September 30, 2010 Listening to God 4

"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me."

Good Rainy Thursday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Yes, it is raining here at the Southern Location of the North Pole, and if it were snow, we would need to jump up to spit!! (How about that?)

Reminder, Communion online tomorrow morning. This Sunday is World Wide Communion Sunday and we are going to serve communion tomorrow. It is always special to me, and I pray it is to you also. Do you believe that September is over already? Where has the time gone since we got out of high school? Seems like when sitting in home room in the afternoon for those final five minutes of the day it would just not pass, but since that last day of school, the clock went into high gear.

Thursday and the day we pray for Families and Schools... today please center your school prayers on Saint Patrick's School in Carlisle, Pa., and for the healing of their students that were on board the bus that crashed in Washington yesterday. Please also pray for the family of Joseph Clabaugh, driver of the bus who died in the crash. The bus was a charter bus from Wolf Bus Lines in York Springs, Pa. I want to say here that in MY OPINION, Wolf bus company owned by Brad Wolf and E and B School Buses owned by his Brother Ed Wolf and his wife Vicky are the best in the business... Wolfs are very, very good, and in fact my dear wife and I entrust Ed Wolf and his mechanics to take care of our North Poles Santa Buses. Please, folks, if you are planning a bus outing don't let this turn you away from Wolfs. They are indeed the best of the best in travel. The investigation might just turn up that this was indeed a medical problem with the driver. Pray please for all involved.

Also prayers are still needed for Vicki. When a nurse changed her dressings she put on the wrong kind of tape and when Vicki removed it, off came her skin. Ouch!

Listening to God 4: Luke 10:16 - "He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me." (NIV) (Words of Jesus)

Luke 10:1 - After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place where He was about to go. 2 He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among the wolves." (NIV)

Let me start out today by saying that we who love Jesus, we who are indeed Born Again, are the disciples of today. No longer are there eleven (12, less the one who turned on Jesus). No longer are there seventy-two. It is now up to us, all of us, and the rules are the same... "The Harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few." And we are still like lambs among the wolves for there are people out there that for sure are going to turn against us just as soon as we start talking about Jesus.

You do not need too look far to see that is going on. On this day we call schools day and families day we can see it in our schools, no praying out loud. Even if friends sit together to eat at lunch someone will surely complain if they hear them praying together for their food, or talking about Jesus. And even in families, and the Bible tells us that families will be divided. Nevertheless we go out and we speak up for Jesus and we tell others the good news as commanded by our Lord and recorded in Mark 16:15. We also need to learn from our Lord that there is a time when we must dust off our feet and move on.

Luke 10:9 - "Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.' 10 But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into the streets and say, 11 Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this; The kingdom of God is near . 21 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town." (NIV) (and again the words of our Lord Jesus)

Brothers and sisters, we need to listen to these words of our Lord and we do need to be out working in His fields of Harvest before it is too late. Last night on the news it showed farmers working hard and into the night bringing in the corn before the rains of today hit. They wanted to get it put up, the fields were ripe and the rains were coming... Just an example of this. The fields of Harvest are ripe for teaching about our Lord Jesus and we need to get it done fast, for brothers and sisters, the Lord is coming back, and although I am not wasting time even trying to figure out when, I mean even Jesus does not know, but I am not wasting time because we have work to do to tell the good news.

Let's look again at the main scripture that God gave me today.

Luke 10:16 - "He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me."

Look at the power that God gave to us, yes, to us, for again we are the disciples of today and since Jesus is the same today, well just look. When we are telling folks about Jesus and they reject us, then they are rejecting Him also. We will be told, this is not the place to talk about it, this is not church. This is a club or so many excuses and often it is one or two people who get that ball rolling. No different today than when a mother, using her son, brought schools to take prayer and Bible reading out of the schools. Then something strange happened, her son grew up and found the Lord. Again, if people reject us coming in the name of Jesus then they are rejecting Jesus and even the one who sent Him. Some will say we don't believe in Jesus, but do believe in God. Again if they reject us telling them about the good news of Jesus they are rejecting Jesus and God the Father. Also be aware of a person that will say this when you are talking to them about Jesus... "Yes, I believe in the man in the sky." Folks, if those people still think the man is in the sky, how can they be Born Again, because "The Man" must be living in your heart... AMEN.

Folks, over the past two weeks we talked about talking to God and listening to God, and they go hand in hand. We can also put this to work in our families, we should take time to talk to each other and also to listen to each other. Kids, talk and listen to your parents, and parents talk and listen to your children, even after they are grown up. And of course get your families together and talk about Jesus, and to Jesus, and teach them to listen to Him. TOMORROW, COMMUNION! Be here as we give our sins over to Jesus to be washed away... Tomorrow's lesson will be on the "Last Supper".

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for the rains of today, please, Lord, protect us from floods and protect our neighbor from basement flooding, Lord, they have rebuilt four times and each time put in more sump pumps. Help it all work today, Lord, they are good people. Lord, be with the Wolf families who operate both the charter buses and the school buses. Be with the family of the driver and also with those children who were injured. Lord, help all of us who are going to the fields of Harvest and protect us, and teach us when it is time to dust off our shoes and move on. Lord, sometimes it is hard to do as we want to see all people come to You. We do not want to give up on even one lost soul. I remember well, Lord, how I was the lost sheep and You took me back. Lord, be with Vicki and heal her, and please, Lord, look after the others on our List. Thanks, Lord, for listening to us, and now, Lord, help us to listen to You. Help us to repent and as we get ready for communion tomorrow, help us to look over our sins and give them to You and help us to repent... In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings and share the Love of Jesus (which is your best blessing) and know this today, Jesus really really loves you and so do I... I really do... love ya, Pastor Dan.

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