CHURCH GAMES PT2

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CHURCH GAMES PT.2

Last week, the question was, which one will win the Games; GOD or Satan? If your answer was GOD will win; it means you are not going to be a partaker or a spectator, at the “Church Games”, Amen! Because JESUS didn’t play games and neither Do-You! But did I hear you saying, of-course JESUS would take-part in the “Church Games”. JESUS says, really! Have you forgotten my child, when I walked among men I was always: “about my FATHER’S business”? LUKE 2:49. Have you? But JESUS, times have changed… is that so? Because as far as I know, says JESUS, I AM still: “The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever”. HEWREWS 13:8. But JESUS, our Ministers won’t lead us astray! If they know you won’t approve of the “Church Games” they would-not have these “Church Games”. Where in the word of GOD did you read, My Child that I said “Sports will bring my people together”, where! I am sure, I said: “Other {People} I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd”. JOHN 10:16. Not: “Baseball, basketball, boxing, cycling, soccer, softball, swimming, track and field and volleyball”, But MY Voice! And I AM very sure; my voice can-not be heard in any of the games listed above. Why? Because many of my Children have gotten injured and some even died, playing Sports. It is said by, the National center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research that in 2001, the number of sport-related injuries for each sport are as follows: Gymnastics- 99,722, Basketball- 680,307, Baseball- 170,902, Softball- 118,354, Football- 413,620, Soccer- 163,003, Track and Field- 15,113, and Hockey 63,945. It is also said, from 1982-2002, the total numbers of direct fatalities {death} among high school athletes were: Baseball-17, Basketball- 88, Cheerleaders- 21, Football-22, Soccer-31, Track and Field- 47, and Wrestling- 16. So then, if these sporting games can cause injuries and even death, why then are these ministers of the gospel planning these games, Why? There’s is only one answer, and the question-answer comes from JESUS: Why do ye not understand my speech? [Even] because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. Satan was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in Satan. When Satan speaketh a lie, Satan speaketh of his own: for Satan is a liar, and the father of it. And because JESUS tell [you] the truth, ye [ Ministers] believe JESUS not”. JOHN 8:43-45. What is the truth… you ask JESUS? The truth is; sports bring Injuries and even Death, and one Injure or one Death is too many, Amen! This is why My Servant John wrote: “Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he or she that doeth the will of God abideth for ever”. 1 JOHN 2:15-17. Signs of the times are everywhere, from the War in Iraq. Five airliner accidents, in the month of August, killing 331 people. Gas prices keep going up. On August 31, over 600 Iraqis lost their lives in a stampede. Then Hurricane Katrina left a million people without homes, jobs, and schools and hundreds still missing. And JESUS said: “All these [are] the beginning of sorrows”. MATTHEW 24:8. The worse is yet to come! Let me remind you, that It is an easy matter to idle-away, talk-away and play-away, the Holy Spirit's influence. Today, the work of every true Christian is to represent Christ, to reflect light, to elevate the standard of morals, and by words and influence consecrated to God, to compel the careless and reckless to think of God and eternity!!!