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by Pastor Mark Downey

January 5, 2014

Scripture Reading: Luke 4:14-24

When Jesus began His ministry, at the age of 30, after 40 days of fasting, He returned “to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread throughout the whole surrounding region.  And He began teaching in their assembly halls and was praised by all” Luke 4:14-16.  His popularity was spreading like wildfire, because they were excited about somebody fasting that long; surely there would be a significant revelation.  He went to His home town of Nazareth, which was similar to today’s White Nationalists (who give lip service to the Creator of our race, but do not serve Him), and had the expectation of a warlike Messiah delivering them from Rome.  Some of the locals remembered the birth of Christ as something scandalous; as Mary claimed to have been miraculously impregnated by the Holy Spirit. 

On one of these occasions where Jesus spoke to the assembled, we read the account in Luke 4 where He stood up to read from Isaiah 61:1-2, “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor.  He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.  He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the assembly were fixed on Him” Luke 4:16-20.  A miracle, to give sight to the blind, is it not?  Or hearing to the deaf?  But that’s not what they wanted to hear.  Although the clause “He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted” in Isaiah 61:1 is inspired, all of the Greek texts omit this passage in Luke (even though the KJV has added it).   

Christ was reading about Himself; He not only came to heal the blind, but to open the eyes of those who were spiritually blind as well.  God told Moses, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord” Ex. 4:11.  Israel has always had this blind side. 

By Pastor Don Elmore

December 29, 2013

Scripture Reading 1 Kings 9:6-8

Have you ever wondered why so many of our brethren don’t seem to care when you tell them about the covenant and the promises that our God made with us?  Many just go on and live their lives neither agreeing nor disagreeing with anything that you say. 

It must be similar to what they did to the concentration camps in the Soviet Union and in Germany in World War II.  They made the captives of those camps to be in a fog; they didn’t object to most of the regulations that they were given.  The number of guards was cut to 75% of what they had been before.  That has happened because we are serving other gods; we are not obeying the Commandments that our God gave to us.

They put a by-product of aluminum in the water.  It made the prisoners docile and inhibited their questioning the authority of the camp leaders. Later they convinced many of the people to vote to add it to their water supply too; its name—fluoride.  It is now in most of the public water systems in America. 

This is a good explanation as to why we will have in January as the head of the Federal Reserve System, Janet Yellen, the first jewish woman. and as her assistant Stanley Fischer, a jew who was born in Africa and was head of the Israeli national banks for eight years before coming in his present position in America.  He was a former head of the economic department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former number two official at the International Monetary Fund and former chief economist at the World Bank.

by Pastor Mark Downey

December 22, 2013

Scripture Reading: II Thes. 2:10-12

From the KJV we read about “strong delusion” and that was my original title for this message.  However, upon reviewing other translations, instead of the word ‘delusion’ was the word ‘error.’  The Ferrar Fenton read “the energy of error”; the Christogenea NT read, “an operation of error” and still others said, “a working of error,” “a deluding influence,” and “a misleading influence.”  I wondered how could there be such a disparity of terms and what are these verses really talking about.  It obviously has something to do with the contest between truth and lies.  Common sense here tells us that the best safeguard against error or more poignantly the delusion (the mental condition in which you believe something that is not true) is “the love of the truth.” 

Pastor Don Elmore

December 15, 2013

Scripture Reading: Joshua 9:3-15

The ancient jews of this story in Joshua 9 tells of how they deceived our forefathers as they were fighting the war over the land of Palestine.  Our God had instructed Israel to kill every father, mother and child in the area; to make no covenant with any of the people.  But when the Gibeonites [close-by tribe] heard of what Israel’s God had done for them, they decided that they would disguise themselves  as being a people from a far-away land who had come to serve Israel.  The jews deceived Israel and got them to make a covenant with them. This action saved the lives of the Gibeonites but brought much difficulties to the Israelites.

How many people do you know that don’t like what President Obama/Sorento has done?  How about Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?  How about Vernon Jordan, or….how about Nelson Mandela?  They all support or supported Communist’s ideals and strategies.  What’s up?

Nelson Mandela had something in common with Martin Luther King, Jr.  To the Israeli he was a hero and is called a “mensch” or “great man” because he helped to overthrow “racism.”  The leaders of Israeli lauded Mandela while overseeing the deportation and imprisonment of Israeli black immigrants, saying Mandela “led the fight against racism.”

by Pastor Mark Downey

December 8, 2013

Scripture Reading:  Romans 9:3-5

Christianity today is plagued with tens of thousands of denominations, because Christians have lost the meaning of biblical adoption and have adapted to other religions of the world.  Apostasy means a ‘falling away’ and abandoning previously held beliefs.  Nothing could be more reinventing than the hyphenated “judeo-Christianity” and cause for another writ of divorcement from God.  At one time, blacks and other dark people knew their place in White society; and White Christian Americans understood their place in God’s scheme of things; His law and order for a civilized society.  They were the ‘heirs of the promise’ with a divine destiny.

by Pastor Don Elmore

Funeral Service of Ron Albers

November 15, 2013

Ron Albers was a friend of mine; a very good friend.  I loved him and I love his family; his wife, Joyce, and his 8 sons and daughters.  We bought beef from him on a regular basis.  The last time Ron and Joyce brought the beef down it was in the back part of their van; Ron helped unload the beef and we distributed it to our members from our garage.  Then we went to church.

I can tell you about Ron by what we believed.  We talked about what we studied and learned.  There are very, very few men who understood the Bible as well as he did.  The sacrifices that he and Joyce made for their beliefs will remain with me for the rest of my life. 

Ron and I  both had the same father.  It goes back a long way; but we both had Jacob/Israel, Isaac and Abraham as our fathers.  Abraham was God’s friend.  He cut in half a heifer, a she-goat and a ram, all three years old, along with a pigeon and a turtledove and made a path-way that Almighty God Himself, walked through by Himself.  Abraham was in “a deep sleep” when God cut the covenant.  So, it was an unconditional, everlasting covenant that God made with Abraham.

The Wake-up Herald

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Romans 13:11-14

By Jim Jester

Sometimes I get into conversation with well-meaning people concerned about the dreadful condition of the church and our country. I may say things like, “God is a God of judgment” or, “Jesus did not die for everybody” or, “God hates certain things, or even certain people.” Some will come back with a Bible verse taken out of context and say, “Don’t be so negative” or, “You are so divisive” or, “We are not to judge.” This was the case recently with a Sunday school teacher; so, I wrote back:

Electricity does not flow unless there is a negative and a positive. We need both; so I will be positive now. As a young Christian I was Arminian in my theological persuasion, I rejected all five points of Calvin (T.U.L.I.P.). But as time went on I became more of a Calvinist than an Arminian because God is sovereign – He chooses, not us. We only choose to serve Him. We cannot have it both ways, as I once believed, that God was for me and I chose to accept Jesus; therefore His vote and my vote made a majority.

I had always wanted unity in the church, but this conflict in doctrine has been struggled over by greater minds than mine. Men like Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and Arminius were not able to unite the Christian world. Since Luther posted his Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church, the debate has continued for centuries. I knew that according to Genesis 3:15 there would always be conflict in the world, but why not have unity and peace in the church?

by Pastor Don Elmore

December 1, 2013

Scripture Reading:  Exodus 20:1-3

Sandy Hook is nothing more than a big….no not a big, but a massive hoax—a false flag.  Just like all the others:  Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; The Lusitania; 9/11 destruction of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon; Aurora Movie Theater shooting; Boston Marathon bombing; JFK assassination; Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting….it doesn’t hold up when you investigate it.