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February 4, 2005
Dewey VanderVelde refused to be baptized. He steadfastly resisted, even when his wife and daughters were baptized one Sunday afternoon.
Years later, his pastor preached on the baptism of Jesus. He pointed out that John the Baptist initially refused to baptize Jesus, but Jesus said, "It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15). The pastor then added this comment: "If Jesus obeyed the will of the Father, so should we."
After the message, Dewey asked to be baptized. He said that he should have obeyed the Lord's command much sooner, and he regretted having been so stubborn.
The issue, of course, was more than just baptism; it was obedience. The same may be true for us. We may be stubbornly disobeying the Lord in a certain area of our life-lying, cheating, stealing at work, not giving to the Lord.
Here's what we must face: Jesus obeyed the Father in everything. His submission took Him from the height of popularity to abandonment. It took Him from public adoration to solitary suffering. It took Him to Pilate's judgment hall, the terrible road to Calvary, the cross, and the tomb.
Let it be today that we willingly decide to obey the Lord in everything. -Dave Egner
True faith will obey without delay.
Think for a moment about the concept of the flamethrower.
Okay? The flamethrower. Because we have them.
Well, *we* don't have them, the army has them. That's right. We don't have any flamethrowers.
I'd say we're screwed if we have to go up against the army, wouldn't you?
But we have flamethrowers. And what this indicates to me, it means that at some point, some person said to himself, "Gee, I sure would like to set those people on fire over there. But I'm way to far away to get the job done. If only I had something that would throw flame on them."
Well, it might have ended right there, but he mentioned it to his friend.
His friend who was good with tools.
And about a month later, he was back. "Hey, quite a concept!" WHHOOOOOOOOSSHHH!
And of course the army heard about it, and they came around. "We'd like to buy about five hundred-thousand of them please. We have some people we'd like to throw flame on. Give us five hundred thousand and paint them dark brown.
We don't want anyone to see them."
George Carlin
A nice pic of the US M2-2 Flamethrower taken in 2003 at the Gathering of Warbirds in Olympia WA, I think. Hat tip to Bill Proffit for the pic.
And what the heck as long as I can get the pic posting goodies to work a couple of nice drawings of one of my favorite WW-II Planes the Northrup P-61 Black Widow.
Sorry I do not remember the web site where I found these drawings.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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