Got this from a dear friend today, thank you Gary.

> > Worth Reading (Genesis 47:13-27)
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> > ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THIS IS WOW !!!!!
> > RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE - STIMULUS SERMON
> > Genesis 47:13-27
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> > 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?
.....(reading)... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray.
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> > 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.
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> > What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?
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> > That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times
only leads to slavery?
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> > Yes.. That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

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> > Yes. But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters!
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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?
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> > 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"?
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> > Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of
mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH!
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> > No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then
he is Pharaoh.
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> > 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.
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> > In God We Trust...