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(RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE-STIMULUS SERMON)
Genesis 47:13-27

I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in
Virginia a hug and a high five. This guy is obviously a leader.  Perhaps we should each decide who our  real leader is….It is amazing to see that very little has  changed in 4,000 years.
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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?  ….(reading)… 

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 storehouses 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.

 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.

Can I get an Amen????

In God We Trust…
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The Story of Faith

This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002.
He was born with  2  legs -
He of course could not walk when he was born.
Even his mother did not want him.

His first owner also did not think that he could survive and he was thinking of ‘putting him to sleep’.  But then, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met him and wanted  to take care of him. She became determined to teach and train this little dog to walk by himself..   She named him ‘Faith‘.

In the beginning, she put Faith on a surfboard to let him feel the movement.
Later she used peanut  butter on a spoon as a lure and reward
for him for standing up and jumping around.
Even the other dog at home encouraged him to walk.
Amazingly, only after 6 months, like a miracle,
Faith learned to balance on his hind legs and to jump to move forward.
After further training in the snow, he could now walk like a human being.

Faith loves to walk around now.
No matter where he goes, he attracts people to him.
He is fast becoming famous on the international scene and
has appeared on various newspapers and TV shows.
There is now a book entitled ‘With a Little Faith‘ being published about him.
He was even considered to appear in one of Harry Potter movies.

His present owner Jude Stringfellow has  given up her teaching post and plans to take him around the world to  preach that ‘even without a perfect body, one can have a perfect soul’.

In life there are always undesirable things, so in order to feel better you just need to look at life from another direction.

I hope this message will bring fresh new ways of thinking to everyone and that everyone will appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful day.
Faith is the continual demonstration of the strength and wonder of life.

A small request: All you are asked to do is keep this story circulating.

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