Wed 9/4/13 Moral Authority

Dear Father in Heaven:  Thank You for finding my name lists for me, and thanks for all You do for us.  Please forgive us of our sins.  Please forgive me of my sins.  Lord, please watch over those we have been praying for here at home, and Lord, please help me with my message and then dispatch it for me.  In the name of Jesus, I pray.  Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, it has been a long, long time since I got to sit down and type out a message.  What a day to start back, SALVATION WEDNESDAY.  Yes, the day we pray for the lost and pray for God to help us to bring them in.  I do have a lot to bring you up-to-date on,  however, I will do it just a little at a time so as to get messages out.

First, my computer that I write on had a major crash and nothing has been able to be drawn out of it, at least by the Geek Squad.  I purchased a new computer and fetched it home and it did not work, so I took it back and ordered one to be sent in from Dell.  The other evening I just put it online and we had a bad storm and a lightning strike knocked both computers down.  We did have two computers and I am working now on the one we used for personal records.  I have a cord to transfer things to the newest one, but dummy (that's me) lost the disc since I used it last.  Anyway, so much for computers, and forgive my spelling, I have not located spell check on this one yet.

Next, since I talked to you last we have had an addition to our family.  As you know, my dear K9, Martin Martin Lehman, passed away.  I had him from 5 weeks old to when he died at 15 years of age.  While we have had and still have many senior dogs living with us, my heart was broken over Martin.  Two weeks ago, just when my computer crashed, I was tracking down a puppy, yes, a puppy, to bring comfort to me.  We looked at a local breeder and could not find one, even ran into a puppy mill, what a mess.  Long story short, we found one online, and he was in Oklahoma.  We made the deal on this beautiful Yorkshire Picki, who was driven to Ft. Worth, Texas, and flew out of there to O'Hare in Chicago where his flight was cancelled, and his next flight delayed.  With the help of very dear friends Charles and Janet Wotring, who did our computer work, faxes, etc., then gave of their time to take Dolores and me to the airport, our puppy flew in.  He was tired!  Jet lag, I guess, but he was spotless, thanks to American Airlines. Yes, we now have a puppy, all but six months old and just 3.5 pounds.  His name, "Martin Martin Lehman, Jr."  Praise God for working out all the details. Amen.  Now to the message.

Moral Authority:

James 1:21 - Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.  (NIV)

Today it is looking like we will be launching  missiles into Syria to punish those who were behind attacking people with weapons of mass destruction.  Over and over on the news we have seen bodies of those killed by this gas, or whatever it was that was fired on the dear people of Syria.  So Our president steps up and tells all we must do something about this.  So my question today is "who made our president the MORAL AUTHORITY, and more so, even our nation, as a MORAL AUTHORITY?  While I have and always will support our country and our military, our fine men and women of our military services, my mind gets to thinking in these terms.

Exodus 20:13 - You shall not murder.  (NIV)

While our Lord tells us there will be wars and rumors of wars and we are not to be alarmed, He never once said it was okay to murder.  Today, today I tell you there will be more children murdered in the United States than those four hundred children murdered in Syria.  I am talking about children being shot in our inner cities and by crimes, mostly black on black killings or gang killings.  Now  let me talk about car crashes caused by drunk drivers and children killed in those across the United States.  And yes, I am going to go there, yes I am.  Who made us the MORAL AUTHORITY when we are a nation that KILLS, MURDERS THE UNBORN CHILDREN?  And don't you tell me they are not children, for I am reminded that God knew all of us BEFORE WE WERE IN THE WOMB.

There is only one real MORAL AUTHORITY, and that is our LORD JESUS.  He is the one and only MORAL AUTHORITY and while we have many, many moral people living today, most all of us have stuff in our closet that we would not like shared.  Of course we are sinners saved only by the grace of God.  So, brothers and sisters, while I will always support our troops, I say today, when we can clean up our own country, when we can clean up our own states, when we can clean up our own cities, yes, when we can clean up our own selves, when we can get rid of "all moral filth and humbly accept the word planted in us" by God, then and only then, in my opinion, can we become a nation with MORAL AUTHORITY.  And when our President Barack Obama becomes a pro-life president, maybe that would be a good start.

In the past I wrote to President Obama and after telling him we pray for him, I asked him to sign an order to stop abortion.  And I will write him again reminding him of this ...

Brothers and sisters, I ask you to pray for our President and his family, for our nation and for our troops.  And pray for our president's soul also.  I am going to send him a copy of this email.

Now, folks, go forth and share your blessings, loving each other.  And remember, I love ya.  Pass it on.

Pastor Dan