Thorns in Your Sides Part 4

 

Sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

August 2, 2015

Scripture Reading:  Ephesians 2:11-16

It's Not Jews and Gentiles

Ephesians 2 is a chapter that seems to be a great mystery to almost every preacher in the country.  They constantly miss that the two entities talked about in this chapter are not “Jews and Gentiles” but the House of Judah and the House of Israel respectfully.  That is the “US.”

The Old Testament informs us that the House of Israel, after separating from the House of Judah, became a people who got farther and farther away from keeping God’s laws that they became outright Baal worshippers.  Elijah was sent to the House of Israel to demonstrate to them who their God really was; it wasn’t Baal.  Elijah had a contest between the two to show them that their God was the God who brought them out of Egypt.     

God won; the priests of Baal were murdered; but the House of Israel kept on worshipping the false god.  Finally, God had to obey His own law that said that the House of Israel would be taken into captivity and would be a nation no more. 

Broken Covenant

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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.

Who Chooses Whom?

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August 16, 2015

Scripture Reading: Hebrews 2:14-18 King James and Christogenea New Testament

Jesus Christ is sovereign!  Man is not. They both cannot be sovereign at the same time.  Jesus Christ is also sovereign in who He died for and saved!  He died for the “sheep”, both past and present.  He died even for many in the genetic line of the Israelites who had lived and died before He offered His sacrifice.

He died for the sin debt committed by Adam, Abraham, Noah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Joshua, David, Hezekiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, Ezekiel, Aaron, John the Baptist, Samuel, Asa, Josiah, Elijah, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Isaiah, Nehemiah, Ezra, Asaph, Obadiah, Haggai, Ruth, Boaz, etc. and rose from the dead to ensure that they too all received the promises of the Father.  All these aforementioned people were dead when Jesus Christ was sacrificed and rose from the dead.

It does not say that He took on Him the “seed of Edom,” or the “seed of Canaan,” or the seed of Ishmael,” or the “seed of Japheth,” or the “seed of Ham,” or the “seed of the Zulus,” or the “seed of Shelah,” or the “seed of the Koreans,” or the “seed of the Indonesians,” but it says He took on Him the “seed of Abraham.”

Thorns in Your Sides Part 3

 

From the Sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

 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:

The Key to Happiness

From the Sermon Notes of Pastor Don Elmore

July 19, 2015

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 20:16-18

I will have to postpone again the continuation of my series on the jewish influences on America in the past century.  There are so many things that are happening right now in the world, that it is very difficult to study for the purpose of explaining what is coming to pass.  We are living in an occult/Satanic/illuminati/jewish world right now that is trying to win everyone over to their way of thinking.  They want us to worship their gods!

From today's scripture, Deuteronomy 20:16-18, one can see that not all peoples are equal.  Was our God in favor of integration or did He command His being to segregate? 

God certainly doesn’t love the Hittites (wasn’t that Esau who married two Hittite women?), the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.  He instructed His people to kill every one of these people so that His people would not follow after their abominations and worship their gods!

God is telling us that there are people in this world that have different gods.  We, the covenant people are not to follow after them.  We have a different God than they do.  That is why God instructs us to live separately from these other peoples. 

In today’s world we have the exact opposite.  Instead of each race living in their own continent; which they did for centuries, they now are arriving in the Israel nations, which are called the “melting pot” nations of the world.  And after a while living here, the “civil rights” (jewish/Communist rights) of these same people has caused much more problems. 

Dangerous Times

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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.

Thorns in Your Sides Part 2

 

 

Sermon Notes of Pastor Don Elmore

May 24, 2015

Scripture Reading: Joshua 23:11-13

11) “Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

12) Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of  these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

13) Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes,  until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.”

Are these descendants of these people still living in the world today:  the covenant people of God, Israel and their enemy, the Canaanites?  If the Israelites married any of the remnant of the nations that use to occupy the land that they now lived in; they would become snares, traps, scourges, and thorns to them.  There is not one good thing said about any Canaanite in the Bible.

Who are they?   They are not called Canaanites today.  

Thorns in Your Sides Part 1

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.”  

Thorns in Your Sides

by Pastor Don Elmore

What happened in the world when I was born? I was born in 1942 and America had been fighting in the war for over a year. What was that all about; Why were we fighting to protect the Communists in Russia; Why were we fighting against fellow Christians?

Part 1: Biblical and modern day examples of thorns in our sides.  Discussion of where Judah and the House of Israel settled and are currently residing.

Who does the Bible say killed Jesus Christ?

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 multitude 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!