[CS-FSLUG] RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE -STIMULUS SERMON

[Fred A. Miller]

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.

Amen.

-- 
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, 
but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to 
maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt 
to abuse them, which would include their own government."
--George Washington

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