Monday 9/28/15 One God!!!

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You very, very much and I give thanks to You for all things good this day. I give You praise, honor, and glory that Pope Francis has returned to his home safely. Please forgive all those who worshiped this man as if he was God or greater even. Father, thanks for taking me through more tests today and getting me ready for surgery. Lord, thanks for a chance to witness to others at my doctor's office today and even anoint a lady with oil and pray for her in Jesus' Name. Lord, please help me with the daily message and then please help me to get it dispatched. Please be with our veterans, our police, firefighters, and all others who work to keep us safe. I pray also today for worldwide peace. All praise and honor to You, Lord Jesus, as I lift my prayers in Your Name. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters: The message that God is giving me for today might upset a few people. As I have told you before, I try my best to write what God gives me. Today we are going to look at a couple of commandments. Let me get started.

Monday: September 28, 2015: Commandments (Day One)

Exodus 20:1 - And God spoke all these words. 2 "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery." (NIV)

Exodus 20:3 - "You shall have no other gods before me." (NIV)

Exodus 20:4 - "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments." (NIV)

Dear brothers and sisters, maybe it was the last straw that broke my back this afternoon or maybe just a lot of things all added together. This afternoon a lady was interviewed on the local news. She stated that "The Pope was the nearest man to God in the world." I want to tell you this right now, and I know I am 100% right on this. If you are "born again," if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you are as near or maybe even nearer to God, our Loving Lord Jesus, as anyone else including the Pope.

I watched as many, many people bowed down to this church leader and I think he is a good man but what he is not, he is not God, period!!! People are saying because of him many will return to their church. I ask this, what good is it to return to the church if The Word is not being preached and taught ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE!

I watched and looked and listened to many of the masses that the Pope held and other than a lot of ritual I did not hear a message on Salvation and what Jesus did on the cross. I did see this commandment broken over and over again and again, and mot often by other priests.

Exodus 20:3 - "You shall have no other gods before me."

Over and over again people would say, I just want to touch his robe. As a pastor Pope Francis might have been given the "gift of healing" but I did not see him hold a baby and pray and pray for them, just give them a kiss.

Exodus 2:4 - "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God."

A lot of people who went to Washington, to New York and Philadelphia, were bowing down and they made an idol out of him. Bobble head dolls, coffee mugs, you name it, they were buying it. And the news people falling all over themselves to get that story.

Let me tell you again, I watched and watched and received nothing from what I heard. Looking back in my life, back in the sixties, I can remember many a Sunday evening when I was picking up mail I would stop outside a "black church" at Fourth and Reilly Streets in Harrisburg and listen to my black brothers and sisters praising God and I got more out of those ten minutes each week, and in fact back then that was the only church that I would be near and the only Word of God I was receiving. Many years later in life Dolores and I traveled with some gospel singing groups, and at no time did any of them stand and take the glory away from God and always they would close their service or concert with a call for Salvation. And when on the road, we did the same thing. ALL GLORY AND ALL HONOR TO JESUS CHRIST.

Once again Jesus is the only way to our Father in Heaven. I can only pray that the Pope is indeed "Born Again" and I pray for all those who might follow him. You need to follow Jesus and not an earthly leader.

I need your prayers for healing, brothers and sisters. My pain level is so high that it is very hard for me to even sit at the computer.

Now go forth and please serve Jesus. Love ya.

Pastor Dan