2024.12.11 - Hidden, Lost And Can't Be Found

Linus

·      Clip from Luke 2

 

Jesus 

·      Takes up His life and puts it down at His will

 

Joseph

·      Coat of many colors

·      Higher class of person 

·      Coat made by his father – Holy Ghost sent by our Father

·      Made others jealous

·      Object of Fathers love

 

Moses – stand still

         Delivered but still followed by what was trying to kill you 

·      Exodus 14:13

13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still , and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. KJV

·      Spirit of Fear not from God 

o   2 Timothy 1:7

7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear ; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. KJV

 

Enoch

·      Hebrews 11:5

5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not  testimony, that he pleased God. KJV

 

·      He was not found

·      Footprints poem with a twist

2024.12.11 - Linus Blanket 02

 

	If you watch the clip closely where Linus is reciting Luke 2, at the moment he quotes “fear not” he drops his blanket.  A moment later it is in  his hand, then, at the end of the scene, he picks it up again from the floor to later wrap it around Charlie’s Christmas tree, saying that maybe all it needs is a little love    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKqF9yUlOwg
Movie Clip	John 10:17-18 17  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. KJV

 

The Eternal One	There has never been a time when He was not present in our lives   He was there in The Beginning   He will be there in The End

 

3 + 1 = More Than Me Alone	Not about what He can do for me, but about what He can do through me   How much more can I bless others

 

 

Wear A Coat In Alaska	When we go out do we wear a coat o feel we don’t need one since we wont be out long	We NEED The Holy Ghost!

 

Coat Of Many Colors	Genesis 37:3  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. KJV	·       Others were jealous of His coat ·       The coat represented a different class of person, a higher class ·       The coat was made by His Father . . . ·       Parallels of this coat and The Holy Ghost

 

2024.12.01 - A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Cross, Christ And Christmas Trees

Quote From Charlie Brown Christmas

I didn’t know they still made wood Christmas trees

 

	Can you relate   How things have changed
Change

 

Strange Way To Save The World

I'm sure he must have been surprised At where this road had taken him Cause never in a million lives Would he have dreamed of Bethlehem And standing at the manger He saw with his own eyes The message from the angel come to life And Joseph said Why me, I'm just a simple man of trade Why Him with all the rulers in the world Why here inside this stable filled with hay Why her, she's just an ordinary girl Now I'm not one to second guess What angels have to say But this is such a strange way to save the World To think of how it could have been If Jesus had come as He deserved There would have been no Bethlehem No lowly shepherds at His birth But Joseph knew the Reason love had to reach so far And as he held the Savior in his arms He must have thought Why me, I'm just a simple man of trade Why Him with all the rulers in the world Why here inside this stable filled with hay Why her, she's just an ordinary girl Now I'm not one to second guess What angels have to say But this is such a strange way to save the World Now, I'm not one to second guess What angels have to say But this is such a strange Way to save the world Such a strange way, this is Such a strange way A strange way to save the world A strange way to save the world

 

Jesus Is Still The Only Savior

Hebrews 13:8  8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. NKJV

 

The Cross

God still uses the Cross of Christ to bring lost unto Himself

 

The Bad Little Tree

It’s not a bad little tree - maybe it just needs a little love

 

A Place Of Hope	Perhaps think of The Cross as one of the first Christmas trees	·       Jesus is The Star at the top ·       At His crucifixion all was dark for a period of time – He was The Light

 

2024.11.20 - Off Grid - Coming And Going

Checking Out

Matthew 24:4-12

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. KJV

·      Many are going “off grid” but in fact they are really just checking out . . .

o   Hebrews 10:23-25

23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. KJV

 

Checking  Out – Information 

·      How are you fed when you are checked out

·      Where does your information and guidance come from?

·      Fear is married to ignorance – we can be afraid of what we don’t know.  

·      What lives in the dark can kill you

·      When you don’t know remember what you know

o   Luke 7:19-23

19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 

21 And in that same hour he cured many of their  infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. 23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. KJV

·      Be alone but only with Jesus!

 

Checking Back In 

The Church isn’t perfect – bit It works!

·      Cannot always prevent but it helps

·      We need all the help we can get

·      Like buying a used car – it may be ugly but it will get me there – The Church is getting you closer to where you want to be.

 

Back And Forth 

Deuteronomy 28:1-6

28:1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.