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Pastor Ed Rice,  Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Dresden NY 14441

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Msg# 1202 Jesus, The First and The Last
What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

"And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the
first and the last, which was dead, and is alive." Jesus' seven salutations
contain an emphasis needed for each particular local Church. Smyrna means
'myrrh' and resonates with the gathering gloom of death. In persecutions
unto death we are addressed by the First and the Last. Isaiah says "Who hath
wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD,
the first, and with the last; I am he." again, "Thus saith the LORD the King
of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the
last; and beside me there is no God." Jehovah and his Redeemer are one and
are the first and the last. Again "Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my
called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last" The God of Israel is
this same first and last. When a Christian names the "Diety of his choice"
as a liberal president put it, he names the Lord Jesus Christ. We worship
the Lord Jesus Christ as our Jehovah God and Supreme Creator. Mormons don't;
JWs don't; Christians do. Politicians and other infidels refuse us to even
publicly pray in his name. "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's
sake." ... "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated
you." ... "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." You will
be persecuted for it, but keep the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in your
conversation this week.



An Essay from week # 2, Sunday, January 08, 2012

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