Sermon with a meaning in the U.S. today: Gen 47: 13-27

Now those of you who know me, I am not a religious person by any means, but this just hits the current political state of affairs in the United States so well. And so Brothers and Sisters, I ask you to read, then fully digest the following sermon  that was forwarded to me from the Lovely Diane H.

Thanks for the insight Diane.

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Sermon from a church in Virginia recently. 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.

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. 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.

What Mr. Obama’s government is doing now is no different

from what Pharaoh’s government did then, and it will end

the same… 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.

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.