Monday 7/1/2013 Weapons of Mass Destruction

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for another great day, what blessings You hand out to us all the time.  We just are so blessed and we really do appreciate it.  We love You, I love You very, very much.  Please, dear Lord, forgive us of our sins, please, dear Lord, forgive me of my sins.  Please, dear Lord, keep Your hand upon those on our prodigal sons and daughters list.  Please, Lord, be with the families of the firefighters who lost their lives helping others.  Please, Lord, be with Jan as she has beast surgery.  Please also be with Burt and Patsy and watch over them.  Bless, please, Men in Harmony as they ready for summer concerts in gospel music.  Be with Tim as he readies for the picnic.  Thanks for sending families who need food and trusting in us to have it ready for them.  Thanks, Lord, for supplying the food.  Please help us to help Grace Fellowship in their new mission of an outreach food pantry in Steelton and Highspire, PA.  Thanks for using us.  Now, dear Father in Heaven, please supply me with a message this day and the please dispatch it.  IN Jesus' Name, I pray and give thanks.  Amen.

Pastor Dan's Safety Tip:  In shopping center parking lots, do NOT cut across the lanes as you drive.  Also watch for BACKUP LIGHTS on parked cars.  If they are lit, stop and let the car back out.  On our tight bus parking lot at Central Dauphin School District, we had a rule, YIELD to the backing bus.  So I will say the same on parking lots, PLEASE YIELD to the backing vehicle.

Good evening, brothers and sisters.  I have been praying and waiting upon the Lord for a message for this week.  And God planted on my mind about weapons of mass destruction and what some of them might do and why we should be very careful with the ones we have in our possession, and we all have some, yes, all of us.  Prayers this week, please keep praying for our prodigal sons and daughters, also pray for our veterans and those wounded warriors, plus our current military.  Also please pray for the families of those firefighters who lost their lives last night in the wildfires, 19 of them died last night in the southwest fires.

Monday July 1, 2013, Weapons of Mass Destruction.

James 3:1 - Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.  2 We all stumble in many ways.  If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check.  (NIV)

A lot of us have "guns" and I say us because I have some.  I have a permit to carry a concealed weapon and on occasion I do that.  I also have another larger handgun and I have a shotgun, a hunting gun.  (I do not hunt anymore.)  These type weapons if used wrong could be called weapons of mass destruction.  We gun owners need to take good care and keep good control over those weapons.  But wait a minute, I was an auto mechanic most of my life and I have a lot of tools, and in that toolbox are many tools that could also be used as weapons.  Let me point out a few.  I have punches, and of course screwdrivers of many shapes and sizes, and yes, as a mechanic I had to have proper tools for each job.  And I have a bunch of hammers.  We had a saying as a mechanic.  Get me the proper tool for this job, please bring me a bigger hammer.  Let's, however, look at a few weapons today from the Bible.

The weapons of today coming from the book of James are preachers, teachers, pastors, priests, and all who stand up and teach others.  While we think of it as just teaching God's Word, it is the teaching of all things.  Even a parent is a teacher and most are good ones.  We are told by God to teach and preach the truth, and we need to do that because we are followers of Jesus.  Also according to God's Word, we will be JUDGED MORE STRICTLY on judgment day.  So as we teach, we need to be teaching the truth, and even in doing these writings I indeed must do all in my power to get it correct as it comes from the Bible.  My daddy was a math teacher, and he taught also those math problems where we had to find out what x plus y minus z might be.  There is a name for it, I never did figure it out.  I know for a fact that 2 plus 2 is 4, unless being checked by the tax people, then the answer would be bigger.  Teachers of all subjects in our schools have to get it right, and teachers remember some of the things in the textbooks are wrong.  Like how the earth was made and who made it, and how old those big animals called dinosaurs really are.  The Bible talks about big animals, but surely they were only a day older than man.  And we who preach must also get it right according to the Bible, and trust me when I say we will be judged more strictly, and that is in our scripture of today.  Some pastors and even church councils have it very wrong when the talk about gay marriages and unions, for it is against the will of God and that is pointed out in the Bible.

One of the biggest use of weapons of Mass Destruction today are the tools used in abortion, and today there are even pastors saying that is okay.  Folks, more on weapons tomorrow and leading up to the holiday this week which is INDEPENDENCE DAY, which falls on July 4th.  July 4th is not the name of the holiday.  "Get into the WORD, Not the WORLD."  My quote, folks, but you can surely use it.

Yes, "get into the word, not the world."  And now, go forth and share your blessings and have a great night.  Love ya.  Please pass it on.

Pastor Dan