BBD 08.03.16 Do You Need Rescuing? (Classic)

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Classic from 2009

Burning Bush Devotional

03 August 2016

Do You Need Rescuing?

…the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve
the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. - 2 Peter 2:9 NKJV.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation
has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who
will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the
temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. - 1 Corinthians 10:12-14 NKJV.

Usually when we hear a story about a St. Bernard dog we think immediately of
their heroic history as rescue dogs in the Swiss Alps. In 1707, the St.
Bernard, Barry, rescued (depending on accounts of the event) between 40 and 100
people at what is now known as the Great St. Bernard Pass. The heroic dog’s
body has actually been preserved and is in the Natural History Museum at Berne.
However, I recently read about a St. Bernard that instead of rescuing, was on
the receiving end of a rescue. Duke, a 16-month-old St. Bernard, got out of his
owner’s yard in Billings, Montana and ended up falling through the ice on a
golf course pond. Duke got out of the pond, but then was frozen to the ice.
After the dog was found by a maintenance worker, the fire department was
called. See, it’s not only cats in trees that they rescue! Two firefighters
reached the 118-pound dog with a rescue sled. After the ice was broken off, and
a blow dryer at a veterinary clinic dried him off, Duke was feeling pretty
good.

In the 20^th and 21st Centuries, there are as there always have been,
many worldly temptations and snares of the devil. Even great servants of God
can sometime succumb to those temptations and snares. Bob Harrington is an
example. Bob was saved in 1958 and three days later preached his first sermon.
He became an evangelist and by the late 1960s was conducting area wide crusades
and had a weekly television program. His ministry in the French Quarter of New
Orleans was well known and he was proclaimed by the Mayor of New Orleans to be the
"Chaplain of Bourbon Street." It all came to an end in 1976
when Bob Harrington was at the pinnacle of his ministry. Bob left the ministry
to live as a prodigal for 17 years. After 17 years of prodigal living he
returned to the Lord. Here are a couple of links where you can find out more
about Bob Harrington’s life and testimony. First is a SBC Life article: http://www.sbclife.net/articles/2000/11/sla6.
Second, is Harrington’s facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/ChaplainOfBourbonSt/.

What was it that led to Bob Harrington’s fall? His website, which is no longer
active, mentioned his pride. What was it that led to the devil being cast out
of Heaven? It was his pride (Ezekiel
28:17). When did Bob Harrington turn away from the
Lord? It was at the point of his greatest ministry. When you are the most
effective for the Lord you must be very careful that you do not fall victim to
the snares of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

What if you have already fallen? You were a servant of God in the past, and
even led many to a saving faith in the Lord. You were a rescuer, but now you
need to be rescued. There is a way of escape and the Lord is able to deliver
you. If He rescued Bob Harrington, He can rescue you. If you will turn back to
the Lord, the Lord will run to you as the Father ran to the prodigal son,
welcoming you home (Luke 15:11-31). Just in case you were waiting for an invitation, here
it is - your Heavenly Father wants you to come home.

1 John 1:9 is a good place to start as we are told, “If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” King David
after his sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and of arranging the murder of her
husband Uriah, gives us a great prayer of repentance and confession in Psalm 51; here is
part of that prayer:

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according
to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me
thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my
transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I
sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be
whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken
may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create
in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast
me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your
generous Spirit. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You
do not delight in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite
heart—These, O God, You will not despise (Psalm 51:1-4a; 8-9; 11-12; 17 NKJV.)”

Copyright © 2009-2016. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June
8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for Michelle Abetz, Shane
Hall, Brad, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Loretta Brewer and
Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
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Classic from 2009

Burning Bush Devotional

03 August 2016

Do You Need Rescuing?

…the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve
the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. - 2 Peter 2:9 NKJV.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation
has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who
will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the
temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. - 1 Corinthians 10:12-14 NKJV.

Usually when we hear a story about a St. Bernard dog we think immediately of
their heroic history as rescue dogs in the Swiss Alps. In 1707, the St.
Bernard, Barry, rescued (depending on accounts of the event) between 40 and 100
people at what is now known as the Great St. Bernard Pass. The heroic dog’s
body has actually been preserved and is in the Natural History Museum at Berne.
However, I recently read about a St. Bernard that instead of rescuing, was on
the receiving end of a rescue. Duke, a 16-month-old St. Bernard, got out of his
owner’s yard in Billings, Montana and ended up falling through the ice on a
golf course pond. Duke got out of the pond, but then was frozen to the ice.
After the dog was found by a maintenance worker, the fire department was
called. See, it’s not only cats in trees that they rescue! Two firefighters
reached the 118-pound dog with a rescue sled. After the ice was broken off, and
a blow dryer at a veterinary clinic dried him off, Duke was feeling pretty
good.

In the 20^th and 21st Centuries, there are as there always have been,
many worldly temptations and snares of the devil. Even great servants of God
can sometime succumb to those temptations and snares. Bob Harrington is an
example. Bob was saved in 1958 and three days later preached his first sermon.
He became an evangelist and by the late 1960s was conducting area wide crusades
and had a weekly television program. His ministry in the French Quarter of New
Orleans was well known and he was proclaimed by the Mayor of New Orleans to be the
"Chaplain of Bourbon Street." It all came to an end in 1976
when Bob Harrington was at the pinnacle of his ministry. Bob left the ministry
to live as a prodigal for 17 years. After 17 years of prodigal living he
returned to the Lord. Here are a couple of links where you can find out more
about Bob Harrington’s life and testimony. First is a SBC Life article: http://www.sbclife.net/articles/2000/11/sla6.
Second, is Harrington’s facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/ChaplainOfBourbonSt/.

What was it that led to Bob Harrington’s fall? His website, which is no longer
active, mentioned his pride. What was it that led to the devil being cast out
of Heaven? It was his pride (Ezekiel
28:17). When did Bob Harrington turn away from the
Lord? It was at the point of his greatest ministry. When you are the most
effective for the Lord you must be very careful that you do not fall victim to
the snares of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

What if you have already fallen? You were a servant of God in the past, and
even led many to a saving faith in the Lord. You were a rescuer, but now you
need to be rescued. There is a way of escape and the Lord is able to deliver
you. If He rescued Bob Harrington, He can rescue you. If you will turn back to
the Lord, the Lord will run to you as the Father ran to the prodigal son,
welcoming you home (Luke 15:11-31). Just in case you were waiting for an invitation, here
it is - your Heavenly Father wants you to come home.

1 John 1:9 is a good place to start as we are told, “If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” King David
after his sin of adultery with Bathsheba, and of arranging the murder of her
husband Uriah, gives us a great prayer of repentance and confession in Psalm 51; here is
part of that prayer:

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; according
to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Wash me
thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my
transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against You, You only, have I
sinned, and done this evil in Your sight—

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be
whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken
may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create
in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast
me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your
generous Spirit. For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You
do not delight in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite
heart—These, O God, You will not despise (Psalm 51:1-4a; 8-9; 11-12; 17 NKJV.)”

Copyright © 2009-2016. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June
8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Prayer
Requests:
Please continue to pray for Michelle Abetz, Shane
Hall, Brad, Reta (my sister), Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Loretta Brewer and
Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

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