Greybull First Baptist Church

04/15/2026

Blindness: Darkness or Light

In the Beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, he divided light from darkness. He separated light calling it day from darkness labeling it night. (Genesis 1) When discussing ideas, one person might say to the other I just can’t see that (concept).

In the John 9 Jesus spoke of working during the day for night’s darkness arrives preventing man’s continuing work. Jesus reinforced this concept with the story of the man who born blind. Jesus made mud, put it on his eyes and sent him to the pool of Siloam (meaning “sent”) to wash his eyes. When he did, he returned visually enabled. Human beings are like the man born blind, born in the darkness of sin. Being born blind, we require a change to open our visual pathways.

The ancient song “Amazing Grace” speaks of the darkness of spiritual blindness in the first stanza. “I once was lost but now I’m found, was blind but now I see.”

Indeed, the light of the world is Jesus. John 1:1 – 5 (KJV) John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Believers having the Word of God written on their hearts become light for the whole world. (Matthew 5:14 – 16) 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Light, the full spectrum of light, helps us to see what is not visible to the eyes without the help of light. When we behave like the rest of the world, self-centered, lusting after all kinds of new experiences, our light is hid under a bushel.

Matthew 6 compares the light and darkness concept of sin with righteous life-choices. Matthew 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Every day we choose to walk in darkness or in light. We are not enslaved by the darkness of blindness initiated before birth, we choose every day whose servant we are. Romans 6:16 awakens awareness to this choice: “Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”

04/15/2026

Resurrection

We are nearing the last of lent about to celebrate Palm Sunday followed by Resurrection Sunday. Jesus spoke to his disciples (John 14:3-5 (KJV)) “3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?” “Whither” Jesus was going turned out to be heaven and the way that he would get there would be through death. Can’t get to resurrection except through death. Ezekiel 37 tells the story of a country and a people that suffered death initially through being conquered by the Assyrian Empire and what remained was dissipated by Babylon. Israelis were strewn throughout the world from that time until God’s miracle in 1948 when after they survived the N**i final solution to the Jewish problem via the Balfour Declaration the nation was reborn and restored. The fig tree of nations began to bloom once again in their Promised Land (Matthew 24:32-34 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. ) which when Mark Twain visited in 1867 spoke of its devastation. But when the Jews returned to their land, it blossomed. It resurrected. God blew on the dry bones that had come together speaking life into them.

John 11:1 -11 tells of Lazarus whom Christ called forth from the grave after four days. Mary said Lord, “He stinketh”. Christ told those there to loose the grave clothes. Will our resurrection be like Lazarus? or more like the resurrection of Christ himself after his resurrection. (Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.) He walked through walls. He ate. (Luke 24) But the marks on his hands, feet and side remained. They will be the same marks the Jews see when he returns. (Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.)

What will our resurrection look like? Could it be like the transformation of Enoch? Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. 1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, 52 and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Will our experience be that of 1 Thessalonians 4:13 – 18. “17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

04/15/2026

Palm Sunday

Holy Week

Holy week begins on Palm Sunday, a celebration of Jesus’ Triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, the foal of an ass. (Zechariah 9:9 & Matthew 21:5) It concludes with Redemption following Sacrifice on Resurrection Sunday.
When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the people raised their hands waving palm branches, laid down their clothing as a pathway for his procession, and shouted “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord”. The palm branches raised by the people became an extension of their lifted hands (1 Timothy 2:8) reminiscent of surrender like a felon being arrested or a prisoner of war being taken to a prison camp.

The casting of their garments awaken memories of the clothing Adam and Eve made for themselves when they realized they were naked: their own good works (Isaiah 64:6). God refused the external trappings they created because although mankind looks on the outside, God looks on the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7). God himself killed a sacrifice for Adam and Eve and created coverings (Hebrews 5:13) for them of the animal’s skin (Genesis 3:21). Jesus laid down his own life becoming the complete, eternal sacrifice for us all and gave us robes of righteousness (Isaiah 61:10) made of his own humility and obedience, laying down his throne authority in heaven to live perfectly as a man could have lived. (Philippians 2).

Finally, the shouts of Hosanna speak to the prayer requests (Matthew 7:9, Luke 11:11) of the people, Save NOW we beseech you! They like the disciples thought (Matthew 20:21) he was going lead a rebellion over the Romans creating his kingdom on earth. Instead, He answered their prayers quickly (Matthew 7:8, Matthew 21:22, Luke 11:10, John16:24) by offering the ultimate sacrifice and assuming His throne in His divine kingdom which was not of this world (John 18:36, Romans 14:17)

Salvation, redemption, arrived that week. From the cross Jesus said, “It is Finished!” before he gave up the ghost, breathed his last.” (John 19:30) After he preached to the spirits in prison (1 Peter 3:18 – 22), he led captivity captive giving gifts unto mankind (Psalm 68:18, Ephesians 4:8). The second man, Adam, (Jesus Christ) redeemed the choice of the first man Adam. (1 Corinthians 15). Let our hearts and minds recall and rejoice with those who lived in their physical bodies during the first triumphal entry knowing we shall one day be united with the rest of His body (1 Thessalonians 4:16 -18) living joyfully, eternally in His presence, the zoe (God’s kind of life) he purchased for us.

Let us throw off our filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6) and put on the garments of praise. (Isaiah 61:3)

“Now unto Him who is able to keep you (us) from falling and to present you (us) faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. To the only wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty, dominion and power; both now and ever. Amen (Jude 24 -25)

04/15/2026

Oral Roberts preached this great sermon. I read it often

03/21/2026

01/13/2026

On a freezing December morning in 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was reviewing budget proposals when his secretary nervously informed him that a 73-year-old woman named Mrs. Eleanor Mitchell from Abilene, Kansas—his childhood Sunday school teacher—was in the White House lobby asking to see him without an appointment, and instead of having staff politely redirect her, Eisenhower literally ran down the hallway, swept this elderly woman into a huge bear hug, and cleared his entire afternoon to have tea with her in the residence.

What makes this moment so breathtakingly beautiful is that Mrs. Mitchell had taught a scrappy young Dwight Eisenhower Bible verses every Sunday from 1907 to 1911 in a tiny church basement, making him memorize Proverbs and Psalms when he'd rather be playing baseball, and she'd written him letters throughout his military career—through both world conflicts, through his rise to Supreme Commander, through his election—always addressing him simply as 'Dwight' and reminding him that 'character matters more than rank.' Eisenhower told his staff that Mrs. Mitchell once made him apologize to the entire Sunday school class for being prideful after he'd bragged about winning a spelling bee, teaching him a humility lesson that shaped his entire leadership philosophy, and he'd never forgotten how she'd pulled him aside afterward and said, 'Dwight, you're going to do important things someday, but never let success make you forget where you came from or who helped you along the way.'

During their White House tea, Eisenhower introduced Mrs. Mitchell to every cabinet member who passed by, saying with genuine reverence, 'This woman taught me everything that matters—respect this lady,' and she gently scolded him for not attending church regularly enough, which made the most powerful man in the world laugh and promise to do better.

When Mrs. Mitchell left that evening, Eisenhower walked her personally to her taxi, kissed her cheek, and pressed an envelope into her hand containing a check for her church and a note:
‘For the place that built my foundation—thank you for seeing potential in a troublemaker farm boy. Your student always, Dwight.'

What absolutely destroys you is understanding that Eisenhower commanded armies and led nations, but he never forgot the Sunday school teacher who taught him that true strength was moral courage, proving that the greatest leaders never outgrow gratitude and that honoring the people who shaped you when nobody knew your name is the most presidential thing you can do.

Follow Forbidden Stories

10/13/2025

Let me just say this straight. Halloween is demonic and any Christian calling it just a bit a fun for the kids, you’ve already swallowed the lie. The spiritual realm doesn’t care about your intention because participation is agreement and when you play with darkness, you're not just dressing up, you're opening doors. Halloween isn’t innocence. It's rooted in a pagan festival that honored death in the spirit world: witches, fear, horror, sorcery. It has never been about light. And yet every year people celebrate it like it’s no big deal even Christians hanging up skeletons carving pumpkins and dressing their kids up like demons and then calling it harmless. The word says have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness but rather expose them, not celebrate them, not sugarcoat them, expose them. Let’s be real, the devil doesn’t need to break in when you’re happily holding the door open yourself. And that’s what Halloween has become a wide open door that most people don’t even realize they’re standing in. But here’s the deeper issue. This is just normalization of sin. Culture has dressed up rebellion and served it as tradition. And even now many in the church say, oh it’s just a bit of fun, not even realizing they’re celebrating an occult ritual just with sweets and costumes instead of fire and chants. But the Bible is very clear: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. And that’s exactly what’s happening. We’ve glamorized evil, joked about demons, and made darkness a family event. God didn’t say flirt with sin. He said come out from among them and be separate. This isn’t about being religious. It’s about being set apart. So this year don’t decorate the door with compromise. Don’t excuse what Jesus came to destroy. Don’t sell your spiritual covering for a party and a pumpkin. You’re not just anyone. You’re a child of the King. So, walk like it, live like it. Stand in the light and shut the door on darkness

From God’s Scouse House

07/24/2025

Hug someone!! Raise your oxytocin levels!

01/11/2025

Hi Vicki this made me think of you.

08/16/2024

From a Marcus Lamb broadcast:

God's 911

Psalm 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.