Tuesday, December 8, 2015

SPIRITUALLY MOULDED OR MOULDY (Continuation of Sermon)

Starting on my other blog ONE A DAY, YOUR SPIRITUAL VITAMINS on Nov 1...a 3 day series on HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY.

Click on link below to go to One A Day blog



A different sermon is begun on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. 

       IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS BLOG TO A FRIEND GO TO THE BOTTOM OF these comments AND CLICK ON THE ENVELOPE.

       The sermons found on this blog are selected sermons preached by Rev. Wyrick during a ministry of over 50 years.  This syndicated columnist/minister thanks you for visiting.

       To visit Neil's other blog One A Day Your Spiritual Vitamins click on the following  


++++++++

SPIRITUALLY MOULDED OR MOULDY

       In some jungle areas of this world there is a plant that when eaten will satisfy the appetite, but provide absolutely no nutrition.  It is tasty and filling, but if you continue to eat it and nothing else, you will starve to death. 

       One tribe calls it the devil’s plant.

       And this is what Isaiah is talking about and common sense would talk about.  Forget God for lesser things and one day a person ends up with a soul that looks like a basement or an attic - filled with junk. 

This marvelous biblical mentor, Isaiah, is simply laying it on the line, going for the jugular vein, leaving no doubt…that you should be careful where you sit down to sup because what you think is a feast may well be a famine in disguise.

       Examples abound, but for want of a better example take a look at Karl Marx.  First he called the state God and formed a theology. 

       He fashioned this ideology first as a Jew, then

as a Lutheran, and finally as an atheist.

       From the Hebrew prophets he extended the belief that a violent social change was inevitable.

       From Christianity he took the concept of the Day of Judgment.

       Then from his atheism he decided that it would be man that would bring about the Day of Judgment.

       And the results of all of this?  800 million people lived in earthly hell for a long, long while.

       Another example.

       Time Magazine called it the era of “The Flapper and the Flask.”

       It was the 1920’s in America and people stopped looking up to God.  Instead they looked up to United States Steel Co. and General Motors.  Wall Street became the God of all good things.  America was a joy train that led to everywhere.  Nothing could stop it.  And then something did.  Black Friday, 1929. 

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

The Psalmist puts it well, “(Man’s) inward thought is that (his) house shall continue forever, (this) dwelling place to all generations:  (he) calls his lands after (his) (own) name.”  (Psalm 49:11)

I like the way a man named Matthew Henry put it, “There is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.”

Someone once said, “We judge ourselves by

our ideals and our neighbors by their actions.”  But ideals are like wheels on a car that is up on blocks.  They’re pretty silly and worthless if they don’t go anywhere.

It’s called decision time, and it continues to happen to each of us every day.  And sometimes we are wise and sometimes we are foolish and sometimes we are just plain idiotic.
+++++++++++++
 
ANOTHER WAY TO SHARE THESE ONE A DAYS WITH FREIENDS...CLICK ON "MORE" AT TOP LEFT OF THIS BLOG PAGE AND  FROM THERE IT SHOULD BE EASY
 
+++++++++++++
 
CLICK ON  www.go60.us   IT WILL TAKE YOU A NEW WEBSITE FOR SENIORS....click on "Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click on Neil Wyrick
 
       Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are:  REFLECTIONS
 
       Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
       Spring (May 2012)
       Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)
       Wayward and Windy (April 2012)
 
       Click on the URL below to WATCH NEIL IN HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN, CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
 
 
        DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY BUFF IN YOUR FAMILY?...Why not give THIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED  BOOK 

        To buy Neil's 9th book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN or other of his books click on the following 
 
http://www.magnuspress.com/
 
OR GO TO AMAZON.COM
 
       AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM and amazon.com Kindle
 
OTHER BOOKS BY REV. WYRICK 
 
Poor Richard's Almanack for the 20th Century
Sixty Plus and Not Holding
Boundaries Unlimited
I Am
The ABC"s of Parenting and Grandparenting
Letters to America
 
      

No comments: