2011 Sermons

by Pastor Mark Downey

Today there are many people who are advocating what is known in Scripture as ‘Baal Worship’ either knowingly or unwittingly, the latter being predominant.  Our people don’t know what it is, don’t understand its ulterior motives or even recognize it when they see it.  It’s like a cancerous disease manifested in many different symptoms, which the average Christian cannot detect without trained eyes.  

Part 1:  Identifying Baal in the churches; finding examples of Baal in the Old Testament; the mentality of Baal.

Part 2:  Persecution from the Baals; Baal Creationists; political fallout from the liberal-conservative church of Baal; archaeological discoveries of Baal.

Part 3:  The 12 elements of Baal worship, which will determine whether a church is no longer Christian.

Part 4: How to bring down the Baals; diagnosing the cause of apostacy in order to cure the symptoms.

by Pastor Don Elmore

December 18, 2011

You had to hear of the story of the interracial couple who met at Georgetown College which is located about six miles north of Lexington, Kentucky.  The young woman is white and 24, who is from Pike County, Kentucky; the young man is black and 28, who is from Zimbabwe, Africa.  The woman is now working on her master’s degree in Indiana, while her finance is now working at Georgetown College.

When the two go to visit the girl’s parents in Pike County, Kentucky (a rural area), they visit the church that her parents have gone to for most of their lives—a Free Will Baptist Church.  Her mother a former Sunday school teacher; her father a former deacon and present church secretary.  They did so last summer and they participated in the service musically by her playing the piano and by his singing a hymn. 

After the service, the pastor, who retired after the incident and is still a member of the church, told both of them they could no longer participate in the church service or even become members. That was last June; by November 27th the church voted 9-6 to outlaw all interracial couples from participating in church except for funerals.

There is an interesting quote of the mother of the daughter, who is soon (next summer) going to be the mother of the daughter who had committed the abominable sin of miscegenation:  “They are both Christians and they both try to live a Christian life and serve God.  There is nothing in the Bible that we have found that tells us that that the couple should not be married.”  I wonder how hard they have looked.

By Pastor Don Elmore

December 4, 2011

We are living in very deceptive times.  The Bible says that almost the entire world will be deceived by the evil seed.  Almost everything in this age is an illusion.  Our money, our holidays, our institutions and even ourselves are images of examples of what the Bible talked about what would happen in the end of this age. 

For example, our big holiday of Christmas is a big illusion. In the Friday, December 2, 2011, Cincinnati Enquirer, in its “Faith Matters” column,The Creation Museum, the product of Answers in Genesis 1-11, begins this weekend with a “preview of events for its annual Christmas celebrations with the events opening to the public next weekend. The museum has an extensive Christmas program, including Christmas Town, a combination of live nativity and dramas.  The museum exhibits and “The Christmas Star” planetarium program each have admission and tickets.  Admission after 5 p.m. on Christmas Town nights is $5.  The Garden of Lights includes 60,000 Christmas lights, and the Christmas Town includes a reenactment of first-century Bethlehem and a marketplace with gifts and souvenirs.  The outdoor Christmas Town and Garden of Lights are free through the season; with the town open 6 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 9, 10, 16, 17, 26, 27, 30 and 31.”  

The word “Christmas” is not even mentioned once in the Bible; so much for sola scriptura! Christ’s mass was forbidden to be celebrated by many Protestants and before them the churches who were separate from and never a part of the Universal (Catholic) Church. One wonders as he hears of Black Friday and Cyber Monday how insane the season has become. It is like the letter to the editor that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer on November 29th: 

by Pastor Don Elmore

November 20, 2011

2 Kings 16:1-6

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war:  and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath:  and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

By Pastor Don Elmore

October 30, 2011

Jeremiah 3:20-25: 

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD. A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel. For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

by Pastor Don Elmore

October 2, 2011

Mark 11:15-19: "And they come to Jerusalem; and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out those that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those that sold doves;  And would not allow that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. And he taught, saying, unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? But ye have made it a den of thieves. And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him; for they feared him, because all the people were astonished at his doctrine. And when evening was fully come, he went out of the city."

by Pastor Don Elmore

August 28, 2011

Vitamin water is very deceptive.  For it is really sugar water with artificial ingredients masquerading as fruits.  For example:  the kiwi – strawberry vitamin water is sugar water with artificial ingredients masquerading as the kiwi and strawberries.  It has no kiwi and strawberries in the beverage and its vitamin A is artificial, too. Even the lawyers of the manufacturer, Coca-Cola, admitted that vitamin water was not beneficial for the consumers to drink.

The same is true for many of the things that are advertised for us to buy.  Another example is Kellogg and Betty Crocker products that advertise that they contain blueberries.  We all know that real blueberries are full of antioxidants and are very beneficial to the consumer, but for the love of huge profits – look at what they do.  The blueberries that they advertise as being in their cereals, muffins, cookies, cakes, etc. are artificial:  made up of Red Dye #50, Blue Dye #1 and in some cases, also Blue Dye #2.  For those who have children who are ADD or ADHD should avoid at all cost the red dye.   Who would ever expect red dye in a product made with Blueberries?  You need to read the labels – some will find this to be a real shocker; possibly life saving!

The food and drink companies constantly advertise their products as being healthy; but in reality it is nothing more than junk food or beverage.  The same is true in political and spiritual matters.  What are a lot of our national congressmen and congress ladiesdoing the last couple of weeks?  Where are John Hagee and Glen Beck?  They are in Israeli enjoying an all-expense paid vacation to the promise land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!  AIPAC is the paying sponsor.  Glen Beck is holding his “Courage” campaign in Israeli with both Christians (?) and Jews in the filled audiences.  Glen Beck is seen (on YouTube) asking an Ashkenazi Rabbi to come to his meeting on last Thursday (August 25th) to give a prayer for Israeli.  There are videos of Glen Beck and John Hagee giving their speeches along with several Rabbis.  All are applauded loudly.

Does this make you angry?  How mad does this make you? 

by Pastor Mark Downey

September 18, 2011

The reason I selected Ezekiel 3:17-24 for today’s Scripture reading for this subject is to warn the wicked, those who have misappropriated the Word of God for the justification of ungodly acts that result in the loss of life. It is never a time to kill if there is no divine sanction. We call that murder and we’ve been discussing murderers for the last couple of weeks. God’s resolution for homicide is not a life sentence in prison, not plea bargaining, not extradition, not counseling and therapy. It is death. It is the only principle of law of ‘eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’, or to boil it down to the law of like for like, that without it, would utterly destroy the peace of society, sowing the seeds of discord, hatred and revenge. It is the law of retaliation as prescribed by God. In other words, we must convincingly establish the axiom that crime does not pay. Sin is the transgression of the Law and the wages of sin is death.

by Pastor Mark Downey

September 4, 2011

Today’s message dovetails with Pastor Elmore’s sermon entitled ‘Murderers’ (8-28-11) and comes from a series I did several years ago called ‘Why We Hate Jews.’  Nothing I have written has gotten a more vitriolic response from jews and judeo-Christians than this one, due to the fact that jewish ritual murder is indelibly part of the historical record; as much as they would like for it to disappear down a memory hole.  Martin Luther was an outspoken critic of not only the church, but even more vociferous of the synagogue in which he said in his book ‘The Jews and Their Lies’, “They stabbed and pierced the body of the young boy Simon of Trent. They have also murdered other children…