Tuesday 3/22/16 The Big Trip (52)

Dear Father in Heaven: Thanks for the beautiful weather. I love  You. Please forgive me of my sins. Thanks for watching over family and friends and also those who use this line. Please protect this line from computer viruses and other trash that goes on in these computers. Please help me get caught up now with daily messages. Please also help me to get them dispatched. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Good morning, brothers and sisters. A note to Central Dauphin School Bus drivers who follow the line. Former Superintendent Dr. Richard Brothers and also former bus driver turned school teacher Joanne Cleck have both passed from this earth. Please pray for their families. As we keep working on this Holy Week, today I want to show you how we know Jesus walked this earth and where that is found in the scripture. So let me have at it.

Tuesday: March 22, 2016: The Big Trip (Day Fifty-two)

John 1:1-5 New International Version (NIV)

The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In Him was life, and that life was the Light of all mankind. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Brothers and sisters, I would invite all of you to go to the beginning of your Bibles and read the creation story. Just so you understand that in John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God" is referring to the start of creation, for God really had no beginning. And we will come to know, if we really love our Lord God, that God has no ending either. For we indeed will seek and have eternal life with Him. God Himself was not made, He just ALWAYS WAS! As you can see, our relationship and understanding of our Lord God does require all of us to have a deep faith. Please do not try and understand the Trinity by thinking of God the Father as the first God, and God the Son as the second God, and the Holy Ghost as the third God. It is God, manifesting into three parts. All were present before creation.

When I look at verse three it tells us "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made." Oh, now let me put that one in "Lehman's language." (Don't you just love it?) Since I am a car guy, you might say to me, "Dan, are you telling me God made the automobile and Henry Ford got credit for it?" Well, let me answer your question with a question. Who gave those early inventors the brains to invent things? Who put the iron in the ground and gave man, and that means woman also, the brains to get the iron out of the ground? Who gave man the brains to build and harness fire for good? Our Lord God, before He made man way back in creation, had everything that man would need to not just survive but to also multiply in numbers ready in advance for Him. Before Adam was placed in the garden He had it all laid out. God even made Adam a wife who was named Eve. A life partner so that they could multiply. God maybe only made one mistake in all of creation, and no, it was not giving Adam a wife. It was giving man "free will." God, right from the start, trusted us. It is HIGH TIME WE START TRUSTING HIM. Someone should scream out AMEN!

In verse five it talks about God being the Light, "The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." The darkness, meaning the forces of evil, do not understand God. Have you noticed that most crimes happen in the dark? To understand our Lord God we must come out of the darkness, meaning come away from Satan and put our full trust in Jesus. Note, please, I said "FULL TRUST." Those who don't fully trust in God are then being a fool. Jesus died on the cross to have us come out of the darkness, in fact He took away our dark side and all of us at one time or another had some dark things in our lives. Once you give them to Jesus they are gone, and you do not need to EVER tell another soul. SO DON'T!!!

Now let me go back to John 1 and see how we prove that Jesus is our Lord God.

John 1:14 New International Version (NIV)

14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Brothers and sisters, when we started the big trip it was back before Christmas and what we learned back then was about the day when "The Word became Flesh." That is history and no one can say that did not happen. The Bible in this verse also tells us that Jesus was, and that means He still is, full of "Grace and Truth." Yes, Jesus is the same. See Hebrews 13:8.

Okay, that is enough on this writing. I am going to dispatch this one and get started on the message for Salvation Wednesday. Please go forth serving Jesus and working hard for Him. And please take time to read the creation story again.

Love ya. Pastor Dan

Now if you really want to take care of your thirst, sing this awhile.

Fill my cup, Lord. I lift it up, Lord!
Come and quench this thirsting of my soul.
Bread of Heaven, feed me 'till I want no more.
Fill my cup, fill  it up and make it whole.

Fill my cup, Lord. I lift it up, Lord!
Come and quench this thirsting of my soul.
Bread of Heaven, feed me 'till I want no more.
Fill my cup, fill  it up and make it whole.