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Yesterday I was a floor laying fool. I tore up a rug at Phil’s place and brought it to a rental. Jeanne didn’t look too swift. She was laid out on the easy chair in pain! She could use some encouragement. While I was there I went out to Phil’s shop where Mike was working on Church kitchen cabinets. We had a good discussion about the gas shut off. From there I went to a rental and laid a linoleum floor and trimmed it out. Wow did it look good when I was finished! It happened to be our renter’s birthday so Susan put up a few signs saying “happy birthday Angie! Enjoy your new floor!” She called later and was so excited, “best birthday present ever!” she said. After that I worked out with Kyle and Marcia and went home to do some paperwork… it’s getting close to the end of tax season! I’ve got to get on the ball!
Today is March 17, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. This is your invitation to take one step forward every day in your relationship with Christ. We invite you to do something unbelievably radical. We invite you to deny yourself, take up your cross daily and follow Jesus
Today’s Scripture reading is Judges 11; Proverbs 8; Luke 11:29-54
Today’s thought comes from 1Jo 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, because they were not of us…
Obama is the Antichrist! He’s inspiring, seemingly out of nowhere and followed by entranced mobs. I’m sure he’s the Antichrist as was Kissinger, Hitler, Mussolini, George Bush and David Hasselhoff of Baywatch fame! Right. Everybody has a theory. If we guess often enough, one of them is bound to be right! Keep guessing! Who is the Antichrist? Only God knows. But… just from his title we can tell two things about him. #1 Anti means against. The Antichrist will be antagonistic to Christianity and to our Savior. Expect the Antichrist to be passionately against our most precious truth that Jesus is the only way to God. That will evoke scorn and censure from him. #2 Anti also means “in place of.” Expect the Antichrist to set himself up in place of Jesus. In the book of 2 Thessalonians and Revelation the Antichrist sets himself up as a god to be worshiped. In fact everyone on the earth will be expected to worship him as they were forced to worship some of the Roman Caesars of old. The only modern parallel to emperor worship is North Korea. Even as I write this the North Koreans are forced to worship Kim Jong-il or face punishment, torture and death. That is happening today! Christians are being persecuted and killed in North Korea like in no other country on the face of the earth. Kim Jong il is an example of what the Antichrist will be like. Many antichrists will come before The Antichrist shows up on the scene. Another characteristic of the Antichrist is that apparently he will come out of Christianity. It is popular for a politician to claim he’s a Christian. After all there are a few billion people on planet earth who say they are Christians. If you want their vote or support, you should identify with them. Jimmy Carter said he was a Southern Baptist. George Bush professed to have an evangelical faith. In an interview John McCain once said, “The most important thing is that I am a Christian.” He even wrote a book called “Faith of My Fathers.” And Barak Obama says he’s a Christian. He spent years in a black liberation theology church pastored by Jeremy Wright. These men all identify themselves as Christians but their theology is worlds apart, and in some cases universes removed from biblical truth. From 1 John it appears that the Antichrist will do what every other politician does… identify with the masses so that he can become popular… and then look out! When Antichrist comes to power he will promulgate the worst persecution and slaughter of God’s people ever known in all of history. We’re already deep in a trend that is hostile to faith… you’d better share your faith while you can!
Dear Jesus. You are my Savior. I will serve and worship you and no other. You are the one true God. Please help to be bold and share my faith while I still can! Help me to be unafraid of what man can do to me. If You are for me, who can be against me?
You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, For in the LORD, is everlasting strength
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