Friday 9/6/13 Moral Authority 3

Dear Father in Heaven:  Thank You for another beautiful day, and thanks for helping me to try and understand what is going on with my computers.  Please forgive me of my sins.  And Lord, please be with Dale, Patsy, Burt, Eleanor, Bob, and Sharon Saylor.  Heal also Bob Coburn. Touch our son Matthew, dear Lord, and be with our ministry team and all who support our missions and all who come to the food pantry for food.  Please help us to keep the ministries of Carry The Light going.  Lord, thanks  for always being with us.  Now, Lord, please help me with the message and then dispatch it for me.  In Jesus' name, I pray.  Amen.

Hi, brothers and sisters.  I must tell you that Martin Martin, Jr., is about to be arrested. Yes, back when Martin Martin, Sr., was a pup, he chewed the tab off the mattress that says we cannot remove that tag.  Well, guess what the pup did, yes, he chewed one of those tags up.

Okay, I made it up, folks.  However, the pup did eat a five dollar bill today, and that is a lot of money, so I gave him a tad of cod liver oil and put him in the pen.  What a mess.  Never did get my five spot back!  He could not pass it, it was counterfeit.  Okay, I need to get serious now and get to the message.  But first I must do some updating.  As you know, my computer was trashed.  It came in on a forward, I think.  Please, until I get this mess cleaned up, please do not forward me things off the internet.  Also, please do not forward things with a disclaimer on the bottom.  Things like if you send this to ten people and one back to the writer you will receive special blessings.  Sorry, folks, blessings come from God and He sends them all the time.  So, no disclaimers, please.  Thanks.  And one more, I have over ten pages of emails backed up, so please do not feel hurt if I did not get back to you on something.  I cannot get caught up.

Please, please pray for our nation, and please remember that this coming Wednesday is 9/11, so please be careful and pray for safety in our country.  Now to the message.

Friday, September 6, 2013, Moral Authority 3.

1 Peter 2:1 - Therefore rid yourselves of all malice, and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander, of every kind.  2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,  so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.  (NIV)

Staying along the subject of Moral Authority and it begins at home with each of us, we need to be really sure we rid ourselves, as Peter is showing us in the above scripture, of ALL malice and ALL deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.  Now you can see that I have put the word ALL in stand-out letters, for we might tend to not want to give it all up.  Let me look at a couple of those things.  Malice means of course to hurt someone, and please do not think that the only way to hurt or harm someone is by giving them a punch in the nose, in fact you can hurt more people by what you say, and trust me, it is going on daily on Facebook.  Now let's look at deceit, and while we might want to say that Satan is the master of deceit, and he surely is, we can be very deceitful people also.  Yes, how much deceit have you offered out today?  You know, when you get right down to it, living for Jesus and walking that straight line is really not ALL that easy, but we must do our very, very best to do as Peter talks about.  How about envy, do you envy others because they have more than you do?  No need to envy others, folks, just keep on living for Jesus and trusting in Him, and giving from the heart.  God will just take care of you.  Of course slander is about the same as malice.

Peter uses the example that we should be like newborn babies who crave pure spiritual milk.  A mother's milk is pure, be it a mother of our children or mothers of animals.  You see, once man gets his hands on the milk then it is not pure, think  nice here, I am talking about milking of animals by hand or machine, or a baby that has been turned over to formulas or even breast pumped milk.  "Best coming from the source."  That is what Peter is showing in the example, that we need to feast on The Lord and His Word which is pure, it is like that straight from the producer's milk, The Word of The Lord is the Truth.

I will be talking to the Lord over the weekend, I don't think we are done with this subject yet.

Go forth now, brothers and sisters, loving on each other, sharing your blessings and working on getting and keeping yourselves clean, and praying we do not get involved in another war.  Love ya.  Pass that love on.

Pastor Dan