N O T P O L I T I C A L : Just plain B I B L E !!!!!!!

N O T P O L I T I C A L : Just plain B I B L E !!!!!!!

*This apparently originated with a Baptist minister in

Virginia. I think it speaks volumes about where we are

today. Please read with an open mind*.

Gen 47: 13-27 - 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?

... 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.***

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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 the 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.***

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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.***

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**What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no

different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and

it will end the same..***

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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.***

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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