|
Guestbook / Blogs
God Bless
America
| |
Credo In The Can
© Copyright 2005 – WebPastor David Todeschini
You can get a copy of this sermon by clicking this link  
You can get a book containing this sermon by clicking this link 
|
There are those today mocking God,
And they say that "there is no such being";
Scoffers among us who are "willingly ignorant"
Of what the love and grace of God can bring.
|
Galatians
6:7
Psalms 14:1
2 Peter 3:3:5
John 15:7
|
|
But the
evidence is all around us;
In the flowers and the stars;
In the eyes of little children,
And it's the legacy that is ours!
|
Romans
1:20
Matthew
2:2;6:28, 29
Luke 9:47,
48
John 1:12
|
|
The
psalmist David pondered a magnificent sky,
As he prayed and mused by a campfire.
"The heavens", he wrote, "are an incredible wonder",
But to God... "what is Man?" - something higher!
|
Psalms 8:3
Psalms
39:3, 4
Psalms
8:3; 19:1
Psalms
8:4:6
|
|
We lose track of our marvelous origins,
Chasing riches and filthy lucre to trade;
Deceived by the Devil - all sinners;
But "fearfully and wonderfully made".
|
Genesis
1:27
1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Peter 5:2
Romans 3:23; James 1:14, 15; John 1:8
Psalms 139:14
|
|
If we were
wise, as we live and seek knowledge,
We will learn that we are really not lost,
For God in heaven so loves us,
That He sent his son Jesus to die on the cross.
|
2 Timothy
2:15
John 17:12
John 3:16
John 19:28
- 30; 1 Corinthians 15:4
|
|
On the hill of Golgotha called Calvary,
A love letter was written in blood;
His cry, "Eli, Eli, la'ma sa-bach-tha-ni?"
Paid the ransom price to set us free. |
Matthew
27:33; Mark 15:22
Colossians 1:20; 1 Peter 1:18, 19
Matthew 27:46
1 Corinthians 6:20; 7:23; 1 Timothy 2:5, 6
|
|
So confess
with your mouth, and believe in your heart,
The words which will forever be true;
Repent of your sins and be in the Lord,
Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
|
Romans
10:9
Matthew
24:35; Hebrews 6:18; 1 Timothy 1:12
Acts
26:20b
2
Corinthians 5:17 |
|
Then walk
with the Lord fully confident,
In His word and the everlasting covenant made,
Your soul cannot be snatched from His hand,
And His arm is not so short it can't save.
|
Proverbs
3:26; Hebrews 3:6
Hebrews
13:20
Deuteronomy 32:39; Job 10:7; Isaiah 43:13
Isaiah
59:1
|
|
Now that you're the Lord's, the Devil will tempt you
Even more than ever before,
But the Lord won't permit the temptation
To be greater than you can endure.
|
1 Peter
5:8
James 1:2, 3; Luke 11:25, 26
Revelation 3:10
1 Corinthians 10:13
|
Yes, the
Devil has put us in prison,
And for now, we endure barbed wire and bars;
But the real prison is for the son of perdition,
And our destiny is among the stars! 1 Thessalonians 4:17; Psalms 23:6
And don't think your sins are so terrible;
So unique and so heinous that God
won't forgive,
For even the prophets and apostles were sinners,
But in our Lord Jesus Christ we all live.
|
Revelation 2:10
Isaiah 42:22
John 17:12; Revelation 19:20; 20:10
Luke 23:34; Titus 1:12 - 15
Luke 7:47
Isaiah 6:5; Job 9:20, 21; 1 Timothy 1:15
Philippians 1:21
|
|
So when you despair of your troubles,
And stand hurt and broken-hearted on the gate, *
Take comfort, my brothers - remember
The promise of Romans eight twenty eight.
|
Ecclesiastes 2:17; 1 Peter 4:12, 13
Isaiah 42:23; Matthew 12:20
Psalms 119:11
Romans
8:28; Isaiah 42:3; Joel 2:25 |
To get the full impact of this, you should read it again, along with the scripture references as you come to them.
* In the last quatrain, second line, the phrase "on the gate" is prison slang for standing at the bars of a prison cell, usually speaking or yelling. If you are "on the gate", you are usually in conversation or in some form of communication that can be overheard by everyone. If you are being argumentative, loud, obnoxious, or offensive to the others in the cellblock, you are told to "get off the gate".
۩۩۩۩۩۩۩۩۩۩۩۩۩۩
|
