interesting sermon

Interesting reading from the Bible where much prophecy has transpired.
RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE

Gen 47:13-27

Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a
delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so
eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your
Bibles, if you will to the 47th chapter of Genesis,
we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through
verse 27.

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage
for us?

Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray.... So
we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the
people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this
for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest,
and placed the grain in great store houses that he had built.


So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a
great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in
return for grain. And this went on until their money
ran out, and they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their
livestock-their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their
donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only
took them through the end of that year..

But the famine wasn't over, was it?
So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and
admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their
own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our
land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our
land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they
surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate
to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into
slavery to him, in return for grain. What can we learn
from this, brothers and sisters?

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our
provider in hard times only leads to slavery?
Yes. That the only reason government wants
to be our provider is to also become our master? Yes.

Con 't

But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters!
Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt , in the
land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it, and
were fruitful and multiplied greatly." God
provided for His people, just as he always has!
They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says
they gained possessions! But I also tell you a great
truth today, and an ominous one. We see the same thing
happening today - the government today wants to "share
the wealth "once again, to take it from us and
redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control
of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education,
and ration it back to us, and when government rations it,
then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what
kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly,
then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt
did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the
government, and as slaves to our leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no
different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and
it will end the same. And a lot of people like to call
Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah? A
savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh
made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it
please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"?

Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the

Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. Obama is no Messiah!
No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character
from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.

Bow with me in prayer, if you will.

Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on
You, and You alone. We confess that the government is
not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1
Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would
do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out
because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves,
but the LORD will not answer you in that day."

And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry
out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for
ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation.

We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters.

Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and
protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government.
In God We Trust...

GOD BLESS AMERICA

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb, deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb." Benjamin Franklin

because you can't fix stupid not even with duck tape or JB weld & people are gullable