

AS WE ENTER THIS TIME OF COMMUNION

• Let us remember

• That all we have to do is cry out,

• ‘Jesus, save me!’ 

• And He will pull us out of our rubble

WE WERE DEAD IN OUR SIN

• But we were saved

• By Grace

• Through Jesus Christ