Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive us of our sins, please, Lord, forgive me of my sins, help us this day to walk with You and to talk with You and to listen to You in all we do. Thanks, Lord, for this line, and Lord, please help me with the messages. I am struggling, Lord, and I need You as always, please talk to me, Lord. In Jesus' name, I give thanks, give praise, and also make requests. Amen.
Good Monday evening and/or Tuesday morning, my dear sweet brothers and sisters. Happy Birthday, United States Air Force. I am running late, I had to wait upon the Lord for the message. Well, Monday and the day we pray for our leaders and all those who have authority over us. And when I say that today, I ask you to start praying about the upcoming elections. Pray hard and listen for God to instruct you. Please do not vote to try and save some benefit you get from the government. I am not going to tell you how to vote, but I am going to tell you that "this family votes life." Monday is also the day we pray for our veterans, our troops, and right now they are in great danger. Just yesterday another one of our military was killed, murdered by one of those we are fighting for. It is also the day we pray for our police and firefighters. And folks, while we were sleeping in our area, police and firefighters were out in the rain on three locations tending to accidents where tractor trailer trucks have rolled over. And most of our firefighters do not get paid. (Support your local fire company, please.) Please also pray for Dolores, Patsy, Burt, Barbara, Vicki, Helen, Sterling, Luella, and others on our ongoing prayer list.
No One Knows:
Matthew 24:36 - "No one knows about that day, or hour, not even the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field, one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left." (NIV)
In the words of our Lord Jesus above, no one knows when He will return, not even Jesus himself.
When I look in my Bible and read the events about Noah, the flood and the ark, and how people were acting back then, and I look today at the news, the ads in the paper and phone books, and even the pop up ads on the computer, when I look at the news coming out of Harrisburg, where people call a place on Second Street "Restaurant Row", I see things that would remind me of the days of the really big flood.
As sad and as bad as it is, we hear of one of our military killed in battle, but unless you watch the news, you do not see that just last night an 18-year old was shot to death in Chambersburg, PA, and police in Harrisburg are looking for a PUNK who shot from within a car at a group of girls on a porch hitting one in the leg with two shots. So today I want to talk to you about one of the biggest coming events that will not just affect your life but the lives of every person in the WORLD. The big event, God the Father is going to get sick and tired of what is going on here on earth, not just in America, and He is going to send Jesus back for those who are His. Those who do not just confess to knowing Jesus but who really do know Him and show Him just how much they love by their actions, works and life.
Let me ask you this. Do the events of the days of Noah remind you of what is going on today? Please take a minute to just look around you. Some of it might be going on in your own home.
Matthew 24:36 - "No one knows about that day, or hour, not even the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark."
The word of God is out there, folks, and the warnings are in the Bible and they are being taught and preached in most churches in these days. I do not mean pastors are trying to tell their flocks the day and date of the coming of Jesus. They, the pastors preaching the complete truth, are saying it is going to happen. And as Andre wrote in his song, "Soon and very soon." Brothers and sisters, wake up. If you do not see these things happening, your eyes are closed. We have a job to do. In fact, we have several jobs to do. First and foremost, we need to tell folks about Jesus and His love and how they can be saved. Second, we need to be trying our very best to turn around those evil things that are happening right now in our cities and towns and sometimes even in our very own homes. We can see it all around us, people wanting men to be able to marry another man, or women to be able to marry another woman. We see and hear of grown people being given trust in our children, and they take advantage of that child. (I am thinking Penn State Football and how that stuff got hidden so as not to mess up a football program.) School teachers taking advantage of their students, and so on and so forth. Doctors who have taken an oath to help people who went to medical school and now they are doing abortions. Gosh, they went to college to learn how to make money murdering a child of God. That is breaking the commandment "Thou shall not murder." People signing up for food stamps and getting them and then selling them off for big screen TVs and the business owners getting involved by taking them. That is called Welfare Fraud, in the Bible they are breaking the commandment "Thou shall not steal."
Now as I start to wrap this up, I tell you it is time for me to ask this question ... You are at work, let's say you are a waiter or a waitress, you are working with another person and the Lord comes back. Will you be the one that is taken with Jesus or will you be the one who remains? Let's say you are in a fast moving train and the Lord returns, the engineer loves the Lord and is taken, are you going to be sitting on the runaway train, or are you going to go with the engineer to meet Jesus in the air?
Now the big one, you are sitting around your table eating a big meal, let's say your full family and it is Thanksgiving, the turkey is on the table, the ham is fresh with all the trimmings and you are having REAL mashed potatoes, when all of a sudden the Lord returns, will all your family be taken, or will one or two have a lot to eat as they ponder where the rest went? Will you be left with the turkey and the ham or will you be with The King?
Matthew 24:40 - "Two men will be in the field, one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left."
When Noah shut the door to the ark, those in the ark were saved, including the animals, the rest died in the flood. When the Lord returns, some will go and the rest remain. Will you go or will you remain? Brothers and sisters, we are children of God, all of us. He made us and not we ourselves. So it is time to get with the program. Are you onboard with Jesus or on the outside looking in?
COME TO CHRIST TODAY. TOMORROW MIGHT BE TOO LATE ...
Dear Father in Heaven, I pray for peace, for the day when You send Jesus back, but until that day, please help me repent of my sins and to work for You telling the world the Good News of Jesus. Help me, and help others reading this. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Now go forth and share your blessings that have been trusted to you. And remember this today. NO ONE KNOWS ... Love ya, Pastor Dan.
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