Thursday 9/5/13 Moral Authority 2

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for a great busy day and thanks for taking care of those on this line.  Thanks for Your help last evening and all You do for us all the time.  Please forgive me of my sins.  Be with those we have been praying for.  Lord, be with our President and bless him and may he come to You in all he does.  Now, Lord, please help me with the words of the message and all that goes into it and then please dispatch it for me.  All You do for me is appreciated.  In the name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

My dear brothers and sisters, God is so good, and while my computers were down, and by the way, I was up all last night working on them with a computer person online.  While I was away, God did help me, and again, thanks to Charles and Janet Wotring for their help, God helped me to get this dear, dear puppy.  He is a Yorkshire Picki, and now I would like to show you Martin Martin Lehman, Jr.  Now, ladies, I know you are thinking he is too pretty to be a boy.  I agree with that, but he is our new baby.

Now, brothers and sisters, let me get on with the message.

Thursday, September 5, 2013, Moral Authority.

Ephesians 4:20 - You, however, did not come to know Christ that way.  21 Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.  22 You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.  (NIV)

Yesterday I talked about our President and Congress, and the United States of America acting as a Moral Authority over Syria.  Also, please remember I said I will support our troops, all of them, however, I cannot support a war effort against others for things that are not moral until we clean up our own act.

Now to get started in cleaning up our own country, we must all start at the same place.  All start at the same place, you say?  Yes, that is what I said, we must all start at the same place when leaning up our country.  All of you who are thinking Washington, DC, please tell me, and be honest, please!  All of us need to start at the same place, we must all start with our own self!  While we are not judging people to get into heaven, other people we surely can judge ourselves.  Remember things that we have given to God, those are forgiven, and we move on from there.

If we look at the scripture in Ephesians 4:20 - "You, however, did not come to know Christ that way."  Meaning tome, we did not come to Christ living a life of sin, a life of impurity, a life with no moral values at all.  We came to Christ when we decided to follow Him, when we decided to love Him and walk in His light and invite Him into our hearts and our lives.  Let's now look at a few more verses from above.

Ephesians 4:21 - Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.  22 You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.  (NIV)

So The Word is telling us that we have heard of Jesus and were taught to walk with Him and live Your life to please Him.  So lets work on our own selves tonight and come back tomorrow when I will do my best to finish this lesson.  Just so you know that just yesterday, four stabbed, one died in a school in Texas.  A fight between Spanish and black school kids at Harrisburg High School in Pennsylvania.  Cars were damaged by kids standing on them to watch the fight.  Yes, it was said to be about race.  East of Harrisburg, on Route 81, a big rig driver ran over a motorcycle rider, stopped, looked and got in the truck and drove away.  The rider is dead!  Do you see what I am saying, to clean up the world, we must start at home.

Pray with me, please.  Dear Father in Heaven, please help us, clean us of of our sins, clean me of my sins and help me to walk in Your Light, and then help us work to clean up our area, before we try to be the Moral Authority over others.  After cleaning up ourselves, Lord, then help us to clean up others by bringing them to You for the cleaning.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Just a bit of homework.  I still have not figured  out spell check and a few other things.  Now I am going to get Martin Martin Jr. and go to bed.  But first, please go forth and share your blessings and remember I love ya, and please pass on the love.

Pastor Dan