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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for October 18th *A.D. 2026 written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon

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I am so grateful for the blessing of God in Daily Spurgeon TV. to enrich the Devotional Content authored by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and other advocates of the Authorized King James Version. (1769 edition) Our prayer is that many shall continue to enjoy the Joy of our continued fellowship and the God-kind [Agape] love that GOD bestows upon His Elect.

Thank you in the name of The Lord Jesus Christ [Anointed Messiah] for His sake and by His Grace, All Glory to Him.
Your grateful brother in Christ,
John Michael
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ELVIS (Click Here) …for the Back Story of His very First singing performance as a 10 year old boy at the Tupelo FAIR.

… now listen as he sings OLD SHEP as a Super Star.
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THE SUPERIORITY OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

By Dr. Joe Shakour

URL: (Click Here)
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FEATURED SERMON

… from Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee

“Pay Day Someday” A historic Sermon by Robert G. Lee, beloved pastor. This Sermon was requested and preached over 1,000 times to over a million people and always with many souls being born again.

He preached from The Providentially Preserved and Protected WORD of GOD manifested in The 1769 Edition of The Authorized King James Version of The Bible: The Inspired [God Breathed], and Immutable! [never can be changed].
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MARTIN LUTHER’S LIFE
He was used of God to Translate the NEW TESTAMENT into German in 1521-1522 from the Source Text of the 1519 Second Edition of Erasmus’s Greek New Testament later known as The Textus Receptus. It was the First Bible in German, a language understandable by Common Folks and he called of GOD to be the driving force of the PROTESTANT REFORMATION

URL (Click Here)

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Posted on 10/18/2026:

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for October 18th *A.D. 2026 written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon.

King James the First of England Approved, Authorized, Commissioned and provided guidance for a new version of the Bible based upon the Bishop’s Bible (In which The Old Testament was translated from the original Hebrew and copied by hand [manuscript] by the Masorete Scribes. The Traditional [original, Received Greek Text] Text was followed in the translation of the New Testament. The King James Version of 1769 is Providentially preserved and protected and is the world’s most authoritative and most quoted, and most read Bible version ever with over 6 Billion extant copies. This is more than all the other versions and editions Combined and has become the Most Influential, faithful and best Bible ever.

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Dr. Jeff Riddle makes a Case for the PROVIDENTIALY PRESERVED Words of GOD’S translated from the Traditional Text, also known as The Received Text, [The Textus Receptus, TR].

The Defense of the Received Text (Click here) [The Textus Receptus TR, THE TRADITIONAL AUTHORITATIVE GREEK TEXT]
By Dr. Jeff Riddle

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THE TESTIMONY OF CHARLES SPURGEON'S CONVERSION IN HIS OWN WORDS. (Click here)

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—*A.D. does NOT mean “After Death”.
Rather, it abbreviates Anno Domini;
… a Latin phrase adopted into English that means:
“Year of our Lord."
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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 exact same same for both and the reference point is still the birth of [Jesus] Christ.

Dr. Doug Levesque presents a Historical account revealing why we should not rely on more than 1,100 dumbed- down English translations from the Inferior CRITICAL TEXT. A text that was cobbled together by self appointed men who follow Satan’s questioning words in Genesis, “Hath God Said ?”

Critical Text's Flawed Bibles (From All Other Than The Textus Recptus Source Text) (Click Here)
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The Providentially Provided and Inspired Life of King James (Click Here)
from Wikipedia

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Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy (Click Here)
(169 minutes. Video)[jM1] “Bridge to Babylon” is an exceptionally thoughtful video Treatise of the explosion of over 1,100 English translations of the Bible. An expose of the continuous attempts to replace the Traditional [Old, NOT New] 1769 King James Version of God’s Holy, Inerrant, Infallible and Immutable Bible. All Attempts fail because GOD Himself providentially preserves and protects His Inspired [God Breathed/Spoken] Words from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion, error and misinterpretation .

Over six Billion extant (OLD 1769) King James Bibles establish it as the most widely printed, read and distributed book in human history. This is more than all other translations put together and it continues to be the most quoted and most read Bible ever.

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Scroll to bottom of p. 28 for “ 19 EPISODES” of 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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A Memorial to John Michael’s *Dad:

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

*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 standard prayer before every meal, was 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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Please select and view at least one presentation today from among these five videos.

Dr. Philip Stringer is highly recommended.)

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

URL: (Click here)

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)
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Dr. David Sorenson: (3 videos)

(1) -THE MAKING OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

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

URL: (Click here)

(3) -THE TRADITIONAL TEXT (ALSO KNOWN AS THE RECEIVED TEXT [TEXTUS RECEPTUS] VERSUS THE CRITICAL TEXT [Man’s critical thoughts and interpretations to take the place of God’s actual, God Breathed (Inspired) WORDS that were given to Prophets and Apostles and written as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.]

URL: (Click here)

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How we can Discern between God’s Holy Ghost and the spirit of false teachers and the Antichrist:

Is this Website from God and therefore 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, Daily Spurgeon’s Website must hereby confess that

"Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh!” as the Body, The Bride of Christ; of His Church.
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DEVOTION for October 18th *A.D. 2026 Written and calendared by C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (Means “Year of our Lord” in English)
BC/AD versus BCE/CE What’s the difference?

Defend the Truth. Won’t you?

The Lord Jesus, who is GOD in human flesh, was born of a virgin 2026 years ago,
He lives today and will live forevermore and He’s coming soon,

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for October 18th by C.H. Spurgeon:

PRAYER 12 Part 9 of 10: October 18th ON HOLY GROUND.
ANECDOTE 78: October 18th CHRIST THE POLE STAR.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: October 18 TEARS, THEN JOYFUL HARVEST
-They that sow in tears shall reap in joy - Psalm 126:5
MORNING: October 18th "THY [YOUR] PATHS DROP FATNESS. "— Psalm 65:11
EVENING: October 18th "BEHOLD, TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE."
— 1 Samuel 15:22

A SINNER’S PRAYER: October 18th

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PRAYER 12. Part 9 of 10 October 18th ON HOLY GROUND.
And then, Lord, Give us day by day our daily bread; provide for Thy poor people; let them not think that the provision for themselves rests fully on themselves; but may they cry to Thee, for Thou hast [have] said, “Thy bread shall be given thee, Thy waters shall be sure [safe].”

If we follow Thee, if Thou lead us into a desert, Thou wilt strew [scatter] our path with manna [food from heaven].

May Thy people believe this, and let them have no care, but like the birds of the air which neither sow nor gather into barns, and yet are fed, so may Thy people be. [I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ] Amen. (Attachment: PRAYER 12.doc)

ANECDOTE 78: October 18th [Jesus] CHRIST THE POLE STAR.
There are some of the stars that are extremely useful to sailors. I scarcely know how else the great wide sea would be navigated, especially if it were not for the Polar [North] Star. Jesus is the Polar [Pole] Star to us.

How the poor slaves in the olden times, when the curse of slavery had not been taken away, must have blessed God for that pole star so easy to find out. Any child with but a moment’s teaching will soon know how to discover it in the midst of its fellows at night, and when the slaves had once learned to distinguish the star that shone over the land of freedom, how he followed it through the great dismal swamps, or along the plains which were more dreadful still; how he could ford the streams, and climb the mountains, always cheered by the sight of that pole star.
Such is Jesus Christ to the seeker. He leads to liberty; he conducts to peace.
Oh! I wish you would follow him, some of you who are going about a thousand ways to find peace where you will never find it. There is never a Sunday but I try to speak, sometimes in gentler tones, and at other seasons with thundering notes, the simple truth that

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
I do try to make it plain to you that it is not your prayers and tears, your doings, your willingness, your anything, that can save you, but that all your help is laid upon one that is mighty, and that you must look alone to Him. [The Lord Jesus Christ]

Yet, sinners, you are still looking to yourselves. You rake the dunghills [piles of excrement] of your human nature to find the pearl of great price which is not there.

You will look beneath the ice of your natural depravity [fallen nature] to find the flame of comfort which is not there. You might as well seek in hell itself to find heaven as look to your own works and merits to find some ground of trust. Down with them! Down with them, every one of them ! Away with all these confidences of yours, for “None but Jesus, none but Jesus, Can do helpless sinners good.”

Just reverse that helm [rudder]; and shift that sail, and tack about! [Just turn into the wind and set your sail to follow Jesus Christ] Follow not [Don’t follow] the wrecker’s beacon [light house] on yonder shore luring you to the rocks of self-delusion, but where that pole [North Pole] star guides, thither [there] let your vessel drift, [go]and pray for the favoring gales [strong winds] of the blessed [Holy] Spirit to guide you rightly to the port of peace.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK October 18th TEARS, THEN JOYFUL HARVEST
by C.H. Spurgeon
-They that sow in tears shall reap in joy - Psalm 126:5

-Los que sembraron con lagrimas, con regocijo segaran -Salmos 126:5

Weeping times are suitable for sowing [planting]: we do not want the ground to be too dry. Seed steeped [soaked] in the tears of earnest anxiety will come up all the sooner. The salt of prayerful tears will give the good seed a flavor which will preserve it from the worm: truth spoken in awful [solemn] earnestness has a double life about it. Instead of stopping our sowing because of our weeping, let us redouble our efforts because the season is so propitious [promising]. Our heavenly seed could not fitly be sown laughing. Deep sorrow and concern for the souls of others are a far more fit accompaniment of godly teaching than anything like levity [amusement]. We have heard of men who went to war with a light heart, but they were beaten; and it is mostly so with those who sow in the same style [light-heartedly with no serious resolve or purpose].

Come, then, my heart, sow on [continue] in thy weeping, for thou hast [have] the promise of a joyful harvest. Thou shalt reap [harvest]. Thou, thyself, shalt see some result of thy labor. This shall come to thee in so large a measure as to give thee joy, which a poor, withered, and scanty harvest would not do.

When thine eyes are dim with silver tears, think of the golden corn. Bear cheerfully [endure joyfully] the present toil [hard work] and disappointment; for the harvest day will fully recompense [pay] thee.

Prayer: Thank You dear Lord that believers who sow during sadness and tough times will reap in joy [joyfully]. Lord Jesus, You died for us, You took the fall for our sins and were punished and died on the cross. You were then raised from the dead by God. Because You live, I live also. Thank You in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen.

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… and pray for the saving of many souls and the discipling and strengthening of all believers.

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 and proclaim God’s eternal Word preserved by God, Himself.

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten [supernaturally fathered] Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16

MORNING October 18th
"Thy [your, singular] paths drop fatness. "— Psalm 65:11

—Tus nubes distilan grosura— Salmos 65:11

MANY are "the paths of the Lord" which "drop fatness," but a special one is the path of prayer. No believer who is much in the [prayer] closet will have need to cry, "My leanness, my leanness; woe unto me [poor me] ". Starving souls live at a distance from the mercy seat, and become like the parched fields in times of drought.

Prevalence with God in wrestling prayer is sure to make the believer strong—if not happy. The nearest place to the gate of heaven is the throne of the heavenly grace.

[Be] Much alone with Jesus, and you will have much assurance; [Be a] little alone with Jesus and your religion will be shallow, polluted with many doubts and fears, and not sparkling with the joy of the Lord. Since the soul-enriching path of prayer is open to the very weakest saint; since no high attainments are required; since you are not bidden to come because you are an advanced saint, but freely invited if you are a saint at all; see to it, dear reader, that you are often in the way of private devotion. Be much on your knees, for so Elijah drew the rain upon famished Israel's fields.
There is another special path dropping with fatness to those who walk therein, it is the secret walk of communion. Oh, the delights of fellowship with Jesus! Earth has no words that can set forth the holy calm of a soul leaning on Jesus' bosom [heart]. Few Christians understand it; they live in the lowlands and seldom climb to the top of [Mount] Nebo: they live in the outer court, they enter not the holy place, they take not up the privilege of priesthood. At a distance they see the sacrifice, but they sit not down with the priest to eat thereof and to enjoy the fat of the burnt offering.
But you, reader, sit ever under the shadow of Jesus; come up to that palm tree and take hold of its branches; let your beloved be to you as the apple tree among the trees of the wood[s], and you will be satisfied as with marrow and fatness.

0h Jesus, visit us with Your salvation!

EVENING October 18th "BEHOLD, TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE."
— 1 Samuel 15:22

— Ciertamente el obedecer es mejor que los sacrificios— 1 Samuel 15:22

SAUL had been commanded to slay utterly all [kill all] the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered [allowed] his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called to account for this, he declared that he did it with a view of offering sacrifice to God; but Samuel met [answered] him at once with the assurance that sacrifices were no excuse for an act of direct rebellion.

The sentence before us is worthy to be printed in letters of gold and hung up before the eyes of the present idolatrous generation, who are very fond of the fineries of will-worship [Free-will], but utterly neglect the laws of God. Be it ever in your remembrance that to keep strictly in the path of your Savior's command is better than any outward form of religion, and the hearkening to His precept with an attentive ear is better than to bring the fat of rams, or any other precious thing to lay on His altar.

If you are failing to keep the least of Christ's' commands to His disciples, [that apply to us also] I pray you, be disobedient no longer. All the pretensions you make of attachment to your Master and all the devout actions which you may perform, are no recompense for disobedience.

"To obey," even in the slightest and smallest thing "is better than sacrifice," however pompous. [no matter how much grand hype may accompany it].

Talk not of Gregorian chants, sumptuous robes, incense, and banners; the first thing God requires of His child is obedience; and though you should give your body to be burned and all your goods to feed the poor, if you do not hearken to the Lord's precepts [teachings], all your formalities will profit you nothing.
It is a blessed thing to be teachable as a little child, but it is a much more blessed thing when one has been taught the lesson, to carry it out to the letter.

How many adorn their temples and decorate their priests, but refuse to obey the word of the Lord! My soul, come not into their secret. [Don’t participate in, appease, go along with or regard this sin, don’t think anything is secret or of private interpretation from God. Obey the truth;

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom… Psalm 111:10 ].

A Sinners Prayer October 18th
Come to Jesus by believing and (whole heartedly) praying a prayer like this:

“Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner. I’m lost and hopeless without You. I will never be able to save myself. Without You and your death on the cross I would spend eternity in Hell when I die.

I know that by doing my best or being good or 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 to take my place and to put my sin nature to death. I know You always keep your word. Please save me. You say that you won’t reject anyone who comes to You. I'm coming to You now. Thank You for saving me.

I give myself to You, Lord Jesus. I declare that You are my Savior and Lord. Please forgive me for all my sins. I’m sorry for every sin (bad thoughts, bad words and bad things I have done) and look to You to free me from the guilt and penalty of them, 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 and paying for my punishment. By nature and heritage I am a sinner, but now I'm clean by Your blood that you bled for me at Calvary [on 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.

Thank you Heavenly Father that You let me see myself as the sinner that I am. But, because You are good You have made a way I can be forgiven and have even given me the desire to come to You, turning away from my sin and to trusting in the Lord Jesus. You have forgiven me because He took my place and You have made it possible for me to be born again [from above].

You gave Your only begotten Son to, give up His life and die on the cross to pay my sin debt. Not just 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. 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 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 Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, for my guidance and solemn instruction into all truth., Amen.”

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

Please allow us to celebrate with you and with the angels in heaven at the news of your new birth. Please e-mail or write to: The John Mark Publishing Company, PO BOX 21 San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693, U.S.A

[You too can cast your cares on the Lord…

Call on Him. As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.. ...Psalm 55:16
Trust Him. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass ... Psalm 37:5
Come to Him. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.. Matthew 11:28
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]

Abide in me Lord Jesus in Your name I pray, Amen.

Please allow us to celebrate with you and with the angels in heaven your new birth. Write to:

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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 viewing 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 immutable 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 the 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 expresses often.

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FEATURED SERMON:

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

SACRED HYMN and GOSPEL SELECTIONS:

(…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 Will Sing The Wondrous Story

Blessed Assurance

The Love of God Bill Gaither with Choir

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 with his Dad.

…“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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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 INFERIOR CRITICAL TEXT:

The Incomplete and unsealed codices of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus do not pretend to be 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 the Codices Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrus.
(Inferior Greek sources used in 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 Obligated] Bride, for whom HE will come again to consummate the Marriage in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the Preserved 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.)

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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: (Tribute to the BRAVE) 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 a “ 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 (Click Here forText)

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

Beginning at its original publication in 1678 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 5 The Fight with Apollyon