We’ve had the pleasure of taking care of our only grandson the past couple of days, we don’t get to see him very much because they live 3 hours away. But I can truthfully say, he is perfect!!

I know, I know, thats what all grandparents say, but they’re all wrong and we’re the only ones who’s right, AMEN?

We have forgotten what its like to have a under 2 year old in the house, and how old we are getting.

We use to be able to chase them all day long, but now cause we’re older, we just let him chase us, then catch us, so we can sit back down.

We had their dog too, a boxer, of course the first night here, he got stung by a bee, and his face swelled up like a Chinese Sharpei, I couldn’t get him to listen to me until I spoke Chinese to him!!

He’s feeling better today, he ripped open a stuffed bear and pulled its stuffings out and spread it all over the living room.

Between our grandson and dog, it looks like a hurricane hit our home.

But grandsons are great, I think we need more. I don’t know why they don’t listen

Hello!!!   This is Grandpa!!!!   Hello!!!!

Well once again, the Obama nightmare continues as he signed an agreement July 6th, to allow Mexican trucks to cross into America to take freight out of the American truckers pocketbook.

This Anti-American regime that has its grip on the White House continues to destroy our economy and American truckers  future

I find it very interesting that Obama signs a bill in secrecy to open the border to Mexican trucks and at the same time making the requirements much stricter for American truckers to keep their CDL. Right now I probably will lose mine in March because of my blood pressure.

Don’t tell me theres not a plan by this administration that undermines our jobs.

Its so sad to see the destruction that is going on by people who call themselves Americans that we (and I use that lightly) voted into office. I’ve never voted for a democrat so you can’t blame me!!!

But the sad facts are, the republicans are no better, they’ve had no backbone to stand up for whats right and for the American people, I’m starting to think its time to go Libertarian.

There was some good people voted in at the last election, but we’ll have to wait and see if these new freshman republicans will have a backbone or not.

But the question is, after another 2 years, will there be anything left to save?

The Obama cult has gotten control of health, banking, and now transportation and business.

I guess all thats left is our allegiance to the new regime.

Not me.  Never. I’ll stay with the Lord Jesus Christ (the one who Campus Crusade for Christ finds offensive) my Savior and I’ll never go to Satans followers.

All of us at one time or another has misplaced some pretty important things over the yrs.

Our daughter after just getting married with-in a few wks, lost their marriage license

I wonder what the person thought who got the request for a copy at the court?

Some yrs ago in Maryland, the city took over a new jail in Baltimore and lost 114 inmates

They were there, just misplaced, one guy spent 18 months behind bars for simple arson, but had never been charged

An artist in 1931 named Henry Matisse, in France did a painting, rolled up the canvas and forgot where he put it

60 yrs later after his son Pierre died, his relatives were cleaning out an old warehouse and found that rolled up painting

which was worth $200,000

Every now and then, all of us misplace some important things like our wallets, our keys, our wives

most of the time we lose things because we are neglectful, we’re not paying attention

it even happened to the old testament, one time it was misplaced or lost due to neglect

• yr was 638 BC, a child of age 8 took the throne of Judah but it wasn’t until the age of 26 that King Josiah made his first independent decision

He ordered the rebuilding of Gods temple, it had been neglected and was falling apart

No one was worshiping, no one was praying, no one was calling for Gods help,

they had turned away from God yrs before and God had been forgotten

there were 2 kings before Josiah, Manasseh who is known as the most evil king that ever lived in history,

had led Israel away from God to the point that God was never mentioned

but then after his capture by the Assyrians, it took him to be brutally tortured before he cried out to God

God was good to him and restored him to Judah and he tried to turn his people back to God, but it was too late, they had lived too long without God

then Amon became king, only lasted 2 yrs, he was corrupt & evil and was assassinated

Then the people were ticked off at the people who killed Amon & so they killed off everyone who was involved and made Amons son Josiah king at 8 yrs old

II Chr. 34:3

in his 8^th yr as king, he is now 16 he began to seek after God

something stirred in this boys heart, I think he looked at his father & grandpa & thought look at how horrible everything is because of how evil they were

apparently, there was someone around him that hadn’t forgotten God & told Josiah about him because it says he began to seek after him

which means he began to ask questions & wanted answers

Vs3 again

in his 12^th yr of reign, he was now 20 yrs old he had increased with enough knowledge to know that all of the idols were false and an offense to God & he began to remove them

vs;8

in the 18^th yr of his reign, he then began to rebuild the temple at age 26

He called the masons & the carpenters to go & buy what they needed so they could repair the temple and begin to worship once again

Josiah realized that his country had neglected their God

actually, Josiah wasn’t even sure if this is what God wanted him to do, God never spoke to him

this is a great step of faith, sometimes we have to go ahead & try to do something for God even if we’re not sure if its something that he wants

but just like any building programs, there are times when the work has to stop because unexpected things come up

Vs:14-19

as the workers begin repairing the temple they make a once in a lifetime discovery

something very important had been lost through neglect, something bigger than prisoners, or a wallet, or even a painting

they found the law, the last known copy, had been lost, but through this rebuilding it was discovered

proof that God wanted this rebuilding even if Josiah wasn’t told

When Gods Word is lost the results are devastating

without Gods Word, we have no guidelines for life

without scripture, how do we pretend to know how to live?

A builder would never begin to build a house if he didn’t have a tape measure & a square

how would you ever get a wall to stand straight and line up with the other walls?

Same is true about the bible, its valuable because it tells us how to live our lives

without the bible, how do we know what is wrong or what is right?

What does God expect from us? What is his desires?

II Kings 22: 10-11

Josiah and his people had lived without Gods law, and when it was read, it says that he tore his clothes

why?

Because they realized without Gods guide, they had missed the mark, they had wandered far off from a relationship with God

they had wandered so far, that they didn’t even know him

Gods Word is our guide by which we measure our lives, it tells us which way to go, which way to walk

ps 119: 105

If you have ever gone camping & have to go get something out of the car after its dark, you want a flashlight so you can see where your feet are

Thats what Gods word does for us, it tells us what our next step is as we walk in a dark world

This is 4^th of July, Independence Day, the day in 1776 that we won our independence from Great Britain & began to rule ourselves

Can America, which began by being dependent on God, live without God?

For yrs, America has pushed to become independent FROM God & I believe our battle for independence began yrs ago but defined itself in 1973

Matt. 18: 1-7

In 1973 our country offended God, by passing into law the killing of children

We neglected the Word of God & we have been neglecting it ever since

you can chart our history back to that year, and from that point, our nation began to change

things began to come out of the dark, out of the closet & out of the sewer

I want you to understand something, right now America is guilty of neglecting Gods Word

But when this country passes a law to legalize homosexual marriage, and it will become the law of the land, I’m convinced of it

Its just a matter of time, and when it does happen, that is when the Word of God will be lost completely

And when its legalized, this church & every church that opposes Homosexual marriage will be closed down because we will be in violation of the law

Since America has neglected Gods Word, we are lost in a sea of subjectivity

without Gods word guiding us, there is no absolute truth, nothing that is true for all people for all times

instead we’re surrounded by everyones opinions & feelings

what we have is everybody trying to find their own truth thats right for them

can people decide to behave in a reasonable way with each other without Gods word?

Let me read you some headlines from reasonable people behaving with others:

Judge orders pro-life billboard torn down

2 terror suspects planned grenade attack on Seattle recruiting station

N.y Times, CNN & CBS ride along with anti Israel Gaza Float

Congresswoman Woolsey chants anti Israel slogans and is proud of anti-Israel activist

Jon Stewart mocks black conservative Herman Cain

Exhibit shows – virgin Mary in a bikini

Chris Matthews says Rush Limbaugh & Glen Beck are evil liars for denying climate change

Rolling Stone attacks Michelle Bachmans faith for being a crazed Jesus lunatic

California mom arrested for killing her baby in a microwave

Al Gore tells women to have less children to curb pollution

MSNBC: Christians are the reason why there is racism and hatred in the world

Clergy defy churches stand against gay marriage

Illinois clergy promote gay relationships

NYC passes gay marriage

Yes, people can live reasonably with other people without the Word of God

& if you believe that, I got swamp water that heals cancer for sale

Without Gods word there is no meaning to life

Gods book answers the questions of where we’re from, why we’re here and where we’re going

suicides, drug over doses, gang deaths, drug & alcohol abuse, sexual perversion. Depression, never goes down, but continually goes up

as people believe theres no future, no meaning to life

without a relationship with Christ, to be honest, there is no meaning to life, just a future to spend eternity in hell

with Gods Word, life becomes precious, wonderful, and a joy about the future

in Judah, there had been no scripture for 75 yrs and the Israelites had slid into idolatry & paganism

• scriptures had been neglected, to the point that no one even knew where a copy was or even cared, - temple had been neglected, no one worshiped the living God

but because Josiah saw the evilness around him and in his country, without the Word of God

people and their country will continue to grow more evil

Jn. 3: 19-21

Josiah hated how evil his country had become & believed there had to be a better way to live & he wanted to know God

you see, sometimes the darker a place gets the more light people will seek

& Judah had become so dark, so wicked, that Josiah needed the light

and as they began to rebuild the temple, they began to clean & lo & behold, the scriptures are found

• light had come back to Judah

America is neglecting Gods Word, just as Israel did, and if this country doesn’t pick it back up, it will be lost

can man live without God? Perhaps we’re on the verge of finding out

But according to Gods Word, man cannot live without Gods Word, we will destroy ourselves

I fear for the future of our country, we were once the home of the free and the brave

but that is quickly becoming lost

America has to stop neglecting the Word of God before its lost

I saw on the news tonight about how there are some who identify themselves as Gay Christians and how upset they are that other Christians continue to judge them and won’t love and accept them.

Its not “other Christians” who are judging them, its God who judges them. This was the one sinful lifestyle that does bring his judgment.

God Word (bible that he wrote) that being homosexual and a Christian are in-compatible, its just like those who claim to be a Christian and support abortion or candidates that support abortion, its in-compatible.

How can one claim to be a homosexual or support abortion when God says those who do such things or support them are condemned? Romans 1

True Christians do not hate homosexuals or those who have or commit abortion, (this is a label given to us by those who hate the truth)

I actually feel sorry for them and pray that they will come to the knowledge through conviction of the Holy Spirit that they are in sin and need to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. I know that Satan is blinding them to Gods truth, and they need to see through his lies and accept the truth.

God loved all sinners and died for all of us so that we can accept his gift of salvation and go to heaven someday.

I know this is hard for many to accept, they have been so fooled by the sin of this world that what they do is acceptable to God, but its not.

To be a Christian, means to be like Christ who would not be someone or do something that he condemns, and accept the fact that we are all sinners who can be saved by the grace of God if we will admit that we are sinners and need Christ.

I was never a homosexual nor have I ever aborted (murdered anyone) but I was just as bad off as if I had because I was dead in my sin and needed a Savior who I accepted when I was 8, and I thank God for saving me.

When I heard that the rapture was going to take place this past Saturday, I was so relieved, I’m tired.  Tired of working, getting up everyday at 5 a.m., tired of dieting, tired of trying to figure out what I can or can’t eat, tired of everything on my body aching, tired, tired of not sleeping, tired of being tired.

But I knew it wasn’t going to happen anyways because God told us in Matt 24 that when someone says theres Jesus or Here comes Jesus not to believe it and do not be deceived that no MAN,  NO MAN knows what day or hour Jesus will return.

So when these self proclaimed prophets come up with these ideas, reject them,  its the same old thing when these televangelist say that they can heal and raise people from the dead, reject them, their false prophets.

This rapture prophecy has caused on one hand making Christians look like a bunch of brain dead idiots, but on the other hand, I think its caused people to talk about it and perhaps wonder, what if its true?

We know scripture does say that theres going to come a day when Jesus will take true believers in Jesus Christ out of this world and then for the next 7 years he (Jesus) will pour out his wrath & judgment on all unbelievers who are on the earth.

So therefore, we need to be ready because Jesus will come as a thief in the night, no one will know when it will happen.

The unsaved right now are having a hay-day mocking us Christians and our belief in the rapture, but the fact is. its going to happen and the way its going, I wouldn’t wait to see whats going to happen, I’d accept Christ today before it is too late.

This world has stuck its puny fist in the face of God long enough, and I’m sure, he thinks so too.