Friday 4/19/2013 Wars and Rumors of Wars

Dear Father in Heaven, Thanks for another great day, we are surely blessed.  Thanks for walking with us each day and being right there for us.  Father, please be with our leaders, national, state, local, and schools, all those who have power over us.  Thanks, Lord, for our military, please watch over our veterans and our current military, please watch over our veterans and our current military.  Thanks for first responders and all those who have been pressed into duties in Boston and now in West Texas.  In fact, Lord, we know that these responders, firefighters, police, and all those who work to protect us are used each day across this nation, we just do not hear as much unless it is big.  Now Lord,  hear the prayers of all those who are calling, some of which, Lord, have tossed You out of places.  Please, Lord, may these events help people come to You or return to You, or even like me, dear Lord, get stronger and stronger in faith and in my walk with You.  Please protect this line, and now, Lord, please bring forth a message in my heart and mind.  Thanks, Jesus, I love You, Jesus, and I pray in Your name, Jesus.  Amen.

Happy Friday, my dear brothers and sisters.  Thursday was a great day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  We were blessed with more bread, cakes and pies, etc., for the food pantry and we also picked up some canned goods that we were running low on.  God is good, folks, please pray that our Lord Jesus will shine in Boston and in West, and that pastors will preach THE WORD this Sunday as churches should have a high attendance.  Time for Christians to stand arm in arm and take America back in the name of Jesus.  Now time to get to the message, Wars and Rumors of Wars.

Friday 4/19/2013 - Wars and Rumors of Wars, Day Five.

Matthew 24:1 - Jesus left the temple and was walking away when His disciples came up to Him to call His attention to its buildings.  2 "Do you see all these things?"  He asked.  "I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down."  3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately.  "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"  (NIV)

Matthew 24:13 - But he who stands firm to the end will be saved, 14 And this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, all week I have been "telling it like it is according to the book of Matthew."  The Bible is very, very clear on this subject, but we in America have not tuned in, I guess.  Maybe we have been sheltered because we have not seen the all-out war zones that we see in other countries.  But again I bring up our streets, our streets here in America and not just because of the bombings in Boston on Monday, but all of the events in America.  The Bible tells us there will be was and rumors of wars, but it does not say that we will see tanks and Air Craft and many men and women in uniform fighting each other.  Have you taken notice to the news, even right now as I finish this message thee are police being shown on the news, lots of them hunting down a "bad guy".  Our president went to Boston to give a speech on Wednesday at an interfaith service.  He should stop by his hometown of Chicago where it is reported that about two dozen people are shot each weekend.  And recently they showed Detroit and it looked like a war zone.  Go into the city of Harrisburg where Mayor Linda Thompson, who has prayer in her office each morning, and who called Perry County people scumbags, watches over a town where if a building, a big building, becomes vacant, the windows are broke out before it can be sold.  But with all that said, with all that said, there is good news about all of this, there truly is.  Let's go back to the Bible again and look at some more scriptures.

Matthew 24:13 - But he who stands firm to the end will be saved, 14 And this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."

Look at it, "he who stands firm to the end will be saved."  Jesus said that.  "Now look again, this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached."

And what is that gospel that we are to be taking out?  And folks, this is a command of our Lord Jesus.

Mark 16:15 - He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the GOOD NEWS to all creation."  (NIV)

Now that is our Lord Jesus telling them, his disciples of that day.  Now once again I go into the book of Hebrews.

Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.  (NIV)

Now Jesus is the same, but the disciples, well, those of that day are gone and we are the disciples of today.  The Bible tells us to stand firm!!  No place does it say it WILL BE EASY.  But please do not be afraid, if you stand firm, you do not have anything to fear, because God will not leave you, He will never leave you, but some will walk away from Him.  We need to stand firm, I am telling you today that I will stand firm with Jesus to the end and I pray that all of you will also.  Again it will not be easy and we need not be afraid for God is in charge, our Lord God is in charge, and I want to say that again, OUR LORD GOD, OUR DEAR JESUS IS IN CHARGE.  I know some folks, some already living in retirement homes might be scared, please do not be scared, for God has made us great promises and He keeps His promises. If we stand firm to the end, well, listen to this.  Again in the words of Jesus ...

John 14:1 - "Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Trust in God, trust also in Me.  2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you.  I am going there to prepare a place for you.  3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.  4 You know the way to the place where I am going."  5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we don't know where You are going, so how can we know the way?"  6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  (NIV)

1 John 3:1 - How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!  And that is what we are!  The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.  (NIV)

1 John 3:7 - Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray.  He who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous.  8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning.  The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.  9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.  (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, stand firm in our Lord Jesus Christ, and He will as promised to us, come back and get us.  If we die before He returns and we are in good standing we will go with Him.  Our soul goes to the Lord, our tired worn-out body goes to the ground.  Be not afraid, my dear brothers and sisters, if you stand firm in God we have nothing to fear. Jesus tells us and let me repeat just a few verses ...

Matthew 24:13 - But he who stands firm to the end will be saved.

John 14:1 - "Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Trust in God, trust also in me."

1 John 3:7 - Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray.  He who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous.

The Good News is Jesus died for us, and if we stand firm in this Good News and we tell others, we will find out that in the end, in the very, very end, WE WIN.  WE WIN!  YES, WE WIN!!

Dear Father in Heaven, Thanks for standing with us in these troubled times, please, Lord, help us to stand with You, to stand firm in Your Word and to stand firm in Your love, Jesus, and in the love of others, even our enemies, for we trust in You, Father, and in Jesus, Your One and Only Son who died for us and in whose name I pray, in Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

Now go forth, hold your head high, for you are a believer, a follower of Jesus, and you are going to share your blessings because you love Jesus, not because I told you, but because of your love for Jesus ... right?  I love ya (pass it on).

Pastor Dan