Sunday 2/21/16 The Big Trip (43)

A very, very important notice at the end of the message. Buck Rambo has gone to be with Jesus.

Dear Father in Heaven: I love You. Thanks for going to the Cross, Jesus, to save me from self-destruction. Please keep watch over Your flock, dear Jesus, my Savior and Shepherd. I am so happy to be able to say, Lord, that I am part of Your Flock and will be with You forever and ever. Thanks for watching over this line and thanks in advance for watching over all who use it and write or take part in it in any way. Please, Lord, know that I am sorry when I fail You and I ask You to forgive me when that happens. Please help me with the message as I wrap up on the 23rd Psalm. Then, Lord, please help me to get it dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, it has been a wonderful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Started out this morning with breakfast and then with singing and worshiping our Lord Jesus right here in our home. Then we put on Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and sang along with them and watched as Gabriel Swaggart preached and he was on fire this morning. Today I want to finish up on the 23rd Psalm as we keep going on our big trip. The Big Trip will end after Easter, after we talk about the death of Jesus on the Cross, then Him being risen from the grave and also His great promise, which I call now the greatest promise ever made. Let me get going.

Sunday: February 21, 2016: The Big Trip  (Day Forty-three)

The 23rd Psalm (Day Five)

Psalm 23 King James Version (KJV)

1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Brothers and sisters, it has been pure joy to be writing on the 23rd Psalm. And it is also exciting for I never know until I really get started where God is going to send me on the writing or with the writing. As any good pastor will tell you, there are many sermons in each and every scripture in our wonderful book we call the Bible. As I talk about this last verse, I want to be sure to tell you that to have this verse be true to you, you must be saved. You must have given yourself over to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In other words, and to use a couple of really scary words, you must be "Born Again" and once you are indeed "Born Again" this will for sure happen to you.

Psalm 23:6 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Yes, you will be able to jump and shout that Goodness and Mercy will be with you for the rest of your life here on earth and then you will go into the loving arms of Jesus Himself and be there forever and ever. Right now someone should be shouting out as loud as you can PRAISE THE LORD!

Let me set it out like this. I am "Born Again," washed in the Blood of our Lord Jesus and for sure His goodness, the goodness of Jesus or the good news of Jesus will follow me, and not just that His mercy, YES, His mercy, what Jesus did on the cross, His mercy for us will be with us forever and ever. And with that said I do want to share with You a couple of my favorite scriptures. Let me start with this one from Hebrews.

Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever. (NIV)

Now that scripture tells you just like it is. Jesus does not change. The Word in our Bibles does not change, although some people will pull it out of context and try and use it against you when you claim Jesus as your Savior. Here is another one I love.

Romans 8:28 - And we know that in all things God works for the good, of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. (NIV)

Here is another one that I love and it just tells me that we need Jesus to get into Heaven and we also need Jesus to intercede for us when we pray. In other words when we pray to our Father in Heaven, we need to place our prayers through Jesus. No one else will get us to the Father in Heaven but Jesus. No one, prayers offered up in the name of The Blessed Virgin Mary to our Father do not get there. Sorry, as wonderful as the Mother of Jesus really is, she cannot intercede to the Father for us. Here is the proof of what I am saying, backed up and supported by scripture.

John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV)

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (NIV)

John 3:3 - In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is "Born Again." (NIV)

Let me have one last look at Psalm 23, verse 6.

Psalm 23:6 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

John 14:1 - "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in Me. 2 In my Father's house are many rooms; If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I WILL COME BACK AND TAKE YOU TO BE WITH ME, THAT YOU ALSO MAY BE WHERE I AM." (NIV)

So my dear brothers and sisters, if you know and love Jesus, if you are indeed born again, then you can say, shout and sing out. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. AMEN.

Dear Father in Heaven, I love You and someday I want to live with You in our Mansion in Heaven. Please help me to repent and walk daily with You. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Now please go forth sharing and loving Jesus above everything else in your life. Jesus loves you, and yes, I love ya also.

Pastor Dan

Now sing this one with me.

Mansion Over the Hilltop

I'm satisfied with just a cottage below;
A little silver and a little gold.
But in that city where the ransomed will shine
I want a gold one that's silver lined.

I've got a mansion just over the hilltop
In that bright land where we'll never grow old.
And someday yonder we will nevermore wander,
But walk on streets that are purest gold.

Don't think me poor or deserted or lonely.
I'm not discouraged, I'm heaven bound.
I'm just a pilgrim in search of that city;
I want a mansion, a harp and a crown.

I've got a mansion just over the hilltop
In that bright land where we'll never grow old.
And someday yonder we will nevermore wander,
But walk on streets that are purest gold.

I've got a mansion just over the hilltop
In that bright land where we'll never grow old.
And someday yonder we will nevermore wander,
But walk on streets that are purest gold.

SPECIAL NOTICE. This word just in. Gospel singer Buck Rambo went home to the Lord at 6:00 PM this evening. Please pray for his wife Mae and their family. Another singer in Heaven.