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Seeking GOD
Reading the
headlines yesterday;
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I see fires in
California
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Earthquakes in
south Carolina and Oklahoma
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7 killed in a
trailer in Georgia
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A girl kidnapped
when she was 11 was hidden in a back yard for 18 years and gave birth to two
girls was finally found.
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People praising
Castro and his health care
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The federal
reserve says it can’t tell us where the money is going
Parents
don’t want their kids to go to school because they are war zones and the
government doesn’t want you to home school them.
Our
children are getting dumber on the whole;
1.
I believe they
lack imagination
2.
They feel lost in
a world that doesn’t seem to care
We live in
a society that doesn’t seem to care about the future but just what is here and
now.
President
John Kennedy once said:
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
you - ask what you can do for your country.
It’s appears
that if President Kennedy were alive today, he would not be happy with the way
America has turned out in the past 40 years.
The word
today would be:
Ask not what I can do for my country but what my country can do
for me.
That would be
what my children would say…daddy what can you do for me.
Daddy I need
this
Daddy I need
that
Daddy I want
this and I want that.
And as loving
parents trying to buy the love of our children we have spoiled them and they
have not learned the old saying it is better to give that it is to receive.
No for the
children of today it is better to receive that it is to give.
I would also
say that marriages are working on the same principles…
Where God
says that the two shall become one
That use to
mean that two would come together for
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one purpose
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One goal
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One mind
One was to
watch over and protect the other.
And marriage
is about until death do us part.
And I know
that sometimes you ladies would wish that would come sooner than later.
But know the
reality is that usually one does not every join the other.
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One tends to
dominate
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Control
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Or depend on
the other without ever doing their part of the marriage.
The marriage
becomes one sided…it’s either;
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Abusive
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Or one
becomes the parent of the other one.
In marriage
In our
children
It has
become…not what you have done for me in the past but what will you do for me
today…if not today sometimes it becomes this:
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What are you
doing for me right now
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What will you
do for me later on
Sometimes
either with children or with a spouse it becomes all about them.
No matter how
hard you try or what you do…
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It’s never
enough
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They don’t
want to work for what they get…
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They want to
be handed everything on a platter…gold if not silver: with diamond trim.
If you take
Kennedy’s statement…
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
you - ask what you can do for your country.
It can be
simply turned around to …ask not of what you can do for your parents or your
spouse but what your spouse or parents can do for you.
And for many
parents, grandparents, husbands and or wives we have, across the land, have
found, felt, and seen or see the affects of this (it’s all about me)
philosophy.
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Crime is at
an all time high
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Morality is
at an all time low
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Divorce in
and out of the church is the same
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Homosexually
is taught at length in our schools systems, our televisions shows, our movies,
it has become a normal way of life.
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Sex is the
theme in our:
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Bill boards
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Our magazines
o
Our
television programs
o
Our clothes
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Our children
have become:
o
A bothersome
burden instead of our:
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Joy
§
Our hope
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Our heirs
o
They have
become street kids
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Throw away’s
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Abortions
§
Distractions
for our lives that we wish to:
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Enjoy
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Not have any
worries
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Party away
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Dance all
night
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And last we
have thrown out our creator…we have done to Him what our spouses or our children
have done to us.
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And we wonder
why…there is no love in this world…
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We wonder why
everyone is out to get what they can and not care about anything else or anyone
else but themselves.
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We wonder why
drug abuse is so high
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We wonder why
so many people are on anti depressants
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We wonder why
Why…why…why?
Why are there
not any answers?
There should
be:
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I listen to
Joel Osteen on TV.
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I belong to a
church.
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I’m a good
person
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I have never
done harm to anyone
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I give to the
united way…
You want to
know why…the world is in the shape it’s in.
You want to
know why your kids are they way they are.
You want to
know why your spouse treats you the way they do.
You want to
know why you are so miserable in your life.
There is a
clue…
And it’s
found In God’s Word
Psalm 10 NIV
1Why,
O Lord, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2In
his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3He
boasts of the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.
4In
his pride the wicked does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5His
ways are always prosperous;
he is haughty and your laws are far from him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6He
says to himself, “Nothing will shake me;
I’ll always be happy and never have trouble.”
7His
mouth is full of curses and lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
8He
lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent,
watching in secret for his victims.
9He
lies in wait like a lion in cover;
he lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
10His
victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
11He
says to himself, “God has forgotten;
he covers his face and never sees.”
We can see in these verses that there is a description of what
has happen in our world today…
In verse 2, mankind has become arrogant
Verse three, he seeks what’s in his heart and hates God
In verse four, he is prideful, does not seek God for there is no
room for God
Verse five, he is well off, because he doesn’t tithe, above the
law and doesn’t think much of people who are different from him…IE Christians
Verse 6; I would say he seeks to please himself
Verse 7-10, he is a liar and he threatens those who don’t agree
with him, he also devises ways to get ahead, get even, or to destroy people.
And last in verse 11, he does either believe in God, or feels
that God does not care about him…
I believe
this is a picture of most people in the world today…maybe even those in church
today.
Maybe people
are in church for their advantage, maybe they are here, like I’ve said before…
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To make themselves look
good
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To appear like they are
holy
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To seek an advantage
over someone else
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Because someone wants
them here.
And when you
are here because for some other reason besides God…
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You can’t
hear the message of what God is trying to tell you…
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The world
can’t hear the message of what God is trying to tell it.
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Your heart
has been turn to stone
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And you
reject what you hear or what little of it you hear.
o
You believe
it’s about the other person and not you.
o
You believe
that God doesn’t speak to you.
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And all the
while you just don’t want to be here
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And you don’t
want to listen.
Proverbs
28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand
all things.
Those that
SEEK the Lord understand all things.
That is the
problem with the world today…People are not seeking the Lord.
They are
seeking their own self interest.
Why worry
about tomorrow when we can live for today.
Why worry
about heaven or hell…when they may not exist.
Surly if I am
worried about hell I don’t have to be…I can ask for forgiveness before I die or
when I get old…there is too much life left for me to live.
Is there too
much life to live before we die?
Ask that to
those 7 that were killed in the trailer.
Ask that to
those who are murdered every day in crimes throughout the world.
Ask that to
the millions of abortions of innocence children.
Ask that of
those who die in car accidents, work related accidents or even just a small
heart attack that drops them dead where they stand.
Brothers and
sisters we have to seek God today!
1 Chronicles
16:11 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 119:2
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole
heart.
Jeremiah
29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me
with all your heart.
Matthew
6:33: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you.
Matthew
7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you:
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
You
see…Jesus came so you could find peace.
He came so
you could find:
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Love
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Happiness
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Hope
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Purpose
You see…God
is all the above.
We need to
seek Him today…..
Ecclesiastes 1:1-9 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in
Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is
vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth
abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to
his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about
unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again
according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not
full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All
things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with
seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that
which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is
no new thing under the sun.
All is
vanity…without Christ.
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