Saturday, May 24, 2008

TWG - May 24, 2008

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TWG - May 24, 2008
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Exodus 9; Psalm 19; Matthew 21: 23-46

Today is May 24, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. TWG is a covenant to seek the LORD God with all our heart and with all our soul. If you seek Him, He will be found by you.

Well, I made it through yesterday all in one piece. Sort of. I got the Discovery Class finished. Only one week after this. I worked most of the day on Sunday’s message called “Needed: A Praying Church.” One of high priorities must be prayer. God answers prayer, so we need to be praying. Particularly about those who don’t know Christ. It ought to be a burden on our heart. Bill and Helen stopped in. Bill compacted the form area in preparation for pouring concrete. Susan came in to do the bulletin and clean the church. Ken stopped in to give me the softball schedule. Our team got pounded on Thursday… 20 to 2. I think they must need prayer. Last night, Shaphen and I had to cancel tennis… and Susan and I spent a quiet night at home. I put a picture of our cat on the blog at timewithgod.mypodcast.com because I didn’t have any other pictures to put up there. check it out.

This week’s theme verse is Romans 1:21-23. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Can you imagine the ruckus if a group of college professors were caught on tape worshiping idols? The paparazzi would have a heyday with that. “Flash, Flash, Flash” (cameras are rolling) and it’s on every news show in the world. The picture of top scientists with doctorates and years of education, bowing down prostrate before statues of reptiles or monkeys or birds is a bit far fetched isn’t it? Surely they are more enlightened than that! Yet, I have to tell you, what they are doing is not far from it. Yesterday we talked about “nature worship.” Some of them are guilty of that! But there is a more pervasive version of idolatry that has infected the world. Many educators and scientists worship at the shrine of almighty matter. They believe that dead, lifeless, inert, unresponsive matter has the power to create life itself! Wow! That’s a trick! Kind of makes you want to pray to crystals or something! Something dead can make something living? How does it do that? They believe that the mindless, unthinking, single celled organisms that matter spawned have the power (and I suppose the intelligence) to design and create plants and animals and man himself! Woah! I am getting weak knees! Let’s have a worship service and praise the mighty amoeba! These guys, called evolutionists, are ascribing “god like” characteristics to wood, stone, plants and animals. Kind of makes the belief in an almighty creator God look sane after all! These guys and gals are educated, intelligent, hard working… they claim to be wise, but what other conclusion can you come to but that they are the fools. They have scorned the power and glory of the immortal God and credited His power to rocks, slime, plants and animals. It is beyond comprehension how someone so intelligent could be so wrong. How could any intelligent person believe this stuff! I guess if you can’t stand the idea of a “Higher Power” telling you what you can or can’t do, you might just be desperate enough to try to explain him away with nonsense. If you’re going to tell a lie, tell a whopper! And if you tell it long enough and loud enough, even you will eventually believe it. But that don’t make it so. Why would anyone ever consider trading the Living God for a Dead Idol? I don’t know maybe they are fools!

Dear Living God. I will bow down and worship you! You are the creator. You have life. I humble myself to you to live as you want me to. What else can I do? I owe my very existence to you. Lord, make me like yourself. You created me, you can change me. Please do so. Nothing is too difficult with you. I believe it!

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