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VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE -STIMULUS SERMON
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?
.... (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 mu ltiplied greatly." God provided for His
people, just as 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 health care, 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.
O 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...
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?
.... (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 mu ltiplied greatly." God provided for His
people, just as 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 health care, 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.
O 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...
