Salvation Wednesday 8/26/15 Love (2)

Dear Father in Heaven: Lord, it is Wednesday and the day we here at Carry The Light Ministries call "Salvation Wednesday," trying to put just a little more out about just how important salvation through Jesus is and not putting off coming to You. Today we are saddened as we watched live murder on television news, so today I join with many praying for the families and friends of those who lost their lives, even praying for the friends and family of the shooter. Lord, please comfort them, and I pray they knew You as their personal Savior. Please, Lord, touch Edna Basehore, one we have learned to love and goes by the name of Snook. Dear Lord, we know she loves You very much and even prayed for me before she went for surgery. Please heal her and let her remain here on earth. Thanks for the great day and visit from our dear friends Grant and Wanda. Please, Lord, help me now with the message. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, by now I am sure you have heard of the news reporters that were murdered this morning during a live broadcast and even filmed by the shooter who then posted his murders on Facebook. Please pray for the families of all of them, even the shooter, as I am sure his family will never be the same either. If all people would love each other as Jesus loves us, these things would not happen. Let me get to the message. By the way, I am trying to keep them shorter.

Salvation Wednesday: August 26, 2015: Love (Day Two)

Deuteronomy 10:17 - For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. 18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing. 19 And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. 20 Fear the Lord your God and serve him. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, it would be great if all of you would read the verses daily before and after the ones I type. It would, I think, give you a better look at the message.

I want to bring a few things out of this scripture that God gave me for today. Let us start with verse 17 and look and see that our Lord, and remember, Jesus is our Lord, He is Lord of lords, and God of gods. In other words, there is no one, nobody, none, zip, that has more power than He does, and remember, please, He made all things good. For that, go back to the beginning of your Bible and read the Creation story. So our God is "top shelf" and if you are top shelf, everything else is under it. I also want to bring this out. Our  Lord Jesus shows no partiality and ACCEPTS NO BRIBES. In other words, a person, regardless of how much wealth they have, they cannot purchase their way into Heaven. Maybe I should say here that we are trying to get to Heaven, not to Washington DC. All that God wants from us is our Love for Him, our deep love and faith in Jesus. As you know, Jesus already purchased our spot in Heaven if we just have faith and believe.

In verse 18, the Bible tells us that He "defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow." We have a lot of children today who are fatherless. Dr. Laura would say that a lot of women just have sperm donors. This same verse tells us that He also loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.

In verse 19, we are told "and you are to love those who are aliens for you yourselves were aliens." So with that said, what should the United States do with all those aliens who have come to America? Just send them back or put them behind bars? Behind bars if they broke the law, but what about those God-fearing people who have come to America to look for honest work? Let me ask you this, were you ever an alien? Before you answer that, think about it. Yes, I was born in America and grew up in Harrisburg, PA. But sometime in my past someone in my family had to come to America. As for me, I moved from the East Shore to the West Shore and we purchased land and put up our house. It became a home when we invited in Jesus. So I really was an alien to the West Shore. I guess some people would have sooner had the woods instead of a home on Dewalt Dr. I think if we look at it, all of us have been aliens in our lives at some time or another. But let me add this. Jesus died for us on the cross, and if we believe we will get to Heaven. Will we be an alien there? Think about it, we are not there now, but we will be and Jesus will welcome us if we just follow some simple rules. Have faith, believe, Love God, and Love our neighbors.

In verse 20 it tells us we are to "fear the Lord our God and serve Him." I ask this day, are we all doing this? Some people have told me they do not fear God for He is all loving. Yes, He is all loving, but in reverence we need to fear what will happen if we do not believe. Our choice. Love God, go to Heaven, deny God and burn in Hell. That is making it very clear.

Today a couple of people went to work, in a short time they were dead. Did they make Heaven? I don't know! A car accident, a plane comes through the roof of your house. Folks, it can happen! So why wait? Please join me today and if you have never come to Jesus, please do it now. In faith will you pray with me today? Maybe even just to renew.

Dear Father in Heaven. I confess that I love You and according to Your word found in our Bibles if we confess with our mouth and believe in our hearts that Jesus died and was raised from the dead we would be saved. Save me this day, Lord, for I do believe. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Have a great evening. Go Red Land! Love ya,

Pastor Dan