What A Great Day October 31, 2009

Kyle and Brittney: the baby is due in late November

Charity on our way to church last Sunday, I had to stop and take this photo

Last week's four outline lessons:

The birthday cake from Union Mills

SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 2009

What a great day: I was up at 5 a.m. and had a great cup of good coffee, well several cups of coffee. Then woke Charity up and she was off to work around 7 a.m. I worked around the house in the morning. I finished the outline for Sunday night. Finished the church bulletin as well.

I have uploaded Sunday Evenings video sermon from Romans 1:7, started this process around noon and as of 6:45 p.m. two are ready and the third will be soon.

I picked up Charity at 1 p.m. and had lunch at Mex Itali with Kindra and Debbie. Then went to Kroger with Charity and I printed out some great photos. Finally back to the house by 2:30.

I went to the church and visited some members and printed the outlines for Sunday's messages and the church bulletin. And while I was moving some old tapes from the passed, I came across a tape from Victory Baptist Church in 1974. Oh my, that was interesting to listen to. Goodness.

Finally I arrived back home, and Charity had a nice supper. Now I am finishing up this post and will call it a day.

Hope the Yankees win tonight. Ohio State won over a AAA team. 45-0.

Its now 7:32 and 14 hours later, I believe I will take off my tie.

It has being a great day. Romans 1:7 and Philippians 2:8-9 great text for Sunday.

Charity is getting a little supper ready, and we will rest a minute before we call this a great day.

Did God Create Evil and Sin?

When I began this series from Genesis back in Februay, I didn't know I would be still teaching in the series in November. But I am known for long series.

THE PROFESSOR TEACHES ABOUT EVIL AND CHRISTIANITY:

"Let me explain the problem science has with Jesus Christ." The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand. "You're a Christian, aren't ou son."

"Yes sir."

"So you believe in God?"
"Absolutely."
"Is God good?"
"Sure! God's good."

"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything."
"Yes"

"Are you good or evil?"
"The Bible says I'm evil."

The professor grins knowingly "Ahh! THE BIBLE!" He considers for a moment. "Here's one for you. Let's say there is a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help them? Would you try?"
"Yes sir, I would."

"So you're good...!"
"I would say that."

"Why not say that? You would help a sick and maimed person if you could..in fact most of us would if we could..... God doesn't."

(No Answer)

Well that is not the end of the talk between the professor and student, but you get the point.

The truth is, if you don't understand Genesis 3 you might not understand the rest of the Bible.

• You can not know the solution to the problem, unless you know what the problem is.
• You can not know the cure unless you know the right diagnosis.
• You will never be able to know God's remedy for this world, if you don't know and understand the difficulty wunder which this world lives and functions.

Well I am well into this study and much has been said about this matter of evil and sin and how all went wrong after God had made a perfect universe and world, and earth, and man and woman.

After teaching six months on God's creation of the world, so perfect, then to have to spent another few months on how the devil destroyed this who world and everyone in it. How can that have happen?

How was it that every think was "very good," at the end of Genesis 1 and then we come to chapter three and every thing we wrong?

What went wrong. It's like man has fallen from heaven without a parachute, and he sinking at a speed toward hell with nothing to stop him.

What happen in Genesis 3:1-7?

Sin entered into the world for the first time.

Satan entered into the Garden of Eden. And the devil has not left mankind along since then.

Everything wrong is because of sin. And any accurate understanding of the way things are in the earth demands an understanding of sin. Without us knowing the events in Genesis three is not going to be a right view of how it is today in our world. Romans 8:21-22

You and I are not the way God inteneded us to be. We have become "slavery to corrupltion."

So how did all this happen? Was it all God's fault? Is God the creator of Evil and Sin?

So you might need to read the outlines and maybe when you have time to listen to the videos on this subject.

SO WHAT HOW DID SATAN GET EVE TO DISOBEY GOD?

The Wrong Choices Led Eve To Sin 5 of 5 from charles e. whisnan t on Vimeo.

How Satan Gets People To Sin

How Satan Gets People To Sin 1 of 5 from charles e. whisnan t on Vimeo.

October 28 2009 Charles E. Whisnant, teaches from Genesis 3:1-7 on How Satan got Eve to Sin and disobey God in the Garden of Eden. one of five.,

Shyanne Sining at Rivers of Joy Baptis Church

Self fulfillment Has Taken Over for Love for God

The fall tress as you go down route 64 from our house to the church.

In our society today, its true that self-fillment has taken over for consuming love for God.

We are in the series on how temptation becomes sin on Wednesday night at Rivers of Joy Baptist Church. How does the devil get a person to sin! What is sin! Genesis 3:1-7 is a conversation between the devil and Eve.

In Eve's talk with the Devil and into the talk Eve is saying "I will." Self-fulfillment has taken over for consuming love for God.

For the first time ever, what is driving her is her satisfaction. And that's when sin moves from the mind into the feeling. She's already sinned in the mind, but now the sin is going to work on her emotionally. And it's going to conceive. And it's going to bring forth evil, disobedient behavior, and that will produce death in exactly the pattern of James 1:14 and 15. This is the self-seduction. This is where the feelings follow the mind. Look how it unfolds in Verse 6: "When the woman saw that the tree was good for food" -- that's not intellectual.

Rivers of Joy Baptist Church Staff and Singers

Photo 10 25 09 Rivers Of Joy

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Reflection On The Goodness of The Lord

REFLECTION ON SUNDAY

By the end of the evening, I was refreshed in my spirit. This was the first Sunday at ROJBC when our worship leader Bob Temple really was now in Fort Worth Texas for a long while. And you get to church and you see no cars in the parking lot. And you are saying, "Okay, Lord, its Charity and I today." Then you realize you are early.

We as pastors of small churches, (really small in numbers) sometimes are overwhelmed when even smaller number of people come. Today could have been such a day for me. But before the day was over, my focus was on the Lord and had a great time of fellowship.


Too often pastors will express their disappointment over the offering, or attendance, or general attitude of the people. Satan likes to do that to you, you know. The pastor will spend a lot of time just complaining how bad he believes the people are for not doing more for the Lord.


I am grateful for the spirit of our people, I am grateful for their faithfulness. I am grateful that they love the Lord and want to come to all our services. I am glad they want to hear and learn the Word of God. We really have a great group of people.


So today rather than getting down because Bob was not here, and Bill Bower has been sick for several weeks, that we would do the best we could do. And Bill Bower and I made a great team today. Johnny Edwards is a God sent servant of the Lord. He has been sick, his wife is not well either, but Johnny is still full of the spirit of the Lord in his singing and testimony for the Lord. Pauline and Johnny had a great special singing. We had a few visitors today.


Janet Ramey worked hard on Saturday to give the kids a good time of fun. Then she got them to come to church on Sunday. Then one of her grand kids sung a special song tonight and that was very encouraging.

So when the day was over, the Lord once again showed Himself as God and encouraged our hearts with His love and care and grace.

We are a blessed people.

Enjoyed teaching this morning in our Bible study time. "IN TIMES OF SPIRITUAL EXTREME ANXIETY WHAT DO YOU DO? And we talked about the Latin term: Coram Deo. Colossians 1:24, 1 Peter 2:21, 1 Peter 3:18, Philippians 3:10

In the morning hour I taught from Philippians 2:5 'WHAT IS THE MEAN OF THE INCARNATION OF JESUS CHRIST." Jesus Christ became like us in order that we might become like Him. The eternal God came to earth in human form as Jesus Christ. (sermon outline and video come this week.)

Sunday Evening we went to Romans 1:5 and finished up with the 'THE PRIVILEGE OF THE GOSPEL." Romans 8:38-39

Then a great time of fellowship after the service.

So by the time the day Charity and I got back to the house, we were encouraged in the Lord.