I got an email this week that was a question asked on NBC. (We watched Thursday AM on ABC the authors of the “Left Behind” series talking with Robin Roberts regarding the RAPTURE)
First of all out of 100% I was always led to think that 14% was not a winning vote. The question asked on NBC was: Do You Believe in God?
NBC had a poll on this question. They had the highest number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls, and the percentage was the same as this:
86% to keep the words, IN God We Trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance with 14% against…….
If this is true that 86% of Americans believe in God. Then why there is such a mess about having "In God We Trust" on our money and having God in the Pledge of Allegiance” in our world today??
Why is the world catering to this 14%?
GALATIANS 6: verses 7-10
7 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. 8If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. 9So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. 10So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.
The word “MOCK” means: imitate, mimic, ridicule. God is pretty serious about how we act. I like the first part of this scripture “for you reap whatever you sow”.
“SOW”: plant as seed.
“REAP”: harvest, get as reward.
If there was ever anything true in life it is this. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW…. (Ronnie Holley coming by Sunday AM before we left Florida talking about how his kids do & how he worries) His girlfriend told him “know you know how you caused your mother to worry about you”. I told him YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW!!!!
Our world is full of those today that mock God. I got another email this week with several famous folks that we could consider as MOCKING God. I want to share them with you:
I. JOHN LENNON (One of the Beatles):
Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he
said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about
that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple,
Today we are more famous than Him" (1966). Lennon, after saying that the
Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.
We have to be careful of what we say. To think that you are more famous than Jesus is pitiful. John Lennon was very innocent & died a very senseless death.
II. TANCREDO NEVES (President of Brazil):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from
His party, not even God would remove him from Presidency. He did get the
Votes to win, but he got sick a day before being made President, and then he died.
There are folks out there today that may tell you different but they are actually living their lives JUST LIKE THIS!!! Not even God can remove m…God can shut this whole world down now if He desires too.
III. CAZUZA (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During a show in Rio de Janeiro, while smoking his cigarette,
he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: "God, that’s for you."
He died at the age of 32 of AIDS in a horrible manner.
GOD IS NOT MOCKED!! He is in control even as we speak.
IV. THE MAN WHO BUILT TITANIC (Thomas Andrews):
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the
Titanic would be. With an ironic tone he said: "Not even God can sink it" The
result: You all know what happened to the Titanic. Andrews as a matter of fact died on the titanic.
Why does even man today think he is invincible? He may not say it but again he tends to act like it. I always kid about alcohol; it makes a fella think he is 4’ wide & 8’ tall. We are not invincible.
V. MARILYN MONROE:
She was visited by Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He
said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the
Preacher had to say, she said: "I don’t need your Jesus". A week later,
She was found dead in her apartment.
Billy graham was led by God to go & speak to this famous lady not about her career or her health or her finances or even about her lifestyle, BUT ABOUT HER SOUL.
(I remember at a singing in Alabama me & one of the singers were talking about the fact that Hank Williams Jr was raised near by in Banks Alabama, she said she felt led to talk with him about his soul) I told her that she should do everything in her power to get her message to him.
VI. BON SCOTT (ex-vocalist with AC/DC rock group):
On one of his 1979 songs he sang: "Don’t Stop me, I’m going down all the way, down the highway to hell". On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.
When I read this I thought about the rich farmer that his life was required the very night he failed to put God first.
VII. CAMPINAS BRAZIL (in 2005):
A group of friends, drunk, went to pick up another friend. The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter - holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: "MY DAUGHTER, GO WITH GOD AND MAY HE PROTECT YOU." Her daughter responded: "ONLY IF HE (GOD) TRAVELS IN THE TRUNK, CAUSE INSIDE HERE IT’S ALREADY FULL"
Hours later, news came that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyone had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact.
The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside
the trunk was a crate of eggs, none were broken.
The world needs to know & understand that GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED. This AM the very people that need to hear this is not here. We need to pray for those folks that we know that might very well be REAPING what they have SOWN. Like I told my Buddy in Florida last Sunday AM….”The sowing part is a whole lot easier & funner than the REAPING part”.
It’s sad but true that each of you may know someone that is struggling today that could very well be attributed to the fact that they are REAPING what they have SOWN…….
