Pray for me, it looks like I am going to start takeing some classes online. I have prayed hard and have done some research on many online type bible colleges and narrowed it down to two.
This week I decided to take the plunge and after council from my pastor it looks like Its going to be Southern Indian Baptist College that I looked at several times over the years. Then I met Bro N. online and after talking to him some and more prayer it looks like it is a go.
Here is the kicker, as soon as I made that decision, I had a finantial hit, so the money I saved up has to go pay some bills, but the application is ready and after I get paid This Tuesday, it will be in the mail bills or not.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
How Do You Know For Sure
This is something that's been troubling me for several months now.
Who can you tell the difference between the call of God and Frustation with your current job?
Last year was a tough year finantialy at work and in my own personal finances because of that. Things were more confratational with on of my employers and my church activities.
So lately (in the past few months) I have been distracted at work. I haven't wanted to be there as much as I used to be.
I used to love what I did and now don't.
Since I have been young I have have several dreams of me preaching, I have had sermons pop in my head while driving or doing activities, it wasn't until the last year or so I have started to write them down and share them with anyone else other than myself.
So is my disctraction and lack of motivation twards my job God telling me something or is it just me being down about the job.
I don't know?
Who can you tell the difference between the call of God and Frustation with your current job?
Last year was a tough year finantialy at work and in my own personal finances because of that. Things were more confratational with on of my employers and my church activities.
So lately (in the past few months) I have been distracted at work. I haven't wanted to be there as much as I used to be.
I used to love what I did and now don't.
Since I have been young I have have several dreams of me preaching, I have had sermons pop in my head while driving or doing activities, it wasn't until the last year or so I have started to write them down and share them with anyone else other than myself.
So is my disctraction and lack of motivation twards my job God telling me something or is it just me being down about the job.
I don't know?
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Salvation Pain and Simple
If you were honest with me this morning and you couldn’t say you knew for sure if you were going to heaven I invite you to ask him this morning. I won’t embaris you at all
First
Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." (John 14:6)
Good works cannot save you.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Trust Jesus Christ today! Here's what you must do:
1. Admit you are a sinner.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans 3:23)
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" (Romans 5:12)
"If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." (1 John 1:10)
2. Be willing to turn from sin (repent).
Jesus said: "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:5)
"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" (Acts 17:30)
3. Believe that Jesus Christ died for you, was buried, and rose from the dead.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10:9)
4. Through prayer, invite Jesus into your life to become your personal Saviour.
"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:10)
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13)
What to pray:
Dear God, I am a sinner and need forgiveness. I believe that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood and died for my sin. I am willing to turn from sin. I now invite Christ to come into my heart and life as my personal Saviour.
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" (John 1:12)
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
First
Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." (John 14:6)
Good works cannot save you.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Trust Jesus Christ today! Here's what you must do:
1. Admit you are a sinner.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans 3:23)
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:" (Romans 5:12)
"If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." (1 John 1:10)
2. Be willing to turn from sin (repent).
Jesus said: "I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:5)
"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:" (Acts 17:30)
3. Believe that Jesus Christ died for you, was buried, and rose from the dead.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Romans 10:9)
4. Through prayer, invite Jesus into your life to become your personal Saviour.
"For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Romans 10:10)
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Romans 10:13)
What to pray:
Dear God, I am a sinner and need forgiveness. I believe that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood and died for my sin. I am willing to turn from sin. I now invite Christ to come into my heart and life as my personal Saviour.
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:" (John 1:12)
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Unconditional Love
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross a long time and well know counceler on grief was interviewed in a magazine in 1991,
In this article she reflects back to a time she visited a consentration camp at Maidnek
She thought It would help her undersant how victims of the holocaust had suffered and how people could be capable of such hatred and cruelty.
She way the gas changers and crematoriums
She way railroad cars filled with baby shoes of murdered childrend and filled with hair shaved from women on their way to the cambers and used to make coats for the Germans.
As she surveyed the places where such unimagable horrors had taking place she noticed a beautiful you woman there
And she was staring right at Ross
Filally she went up to her and interdicted themselves, and she told her her that her name was Golda.
She was a German or and Jewish.
Golda told Ross that her father had been taken by the Gestapo and never saw him again.
Then her mother and the rest of the family was deported to Maidanek and herded into a gas chamber.
Golda was the last one in the chamber.
But there was so many in the chamber they couln’t shut the door. So they bulled her out and proceeded to slam the steel door shut.
SHE WAS THE SOLE SURVIVOR.
Golda said she was one of the first liberated from the concentration camp.
At that time she wanted to get sweet revenge on the one’s who had killed so many of her people and her Family
Then it struck her that If she got revenge she would be no better than HITLER himself.
So She was there, until she could forgive the one’s that caused her so much pain.
She had learned a lesson that day of unconditional love.
Love with no expectations, no hooks, no strings attached.
We can make all our choices in life built on love or fear.
How many today would be able to have the uncondional love to forgive someone who has wronged you.
In society today this love is not common.
We must always get the person back
We must Hold on to the wrong that was done to us until it eats us up.
Even though it is no excuse, Hitler never had unconditional love as a child, and he never had an outlet for his rage.
Some of you today might belive that no one loves you unconditionally
First you must love someone in that way to release yourself.
In our text verse we see uncondiontional LOVE.
• We neglect telling others about Christ
• We live our lives for us instead of Christ
• We poison our bodies with alcohol
• We burn our lungs with cigarettes
• We force the Holy Spirit who dwells in us to watch filth on TV
• We rob him of our gifts that he has given us
• We Steal from him in our tithes
• And we bicker behind his under shepherds back (Your Pastor)
I have a hard time understanding this uncontional love
- MY TESTMONEY
Abraham loved God so unconditionally that he was willing to sacrifice his beloved son to him.
If you were to put a holocost survivor and Hitler in the same room, I wouldn’t stop for fault them from squeezing the life out of his neck until he was to face jugement.
But does that make you any better than the one who has wronged you.
Jesus left a perfect place in heaven, took human form
He ate
He got tired
He had heartbrake
He was beat until his flesh was raw
His beard was ripped out
He had nails drove into his hands
Then was hung on a cross for all to mock.
But even then the said: Father Forgive Them
How often have you prayed for you worst enemy
When was the last time you prayed for that gossip that ruended your reputation
When was the last time you prayed for that one that might have stolen from you
When was the last time you prayed for the polatition you might not agree with
It is not good enough to just pray for them though
You must forgive like we were forgiven
Co 2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
Forgiveness shows unconditional love.
Uncontional means that there may be no response.
Uncondiotnal love means we must love, even then they might mock you.
Uncondtional love means that even when you are being wronged you don’t respond with hate or with anything else but LOVE.
I an thankfull today for Gods UNCONDTIONAL LOVE.
In my life I have turned my back from God.
I have used his name in vain
I haven’t loved some like I should.
In order to start your path to unconditional love you first must forgive
• TRULY FORGIVE
• Read God’s Word
• Pray for the one who wrongs you
And never take you eyes off Jesus.
Later on in the article that I read at the beginning of this message, Golda states that if we love our children uncondionally we could change the word
I firmly believe that
We need to love our children Uncondionally
We Need to love our church members unconditionally
We need to love our pastor unconditionally
But most of all we need to love Jesus UNCONDITIONALLY LOVE Jesus.
Then you will feel that weight lifted off you shoulders.
I encourage you today to show you love to your friends,
Your enemies
Your families
Forgive them, Love then and be thankful for them.
You might as how can I start Loving Uncondionally
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross a long time and well know counceler on grief was interviewed in a magazine in 1991,
In this article she reflects back to a time she visited a consentration camp at Maidnek
She thought It would help her undersant how victims of the holocaust had suffered and how people could be capable of such hatred and cruelty.
She way the gas changers and crematoriums
She way railroad cars filled with baby shoes of murdered childrend and filled with hair shaved from women on their way to the cambers and used to make coats for the Germans.
As she surveyed the places where such unimagable horrors had taking place she noticed a beautiful you woman there
And she was staring right at Ross
Filally she went up to her and interdicted themselves, and she told her her that her name was Golda.
She was a German or and Jewish.
Golda told Ross that her father had been taken by the Gestapo and never saw him again.
Then her mother and the rest of the family was deported to Maidanek and herded into a gas chamber.
Golda was the last one in the chamber.
But there was so many in the chamber they couln’t shut the door. So they bulled her out and proceeded to slam the steel door shut.
SHE WAS THE SOLE SURVIVOR.
Golda said she was one of the first liberated from the concentration camp.
At that time she wanted to get sweet revenge on the one’s who had killed so many of her people and her Family
Then it struck her that If she got revenge she would be no better than HITLER himself.
So She was there, until she could forgive the one’s that caused her so much pain.
She had learned a lesson that day of unconditional love.
Love with no expectations, no hooks, no strings attached.
We can make all our choices in life built on love or fear.
How many today would be able to have the uncondional love to forgive someone who has wronged you.
In society today this love is not common.
We must always get the person back
We must Hold on to the wrong that was done to us until it eats us up.
Even though it is no excuse, Hitler never had unconditional love as a child, and he never had an outlet for his rage.
Some of you today might belive that no one loves you unconditionally
First you must love someone in that way to release yourself.
In our text verse we see uncondiontional LOVE.
• We neglect telling others about Christ
• We live our lives for us instead of Christ
• We poison our bodies with alcohol
• We burn our lungs with cigarettes
• We force the Holy Spirit who dwells in us to watch filth on TV
• We rob him of our gifts that he has given us
• We Steal from him in our tithes
• And we bicker behind his under shepherds back (Your Pastor)
I have a hard time understanding this uncontional love
- MY TESTMONEY
Abraham loved God so unconditionally that he was willing to sacrifice his beloved son to him.
If you were to put a holocost survivor and Hitler in the same room, I wouldn’t stop for fault them from squeezing the life out of his neck until he was to face jugement.
But does that make you any better than the one who has wronged you.
Jesus left a perfect place in heaven, took human form
He ate
He got tired
He had heartbrake
He was beat until his flesh was raw
His beard was ripped out
He had nails drove into his hands
Then was hung on a cross for all to mock.
But even then the said: Father Forgive Them
How often have you prayed for you worst enemy
When was the last time you prayed for that gossip that ruended your reputation
When was the last time you prayed for that one that might have stolen from you
When was the last time you prayed for the polatition you might not agree with
It is not good enough to just pray for them though
You must forgive like we were forgiven
Co 2:7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
Forgiveness shows unconditional love.
Uncontional means that there may be no response.
Uncondiotnal love means we must love, even then they might mock you.
Uncondtional love means that even when you are being wronged you don’t respond with hate or with anything else but LOVE.
I an thankfull today for Gods UNCONDTIONAL LOVE.
In my life I have turned my back from God.
I have used his name in vain
I haven’t loved some like I should.
In order to start your path to unconditional love you first must forgive
• TRULY FORGIVE
• Read God’s Word
• Pray for the one who wrongs you
And never take you eyes off Jesus.
Later on in the article that I read at the beginning of this message, Golda states that if we love our children uncondionally we could change the word
I firmly believe that
We need to love our children Uncondionally
We Need to love our church members unconditionally
We need to love our pastor unconditionally
But most of all we need to love Jesus UNCONDITIONALLY LOVE Jesus.
Then you will feel that weight lifted off you shoulders.
I encourage you today to show you love to your friends,
Your enemies
Your families
Forgive them, Love then and be thankful for them.
You might as how can I start Loving Uncondionally
Step Up, Step Back or Step Aside
Pray
STEP UP, STEP BACK OR STEP ASIDE
2Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Mat 14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
Mat 14:30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Mat 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Step Up – Matthew
• Drawing closer to God
• Doing more for God
• Giving up worldly things
As you step closer to God “The Light” your shadow of influence will Grow.
Mar 14:67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
Mar 14:68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
Step Back – Mark
• Giving up what you have done
• Not being faithful you bible reading
• Not being faithful to church
• Giving up ministries
Consequences of Stepping back:
• Lords work getting done
• Younger Christians being discouraged
• The unsaved not getting reached
This gets you closer to the edge, where you can stumble
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease
John – Step Aside
• Stagnate Ministry
• Heart not in it
• Someone Better
• God calling you elsewhere
Most believe that they are stepping aside, when they are stepping back
John had to decease his numbers and himself, but he did not give up the ministry or preaching.
It’s not “lightning the load” it’s letting someone take over to pick up another ministry
It’s not losing you focus, just refocusing
You can’t be stagnate, just look at what happens to a pool of water that doesn’t move
You can’t live off past accomplishments
In physics you lean what is in motion says in motion unless acted on by an outside force are you that outside force, are you not where God wants you, are you standing in the way, are you giving up when you are supposed to be giving more
Are you and your family being a discouragement instead of an encouragement
I’ve learned the Christian life is a journey and you will get there if you are standing still or walking backwards, you must step up.
Jeff Owens Story of Donkey
So Where are you.
If you think you’re just stepping aside, take a closer look and see if it isn’t a step back, are you standing in the way of someone who can take a ministry to the next level or in this new year will you step up.
So you have the choice, Step up, Step Back, or Step aside.
PRAY
STEP UP, STEP BACK OR STEP ASIDE
2Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Mat 14:29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
Mat 14:30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Mat 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Step Up – Matthew
• Drawing closer to God
• Doing more for God
• Giving up worldly things
As you step closer to God “The Light” your shadow of influence will Grow.
Mar 14:67 And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.
Mar 14:68 But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
Step Back – Mark
• Giving up what you have done
• Not being faithful you bible reading
• Not being faithful to church
• Giving up ministries
Consequences of Stepping back:
• Lords work getting done
• Younger Christians being discouraged
• The unsaved not getting reached
This gets you closer to the edge, where you can stumble
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease
John – Step Aside
• Stagnate Ministry
• Heart not in it
• Someone Better
• God calling you elsewhere
Most believe that they are stepping aside, when they are stepping back
John had to decease his numbers and himself, but he did not give up the ministry or preaching.
It’s not “lightning the load” it’s letting someone take over to pick up another ministry
It’s not losing you focus, just refocusing
You can’t be stagnate, just look at what happens to a pool of water that doesn’t move
You can’t live off past accomplishments
In physics you lean what is in motion says in motion unless acted on by an outside force are you that outside force, are you not where God wants you, are you standing in the way, are you giving up when you are supposed to be giving more
Are you and your family being a discouragement instead of an encouragement
I’ve learned the Christian life is a journey and you will get there if you are standing still or walking backwards, you must step up.
Jeff Owens Story of Donkey
So Where are you.
If you think you’re just stepping aside, take a closer look and see if it isn’t a step back, are you standing in the way of someone who can take a ministry to the next level or in this new year will you step up.
So you have the choice, Step up, Step Back, or Step aside.
PRAY
Lest We Forget
Jeremiah 18:15
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
September 11, 2001, at 8:46 in the morning our world was changed, unless you have lived under a rock somewhere knows what I am talking about.
This day was like no other that we could remember, that day seemed to stand still. The roads were empty it even seemed like the birds had stopped singing, the emotions that were experienced, the tears that were shed, the overwhelming patriotism that was felt and the move to find the answers from God. IN GOD WE TRUST was said, people that have never attended church, stopped by their local church and sat in the back looking for answers. And many signs by the road said LEST WE FORGET.
September 11, 2007, at 8:46 in the morning I heard a brief dong and the radio and realized what it was for as I resumed working, there weren’t any big memorial services no ticker tape, just the politicians making photo ops and the world resumed its day. WE HAVE FORGOTTON
Although we may remember the emotions that we felt most of us have forgotten how they felt, the helplessness we felt on that day. All we could do was watch.
BUT WE HAVE forgotten!!
Three days after the 9/11 attacks, I received a call from my father, my mother was losing her the battle with cancer and I had better get home, the next morning was making funeral arrangements for my mother, EVELYN JANE PARISH, 52, was a loving a patient mother she never drank, she never smoked I never heard her speak ill of anyone. I sat making the arrangements at the funeral home trying to trying to make sense of everything that had happened between the great loss of life in NY and my mother, lying dead in the next room.
Three days after 9/11/07, I got to work, straiten up my desk and looked down at the calendar, Lest I HAD FORGOTTEN.
I had forgotten something that was the worst days of my life, I had gotten to busy and had forgotten, lest I Had Forgotten
Over 2000 years ago a man above all men the SON of God, came down from his perfect sinless life in heaven and became like his own creation, he ate, he got tired and most of all he hung on a cross, not deserving this punishment for our sins and how live our lives WE HAVE FORGOTTON.
Do you remember when you got saved, I mean the moment that you truly accepted Christ, at that moment we were forgiven and clean. Lest We Forget
• We neglect telling all about Christ
• We live our lives for us instead of Christ
• We poison our bodies with alcohol and burn our lungs with cigarettes
• We force the Holy Spirit who dwells in us to watch filth on TV
• We forget our roles in church
• We rob him of our gifts that he has given us
• We Steal from him in our tithes
• And we bicker behind his under shepherds back (Your Pastor)
Why do you think Jesus instituted the Lords Supper??
What does he say after every Verse, Do this in remembrance of ME.?
Because he has infinite wisdom and of our finite minds. Lest we forget we are the creation.
HE IS THE CREATOR!!
We try to hide our sins from an all knowing GOD. And insult him by trying
In Revelation Chapter 1 Verse 8 John records, I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the ending. Have we forgotten in our generation that he was before anything and when it is all gone he will still be here? LEST WE FORGET what he has done for us?
• He saves our souls
• Blesses us with life
• Give us children to love
• Houses to live in
• Food to eat
• Cars to drive
• And Gives us Stewarts chocolate peanut butter ice cream
He have forgotten that God left heaven to be as his creation, born of a women, having to grow, feel physical pain, he defiled himself, to give us a way to heaven.
He didn’t have to do this, he knew how we would be, YET HE LOVED US THIS MUCH.
Lest we forget the faithful that have came before us
• Billy Sunday
• Christmas Evans
• Dwight Moody
• Charles Finney
Lest we forget the one’s that led them to Christ, inspired them and held them up during the tough times.
Lest We forget
• God doesn't require a job interview.
• He doesn't hire and fire like most bosses,
• because He's more our Dad than our Boss.
• He doesn't look at financial gain or loss.
• He's not prejudiced or partial, not judging, grudging,
• sassy, or brassy, not deaf to our cry, not blind to our need
In the year 1847, a doctor from Edinburgh, Sir James Simpson, discovered that chloroform could be used as an anesthetic to render people insensible to the pain of surgery. From his early experiments, Dr. Simpson made it possible for people to go through the most dangerous operations without fear of pain and suffering. Some people even claim that his was one of the most significant discoveries of modern medicine.
Some years later, while lecturing at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Simpson was asked by one of his students, "What do you consider to be the most valuable discovery of your lifetime?" To the surprise of his students, who had expected him to refer to chloroform, Dr. Simpson replied, "My most valuable discovery was when I discovered myself a sinner and that Jesus Christ was my Savior."
LEST WE FORGET FOR WHOM WE SERVE and gives us everything. And without him we are nothing.
May 15, 2008 shortly after attending revival services in Hudson Falls a pastor gets a phone call on his cell phone.
In shock from what he has heard and in pain from a recent surgery he turns around and asks for a ride Back to his church it was on fire.
The man driving this pastors late model Taurus with bad brakes he witnesses a pastor at the same age as him, not worried about himself, but his congregation and his community.
There is prayer, conversation and some odd jokes between these men as they slowly transverse the web of firemen, trucks and hoses to witness what was left.
Several members of this congregation stand in solidarity and in awe of what they see.
I tell you church member Thou are Victory Bible Baptist Church and upon this rock HIS church will stand, and the gates of HELL will not prevail against it
Lest you forget
* what you saw
* how you felt
* how you feel when you see that building
That image, those feelings will assist you to never forget that God is always here, he has a plan for this church building, this area, your pastor and his family. LEST YOU FORGET
"THE PATH OF MAN IS TOO DARK, THE CROSS OF CHRIST IS TOO GLORIOUS AND THE HEART OF GOD IS TOO GRIEVED, FOR US TO FORGET NOW."
LET’S PRAY!!
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
September 11, 2001, at 8:46 in the morning our world was changed, unless you have lived under a rock somewhere knows what I am talking about.
This day was like no other that we could remember, that day seemed to stand still. The roads were empty it even seemed like the birds had stopped singing, the emotions that were experienced, the tears that were shed, the overwhelming patriotism that was felt and the move to find the answers from God. IN GOD WE TRUST was said, people that have never attended church, stopped by their local church and sat in the back looking for answers. And many signs by the road said LEST WE FORGET.
September 11, 2007, at 8:46 in the morning I heard a brief dong and the radio and realized what it was for as I resumed working, there weren’t any big memorial services no ticker tape, just the politicians making photo ops and the world resumed its day. WE HAVE FORGOTTON
Although we may remember the emotions that we felt most of us have forgotten how they felt, the helplessness we felt on that day. All we could do was watch.
BUT WE HAVE forgotten!!
Three days after the 9/11 attacks, I received a call from my father, my mother was losing her the battle with cancer and I had better get home, the next morning was making funeral arrangements for my mother, EVELYN JANE PARISH, 52, was a loving a patient mother she never drank, she never smoked I never heard her speak ill of anyone. I sat making the arrangements at the funeral home trying to trying to make sense of everything that had happened between the great loss of life in NY and my mother, lying dead in the next room.
Three days after 9/11/07, I got to work, straiten up my desk and looked down at the calendar, Lest I HAD FORGOTTEN.
I had forgotten something that was the worst days of my life, I had gotten to busy and had forgotten, lest I Had Forgotten
Over 2000 years ago a man above all men the SON of God, came down from his perfect sinless life in heaven and became like his own creation, he ate, he got tired and most of all he hung on a cross, not deserving this punishment for our sins and how live our lives WE HAVE FORGOTTON.
Do you remember when you got saved, I mean the moment that you truly accepted Christ, at that moment we were forgiven and clean. Lest We Forget
• We neglect telling all about Christ
• We live our lives for us instead of Christ
• We poison our bodies with alcohol and burn our lungs with cigarettes
• We force the Holy Spirit who dwells in us to watch filth on TV
• We forget our roles in church
• We rob him of our gifts that he has given us
• We Steal from him in our tithes
• And we bicker behind his under shepherds back (Your Pastor)
Why do you think Jesus instituted the Lords Supper??
What does he say after every Verse, Do this in remembrance of ME.?
Because he has infinite wisdom and of our finite minds. Lest we forget we are the creation.
HE IS THE CREATOR!!
We try to hide our sins from an all knowing GOD. And insult him by trying
In Revelation Chapter 1 Verse 8 John records, I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the ending. Have we forgotten in our generation that he was before anything and when it is all gone he will still be here? LEST WE FORGET what he has done for us?
• He saves our souls
• Blesses us with life
• Give us children to love
• Houses to live in
• Food to eat
• Cars to drive
• And Gives us Stewarts chocolate peanut butter ice cream
He have forgotten that God left heaven to be as his creation, born of a women, having to grow, feel physical pain, he defiled himself, to give us a way to heaven.
He didn’t have to do this, he knew how we would be, YET HE LOVED US THIS MUCH.
Lest we forget the faithful that have came before us
• Billy Sunday
• Christmas Evans
• Dwight Moody
• Charles Finney
Lest we forget the one’s that led them to Christ, inspired them and held them up during the tough times.
Lest We forget
• God doesn't require a job interview.
• He doesn't hire and fire like most bosses,
• because He's more our Dad than our Boss.
• He doesn't look at financial gain or loss.
• He's not prejudiced or partial, not judging, grudging,
• sassy, or brassy, not deaf to our cry, not blind to our need
In the year 1847, a doctor from Edinburgh, Sir James Simpson, discovered that chloroform could be used as an anesthetic to render people insensible to the pain of surgery. From his early experiments, Dr. Simpson made it possible for people to go through the most dangerous operations without fear of pain and suffering. Some people even claim that his was one of the most significant discoveries of modern medicine.
Some years later, while lecturing at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Simpson was asked by one of his students, "What do you consider to be the most valuable discovery of your lifetime?" To the surprise of his students, who had expected him to refer to chloroform, Dr. Simpson replied, "My most valuable discovery was when I discovered myself a sinner and that Jesus Christ was my Savior."
LEST WE FORGET FOR WHOM WE SERVE and gives us everything. And without him we are nothing.
May 15, 2008 shortly after attending revival services in Hudson Falls a pastor gets a phone call on his cell phone.
In shock from what he has heard and in pain from a recent surgery he turns around and asks for a ride Back to his church it was on fire.
The man driving this pastors late model Taurus with bad brakes he witnesses a pastor at the same age as him, not worried about himself, but his congregation and his community.
There is prayer, conversation and some odd jokes between these men as they slowly transverse the web of firemen, trucks and hoses to witness what was left.
Several members of this congregation stand in solidarity and in awe of what they see.
I tell you church member Thou are Victory Bible Baptist Church and upon this rock HIS church will stand, and the gates of HELL will not prevail against it
Lest you forget
* what you saw
* how you felt
* how you feel when you see that building
That image, those feelings will assist you to never forget that God is always here, he has a plan for this church building, this area, your pastor and his family. LEST YOU FORGET
"THE PATH OF MAN IS TOO DARK, THE CROSS OF CHRIST IS TOO GLORIOUS AND THE HEART OF GOD IS TOO GRIEVED, FOR US TO FORGET NOW."
LET’S PRAY!!
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