Hello, this is pastor gary from first baptist church of laplata. Wow! Today’s date has enough history in it to make a history teacher’s head spin. In 1790, Congress declared Washington, DC, the new, permanent capital of the United States. George Washington not only suggested the swampy, humid, muddy, mosquito-infested site, but he asked a Frenchman to design it. Thanks to Pierre L’Enfant, I hate to drive in DC, and the place is still filled with mud and blood-sucking mosquitoes now called politicians. In 1935, the first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I hate to pay to park. In 1945, the first successful explosion of an atomic bomb was accomplished. I do love a good explosion. In 1969, Apollo 11 left the surly bonds of earth taking the first manned mission to the surface of the moon. In 1995, Jeff Bezos opened Amazon as an online bookseller, originally named “Cadabra,” as in “Abracadabra,” but decided to name his business after the South American river instead. Amazon is now the largest online retailer and the second largest private employer in the United States. Washington, DC, is the most powerful city in the world, Apollo 11 used the most powerful rocket in the world, and Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world; however, none is more powerful or wealthy than God Who is all powerful owning the entire earth and all of its contents as Psalm 24:1 reminds us, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof: the world and they that dwell therein.”
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