Tuesday, May 13, 2008

TWG - May 13, 2008

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TWG - May 13, 2008
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Genesis 49; Psalm 9; Matthew 14

Today is May 13, 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

Yesterday was work around the house day… all day. Wayne showed up about 7:30 in the morning and soon both of us were out back. For most of the day, Wayne climbed my walnut tree and cut it down. Everything went as planned except for one cut. It dropped on the neighbor’s fence and took out quite a bit of it. Now I need to think about what to do about replacement. But what a relief to have the tree down! It was in such bad condition, it could have fallen on the neighbor’s house in a windstorm. After we got the tree down and cleaned up, I mowed the lawn. That just about did me in. And later in the day I did finances. Believe it or not, once I finished that it was bed time! I put a picture of ale and Mike in the new Kitchen Pantry where they were working on shelves on the blog at timewithgod.mypodcast.com.

This week’s theme verse is Romans 1:19-20. What may be known about God is plain enough, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

A Russian Czar once asked his court theologian for a proof that God exists… he gave this answer, “Your Jew, your Jew, your hated Jew.” An atheist was once asked what he would say to God when he died and discovered indeed that God exists. He said, I would say, “Why did you hide yourself so well?” God has not hidden himself. Only those who wish to be blind close their eyes to the evidence. We don’t need to look any further than the Jew, a unique people with a miraculous background. Show me any other people that have been scattered to every nation under the face of the earth who have been able to maintain their distinct religious and ethnic background and then return to their homeland after a hundred or a thousand years to reclaim their heritage. There are no other nations like this. But Israel has done it three different times. Once in 1948 after being dispersed to every nation under the face of the earth nearly 2000 years before; once at @ 500 BC after being dispersed by the Babylonians 80 years and the Assyrians 200 years before that; and once under Moses leadership when they came out of Egypt where they had lived as slaves for over 400 years. In each case powerful men tried to destroy the Jew and failed. Pharaoh did his best to enslave them, kill their children and finally he called on his entire army to march against these unarmed nomads. He lost. God delivered them in the most amazing way at the crossing of the Red Sea. Haaman tried to annihilate the Jew. He set a day and sent out an edict that on that day every Jew was to be eradicated. But God delivered them using Queen Esther. Hitler did his best to rid the earth of the Jew in the ovens of Auswitch and other concentration camps. But out of that dark day the modern nation of Israel was born in a miraculous way. Why do so many people have such an irrational hatred for the Jew? Could it be that there is a real spiritual battle going on and that God has revealed himself to the world through the Jew? Think about this: Each of these returns to the land was prophetically foretold hundreds of years in advance which leads us to a second amazing fact about the Jew. God chose a shabby, disorganized, insignificant group of people to pass on the “Oracles of God” to the nations. The Bible, God’s revelation, came through the Jewish prophets. The amazing thing about the Bible is that it is historically accurate, archaeologically true, and scientifically correct in all its statements. It is God’s revelation… God revealed Himself to us through the prophets. God has made Himself plain to us. You just have to read the book!

Dear Father, thank you for revealing yourself to us in history and in your Word. Thank you that we are not left in the dark to fend for ourselves, but you have loved us so much that you sent your own son to reveal the Father. Lord we are blessed to have the truth. Since we have it, may we apply it to our lives!

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