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Pastor Don Carpenter \/ General<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9\/11 Anniversery \/ Comfort;\nRemember \/ 2 Corinthians 1:3\u20134<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 Corinthians 1:3 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Blessed be<\/em> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus\nChrist, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 Corinthians 1:4 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able\nto comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves\nare comforted of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The worst\nattack on America since Pearl Harbor December 7 1941 occured 18 years ago today\nwhen the towers fell. 18 years\nago!!! That means anyone under 25\nprobably has little or no first hand recollection of the events of that fateful\nday. That also means that we must\nremember those events and what we learned. \nIt means we must not only remember, but pass on what we learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our passage\nthis evening tells us that the God of all comfort comforts us as\nbelievers. He protects. He Leads He Guides. He does that so that we can in turn comfort,\nteach, lead and guide others. This\nevening are going to remember some major lessons from that day and teach the\nnext generation what this generation learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n James 4:14 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Whereas ye know not what shall be<\/em> on the morrow. For\nwhat is<\/em> your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little\ntime, and then vanisheth away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Peter 1:24 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For all flesh is<\/em> as grass, and all the glory of man as\nthe flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genelle Guzman\nMcMillan wanted a change from her home in Trinidad, so she moved to New York in\n1998. In order to stay in New York, McMillan knew she needed to get a good,\nsteady job. She couldn’t believe it when she was hired at one of the World\nTrade Towers and was excited as she began her first day there on January 19,\n2001. She made many friends through work–including live-in boyfriend,\nRoger–and spent each weekend partying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the morning\nof 9\/11 she went to her job on the 64th floor. She and her coworkers heard a\nloud crash and the building moved. They stayed on the 64th floor until it\nbecame known what had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genelle and a\ncoworker started down one of the stairwells and made it to the 13th floor. That\nis when the whole building collapsed. Amazingly, steel and concrete had pinned\nher where she was; she was injured, but she was alive. She lay there unable to\nmove, rethinking her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twenty-seven\nhours after the building collapsed, she was able to push her hand through a few\ninches of rubble above her head and felt someone’s warm hand close around hers.\nThen she heard a male voice say to her: “I’ve got you, Genelle. My name is\nPaul,” he told her. “You’re going to be okay. They’re going to get\nyou out soon.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n She heard\nother voices, sirens and a light. “They’re here,” Paul said.\n“I’m going to go and let them do their jobs and get you out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genelle was\nthe last survivor pulled from the World Trade Center. There were three things\nshe promised God she would do as soon as she got out of the hospital: get\nbaptized, marry her boyfriend Roger, and find Paul, the one who first held her\nhand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On November 7,\nafter 6 weeks in the hospital, 4 surgeries and hours of physical therapy and\nrehabilitation, she kept two promises she made while trapped under the rubble.\nShe and Roger got married at City Hall, and Genelle was baptized that evening\ninto Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Paul? She\nnever found him. Who was he? No one knew, no one had ever heard of him. She\ncalled her preacher and asked him. They discussed another Paul, the one in the\nBible who was totally in the dark, like Genelle, and fought against God until\nhe saw the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n James 1:2 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers\ntemptations;<\/p>\n\n\n\n James 1:3 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Knowing this<\/em>, that the trying of your faith worketh\npatience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n James 1:4 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But let patience have her<\/em> perfect work, that ye may be\nperfect and entire, wanting nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ephesians 4:3 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of\npeace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m the daughter\nof a nurse and an FDNY rescue officer. When the first plane hit, I called my\nfather. He assured me Rescue 1 would get there and everything would be fine.\nWhen both towers were in flames, I called again, urging him to put the TV on.\n\u201cI have to go,\u201d he said. I knew he was headed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wouldn\u2019t\nhave contact with him again until I saw him on the 12th with pebbles in his\neyes, covered head to toe in dust, soaking wet and shaking. He was one of many\nwho had inhaled toxins for hours, as they dug with their hands, to get to a man\ntrapped dozens of feet in the debris pile. The rescue was successful. But I\nremember the sick, hollow feeling I had at that moment, as I wondered if my\nfather and his fellow heroes had even thought about the magnitude of their own\nloss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We remember\nthe desperate calls to loved ones, the heartfelt concern for people in harm\u2019s\nway. We remember what it felt like, as a nation, to lose our innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And we\nremember what we did in the face of it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We united.\nThat might seem implausible in these divided days, but we really did unite.\nEveryday people joined together to help one another. We began to restore our\nhope and faith in humanity together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On our\nnation\u2019s darkest day, goodness prevailed. The everyday hero in all of us made\nsure of it. We came together through acts of kindness in ways we never\nimagined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s important\nto share these stories with children, so they remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We remember\nstoreowners providing shelter, health-care providers tending to the wounded,\nfirst responders and members of the military risking their lives, desperately\nsearching for survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We remember\nthe U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s call to boaters and the many who responded to help\nhundreds of thousands of people to safety that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We remember\npeople creating tributes across cities and states and our American flag being\nhoisted over Ground Zero by three FDNY members. It would be an early warning\nsignal to the world: Our American spirit wouldn\u2019t be shattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We remember\nthe people waving flags outside of Ground Zero and holding signs that said,\n\u201cGod Bless America,\u201d \u201cThank you,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We remember\niron, steel workers, electricians, members of other trades and civilians\nalongside first responders through the recovery efforts. We remember the first\nresponders from across the U.S. and the world coming to help and the\noverwhelming outpouring of love and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We remember\ncountless volunteers in various capacities helping complete strangers. We found\nthe everyday hero in all of us and harnessed our strengths to positively impact\nthe people around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On America\u2019s\ndarkest day, goodness triumphed. Acts of great courage and compassion\novershadowed the evilest of deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s difficult\nto talk about because discussing it takes us right back, as if 18 years haven\u2019t\npassed and a generation of kids haven\u2019t been born after it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But talk about\nit we must, so children can remember goodness as the victor. We must etch these\nstories into the being of future generations so our stories live on for\ncenturies to come. We owe it to the fallen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In such\ndivided times, we can all benefit from the retelling of stories of unity and\nthe fortitude of our American spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By KRISTIE\nKIERNAN BOURYAL Psalm 63:1 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n O God, thou art<\/em> my God; early will I seek thee: Psalm 63:2 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To see thy power and thy glory, Christian\nretailers and publishers have reported Bible sales skyrocketed 20%-30% in the\nwake of the 9\/11 attacks. Some industry leaders say this is a time for\naggressive ministry outreach, and not the time to shave marketing and\nadvertising dollars because of a softening economy. (CBA Online 10\/8\/01)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Romans 13:3 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.\nWilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou\nshalt have praise of the same:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right after\nthe 9\/11 attacks, the president addressed the nation. He said, \u201cA great people\nhave been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the\nfoundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot shake the foundation of\nAmerica\u201d In other words, \u201ceven though we just experienced one of the worst days\nin American history, we\u2019re going to make it We\u2019re going to survive Because this\nnation is built on something solid This nation has a sure foundation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 15:13 KJV<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his\nlife for his friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FDNY Captain\nJay Jonas and five other firefighters from Ladder 6 responded immediately to\nthe attacks on the World Trade Center on 9\/11. When they entered the lobby of\nthe north tower, the south tower was hit. Carrying 100 pounds of gear, they\nbegan to ascend the stairwell of the south tower. When they reached the 27th\nfloor, the building began to shake. Jonas ordered his men to evacuate. When\nthey reached the 20th floor they saw a woman, Josephine Harris, standing in the\ndoorway who was paralyzed in fear, crying. Instead of leaving her, they decided\nto carry her down. When they reached the 4th floor, the bldg caved in around\nthem. They survived because they were still in the stairwell. Ironically, their\nlives were saved because they risked their lives for another, \u201cwhoever wants to\nsave his life will lose it, whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pastor Don Carpenter \/ General 9\/11 Anniversery \/ Comfort; Remember \/ 2 Corinthians 1:3\u20134 2 Corinthians 1:3 KJV Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 2 Corinthians 1:4 KJV Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able … Continue reading Teach What You Learned<\/span> Life is Temporary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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