Black Friday

Black Friday has arrived
I understand the idea
We want an good deal

We need Biblical meaning
Not to worship objects
Modern idols could be the I-phone

We can use tablets for God
But are we strong enough
Not have anything over Him?

Remember we don't own money
The owner is the Lord
May we have self-control

Should we be consumers?
The world is all over it
But a higher calling for His people

Nothing wrong with having stuff
And enjoy your new boat
But remember the Boss Jesus

The Rock Music of all

The first words, I will love thee, O Lord, my strength, are the scope and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy which magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was a praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence is very fully described, ver. 7-15. Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the history of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words which are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Every part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David is here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in due time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time. Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethsemane and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepest calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love were withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought him out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.

Psalm 18:1-19
 I love you, Lord, my strength.

² The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
    my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,
    my shield  and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

³ I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
    and I have been saved from my enemies.
⁴ The cords of death entangled me;
    the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
⁵ The cords of the grave coiled around me;
    the snares of death confronted me.

⁶ In my distress I called to the Lord;
    I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;
    my cry came before him, into his ears.
⁷ The earth trembled and quaked,
    and the foundations of the mountains shook;
    they trembled because he was angry.
⁸ Smoke rose from his nostrils;
    consuming fire came from his mouth,
    burning coals blazed out of it.
⁹ He parted the heavens and came down;
    dark clouds were under his feet.
¹⁰ He mounted the cherubim and flew;
    he soared on the wings of the wind.
¹¹ He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him—
    the dark rain clouds of the sky.
¹² Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,
    with hailstones and bolts of lightning.
¹³ The Lord thundered from heaven;
    the voice of the Most High resounded.
¹⁴ He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy,
    with great bolts of lightning he routed them.
¹⁵ The valleys of the sea were exposed
    and the foundations of the earth laid bare
at your rebuke, Lord,
    at the blast of breath from your nostrils.

¹⁶ He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
    he drew me out of deep waters.
¹⁷ He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
    from my foes, who were too strong for me.
¹⁸ They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
    but the Lord was my support.
¹⁹ He brought me out into a spacious place;
    he rescued me because he delighted in me.

Let's talk about Thanksgiving, three words are food, football and oppression?

Let's talk about Thanksgiving, the three words are food, football and oppression? That is what Thanksgiving means to many Americans today.
Seattle Public Schools made a big wave when they said about Thanksgiving, "As a time of mourning and a bitter time of 500 years of betray."
This narrative describes the pilgrims as people that ran-away from being picked on to people that picked on the Indians that lived in the United States at time. That narrative describes the pilgrims depraved the Indians of their lives and land.
This is wrong on every account. Firstly, the pilgrims didn't flea from Europe for religious persecution because they were living in Holland for over 10 years there. Holland was nice to the pilgrims.
The pilgrims adults were afraid that their children would be influenced by the culture of Holland that worshiped materials.
In the year of 1620, they were not running from oppression but they wanted a better culture.
Their mission was for holiness, the idea of fulfilling a fateful mission to build an ideal Christian commonwealth.
They were going to build this commonwealth in 1620 on a island called Manhattan. The issue was the weather so they were blown into a place called Massachusetts.
The pilgrims viewed their voyage as an a demonstrative of Providential Power. They thought this because a scout team on a little boat was picked by a wave and placed on the shore safely.
The land was a great place where no one lived there, a cleared land, a lot of corn and fresh water.
The pilgrims didn't mistreat the Indians but wanted to pay the Indians for the corn that they used but they could not find any Indians to pay.
The Indians there were dying out because of an disease that was killing them before the pilgrims land there.
I will fast forward this history. There were one Indian that was from there and he helped the pilgrims to survive their new place.
The Indian name was called Squanto, he spoke English and he had accepted Jesus in his heart.
He was living at that land before but a heartless Spanish man kidnapped Squanto and took him back to Spain.
He was freed after four years because of monks then he went to England then he went back to his homeland to find that his friend were dead.
Squanto helped the pilgrims get corn and a good trade deal with the most important Indian's chief.
William Bradford called Squanto this, "A special instrument sent of God for their good."
The first Thanksgiving celebration took three days and this was a copy cat of the Jewish feast called the feast of Tabernacle. 
Ninety hungry Indians joined the fifty-three surviving Indians for a feast.
The Englishmen provided corn, fish and turkey. The Indians brought five recently killed deer.
The sport of choice was not football but shooting. The Englishmen and Indians had a love of shooting games.
The pilgrims never built Plymouth as an major colonial. Massachusetts Bay were growing so fast, the people of Plymouth moved to Massachusetts Bay in 1691.
What the pilgrims did was to put this in the mind of the future generation.
They believed the unshakeable confidence that Jesus protected them.
Not to grant special privileges but to impose special responsibility. They saw themselves as instruments and not authors of a mysterious master plan.   
The pilgrims knew that a person can gain more by being thankful instead of guilt.

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