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DAILY SPURGEON AND DEVOTION for September 17th *A. D. 2025
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Note: The New King James Version NKJV and all versions that are NOT translated from the Textus Receptus [Received Text] are inferior to the translations of the 1769 [1611] King James Version, KJV and the Geneva Bible. Only these two translations have remained faithful to the traditional Textus Receptus.
Only the Textus Receptus [Received Text] is sustained by more than 5,321 Majority Greek Text MT Manuscripts and stand in agreement with one another 99% . ALL OTHER readings have as their primary Greek source either Westcott and Hort’s or Nestle and Aland’s, Greek Texts fabricated from only a handful [45] of Majority Text Manuscripts and lack the trustworthiness produced in the inspired 1769 [1611] King James Version, KJV and the Geneva Bibles; the only two translated from the reliable, inspired and divinely protected Textus Receptus.
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Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy
(1) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC5rUbs_-E&t=9s
(169 mins.)
The Bridge to Babylon video presents historical evidence to account for the explosion of over 100 different English version translations of the Bible. The continuing attempts to replace, add or take away from the 1769 King James Version of the Holy Bible can not prevail because GOD Himself preserves and protects His inspired Holy Words
from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion , error additions, subtractions and changes.
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*A.D. does NOT mean “After Death”.
It abbreviates Anno Domini;
It’s a Latin phrase adopted into English that means:
“Year of our Lord."
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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.
I hereby confess that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh.
[All translations of the Bible that use a Greek text other than the traditional and reliable Textus Receptus ignore the word “ictin” (the Greek word that means “is” in English). This omission causes “is here” to change its meaning from “is come” [is here] to “has come”.
This error is self-evident as non-believers, false prophets and even heretics can, and frequently do, declare that He “has come” [in the flesh.
While this is a true statement when taken at face value, the meaning “has come” is clearly not the same as “is here”; the valid test to discern between the Spirit of God and the spirit of antichrist.
The most well documented fact in all of recorded human history is that Jesus Christ [Messiah] “has come” in the flesh. The essential question, however, is not whether the spirit [words or person] being tested confesses that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh but, whether Jesus Christ, “is here”, [present tense] (NOW) from God, in the flesh.
DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for September 17th Written and calendared by Charles Haddon Spurgeon:
PRAYER 8, Part 7 of 7 September 17th A PRAYER FOR HOLINESS.
ANECDOTE 47: September 17th Christ Seeking After Sinners.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK September 17th LIKE PALM AND CEDAR
“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon”
—Psalm 92:12
MORNING September 17th "Bring him unto me. "—Mark 9:19
EVENING September 17th "Encourage him. " —Deuteronomy 1:38
A SINNER’S PRAYER
PRAYER 8, Part 7 of 7 September 17th
A PRAYER FOR HOLINESS.
[Heavenly Father] We will offer but one more prayer [at this time], and it is this. Lord, look in pity upon any who are not in Christ. May they be converted [saved]. May they pass from death to life, and they will never forget it; may they see the eternal light for the first time, and they will remember it even in Eternity. Father help us; bless us now for Jesu’s [Jesus’s] sake Amen.. [In the name of the Lord Jesus] Amen. (Complete Prayer attached in e-mail: PRAYER 8.doc)
ANECDOTE 47: September 17th Christ Seeking After Sinners.
A friend of mine, who has been a clergyman in Ireland related it to me himself as a veritable narrative [true story]. A clergyman of an Irish parish said, that “he went round to visit all his parishioners, but,” said he, “there was one poor woman in the parish who had been an abandoned character, and I dared not go to visit her, because I thought it would ill-become [not well suit ] my position, so I passed by. “Ah! brother,” he said, “I know it was an evil pride, or else I should have gone after the chief of sinners, for the care of her soul was in some measure committed to my hands.”
One day he saw her in church, and he thought he heard her repeating the responses, and fancied [imagined] he saw the tears rolling down her cheek. How his bowels yearned [how earnestly his heart cried out to him] for her soul! He longed to speak with her, but he dared not. She came there month after month, a constant worshiper, and yet he passed by her door and did not visit her. At last one day she came to the door, and said, “Sir, I want you ;” he then went in, and she put out her hand, and taking hold of his, said, “0h, sir ! if your Master had been in this village half as long as you have, I am sure he would have been to see me, for I am the worst sinner in the parish, and therefore I want his help the most; but though you have not been to see me, I know who has said: “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.”
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK September 17th C.H. Spurgeon 1834—1892
LIKE PALM AND CEDAR
“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon” —Psalm 92:12 —El justo florecerá como la palmera; Crecerá como cedro en el Líbano.
— Salmos 92:12
These trees are not trained and pruned by man: palms and cedars are “trees of the Lord,” and it is by His care that they flourish; even so it is with the saints of the Lord, they are His own care. These trees are evergreen and are beautiful objects at all seasons of the year.
Believers are not sometimes holy and sometimes ungodly: they stand in the beauty of the Lord under all weathers. Everywhere these trees are noteworthy: no one can gaze upon a landscape in which there are either palms or cedars without his attention being fixed upon these royal growths. The followers of Jesus are the observed of all observers: like a city set on a hill they cannot be hid.
The child of God flourishes like a palm tree, which pushes all its strength upward in one erect column without a single branch. It is a pillar with a glorious capital. It has no growth to the right or to the left, but sends all its force heavenward, and bears its fruit as near the sky as possible.
Prayer: Lord, fulfill this in me [Make me like a palm tree].
The cedar braves [stands against] all storms, and grows near the eternal [everlasting] snows, the Lord Himself filling it with a sap which keeps its heart warm and its boughs strong. Lord, so let it be with me, I pray thee.
[In your name Lord Jesus] Amen.
MORNING September 17th
"Bring him unto me. "—Mark 9:19
—Traédmele— Marcos 9:19
DESPAIRINGLY the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith obeyed the Lord Jesus' word, "Bring him unto me."
Children are a precious gift from God, but much anxiety comes with them. They may be a great joy or a great bitterness to their parents; they may be filled with the Spirit of God or possessed with the spirit of evil. In all cases, the Word of God gives us one receipt [recipe] for the curing of all their ills [sins, sickness failures and troubles]: "Bring him unto me."
0 for more agonizing prayer on their behalf while they are yet babes! Sin is there; let our prayers begin to attack it. Our cries for our offspring should precede those cries which signal their actual advent into a world of sin. In the days of their youth we will see sad tokens of that dumb and deaf spirit that will neither pray right nor hear the voice of God in the soul, but Jesus still commands,
"Bring them unto me." When they are grown up they may wallow in sin and foam with enmity against God; then when our hearts are breaking we should remember the great Physician's words, "Bring them unto me." Never must we cease to pray until they cease to breathe.
No case is hopeless while Jesus lives.
The Lord sometimes suffers His people to be driven into a corner that they may experimentally know [know by experience] how necessary He is to them.
Ungodly children, when they show us our own powerlessness against the depravity of their hearts, drive us to flee to the strong [one] for strength, and this is a great blessing to us. Whatever our morning's need may be, let it like a strong current bear us to the ocean of divine love. Jesus can soon remove our sorrow; He delights to comfort us. Let us hasten to Him while He waits to meet us.
EVENING September 17th
"Encourage him. " —Deuteronomy 1:38
—Anímale —Deuteronomio 1:38
GOD employs [uses] His people to encourage one another. He did not say to an angel, "Gabriel, my servant Joshua is about to lead my people into Canaan—go, encourage him." God never works needless miracles; if His purposes can be accomplished by ordinary means, He will not use miraculous agency [a miricle]. Gabriel would not have been half so well fitted for the work as Moses. A brother's sympathy is more precious than an angel's embassy [mission]. The angel, swift of wing, had better known the Master's bidding than the people's temper.
An angel had never experienced the hardness of the road, nor seen the fiery serpents, nor had he led the stiff-necked multitude in the wilderness as Moses had done. We should be glad that God usually works for man by man. It forms a bond of brotherhood, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family.
Brethren, take the text as God's message to you. Labor to help others, and especially strive to encourage them.
Talk cheerily to the young and anxious inquirer [seeker], lovingly try to remove stumbling-blocks out of his way. When you find a spark of grace in the heart, kneel down and blow it into a flame. Leave the young believer to discover the roughness of the road by degrees, but tell him of the strength which dwells in God, of the sureness of the promise, and of the charms of communion with Christ. Aim to comfort the sorrowful, and to animate the desponding. Speak a word in season to him that is weary, and encourage those who are fearful to go on their way with gladness.
God encourages you by His promises; Christ encourages you as He points to the heaven, He has won for you, and the Spirit encourages you as He works in you to will and to do of His own will and pleasure. Imitate divine wisdom, and encourage others, according to the word of this evening.
30 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 speak concerning Christ and the church.
Compare, here, scripture with scripture: “I speak concerning Christ and the church.” [the fleshly embodiment, here, of the body of Christ].
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