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Monthly Archives: April 2014
“TOTALLY DEGRADABLE”
Three times I am told that the plastic bag I am holding in my hand is “totally degradable”.
On the bag is says:
— “totally degradable plastic additives.”
— “100% degradable.”
— “This bag is totally degradable, in the interest of the environment.”
The environment is the natural world. We breathe the air. We see the land, the plants, the animals, and I love to walk along the seaside.
Ninety Mile Beach
And an environmentalist is someone who is “concerned with the protection and preservation of the natural environment,” tells me the Collins English Dictionary.
Of course, I am not an environmentalist, but I am interested in the environment and I am also concerned with the protection and preservation of the environment.
But I am even more concerned with the creator of the natural world.
You find the answer why I am much more concerned with the creator of the natural world than with the natural world in the Bible.
The Bible says that “the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire,” but the creator of the natural world remains forever. He is eternal. He has neither beginning nor ending.
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Please read Second Peter chapter three.
“LIVE FREE”
“Live Free,” was written in fancy letters on the front and on the back of the caravan I saw on the main street of our town today. I live in Kaitaia, in the Far North of New Zealand.
Te Ahu Centre in Kaitaia
Unfortunately I did not have a chance to talk to the people sitting inside the caravan. The person on my side of the road talked to someone on the mobile phone.
There is a yearning in all of us to “live free”.
The Redemption hymn, “Would you be free from your burden of sin?” comes to my mind. The hymn is written by Lewis E. Jones. The hymn writer gives us also the answer: “There is power, power, wonder-working power in the blood, of the Lamb.”
In John 8:36 the Lord Jesus Christ says, “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
In John 1:29 John the Baptist, pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ says, “‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'”
I am really wondering now what the answer would have been if I would have asked the occupants of the caravan, “Are you living FREE?”
Sermon Outline – OT – NIV
THE CROSS
“See,
First Samuel 12:13,14
Intr.:
the LORD has set a king over you.
1. If you fear the LORD and
2. serve and
3. obey him and
4. do not rebel against his commands, and
5. if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the LORD your God –
End:
good!”
Sermon Outline – OT – NIV
THE CROSS
“‘Here I stand.
First Samuel 12:3
Intr.:
Testify against me in the presence of the LORD and his anointed.
1. Whose ox have I taken?
2. Whose donkey have I taken?
3. Whom have I cheated?
4. Whom have a I oppressed?
5. From whose hand have I accepted a bribe to make me shut my eyes?
End:
If I have done any of these, I will make it right.'”
“Count Your Blessings”
“Count Your Blessings”
