Wednesday 4/16/14 Warranty

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You very much.  Thank You for taking us through another night and watching over our family, friends and ministry and those who work with the ministry.  Lord, please touch the hands of Dolores so she can keep playing the piano.  Please help us also as we work forward to our Good Friday service.  Please, Lord, bless all pastors, priests, and all others that are working for You each day, and ready them for Easter when folks come to church that they do not see often.  Bless them with special messages, and Lord, I am including myself with those pastors.  Help me, Lord, bless my mind and body to do Your work.  Please help me now with a daily message and then help me dispatch it.  Jesus, be with President Obama as he leads this great country that You have trusted to us.  I pray first for his soul and then that he comes to You with events before he just acts on them.  Please also help my messages get through to him, by You, Jesus, planting them on his heart.  And Lord, it is Salvation Wednesday for us on this line.  Lead us to the unsaved and help us get them to the feet of Jesus to be saved.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.  And Lord, please be with those on that airliner, and I pray they are still alive.  And now, Lord, a boat sinking with lots of people lost off the coast in Korea.  Lord, help them, they are our brothers and sisters, Lord, please help them.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Good morning, my dear brothers and sisters.  JUST BREAKING.  Please pray for those on a boat that laid over on its side near Korea.  And yes, keep praying for those on that 777 and pray the folks are found alive.

It is cold here at the Southern Location of the North Pole, but praise God, there is no snow.  Before my mind wanders, TOMORROW, please bring a slice of bread and some juice to the computer as we are going to have "online communion."  May I suggest to you, if you can do this at your workplace without getting yourself fired, share communion with your friends.  You can do it this way.  Take a few slices of bread, get a small bottle of grape juice and a coffee cup.  Get your Bible out and turn to Luke 22:19/20 and you will have the service.  Break the bread first and pass it around, then open the juice, put it in the coffee cup and pass it around, each person dunking his bread (Jesus' body) into the cup of juice (Jesus' blood) and share.  Also, it is a great day and a great way to have communion with your family and friends.  Maybe even a COMMUNION PARTY!!  Anyway, tomorrow morning, please come and have communion with us.  It is Salvation Wednesday on the line.  Please pray for the unsaved and for God to use you to bring in the lost, and I pray you are not one who is lost.

Please keep praying for our president.  In a speech yesterday he was speaking out for God.  PLEASE KEEP YOUR PRAYERS GOING UP FOR HIM.

Now I must get to the message for this day, Warranty.

Salvation Wednesday:  April 16, 2014, Warranty.

Psalm 30:5 - For His anger lasts only a moment, but His favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.  (NIV)

Hebrews 7:22 - Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.  (NIV)

I want to talk to you about a "Warranty", or a guarantee if you want to use that word.  Warranty, a "lifetime warranty," if you please.  There are so many warranties today, on cars, on trucks, on homes, on a new roof for your home, on your pop-up toaster, on those things advertised on those information commercials that go on for hours and hours and they have warranties.  If you read the fine print (and it is indeed fine print) you can read the details of those warranties.  I know a lot of people who have spent a lot of extra dollars buying a product with a great warranty.  Some even with a lifetime warranty, and yes, I have done that same thing.  Let me tell you a short story here.

Years ago I decided I needed a scooter, one of those electric scooters, to use around my house.  Although I could walk then and still do walk as much as I can, I needed this scooter to get up and down the hill around our home that God has blessed us with.  Yes, this all came after I was hit in the rear while on our big Honda Goldwing back on December 24, 1990.  Anyway, I shopped around for a good scooter which I was paying for out of our funds.  (No government help.)  After shopping around I found what I thought was the very best for the dollar.  It was a Rascal made in Sewell, NJ by Electric Mobility and it offered a lifetime warranty on the frame and one and two-year warranties on the other parts.  Wow, a lifetime warranty, guaranteed for a lifetime.  The warranty on the main parts did not last long and I purchased used scooters of the same make to use for parts (like rebuilding an old car).  Well, folks, it happened, the frame on my scooter failed, it split and is broken, and is falling in half.  So yesterday I placed the call to Electric Mobility about my lifetime warranty.  Well, guess what, my lifetime warranty died!!  Yes, while the phone was answered by a company using the same name, they only sell parts as the scooter building business closed in 2012 and with it my lifetime warranty died.

So now we see the metal roofing being offered with a lifetime warranty, and what good is it if that company is out of business five years from now?  What about roofing shingles?  Do you want ones that are guaranteed for twenty or twenty-five years?  Now some offer forty years, but you have no guarantee that those companies will be around.  When I had my new garage built last year by our Amish brothers, the warranty was this.  If you have a problem, call us and we will take care of it.  A handshake was made and the deal closed.  It is a good warranty, but there is one that is better.

The only warranty or guarantee you have on anything that will last a lifetime is the one we get when we come to Christ Jesus and we are BORN AGAIN.  Does anyone want to say amen on this?  The lifetime guarantee is on our life and depends only on our personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  You might ask, how do I know that it is a good guarantee?  Will it be there after I die?  Here is my answer to that question.  I believe what is in the Bible, and I believe it from the front to the back.  I take it as all being true and correct.  I also believe that we are "born again" through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.  And again our Bible is a history book and this is recorded history.  Then if you need more than that, think about this.  Year after year, you plant things.  In the fall things die off, plants, flowers die off.  Now they are blooming.  It was a hard winter, but yesterday my tulips started to bloom, other flowers are already in bloom, our weeping cherry trees are coming to life.  Rebirth is here.  Brothers and sisters, do not put your faith in an earthly warranty for the ONLY WARRANTY THAT IS GOOD IS A WARRANTY BACKED BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.  Amen!

Now, brothers and sisters, please go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya.  And please pass on that love to others.

Pastor Dan