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I’m up and running this morning. Almost on time, but not quite. Yesterday I tried hard to pace myself on different activities. I have so many to juggle. I worked on D2 for a little while… then I did powerpoint for the morning service. After that I spent some time working on Easter. John stopped by for a while and we talked about what God is doing in our lives. He was very excited to take away some solid concepts from men’s retreat that help him grow! He has the attributes of God posted in two or three places to remind him of how Great God Is! I called Dale to ask him to do some videotaping for me. We are going to try to tape a few testimonies of God’s grace for Easter. At Awana last night I had 6 boys in my car! And we finally hit the 30 mark! Wow that was fun. Enough of my day!
Today is March 19, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. We are doing something of eternal significance. We are redeeming the time. That is one of the basic premises of TWG. We believe that what we do every day is so important that we must do the important things each day. That is why we read the word every Day
Today's Scripture reading is Judges 13; Proverbs 10:1-16; Luke 12:22-59
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Today’s thought comes from 2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition
We like to say that there are no prophetic “signs” which need fulfillment to make the way for Christ to return. He could return at any moment! That doesn’t mean that there won’t be any signs. Nor does it mean that there aren’t some things that God is doing to set the stage for Christ’s return. Christ could have returned 100 or 1000 years ago if he had wanted. He could have, at any time, rearranged the players and set the table for the end times events of Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel and Revelation. That’s why we can’t depend on signs to signal the Church that… hey, it’s tomorrow, or next week or the year 2012. He doesn’t need them. But there are prophetic milestones. One irrefutable sign is that Israel is back in the land and in control of her own country. The nation really lost self government after Babylon defeated them in BC 586. They had a few years of self rule under the Maccabeans, but not many. Not until Statehood in 1948 did they have their own country back. Israel has to be in the land so that the end times events can occur. Another milestone will be the Great Apostasy of the church. There have been many departures from the faith, some by whole denominations. But this is talking about a wholesale departure of enormous proportions. In the original language it is not “an apostasy” it is THE Apostasy. We already have so many indications that the church is gelatinous and unstable. Denominations continue to crumble in the wake of worldly pressure. Many of them already have given up on the Bible. They don’t believe it to be God’s inerrant Word any longer. Most religious colleges and even Bible colleges now teach that man got here through evolution rather than through Creation, as though the debate over the theory of evolution was settled and they won! Hardly! Ridiculous! Evolution can’t even answer the most basic questions of how it happened. Add to that the Emergent Church which believes everything and nothing about the truths of the Word of God. What we today call the Church is over-ripe and ready to spoil on a massive scale. My guess is that The Apostasy will somehow be tied to the appearance of the Antichrist. He will be the final deceiving influence which will throw the worldwide church into chaos. Those two events seem to be a trigger-point for the Coming of Christ for the True Church. Get ready!
Dear Father, help me to be faithful. With so many departing from the faith in fulfillment of prophecy, let me not be one of them. I want to influence a generation of people for Christ. Help me to be a witness and a shining light to those around me so they can see the truth and find the way to you.
Trust in the LORD forever, For in the LORD, is everlasting strength
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