Dear Father in Heaven: I love You, Lord, I love You very, very much. Please forgive me of my sins this day. Lord, I want to walk with You this day and every day. Please help me to repent, and Lord, when I do make a mistake, help me be man enough to admit it, seek forgiveness, and move on. Please be with Glenn Beck on his drive to help the children who have been dumped on America. He is trying to feed them. Help us, Lord, in our mission to feed the hungry. Help us to do this without question. Help us as we need to pick up more food, and we also need to get out and pick up some clothes that have been donated. Help us, Lord. Thanks for waking us this day and taking care of us. Thanks for watching over all those on our prayer list. Please watch over our flock at The Bridges. Lord, please help me now with the daily message and then help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, it was and still is a beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Please pray today for Glenn Beck and for Bill O'Reilly as they take food and supplies to our southern border and try and feed the children that have been dumped here. If you recall that when this first came to light I made the statement, "Is God testing America?" Is God testing America to see what Americans might do with these little children? Today Glenn was crying and they were not fake tears, for someone had "dumped" a child, a quadriplegic child, by the river on the American side, and no one was helping the child. Pray, warriors, pray. Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh are good people, pray for them. Also pray for St. Frances food kitchen in Harrisburg, as vandals got in and took the place apart. Pray, warriors, pray. Now let me get to the message, The Old Road Map, with a sub-title, "The Blame Game."
Thursday: July 31, 2014, The Old Road Map (Day Seven), "The Blame Game"
Genesis 2:22 - Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man. 23 The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman' for she was taken out of man." 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. 25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. (NIV)
Genesis 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'" 4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (NIV)
Well, like a man, God gave him everything he had created, but he had no one for himself. So God made man a woman from the rib of a man and put her in the Garden of Eden with Adam. Adam named the woman Eve. Adam went over the rules with Eve and told her not to touch that one tree in the middle of the garden. Now Adam and Eve were both naked, and they felt no shame at all. It seems that some people this day and age feel the same way as there is now a new program on television that is something about naked dating. It seems to me there is no shame in those people either. While God approved of Adam and Eve being naked, He surely did not approve of this new TV show.
Anyway, back to the Garden of Eden, and one day Eve was looking at the tree in the center of the Garden of Eden when approached by the serpent, who tricked her into picking the fruit. Then she took the fruit to Adam and showed it to Adam and he took a bite from it. Now let me pick up the story in the Bible and see what happens next.
Genesis 3:8 - Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as He was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?" 10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked so I hid." 11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" 12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me, she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." 14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers, he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. 16 To the woman He said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing, with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." 17 To Adam He said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles from you and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food, until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; from dust you are and to dust you will return." (NIV)
Now is it not just like a man to blame someone else for what he did wrong? You need not answer that, ladies, for it seems you ladies have done the same.
It went something like this. Adam, did you eat from that fruit tree in the middle of the garden, the one I commanded you not to touch? You see, God did not suggest or just ask Adam not to eat from it, it was really the very first commandment, and Adam broke it. And while God was asking Adam about it, Adam blamed it on Eve.
You know, back when I was little, I would blame my brother once in awhile for something that I did. Then my brother would get a warning or even sent to his room. And still to this day I think I should have owned up to it. I would have been better off being sent to my room than what happened once my brother was "released." Yes, my frail tail would get "kicked" a tad.
Anyway, Adam blamed it on Eve, and she went on to blame the snake. Sounds like something that could have been played out in those reflective gardens in Washington, DC. We ask today what has happened to personal responsibility and we see it started at the beginning of man. And the sentence of the Lord God is still going on today. Weeds in the garden, pain at childbirth, and even the snake is crawling on his belly.
So, brothers, if you mess up, man up. And sisters, if you mess up, fess up. And as for the snake. Crawl, baby, crawl. Ladies, when you bear children, know it is going to hurt, and men, when you grow the garden, remember you will need to weed it. No blame game, please.
Now go forth sharing your blessings. Love ya, and please pass on my love to others.
Pastor Dan
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