Genesis 47:13-27

ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THIS IS WOW!!!!!
RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE-STIMULUS SERMON
Genesis 47:13-27

I would love to give the Pastor
of this predominantly black church in
Virginia a hug and a
high five. This guy is obviously a leader.
Perhaps we should each decide
who our real
leader is…..It is amazing to see that very little has
changed in 4,000 years.
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Good morning, brothers and sisters;
it’s always a delight to see
the pews crowded on Sunday
morning and so eager to get into
God’s Word. Turn with me
in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th
chapter of Genesis, we’ll
begin our reading at verse 13 and go
through verse 27.
Brother Ray, would you stand and
read that great passage for us?
…(reading)….
Thank you for that fine reading,
Brother Ray.. So we see that
economic hard times fell
upon Egypt and the people turned to
the government of Pharaoh
to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh
nationalized the grain
harvest and placed the grain in great storehouses
that he had built. So the
people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a
great tax increase, and
gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And
this went on until their
money ran out and they were hungry again.
So when they went to Pharaoh after
that, they brought their
livestock -their cattle,
their horses, their sheep, and their donkey -
to barter for grain and
verse 17 says that only took them through
the end of that year..
But the famine wasn’t over was
it? So the next year the people
came before Pharaoh and
admitted they had nothing left except
their land and their own
lives. “There is nothing left in the sight
of my lord but our bodies
and our land. Why should we die before
your eyes, both we and
our land? Buy us and our land for food
and we with our land will
be servants to Pharaoh..” So they
surrendered their homes,
their land, and their real estate to
Pharaoh’s government and
then sold themselves into slavery
to him, in return for grain.
What can we learn from this, brothers
and sisters?
That turning to the government
instead of to God to be our provider
in hard times only leads
to slavery? Yes. That the only reason
government wants to be
our provider is to also become our master?
Yes.
But look how that passage ends,
brothers and sisters! Thus Israel
settled in the land of
Egypt, in the land of Goshen.. And they gained
possessions in it and
were fruitful and multiplied greatly.” God
provided for His people,
just as He always has! They didn’t end up
giving all their possessions
to government, no, it says they gained
possessions! But I also
tell you a great truth today and an ominous
one.
We see the same thing happening
today – the government today
wants to “share the
wealth” once again, to take it from us and redistribute
it back to us. It wants
to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken
control of education, and
ration it back to us, and when government
rations it, then government
decides who gets it, and how much, and
what kind. And if we go
along with it, and do it willingly, then we will
wind up no differently
than the people of Egypt did four thousand years
ago – as slaves to the
government and as slaves to our leaders.
What Mr. Obama’s government is
doing now is no different from what
Pharaoh’s government did
then and it will end the same. And a lot of
people like to call Mr.
Obama a “Messiah,” don’t they? Is he a Messiah?
A savior? Didn’t the Egyptians
say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves,
“You have saved our
lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh”?
Well, I tell you this -
I know the Messiah; the
Messiah is a friend of mine;
and Mr. Obama is no Messiah!
No, brothers and sisters,
if Mr. Obama is a character
from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.
Bow with me in prayer,
if you will…
Lord, You alone are worthy to be
served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government
is not our deliverer and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth
chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people
of what a ruler would do,
where it says “And in that day you will cry out
because of your king, whom
you have chosen for yourselves, but
the LORD will not answer
you in that day.”
And Lord, we acknowledge
that day has come. We cry
out to you because of the ruler that we have
chosen for ourselves as
a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray
for revival and we pray
for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to
seek You and hands to serve You and protect Your people
from the atrocities of
Pharaoh’s government.
In God We Trust…

Democrats and poverty rates……

What  do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest  poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit , MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961.

Buffalo , NY (2nd) hasn’t  elected
a Republican mayor since 1954.

Cincinnati , OH (3rd) hasn’t
elected a Republican mayor since 1984.

Cleveland , OH (4th) hasn’t
elected a Republican mayor since 1989.

Miami , FL (5th) has never had
a Republican mayor.

St. Louis , MO (6th) hasn’t
elected a Republican mayor since 1949.

El  Paso, TX (7th)has never
 had  a Republican mayor.

Milwaukee , WI (8th) hasn’t
elected a Republican mayor since 1908.

Philadelphia , PA (9th) hasn’t
elected a Republican mayor since 1952.

Newark , NJ (10th) hasn’t
elected a Republican mayor since 1907.

Einstein once said, ‘The definition of   insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats yet they are still POOR!
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot build character and courage
by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln

Why I carry a gun.

PEOPLE ASK  WHY?
  Why I Carry a Gun
 
My old grandpa said to me ‘Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and
usually it’s when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin.’

I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I  don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I  don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world..
 
I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil.
I carry a gun  because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.
 
I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government.
I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government..
 
I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry.
I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
 
I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone.
I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
 
I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy.
I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a  cowboy.
 
I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man.
I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.
 
I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate.
I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
 
I don’t carry a gun because I love it.
I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
 
Police protection is an oxymoron.
Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
 
Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin’…..author unknown (but obviously brilliant)
 
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A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. >From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany   established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
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China   established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million. 
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You won’t see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information.
 
Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.
 
Take note my fellow Americans, before it’s too late!
 
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.
 
With guns, we are ‘citizens’.  Without them, we are ‘subjects’.
 
During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
 
If you value your freedom, please spread this anti gun-control message to all of your friends.
 
 
The purpose of fighting is to win.
There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.
The final weapon is the brain.
All else is supplemental. 

SWITZERLAND ISSUES EVERY HOUSEHOLD A GUN!
SWITZERLAND’S GOVERNMENT TRAINS EVERY ADULT THEY ISSUE A RIFLE.
SWITZERLAND HAS THE LOWEST GUN RELATED CRIME RATE OF ANY CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!!!

IT’S A NO BRAINER!
DON’T LET OUR GOVERNMENT WASTE MILLIONS OF OUR TAX DOLLARS IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE ALL LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AN EASY TARGET.

I break into your house. . . .

Let’s say I break into your house
  
Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress
is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely. 
  
Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.
Let’s say I break into your house.
Let’s say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave. 
  
But I say, ‘No! I like it here. It’s better than my house. I’ve made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I’ve done all the things you don’t like to do. I’m hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters: 
 
You are Required to let me stay in your house
You are Required to feed me
You are Required to add me to your family’s insurance plan
You are Required to Educate my kids
You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family 
  
My husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest. (except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It’s only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I’m just trying to better myself. I’m a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house
And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, and I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! so that you can communicate with me.

Why can’t people see how ridiculous this is?!  
 
America is governed by idiots and those idiots are elected by idiots.

Danny Glover got arrested today. . . .about time.

So I se that Danny Glover was arrested today. Well to bad that the charge was not something more substantial like being a traitor. This washed u[ has been, leftist, liberal POS should have been booted out of the country a long time ago along with over half of the Holloywood type that support evil dictators around the world. Hello Sean Penn, Martin and Charlie Sheen talking about you. These people are morons without any clue as to what made are country great. They spit on those of us who have spent their money to get entertained and made them filthy rich in doing so.

What is it about the Hollywood type that sooo many Americans give them the time of day when it comes to something other than reding a script that was pu tin front of them. Why do we care what someone who makes a living off acting like something they are not, thinks? This is beyond belief. They are a bunch of dolt minded individuals that are more out of touch with reality than the President himself.

Why are we going Bankrupt as a Nation?

Informative,  and mind  boggling!   
 
 
 
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?  Read this:

Boy, was I confused.  I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. 
 
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.  I also have included the URL’s for verification of all the following facts…
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.   
 Verify at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8  
 
 2.  $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.   
 
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML 
 
 
 
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML  
 
 
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!  
 
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML  
 
 
 
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.  
 
Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML  

 
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. 
 
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML   
 
 
7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.  

Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML   
 
 
8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
 
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML  
 
 
9.  $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
 
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC RI PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML  
 
 
 
 
10.  The illegal aliens in the    United States  have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .  
 
 
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML   
 
 
 
 
11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the    US  from the Southern border.
 
 
Verify at: Homeland Security Report:  
 
 
 
12.  The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’
 
 
 
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute..org/PDF/deportation.PDF  
 
 
 
13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.
 
Verify at: http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm   
 
 
14..  ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The    United States .’  
Verify at:  http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml w.drdsk.com/articleshtml   
 
 
 
  
 
 
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU’RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.  
 
Are we THAT stupid? YES, FOR LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S.CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!  

Forwarded to me by Mike McShea

Stimulus is working!

Some have said that the stimulus hasn’t saved any jobs, but here is a case where at least one job was saved. Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis was considering firing their basketball coach, Craig Robinson, after an 8-11 start (2-5  in the Pac 10 conference). When word of this reached Washington , Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter was dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money for the university. Craig Robinson’s job is safe for this year. For those of you unfamiliar with Coach Robinson, he just so happens to be Michelle Obama’s brother. Just a coincidence I’m sure!

Well this sums up what Obamacare should cost us.

How we ”saved” money with cash for clunkers is a good indicator of  how we will “save” money and lower the deficit.

Thanks to my cousin Dick for forwarding this to me.
 
 
  
 
Think of it this way:                                            
 
 
A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800 gallons of gas
a year.
                                                         
 
 
A vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons of gas
a year. 
                                                                  
 
So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce US gasoline
consumption by 320 gallons per year.
 
 
 
They claim to have replaced 700,000 vehicles so that’s 224 million gallons
saved per year.
 
 
That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.   
                 
5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption.
              
 
More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about
$350 million dollars.
 
So, the government paid $3 Billion of our tax dollars to save $350 million.
 
We spent $8.57 for every dollar we saved.  
                             
 
I’m pretty sure they will do a great job with our health care, though.

Ban Doctors not guns.

Doctors
(A)  The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.

(B)  Accidental deaths caused by Physiciansper year are 120,000.

(C)  Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of  Health and Human Services.

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Now think about this:

Gun Owners

(A)  The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

(Yes, that’s 80 million)

(B)  The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

(C)  The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

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Remember, ‘Guns don’t kill people, doctors do.’

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FACT:  NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT

Almost everyone has at least one doctor.
This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as a gun owner!!!

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Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!

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Out of concern for the public at large, I withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention!

The Democrats’ Hypocrisy Is Staggering, by John R. Lott

With legislation encompassing almost 3,000 pages, it will take time to find out exactly what the mandates in the newly passed health care law mean for America. After all, it wasn’t until the end of last week that the reconciliation bill was even made public. But here’s something we already have uncovered. And it’s shocking. — In addition to all the special favors doled out to various congressional districts, it turns out that the congressional staff who wrote the health care bill put in special favors for themselves, too.

While everyone else in the United States — from the top corporate executives to the grocery store checkout clerk — will be forced to buy their insurance through heavily regulated state-run exchanges, the health care bill excludes one group: the leadership and committee staff. Yes, that’s right. The very people who wrote up this bill are refusing to be included themselves. Given the narrow definition of “congressional staff” on page 158 of the health care bill, the Congressional Research Service memo believes that courts will not require “professional committee staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as potentially those staff employed by leadership offices” to go through the exchanges. President Obama and his family are also exempt from the law.

Insurance plans will only be allowed in these exchanges if they meet rules governing benefit packages, quality standards and measures of uniformity of enrollment procedures. And it doesn’t stop there they must also meet the rules about provider networks, the right kind of rating system, outreach, reinsurance and risk adjustment, and a variety of other federally determined processes. If these regulations are so wonderful, Americans have a simple question: what is it that Democrats know about the state-run insurance exchanges that make them want to avoid them?

The answer seems obvious. These regulations will raise costs, not lower them as the president promised, and lower the quality of medicine that policyholders receive.

Jim Manley, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s spokesman tried to put the best spin on this by telling Politico that they didn’t want language that would have required “people like legislative counsel, Architect of the Capitol, etc.” to be included in the exchanges. Though he made it sound like this was a matter of technical language, there remains the fundamental question of why anyone, especially somebody putting together and advocating this very bill, should be exempt in the first place. These public servants must to be governed by the same rules that the rest of us mere mortals have to obey.

Democrats have no obvious explanation about why this provision was quietly inserted into the health care bill. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) warned that he and other Republican Senators tried to fix the problem of staff being excluded from the rules. “I tried to fix this inequity along with senators Grassley, Burr and Vitter, but Majority Leader [Harry] Reid obstructed our effort,” Senator Coburn said.

Obviously, the Democratic leadership knew full well that the bill they passed on Sunday with such fanfare is going to make things worse for the vast majority of those who are already insured. There is no other reason why the staff that wrote this bill would exempt themselves. The anger over the Democrats’ hypocrisy should be deafening.

John R. Lott, Jr. is an economist and author of “More Guns, Less Crime” (University of Chicago Press, 2010). The book’s third edition will be published in May.