Dear Father in Heaven, Thanks for a really great day on Saturday with our food distribution. Only You could workout the details as the day went well. Please heal our dear prayer warrior Ruby who fell here at our distribution while praying for others. Bless those who watched over her and took care of her here. We pray Your healing hand on her. Lord, help me with this message today. Thanks for waking us, and thanks for watching over our families as we pray for those who lost loved ones last Friday. Thanks for the beautiful grandbaby of Vicki born on Sunday morning. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Dear brothers and sisters. I really do not know where to start today, but one thing I do know, we will be back on the Christmas Message and the Birth of Christ tomorrow morning. As we all know or should know by now, we had a mass murder at an elementary school last Friday. Twenty little lives lost and also six adults, along with the murder of the murderer's mother and also the murderer as he shot himself. I have been asked why did God let this happen? You know I cannot answer for God on that one, but I do want to bring out a few points that I am sure of. More gun controls will not help stop these events! The laws on the books are enough and need enforced for starting place. But let me walk us way back to when God created the heavens and the earth. I ask that you take time to read this story. I do want to bring out a few points.
Genesis 1:26 - Then God said, "Let us make man in our image in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move on the ground." 27 So God created man in His own image. In the image of God He created him. Male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number." (NIV)
You see, God made us in His image and likeness and gave us control over all things. Then you will recall the story of Adam and Eve and how in the garden they did not listen to God, who placed them there with little instruction except to not eat fruit from that one tree. Man, meaning man and woman, using their own free will, fell into evil and sin right from the start. The point I am making here is God gave us all free will, each and every one of us. Unlike the storms and weather that have hit our country and others and over the years have killed many people, God still controls those things fully.
Now I move forward to last week and of course other events like this that have happened. People have a choice on how to use their own free will as given to all of us by God. As one very brave parent of one of the young victims stated this weekend, "this man chose to use his free will for evil." He made this statement through tears and then some reporter asked him if he was mad. He said, "no, I am not mad." Brothers and sisters, I do not believe children are born bad, they are not, they are raised to become that way. This goes back a long, long way. The love shown in families helps to mold people into what they become. I do believe that alcohol, drugs, etc., help change the behavior of those once they get on that "crap".
Now I also want to go back to that question, why did God let this happen? And while the murderer used his free will, could God have changed the events of the day? Of course He could have, and I will say that before this all ends we will see this scripture start to play out ...
Romans 8:28 - And we know that in ALL things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. (NIV)
Last night we saw people of many faiths come together in a school building and pray, read scripture, and even had the governor of Connecticut and our president there, and all talked about God.
You know, brothers and sisters, over the years we have taken God out of so many places, and may I just name a few right now. Shopping centers, where Santa cannot even tell the story of Christmas, the real story. I know this for a fact and that is why I have never been a "mall Santa". Last week, on Tuesday, a mall shooting. We have known for many a year that God has been tossed out of our public schools. When I was in school, we red the Bible in class and even prayed. I went to intercity schools, in Harrisburg, PA, and we just did not have problems like today. Slowly, God was removed from the schools, first by stopping the Bible from being read. Now kids do not need to even pledge the flag, if they choose not to. The Nativity has been removed from schools, from town squares, from government buildings, and so it goes. Our country, along with so many other countries, have tossed God right out of the places. Goodbye God, goodbye Jesus, you are not welcome in our schools, said those in charge. But when we have a mass murder in a school such as this one, for several weeks an issue will be made and then it will be put aside again. CHRISTIANS!!! It is time to get God back into places, and I do not mean we should let people bring in all the other religions, I mean we need to get God back into places, and back into churches. Last night there were all sorts of pastors offering up prayers, but only one of the many "Christian" pastors closed their prayers in the name of Jesus. Most just closed with Amen. Only one, ONLY ONE, called on the name of Jesus, and our Bible, folks, tells us that the "only way to the Father is through the Son." Do you think that just means to get into heaven? I don't. I think we need to call on Jesus to get all things we want to get to our Father in Heaven. Hey, I did not make these rules, I just use the word from the Bible.
I want you to think about this, I ask you to hug your children and grandchildren, I ask you to raise them in love. Things are different today, beside putting God out of the buildings, in a lot of cases it is not even in the lives of our little ones. We have had children into Santa's House this year who know all about Jesus but we have had them in and they did not have a clue why we have Christmas, nor did their parents. Trust me, they knew when they left here, but now it is up to the parents to follow up. Brothers and sisters, get a good church, and I mean a good one, and get those little ones into Sunday School.
Those little ones last week got that pass over to the Lord, but the adults, I pray they all know who the Lord is and that they had Him in their hearts. And that evil one, we know where he went, according to scripture, he went to Hell. Now let me close out with this scripture and we really need to look at this again. After Christmas we will study it more. I hope to put out a second message tonight about the food pantry and the happenings of that event on Saturday.
2 Chronicles 7:14 - If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land. (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, it is long past the time we need to, as a group, return to God. Today, pray for those injured in the shootings, and folks, that does not mean they need a bullet in them to be injured, what all the folks saw makes them injured. Pray for the families of the deceased.
Also while I am at it, a young PUNK entered a home of Mennonites and shot them over and over again with stun guns and then tied them up and robbed their home. Said he hated the Mennonites and the ones he robbed as he hit them with the stun guns. They were all between 84 and 90, three women. This an attack by a PUNK on Christians.
Dear Father in Heaven, Help us, Lord, help us all, and Lord, may we start coming back to You, and do it fast. Help us get out Your word, so that Your love covers all. And Lord, please come back soon. In Jesus' name, Amen.
I hope to put out a second message today about our food pantry, it was such a great event, I do not want it to get lost in the mess I just wrote about. Now go forth SHARING THE LOVE OF JESUS and your other blessings.
Love ya, Pastor Dan.
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