Happy Trails To You

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Happy Trails To You
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Roy Rogers Dale Evans

• Their theme song was Happy Trails
• The US has no King
• But our nation has often chosen people to be the
  King of certain things
• Elvis Presley was the King of Rock
• Kitty Wells was Queen of Country
• In 1943, Republic Studios declared
• Roy Rogers was the King of Cowboys

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Roy Rogers King of Country

• From Duck Run, Ohio
• It was a marketing ploy but it worked
• Trigger was the smartest horse in the Movies
• Roy shot the straightest and rode the fastest on
  Trigger
• Roy was invincible whipping four men at one
  time or some other great feat

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Roy Rogers King of Country

• He always fought cleanly even though the others
  did not
• He was loved by Dale Evans and everyone thought
  he was special
• Over half the population of the US saw his six
  movies a year
• He was in all the big parades with Dale Evans
  and Trigger

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Could all this be true to life

• Was the west really a magical place
• Did everything always turn out right
• Were the good guys always rewarded
• Did the bad guys always get what they deserved
• America wanted heros
• Everyone needed to believe that things would
  always turn out alright

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The Real Truth Is

• Things are often not the way they are portrayed
• But Roy and Dale tried so hard to live the kind
  of life they appeared to live
• Dale would tell her children Your life is the
  only Bible some people will read
• If our own parents were not good examples, we
  had Roy and Dale

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They taught us how to

• Shoot straight
• Ride smooth
• Make a sling shot out of a tree branch
• How to be brave when scared
• How to be a good guy while dealing with all
  manner of bad hombres
• Everyone could just tell that Roy and Dale were
  so in love with each other

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Is there anything we can learn?

• First he was born Leonard Franklin Slye
  (November 5, 1911 July 6, 1998
• Dale Evans was his third wife
• Trigger was his Palomino horse
• Bullet was his German Shepherd Dog,
• He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the present
  site of Riverfront stadium
• He was a town boy, and got tired of that and
  built a house boat and went up the Ohio River
  toward Portsmouth

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Is there anything we can learn?

• They later moved to Duck Run and bought a farm
  but could not make a living on it so Leonards
  dad went to work in a shoe factory.
• His gift to his son was a horse and he learned
  to ride and be a cowboy
• He went to school but had to quit and work to
  make a living and tried to go to night school but
  always fell asleep

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Not such a glamorous life

• Rogers older sister Mary went to California
  and the family visited and later moved there
• After hitting on hard times and working as a
  day laborer he decided to move to L A and pursue
  a music career
• Sons of the Pioneers was created and Cool
  Water and Tumbling Tumblingweeds were big
  hits
• He got into movies and hit it big in 40s

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What does all this teach us today

• To many people live in a fairy tale world
• There is fiction and reality
• Even many that appear true blue are often made
  to appear that way
• It is not really who they are or what they are,
  it is called spin
• It is used in politics every day
• People are way to gullible today

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We need to use great careto distinguish truth
from fable

• John 1838 Pilate said to Him, "What is truth ?"
  And when he had said this, he went out again to
  the Jews, and said to them, "I find no fault in
  Him at all.
• John 1837 Jesus answered, "You say rightly that
  I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for
  this cause I have come into the world, that I
  should bear witness to the truth . Everyone who
  is of the truth hears My voice."

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Paul encouraged a young minister named Timothy

• 2 Tim 43-5 For the time will come when they
  will not endure sound doctrine, but according to
  their own desires, because they have itching
  ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers
  4 and they will turn their ears away from the
  truth , and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you
  be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do
  the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

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Paul encouraged a young minister named Timothy

• 2 Tim 41-3 I charge you therefore before God
  and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the
  living and the dead at His appearing and His
  kingdom 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season
  and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with
  all longsuffering and teaching.

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Titus had to be careful because of error being
taught around him

• Titus 114 For there are many insubordinate,
  both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those
  of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be
  stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching
  things which they ought not, for the sake of
  dishonest gain. 12 One of them, a prophet of
  their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil
  beasts, lazy gluttons." 13 This testimony is
  true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they
  may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to
  Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn
  from the truth .

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The wise man has to have understanding about
truth error

• James 313-17 Who is wise and understanding
  among you? Let him show by good conduct that his
  works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But
  if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your
  hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth .
  15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but
  is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy
  and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil
  thing are there.

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Bring back the wanderer !

• James 519-20 Brethren, if anyone among you
  wanders from the truth , and someone turns him
  back, 20 let him know that he who turns a sinner
  from the error of his way will save a soul from
  death and cover a multitude of sins.