[Swiftwater Gazette] Brad in need of a sermon (circulating internet)

[Brad Haslett]

Elle,

File this under "ah come on, you've got to be shittin' me", I used to
be an adult Sunday School teacher. Since I've become a bit rusty on
the Old Testament, I now rely on YouTube to stay current -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDzyaOGzn4

Brad

On 2/24/10, elle <ragdollelle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Great story...and I'd like to believe it happened.....but without
> attribution and verification it loses veracity.
>
> elle
>
> --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Swiftwater Gazette] Brad in need of a sermon (circulating
> internet)
> To: SwiftwaterGazette at mailman.theswiftwatergazette.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 10:12 PM
>
> Ed,
>
> Good Sermon.  Quite frankly, my knowledge of Jewish history is a bit
> rusty so this forced me to drag the King James version off the shelf
> to "trust, but verify".  Thankfully, the New International Version is
> available online.  What I found interesting was that the deal Joe
> struck with the Pharaoh was for 1/5. Twenty percent?  Are you kidding
> me, I'd jump on that deal in a heartbeat.  Of course, the Egyptians
> didn't hold to that agreement. Fast forward to the book of Numbers and
> you get to Moses and his 40 years without a GPS.  Moral of the story -
> the government never keeps their end of the bargain, and the two guys
> who started Garmin, Gary and Ming (Ming got his PhD from the
> University of Tennessee) based their company in the Bahamas.  If only
> old Joe and Mo could have been so smart.
>
> Brad
>
> On 2/23/10, Ed Kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>> This is a timely message, eloquently spoken.......please read..........
>>
>> RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE
>>
>>
>> I would love to give the Minister 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.
>>
>> RECENT 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 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...
>>
>>
>>
>> "Doesn't this remind you of "The Obama Tactics" in America today ?"
>>
>> "Oh yeah, I forgot, we're not a Christian nation anymore !"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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