Monday 7/28/14 The Old Road Map 4

Dear Father in Heaven:  I love You very, very much.  I am sorry that I sin, and I want to repent, and I need Your help to do just that.  Please  help me, Lord.  I pray today, Father, for all those who follow this line and give You the honor and glory for those who do.  Lord, please help me with the daily message and help me to get it dispatched.  Lord, thank You very much for protecting us during the storm last night, and thanks for the rain we are receiving right now.  I love You, Lord.  In Jesus' name, I give praise and ask my prayers to be heard and acted on according to Your will and not mine.  Amen.

Good Monday early evening, my dear brothers and sisters.  As I get out "The Old Road Map" again this week, I am doing my best to follow the directions that God lays on my heart.  Please pray for our President and our Secretary of State.  I don't think either of them understands that Israel is our homeland and we need to be standing with our Jewish brothers and sisters.  More than it being our homeland, it is the place where Jesus was born, preached, taught, died for our sins, was buried, rose from the dead, and even did His lift-off.  Pray for Secretary Kerry's and President Obama's souls.  If these two were solid Christians, they would understand this.  I am not judging, just saying what I see.  Amen.  Now let me get out "The Old Road Map."

Monday:  July 28, 2014, The Old Road Map (Day Four)

Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.  (NIV)

I am not going to type out the complete scripture for today, so I ask you to read Genesis Chapter One.  There is one thing that jumps right out at me as I look at this story of Creation, and that is these three words:  "And God Said."

Years and years ago when the Pennsylvania Turnpike first opened in our area, my pop loaded up my mamma, brother Leonard and little Danny and drove us up to the entrance of the Turnpike which at that time was called the Carlisle entrance.  He had in hand his old road map and he wanted to show us how fast 60 MPH really was.  So with map in hand we got our ticket and got on the turnpike and headed out and went through the tunnels.  He was thrilled to show us this,and of course we loved seeing it.  And those tunnels, wow.  In the Bible it tells us that if we have faith we could move the mountain, and my mamma reminded us of just that.  In case you were thinking that if you had faith and wanted to see a mountain move for no reason other than to show it could be done, you do not understand the work of our Lord.  But with faith those workers tunneled out a big hold in the mountain so that the cars and trucks could go through and not over or around.  With dad's road map in hand, we got off the pike and found our way into Orbisonia where my mamma's sister lived.  So we visited and then back on that turnpike that just opened.

So with The Old Road Map I am using, the New International Version of God's Holy Word, I went back to the beginning to start this week.  And what do we find back in the beginning?  NOTHING.  The earth was formless.  Nothing there.  Then it happened.  GOD SPOKE!!  And for six days GOD SPOKE!!  In those six days God spoke a lot, and things were formed, things were made, plans were laid out, instructions were given, and everything went perfectly, or did until He created man and woman.  Then something happened that was not perfect, and that was God made us, even though we were and are still made in the image of God, it seems we would start out sinning.  The very first command was broken right away, and what was the sin?  If you are going to say the serpent told the woman to pick fruit from the tree that she was not to eat from and that then Adam ate some of the fruit Eve picked ... What was that very first sin?  If you say eating the fruit, you are wrong in my opinion.  To me it was disobedience to our Lord and Master, our Father in Heaven who created heaven and earth.  Man, meaning man and woman, were disobedient to our Lord right from the start.

Tomorrow we are going to take a look at what happened when man first found out that God knew they had sinned.  You all do understand that God knows when we sin,how often and what we did, right?  Sure, you know it and so do I, yet we keep right on sinning.  Tomorrow, a little bit on repentance also.  So address yourself this evening as you read your Bible in Genesis Chapter One.  Read it through.

Now go forth and read the word, and share your blessings.  Love ya.  Please pass on my love to others.

Pastor Dan