Thank God for my tempurpedic bed, along with my trusty C-pap machine that keeps me breathing through the night so that I sleep well. I went to bed last night exhilarated from the Red Wings come from behind victory over the dreaded Sharks from San Jose. Yes I know the way to San Jose and I’m not going, thank you very much.
Anyway I went this afternoon to see the movie Thor in 3D. You can keep the 3D as far as I’m concerned I prefer 2D movies. I grew up reading the classic comic books, Batman, Superman and the rest. Can’t say that I’ve ever read Thor but I’m familiar with the legend and the basics of the story.
Odin the King of Asgard is about to make his son Thor King when the proceedings are interrupted by the Frost people. Thor in direct disobedience to the King goes to Frost land or whatever it’s called and provokes a war. After a very nasty conversation with his son Thor, which most fathers and sons can relate to in some way, the King banishes his son to earth and takes his power away from him, which resides in his hammer (Hum – “If I had a hammer”). The King then sends the hammer to earth but Thor will not be able to use it until he learns humility.
Thor through a series of events and especially after meeting a beautiful earth girl, who is a scientist, falls in love and cares for earth people and learns humility. Thor’s Brother Loki betrayed his father and Thor and has taken the throne. Loki will not help Thor and lies to him telling him that his father is dead. Loki then sends a very mean robot to earth to kill Thor and blow a lot of stuff up. Prior to the robots arrival Thor's best friends and his sister all fellow warriors come to earth to bring Thor home. The mean robot starts to blow up the town and threatens Thor’s friends, earth people and the earth girl. In a moment of understanding Thor tells his brother to spare the lives of the earth people and kill him instead. He humbles himself and is willing to lay down his life to save others. At that moment the words that his father spoke when he banished his son that once he learned humility the hammer and his power would be restored come true. The hammer being guarded by S.H.I.E.L.D. a secret government agency comes loose and returns changing Thor from a powerless but very strong human back into superhero Thor. Thor goes on to save the day back home making his father proud but destroying the bridge device that would enable him to go back to earth and see the beautiful earth girl.
Hey, it’s a comic book made into a movie it’s not Shakespeare. People are drawn to myths and legends and heroic deeds. But there is a true story of a father who sends his son on a mission to save lives. This father is the true God who created everyone and everything that exists. He had created a perfect world and put a perfect man in charge named Adam. But Adam willfully sinned against God and was influenced by a fallen Angel. The entire human race was plunged into the darkness of sin. So the True Father sent his only son into the earth to redeem man from sin. This Son was always obedient and only did the will of the Father. He humbled himself by leaving heaven and coming to earth to be born of a virgin and to be made a man. This son lived a truly heroic life and was kind and compassionate to all. Knowing that no human being could save themselves because they were all sinners by nature, he came and lived a sinless life so he could take their place and be punished for their sins and win their freedom. He allowed himself to be taken captive, to be falsely accused and judged and then executed by being nailed to a tree. Through death he conquered death and on the third day after he was buried he rose from the dead and ascended back to heaven fully satisfying The Father's justice and judgment for sin. He is now the way back to the Father for anyone who believes in Him and accepts by faith that he took their place, he endured the punishment that was theirs and pays the price for the sins they had committed. He was the innocent dying for the guilty. In order to receive this gift you have to admit you are a sinner and that you cannot save yourself. The guilty cannot save the guilty.
There is someone who is both God and man, his name is Jesus and He is the only one who is the mediator between God and Man. He is the only one qualified to redeem people from their sin and the only one who can take sinners and make them acceptable to the True Father. Call on him today and you will be welcomed into the Fathers family as a child of God. You will be given the gift of eternal life and will live forever in the Father's house as a redeemed son or daughter.
This is the only true story.
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