October 25, 2010 And The Rains Came

When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they married any of them they chose.

Good Monday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is a beautiful morning here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. In just three hours, at 4:00 AM, I will be pulling out from here to travel to the Antique Auto Club of America Museum just outside of Hershey Pa. Between the hours of 5.00 AM and 7.00 AM WGAL TV 8 out of Lancaster Pa, will be doing LIVE takes on the Museum's efforts of collecting food for Carry The Light Ministries. This is the fourth year that an antique pickup truck has been placed right inside the front doors of the museum for people to fill with food and new toys for our mission of feeding the hungry. Last year we emptied the truck FOUR times. I do not know if I will be on camera on not, but have been invited to be there. Please pray for this event, and remember that you may use this world class museum to drop off food, and while you are there you might just want to look around. There are cars set in period time, there is a very large model railroad, an old 40's style diner inside the museum and yes, antique buses. You can see a very rare Checker bus, made by the people who built those Checker Cabs, the bus from movie Forest Gump is there, oh, and on display right now is Betty White's old caddy. There are so many, and we are humbled to have their support again this year. Oh, and there are antique motorcycles also on display. Tickets for the museum are under 10 bucks and would make wonderful Christmas gifts for your loved ones.

Also Santa and Mrs. Claus will be there on the Friday after Thanksgiving in the afternoon, and since I never met a lot of you, COME ON DOWN! Now while that might seem like a big plug for the museum, and it was, but indeed they are working for the Lord and helping feed the hungry and that is just one reason why this museum is world class.

Monday and the day we pray for our leaders in Washington and for our veterans, military, police, firefighters, and all those working to keep us safe and healthy...

And The Rains Came (Day one): Genesis 6:1 - When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever for he is mortal, his days will be a hundred and twenty years. 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. There were the heroes of old, men of renown. (NIV)

As we see in these scriptures that men were increasing in number and up to that time man was living a long, long time. Adam made more children after Cain and Able and in fact lived 800 years after Seth was born and he fathered other sons and daughters, and died at the age of 930. Others also lived those long lives, and if you would take time to read Genesis Chapter 5 you would find out some of these ages. I mean, some of these folks were near a thousand years old, almost as old as Duane Nicholson (just kidding Duane).

Now we see that the daughters of men were beautiful and the men saw this and they married any of them they chose. This made the Lord somewhat angry and He said His spirit will not contend with man forever for he is mortal. And God set their age at one hundred and twenty. And please note today, have you heard of anyone over the age of 120, I have not. The Nephilim's were there and Nephilim means men of great size and strength and they were heroes of old, men of renown. But God saw that they were sinners, or fallen ones. Now I want to point out some of the same things today. I think it amazing just how a lot of things are still the same, including the same old sins. It seems that today a lot of men and even women make heroes out of those who sin. Sports figures come to my mind in a hurry. Let's look at a few of them... How about the juice, while all of us who watched the trial think that man was guilty of murder, he walked and some to this day think he is a hero. And there is the Tiger, old Tiger Woods, who is back on the golf course and in the limelight each time he plays. Now I could name more and more of them, but you get the idea, and folks, I could name a few in Washington. And while all of us are sinners and only saved by the grace of God, and folks, so will those I named be saved if they come to Jesus, but all of us have sinned, but the difference is that some are ashamed of their sins, while others seem to be made heroes. I know that for me, I am ashamed of my sins and very unworthy of God cleaning me up, but so thankful He did. I pray that all of you as you look back over your life, will not try and be a hero from your sins. Learn from your sins and give them to God, and again I tell you this, after you have given them to God, do not, I say, do not let man hold them against you. If they try, take time to inform them that God cleared you of those sins.

Enough for this day, my dear brothers and sisters, but coming up this week we are going to help build a boat, we are going to take a look at those who God respected most. And what happened to all the sinners of the world back then and we continue with "And The Rains Came".

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for another day of life, and thanks for the wonderful folks at the Museum for helping us collect the food, and thanks for all those who work to fill that truck and all the food carts placed in different businesses and churches. Thanks, Lord, for Pastor Larry Hale and his flock who are filling a food cart for us, while they have their own food panty at their church, bless them, Lord. I pray today, Lord, for our leaders in Washington and around the country, and Lord, with the elections coming I pray that each time they tell a lie, they remember we must pay for them later when we come to You. Lord, bless them and help us to elect those who most walk with You. And speaking of walking with You, Lord, help all of us on this line, regardless of our ills and ailments, walk with You daily. Bless my dear brother and sister, Ron and Donna, as they indeed walk with you, and also Tom and Kathleen as they walk with you as these couples struggle with cancer in the family. Lord, please watch over our veterans and help people remember that we have wounded veterans who are in the hospital from WW2 and we have them there who are 18 years of age. Lord, sometimes we forget those young men and women who are giving limbs and other body parts for us to be free. And Lord, bless the families of those who gave it all. Lord, bless the others on our prayer list today and Lord, help me represent You well if they put me on camera today, give me the right words to say. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Go forth now, caring for others and sharing your blessings... Love Ya, Pastor Dan.

Carry The Light Ministries Inc.
16 Dewalt Drive
Mechanicsburg, Pa. 17050
Phones 717 691 8200 and my cell 717 991 0754