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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION  for September 24th *A.D. 2026 written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon

NEW POSTS:

The King James Bible: How a King Authorized and Commissioned and what was to became the Most Influential Bible ever.

THE OLD KING JAMES BIBLE remains Authoritative because it is The Inspired [God-Breathed/Spoken] Inerrant [error free] and Immutable [Providentially Preserved and Protected, Unchanged, and forever Unchangeable] WORD of GOD.  (…a 50 minute Documentary)
    
THE REMARKABLE CONVERSION OF CHARLES SPURGEON

—*A.D. does NOT mean “After Death”. 

 It abbreviates Anno Domini;
… a Latin phrase adopted into English that means:
* “Year of our Lord."

Does BC/AD versus BCE/CE  really matter? …YES. IT DOES! 

Defend the Truth. Stand against the attempt to mislead, Won’t you?  ...More
The new terms are meaningless because BCE and CE still denote the exact number of years in relationship to the birth in Bethlehem of Jesus Christ [The Anointed Messiah].

Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, said: 'This amounts to the dumbing down of the Christian basis of our culture, language and history. These changes are unnecessary and they don't achieve the BBC’s objective [of wiping out any mention of or reference to Jesus Christ, His birth or His life]. ’

'Whether you use “Common Era, CE” or “Anno Domini, AD”, the date is actually still the same and the reference point is still the birth of [Jesus] Christ.'

 

Today’s Posts:

Dr. Jeff Riddle gives an Excellent Presentation of the Historical and Factual Case for the IMMUTABILITY and Providential Preservation of GOD’S WORD from the Traditional Text, also known as The Received Text, The Textus Receptus.

 

The Defense of the Received Text [Textus Receptus] By Dr. Jeff Riddle

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Dr. Doug Levesque  presents a Historical account that reveals why we should not rely on dumbed- down versions of:

Textual Criticism's Imperfect Bibles   (Click to view)
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The Providential  Life of King James  (Text)

  1. URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I

Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy   (169 minutes. Video)[jM1]     

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

“Bridge to Babylon” is a  video Treatise  of the explosion of over 1,000 English translations  of the Bible. The Continual attempts to replace, add or take away from the Old 1769 King James Version of the Holy Bible. They  don’t  prevail because GOD Himself has providentially preserved and protected His Inspired  [God Breathed] Holy Words from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion, error and the IMMUTABILITY of GOD’S WORD.

Over five Billion King James Bibles across all editions make it the most widely printed and distributed book in human history. This is more than all the other translations put together and is still the most read  Bible ever.

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Scroll Down to bottom of p. 28  for  “ 19 EPISODES” of  John Bunyan’s THE  PILGRIM’S PROGRESS written in 1678 and is second only to the Bible as the all-time most widely printed and distributed book ever.  It has never been out of print.

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Requiem:  The  last word(s) , spoken by John Michael’s  Daddy just before he (his Dad) was called home to be forever with the LORD.

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Please select and view a video today from among the following five videos.  (Dr. Philip Stringer’s Documentary is highly recommended)

You will be blessed as you discover GOD’S AUTHORITATIVE,  inspired [God breathed] , immutable, inerrant, infallible, providentially  preserved and  protected written and revealed Word [Words] of GOD.

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Dr. David L. Brown (1 video)

THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT ARE NOT THE SAME.
URL: (click here)
https://youtu.be/EbY3fs9yM-o?is=o1Grz0-cN8QcI9if

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Dr. David Sorenson: (3 videos)

(1)  -THE MAKING OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

URL: (Click here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC089eaT0zA

 

(2) - THE TRADITIONAL TEXT: ITS HISTORY & RELIABILITY

URL: (Click here)

https://youtu.be/87mZTVZ7i_Y?si=IKhSkPu5xriAnxcu

 

(3) -THE TRADITIONAL TEXT (ALSO KNOWN AS THE RECEIVED TEXT [THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS]  VERSUS THE CRITICAL TEXT [Man’s thoughts instead of God’s actual, God Breathed (Inspired) WORDS]

URL: (Click here)

https://youtu.be/02A7lNf0Rrs?si=TfLITseFIioQCgzX

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Dr. Philip Stringer  (Video)
 

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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  2. THE KING JAMES VERSION [1769] IS THE FINAL, PRESERVED AND PROTECTED AUTHORITATIVE, INSPIRED [GOD BREATHED],  IMMUTABLE,  INNERANT AND INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD-

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URL: (Click here)               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UbXGjoCnYY
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How to Discern between God’s Holy Ghost, Divine Spirit and the spirit of false teachers and the Antichrist:

Is this Website of God?   Is it trustworthy?

God says in His WORD to try every spirit to discern [determine] whether they are of God, and therefore whether they should be believed and obeyed  or not.

1 John 4:1-3

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

Therefore, I must hereby confess that

"Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh!” in the Body, as The Bride of Christ; His Church.
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DAILY SPURGEON AND DEVOTION for September 24th  *A. D. 2026

 

BCE/CE  vs.  BC/AD                                

A.D. does NOT mean “After Death” as many mistakenly believe. It is actually Latin for Anno Domini,  a  phrase adopted into English that means  “Year of [the/our] Lord”.  The complete  original phrase "anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi" means "in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ”. A.D. and together  with B.C. Before Christ  divides all Human history and designates it as either before or after the birth of Jesus Christ.   ...More

 

JOIN us won’t you? in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to love and worship God in Spirit and in Truth: John 4:24

  • Praying with our heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; 1 Thessalonians 5:17

  • Hearing and obeying the eternal, inspired, immutable, inerrant, infallible, revealed and protected Word of God, revealed through Jesus Christ, the living Word; 1 Peter 1:23

  • 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;    Ephesians 5:18-19

 

We pray that this resource may strengthen soul winning, personal discipleship, the diligent study of God’s Word and the gathering of believers in the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen 

 

Jesus says: For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Matthew 18:20 

 

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION  for September 24th *A.D. 2026 written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon

        

SACRED PRAISES: September 24th  (Sing along, won’t you?)

Praise Him, Praise Him  Islington Baptist Church  

His Eye Is on  the Sparrow    Larnelle Harris Gaither Congregation

Mighty to Save   Hillsong

 

Today’s post is in loving memory of  Jon Edward Riley  (1971-2021) who would sometimes just bust-out singing Gospel  songs;  often, on the way to church or singing along with the Elvis Gospel  CD that we kept in the Ford Pick up truck:

 I  LOVE  You  Lord   by Jared Reynolds

How Great Thou Art  with Elvis

Lead Me  & Rock-a My Soul   by Elvis and friends

…Jon would always said “Later”;  [See-ya later] instead of “good bye”.  It was his standard greeting to bid farewell …  never  “good-bye”.  Remembering now, the sound of how he said “Later”, rings very  true as to its message and brings a joyfulness and comfort to the hearts of those he loved so well.

… and it reminds us of the promise in this Hymn: 

’Till We Meet Again.  By Jeremiah Rankin (1880) with Antrim Mennonite Choir

Amen.

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DEVOTION FOR  September 24th written and calendared by C.H. Spurgeon:
 

FEATURED SERMON September 24th

From The Metropolitan Tabernacle (C.H. Spurgeon’s Home Church 1834-1892)

From Blasphemy to Faith    1 John 5:10    with Dr. Peter Masters

As unbelievers we thought unbelief was 'innocent'. Surely it was for Christians to demonstrate God's reality to us. But here is God's viewpoint - the depths of willful unreasonableness in our rejection of Him. And here also is what [the gratitude] we owe to Him for His mercy.

 

PRAYER 10, Part 4: September 24th  THE MUSIC OF PRAISE
ANECDOTE 55: September 24th   CHRIST THE TRUE PHYSICIAN. [False Doctors to avoid]
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK:  September 24th   THE LIFE-GIVING STREAM

-And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live - Ezekiel 47:9
MORNING: September 24th   "FOR I WAS ASHAMED TO REQUIRE OF THE KING A BAND OF SOLDIERS AND HORSEMEN TO HELP US AGAINST THE ENEMY IN THE WAY: BECAUSE WE HAD SPOKEN UNTO THE KING, SAYING, THE HAND OF OUR GOD IS UPON ALL THEM FOR GOOD THAT SEEK HIM; BUT HIS POWER AND HIS WRATH IS AGAINST ALL THEM THAT FORSAKE HIM."—Ezra 8:22
EVENING: September 24th    "I SLEEP, BUT MY HEART WAKETH. "
—Song of Solomon 5:2

A  SINNER’S PRAYER September 24th   

PRAYER 10,    Part  4 of 9  September 24th  THE MUSIC OF PRAISE.

           

[Heavenly Father] We would with much shame-facedness [shamefully] acknowledge our transgressions and sins. [much ashamed of our sins] There are some that never felt the burden of sin at all. Lord, lay it on them; press them with it.   Almighty God, vex [agitate]  their souls; let them find no rest till they find rest in Thee.  May they never be content to live and die in sin, but of Thine infinite mercy come to them, and make them sorry for their sin.

[In the name of the Lord Jesus who is Christ (The Messiah)] Amen.

(Attachment: PRAYER 10.doc) 

ANECDOTE 55:  September 24th  CHRIST THE TRUE PHYSICIAN.
 

(Don’t consult with any of these sorts of “Doctors”!)           

Have you been to…

Doctor “Ceremony”? [A villain who appears so respectable and useful?]

 

He is, at this time, the fashionable doctor. Has he told you that you must attend to forms and rules?  Has he prescribed you so many prayers, and so many services?  Ah! many go to him, and they persevere in a round [Merry-go-round] of religious observances, but these yield no lasting ease to the conscience. Have you tried …

Doctor “Morality”?  He has a large practice, and is a fine old Jewish physician. “Be good in outward character,” says he, “and it will work inwardly, and cleanse the heart !” A great many persons are supposed to have been cured by him and by his assistant,

Doctor “Civility”, who is nearly as clever as his master: but I have it on good evidence that neither of them apart, nor even the two together, could ever deal with an inward disease.  Do what you may, your own doings will not stanch [stop bleeding of] the wounds of a bleeding heart.  

Doctor “Mortification” has also a select practice; but men are not saved by denying themselves until they first deny their self-righteousness. 

Doctor “Excitement” has many patients, but his cures seldom outlive the set of sun [sunset]. 

Doctor “Feeling”  [Dr. Feel-Good] is much sought after by tender spirits;  these try to feel sorrow and remorse; but, indeed, the way of cure does not lie in that quarter. Let everything be done that can be done apart from our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, and the sick soul will be nothing bettered [none the better]. You may try human remedies for the space of a lifetime, but sin will remain in power, guilt will cling to the conscience, and the heart will abide as hard as ever.

 

[We must Trust Jesus. Look to him only and be made whole.]

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK  September 24th   THE LIFE-GIVING STREAM    
by C.H. Spurgeon

-And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which loveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live - Ezekiel 47:9
 

- Y recibiran sanidad; y vivirá todo lo que entrare en este arroyo. - Ezequiel 47:9
 

The living waters, in the prophet’s [Ezekiel’s] vision, flowed into the Dead Sea, and carried life with them, even into that stagnant lake.  Where grace goes, spiritual life is the immediate and the everlasting consequence. Grace proceeds sovereignly according to the will of God, even as a river in all its windings follows its own sweet will; and wherever it comes it does not wait for life to come to it, but it creates life by its own quickening flow. Oh, that it would pour along our streets, and flood our slums! Oh, that it would now come into my house, and rise till every chamber [room] were made to swim with it!
 

Prayer: Lord, let the living water flow to my family and my friends, and let it not pass me by.  I have drunk of it already; but I desire to bathe in it, yea, to swim in it. O my Savior , I need life more abundantly. Come to me, I pray thee, till every part of my nature is vividly energetic and intensely active. Living God, I pray thee, fill me with thine own life. I am a poor, dry stick; come and make me so to live that, like Aaron’s rod, I may bud and blossom and bring forth fruit unto thy glory.

 

Quicken me, [bring me to life] for the sake of the Lord Jesus. Amen.

 

MORNING September 24th  "FOR I WAS ASHAMED TO REQUIRE OF THE KING A BAND OF SOLDIERS AND HORSEMEN TO HELP US AGAINST THE ENEMY IN THE WAY: BECAUSE WE HAD SPOKEN UNTO THE KING, SAYING, THE HAND OF OUR GOD IS UPON ALL THEM FOR GOOD THAT SEEK HIM; BUT HIS POWER AND HIS WRATH IS AGAINST ALL THEM THAT FORSAKE HIM."— Ezra 8:22

 

—Porque tuve vergüenza de pedir al rey, tropa y gente de á caballo que nos defendiesen del enemigo en el camino: porque habíamos hablado al rey, diciendo: La mano de nuestro Dios es para bien sobre todos los que le buscan; mas su fortaleza y su furor sobre todos los que le dejan
—  Esdras 8:22  

 

A [military] CONVOY on many accounts would have been desirable for the pilgrim band [group], but a holy shamefacedness [holy shame] would not allow Ezra to seek one. He feared lest [for fear that] the heathen king should think his professions of faith in God to be mere hypocrisy, or imagine that the God of Israel was not able to preserve His own worshippers. 

 

He could not bring his mind to lean on an arm of flesh in a matter so evidently of the Lord, and therefore the caravan set out with no visible protection, guarded by Him who is the sword and shield of His people. It is to be feared that few believers feel this holy jealousy for God; even those who in a measure. walk by faith occasionally mar the luster of their life by craving aid from man. It is a most blessed thing to have no props and no buttresses but to stand upright on the Rock of Ages, upheld by the Lord alone. 

 

Sing, Rock of Ages  with Tennessee Ernie Ford

URL:  https://youtu.be/IxoNYsgWaa4



Would any believers seek state endowments for their Church [or school], if they remembered that the Lord is dishonored by their asking Caesar's aid as if the Lord could not supply the needs of His own cause? 

 

Should we run so hastily to friends and relations for assistance, if we remembered that the Lord is magnified by our implicit reliance on His solitary arm? My soul, wait only on God. 

 

"But," says one, "are not means to be used?" Assuredly they are; but one fault seldom lies in their neglect: far more frequently it springs out of foolishly believing in them instead of believing in God. Few run too far in neglecting the creature's arm; but very many sin greatly in making too much of it. Learn, dear reader, to glorify the Lord by leaving means untried, if by using them you would dishonor the name of the Lord.


 

EVENING    September 24th "I SLEEP, BUT MY HEART WAKETH. "
—Song of Solomon 5:2
 

—Yo dormía, pero mi corazón velaba — Cantares 5:2  

 

PARADOXES abound in Christian experience, and here is one—the spouse was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer's riddle who has ploughed with the heifer [partner in sin] of his experience.

 

The two points in this evening's text are—a mournful sleepiness and a hopeful wakefulness. 

I sleep. Through sin that dwells in us we may become lax in holy duties, slothful in religious exercises, dull in spiritual joys, and all together supine [laying down flat] and careless.

 

This is a shameful state for one in whom the quickening Spirit dwells; and it is dangerous to the highest degree. Even wise virgins sometimes slumber, but it is high time for all to shake off the bands of sloth [laziness]. 

 

It is to be feared that many believers lose their strength as Samson lost his locks, while sleeping on the lap of carnal security. 

 

With a perishing world around us, to sleep is cruel; with eternity so near at hand, it is madness. Yet we are none of us so much awake as we should be; a few thunder-claps would do us all good, and it may be, unless we soon bestir [wake] ourselves, we shall have them in the form of war, or pestilence, or personal bereavements and losses. 0h  that we may leave forever the couch of fleshly ease, and go forth with flaming torches to meet the coming Bridegroom! 

 

My heart waketh  [wakes up with excitement]. This is a happy sign. Life is not extinct, though sadly smothered.  When our renewed heart struggles against our natural heaviness, we should be grateful to sovereign grace for keeping a little vitality within the body of this death.

 

Jesus will hear our hearts, will help our hearts, will visit our hearts; for the voice of the wakeful heart is really the voice of our Beloved, saying, "Open to me." 

 

Holy zeal will surely unbar the door.

 

Oh lovely attitude! He stands

With melting heart and laden hands; 
My soul forsakes her every sin, 
And lets the heavenly stranger in.

 

A SINNER’S  PRAYER  September 23rd  

    Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21

    Pray and call on the name of the Lord Jesus.

 

“Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner. I’m lost and it’s hopeless for me to save myself. Without you and your death on the cross I would spend eternity 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"  can never be enough to save me.
I look to You, alone  Lord Jesus to save me. 
I come to You   right now.  Lord Jesus. Will You  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 have said and  it’s written in the Bible that you won’t reject anyone who comes to you. Thank You.

I  give myself completely to You, Lord Jesus. I’m sorry for every sin I’ve done and I now turn away from each one and look to You to forgive me, save me and deliver me from future evil.  Thank you for forgiving  all of  my sins by dying on the cross paying the punishment that I deserve.  I’m a sinner by nature and by my actions. But now I'm washed clean by Your blood that was shed for me at the cross.

Thank you Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was bor n 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, righteous Father of love that you allowed Jesus to suffer and die 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. 

 

Thank you for saving me.  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 the Comforter, The Spirit of Truth, for my guidance and solemn instruction into all truth.,  Amen.”

Thank You Holy Spirit of Truth, Comforter, Paraclete [one who comes along side]  for the new life in Jesus and 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 the execution of this vow.

 Romans 6:11

Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you always bear witness of and exalt the Lord Jesus.  John 16:8-11

 

With all my heart, thank you Lord for saving me.
Abide in me Lord Jesus in Your name I pray, Amen.

 



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Sing:  This Little Light of Mine  Children’s  Chorus  by JAMJAR   Sing-along won’t you?  This PRAISE music came to mind from today’s  ANECDOTE.

Better [to] have two lights than only one. The light of creation is a bright light. God may be seen in the stars; his name is written in gilt letters on the brow of night; you may discover his glory in the ocean waves, yea, in the trees of the field; but it is better to read it in two books than in one.

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David Hocking (click here) enlightens us  with  historical facts that make  the case for the OLD KING JAMES VERSION; time well spent.

You will find it here [in the Bible] more clearly revealed; for he has written this book himself, and he has given you the key to understand it, through the Holy Spirit. Ah, beloved, let us thank God for this Bible; let us love it; let us count it more precious than much fine gold.

            [The Authorized King James Version, (AKJV) used  by Charles Spurgeon is
God’s preserved, and protected  inerrant and immutable Word.

 David Hocking  makes the case for the Protected translation of the Bible, and points out the textual errors of “Critical Text” and its erroneous Theory followed by all modern English translations due to Westcott and Hort’s inferior Greek Translation of the New Testament. Text that follows  incomplete and conflicting Greek manuscripts rather than the coherent and reliable Traditional Text [Received Text (Textus Receptus)] for the New Testament and the Masoretic Hebrew Text for the New and Old Testament respectively of the Authorized King James Bible.

“The Bible, The Whole Bible and Nothing but the Bible” is an  expression David Hocking favors and says often.

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(2) SUGGESTED SERMONS:

Behold Your God     Isaiah 40:9    with Dr. Peter Masters

URL:
https://metropolitantabernacle.org/sermons-online/behold-your-god/

Our society today knows so little about almighty God, having willfully shut Him out of all consideration. But look, says the Bible, at His attributes, ways and plans. Consider the uniqueness of God and compare His actions, plans and promises with those of human society.

The Most Hated Christian Doctrine   by John MacArthur


URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1fFRyDLbMA

PRAISE: (Two Beloved Sacred Hymns)

I Will Sing The Wondrous Story

Blessed Assurance

(…be 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 )     


 

SACRED PRAISES: August 30th    

The Love of God    Bill Gaither and Choir  
(sing-along won’t you?)                  
…be 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

 I Love You Lord   by Jared Reynolds
In loving memory of  Jon Edward Riley  (1971-2021) who would sometimes just bust-out singing this beautiful praise;  often, on the way to church.

 
  …“Later” [see-ya later] was how he always said farewell  … he would never say “good-bye”.  Remembering how Jon always said  “Later” brings a special  joy to those he loved so well.

… and brings to mind the promise of the song:

’Till We Meet Again.  By Jeremiah Rankin (1880) with Antrim Mennonite Choir

Amen.



TODAY’S SERMON:

From The Metropolitan Tabernacle (C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892)
Duty and Fruits of Brotherly Love    1 John 4:7     with Dr. Peter Masters

From the warning against false teachers, the apostle turns again to the great duty of love to fellow believers, providing fourteen compelling reasons (with benefits) for honoring this obligation. Here love is defined, its actions and activities listed, and the reasons surveyed.


Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?     NO! (Click HERE to find out why.)

 

The natural will is cold, hard iron, which cannot be hammered into form, but the renewed will, like molten metal, is soon molded by the hand of [God’s] grace. In the fleshy heart there is a tenderness of the affections.  

The hard heart does not love the Redeemer, but the renewed heart burns with affection towards Him. The hard heart is selfish and coldly demands, "Why should I weep for sin? Why should I love the Lord?"

 

But the heart of flesh says;

"Lord, You know that I love You; help me to love You more!"

 

Many are the privileges of this renewed heart;   " 'Tis [It is] here the [Holy] Spirit dwells, 'tis here that Jesus rests."  It is fitted to receive every spiritual blessing, and every blessing comes to it. It is prepared to yield every heavenly fruit to the honor and praise of God, and therefore the Lord delights in it.

 

A tender heart is the best defense against sin, and the best preparation for heaven. A renewed heart stands on its watchtower [on guard] looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus.

 

Have you [Do you have] this heart of flesh?

 

[Pray and Ask for it now,  won’t you?]

 

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Lead Me by Elvis (Click to Sing-along, won’t you? 

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Requiem Note: *Charles Dumah Riley, Sr. (AKA: Daddy, "CD", and Paw Paw) 1897 – 1987

JM witnessed the last few hours of his *Daddy’s life on earth coming to an end and heard him say only “Amen” over and over, in the belief  that he was affirming and agreeing with God’s will in the conclusion of his own life’s and giving a testimony of God’s goodness to him and his agreement and his surrender to his earthly departure to be eternally present with the Lord Jesus. 

Amen... Amen… and  Amen!

 

My Daddy’s  prayer before every meal, always offered with all gravity, reverence and always heard in the unique sound of his deep Bass prayer voice:

“Accept our thanks for these and all other blessings, we humbly ask in Thy name, Amen.” 

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You can cast your cares on the Lord…

1. Call on Him. As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.. ...Psalm 55:16

2. Trust Him. Commit thy way unto the Lord;  and he shall bring it to pass ... Psalm 37:5

3. Come to Him, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I [He] will give you rest.. Matthew 11:28

4. Give Him the burden. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22]

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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 taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide God’s Holy Word preserved by God, Himself.

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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.

The Incomplete and unsealed codices of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are not majority texts, [Original Masoretic Hebrew and the Greek Textus Receptus]. Sinaiticus and Vaticanus present variant, ambiguous and erroneous readings rather than that of the well-established and settled texts. They disagree often with one another as well as with the settled majority texts. Thus, an attempt to create a pretext that will continue to justify a never-ending demand for additional editions and interpretations. These unsettled differences and bias in certain sectarian doctrine [dogma] have led to the production of multiple “modern” editions with ambiguities, many variant readings and confusion from the explosion of unending, new editions.

Profit-driven publishers have embraced such an economic windfall to sell a continual flow of “new and better” English edition of The Bible. They give too little attention to the fidelity and accuracy already settled [in heaven] in majority manuscripts of the Masoretic Hebrew and the  Greek Textus Receptus.

Psalm 119:89-90

ל Lamed

89 Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:

thou hast established the earth, and it abideth [abides].

God, Himself, providentially protects and preserves His Word. His Word is the God-breathed, self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful Word, settled in heaven. GOD is not the author of confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33 

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WHO IS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE? 
by David Hocking

WHAT ARE HIS NAMES?

 

(1 One)   His Name is INCOMPREHENSIBLE!

Exodus 3:13-15 “13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”


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

Authorized (King James) Version

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”

 

 

(2 Two)  His Name is INFINITE!

Psalm 145:1-3
1 I will extol thee, my God, O king;
and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee;
and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
and his greatness is unsearchable.

Romans 11:33
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
 

(3 Three)   His Name is INCORRUPTABLE!

              (two issues:  holy  and eternal)

Psalm 72:17
“His name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in Him: all nations shall call Him blessed.”

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, O LORD  endureth for ever; and Thy memorial,  O LORD, throughout all generations.”
Psalm 145:21
“Let all flesh bless His holy Name for ever and ever.”

 

(4 Four)  His name is IMMUTABLE! [Unchanged and unchangeable]

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

Hebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have (1) a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon (2) the hope set before us.”

 

(5 Five)  His name is INCOMPARABLE! [Without Equal]

Deuteronomy 4:35
“Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightiest know that the LORD He is God;  there is none else beside Him.”

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.

 

 (6 Six)   His Name is INDESCRIBABLE! [No description adequately describes HIM] 
 
El, Eloah, Elyon, Elohim, Adon, Adonai, - Yah, Yahveh
(The Names for GOD used 10,952 times in the Bible!)
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To Abraham – His Name is El Shaddai [God Almighty, Abundant Provider,  Provider of More than Enough]
 

Genesis17:1   ,
And when Abram was ninety and nine (99) years old,  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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Why Cults, False Teachers and Heretics have tried to delete 1 John 5:7
from the Bible.    

 By Dr. Phil Stringer

 

In Defense of I John 5:7

By Dr. Phil Stringer


1 John 5:7 Is The Great Trinitarian Proof Text of The Bible. (For The immutable Doctrine of the Trinity.)
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Why The Traditional  Greek Text Also Known As The Received Text [Latin: Textus Receptus] TR is Inspired, Inerrant and Immutable.

By Dr. David Sorenson

In addition to overwhelming evidence of authenticity from the 5,321 Majority Text Greek manuscripts, this link gives Translational Evidence that proves the age of the Textus Receptus to be older than both the  Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus,
(The Primary Greek sources used in all Critical Text translations.)

This includes Westcott and Hort, Nestle and Aland and the Codices Sinaiticus and *Vaticanus.

*The final Greek Text so deemed, authorized and sanctioned by the Catholic Church and The Vatican.
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The Lord Jesus *Christ  [The*Anointed Messiah]

was supernaturally Fathered by the Holy Ghost,  and born of a teen-aged virgin girl named  Mary 2026 years ago in Bethlehem of Judea.

He was crucified, and His lifeless body was placed in a tomb. After three days, GOD  brought Him back to life again, and raised HIM from the dead victorious over sin, death and the grave.

He is GOD’S Incarnate WORD and Everlasting SACRIFICE, The LAMB of GOD, [THE WORD of GOD made flesh.]  The CHURCH is the BODY of *Christ,
*[The MESSIAH.]

[The CHURCH] is His espoused [Legally Bound] Bride, for whom HE will come again to consummate their Marriage in the Marriag                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and Protected Words of GOD.
These WORDS are God-Breathed, [Spoken] Eternal WORDS spoken by Almighty GOD. The same GOD who calls Himself “I AM”, is Omni-Lingual, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Immutable, All-Wise, Omnipresent, Eternally 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  basis for the doctrine and essential tenet of the Trinity. [The Triune, [Three-in-One] GOD in-Three Persons   (This verse has been omitted or Changed to diminish the authority and the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ or has been Removed entirely from all Critical Text translations by apostates that hold to the untenable goal of False Doctrine that gives rise to all manner of Cults, False Teaching, Heresies, false Prophets, Agnostics, Gnostics, Atheists and  Pagans.


Therefore, The incarnate WORD of GOD, [Jesus *Christ
(*The Anointed MESSIAH) and His Father are ONE.]  John 10:30

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. John 10:30


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,  [The LORD Jesus *Christ
*(The Anointed Messiah)].

 

GOD calls Himself “I AM” and Jesus Christ is The WORD made Flesh, GOD’s WORD is infinite and will endure FOREVER, from Eternity Past through the never-ending Eternal Future.
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Why Cults, False Teachers, Heretics and Critical Text adherents  have tried to take   1 John 5:7   out of the Holy Bible.     

 

By Dr. Phil Stringer

1 John 5:7 Is The Great Trinitarian Proof Text of The Bible. (That establishes 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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The Traditional Text: It's History & Manifestation

By Dr. David Sorenson

In addition to evidence of authenticity from the 5,321 Majority Text manuscripts, this link presents Translational Evidence that the Traditional Text is Inerrant, Infallible and is the Inspired [Word-by-Word, GOD-Breathed Greek Text that moved the Prophets and Apostles to write precisely the Greek and Hebrew words they were told to write by the Holy Ghost]

The Traditional Text.  Length: (33:56 minutes)

The Traditional Greek Text was printed, not written by Desiderius Erasmus and was used  in the FIRST Christian Church at Antioch. It was later called The Received Text [vis. Latin: The Textus Receptus TR]. 

Over Five Billion King James (1769 Edition) Bibles, [NOT the NEW King James Version which is based on the inferior Critical Greek Text] account for more sales world-wide than all other version or edition of the Holy Bible combined.

This is more than all other Bible Versions and Editions put-together.
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 The Critical Text vs. The Traditional Text
(Also Known As The Received Text , The Textus Receptus  TR , and The Authorised Version AV and AKJV)

 

By Dr. David Sorenson

 

…So, Dr. Sorenson, “I hear You are King James Only.”
 
No, I’m Traditional Text only. But if you come to the view and the conviction of being Traditional Text only, you will be Only King James.

The issue is not translational.


Marketing ploys by publishing companies with little basis in reality would have us to believe that the new versions  are:
 

  • Easier to read.

  • More modern.

  • More accurate (Not  true)
     

The truth is that the KJV remains The most popular. (is still the most popularly read Bible in America). Over five billion copies of the King James (1769) is greater than all the other versions and editions combined.


The issue comes down to the textual issue. By That, I refer to the underlying Greek text. I guess we could say texts, plural but particularly that of the New Testament. On the one hand is the Traditional Text from which the only major English translation is the King James Version of the Bible. The Traditional Text.

On the other hand, is the Critical Text sometimes called the eclectic text from whence all the other translations come. And some will say well there really is no difference between them. The difference you could amount to is just the footnotes in the bottom of a page. (This is Not true) He was not dishonest but just repeating what someone had told him.

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The Remarkable life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon’s Testimony, as told by Him. (The Prince of Preachers)

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Link to Complete Index in The Pilgrim’s Progress of  Bible Scripture References (click here to open link).

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Thank you, Lord, for DailySpurgeon.com  a website given by You to encourage and support personal devotions to the Lord Jesus. This ministry started with sending e-mails of Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon to Jon Edward Riley and others he would add.. 

Jon was called home by his loving Father in Heaven on January 16, 2021.

His  memory is honored here, giving honor to whom honor is due. We pray that through this and all other instrumentalities that God may effect, many will be born again, challenged, encouraged, and supported to grow in personal devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ while being conformed to His image; that they might be the firstborn among many brethren.. Romans 13:7   Romans 8:28-29

A PRAYER OF GRATITUDE:  (Click for Video) by Jon Edward Riley, 

(February 12, 1971- January16, 2021)

From an Indigenous, Irish, well beloved All-American son giving a prayer of gratitude to the Lord for  in: “The heart of Freedom”

INDIAN SCOUT POST NO 1 Burial grounds at White Shield, North Dakota.

… a compassionate prayer of gratitude, thanking the Lord for the Military Service of Native-American Scouts serving the United States of America. …the land of the free and the home of the Brave.

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Jon loved to say, “I’m a blood bought, born-again child of God!” to anyone he happened to meet.

… Jon’s testimony is from one who, by grace through faith was forever accepted in the Beloved; who’s loving ways brought the good news of Jesus to many. and one who is present with the LORD in glory forever. One with whom we’ll one day meet again.

Amen.

Jon would sometimes just sing-out some of the following songs on the way to church, or sometimes just singing along with the Elvis Gospel CD that was always in our F-150’s CD player while riding with his Dad or,

Best of all, when an inspired, spontaneous praise from the Lord would just pop out from his joyful and loving heart.
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The Life of King James  (Text)

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I

 

ORIGINAL SACRED LITERATURE:
The Pilgrim’s Progress,   1678 by John Bunyan

Since its 1678 original publication it has NEVER been out of print.

 

"All the flowers in God's garden are double." There is no single mercy. You may think you have but one mercy, but you shall find it to be a whole cluster of mercies. It is abounding mercy. Millions have received it, yet far from its being exhausted, it is as fresh, as full, and as free as ever. 

It is unfailing mercy. It will never leave you. If mercy is your friend, mercy will be with you in temptation to keep you from yielding; with you in trouble to prevent you from sinking; with you [in] living to be the light and life of your countenance; and with you [in]  dying  to be the joy of your soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast [slipping away].


You may want to read the daily selections as a bed time story for you and your little ones. .

It’s the world’s most famous allegory and is  the all-time, world-wide best seller second only to the Bible. Some believe it to be the world’s first novel written in English.

 

It will bless, encourage  and instruct pilgrims (readers and seekers) of all ages for a life-time.

My Lord “Will-be-will” [Mr. Self-will] is a great blusterer, [one who roars loudly with empty threats, menaces or protests] and it is hard to subject him to God's will; but when the heart of flesh is given, the will quivers like an aspen leaf in every breath of heaven, and bows like a willow in every breeze of God's Spirit.

 

Mr.  Self-will  is a personification  in The Pilgrim’s Progress

(The world’s  most widely read and most famous Allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678 and has NEVER been out of print.)

 

Link to Complete Index of   Bible Scripture References   included in The Pilgrim’s Progress are found by this Link.

ADULT VIDEO:
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS EPISODES 1-19

 

 

CHILDREN’S VIDEOS  

Illustrated Adaptation from  Pilgrim’s Progress    (Complete video -2 hours)   Presented in 10 parts.

 

Part 1  The Slough of Despond [The Swamp]

Part 2 Obstinate and Pliable

Part 3  The Interpreter’s House

 

Part 4  The Hill Difficulty

 

Part 6  The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Part 7  Vanity Fair

Part 8  Doubting Castle

Part 9  The Dark River

Part 10  The Celestial City  

PART II – CHRISTIANA, The SEQUEL  (Enjoy this “Old English” dialect)

AUDIO: These files will advance to the next recording automatically, if not paused.              

1 Part II 04   A Visit from Secret   4:50 Audio

2 Part II 05 Good News 2:25 Audio

3 Part II 28 Mount Charity 1:01 Audio

4 Part II 29 Fool & Want-Wit 1:16 Audio

5 Part II 31 Meeting Valiant-For-Truth 1:41 Audio

6 Part II 01 Valiant Does Battle 5:51 Audio

7 Part II 02 Valiant’s Story 3:35 Audio

8 Part II 04 Which Way To Go 1:30 Audio

9 Part II 09 Stand-Fast’s 'Wife' 6:02 Audio

10 Part II 11 Stand-Fast’s Story 1:37 Audio

11 Part II 12 Beulah Land 3:20 Audio      

12 Part II 14 The Postman’s Visit 1:57 Audio

14 Part II 16 Christiana Goes Over The River 1:20 Audio

15 Part II 17 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell 2:10 Audio

16 Part II 18 Old-Honest Called 1:41 Audio

17 Part II 19 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword 2:27 Audio

18 Part II 20 Stand-Fast’s Will 3:56 Audio

19 Part II 21 Christiana Nears The City 1:01 Audio

20 Part II 22 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry 4:45 Audio

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