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September 27, 2015

Scripture Reading:  Acts 15:7-9

The Roman Catholic Pope came to America this week.  At the same time the Unholy Father dropped in on the nation’s capital, the Jews were celebrating their holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur; which was from Tuesday evening to Wednesday evening.  And the Muslims were celebrating one of their two most important festivals, from Wednesday evening to sundown Thursday. 

For Muslims, the event meant choosing between overserving their holiday and listening to the pope’s address to Congress, which was pushed back a day to avoid Yom Kippur.  Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, marks the willingness of Abraham to comply with God’s request to sacrifice his son [Isaac], as well as the end of the hajj, the period when Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  At this year’s hajj pilgrimage at least 717 people were killed and more than 850 injured in a stampede outside Mecca.  Hundreds of thousands gathered for the rite, where pebbles are thrown against three stone pillars representing the devil.   

Jewish staffers at the White House had to choose between observing Yom Kippur—also known as the Day of Atonement, when traditionally, Jews spend the day fasting and participating in religious services—and being there when the Pope visited with President Obama.   Rabbis and other religious Jews weren’t there among the thousands who welcomed Pope Francis to Washington, D. C.¹ 

Few relationships in the United States’ political history have changed more over time than between United States Presidents and the Roman Catholic Popes.  Once they were totally avoided; they didn’t meet at all.  Now President Obama is the 11th consecutive president to have a meeting with the pope, beginning with President Dwight Eisenhower. 

Before the string of 11 consecutive meetings of the presidents with the pope, there was only one president who had ever met the Pope—that was the Jewish controlled President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.  He met the pope in Rome after signing the Versailles peace treaty which ended World War I.

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August 30, 2015

Scripture Reading: Genesis 27:34-38, 41

A People Without a Country

I remember reading in high school the short story about “A Man Without A Country.”  I don’t remember all the details, as it has been over 60 years ago since I read it, but the man was convicted of some crime in the country that he immigrated to, and the country deposited him.  The crime was of such a nature that the country that he left wouldn’t take him back either.  So he just floated on a boat in the international waters for the rest of his life.

There is also a people that do not have a country either.  They are destined to live in any country that will have them for they are able to parasitically make a good living off of them until they kill the host country.  It has happened over and over in history and yet very few people are aware of it. 

The Bible tells of these people.  This portion of Scripture--is it just a story of what happened to one of the many families in the Bible, or is it told to give us a clue as to what is happening in the world today?  Let’s take a short quiz on the family of Isaac and Rebekah:

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September 13, 2015

Sermon Reading:  Romans 16:17-18

The internet has turned the world into pornography junkies.  From 10 years old and upward a large number of people have access to pornographic materials from the internet.   Then there was the problem of the website known as AshleyMadison.com that was hacked.  Thirty-three million users that were hidden became known.  How much damage did this website cause?

Then there is the fact that America has been polluted by blood in the killing of its preborn.  Abortion has murdered millions of babies in America and then we discover that they (Planned Parenthood) are in the business of selling illegal aborted baby parts.  There were videos that exposed Planned Parenthood directors talking with customers for the illegal baby parts.  What a lucrative, dirty and unlawful business.

And if that wasn’t enough, there was the roller coaster ride of the financial markets.  Markets, beginning with China, all had one of their worst days and weeks on record. 

And then there are the fires out west, the drought, the plight of insects, the disease, the crime…. all happening in the land of the free and the brave.

But that isn’t all.  The Sodomites are happily out of the closet.  They parade down the streets of the largest cities in the country.  The United States Supreme Court has made it a federal law, even though the Congress is the only legal body that can make law in the country—they can now marry.

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 June 14, 2015

Scripture Reading: Joshua 23:11-13

I never got to study World War II in high school as we always ran out of time.  We had spent so much time on all the explorers at the beginning of the semester, that there was no time left to study the most recent wars.  I think that was a big mistake.

I was born approximately one year after Japan attacked the United States Navy in Pearl Harbor.  Japan and Germany were fighting on the same side.  They had made an agreement that if anyone declared war on the other, they had declared war against them.  This was against God’s law and a huge miscue for Germany.

So, that is how I learned of how we (the United States) got in the war to fight Germany.  But I always had two perplexing questions:

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July 5, 2015

Scripture Reading:  2 Timothy 3:1-5

Today's reading, what a great description for today’s world!  I am interrupting my series on “The Thorns in Your Sides” because there is so much occurring in today’s world that is evil that I thought that I needed to bring a sermon on what is happening.  Every new invention has a good and evil aspect to it.  We are fast approaching the time where there would be “much learning” but it doesn’t produce the scholars that would reveal the truth of the Bible.

There are a multitude of verses which tell us of God’s love for a certain people that has been forgotten or relegated to the Old Testament, which, they say, is about another people.  Let’s look at just one such scripture:

Deuteronomy 10:14-15: “Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens belong to the LORD thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.”

These two verses were spoken to the Israel people; not the Jews or Canaanites, for they are not the same people.  The Jews were not there to hear this when it was spoken by Moses.  God told them (the Israelites) that He delighted in their fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel) to love them, and that he chose (or elected) their seed after them which is you, which are above all people.

Sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

May 17, 2015

Scripture Reading: 2 Chronicles 28:1-4

Have you ever had a thorn in your side?  Do you remember how it felt?  It didn’t feel good.  It was painful and hindered your ability to move.  The solution was not to do anything; but you had to find a way to get the thorn removed.

There are many instances since this warning was issued that the thorns have pierced the sides of the Israelites.  Like the individual, they proved very painful to Israel.  The Canaanite/Edomite was originally destined to be completely destroyed.  But Israel failed in their attempt to destory them, as they left some of them around.  God provided “the drawing of lots” to have Israel inherit the former land of the Canaanites, but gave them their warning about the survivors being “thorns in your side.”  

Sermon Notes of Pastor Don Elmore

May 3, 2015

Scripture Reading: Matthew 27:20-25

America's New Low

The past couple of weeks has brought America to its lowest point, as the country stands in a mass of quicksand; and it is sinking fast.  Bruce Jenner, former Olympic champion, had his two hour interview on television in which he made the oxymoronic statement that “He is a woman.”  His transgendered announcement was linked to Ellen DeGeneres’ statement that she was gay twenty years ago.

But it was the general agreement on the television, radio and newspaper news that astonished me.  All of the comments were favorable.  The interview, that many were waiting for, revealed early on that the former Olympian and reality show star has transitioned into someone Jenner would only call “her.”  And a multimattude of gay, lesbian and transgender advocates as well as other members of the public said they thought the two-hour interview on ABC’s 20/20 was well done and that they applauded Jenner, 65, for the move.

“By sharing this story, Jenner is helping to raise the visibility of transgender people and the transgender community,” said transgender triathlete Chris Mosier, founder of the TrtansAthlete.com website and executive director of GO!Athletes, a national network of current and former LGBTQ student athletes. 

Jay Brown, director of research and public education for the Human Rights Campaign, also in Washington, said Jenner demonstrated “fearlessness” in sharing details of dressing up and struggling with sexual attraction for women while identifying as a woman.

I know that not all the people agree with this kind of behavior, but the news people must be forbidden to find any.  The nation is embracing the sodomite practices so much it would make the ancient destroyed cities of the plain blush.  On the homosexual web sites I found that they believe that their abominable practice is NOT a sin.  They point out all the great accomplishments of past sodomites and say that they only thing that says that they are evil is the Bible.  As a result every 501 (C) 3 church will lose their tax status in the near future!