Saturday 5/23/15 Old Man, Old Story! (11)

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for a beautiful day and thanks for giving me another day on earth and I pray, dear Lord, I use it to advance You in some way or another. Please watch over our military this weekend, and Lord, please be with travelers. Please also bless Elaine and Art as they start life in the south in their new home. Thank You, Lord, for placing them in our lives. What great neighbors they have been. Lord, You gave us neighbors that we could get together in our driveways with and pray. Please bless them and give them long life in the sunny south until that day when we meet them again, Jesus, at Your feet. Now, dear Lord, help me with the daily message and the to get it dispatched. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, what a beautiful start to our Memorial Day weekend and what once was called Decoration Day. This day as I remember it as a kid growing up was a day to decorate the graves, not just a day to remember our veterans, but to remember all those loved ones who have gone on before us. Please keep our military and our police in your prayers, for they are indeed the protectors of our freedom. Also remember that it is Jesus living in our hearts that gives us personal freedom. Time to get to the message, Old Man, Old Story.

Saturday: May 23, 2015: Old Man, Old Story (Day Eleven)

I Love to Tell the Story: (Catherine Hankey, William G. Fischer)

Chorus;

I love to tell the story! 'Twill be my theme in glory.
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

I love to tell the story! 'Twill be my theme in glory.
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who brought them bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2 Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of the truth into disrepute. 3 In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them and their destruction has not been sleeping. (NIV)

Did you ever know someone who told such wild stories that you just knew they could not be true, yet the one telling the story told those stories so often that they started to believe them themselves? Some told so many stories of untruth that if they told a true one, one might not believe them. Some stories are told to children just for fun. Stories like those about the tooth fairy who we were told as children if we put a tooth under our pillow the tooth fairy would get it and leave money for it. Well, a few years ago I found out that was a lie for I put my denture under my pillow and that fairy never did pick it up. One time he put it on the floor. Some stories that we learned as children could be changed over to work for God. I think of the three little pigs who built their house. One built with brick and it could not be blown down. Yes, we can turn that one into learning to build on the Solid Rock, our Lord Jesus. But that is not just our home we need to build on The Solid Rock. We need to build our lives on Jesus Christ the Solid Rock and try and teach others they should do that also. In our scripture today we are told to watch out for those false teachers, and folks, they do exist. Some are teachers in our schools and schools of higher education. Sadly, some of those teachers are teaching Sunday School and some are even preaching in churches.

Brothers and sisters, God has given us brains and God has given us His Word which is recorded in our Bibles. (If you do not have a Bible, please call me at once, 717 991 0754, and I will see that you have one, courtesy of Carry The Light Ministries.) Anyway, you need to fact-check things you hear, and more so if you are  hearing them from the internet. I welcome all of you to fact-check me with your Bible. That is one reason I do not just quote a scripture, I like to type it out. Yes, it takes more time, but it is worth it. And any job you do you should do it right, be it just for yourself, your boss, and most of all if doing it for the Lord. Shame on a pastor that leads his flock astray. Look what God did to the angels who turned bad. Right to the lake of fire. Look at what happened to the people back in the days of Noah. God has trusted me with a ministry and I fear God and I want to get it done right.

So please do not be deceived when it comes to those telling stories. If you think what someone is telling you is wrong, call them out on it. Let's pray.

Dear Father in Heaven: Give us this day the wisdom and knowledge to know right from wrong and to tell the difference between truth and lies. Please help us to keep our eyes on You and not a person or teacher or even a pastor. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now pray and then go forth sharing your blessings. Love ya.

Pastor Dan