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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for June 4th *A.D. 2026 written and calendared for this specific date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

“ *A.D.”  Does not mean “after death”  but abbreviates Latin Anno Domini.  [the year of our Lord]

 

You are Invited to Worship God in Spirit and in Truth:
 

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

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

•  Be [Be 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

•  Gather in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. (in a local Church  and in-person)

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

 

TODAY’S  DEVOTION  


SERMON 0  from The Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, U.K.  (C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892)

The Source of Eternal Life   John 6:35   with Dr. Peter Masters. Pastor

It is amazing that Jesus Christ the Son of God, who entered into the world, should describe Himself as the 'bread of life'. Here is why He came in humble form, what He did to atone for sinners, and how we come to Him.


SACRED PRAISE  The Love of God Guy Penrod, Gaither Congregation … be [be being filled, right now} 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

 

DEVOTION:

PRAYER 21, June 4th Part 5 of 8    BOLDNESS AT THE THRONE OF GRACE
ANECDOTE 302: June 4th  A POOR WOMAN’S THRONE
FAITH S CHECKBOOK: June 4th   EXCEEDINGLY PRECIOUS
-They shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels  -Malachi 3:17
MORNING: June 4th  "The kindness and love of God our Savior." —Titus 3:4
EVENING: June 4th  "Received up into glory."  â€•1 Timothy 3:16  

A SINNER’S PRAYER: June 4th

 

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for June 4th   *A.D. 2026 written and calendared for this specific date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

PREACHING  from The Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, U.K.  (C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892)

The Source of Eternal Life   John 6:35   with Dr. Peter Masters

It is amazing that Jesus Christ the Son of God, who entered into the world, should describe Himself as the 'bread of life'. Here is why He came in humble form, what He did to atone for sinners, and how we come to Him.


SACRED PRAISE  June 4th     The Love of God Gaither Congregation with Guy Penrod  … be [be being filled, right now} 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


PRAYER 21, June 4th   Part 5 of 8    BOLDNESS AT THE THRONE OF GRACE

        
Move men who have gifts and ability also to preach the Gospel.  There are many that live in villages, and there is no gospel preaching near them. Lord! set them to preaching themselves.  

 

Wilt Thou [Will You] move some hearts so powerfully that their tongues cannot be quiet any longer, and may they attempt in some way, either personally or by supporting someone, to bring the gospel into dark benighted hamlets [neighborhoods] that the people may know the truth. [We praise You and thank you for the unspeakable gift of salvation and for the high calling to serve You by proclaiming the gospel, Lord Jesus, Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 21.doc)

 

ANECDOTE 302:   A POOR WOMAN’S THRONE

           
I had an engraving [picture] sent to me the other day which pleased me beyond measure. It was an engraving simply but exquisitely executed. It represented a poor girl in an upper room, with a lean-to roof. There was a post driven in the ground, on which was a piece of wood, standing on which were a candle and a Bible. She was on her knees at a chair,  praying, wrestling with God.

 

Everything in the room had on it the stamp of poverty. There was the mean [plain and rough] coverlet [bed spread]  to the old stump bedstead; [bed frame] there were the walls that had never been papered, and perhaps scarcely whitewashed.  It was an upper story to which she had climbed with aching knees, and where, perhaps, she had worked away till her fingers were worn to the bone, to earn her bread at needle-work. There it was that she was wrestling with God. Some would turn away and laugh at it; but it appeals to the best feelings of man, and moves the heart far more than does the fine engraving of the monarch [royals] on their knees in the grand assembly.


FAITH’S CHECKBOOK   June 4th EXCEEDINGLY PRECIOUS      by C. H. Spurgeon
-They shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels  -Malachi 3:17
-Y seran para mi especial tesoro- Malaquias 3:17 

 

A day is coming in which the crown jewels of our great King shall be counted, that it may be seen whether they answer to the inventory which His Father gave Him. My soul, [Oh, my goodness]  wilt thou [will you] be among the precious things of Jesus? Thou art [You are] precious to Him if He is precious to thee, [you] and thou shalt [you shall] be His -in that day-  if He is thine in this day.

 

In the days of Malachi, the chosen of the Lord were accustomed so to converse with each other that their God Himself listened to their talk. He liked it so well that He took notes of it; yes, and made a book of it, [the book of Malachi] which he lodged [archived] in His Record Office [The Holy Bible]. Pleased with their conversation, He was also pleased with them. 

Pause, my soul, [listen, my heart]  and ask thyself: If Jesus were to listen to thy [your]  talk would He be pleased with it? Is it to His glory and to the edification of the brotherhood? Say, my soul, and be sure thou sayest  [say]  the truth.  But what will the [great] honor be for us poor creatures to be reckoned by the Lord to be His crown jewels! 

 

This honor have all the saints. Jesus not only says,

 

-They are mine-   but,   -They shall be mine-   

 

He bought us, sought us, brought us in, and has so far wrought us to [made us into] His image, that we shall be fought for by Him with all His might.


Prayer:  Lord Jesus, we find joy in realizing how precious Your redeemed are to You. May our conversation always please you, as well.  Lord. I pray this in Your  name, Lord Jesus,  Amen. 


MORNING  June 4th  "THE KINDNESS AND LOVE OF GOD OUR SAVIOR." —Titus 3:4
 

―Mas [aun] cuando se manifestó la bondad de Dios  nuestro Salvador, y su amor para con los hombres — Tito 3:4 

 

HOW sweet it is to behold the Savior communing with His own beloved people! There can be nothing more delightful than to be led by the Divine Spirit into this fertile field of delight. 

 

Let the mind consider for an instant the history of the Redeemer's love, and a thousand enchanting acts of affection will suggest themselves, all of which have had for their purpose

 

the weaving of the heart into Christ, and the inter-twisting [intertwining] of the thoughts and emotions of the renewed soul with [into]  the mind of Jesus.

 

When we meditate on this amazing love, and behold the all-glorious Kinsman of the Church endowing her with all His ancient wealth, our souls may well faint for joy.

 

Who is he, that can endure such a weight of love? 

 

That partial sense of it which the Holy Spirit is sometimes pleased to give, is more than the soul can contain; how transporting [overwhelming] must be a complete view of it!

 

When the soul has understanding to discern all the Savior's gifts, wisdom wherewith to estimate them, and time in which to meditate on them, such as the world to come will give us, then we will commune with Jesus in a nearer manner than at present. 

 

But who can imagine the sweetness of such fellowship? It must be one of the things that have not entered into the heart of man, but that  God has prepared for them that love Him.

 

Oh, to burst open the door of our Joseph's granaries [storehouses],  and see the plenty he has stored up for us! 

 

This will overwhelm us with love. 

 

By faith we see, as in a glass darkly, the reflected image of his unbounded treasures, but

 

when we actually see the heavenly things themselves with our own eyes, how deep will be the stream of fellowship in which our soul will bathe itself!  

 

Until then our loudest sonnets [poems] will be reserved for our loving benefactor, Jesus, The Christ [Messiah] our Lord,

 

whose love to us is wonderful, passing the love of mere humans.

EVENING  June 4th   "RECEIVED UP INTO GLORY."  â€•1 Timothy 3:16
 

 â€•Recibido  en gloria. ―1 Timoteo 3:16 

       

We have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of His flesh, humiliated and sore vexed [very annoyed]; for He was  "despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." 

 

He whose brightness is as the morning, wore the sackcloth of sorrow as His daily dress:

 

shame was His mantle, [cloak] and reproach was His vesture [clothes]. Yet now, inasmuch as He has triumphed over all the powers of darkness upon the bloody tree,

 

our faith beholds our King returning with dyed garments from Edom, robed in the *splendor of victory.

 

How glorious must He have been in the eyes of seraphs [angels], when a cloud received Him out of mortal sight, and He ascended up to heaven!

 

Now He wears the glory which He had with God or ever the earth was [since eternity past], and yet another glory above all  -that which He has well earned in the fight against sin, death, and hell.

 

As victor He wears the illustrious [shinning] crown. Hark [Attention! listen closely] how the song swells high [increases to a loud crescendo]! It is a new and sweeter song:

 

"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, for He hath redeemed us unto God by His blood!"

 

He wears the glory of an Intercessor [one who pleads for another] who can never fail, of a Prince who can never be defeated, of a Conqueror who has vanquished [conquered] every foe, of a Lord who has the heart's allegiance  [fervent loyalty] of every subject. Jesus wears all the glory which the pomp of heaven can bestow upon [graciously give] Him, which ten thousand times ten thousand angels can minister to Him.

 

You cannot with your utmost stretch of imagination conceive His exceeding greatness; yet there will be a further revelation of it when He shall descend from heaven in great power, with all the holy angels—

 

"Then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory." Oh, the *splendor of that glory! It will ravish [hold spellbound]  His people's hearts. 

 

 Nor is this the close [an end], for eternity shall [forever] sound His praise,

 

"Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever!"

 

Reader, if you would joy in Christ's glory hereafter, He must be glorious in your sight now. 

 

 Is He so? [Is He?]

 

* English (USA) spelling

    


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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CONCLUSION

Let it be said that no matter how good any modern version of the New Testament is in any other way, it is clearly blemished if the work of Westcott and Hort or Nestle & Aland.is its Greek Textual basis. Their work means that the translation is based on the  defective Critical Text. Those who honor GOD’S Word must not rely on any version or edition based on  the Critical Greek Text, not because the content of the version is entirely  evil in itself, but because they are content to use a weakened version that diminishes the person of the Lord Jesus. rather than the existing, preserved, inerrant unblemished one, dishonors God. If God has preserved for His people a Traditional  Greek text of the New Testament for 18 centuries, how dishonoring it must  be to Him if His people now chose versions that are  based on  the defective and inferior  Greek manuscripts  invented  by Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland.

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST is GOD’S INCARNATE WORD [GOD’S WORD MADE FLESH] and His EVERLASTING [Once, and for ALL] SACRIFICE for ALL Sin].  HE is The Lamb of God, God’s WORD in Human flesh.] The CHURCH is His Body,  the BODY of *CHRIST,
(The *MESSIAH). The CHURCH is His espoused [Divinely and legally promised  (and legally bound)   Bride], to whom HE will return and wed [marry].

This singular event, the birth of Jesus Christ, establishes and defines all chronology [TIME] in all Human History as being 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. [AS His WORD is ETERNAL and IMMUTABLE it IS and  WAS and  FOREVER FOR EVER MORE SHALL BE]   Jesus Christ is GOD’s    [incarnate] WORD, MADE FLESH and is ONE with the FATHER.

I, and my Father are  ONE.   John 10:30
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WHO IS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE? 
by David Hocking

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF HIS NAME?

 

(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 endure for ever: 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.)

 

Daniel Webster [Author of the Famous Webster Dictionary] was once asked. “Does it not bother you [Mr. Webster] 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 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, Primary Greek sources used in all Critical Text translations.

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

*The unique and final Greek Text so deemed, authorized and sanctioned by the Catholic Church and The Vatican.
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PRAYER 21, June  1st   Part 2 of 8   BOLDNESS AT THE THRONE OF GRACE

 

Now, Lord, we confess our guilt before Thee with tenderness of heart, and we pray Thee seal home [bring home] to every believer here that full and free, that perfect and irreversible charter of forgiveness which Thou gavest [You gave] to all them that put their trust in Jesus Christ.

Lord! Thou hast [You have] said it:

 

“If we confess our sins, Thou art merciful and just to forgive us our sins and to save us from all unrighteousness.”

 

There is the sin confessed: there is the ransom accepted: we therefore know we have peace with God, and we bless that glorious one who hath come “to finish transgression, to make an end of sin,”to bring in everlasting righteousness, which righteousness by faith we take unto ourselves and Thou dost impute [reckon through substitutionary atonement] unto us.

 

Now, Lord, wilt Thou be pleased to cause all Thy children’s hearts to dance within them for joy? Oh! help Thy people to come to Jesus again today. May we be looking unto Him today as we did at the first. May we never take off our eyes from His Divine person, from His infinite merit, from His finished work, from His living power, or from the expectancy of His speedy coming to “judge the world in righteousness and the people with His truth.” 

 

[We praise You for the remarkable gift of salvation and forgiveness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.] 

(Attachment in e-mail as: PRAYER 21.doc) 

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ANECDOTE 299. June  1st   EXALTATION IN PRAYER.

 

I was much struck the other evening at a prayer meeting, by the prayer of one of our brethren, which came home to [touched] my heart. When he prayed, he said, “Lord, give me Mary’s place, Oh! that I might, with Mary sit For ever at my Master’s feet, And learn of him.”

 

He prayed that he might have her part, and always sit at the feet of Jesus. But, by and by, the good man kindled [fired] up in his prayer, and said,

“No, my Master, I have not asked enough of thee. Mary’s place is too low for me, if I may have a better.

 

Lift me up higher, Lord; give me John’s place.

Oh ! that I might, with favored John, Forever lean my head upon The bosom of my Lord.” Then again he pleaded for that higher degree of communion between the soul and Christ.

 

“Surely,” thought I, “now you have asked enough.” But, suddenly rising up to another flight on the wings of communion, like the eagle taking its last soar into the skies, he said,

 

“No, Lord, John’s place doth not suffice me. Thou hast lifted me from thy feet to thy bosom now from thy bosom to thy lips.” Then, quoting the words of the spouse,

 

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine” he sweetly paraphrased it thus,

 

“Let the lip of my petitioning meet the lip of thy benediction ; let the lip of my praise met the lip of thy acceptance; so shall the kiss be consummated and my joy be complete.”

 

Aye, and when we are favored to go through these stages of fellowship; to go from the foot to the bosom, from the bosom to the lip; to go from the mere learner and to be a friend and companion ; and then to go higher still to be lifted up and to feel our fellow ship with Christ, by standing as high as he does, and being on his lip; it is there the child of God, insensibly almost, [just barely felt] receives strength, and, 

like Elijah smitten by the angel, he rises up and finds his meat baked upon the coals, and eats thereof, and lives upon it for forty days to come.

 

Precious mode of feeding this! 

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK June 1st GOD’S PROMISE KEEPS [Never Ends]

  by C.H. Spurgeon 1834 –1892

-CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS: FOR THOU SHALT [SHALL] FIND IT AFTER MANY DAYS-   Ecclesiastes 11:1

 

-ECHA tu pan sobre las aguas; que despues de muchos dias lo hallarás- Eclesiastes 11:1

 

We must not expect to see an immediate reward for all the good we do; nor must we always confine our efforts to places and persons which seem likely to yield us a recompense for our labors.

The Egyptian casts [throws] his seed upon the waters of the Nile, where it might seem a sheer waste of corn. But in due time the flood subsides, the rice or other grain sinks into the fertile mud, and rapidly a harvest is produced.

 

Let us today do good to the unthankful and the evil. Let us teach the careless and the obstinate. Unlikely [unexpectedly] waters may cover hopeful soil.

 

Nowhere shall our labor be in vain in the Lord.

 

It is ours to cast [throw]  our bread upon the waters [to broadcast the good news of Jesus] ; it remains with God to fulfill the promise,

 

 -Thou shalt [you shall] find it- 

 

 He will not let His promise fail. His good word which we have spoken shall live, shall be found, shall be found by us. Perhaps not just yet, but some day

 

we shall reap what we have sown.

 

We must exercise our patience; for perhaps the Lord may exercise it. 

 

 -After many days-, says the Scripture, and in many instances those days run into months and years, and yet 

 

the Word stands true.

 

God’s promise will keep; let us mind [pay attention] that we keep the precept [teaching], and keep [obey] it this day [today].

 

Prayer: Thank you, Lord Jesus, that God is always faithful to His word, and He helps us to plant seeds of faith everywhere, so that in due time we may find the blessed increase. I claim this promise in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for His sake, Amen.

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MORNING June 1st   "THE EVENING AND THE MORNING WERE THE FIRST DAY."
Genesis 1:5

 

–Y fue la tarde [noche] y la mañana un [el primer] día —Génesis 1:5

 

WAS it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the first day?

Then little wonder if I also have changes in my circumstances 

 

from the sunshine of prosperity to the midnight of adversity.

 

It will not always be the blaze of noon in concerns of my soul ; I must expect at seasons to mourn the absence of my former joys, and 

 

seek my Beloved in the night.

 

Nor am I alone in this, for all the Lord's beloved ones have had to sing the mingled song of judgment and of mercy, of trial and deliverance, of mourning and of delight.

 

It is one of the arrangements of Divine providence that day and night will not cease either in the spiritual or natural creation until we reach the land of which it is written,

 

"there is no night [darkness] there."

 

What our heavenly Father ordains is wise and good.

 

What, then, my soul, is it best for you to do? Learn first to be content with this divine order, and

be willing, with Job, to receive evil from the hand of the Lord as well as good.

 

Study next, to make the outgoings of the morning and the evening to rejoice. Praise the Lord for the sun of joy when it rises, and for the gloom of evening as it falls.

There is beauty both in sunrise and sunset, sing of it, and glorify the Lord.

 

Like the nightingale, pour forth your notes [Sing] at all hours.

 

Believe that the night is as useful as the day. The dews of grace fall heavily in the night of sorrow. The stars of promise shine forth gloriously amid the darkness of grief.

 

Continue your service under all changes. If in the day your watchword be labor, at night exchange it for watch. Every hour has its duty, so continue in your calling as the Lord's servant until He suddenly appears in His glory.

My soul, your evening of old age and death is drawing near, dread it not, for it is part of the day; and the Lord has said,

 

"I will cover him all the day long." 

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EVENING June 1st  "HE WILL MAKE HER WILDERNESS LIKE EDEN. " —Isaiah 51:3

 

—Tornará su desierto como paraíso —Isaías 51:3

 

ENVISION with me a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like to the Sahara. I perceive nothing in it to relieve the eye, all around I am wearied with a vision of hot and arid sand, strewn with ten thousand bleaching skeletons of wretched men who have expired in anguish, having lost their way in the pitiless waste. What an appalling sight! How horrible! A sea of sand without a bound, and without an oasis, a cheerless graveyard for a race forlorn [abandoned]!

 

But behold and wonder! Upon a sudden, up springing from the scorching sand I see a plant of renown, and as it grows it buds, the bud expands—it is a rose, and at its side a lily bows its modest head. Miracle of miracles, as the fragrance of those flowers is diffused, the wilderness is transformed into a fruitful field, and all around it blossoms exceedingly.

 

The glory of Lebanon is given unto it: the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. 


Call it not Sahara, call it Paradise.

 

Speak not of it any longer as the valley of the shadow of death, for where the skeletons lay bleaching in the sun, behold a resurrection is proclaimed, and up spring the dead, a mighty army, full of life immortal.

 

Jesus is that plant of renown, and His presence makes all things new. Nor is the wonder less in each individual's salvation.

 

Yonder [over there] I behold you, dear reader, cast out, an infant, un-swathed [with no blanket], unwashed, defiled with your own blood, left to be food for beasts of prey. 

 

But a jewel [a compassionate heart of flesh] has been thrown into your bosom by a divine hand, and for its sake you have been pitied and tended [taken care of] by divine providence; you are washed and cleansed from your defilement; you are adopted into heaven's family; the fair seal of love is on your forehead, and the ring of faithfulness is on your hand

 

—you are now a prince unto God, though once an orphan, cast away.

 

Exceedingly prize [esteem] the matchless power and grace that changes deserts into gardens, and makes the barren heart to sing for joy. 

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

 

Amen... Amen… Amen!

*Charles Dumah Riley, Sr. (Daddy, Paw Paw)  1897 – 1987

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

“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 and will rightly divide God’s Holy Word preserved by God, Himself.

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John 3:16 God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten [divinely fathered] Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but may be having eternal life.

vis. Textus Receptus [The Received Greek Text] (From the overwhelming majority of extant New Testament Greek manuscripts)

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. He is not the author of confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33 

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MISSION STATEMENT:

… Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13

Our solemn aim is to trust and obey the Lord Jesus in everything. We must rely upon God entirely to achieve His purposes in us and through us.

Loving and worshiping God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength in Spirit and in truth is a labor of love and duty of every believer. Desire will grow stronger as we give ourselves to prayer, reading and meditating on God’s Word, gathering ourselves together to hear Gospel preaching, the singing of Psalms, sacred hymns and spiritual songs.

We purpose, with God’s help, to reach the lost, comfort, strengthen and encourage believers, and rightly divide God’s Word to proclaim the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ to every creature.

The Holy Bible is God’s eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable revealed and divinely preserved Word. It is His completed scripture of all revealed truth. He brings guidance and the knowledge of His will to us personally and to each local body of Christian believers through His Word. With God’s help and empowerment, we will read, study, meditate-on, trust-in and obey God’s Holy Bible and encourage others to do the same. We hold it to be the supreme authority and the preeminent and divinely established precedent [Stare Decisis Latin: to stand by that which is decided, the legal doctrine of precedence, literally "to stand by decided matters"] in all things.

Therefore, the purpose of The John Mark Publishing Company is to publish the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every creature. And, to serve all, in love, especially those in the household of faith. We are compelled by this purpose to follow, and rightly apply and proclaim, God’s Holy Word, the Bible, as God’s divinely preserved truth; being the essential authority and goal of this ministry.

The Metropolitan Tabernacle: Home church of Charles H. Spurgeon

The preaching, teaching, soul winning and writings of Charles Haddon Spurgeon are firmly fixed on the bedrock of Holy Scripture. His entire ministry was established, empowered and inspired solely by God’s Holy Word imparted to him by the Holy Spirit. His written works continue to bless, guide, challenge and benefit today’s readers through the publication of his authentic Gospel sermons and other inspired writing His ministry continues to thrive and flourish today through the Metropolitan Tabernacle a church begun in 1650 The present building was constructed in 1861 and was rebuilt after the destruction caused during the second world war. This church has been steadfast in it’s adherence to Reformed Baptist theology that Spurgeon said was just a nickname for Biblical Christianity. They have resisted and continue to reject worldly winds of false doctrine, including pragmatism and self-centered “Christian hedonism”. Biblical Christianity will always show itself as a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, never just a philosophy or religion.

Mission Aim: Spurgeon's sermons and devotional messages have edified the church body and have been a great benefit, to all readers for many years. We pray they will be useful to strengthen personal discipleship in each and every believer and will be a useful instrument in the spreading of the Gospel [Good news] of Jesus Christ, the Messiah to all nations. 

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MISSION PURPOSE:

Our aim is to trust and obey the Lord Jesus Christ in everything. We rely wholly upon the Holy Spirit to impart God’s divine revelation to us from His Word, the Holy Bible. With God’s help, we will follow Jesus. We expect that lost souls will be saved, believers, comforted, strengthened and encouraged. To God be all the glory.

The Bible is God’s divinely inspired [God breathed] revealed, infinite, eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable Word to all mankind. This divine, supernatural Word brings all revealed truth to the world. We purpose, therefore, to follow God’s Holy Word, Personal guidance and guidance to the local church comes by His Word.

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

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. It is also the essential foundation of this ministry.

History: The inspired preaching, teaching and writing of Charles Haddon Spurgeon is all empowered by God’s revealed Word the Bible. His written publications continue to benefit readers through authentic Gospel preaching and sound biblical teaching. This ministry continues to flourish through The Metropolitan Tabernacle in London

 

Presented here are Spurgeon's writings for the edification of the church as well as for the benefit, blessing and gospel challenge to all readers. Our desire is that the written Word of God will become the Living Word in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ to each and every reader.

To this end, this website is offered to encourage and provide opportunity to hear Gospel preaching, and to engage in daily devotional meditation, Bible study and prayer. Careful adherence to Spurgeon’s calendar and original, unabridged text is given herein.

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Prayer: Dear Lord, empower your ministry to win many souls, and serve those in need, especially those in the household of faith, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Disclaimer: The John Mark Publishing Company does not solicit praise of Charles H. Spurgeon or his writing or preaching. He didn’t need or want it then and wouldn’t desire it now. Our aim is to lift up and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and to preach Christ Jesus only and him crucified.

Precaution: These Messages and prayers will not substitute for continual fellowship with the Lord Jesus or for gathering in in-person worship. Neither will they replace personal reading, meditation, prayer and fasting over God's divinely preserved and eternal Word imparted by the Holy Spirit.

 

The Authorized King James Version (AKJV), also known as the Authorized Version (AV), is the authentic English Bible because it is rendered [translated into English] accurately and faithfully from the established majority of the Greek Textus Receptus [received text] manuscripts of the New Testament and the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament (The Jewish Tanakh)  These manuscripts are providentially protected of God, and always give a greater glory to God when compared to variant readings. The established majority manuscripts avoid doctrinal error, inaccuracies in translation, uninspired editorial notations, variant or ambiguous readings taken from Codices Vaticanus, or Sinaiticus.

 

The Authorized King James version is distinguished also by the requirement of Great Brittan that all King James bibles be printed only by the Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s authorized printer. No other [person or publisher] may print, copy or import the King James Bible into Great Brittan by order of the Crown.

Printed Prayer: Printed prayers must not be read or offered as a substitute for personal, fervent, effectual, heart-felt, prayer. They are offered, rather, to warm the hearts of those who will presently seek a season of fervent, authentic two-way, heart-to-heart fellowship and prayer with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Authentic revelations from God during prayer are always consistent with His revealed Word, the Bible.

Preaching Preparation: When preparing to preach, please send us the text reference that has been chosen if you would like us to send the Spurgeon Sermon addressing the same text.

 My Prayer is that You would touch, lift up, encourage and teach all who faithfully minister your Word. Bless all who minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May Your blessing and holy anointing fall fresh upon each dear reader and abide with each one who rightly divides and faithfully proclaims Your Word [The Bible]. Please save many souls; and may all be glory be yours alone. I pray this in the name of our Redeemer, The Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Editorial Support: [Brackets] are used to clarify words and expressions that are not commonly used in, present day (USA) English. No changes other than spelling differences between UK and United States English (USA) noted with asterisks * have been made to the original, unabridged text. Bible scripture links are underlined blue text.(English: AKJV, Authorized King James Version; Spanish: Reina Valera Gomez). Brackets, ( […] ) clarify meaning and yellow highlighting are used for emphasis. These additions are the only ones made by the Publishing company.

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A SINNER’S PRAYER: … FOR WHOSOEVER:

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

Call on the name of the Lord Jesus and be saved … pray like this, won’t you?

“Lord Jesus, I’m a lost sinner and without You I am lost. I can’t save myself. Without your death on the cross to pay my sin debt I would be condemned to spend eternity in Hell. My nature and behavior has been sinful from birth. Please forgive me.

I realize that doing my best, being as good as possible, or being better than other people can never save me. . I’m sorry for each and every sin I have ever done and look to You to forgive them all.

I look to You, alone Lord Jesus to save me.

I call on You, Lord Jesus, right now to save me. You died on the cross for me, as God’s sacrifice for my sin.

Right now, just as I am, I call on You, Lord Jesus to save me, I trust You to be my Savior and Lord.

Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You have forgiven me of all my sins. I want to follow You from now on.

You paid the price for all of my sins by dying on the cross.

Thank you, Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was born and that You love me still

Thank you, Heavenly Father, that You called me away from sin and death into the Life everlasting in Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus.

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.

Thank You for saving me heavenly Father and Holy Spirit for Your comfort and guidance in all things.

With all my heart, thank you Lord Jesus for saving me. In your name, I pray, Amen.

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Please allow us to share the joy of your new birth with heaven. Heaven rejoices over each redeemed sinner. Luke 15:7

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Philippians Chapter 4

1Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. (sing-along)

5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth [passes] all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth [strengthens] me.

14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God.

19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cesar’s household.

23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

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