Why Did God Allow Sept 11, 2001?

- Detrick Bonhafer was a passifist…do you know what that means?

- That means he was against violence and military service but after several years of Hitler…one day in a staff meeting

- There was a brief case put down under the table next to Hitler, it was a bomb

- A plan to assassinate him, but the bomb malfunctioned and Hitler was only scratched and burned

- Detrick Bonhafer was part of that assassination attempt and he was caught

- People ask him "Why would he be part of this if he was a Christian pastor?"

- And he said, "He was convinced and convicted that if he saw a madman driving a car down a sidewalk killing innocent civilians and pedetrians, it would be ungodly to not try and stop him."

- Here’s the words I have heard…"SLOW TO ANGER"

- There was bomb that went off in Saudi Arabia on an Air Force base that killed 260 American servicemen and we were SLOW TO ANGER

- Two US Embassies in Africa all went up at the same time with a bomb attack with over 100 killed and we were SLOW TO ANGER

- In Yemen, the USS Cole had a huge hole blown in her side killing several sailors and we were SLOW TO ANGER

- BUT FOLKS IT’S TIME TO ANGER!!!

- They have taken our planes, our pilots, our stewardess’s, our civilians and murdered our civilians

- They have killed over 5000 and could be up to 10,000 people

- It’s time to get ANGRY!

- You say "can a Christian country get angry…yes a Christian country can get angry.

- One day John the Baptist had a soldier come to him and ask "what must I do" because he wanted to be saved and get baptized

- Would have been perfect time for John to say "Resign commission, quit being a soldier"

- But you know what John the Baptist said, "Don’t use your position to shake down people for money."

- He didn’t say anything about quitting soldiering and he baptized him and proclaimed him righteous and Godly

- There was great centurion that had a sick son that came to Jesus and ask Him to heal his son.

- Jesus said, where is he I will go heal him.

- Centurion said, Master you don’t have to go…I know you are a man…(Expound)

- Then he turned to the centurion and patted him on the back and said "I haven’t found anyone with such faith in all of Israel."

- At the cross, centurion in charge of detail of the death of Jesus, looked up at Him and gave the greatest of testimonies and said

- "Surely this man was the Son of God"

- Then another Centurion, when Jesus went to his house, didn’t just have himself there but all of his family and friends and he wanted them to come into the kingdom too

- I think God has the applause of heaven for the Godly soldier

- General Norman Schwarzkoff had a bible in his tent during Desert Storm…not just for decoration…he read it

- Part of the Star Spangled Banner that we never hear sung says

"O thus be it ever when free men shall stand, between there loved homes and the wars desolation, blessed with victory and peace may the heaven’s rescued land praise the power that hath saved us and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, and this be our motto ’In God We Trust’ and the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave for the land of the free and the home of the brave." O thus be it ever when free men shall stand between their loved homes and wars desolation."