Daily Spurgeon

DEVOTION   for April 16th  *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-18929

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord”.

BC/AD versus BCE/CE Is there a  difference?​

Yes. Stand for the Truth, Won’t you?

 

• Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord”.

BC/AD versus BCE/CE Is there a  difference?​

Yes. Stand for the Truth, Won’t you?

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

 

PLEASE DON’T MISS VIEWING THIS VIDEO.

 

IS YOUR BIBLE  VERSION  GOD BREATHED, [INSPIRED, WORD BY WORD],             INNERANT,  INFALLIBLE,  IMMUTABLE AND INFINITE,  OR  NOT?

 

• Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy
   

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC5rUbs_-E&t=9s

(2 hrs. 49 mins.)

This video presents historical evidence to explain the publication explosion of over 100 English versionsof the Bible. The continuing attempts to replace, add, take away from or change the 1769 King James Version of the Holy Bible have not prevailed because GOD Himself preserves and protects His Holy Scripture from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion and error.

Note: The King James Version follows the Greek Text fabricated by Westcott and Hort and does follow the originalGreek of the Textus Receptus. It is therefore inferior to the 1769 [1611] KJV!

 

 SPECIAL FEATURES:

 

• Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTSCJ77SM8

 

• Trump Endorses the God Bless the USA Authorized King James Version KJV Bible

URL: https://godblesstheusabible.com/

 

• Why the King James Bible of 1611 Remains the Most Popular Translation in History

              URL: https://www.history.com/news/king-james-bible-most-popular

 

 

SACRED LITERATURE:

• Seven reasons to read (or hear) the Pilgrim’s Progress

              URL:  https://openthebible.org/article/seven-good-reasons-to-read-pilgrims-progress/#:~:text=It's%20a%20classic

 

• Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

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Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live  forever, time without end and He, Himself, is coming again.

 

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION written on and calendared for the exact date of April 16th  by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord”.

BC/AD versus BCE/CE Is there a  difference?​

Yes. Stand for the Truth, Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

 

Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

PRAYER 15, Part 9 of 9: THE PEACE OF GOD.

ANECDOTE 259: Humility in Prayer.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: April 16   ALL TURNED TO HOLINESS

-In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD- Zechariah 14:20

MORNING: "The precious blood of [Jesus] Christ" —I Peter 1:19

EVENING: "And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun." —Exodus 17:12

A SINNER'S PRAYER

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TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL SELECTIONS  by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (Select HOME to open site)

 

PRAYER 15, Part 9 of 9

THE PEACE OF GOD.

But what of all this [praying]? Our heart goes far beyond all this: “Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; for Thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever and ever.” “Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.” All things are in Thy hand, come quickly; the cries of Thy people persuade Thee, “the Spirit and the bride say, come,” make no tarrying [don’t delay]. O, our Redeemer, and unto the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, the God of Abraham, and God of our Lord Jesus Christ be glory for ever and ever. [We ask In the Holy name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, Amen.] 

(Complete Prayer in e-mail: PRAYER 15.doc) Amen. 

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ANECDOTE 259: Humility in Prayer.

When we come to God, our prayers are little broken things; we cannot put them together; but our Father, he will hear us. Oh! what a beginning is “Our Father,” to a prayer full of faults, and a foolish prayer perhaps, a prayer in which we are going to ask what we ought not to ask for !

 

“Father, forgive the language! forgive the matter!”

 

As one dear brother said the other day at the prayer meeting, he could not get on in prayer, and he finished up on a sudden by saying,

“Lord, I cannot pray to-night as I should wish; I can not put the words together; Lord, take the meaning, take the meaning,”

and sat down.

 

That is just what David said once,

“Lo, all my desire is before thee”,  not my words, but my desire. 

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK April 16 ALL TURNED TO HOLINESS C.H. Spurgeon

-In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD- Zechariah 14:20

-En aquel tiempo estara sobre las campanillas de los caballos: SANTIDAD A JEHOVA - Zacarías 14:20

 

Happy day when all things shall be consecrated, and the horses bells shall ring out holiness to the Lord! That day has come to me. Do I not [Don’t I] make all things holy to God? These garments, when I put them on or take them off, shall they not remind me of the righteousness of Christ Jesus, my Lord?

Shall not my work be done as unto the Lord? Oh, that today my clothes may be vestments, my meals sacraments, my house a temple, my table an altar, my speech incense, and myself a priest! Lord, fulfill thy promise, and let nothing be to me common or unclean. Let me in faith expect this.

Believing it to be so, I shall be helped to make it so. As I myself am the property of Jesus, my Lord may take an inventory of all I have, for it is altogether His own; and I resolve to prove it to be so by the use to which I put it this day. From morning till evening, I would order all things by a happy and holy rule. My bells shall ring -why should they not? Even my horses shall have bells — who has such a right to music as the saints have? But all my bells, my music, my mirth, shall be turned to holiness, and shall ring out the name of -The Happy God.-

 

Prayer: Thank you Lord Jesus that In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. I thank You for such joy and celebrate You, the risen Lord for my salvation and I will rejoice with the angels in heaven for each new birth that takes place, each soul that looks to you and is saved. Amen.

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MORNING April 16

"The precious blood of [Jesus] Christ" —I Peter 1:19

¾La sangre preciosa de Cristo, —1 Pedro 1:19

 

Click here and SING ALONG

“Oh, the Blood of Jesus”   Bill & Gloria Gaither (Medley)

STANDING at the foot of the cross, we see [His] hands, and feet, and side, all distilling [the essence of blood-red] crimson streams of precious blood. It is precious because of its redeeming and atoning efficacy [powerful sufficiency]. By it the sins of Christ's people are atoned for; they are redeemed from under the law; they are reconciled to God, made one with Him. Christ's blood is also precious in its cleansing power; it cleanses from all sin. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." Through Jesus' blood there is not a spot left upon any believer, no wrinkle nor any such thing remains. O precious blood that makes us clean, removing the stains of abundant iniquity, and permitting us to stand accepted in the Beloved, ignoring the many ways in which we have rebelled against our God.

The blood of Christ is likewise precious in its preserving power. We are safe from the destroying angel under the sprinkled blood. Remember it is God's seeing the blood that is the true reason for our being spared. Here is comfort for us when the eye of faith is dim, for God's eye is still the same. The blood of Christ is precious also in its sanctifying influence. The same blood which justifies by taking away sin, does in its after-action, quicken the new [spiritual] nature and lead it onward to subdue sin and to follow out the commands of God. The re is no motive for holiness so great as that which streams from the veins of Jesus. And precious, unspeakably precious, is this blood, because it has an overcoming power. It is written, "They overcame through the blood of the Lamb." How could they do otherwise? He who fights with the precious blood of Jesus, fights with a weapon

that cannot know defeat. The blood of Jesus! Sin dies at its presence, death ceases to be death, heaven's gates are opened. The blood of Jesus! 

We shall march on, conquering and to conquer, so long as we can trust its power!

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EVENING April 16

"And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. " —Exodus 17:12

—Así hubo en sus manos firmeza hasta que se puso el sol. —Exodo 17:12

 

SO mighty was the prayer of Moses, that all [everything] depended upon it. The petitions [prayers] of Moses discomfited [defeated] the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. So, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor [vigor], decision and devotion [commitment], valor and vehemence

[bravery and passionate], must join their forces and all will be well. You must wrestle with your sin, but the major part of the wrestling must be done alone in private with God. Prayer, like Moses', holds up the token of the covenant before the Lord. The rod was the emblem of God's working with Moses, the symbol of God's government in Israel. Learn, 0 pleading saint, to hold up the promise and the oath of God before Him. The Lord cannot deny His own declarations. Hold up the rod of promise, and have what you will.

Moses grew weary, and then his friends assisted him. When at any time your prayer grows weak, let faith support one hand, and let holy hope uplift the other, and prayer seating itself upon the stone of Israel, the rock of our salvation [The Lord Jesus], will persevere [continue, no matter what] and prevail. Beware of faintness [half-heartedness] in devotion [dedication]; if Moses felt it, who can escape?

It is far easier to fight with sin in public, than to pray against it in private. It is remarked that Joshua never grew weary in the fighting, but Moses did grow weary in the praying; the more spiritual an exercise, the more difficult it is for flesh and blood to maintain [sustain] it.

Let us cry, then, for special strength, and may the Spirit of God, who helps our infirmities, as He allowed help to Moses, enable us like him to continue with our hands steady 

"until the going down of the sun."

 Intermittent supplication [on-again/off-again prayer] avails but little,

we must wrestle all night, and hold up our hands

"until the going down of the sun,"

until the evening of life is over; until we come to the rising of a better sun in the land

where prayer is swallowed up in praise.

 

Praise Him, Praise  and  Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord  Two of the thousands of Hymns  written by Fanny Crosby  

The Fanny Crosby Story (45 minute video of world’s most prolific Hymn writer of all time)     

 

A SINNER’S PRAYER: 
A person may come to Jesus by  believing in Him and (earnestly)
praying like this:

 

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

I know that me doing my best or being good (in my own opinion)  and justifying my own behavior as "good"  or "OK" will never  save me.
I look to You, alone  Lord Jesus to save me. 
I come to You   right now.  Lord Jesus.   Please save me.  I believe You died on the cross in my place to pay for my sin debt and put to death my sin nature. I know  You always keep your word.  Please save me. You say and  it’s written in the Bible that you won’t reject anyone who comes to You. I'm coming  to You now. Thank You for saving me.

I  give myself (all of myself) to You, Lord Jesus. I declare that You are my Savior and Lord. I’m sorry for and I turn away from  every sin (every bad thought, every bad word I have spoken and every bad thing I have ever done)  and look to You free me from the penalty of sin, to keep me free from the power of sin and empower me overcome any temptation from sin’s  presence.  Thank you for forgiving  all of  my sins by dying on the cross to pay the punishment that I deserve.  (I was a sinner by nature and by behavior). But now I'm washed clean by Your blood that was shed [poured out] for me at Calvary [at the cross].

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

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are needy, especially to those who are in the household of faith, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.      
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SPECIAL SPURGEON SERMON: “Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ”

[Christ Jesus]

 

URL:  https://youtu.be/hHF1r74XaTQ?si=czhwYSJP9H53XqCy

 

Note: This Sermon was referenced in the Men’s Bible Study on Wednesday, August 14th 2024 at South Shores Church and is featured here as an unabridged Audio recording of Sermon # 1245 that was preached originally by Charles Spurgeon in 1875 from his home church, The Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, U.K.
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Can You trust this website?

Is it of God?

Is it trustworthy?

1 John  Chapter 4

Beloved ones, don’t be believing every spirit [everything you hear] but [continually] be testing the spirit whether it is of God: because many false prophets have come out in the world. Here’s how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit [voice] that confesseth [confesses, says] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, having come out of God, is of God: and every spirit [voice] 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 ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Hence, I confess [declare and affirm] "Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh."

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He has always existed from eternity past [FOREVER] as the WORD of God.    John 1:1-2

And He was born of a virgin 2,024 years ago in Bethlehem, the WORD made flesh,

is alive today, and is coming soon for His *bride, the Church

[*All redeemed believers].

"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:

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

believed on in the world, received up into glory."

1 Timothy 3:16