Don Elmore Sermons

by Pastor Don Elmore

January 4, 2015

Scripture Reading:  2 Timothy 3:1-9

In the last days, the Bible says that men will have a distorted view of love.  They will be lovers of themselves and lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.  Men will love the world.

“Do not love the world or the things of the world.  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, for all this is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life—is not of the Father, but of the world.”  1 John 2:15-16

“If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you” John 15:18.

Rio De Janeiro

In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016 is where the Olympic Games are scheduled to be held.  The whole world will have their eyes on this site. We know that these universal games play a major part in the formation of the New World Order. Rio de Janeiro is where the huge statue of the false Jesus stands.  The famous Christ the Redeemer statue suffered damage on its right thumb when it was hit by a furious lightning bolt last January, one year ago.  Roman Catholics said that they will fix the thumb on this Jesuit statue. 

There was also another lightning bolt strike that hit St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on the same night that Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, stunning the world.  In fact, there wasn’t just one, but two strikes a few hours apart.  The lightning touched the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest of all the Catholic churches. 

Discussion by Pastors Don Elmore and Mark Downey, hosted by William Finck on his program Christogenea Saturdays on why we shouldn't celebrate Christmas.  

The beginning of this audio also includes a short discussion on the remembrance of the Battle of Blood River that our fellowship honors every December.   Join us in our annual remembrance:   Text and video of the sermon Battle of Blood River

"There are those who would reduce Blood River to secular history, but the Holy Spirit will not permit me to ignore the divine ramifications and the miraculous destiny that our Lord has planned for His people, Israel. This is the extraordinary story of God delivering the Boers of South Africa in a one day battle against the fierce and unrelenting Zulu's in 1838." Pastor Mark Downey  

by Pastor Don Elmore

December 21, 2014

Scripture Reading: Matthew 7:13-14:

The United Nations Peace Plaza in Independence, Missouri was unveiled on October 27, 1997, formally dedicated by United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan on April 25, 2003, and is described by its creators as “the only memorial in the world to those persons serving in the Peacekeeping Forces of the United Nations....”  In the center of this fountain is a 12.5-foot statue named “Girl with Dove” by its sculptor Tom Corbin and in 2003, a four-foot miniature was gifted to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Who is Tom Corbin?  I saw the picture of the statue that he made for the United Nations in my Miami University Alumni magazine.  Tom Corbin was a 1976 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.  At Miami, he studied drawing while majoring in marketing.  He started out as an advertising executive until a chance meeting with a bronze sculptor led to classes and thoughts of an art career, which he began in 1986.  He made the six statues of children for the Children Fountain in Kansas City.  And he made the sculptor the stands atop the United Nations Peace Plaza’s fountain in Independence, Missouri.  

by Pastor Don Elmore

December 7, 2014

Scripture Reading:  1 Kings 12:25-33

This map shows the two cities where Jeroboam 1 built his false temples; one in the South, the other in the North.  From the very beginning, the House of Israel did not worship their God correctly.

Let’s see what the opening Scriptures say about how the House of Israel began; The House of Israel had the:

• Wrong King:  Had a man who was not of the seed of David:  Jeroboam was a king who was born from the seed of Ephraim (2 Kings 11:26).  God ordained that all kings were to come from the family of David, of the lineage of Judah.
• Wrong Priests:  Jeroboam made priests of the lowest of the people:  None were of Levi.  God ordained that all His priests were go come from the line of Levi; no other tribe.
• Wrong Temple:  Jeroboam made two new temples; one in Bethel and the other in Dan.  Inside each temple he put what he said were the “gods that brought you out of Egypt”:  two golden calves.  God had built His house in Jerusalem.  His throne was in the inner court on the Ark of the Covenant.
• Wrong feast days:  Jeroboam made a feast that was similar to Judah’s but he celebrated it on the wrong month; the 8th instead of the 7th.
• Wrong laws kept:  Jeroboam kept a different set of laws than what God told them to do.   In fact, it says that the kings of Israel all followed after the commandments of other gods, particularly Baalim. 

The House of Israel experienced in 205 years: 19 kings; 9 dynasties; 7 assassinations; 1 suicide; 1 killed in battle; 1 died falling through a lattice and each new king was worse than his predecessor.  There was not one good king in the whole bunch according to the Bible.  The Old Testament refers to the kingship of Israel as all being disobedient to the Laws of God. 

The Books of the Bible

by Pastor Don Elmore

November 23, 2014

Scripture Reading: Genesis 5:1

Genesis

The Bible is the family history of the first man Adam.  It gives the generations of the race that Adam and Eve were parents of:  the White race.  The first ten chapters tell of where they lived, what they did, how long they lived, the first sin that happened in the race, the first deception that occurred in the race, the first big failure of the race and the judgment against it. 

The Big Question

by Pastor Don Elmore

November 9, 2014

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 31:23

What kind of government did Israel operate under when they were freed from Egyptian slavery?  Were they under a democracy?  Monarchy?  Dictatorship?  Republic?  No, there were under a form of government that no one else ever was under.  The seed of the people who were recipients of the covenant made and swore to by God; were under a theocracy. 

A theocracy was rule by God.  God had made a covenant with Abraham, later confirmed this covenant with his son, Isaac, and then passed it on to Esau.  But Esau despised the covenant and sold it to Jacob; the other of Isaac’s twin-sons.  This is why many, many times in the Bible, God refers to Himself as being the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Exodus 3:6, and many other places).It is nowhere written in the Bible, that God is the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Esau” although that is what most Christians believe!  God wasn’t the king of the entire world; He was king of His people.

Why was Israel in Egypt in the first place?  God, in his covenant, had said that His people were to go to a nation and serve them.  The time that they were to be there was 215 years; 4 generations.  The Canaanites, whose land they were promised, had not as yet fulfilled all of the evil that they were to do. 

by Pastor Don Elmore

September 7, 2014

Scripture Reading:  Exodus 7:22 

In the story of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, we have the magicians of Egypt duplicating three of the miracles from God that Moses proclaimed that He would do against the Egyptians.   Many Christians are unaware that the magicians of Egypt could do some of the miracles that God could do:

• Rods turned into serpents (Exodus 7:11-13)
• Turning of the water to blood (Exodus 7:22)
• Bringing up of frogs (Exodus 8:7)

In fact, if the Christians reads closely he will see that it just wasn’t just the magicians, but the wise men, sorcerers and the magicians that were called by Pharaoh (Exodus 7:11).  What was the difference between them?

1. Wise men:  men of learning; men who knew the occult arts.
2. Sorcerers:  men who revealed hidden secrets; to uncover.
3. Magicians:  men who were decipherers or interpreters of the hieroglyphic writings found in books containing magic formulas that belonged to the Pharaoh.

Exodus 7:11:  “Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers:  now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.”

Let’s recreate the scene in our mind:  Aaron took his rod and cast it before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a serpent.  Then Pharaoh called his wise men, sorcerers and magicians and they also threw their rods on the ground and they became serpents.  So we have a tie:  we have all of these serpents slithering on the ground:  one serpent from Aaron’s rod and the other serpents from Pharaoh’s occult crowd.  But it didn’t remain a tie; for Aaron’s rod (serpent) swallowed up their rods (serpents)!  This proved that God’s power is greater than the power of the magicians.

But this also shows us that the occult does have some power.  They can perform some of these miracles in like manner with their enchantments.  The magicians, wise men and sorcerers in the future will bring down fire from heaven and do various kinds of miracles to deceive even the elect.  Does this also include the healing of the sick?

The First Three Shepherds of Israel

by Pastor Don Elmore

October 26, 2014

Scripture Reading: Numbers 28:15-23

We are near the ending of the 40 years of wandering of the children of Israel in the wilderness after their miraculous exodus from Egypt.  It is almost time for them to cross the Jordan River and to do battle against the inhabitants of the Promised Land.  They had already completely destroyed all of the Amorites who were living on the East portion of the Jordan River. 

by Pastor Don Elmore

Part 1 The First Three Shepherds of Israel:  Israel had a government that no other nation on the face of the earth ever had.  It was known as a Theocracy.  It was in existence for about 1400 years but Israel wanted another kind of government.  They rejected God as their King so they could be like all the other nations.

Part 2 The Big Question: how many years was Israel under a theocracy?  When did they switch to a Monarchy?  The Bible tells a fantastic story of Israel's history. What is the major question that the average Christian doesn't even know?  Find out when you read this sermon.

Part 3 The Books of the Bible:  Ken Hamm equates "inter-racial" marriage with the marriage of a Christian with a non-Christian.  What is wrong with this?  And who were the people who plotted and attempted to kill Jesus Christ, according to the Bible?

by Pastor Don Elmore

October 5, 2014

Scripture Reading: 2 Timothy 4:3-4

Who is today's Scripture reading about?  When is this going to happen or has it already happened?  “They shall turn away their ears from the truth” means that they will not listen to the historical, biblical account, but instead they would believe a foolish or improbable story.

Did that happen in Timothy’s day or has it reoccurred over and over down through the centuries?  I used to belong to a church that taught that the Laws of God were nailed to the cross of Jesus Christ.  That, they said, meant that we do not have to obey His laws because they are now put away--abolished.  The only thing that now matters is Jesus and you must believe in Him.  I don’t think they considered the consequences of this doctrine!