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DEVOTION for March 10th *A.D. 2026. Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

 

 Saint Valentine’s Day 

 by John-Michael Riley

 

The King was clear, “No marriage here!

… Cause single men, they have no fear.”

                

They have no  worry, no debts to pay,                                                                                            

They love to fight,  most every day.

 

No married partner by his side,

No wife, no kids, no gorgeous bride.

 

But God’s dear Word hath  set the  tone:

“It’s Not so good, that man’s alone.”

 

It isn’t right! Don’t come between us!

“Marry Then!”  said Valentinus.

 

By the scores he helped them wed.

In Holy bliss they always said.

 

Valentinus was arrested,

By his loved one he was tested.

 

She was blind and could not hear.

His prayer to God, God did hold dear.

 

Smitten by her love and  charms;

He Saved the Jailer from all harms.

 

The Jailer heard the Savior’s call;

Then HE saved him,  all-in-all.

 

When on his way to martyrdom,

He sent his sweet, “Be mine.”

 

He wrote his name and stated thus:           

“I am forever thine.”

From , Your  Valentine.
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Does it matter whether the Traditional  abbreviation   

B.C./A.D. or the New Age  B.C.E./C.E. is used to describe Calendar years?

Yes, it does. Significantly!

 

B.C./A.D. are the traditional abbreviations that stand for “Before Christ” and “Anno Domani” [Year of our Lord] A.D. Does NOT mean “After Death” as many erroneously believe.

 

B.C.E./C.E is a New Age invention that stands for “Before Common Era” and “Common Era”. [An effort to eliminate the person of Jesus Christ, writing Him out of History,  by no mentioning of HIM, at all].
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The Lord Jesus Christ [Messiah and Anointed King] was supernaturally Fathered by the Holy Spirit and  born of a virgin girl named  Mary 2026 years ago in Bethlehem.   HE was crucified, and after three days, GOD  raised Him from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave. He is GOD’S Incarnate and Everlasting WORD [The WORD made flesh.]  The Church is the Body of Christ, His espoused Bride, for whom HE will come again.

 

The singular event of His birth divides and establishes all Human History as having been either Before or After His Birth.     

 

John 1:1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the  WORD was GOD. [IS FOR EVER GOD] Jesus Christ is GOD’s [incarnate]     WORD, In-The-Flesh.      

 

I and my Father are One.   John 10:30
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WHO IS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE
 

  1. .    His Name is INCOMPREHENSIBLE!

Exodus 3:13-15 “And Moses said…

Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
The mighty God,
The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.

Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is…

 

  1. .     His Name is INFINITE!

Psalm 145:1-3
I will…for ever and for ever…

His greatness is unsearchable.

Romans 11:33
O the depth…

How unsearchable…
…His ways past finding out

 

  1. .    His Name is INCORRUPTABLE!

              (two issues: holy and eternal)

Psalm 72:17
His Name shall endure…

…all nations shall call Him…

 

Psalm 99:3
Let them praise Thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

 

Psalm 111:9
…holy and reverend is His name
Psalm 135:13
Thy Name endureth…
…and Thy memorial…

 

Psalm 145:21
…let all flesh bless His holy name for ever and ever

 

  1. .   His name is IMMUTABLE!

Malachi 3:6
I am the LORD, I change not.

 

Hebrews 6:18
By two immutable things…
…to lay hold upon hope…

 

  1. .    His name is INCOMPARABLE!

Deuteronomy 4:35
…the LORD He is God; there is none else…

 

Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

 

  1. .     His Name is INDESCRIBABLE!
    El, Eloah, Elyon, Elohim, Adon, Adonai, - Yah, Yahveh, are used 10,952 times in the Bible!

 


Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, (99) the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
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The Indestructible Book   [GOD’s HOLY WORDS]

 

By Dr. David Brown

 

The 1769 Edition of The King James Bible is Divinely Inspired, Inerrant, Infallible, Providentially Preserved and Protected Words of GOD. They are God-Breathed and Eternal WORDS of Almighty GOD. GOD who calls Himself “I AM” is Omni-Lingual, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Immutable, All Wise, Omnipresent, Eternally Infinitely and Supremely Holy. He is the One-and-Only Triune Three-in-One GOD.


“I and my Father are one”.  John 10:30

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1 John 5:7  Is the fundamental scriptural  doctrine and essential tenet of the Trinity. [The Triune, [Three-in-One] GOD in-Three Persons   (This verse has been repeatedly Changed in an attempt to diminish the authority and the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ or it has been Removed entirely from all Modern Critical Text translations by apostates with the untenable goal of protecting and supporting False Doctrines that give rise to all manner of Cults, False Teaching and Heresies.

 

Jesus proclaims in John 10:30:   
30 “I and my Father are one.” 


Therefore, The incarnate WORD of GOD, [Jesus *Christ (*The Anointed MESSIAH and KING) and His Father are ONE.]          

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, [Jesus Christ] and the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, [Holy Ghost] and the water [Life of the Father], and the blood; [The Sacrificial Blood of Jesus Christ]: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son [Jesus Christ (The Anointed Messiah and King)].

 

GOD is “I AM” and Jesus Christ is The WORD made Flesh, GOD’s WORD is infinite and endures FOREVER, from Eternity Past through never-ending Eternity Future.
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Why Cults, False Teachers and Heretics Continue to try to take   1 John 5:7   out of the Bible.     

 

By Dr. Phil Stringer

 

1 John 5:7 Is The Great Trinitarian Proof Text of The Bible. (The immutable Doctrine of the Trinity.)

 

Daniel Webster [Writer of the Webster’s Dictionary] was once asked. “Does it not bother you to believe in the Trinity since you cannot explain it?

 

His answer was,  “What would bother me would be to have a God so small that I could fully explain Him.”
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Why The Traditional  Greek Text AKA The Received Text [Latin: Textus Receptus] TR? is Inspired, Inerrant and Immutable.

 

By Dr. David Sorenson

 

The above link presents Translational Evidence that the Traditional Text is  Inerrant, Infallible and the Inspired [Word-by-Word, GOD-Breathed by Prophets and Apostles moved by the Holy Ghost] Greek Text.  Length: (33:56 minutes)

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The Counterfeit Critical Greek Text of Westcott and Hort

By Dr. David Sorenson

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The preaching, teaching and writings of Charles Spurgeon
are  saturated with God’s Word, the Bible.  His  publications continue to benefit readers with sermons and sound biblical teaching from one whose life was poured out like a drink offering to The Lord Jesus Christ,  to whom Charlie [Charles Spurgeon] was a fully devoted follower. His love of Jesus Christ manifested itself in an singular love for and a never-ceasing effort toward winning souls of the unsaved multitudes.  From one who became known as The Prince of Preachers he remained humble always proclaiming  Christ, and Him crucified.

 

His ministry continues to thrive today at London’s   Metropolitan Tabernacle
(Brief History)   a church begun in 1650 with a building erected by members of Charles Spurgeon’s 1861 congregation .

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The following definitive and historical Bridge to Babylon (URL below) documents the explosive creation  of over 100 Critical Text Translations of the Bible into English.


Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy   (169 minutes.)

(1) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC5rUbs_-E&t=9s   

All attempts to change the Bible by adding to, or taking away from the 1769 edition of the King James Version [KJV] of the Bible can never  prevail because GOD Himself preserves and protects His inspired [God Breathed, Spoken] , inerrant, [without error] immutable [incapability of changing] and infallible [incapable of making mistakes or being wrong] God Breathed [Spoken] WORDS are Eternally Protected and Preserved  from all counterfeit or variant readings, heresy, blasphemy, confusion , error, addition to, or subtraction from is given to GOD’s WORDS by GOD HIMSELF.

 

The Traditional Greek Text was first used  in the FIRST Church at Antioch and was later called  The Received Text [vis. Latin: Textus Receptus TR].  Over 6 Billion King James Bibles account for more sales world-wide than any other version or edition of the Holy Bible. More than all other Versions or Editions Combined.

A brief summary of the life of Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892   by John Piper   (58 minutes)

Spurgeon sermons are saturated with The Word of God, and they continue to bless thousands from his 63 volume set of sermons known as the
 Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit            

(
CLICK THIS LINK TO FIND THE SPURGEON SERMON FROM THE SAME REFERENCED SCRIPTURE AS THE SERMON YOU MAY NOW BE PREPARING)  

 

The complete 63 volume set of  sermons by Charles Spurgeon may be SEARCHED here.
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  Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Conversion  In 1850,  in his own words.
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All  Versions or Editions of Bibles that are NOT  translated from the Traditional  Text [AKA the Received Text (Latin:Textus Receptus) TR or The Byzantine Text]  contain variant  readings that diminish the person and works of Jesus Christ. All  Glory belongs to The Almighty GOD.  He has preserved and protected  HIS WORD as immutable [incapability of any mutation or any change] in the 1769 Edition of the 1611 King James Version  [KJV] Bible.

This version is also known as the Authorized Version  [AV].   ALL GLORY,  LOVE, HONOR AND RESPECT  is due and must be given to the Omnipotent [Almighty], Omniscient [All-knowing], Omnipresent and Infinite GOD.

Over 5,321 hand written Greek Manuscripts known as the Majority Text support  the Traditional Text AKA The [Latin: Textus Receptus] with 99% of the manuscripts in agreement.

 

Additionally, Translational Evidence from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate establish earlier evidence of the  authenticity of The Traditional Text and goes back to the first Christian Church at Antioch. 
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SERMONS AND SACRED PRAISES:
The Metropolitan Tabernacle  (Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892)

SERMON: Securing God’s Attention    Romans 10:9   with Peter Masters

Here is Paul magnificently explaining first, how not to gain the ear of God, and then how to do so - by understanding how He saves the soul and changes the life; also how to approach Him. This is the way to find and know Him.

PRAISE:  I Shall Not Be Moved  By Jerry Lee, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash  

This Train  Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis

 

…be [be being] filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

SERMON: From The Metropolitan Tabernacle  (Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892)

Securing God’s Attention   Romans 10:9  with Peter Masters

 

Here is Paul magnificently explaining first, how not to gain the ear of God, and then how to do so - by understanding how He saves the soul and changes the life; also how to approach Him. This is the way to find and know Him.

PRAISE:  I Shall Not Be Moved  By Jerry Lee, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash 

I Shall Not Be Moved (Rockabilly) By the Million Dollar Quartet …be [be being] filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19


 

Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

URL:   https://www.gotquestions.org/Charles-Haddon-Spurgeon.html

 

 

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for March 10th *A.D. 2026. Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.


Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

PRAYER 12. March 10th Part 1 of 10: ON HOLY GROUND.

ANECDOTE 222: March 10th GOD’S CONSIDERATION.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: March 10th WALK IN LIGHT

-I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness -John 12:46

MORNING: March 10th “IN MY PROSPERITY I SAID, I SHALL NEVER BE MOVED. " — Psalm 30:6

EVENING: March 10th "Man ... is of few days, and full of trouble. " —Job 14:1

A SINNER'S PRAYER: March 10th
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PRAYER 12. March 10th Part 1 of 10  ON HOLY GROUND.

 

“OUR Father, which art in heaven, hallowed [holy] be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

We fear that we often begin our prayer with petitions for ourselves, and put our daily bread before Thy kingdom, and the pardoning of our sins before the hallowing of [acknowledging the Holiness of] Thy [Your] name. We would not do so today, but guided by our Lord’s model of prayer, we would first pray for Thy glory; and here, great God, we would adore [dearly love] Thee. Thou hast [have] made us and not we ourselves. We are Thy people, and the sheep of Thy pasture.

All glory be unto Thee, Jehovah, the only living and true God. With heart and mind, and memory and fear, and hope and joy, we worship the Most High [God].

It well becomes [is fitting for] us to put our shoes from off our feet [take our shoes off] when we draw near to God, for the place whereon we stand is holy ground.

If God in the bush demanded the un-sandaled foot of the prophet [Moses], how much more shall God in Christ Jesus [require it]? Amen.

(Complete Prayer 12 attached in e-mail: PRAYER 12.doc) 

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ANECDOTE 222: March 10th GOD’S CONSIDERATION.

 

A person may happen to do you a good turn; but if you are sure that he did it by accident, or with no more thought than that wherewith a passing stranger throws a penny to a beggar, you are not [greatly] impressed with gratitude. But when the action of your friend is the result of earnest deliberation, and you see that he acts in the tenderest [most tender] regard to your welfare, you are far more thankful: traces of anxiety to do you good are very pleasant. Have I not heard persons say,

“It was so kind and so thoughtful of him!”

Do you not notice that men value kindly thought [thoughtfulness], and set great store by tender consideration! Remember, then, that there is never a thoughtless action on the part of God. His mind goes with his hand: his heart is in his acts. He thinks so much of his people, that the very hairs of their heads are all numbered : he thinks not only of the great thing, but of all the little things which are incidental to the great thing; as the hairs are to the head.

Every affliction is timed and measured, and every comfort is sent with a loving thoughtfulness which makes it precious in a sevenfold degree. believer, the great thoughtfulness of the divine mind is exercised towards you, the chosen of the Lord. [Praise You, Lord Jesus!] 

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK March 10th WALK IN LIGHT

 

-I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness -John 12:46

-Yo la luz he venido al mundo, para que todo aquel que cree en mi no permanezca en tinieblas -Juan 12:46

This world is dark as midnight; Jesus has come that by faith we may have light, and may no longer sit in the gloom [darkness] which covers all the rest of mankind. Whosoever is a very wide term: it means you and me. If we trust in Jesus we shall no more sit in the dark shadow of death, but shall enter into the warm light of a day which shall never end. Why do we not come out into the light at once? A cloud may sometimes hover over us, but we shall not abide in darkness if we believe in Jesus. He has come to give us broad daylight. Shall He come in vain [with no results] ? If we have faith we have the privilege of sunlight: let us enjoy it. From the night of natural depravity of ignorance, of doubt, of despair, of sin, of dread, Jesus has come to set us free; and all believers shall know that He no more comes in vain [with no purpose] than the sun rises and fails to scatter his heat and light.

Shake off thy depression, dear brother. Abide not in the dark, but abide in the light. In Jesus is thy hope, thy joy, thy Heaven. Look to Him, to Him only, and thou shalt [shall, will] rejoice as the birds rejoice at sunrise, and as the angels rejoice before [in front of] the throne [Gods majestic seat].

Prayer: Thank you, Lord, that You are come [are here] a light into the world, that whosoever believeth [believes] in You should not abide [remain] in darkness in Jesus name, Amen.

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MORNING March 10th   "IN MY PROSPERITY I SAID, I SHALL NEVER BE MOVED. " — Psalm 30:6

 

Y dije yo en mi prosperidad: No seré jamás conmovido; — Salmos 30:6

 

MOAB [present-day Jordan] is settled [warehoused] on his lees [protected shelter], he hath not been emptied [transferred or traded] from vessel to vessel." Give a man wealth and let his ships bring home continually rich freights; let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his vessels across the bosom of the mighty deep; let his lands yield abundantly: let the weather be propitious [beneficial] to his crops; let uninterrupted success attend him and let him stand among men as a successful merchant; let him enjoy continued health and allow him with braced nerve and brilliant eye to march through the world, living happily; give him the buoyant spirit and have a song perpetually on his lips; let his eye be ever sparkling with joy

— and the natural consequence of such an easy state to any man, even though he is the best Christian who ever breathed, will be presumption— [unwarranted boldness, indulgent impertinence and self-righteous assumptions]. Even David said, "I shall never be moved" and we are not better than David, nor half so good.

Brother, beware of the smooth places of the way. If you are treading them, or if the way be rough, thank God for it. If God were to always rock us in the cradle of prosperity, if we were always dandled [bounced and doted over] on the knees of fortune, if we had not some stain on the alabaster [white] pillar, if there were not a few clouds in the sky, if we had not some bitter drops in the wine of this life, we would become intoxicated with pleasure. We would dream "we stand," and stand we would, but it would be upon a pinnacle [dangerous place]. Like the man asleep upon the mast [high-up in the crow’s nest], each moment we would be in jeopardy.

We bless God, then, for our afflictions; we thank Him for our changes; we extol his name for losses of property; for we feel that had He not chastened us thus, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial.

 

Afflictions, [trials and tribulations], though they seem severe,

In mercy oft [often] are sent.

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EVENING March 10th   "MAN ... IS OF FEW DAYS, AND FULL OF TROUBLE. "

—Job 14:1

 

El Hombre … Corto de días, y harto de sinsabores—Job 14:1

 

IT may be of great service to us, before we fall asleep, to remember this mournful fact, for it may lead us to set loose by earthly things. There is nothing very pleasant in the recollection that we are not above the shafts of adversity, but it may humble us and prevent our boasting like the psalmist in our MORNING'S portion: My mountain stands firm, I shall never be moved. It may stop us from taking too deep a root in this soil from which we will so soon be transplanted into the heavenly garden. Let us recollect the frailty with which we hold our temporal mercies.

If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we would not be so ready to build our nests in them. We should love, but we should love with the love that expects death, and that reckons on separations. Our dear relations are but loaned to us, and the hour when we must return them to the lender's hand may be even at the door.

The like [same] is certainly true of our worldly goods.

Do not riches take to themselves wings and fly away? Our health is equally precarious. Frail flowers of the field, we must not reckon on blooming forever. There is a time appointed for weakness and sickness when we will have to glorify God by suffering, and not by earnest activity.

There is no single point at which we can hope to escape from the sharp arrows of affliction; out of our few days there is not one secure from sorrow. Man's life is a cask full of bitter wine; he who looks for joy in it would better seek for honey in an ocean of brine.

Beloved reader, set not your affections on things of earth, but seek those things which are above: for here the moth devours, and the thief breaks through, but there all joys are perpetual and eternal. The path of trouble is the way home.

Lord, make this thought a pillow for many a weary head! 

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A person may come to Jesus by  believing and (whole heartedly) praying like this:

 

 “Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner. I’m lost and hopeless without You.  I will never be able to save myself by my own merits. Without you and your death on the cross I would deserve and spend forever in Hell.

I know that me doing my best or being good (in my own opinion)  and justifying my own behavior as "good"  or "OK" will never  save me.
I look to You, alone  Lord Jesus to save me. 
I come to You   right now.  Lord Jesus.   Please save me.  I believe You died on the cross in my place to pay for my sin debt and put to death my sin nature. I know  You always keep your word.  Please save me. You say and  it’s written in the Bible that you won’t reject anyone who comes to You. I'm coming  to You now. Thank You for saving me.
I  give myself (all of myself) to You, Lord Jesus. I declare that You are my Savior and Lord. I’m sorry for and I turn away from  every sin (every bad thought, every bad word I have spoken and every bad thing I have ever done)  and look to You free me from the penalty of sin, to keep me free from the power of sin and empower me overcome any temptation from sin’s  presence.  Thank you for forgiving  all of  my sins by dying on the cross to pay the punishment that I deserve.  (I was a sinner by nature and by behavior). But now I'm washed clean by Your blood that was shed [poured out] for me at Calvary [at the cross].

Thank you Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was born and that You love me now and will always love me and will never reject or turn your back on me. I know You are the Way, the Truth and the Life and that no one can come to the Father other than by You.


Thank you Father that You have made a way for me to see myself as ungodly.  But,  because You are good You have made a way and given me the desire to come to You, to turn away from my sin and to trust in the Lord Jesus.  You have forgiven me because He took my place and You have provided for  me to be born again [born from above, born of the Holy Spirit].  
You prompted this desire and faith to believe in Your only begotten Son who,gave up  His life and died on the cross to pay my sin debt, not mine alone, but the sins of the whole world. 

Thank You, Heavenly Father that you raised Jesus from the dead. He is ALIVE and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave and in Christ Jesus there is no condemnation. After You raised Him from the dead You gave Him a Glorified, [everlasting] physical body and  after he was seen by many witnesses on earth You took Him up to reign with  You  in heaven. 

 

 I pray this in the name, of Your only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ with a grateful heart.   Thank You for saving me heavenly Father and for sending the Comforter, The Spirit of Truth, for my guidance and solemn instruction into all truth.,  Amen.”

Thank You Holy Spirit of Truth, The Comforter, The Paraclete [true friend who is by your side and always has your back]  for the new life in Jesus and the  victory that comes when I recon myself dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord trusting You, Holy Spirit for Your  empowerment  to see  this promise fulfilled. Romans 6:11

Thank you that you, Holy Spirit,  always exalt [lift up] the Lord Jesus.  John 16:8-11

 

With all my heart, I thank you Lord Jesus for saving me. 
I ask now that You live Your life through me in Your name, Lord Jesus I pray, Amen.

 

 

Please allow us to celebrate with you and with the angels in heaven at the news of your new birth.   Please write to:

The John Mark Publishing Company,  PO BOX 21 San Juan Capistrano, CA  92693, U.S.A.

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… and pray for souls to be saved and believers to be strengthened

The Lord … is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  2 Peter 3:9

Pray also that believers will be led…                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide and proclaim God’s Word providentially protected and preserved by God, Himself.

 

John 3:16:   

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 

For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in Heaven. Psalm 119:89

God is not the author of confusion. 1 Corinthians 4:33­­

God, Himself, providentially protects and preserves His WORD. All of His Word is inspired, [God-breathed], self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful [omnipotent] Word.

 

 MISSION PURPOSE:         
 

We aim to be fully devoted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. We trust the Holy Spirit to impart God’s  divine revelation to us from His Word, the Holy Bible.  We trust that many who are lost will be saved, that believers will be comforted, strengthened and encouraged as we are being conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ; all, to God’s glory.

Divine Scripture is God’s infinite, eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable revelation to all mankind.  Herein, all revealed truth is given to the world. It is God-breathed [inspired] , self-authenticating [compare scripture to scripture]  and providentially protected and will endure, immutable, forever.  We purpose, therefore, with God enabling, to rightly divide and follow The Holy Bible in all things.  Personal guidance in Holiness and all divine revelation to His Church body are through God’s Holy Word, the Bible.

Hence, we resolve, God helping us, to pray, read, study, meditate-on, trust-in  and obey God’s revealed and divinely preserved Word,  holding it to be the final authority and legal precedent in all things as the divinely established Stare Decisis [Latin: to stand by that which is decided].

Therefore, the purpose of The John Mark Publishing Company is to publish and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every creature, ministering God’s love to all, especially those in the household of faith.  The Bible is God’s everlasting, inspired, (God breathed) inerrant, infallible, unchangeable, divinely protected and preserved Word of love and salvation to the entire world forever settled in heaven.

 

It is also the essence and  foundation of this ministry as we aim to encourage a fully devoted discipleship demonstrating  devotional vigor.
 

History: The preaching, teaching and writing  of Charles Haddon Spurgeonc, continues to reveal God’s love through His WORD, rightly divided and conforming to all doctrines of Biblical Christianity.  His work continues to benefit, bless and challenge readers through authentic Gospel preaching and sound biblical teaching. The Lord’s ministry through Charles Spurgeon  continues to flourish from  (Spurgeon’s)  Metropolitan Tabernacle,   (Brief History)

This Website is shared with the hope that growth in personal devotions and the edification of the church as well as fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ will be encouraged.  We desire that the written Word of God will be the Living  Word in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ to each and every reader.

To this end,  DailySpurgeon.com is offered to hear Gospel preaching and engage in daily devotions,  Bible study, meditation, prayer, and the singing of Sacred  Praise and Worship music to The Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Adherence to Spurgeon’s calendared dates and original, unabridged text is carefully guarded.
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Alterations to and alternative readings in Biblical Text were brought about by the inferior Critical Greek Text of Westcott & Hort and was used to translate the: NIV, ESV, RSV and other Modern Language Translations. These Greek translations came from the Greek Codices Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.  90% is from Vaticanus and 8-9% from Sinaiticus  and were the principle source Texts used by Westcott and Hort to invent their Critical Greek Text. There are  more disagreements than there are agreements between these two Codices.

 

17 verses are deleted out of the New Testament in the Critical Text. 7,000 words are deleted.

Codices Sinaiticus  and Vaticanus are counterfeits that were  overwritten in the 10th 11th and  completely overwritten in the 15th centuries. There are more points of disagreement than there are points of agreement between them.

The Geneva Bible was also translated from the Traditional Greek Text, The Textus Receptus [The Received Text] including  comments favorable to the Protestant Reformation  from, devoted,  faithful Christian men of GOD; Puritan Believers whose lives were  beyond reproach.
This Bible was brought to Plymouth Massachusetts  in the American Colonies by the Puritan Pilgrims guided by Captain Christopher Jones’s on the Mayflower sailing ship in 1620. A 1592 Edition of the Geneva Bible that belonging to a Mayflower passenger and the Governor of the Plymouth Colony (Later to become the State of   Massachusetts) by William Bradford and is on display at the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the oldest continuously operating public museum in the United States.

The traditional Textus Receptus [The Received (Greek) Text] unlike any other Greek Text was taken  from more than 5,321 original Majority (Greek Manuscript) Text [MT] that agree 99% with one another. Other variant readings stem from Greek translations invented by  either Westcott and Hort or Nestle and Aland.  These fabricated Greek Texts were translated from only a handful [45] of Majority Text Manuscripts MT and  lack the  trustworthiness of  the inspired 1769 [1611] King James Version, KJV or the Geneva Bible and are the only two translations of the traditional, reliable, inspired, [GOD BREATHED] immutable and providentially and divinely protected Textus Receptus [TR]

 

There is also translational evidence from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate that establishes The Traditional Greek Text as both the OLDEST and the BEST. [Unlike the Counterfeit proofs  offered with The Critical Test].
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Can the Website  DAILYSPURGEON  be trusted? Is it trustworthy?
Is it of God?
YES, it can!    Yes, it is!     Here’s why.

1 John 4:1-3
Beloved ones, don’t be believing every spirit [everyone or !everything] you hear but be testing the spirit [voice] whether it is of God: because many false prophets have gone [come] out into the world. Here’s how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit [voice] that confesses [avows] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, having come[who came] out of God, is of God: and every spirit that confesses not [doesn’t audibly avow] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Therefore I do confess,  that Jesus Christ is come  [is here]  in the flesh.

[All translations of the Bible that use  Greek translations other than the Traditional AKA the faithful Textus Receptus do not have the Greek word “ictin”.  This word  means “is” in English] and  its exclusion causes the meaning of its translation, “is here” to change to “has” come.

This mistake is self-evident because non-believers, false prophets, atheists and even  heretics can, and frequently do, affirm that Jesus Christ “has come”   [in the flesh].

While this is a true statement, taken at face value, the  meaning of  “has come” is clearly not the same as “is here”. When “has” come is the meaning   the test God has given in His Word to discern whether words being analyzed are from the Spirit of God or the spirit of antichrist is made void.

One of the most well documented facts in all human history is that Jesus The Christ [The Anointed Messiah]  “has” come in the flesh. However, the essential question  is not whether the spirit [a spoken or written word] confesses that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh but, whether this confession affirms that Jesus Christ, “is come” [is here],  in the flesh.

 

Please Compare and consider [Meditate upon] this scripture with other related scriptures.  Precept upon precept, Line upon line… 
Isaiah 28:10-14
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 Ephesians 5:30-32
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.32 This is a great mystery: but I [The Apostle Paul]  speak concerning Christ and the church.  [The Church body and Bride of CHRIST]

“I speak concerning Christ and the church.” [the fleshly embodiment, here and now,  of the body of Christ]. Because  followers of Jesus Christ are members of the incarnate Body of Christ [The Church] I freely affirm and avow that Jesus Christ is hereNot “Has come”] in the flesh.
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Which Bible Is The Best?  (57 minutes) David Hocking

David’s Summary  (8 minutes) The problem behind Bible translations is not English.  The issue is what Greek text was being used.   I believe the true Author is The Holy Spirit. I believe this is the Word of God… We need to understand that The word of GOD in and of itself is power. Power to change your life and through the work of the Holy Spirit can produce the New Birth. We are born again of an incorruptible seed of the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.

- David Hocking
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THE  WORDS of GOD Are :
 

Immutable, [unchangeable and, incapable of mutation or change] 
Inspired, [God breathed, spoken],

Infallible,[Incapable of failing, making a mistake or being wrong]  

Inerrant [Without error]

Self-Authenticating  [The Bible is considered to be self-authenticating because proponents who believe it to be so know it contains inherent divine qualities—Such qualities are unity, majesty, power, and internal consistency—that reveal its divine origin, that convinces readers of its truth without relying on external historical proof or church testimony.

This concept, championed by the Reformation, know that the Holy Spirit illuminate:
the "heavenliness of its matter," the "efficacy of its doctrine," and the "majesty of its style" within the text itself, allowing God's Word to be received directly, the same way as seeing God's glory in Christ.]
 

Divinely Protected and Providentially Preserved:
Psalm 12:6-7:   6 The words of the Lord are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them [Thy Words] (Note Plural), O Lord, thou shalt preserve them [Thy Words] from this generation for ever. (KJV).

 

Isaiah 40:8: 8 The grass withereth, [withers] the flower fadeth [fades] :but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (KJV).

 

Matthew 5:18: 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (KJV).

Matthew 24:35: 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (AKJV).

1 Peter 1:23: 23 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.  (KJV).

1 Peter 1:25: 25 but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.  (KJV).

 

Psalm 119:89:  89 For ever, [sic] O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven, Psalm 119:89).  (KJV).

 

The Authorized King James Version (AKJV)  also known as The King James Version, Edition of 1769 (KJV), The Authorized Version (AV) and The Geneva Bible are faithful Translations from the preeminent, [surpassing all others],  Traditional Greek Text which predates the name given to the  Textus Receptus [The Received Text] TR, and is superior to all modern Critical Text translations rendered from inferiorGreek Sources that include: (Westcott & Hort, Nestle & Aland,  and Codices Vaticanus, Sinaiticus and Alexandrus).

 

John 1:1: 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
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John 1:1-3    1In the beginning was he Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in he beginning with God. 3 all things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

(KJV) The Authorized Version AV Translation was faithfully translated by fully consecrated,  and dedicated men of faith, beyond reproach, preeminent linguists, language scholars who were fully devoted followers of  The Lord Jesus Christ.   The 1611 King James translation is from the inerrant, inspired and immutable Textus Receptus [Received Text]:

 

Psalm 119:89  ל   (Lamed)  For ever, [sic] O  Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

 

“Thy Word” is The Inspired and Ultimate Stare Decisis [A Legal Term in Latin that establishes the principle of “Legal Precedence”. It means to stand by things decided, and  to uphold all things God-Breathed [Inspired] and therefore eternally, Divinely and immutably decided FOREVER]

 

4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth [says] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh is of God: 3 and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

 

Therefore, I now confess that “Jesus Christ is here in the flesh.”  

 

[All other English translations of the Bible that use Greek manuscripts other than the Textus Receptus erroneously renders the English translation “Has come”.

      

 This Translation error is because inferior Greek manuscripts do not include the Greek word  “ictin”  (This is The Greek word for is that is found only in the Majority Text of the Textus Receptus) and therefore  the failure  to correctly translate “ictin” [Is Here] into English.

 

 The Authorized King James Version AKJV also known as The Authorized Version AV and the Geneva Bible stand alone in making and giving the correct translation: “is here”.

 

This  error: “has come” is self-evident, because non-believers, false prophets and even heretics  can, and sometimes will,  make the confession that He “has come” in the flesh. This is no surprise because the birth of Jesus Christ is the most well documented fact in all of recorded history.  Indeed, it is a true and factual statement that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Yet, while this is, a true and factual statement, the meaning in scripture has now been erroneously changed. The new and erroneous meaning is that now even if He “has come” in the flesh  the confession that JESUS CHRIST IS HERE IN THE FLESH is impossible for THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST who is the creator of all heresies  to confess. Without it, Don’t  believe anything  that is said or written.

 

NEITHER does it provide for the test for believers to discern whether a spirit [voice or written words being read or heard] are from God or from the Antichrist.  It is  true that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh, but it’s essential that the confession that Jesus Christ,  “IS HERE IN THE FLESH” Be confessed  [be spoken].

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By Reading, comparing and meditating on any specific Scripture together with other relevant Scriptures, God’s Word clarifies and self-authenticates:

 

Therefore we will read and meditate on:
1 John 4:1-3 with Ephesians 5:30-32

 

1 John 4:1-3

Authorized (King James) Version

1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

 

Ephesians 5:30-32

30: for we are members of his [Jesus Christs’]  body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and His bride the church.

 [We are members of His body, flesh and bones, one flesh with Him, as His bride the church].

He was born of a virgin 2026 years ago, and HE lives today,

and He is soon returning for His bride, The Church.

 

 "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:

God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,                                                      

believed on in the world, received up into glory.  "1 Timothy 3:16
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Why Have Traditional  Sacred Hymns Endured for Such a Long aTime? 
 

Because God preserves and protects His Word. The lyrics in Sacred hymns are divinely God breathed [Inspired and Spoken by God] words and are therefore infinite, immutable and eternal.

 

(Text from Blogger: Notorius Meddler)
… be being filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

 

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Our prayer is that you have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior and Lord, or that you will do it now,  right now. 

 

Sing-along and Pray this Hymn wholeheartedly,  won’t you?
 

All To Jesus I Surrender

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The aim of dailyspurgeon.com  is to win souls and to encourage all believers to have greater love to and to become a fully devoted follower of the Lord Jesus Christ,  [The Messiah].

 

The Good News, (in Gospel song):   Jesus Saves,   He Lives!  and  Great Is Thy Faithfulness   (Tap to sing-along. Give voice to the truth, won’t you?) 

 

Join in, won’t you? to pray, hear and heed the gospel of Jesus Christ (Messiah), and  sing hymns and praises to worship Him in spirit and in truth.

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Sing  “If I Needed You” with Joey and Rory

UR:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WrfeHK3Yw

 

 

 PLAYLIST  INDEX  
Be blessed by This SACRED MUSIC, Won’t you?)

 

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The aim of this Website is to encourage believers to become a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ [The anointed Messiah and King].

• Pray to the Heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; to the only begotten Son, Jesus [The Christ [The anointed Messiah], and to The Holy Ghost [Spirit]. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
• Read GOD’s WORD, Hear, believe and obey the eternal, inspired (God breathed) , immutable, inerrant, infallible and providentially preserved and protected written Scriptures, The everlasting Word of God, revealed in His Holy Bible by The Holy Ghost and embodied in The Lord Jesus Christ, the living Word of GOD that is here in the flesh; 1 Peter 1:23
• Be [always being] filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord Jesus; Ephesians 5:18-19
• Not forsake the assembling of yourself together with other members of the Body of Christ [The Church] as the manner of some is; Hebrews 10:23-25  
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
- Jesus Christ  Matthew 18:19-20    

You are invited to come to the only true God. The God of  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through His only begotten Son, who is GOD’S  WORD, made flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God and to follow Him, because He is The Way, The Truth and The Life:  no man cometh unto the Father but by me [Him]   John 14:6-7

 

Receive God’s Gift of eternal love and  eternal life.   John 3:16 

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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