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    paul turner
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    by paul turner » Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:48 pm

    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 and
    not one of the sheep. Perhaps we should each decide who our
    real leader is..... It is amazing to see that very little has
    changed in 4,000 years.

    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 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...
    If you ain't crashin', you ain't ridin' :-)
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    by Asmith » Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:57 pm

    TO: [email protected]

    RE: PT

    To whom it may concern,

    Paul Turner is at it again. This time he is speaking blasphemy against the Messiah...errrr...I mean Mr. Obama.

    I know the $ 100 payments are no longer in effect (although I hear there is plenty of stimulus money left over) but maybe I can get some grain...

    Sincerely,

    A. F. Liberal
    Last edited by Asmith on Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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    by bocephus450x » Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:21 pm

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    There's no right way to eat a Rhesus
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