Interesting...Genesis 47:13-27

Good morning,

               brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews                crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word.                Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of                Genesis. We'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through                verse 27.

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? ... (reading) ... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray. So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.
So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But  the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people  came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except  their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the  sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.
What can we learn from this,  brothers and sisters? That turning to the government  instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes... That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

Yes. But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly and God provided for His people, just as He always has! They didn't  end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says  they gained possessions! But I also tell you a great truth  today, and an ominous one.
We see the same thing  happening today - the government today wants to "share the  wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back  to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has   taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and  how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it  willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.
What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from  Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a  lot of people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is  he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh  made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please  my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"? Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr.  OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH! No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a  character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh. Bow with me in  prayer, if you will...
Lord, You alone are worthy to be  served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the                government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We                read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the                people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day                you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for                yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day..."

And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out

               to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as                a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival,                and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters.                Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect                Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government. In God                We Trust...

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