If you read the Old Testament you soon realize that the Israelite s were very stubborn, and it took allot for them to get the message, unlike us Americans who get it the first time and never have to learn anything the hard way!

Yeah right.

There were many times that God would say to do one thing, but they would go and do the opposite, like the time God sent 12 spies into the land so they could get their battle plan together and take the land.

But instead, 10 came back and said no way! Theres giants in the land and they can’t conquer it, CHANGE OF PLANS!

They weren’t suppose to change Gods plans, they were suppose to be obedient and do what God said,

But how many of us know exactly what God requires of us, but we say, I want to go in another direction?  We end up hurting our relationship with the Lord and become out of his will.

We don’t lose our salvation, but we do lose our fellowship with him, and the longer we stay out of fellowship, we start feeling like a stranger with the Lord.

It becomes difficult to pray,  you know how it is, you have an argument with someone, you stop talking, and the longer you don’t talk, the farther you drift apart, until you don’t talk at all.

Same thing with Jesus, the farther you drift apart, the harder it is to start talking again.

It become difficult to read your bible, that becomes hard to do, because if I’m not talking to him why would I want him to talk to me?

And so we put our bibles down and we know we should read it, but we drift farther away from the Lord, slowly and delibertly.

I know what I’m talking about, when we left our last church, I was so defeated as a pastor, that I started to drift from the Lord. praying and reading Gods Word became difficult.

Its easy to drift away and whats frustrating is, you feel guilty because you miss that fellowship with Christ.  Its like having a brother that you never see, because you drift apart.

I have a younger brother, that I can count on both hands of how many times we have seen each other over the past 35 years.   He was living a lifestyle that I don’t approve of, we were moving constantly across the United States and we just stopped talking.

I miss him at times and think about the things we did as kids, I was his protector from a few fights, I ran him over with my motorcycle, he got me in trouble with our parents, we ran away from home together, we hunted pheasants and rabbits, went camping out behind our uncles house, got scared and came home!

But we drifted apart, years apart, different lifestyles will do that.

Same thing with the Lord, if you want to live a different lifestyle than what the Lord lives, if you want to stop talking and listening to him, you will drift apart.

Guard your relationships with Christ and with family so you don’t drift away from each other, its been my prayer that my kids won’t drift apart but will always keep in touch with each other, its easy to do, they’re all separated in ages and living in different places.

My biggest prayer is that they won’t drift away from Christ, and that all Christians will protect their relationship with Jesus.

Although it might get depressing if you spend too much time listening to radio shows and fox news telling us all of the horrible things that are going on in our country, we still have many things to be thankful for:

LIKE::::

TURKEY  IN  A  SMOKER!!!!

A  ROOF  OVER  OUR  HEADS

BARBECUE

KIDS

A  GOOD  CHURCH

THAT  YOUR    “NOT”   A    POLITICIAN!!

MUSKETEER  BARS

SHOES  THAT  FIT

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HEAT  AND  ELECTRIC

SALVATION  IF  YOU  CHOOSE

TO  BE  ABLE  TO  PRAY  ANYTIME  YOU  WANT

BLONDS  (my wife is one,  hubba hubba)

A  GREAT  WIFE

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HEALTH  good or bad, if  I’m breathing,  its a good day

PAIN  reminds us of dumb things we did when we were younger,  (Not to do it again)

WISDOM  AND  COMMON  SENSE,  something that eludes many

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GRANDCHILDREN,   even the ones on the way

TO BE ABLE TO LAUGH,  just watch Washington

TO BE ABLE TO CRY,  just watch Washington

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INHERITANCE  IN  HEAVEN

TO  BE  ABLE  TO  MOVE  TO  ANOTHER  COUNTRY!!!

JOBS

MONEY

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THE  ABILITY  TO  MAKE  A  DECISION,  hum the theme to jeopardy and think fondly of our president

TO  KNOW  THAT  GLOBAL  WARMING  IS  A  HOAX,  the earth is the Lords and no one but him can destroy it

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Thankful, thankful,  theres much more to be thankful for. and we need to thank God for watching over us everyday.

Give those you love a kiss and be thankful to God for everything and everyone

Last night was truly a historic time in America,  it was a night where Democrats truly identified who they are and by a vote of 60 people, they drew a line in the sand and said:

To be a democrat, you must support Obama

To be a democrat, you must support the slaughter of millions of babies

To be a democrat, you must support the killing of the elderly

To be a democrat, you must support throwing anyone who disagrees, into prison

To be a democrat, you must support homosexual marriage

To be a democrat, you must support the removal of all Christianity in America

To be a democrat, you must support bribing anyone to get what you want

To be a democrat, you must support socialism

To be a democrat, you must be willing to bankrupt America

To be a democrat, you must bow, to Obama, Pelosi, and Reed.

Joshua of the Old Testament, once asked his fellow countrymen, Choose this day, who you will serve?

The leaders of this country who are mere men,  or will you serve God?

The democrats have drawn a line in the sand, and they have posed a question to their fellow Americans, who will you serve?

Us or God?

Joshua answered that question by saying, For Me and My House, We Will Serve the Lord.

Will you remain or become a democrat to escape suffering, or will you be identified as a child of God?

The time is here, which side will you choose?

Yesterday I filled the pulpit at our church and was in the book of Acts 8.  This is where it describes Phillip and the eunuch from Africa, who was seeking to know who the Lord was.

The eunuch was a man with great authority and took care of Queen Candaces treasury and must have heard about the God of Isreal and was willing to travel a great distance in order to find out who this God was.

As he was traveling in his chariot, the Lord told Phillip to go to him, Phillip did as the Lord told him and as he approached the eunuch, he heard him reading the book of Isaiah. And he asked him did he understand what he was reading?

The eunuch said no how could he unless someone explained it to him.

Phillip realized that those who have never accepted Jesus Christ as being the Son of God and believed in their hearts that he died on a cross, was buried in a tomb, and then rose from the dead on the third day cannot understand the bible.

Same is true today, if you have never been saved by accepting and believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, you can read the bible from now until the cows come home and you’ll never understand it.

Spiritually dead people cannot understand things that are spiritually alive, so they cannot understand the bible, they need someone who is spiritually alive to explain it to them.

Phillip who was spiritually alive, preached to the eunuch of who Jesus Christ was, and told him that he needed to accept him as the Son of God, and the eunuch believed and was saved.

Phillip didn’t use any tricks or miracles or anything else to win the eunuch to salvation, he simply told him who Christ is and the eunuch believed and was saved.

But todays a new day in the Christian church. I read in the Saturday paper that a church in Los Angela, Ca. was having a service for pets. You can take your pet there and they will have a service complete with prayers for their spirituality.

There is a growing belief among Christians that animals have souls, which the  bible in Genesis clearly states that only man was a three part being, body, soul and spirit. But mans spirit is dead to the things of God until he receives Christ as Savior, its at that point that our spirit becomes alive.

The belief that animals have spirits lies in paganism. If animals had spirits then Christ would have had to die for them also for salvation, we would have to win them for salvation and if we ate one we would be guilty of murder and eating a brother or sister in Christ!

God himself would be guilty of murder as he killed an animal in order to clothe Adam and Eve and ordered the murder of millions of animals for sacrifices.

Thats why its impossible for animals to have spirits and why God said that the earth was for humans use to survive and to care for.

These churches that are having animal blessings are leaving the Gospel of Jesus Christ and dabbling in paganism and false religion.

When churches are no longer are concerned with the salvation of human souls and become more concerned about making people feel good by lying to them that their pets can go to heaven, then that church has lost its way, and has sunk into paganism.

The direction that Americas churches have decided to go with pet blessings,  drama teams,  worship teams that are nothing more than pride filled showmen wanting attention,  shows us that you might as well stay home.

I went to a Baptist church in Alabama, I thought i was going to hear some good preaching and good southern gospel.

All I got was 7 people standing up front with their guitars and hands raised looking all pious singing tired old radio music, and the people (who have to stand) are bored to death and not even singing.

I thought what a waste of precious time, when we could have been singing songs that grabs our hearts because they focus on our Savior, his blood, death, and his glorious Resurrection!

And then to top it off, the preacher misinterpreted Rev. 13:1  by saying the person wasn’t John that was talking, it was the anti-christ!

Come on church!!!

Lets get back to preaching the Word Of God in Truth and in Clarity!!!!

Get away from your pagan direction,  your feel good worship times,  your positive thinking, politically correct phoony balony sermons,

AND GET BACK TO THE PREACHING OF GODS WORD THAT SAVES HUMAN SOULS!!!

Get your women out of the pulpit,  off the stage singing and  gyrating to music that are inflaming your mens lust instead of inflaming a passion for God.

Its no wonder the world is flocking to the church,  they get a fleshy show instead of salvation.

Shame on the church that continues to sink out of Gods sight.

If you listen to the conservative radio host, it makes you wonder if this country will last another day, you can get depressed listening to all of the doom and gloom. Terrorist attacking and killing people on our own land, but of course according to our president we’re not fighting terrorist, these are only man made disasters!

Political correctness is literally killing us, we can’t call terrorist,  terrorist, and a Muslim who kills 13 people a murderer because its not politically correct. We have to be sensitive toward those who want to kill us.  I can only take so much of the democrats selling us out, the immorality of our nation, cowardly government and military leadership, I want to scream!

Thats why I have to switch over and listen to some music or find a good sermon, but trying to find a good sermon is hard.

You can find good teachers, but not good preachers, and this is the difference.

A good teacher can tell other Christians how to live for Christ and how to apply scripture to your lives, and the radio is full of good teachers.

But a good preacher, will deliver the truth of the gospel with power, unashamed to say it the way it is, that brings people to the realization that they’re a sinner and need to be saved. You don’t find preachers on the radio.

What we need today, are some good preachers!

When you learn that China has issued personal identification cards RFID’s  (radio frequency identification devices) these are cards that have all of your personal information on them, everything about you is on that little computer chip that can be scanned, and your history comes up on a screen.

Other countries like India are also ordering these where they will be able to track every citizen. If you lose it you could be jailed, thats why they want to implant them.

The bible says that after the church is removed by the rapture that just 3 1/2 yrs into the tribulation everyone will be required to take the mark of the beast (perhaps an RFID) implant in your hand or forehead, and if you refuse to be marked, you won’t be able to buy or sell or be killed if you refuse.

If that happens just 3 1/2 yrs into the tribulation, and that technology is already here, then how close is the Lords return?

Thats why we need some good preachers, who will boldly proclaim the gospel and win sinners to Christ before its too late.

All of us need to be involved in winning others to Christ and boldly proclaim the truth of Gods Word because I believe we might be the generation that will be raptured.

Keep the faith and walk with the Lord, no matter what comes our way.