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FATHER’S DAY FOCUS – PART 1

Friday, June 15th, 2012

HOW NOT TO BE A FATHER


TODAY – AARON & ELI
TOMORROW- DAVID & SOLOMON
SUNDAY- HOW TO BE A GODLY FATHER
Were some of most famous people in the Bible horrible fathers? Yes, they were!

Let’s go back to the Exodus and the first High Priest of Israel – Aaron.  His sons Nadab and Abihu were just killed by God (Numbers26:61). They, as priests of the Most High, decided on their own to offer up strange incense fire to the Lord which He did not ask for. Where would these men learn to just do whatever they wish and think it would be acceptable to God?
They learned it from their father, Aaron, the golden calf maker. Exodus 32 recalls the horrifying incident of the Israelites confronting Moses’ brother Aaron. Moses had gone up the mountain to talk with God and receive the Ten Commandments.  Apparently the Israelites thought he was up there too long and complained to Aaron. He promptly told them to give up their golden jewelry and then made a golden calf – a worthless pagan idol – for them to worship.
Instead of standing up to the pagan-loving mob, Aaron went along. His sons noticed this about their dad. He would not stand up for what is right. So, in front of the Holiest of all time, on the day of the very first Complete Worship Service in the Desert Tabernacle (or Tent of Meeting), Aaron’s oldest sons – Nadab and Abihu went off on their own. They paid with their lives.
ELI:

Eli was both the High Priest of Israel as well as the Judge who succeeded Samson – called Shimshon- in the Hebrew language. He was well loved by the people and was in office for 40 years. Eli had two sons who are not named on purpose.

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A NICKEL AIN’T WORTH A DIME ANYMORE

Sunday, May 27th, 2012

WHO WILL STAND IN THE GAP?

The great and eloquent (!!) “wordsmith” Yogi Berra once said “a nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore” when he was at the 1955 opening of a new ice cream shop in the Bronx. The famed New York Yankee catcher from the “Hill” in St. Louis was lamenting, jokingly, the cost of a cone going up to 10 cents!

What else “ain’t worth a dime anymore”? When you think about the state of society and the future of our kids, it is enough to make a strong man shudder with fear and trembling. Do we really want our children to face what we know is a completely depraved and apostate society coming down the pike at us? We have no choice, unless End Time events spin out of control at warp speed, the anti-Christ is revealed and Jesus ends it all?

In the meantime, we have to live daily and plan and teach and guide our children. Now, more than ever, we have to teach the ways of the Lord with a more critical emphasis on Perseverance. This is the direction I sense the Lord leading me into. There is a strong Biblical reason for this. Jesus Himself says that “he who stands firm to the end, will be saved” (Matthew 24:13 NIV)!!!

What we’re seeing today is the acceleration of the “Falling Away” predicted by the Apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians….or the Apostasy. An apostate is one who has once believed something of the Truth of God in Christ, but like the parable portion of the seed cast on hard ground, his faith never really took root to become real!

More and more, with this happening, the horrible thing is Scandal of the American church slide into oblivion! It is not just the current issue over gay so-called “marriage” which is exposing the weak underbelly of today’s so-called Christian leaders, but their entire modus operandi.

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