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"When you sin and see the mess
you're in, you need to STOP, DROP and PRAY!!"
We just finished our annual
"Marysville Valley Vacation Bible School". Our
theme this year was "Safety in Jesus" and our key verse
was from James 4:7 which tells us "Submit
yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he
will flee from you."
Sonia Walak, who wrote the outline for
the VBS conveyed to us the parallel of "Safety in Jesus"
from a physical standpoint and from a spiritual.
Each night we had special guests to
present programs for the kids and adults. Our
special guests included EMTs, Police Officers, a Karate
Expert, The Crash Dummies, Smokey the Bear, a forest
fire fighter and on the last night we had a combined
crew from two local fire departments here in full gear
with a huge fire truck that the kids and adults were
able to climb on and through. We also had an
ambulance that they could check out thoroughly, a "smoke
house" so that the folks could learn what to do if
caught in a house on fire, and demonstrations of how to
handle a grease fire and the kids and adults got to put
a fire out with fire extinguishers.
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Of course, after each night's special guest there was a
Bible lesson that paralleled the demonstration. The
children and adults received God's Word and 14 were
saved or rededicated their lives to the Lord.
Praise Him!!!
We all learned that for a fire you
need 3 components... oxygen, fuel and heat. For
sin to occur you need 3 components, opportunity,
temptation and desire.
We are all tempted. Sometimes
when we act upon that temptation we experience physical
consequences. Other times we suffer spiritual
repercussions.
Either way, temptation that leads
to sin hurts.
We can't avoid the after
effects of sin. But, we can avoid the sin.
So, the next time you're tempted, remember to
resist the devil and he will flee.
Perhaps the
words of the song, "Stop, Drop & Pray", written by Bill
Wotring of Glenvale Church should be.....
When
you're tempted to sin and see the mess it can bring....
STOP, DROP & PRAY!!!
1 John 4:4 greater is He that is in you, then he
that is in the world.
Pastor Larry
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