Calling Obama's bluff; All you need to know about a demanding government, from the Pastor of a predominantly black church in Virginia

(CBS News) In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff -- ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law, according to a lawyer who was in the courtroom.
The order, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, appears to be in direct response to the president's comments yesterday about the Supreme Court's review of the health care law. Mr. Obama all but threw down the gauntlet with the justices, saying he was "confident" the Court would not "take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress." http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504564_162-57408827-504564/appeals-court-fires-back-at-obamas-comments-on-health-care-case/

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RECENT VIRGINIA

CHURCH SERVICE-STIMULUS

SERMON

Genesis 47:13-27

                               

 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 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.

In God We Trust...