God's Protection System

God’s Protection System

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - My wife and I have a little puppy he is 8 months old; he doesn’t really bark too much but he will whine. He has a bad habit of being underfoot and he is so quite that you never know where he is at and from time to time he gets stepped on, his tail or his paw and when he does that little 5lb puppy screams and hollers like crazy, making all kinds of noise. I said all of that to prove the old proverb “a hit dog will holler”. That proverb is a 19th century proverb that implies that a person who protest too loudly or too much about an accusation is actually providing evidence of their guilt and wrongdoing. Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of conversations about – to put it bluntly- foolishness that has been going on in Christian-dom. We have so-called Bishop’s telling people to shut their mouths because you don’t know my assignment with foolishness and ungodly acts, then other pathetic preachers, not prophetic, so-called preachers supposedly coming to their rescue and chastising the body of Christ only proving the fact that birds of a feather flock together.

Now I know someone will say well Bishop the Bible says, “Judge not lest ye be Judged” and that is true Matthew 7:1; however, John 7:24 says, “Judge righteous judgment”. This means not operating in the spirit of judgmentalism but maintaining moral discernment and a standard of holiness. I am not going to deal with the defense or the accusations because that is not my assignment, but I will warn the body of Christ of what Isaiah 56:10 calls “Dumb Dogs” because Ezekiel 33:6 says, “But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand”. So as a watchman I must warn you for Ephesians 4:12-13 says, “for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”.

Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart”. It doesn’t need any help, it doesn’t need to use trick, gimmicks, or assimilation with the world to be effective, the Word of God will do what it do all by itself and when we live righteously and let our light shine before men and they see Christ in us and will glorify God.

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SCRIPTURES: - Ephesians 6:10-18.

INTRO: - I like to watch the History channel, the Discovery channel, and National Geographic a lot, to the point that I have my DVR set to record several shows from these channels. One show that I like is called “Bermuda Triangle into cursed waters”. The Bermuda Triangle is the most notorious stretch of ocean in history, invoking fear as well as fascination. The Triangle is made up of the boarders of Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico and it has mysteriously swallowed countless ships and planes as well as their crew which have just vanished without a trace. In 1945, 5 U.S. Navy planes known as flight 19 just disappeared, later that night a rescue plane that was sent to look for flight 19 also disappeared and to this day in January 2024 no wreckage has ever been found of flight 19 and the rescue plane, although there has been discoveries of ships dating all the way back to the time of Columbus.

The premise of the show is these 2 divers one named Mike and the other David dive the Bermuda triangle in search of shipwrecks or missing planes trying to explain what may have caused it to go down. On one episode they came across something that wasn’t a ship, and it didn’t appear to be an airplane either. They filmed what they found and showed it to the other members of their team. One of the team members named Jason is a retired Air Force Pilot and he looked at the film and noticed the tiles on this piece of debris and said it looks like what is on the space shuttle. So, they contacted NASA who confirmed that what they had discovered was a piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger which exploded on January 28, 1986, just 73 seconds into its flight. They asked the scientist at NASA about the tiles that are on the piece they discovered, and he stated that those are the Thermal Protection System, and he went on to explain that the space shuttle upon re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere experiences tremendous stress and pressure. As the shuttle gets closer to the earth it is traveling at about 17,000 miles per hour. At that speed the air ahead of the shuttle becomes compressed and produces extreme friction against the shuttle, which causes the molecules around the shuttle to produce a plasma field around the shuttle, although this plasma field is considered a gas it doesn’t operate like gases normally do and it causes the temperature around the shuttle to reach temperatures of 3000 degrees Fahrenheit, normally that temperature will melt almost any material from the rock of a meteor to the metal skin of the space shuttle thus the shuttle needs a layer of insulation that will absorb the massive temperature protecting the shuttle and the astronauts inside.