The SERMON that wasn't!

My Dad. One of the most honest dedicated men I have ever known, and he was a preacher.

For some of you that read this mess you know that in one life I thought I was preacher. WE Pastored 3 churches, one of them we organized and built. I think I told on here that I only performed two marriages, one is headed for a 50th anniversary. The other ended shortly in divorce. That was a 50% success. My funerals were more successful, everyone I buried stayed buried, 100% success rate.
That was the preface to today’s entry.

The Sermon that never was!
Sunday morning’s sermon by our pastor was one of the best I have heard in many years. The text was the part of scripture where the woman is caught in the very act of adultery, Moses Law requires that she be stoned and the Lord’s reaction to the situation. Now if you have been around preaching over ten years you have heard this from many angles. You are familiar with the time when confronted with the problem Jesus knelt and wrote in the dirt. The scripture does not say what he wrote, leaving speculation by men of what He wrote. It coulda been names, commandments, sins, etc. Or even the statement ‘I will die for her’.

Fred may know this preacher, Bishop Adeboye, I don't, I just found it on the net.

But today it was from the perspective of a possible ‘son’ of the woman caught in adultery. His buddy finds him and says, ‘hurry, they are going to stone your Mother to death’. The two run to where the confrontation is taking place and witness the scripture unfold, as Jesus teaches Love and Grace over the LAW. One of the best sermons I can remember. The boy sees Jesus save his Mother from stoning and forgives her her sins. What a Mother’s Day sermon. WOW!
HOWEVER IT NEVER HAPPENED! I MEAN THE SERMON WASN’T close to what I had heard. LOL

(My thoughts today, after Sherry explained I had not heard correctly)



On the way home I told my wife that was the most unique approach I had ever ‘HEARD’. When I re-preached the sermon she looks at me and says, ‘Are you crazy? He never came close to saying something like that, there was no son involved, etc.’!

So you see, us deaf, hard of hearing folks don’t necessarily hear what is said. But you have to admit I ‘HEARD’ a unique sermon. And I am LOL, honestly LOL. Sometimes I take these mis-interpretations as a special message to ME. I haven’t figured this one out yet.

Now Ora, you can pass that on to Chaplain Mixon. If he likes it I will ‘make up’ an outline like I ‘made up’ the sermon. Hahahahahahahahaha

That’s the Sunday School lesson for today kids, facts or not. BTW, my daddy who was a preacher would always ask, Where was the man in involved in this ‘adultery’?

Thanks for coming by the log.
Nite Shipslog
PS:
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