Don Elmore Sermons

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!

by Pastor Don Elmore

August 24, 2014

Scripture Reading:  Revelation 18:4

The Church and its Music

The church began with their singing of the Psalms that are found in the middle of their Bible.  The Psalms were put to music and the congregation sang the praises to our God.  Over the last several hundreds of years new hymns were written; some good, some bad.  But in the last fifty years, something new has slipped into the churches:  the singing of rock ‘n’ roll.  The church is drawing closer and closer to the world and not to God.  The church is serving other gods and not the God of the Bible.  The church has learned the way of the heathen.

by Pastor Don Elmore

September 21, 2014

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 2:14-15:

The Foursquare Church is continuing the vision of Aimee Semple McPherson to reach out to the Jewish community through the efforts, service, and support of the Foursquare Rabbis Caucus. “It is important at this stage that we carefully nurture the seed of Messianic hope that's been planted here tonight,” said Kurt Reust, a licensing Foursquare Messianic leader from The Rock, a Foursquare Church in Anaheim, California.

This Inaugural Messianic Passover Seder is intended to be the first of many. As the Foursquare Rabbis Caucus grows and matures, it hopes to sponsor similar events in order to build bridges between the Messianic Movement and the Church, bringing together Jew and Gentile to further the Kingdom of God. “For God Himself is our peace, who made both  groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall... that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace” Ephesians 2:14-15.

by Pastor Don Elmore

August 10, 2014

Scripture Reading Galatians 1:6-9

Mormonism strives with great effort to masquerade as the restored Christian church complete with an exclusive message, infallible prophets, higher revelations for a new dispensation which the Mormons would have us believe began with Joseph Smith, Jr. in the 1820’s.   Joseph Smith wrote in the Pearl of Great Price, Chapter 2, verses 1-25; that when he asked the Personages who stood above him in the light, which of all the sects (Christian churches) was right and which one should he join, he received the following answer:

• All Christian churches were apostate; they were all wrong; No Christian church.
• All Christian creeds were an abomination to God; No Christian theology.
• All professors of Christianity were corrupt; No Christians.

In other words, a restoration of true Christianity was needed, and that he, Joseph Smith, Jr., had been chosen to launch the new dispensation.  It all began in 1823 when the angel Moroni came to Joseph’s bedside and told him where the golden plates were hid in the hill Cumorah near Palmyra, New York.  Smith began to “translate” the “reformed Egyptian” hieroglyphics inscribed thereupon by means of the “Urim and Thummin,” a type of miraculous spectacles which the always-thoughtful angel Moroni had the foresight to provide for the new budding seer of the new Christian church. 

The “miraculous translation” taken from the hidden “golden plates” that the angel had told him where to find them; that translated word for word, even the mistakes, from the King’s James Version of the Bible which was written almost 2000  years after the golden plates were buried in the ground; became known as the Book of Mormon. 

Mormon theology is a polytheistic teaching that the universe is inhabited by different gods who procreate spirit children which are in turn are clothed with bodies on different planets; Adam-god being the god of this planet.  Adam-god had sexual relations with Mary to produce Jesus, the Son of god.  Lucifer was a spirit brother of Jesus prior to His birth.  The Garden of Eden was located in Missouri and not in Asia!  Mormonism is a universal religion; for they believe in universal salvation that all men will be saved, but each one in their own order.  Jesus will return to Missouri when he returns. 

Can you tell from the above that Mormonism is definitely not Christian?  It didn’t restore Christianity; it eliminates it. 

by Pastor Don Elmore

July 20, 2014

Scripture Reading: Judges 7:24, 25

This scripture reading tells of the victory that Israel had over the Midianites when they slew the two princes of that nation.  Remember that God had told Gideon 32,000 troops that Israel had, they would vaunt themselves against their God, saying, “Mine own hand hath saved me” (Judges 7:2).  So God instructed Gideon to eliminate 31,700 of the 32,000 troops:  Israel only had 300 soldiers left to fight the battle against the Midianites and Amalekites (Judges 7:6).  That is lowering the number of Israel’s army by over 99%!

The army of Israel was cut by over 99+%.  First, all those who were afraid were let go; that was 22,000.  Then 9700 men were let go who drank from the pond by putting their mouth in the water.  This left only 300 to fight against an army of over 135,000!  It lowered the odds from 1 to 5 to around 1 to 500.The soldiers of Gideon, which included men (no women) from the tribes of Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun, Naphtali and later Ephraim pursued after the Midianites and destroyed the enemy leaders named Zebah and Zalmunna and over 135,000 soldiers of the Midianites.   He was so successful that the “men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also; for thou hast delivered us, from the hand of Midian” (Judges 8:22).    Gideon answered:  “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you” (Judges 8:23).

Gideon dwelt in his own house for the last forty years of his life.  And he died when he was a good old age.  And it followed that after he was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot with Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

In Psalm 83, both of these nations, the Amalekites (verse 7) and Midianites (verse 9) are mentioned as being enemies of Israel.  This victory of Gideon is reflected in this Psalm when King David longed for the victory over Israel’s future enemies.  “Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb: yea, all the princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna, (verse 11).”  It looked forward to a time when their adversaries would be confounded forever (verse 18).

by Pastor Don Elmore

July 6, 2014

Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 25:1-7

This portion of Scripture gives the reference of when it was spoken:  the fourth year of Jehoiakim, king of Judah.  For twenty-three years, God had sent Jeremiah and His prophets to them telling the Judahites to repent.  Notice they all got up early.  Did any of the Judahites listen?

You can tell from the chart that the Kingdom of Judah went into the Babylonian Captivity eighteen years after this portion of Scripture was given.  The House of Israel was already taken into the Assyrian Captivity as well as most of the House of Judah.  It was given in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim and in eighteen more years Judah no longer existed as a nation.

By Pastor Don Elmore

June 22, 2014

Scripture Reading:  Genesis 12:6-9

6) “And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh.  And the Canaanite was then in the land.

7) And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:  and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

8) And he removed from there unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east:  and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. 

9) And Abram journeyed going on still toward the Negev.”  

When one reads the Bible what does one find?  The contents are not what the average Christian thinks should be in there.  Most churches do not teach anything about biblical history; only most of their Sunday schools do--if they have one.  But they teach very little about the kings, battles, religious views and genetic purity or mongrelization of each country; and it is totally disorganized.  They believe that it is not important.  Maybe this is one reason that most Christians don’t read their Bibles:  because it is so different from what they are taught in church.

The Bible tells the story of different races, primarily two; one pure and the other mongrel.  What does history have to do with the story of Christ’s birth, death, resurrection and ascensions?   What does the history tell us about personal salvation?  One would think this is what the Bible teaches from what the churches instruct; practically no biblical history.

by Pastor Don Elmore

June 8, 2013

Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 17:1-5

These five verses of Scripture tells us that for an Israelite, the covenant said that serving and worshipping other gods, one of which was the sun-god, was an abomination to God and the penalty for a person caught doing such a thing was death by stoning.  I am happy that this was not true in the United States, for I would be nothing more than a crumbled up mess of broken bones; because I served and worshipped the sun-god for about 2/5 of my life time; maybe even a little bit more.  I was totally ignorant of what I was doing.  I was deceived.

And, even after I told my friends and family that I no longer would exchange gifts with them, I still participated in the family gatherings and watched as family members exchanged gifts with one another, ate the Christmas meal with them (but refused to eat ham), and watched the football bowl games on television.  I did not convince any of them that keeping Christmas was wrong; except my sister and her husband at a later date.

It was not a “Merry Christmas” for me during those days.  What had me in a state of confusion was that I knew where Christmas began, but I thought Catholics were Christians!  In fact, I even thought that her daughters (Protestants) were Christians too.  Maybe some of them, over one hundred years ago were, but it is very hard to find one in today’s deceived mess of theology.  Even the Amish and Mennonites of today are a disgrace to their fathers of several centuries ago. 

But that is true with a whole range of things in the world today.  People do what they think is right and not what it says in the Bible.  For example, same-sex marriages are the rage now, for judge after judge is ruling that it is unconstitutional.  How can it now be unconstitutional when for over 250 years it was the law and it was constitutional?  And doesn’t the Bible teach absolutely against this sin and calls it an abomination of God?  God still calls it a major sin.

by Pastor Don Elmore

May 25, 2014

Scripture Reading:  Judges 10:6-9

Judges 3:7-8“And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the idols. There the anger of the LORD was HOT against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children on Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.”

What was the sin that was responsible for causing Israel’s God to be hot against them?  Verses 5 and 6 tells his that it was interracial marriages! 

Judges 3:5-6  "And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.”

Notice that the 2 ½ tribes of Israel that dwelt on the eastern side of the Jordon, lived in the land that was formerly controlled by the Amorites.  Moab dwelt in the southern portion of this land when they were in existence.

After Israel was delivered from this servitude, they once again committed evil in the sight of the LORD and they were put in servitude to Moab for 18 years.  But after the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raise up a deliverer who freed them from the Moabites and they had rest for 80 years. 

Bloodlines

I recently was sent a book via email that was written by John Piper.  He is one of the leaders of the reformed theology and he has already written twenty-eight books.  He is a Calvinistic preacher, who is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.  The book that I received was entitled, “Bloodlines; Race, Cross, and the Christian.” 

He was born in 1946; four years after I was born.  He lived his youth in Greeneville, South Carolina and when he was sixteen years old his home church voted to not allow Blacks into their services!  He lived in the middle of America’s separatism.  He confesses that he was a Southern racist. 

Well, what changed John Piper from a racist to an integrationist; from a separatist to a person that promotes interracial marriages? 

by Pastor Don Elmore

May 11, 2014

Scripture Reading: Luke 12:1-5

The Pharisees were a powerful religious sect who saw themselves as successors of Ezra.  They felt responsible for preserving, interpreting and teaching the law.  But the law to them was not just the books of Moses as revealed by God in the Old Testament, but also the ORAL law that Jesus referred to as their traditions, which led them into obsessions over small facts rather than the heart and essence (weightier matters) of the law.  Jesus told the disciples of the hypocrisy of these people and promised that their works would be made known.  He reassured the people not to be intimidated by these puffed up ones who proclaimed themselves the righteous authority.

Phariseeism is modern day Judaism.  Should we too be afraid of the modern day Pharisees?  What can they do besides kill us?  We shouldn’t be afraid of the jewish influence, but we should fear our own God.       The people who killed our Savior, are laying the framework to kill us.