Judeo-Christianity

by Pastor Don Elmore

February 12, 2012

Scripture reading:  I Thessalonians 2:14-16

Have you ever wondered about the hyphenated words:  “Judeo-Christian” or “Judeo-Christianity?”  Can you find these terms in the Bible?  Does it mean that Christianity owes its existence to Judaism?  That Christianity came out or is a splinter group of Judaism.  Was Jesus Christ a Jew?  Were the Apostles Jews?  Were the early churches Jews?  Isn’t that what is implied by the hyphen?

Super Bowl Halftime Entertainment

by Pastor Don Elmore

January 29, 2012

Scripture reading:  Leviticus 24:15, 16, 23

Israel failed to exterminate the Canaanite/jews when they went in the Promised Land. As a result of their failure to obey God, Israel were told not to kill them any longer. They were to let them live, but they were also to continue to not marry any of them or to make any covenants with them—for they were to be a test for them.

If Israel married any of them, they were told that they would serve their gods, not the other way around. That is, if they married them they would not or could not serve the God of the Bible; the God of Israel. The Canaanite could not ever serve our God. What were these people like? How different acting were they from Israel?

Whom Did God Choose?

by Pastor Don Elmore

January 15, 2012

Scripture Reading:  Joshua 24:31

In the Answers in Genesis booklet, “How Can I Become a Child of God?” they divided the small booklet into several divisions.  For example, it starts out with the topic Creation, followed by Corruption, Confusion, Christ, Cross and the Consummation and then two pages entitled the same as the booklet.  They make the same basic divisions in their museum.

In the page titled, Confusion, it makes two very big assumptions:

Joshua 4: The Two Twelve Stone Memorials

by Pastor Don Elmore

January 1, 2012

Scripture Reading:  Joshua 3:1-7

Today we have a lesson that most of the Judeo-Christian churches would tell its congregations that it is about other people; that it is NOT about them—it’s about the Jews. But I will tell you just the opposite. This is a story about our great-great-great-great? - grandparents and how their GOD kept His Word to them and also to us. It is a marvelous historical happening that I hope will increase your faith in God; for our God is the same one who they had, who acts in the same way that He acted in this saga.

This is a true story; not a myth or some fancy story line. Everything in this tale is true—and there were monuments built to keep this saga in the mind of the children to tell them about what happened and to keep the story alive. It is a small part of the fascinating historical event of Israel’s journey to the Promised Land.

What is Wrong with Catholicism?

by Pastor Don Elmore

August 14, 2011

Fifty years ago, when I graduated from high school, I knew that I didn’t know anything about the Bible. I knew that the church that I had been going to in my younger days was not the right one. I began my search for the true church…Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Christian Science, and many others.

I eventually went to Roman Catholic classes (one a week for about 8 weeks). They taught that their church was the true one, with one of the apostles of Jesus, Simon Peter, their first pope. Here is what they said:<--break->

The Minority

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.

The "Two Nations"

Similar to Pastor Elmore’s “Different Twins” sermon, he traces the nations of these twins, giving many quotes from Scofield, prominent Jews, and the Scriptures. The main war going on in the world is between Israel and the Jews.

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: 

Main Center of Jewish Life in the World

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.

How Did We Get Here?

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.

The People Who Jesus Cast Out

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."