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TRADITIONAL and  CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
By Blogger, Notorius Meddler

We Sing Sacred Music that’s loved and has been passed down through the ages and we also, embrace new Sacred Praise and Worship Music that magnifies and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ by using doctrinally sound, faithfully divided and proclaimed scripture rendered accurately into musical lyrics.
Why Have Traditional Gospel Hymns Endured for so many years?   
URL: 
https://www.randyspecktacular.com/2008/09/old-gospel-hymn.html
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… be being filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

SACRED  and Most Performed Christmas ORATORY: 

Handle’s Messiah  A Complete Performance of World’s most Beloved Christmas Oratory by American BACH Soloists at the Grace Cathedral. [Libretto is exclusively from Old Testament book of Isaiah]. 

 

BABY’S FIRST SONGS:
Jesus Loves Me This I Know  by Gaither Vocal Band

 

OTHER CHILDREN’S  FAVORITES:

Children’s Medley  with Rosemary Siemens with children singing

God Is So Good Children’s Chorus
Praise Him, Praise Him All Ye Little Children   Hillsong Kids

Jesus Loves Me   All three verses

Noah’s Arky Arky     by the Cedarmont Kids
Away in a Manger by The Gaither Studio
Away in a Manger by Gaither Vocal Band
O Be Careful Little Eyes What You See by the Cedarmont Kids

This Little Light Of Mine  Cedarmont Kids

What a Wonderful World  by Luis Armstrong

 

SACRED HYMNS:  (Sing, won’t you?

 

 

A Mighty Fortress written by Martin Luther with Steve Green

Amazing Grace by Guy Penrod, Gaither Voice Band

Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall

Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Singing Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022

Blessed Assurance by Sounds like Reign
Blessed Assurance  by Gaithers with Larry Ford and Lillie Knauls

Blessed Assurance by the Isaacs

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary   by Gaithers  

Chosen Generation  Medley:  We Are Able, Power in The Blood, Are You Washed, Victory In Jesus, Houston Covenant Church.

Christ Arose!  by Kingdom Quartet Written by Robert Lowry 1874

Christ Receiveth Sinful Men Traditional with Lyrics 

Grace, Grace God’s Grace by Gaither Choir

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir

If That Isn’t Love Love Can Turn The World Gaither Premiere


Jesus Is All the World to Me Chonda Pierce (Stand up Comedy and Classic Hymn written by by William Lamartine Thompson 1904)

Jesus Saves by The salvation Army Choir

Jesus Saves Temple Baptist Church Powell, Tennessee

Johnny Cash sings I Shall Not Be Moved

Just A Little Talk With Jesus by Gaither Choir

Let Others See Jesus in You (Me) by  BB McKinney
Worthy is the Lamb. Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir 
I Shall Not Be Moved  Elvis and The Million Dollar Quartet

More About Jesus    by The Blackwood Brothers

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

Oh, The Blood of Jesus, Nothing But The Blood, Near The Cross  Medley by Gaithers

Onward Christian Soldiers Salvation Army Band

Praise Him, Praise Him  by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him  Bombay Christian Fellowship from 1869 of Hymn by Fanny J. Crosby 
Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Rescue The Perishing 1869 by Fanny Crosby with Altar of Praise Chorale S E Simonte
Mary Did You Know?  Gaither Music TV by Mark Lowery
O Little Town of Bethlehem  Gaither Vocal Band
It Is No Secret  by ELVIS
There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood   by The Hymn Club 

Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 
Redeemed  by Guy Penrod Bill and Gloria Gaither

Rock of Ages   Antrim Mennonite Choir

Standing on the Promises of God by Gaither Voice Band

Surely Our God Is Able by Gaither Congregation 

Sweet Hour of Prayer “An Old Farmer praying” by Jimmy Dean (from a wheel chair)

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

The Love of God   by Gaithers with Gardner, Penrod and Phelps
The Love Of God   by the Gaither congregation

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

The Old Rugged Cross Hymn from Whitewell Metroplitan Tabernacle, Belfast Sunday Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Singing at Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022

There’s Within My Heart a Melody by Gaither Congregation with Jake Hess 

Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus     by Casting Crowns

Trust and Obey  Vagle Brothers written1887 by Daniel Towner music John Sammis. 
Come Thy Fount (lyrics & chords) Chris Rice

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus  withThe Living Stones Quartet   by Helen Howarth Lemmel 1922
Angles We Have heard On High  by Christendom College &
Schola Gregoriana                           

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder  Gaither Congregation
Oh The Blood of Jesus  by Gaither Congregation
I Will Sing of My Redeemer by Gaither Music TV 

 

SACRED  PRAISE:

Above All    by Lenny LeBlanc

Amen, The Anthem   by Harry Belafonte  (See EVENING for Note:) 

Away in a Manger by Phil Wickham… 
Traditional Version   by Casting

Because He Lives Gaither Choir

Beneath the Cross of Jesus   Congregational Sung at Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022

Bless the Lord, O My Soul by Bill an Gloria Gaither Congregation

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary by Gaithers 

God Is So Good Children’s Chorus

Hallelujah, What a Savior A Cappella by the Nelons

He Has Made Me Glad Sing with music only, voices or both (choose R/L or both ear buds)

Holy Spirit Breathe on Me with Anne Jernigan 

How Great Thou Art    by the Statler Brothers

I Know that My Redeemer Liveth     Handel’s Messiah, by 11 year old Henry Jenkenson

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
He Touched Me by Elvis Presley

I See the Lord  by Gaither Vocal Band

I See The Lord by Chris Falson

I See The Lord by Chris Falson

I Shall Not Be Moved (Rockabilly) By the Million Dollar Quartet
Redeemed by Gaither soloists 

I Shall Not Be Moved by Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash

I Shall Not Be Moved Statler Brother’s Quartet

I Shall Not Be Moved The Statler Brothers

I Then Shall Live by Bill Gaither 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord by Squirrel 24

I Will Sing of the Mercies of the Lord by Squirrel 24

I’ll Fly Away    by Gaither Congregation 

I’ve Got Peace Like a River by Phoenix Children’s Choir

I’ve Just Seen Jesus       Larnelle Harris & Sandi Patti (Gaither) 

If That Isn’t Love Love   Gaither Premiere

It Is Well With My Soul by Guy Penrod and David Phelps

Jesus Is The Sweetest Name I Know by Alvin Slaughter

Jesus Loves Me This I Know by Gaither Vocal Band 
Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Jesus Messiah by The Gaither Vocal Band

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest Name I Know            `

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest Name I Know  by John Lomacang`

Lead Me, Guide Me by Elvis

Majesty   By The Gaither Congregation  

Majesty Gaither Voice Band

Near To The Heart of God by the Mennonite Choir 

Nothing But The Blood by Buddy Greene, (Harmonica) Gaither

O Happy Day Ewin Hawkins, Anthony Brown & Combined Choirs, FBC of Glenarden

O The Blood of Jesus by Glory Kim

Oh Happy Day The Edwin Hawkins Singers

Oh The Blood of Jesus by Gaither Congregation

Open the Eyes of My Heart by Paul Baloche 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Praise Him, Praise Him  by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him  Bombay Christian Fellowship A hymn from 1869  by Fanny J. Crosby 
Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin   by Sovereign Grace Music

Praise Him, Praise Him by Fanny Crosby

Praise Him, Praise Him by Fanny Crosby

Praise Him, Praise Him written by Fanny Crosby

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord written by Fanny Crosby

Redeemed, Redeemed by Gaither soloists

Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 

Standing on the Promises of God by Praise Praise

Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place - The Woodlands Methodist Church

Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place - Woodlands TX Methodist Church

Sweet Hour of Prayer by Guy Penrod

Tell Me The Story of Jesus by Carman
I Love To Tell The  Story by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Where We'll Never Grow Old   by Jim Reeves

The Battle Belongs to the Lord  by John Michael Talbot

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band

The Love of God by Gaither, Penrod, Phelps, Gardner

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

The Name of the Lord    Gaithers

The Old Rugged Cross Made the Difference by Guy Penrod, Gaither Singers

The Old Rugged Cross by Johnny and June Carter Cash

The Wings of a Snow White Dove with Loretta Lynn & Chrystal Gayle 

Then Came the Morning at Gaither Tent Revival with Guy Penrod

This Train Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis

Thy Word Is a Lamp unto My Feet Gaither Music with Amy Grant

To God Be The Glory Congregation (with lyrics

Vaya Con Dios Bilingual by Julio Iglesias James 4:8

We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

We Shall Behold Him   by Sandi Patti Sing-along, won’t you?

We Shall Behold Him   by Sandi Patti Sing-along, won’t you?

We’re Marching To Zion Gaither Congregational Singing

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (…I’ll be there) the Gaithers

Worthy Is The Lamb  with Gaither vocal Band

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

You Are My All In All Gaither Voice Band

You Never  Let Go      by Guy Penrod 

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INVITATION

You are invited to confess and turn away from of all your sins, look in faith to Jesus Christ
[The  Messiah] and confess openly and publicly that HE alone is your Lord and Savior.

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This website can never replace the in-person Church gatherings with other believers to worship, hear Gospel preaching, enjoy Christian fellowship, provoke good works and join together in prayer, and the study of God’s Word in the  presence of and in fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. 

It's a resource to help develop a deeper devotion to the Lord Jesus in an ever deepening and abiding love of  HIM according to Scripture, God’s Holy Bible.

1 John 4:19   ― We love Him because He first loved us.

 

“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker that needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing [understanding  and sharing] the word of truth. [The Holy Bible] ”   2 Timothy 2:15

   

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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
•Gathering in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew18:20

URL:  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt+18%3A20&version=AKJV

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TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM   From  “A Native Thang” [sic] North Dakota (click for video)

URL:
https://www.facebook.com/100010348029573/videos/1184240418597548/

This is The heart of Freedom from a Native Son, thanking the Lord and Honoring the Military Service of Native American Scouts, and all Veterans …of the land of the free and the home of the Brave.

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As Jon remembered veterans, we remember him: Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021) who would, on occasion, just bust-out singing the following songs; sometimes, on the way to church sometimes just singing along with the Elvis Gospel CD that was always kept in the truck’s CD player or, 

even better, a song the Lord would spontaneously put in his joyful and loving heart.

 

I LOVE You Lord by Jared Reynolds

How Great Thou Art with Elvis

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


…Jon always said “Later”; as in [see’ya later] instead of “good bye”. It was his unique way to bid farewell … He would never say “good-bye”. Now,  remembering the sound of his voice saying “Later”, it rings true with a  new and deeper meaning and it brings a joyfulness and comfort to the hearts of those he loved so well; those who love him still, and always will.

… we are reminded of the promise of the Hymn:

 

’Till We Meet Again. Amen.

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GOD’S INSPIRED, INERRANT, INFALLIBLE  and  IMMUTABLE  WORD OF GOD AND…

 

STILL THE  WORLD’S MOST POPULAR  BIBLE

BY: SARAH PRUITT

UPDATED: JULY 13, 2023 

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

For more than  400 years is The Authorized King James Bible. (KJV) It is immutable, inerrant, infallible and eternal. It will endure for ever, protected and preserved by God HIMSELF.

 

GOD’S HOLY WORD is

 For ever Settled in Heaven Psalm 119:89
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TODAY’S SERMON:

From Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle (Brief History) 

 

The Necessity and Blessings of Separation   2 Corinthians 6:14-16    with Dr. Peter Masters, Pastor

The Lord's binding commands (in a series of texts)to stand apart from doctrinal unbelief and from sinfully conceived aspects of worldly culture. How in the case of worldly methods "the medium the message". The result of disobedience, and the place of secondary separation.

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COMMITMENT TO THE infallibility and inerrancy of the WORD OF GOD and 

PAYDAY SOMEDAY
(R.G. Lee’s Signature Sermon)
URL:  https://youtu.be/0mstq4QTyrQ           

 A Peerless Pulpiteer  (Biographical Text)  was Dr. Robert G. Lee, Pastor, Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee
URL:

https://christianindex.org/stories/rg-lee-a-peerless-pulpiteer,1680 

Long before the Conservative Resurgence, Dr. R.G. Lee was the Southern Baptist champion of biblical infallibility and inerrancy. In his sermon, “The Word of God – Not Broken and Not Bound,” published in 1930, in which Dr. Lee stated the following regarding the HOLY BIBLE: (KJV)
“All [Prophets and Apostles] who wrote are immortalized by their writing of this great Book, supernatural in origin, divine in authorship, human in penmanship, infallible in authority, infinite in scope, universal in interest, personal in application, regenerative in power, inspired [God breathed] in totality.” 

Dr. R.G. Lee preached a sermon called Payday Someday over 1,000 times. 

Why was it so powerful? Why was it requested and preached so many times? 

Click above link or URL here  and see, Won’t you?
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mstq4QTyrQ 

SERMON CLASSICS:

Why The Cross? 1958 Billy Graham (38 min)
Powerful, heavyweight, urgent message for the present day.

  • Who crucified Jesus?

  • Why did Jesus die on the cross?

 

Be Filled with the Spirit   Ephesians 5:18 with Dr. Peter Masters Metropolitan Tabernacle:

Living on the Word    Deuteronomy 8:3   (Christian Sermons and Audio books) Delivered on March 15th 1883 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, recorded by Charles Koelsch.  

 

COMFORT IN  GRIEF
No Tears in Heaven    Revelation 7:17   (Christian Sermons and Audio books)  Delivered on August 6th 1865  by Charles Haddon  Spurgeon Audio recorded by Charles Koelsch.

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MOST RECENT SERMONS from London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle  by Dr. Peter Masters, Pastor

 

Teaching SermonS   Sunday 28 April 2024 | 11:00am

Testing and Sifting of Believers

1 Peter 4.12

We are not to think that bad treatment of believers is abnormal, says the apostle. It is bound to happen if our lives show Christ and salvation. Here is counsel for tried believers and how assurance is strengthened and God's promises are gloriously fulfilled.

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 Gospel Sermon   Sunday 14 April 2024 | 6:30pm

 

“To Whom Shall We Go?”   John 6.68

A message tracking the enthusiastic pursuit of Christ by many who wanted a materialistic, earthly return to prosperity, while He proclaimed His purpose - spiritual and eternal life to all who depend on Him as divine Saviour, and His redeeming work on Calvary.


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 Bible StudyTng  dy Wednesday 24 April 2024 | 7:30pm

The Blessings of Faithfulness

Hebrews 3.1

'Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.'

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TESTIMONY OF FORMER ISLAMIST:
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
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SACRED LITERATURE:

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS   by  John Bunyan  is the most famous Allegory, world-wide and the Most widely Published Book of all time and was printed in over 200 Languages. It has NEVER,  since 1698, been  out-of-print.

 

Only The King James Bible was more widely published than The Pilgrim’s Progress.

 

ONLINE PRINT LIBRARY: (No Enrollment Fee or Registration required)

 

BUNYAN’S  ORIGINAL of 1678: The Pilgrim’s Progress  Published in 1853  by Logos  

REVISED VERSION:              The Pilgrim’s Progrefs  [sic] 1999 by Barry E. Horner 

OLD ENGLISH  PRINT: The Pilgrim’s Progress  Part II   AKA  Christiana 
(Christian’s wife, Christiana and children; their dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country.)

 

 Pilgrim Progress is the world’s most famous Allegory, It and the Bible were commonly the only books to be found in the cabin of early American Settlers and were  loved and  read more than any book, second only to the Holy Bible.  It’s  also considered, by some, as being the world’s first English novel. It’s likely the most published book other than the Bible of all time. There were 1,300 editions printed before 1938,  250 years after the Bunyan’s death. Hence, the world’s most famous Allegory.

 

 Comment on Pilgrim’s Progress by Charles H. Spurgeon from the Spurgeon Sermon 
“Christ in You”.

 

Spurgeon:  Christ in us is Christ reigning." reminds me of Mr. Bunyan’s picture of [the town of] Mansoul, …when the Prince Immanuel laid siege to it, and Diabolus from within the city strove to keep him out. It was a, hard time for Mansoul then; but when at last the battering rams had broken down the gates, and the silver trumpets sounded, and the prince’s captains entered the breach, then on a day the prince himself did ride down the city’s streets, while liberated citizens welcomed him with all their hearts, hung out all their streamers, and made the church towers rock again as the bells rang out merry peals [happy melodies] , for the king himself was come. Up to the castle of the heart [main castle]  he rode in triumph, and took his royal throne to be henceforth the sole lord and king of the city.

       Christ in you is a right royal word. Christ swaying his scepter from the center of your being over every power and faculty, desire and resolve, bringing every thought into captivity to himself, Oh, this is glory begun, and the sure pledge of heaven. Oh, for more of the imperial sovereignty of Jesus, The Messiah;  our liberty to be absolutely under his sway.

 

 Spurgeon Sermon: Christ in You, Preached May 13, 1883 Scripture: Colossians 1:27  From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 29   (cit. II. THE SWEETNESS OF THIS MYSTERY, WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, § 5)

 

You may choose to read, listen or share Pilgrim’s Progress with your little ones as a bed time story.   It will bless, strengthen, encourage and instruct pilgrims of all ages and will create precious and enduring memories in little ears. 

 

Spurgeon read it for the first time as a precocious five year old reader and would returned to read it over 100 times during the course of his remarkable ministry as a Baptist pastor who is  known as The Prince of Preachers .

 

Link here for the Complete Index of the  Bible Scriptures that saturates The Pilgrim’s Progress by  John Bunyan preferring God’s view to all  “World Views”. 

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ADULT AUDIO: PART I

The Pilgrim’s Progress  by John Bunyan (Complete audio-book narrated by Christopher Glyn)

 

Preface: Bunyan’s letter     

Episode 01: The City of Destruction      

Episode 02: Obstinate & Pliable      

Episode  Episode 04: Mr. Worldly Wiseman

Episode 05: The Narrow Gate

Episode 06: The House of the Interpreter   

Episode 07: The Cross

Episode 08: Simple, Sloth & Presumption

Episode 09: Formalist & Hypocrisy

Episode 10: The Hill Difficulty

Episode 11: Timorous & Mistrust

Episode 12: The Palace Beautiful

Episode 13: Battle with Apollyon

Episode 14: The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Episode 15: Christian Meets Faithful & Talkative

Episode 16:  Mr. By-ends      Town of Fair Speech

Episode 17: The Hill Lucre [Gain and Greed]

Episode 18: By-path Meadow   Vain Confidence

Episode 20: The Delectable Mountains

Episode 21:  Ignorance  (Conceit)

Episode 22:  The Flatterer

Episode 23: Atheist

Episode 24: The Enchanted Ground

Episode 25: Ignorance Rejoins the Pilgrims

Episode 26:  Beulah Land

Episode 27: The River of Death

Episode 28:  The Celestial City

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ILLUSTRATED VIDEO  (Recommended Bed Time Story)

Pilgrim’s Progress Drama presented in 9 parts.

 

DANGEROUS JOURNEY    

Part 1 The Slough [Swamp] of Despond 

Part 2 The Interpreter’s House

Part 3 The Hill Difficulty

 Part 4 The Fight with Apollyon

Part 5 The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Part 6   Vanity Fair

Parts  8  & 9   The Dark River and  The Celestial City

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

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

A Visit from Secret  4:50  Audio  

Good News  2:25  Audio

Mount Charity  1:01  Audio

Valiant-For-Truth  1:41 Audio

Valiant Does Battle 5:51  Audio

Valiant’s Story  3:35  Audio

Which Way To Go  1:30  Audio

Stand-Fast’s 'Wife'   6:02  Audio

10 Stand-Fast’s Story   1:37  Audio

11 Beulah Land  3:20  2018  Audio

12 The Postman’s Visit  1:57  2018  Audio

13 Christiana’s Blessing  5:55  Audio

14 Christiana Goes Over The River  1:20  Audio 

15 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell   2:10  Audio                                                                          

16 Old-Honest Called    1:41  Audio

17 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword  2:27 Audio  Bequeath   (Definition) 

18 Stand-Fast’s Will   3:56  Audio   

19 Christiana Nears The City  1:01  Audio 

20 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry   4:45  Audio

DEVOTION for  April 30th  Written And Calendared
By Charles H. Spurgeon. 
 

PRAYER 17, Part 4 of 8: TO BE LIKE CHRIST.

ANECDOTE 267: Whosoever.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK30th : April 30    FORGET AND FORGIVE

-Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save-

Proverbs 20:22

MORNING: "Thou art [You are] my hope in the day of evil. " —Jeremiah 17:17

EVENING: "The Lord taketh pleasure in His people. " —Psalm 149:4

A SINNER'S PRAYER

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BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL!    Gaither Congregation (Sing with us, won’t you?)

https://youtu.be/d3pQOmFts0E
 

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+149%3A4&version=AKJV*
Amen, The Anthem   by Harry Belafonte  (See Note at Today’s EVENING.)

 

*See Previous Note: of April 26, 2023. In God’s providence Harry Belafonte died April 25, 2023; on the same day his SACRED Hymn was posted.

 

PRAYER 17, Part 4 of 8  TO BE LIKE CHRIST.

 

Alas! [Oh, dear me] we are even sometimes subject to unbelief. If trials come which we expected not [didn’t expect], or if the body grows faint, how liable we are to begin to doubt the faithful promise, and so to grieve the Holy Spirit. Lord, we cannot bear this; we cannot bear this; it is not enough for us that our garments are clean, and that we walk uprightly before men; we long to walk before Thee in such a way that there will be nothing to grieve Thy Spirit, nothing to vex [anger] the tender love of our Beloved. O, come, Divine Spirit, and exercise Thy cleansing power upon it according to Thy promise, “I will cleanse Thy blood which I have not cleansed, saith [says] the Lord, that dwelleth [lives] in Zion.”

O that everything might help us towards purity, for we crave after it; we mind [attend to] the things of the Spirit, and there is groaning within us to be utterly delivered from the things of the flesh, that we may in spirit, soul, and body, be a cleansed temple, fit for the indwelling of the Holy One of Israel. Lord, help us, we pray Thee, in our daily life, to be as Christ was.

If we are men of sorrows, may there be that luster about our sorrow which there was about His in patience and holy submission to the Divine law.

If we are men of activity, may our activity be like His, for he

 

“went about doing good.”

 

May we seek in all ways the good of our fellow-men and the glory of our God. We wish that the zeal of Thine house would eat us up [consume us] ; that we should be full of sacred warmth; that our lips were [would be] touched with the live coal so that there be fire in us perpetually flaming and burning, and ourselves a living sacrifice unto God.

[We ask this In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 17.doc)

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ANECDOTE 267: Whosoever.

 

I am deeply in love with that word “who-so-ever.” It is a splendid word. A person who kept many animals had some great dogs and some little ones, and in his eagerness to let them enter his house freely he had two holes cut in the door, one for the big dogs and another for the little dogs. You may well laugh, for the little dogs could surely have come in wherever there was room for the larger ones. This “ whosoever” is the great opening, suitable for sinners of every size.

“Whosoever liveth [lives] and believeth [believes] in me shall never die.” 

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK APRIL 30  FORGET AND FORGIVE   C.H. Spurgeon

 

-Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save- Proverbs 20:22

-No digas, yo me vengaré; Espera a Jehova, y el te salvará- Proverbios 20:22

 

Be not in haste [in a hurry]. Let anger cool down. Say nothing and do nothing to avenge yourself. You will be sure to act unwisely if you take up the cudgels [clubs] and fight your own battles; and, certainly, you will not show the spirit of the Lord Jesus.

It is nobler to forgive, and let the offense pass. To let an injury rankle in your bosom, and to meditate revenge, is to keep old wounds open, and to make new ones. Better forget and forgive.

 

Peradventure, [Perhaps] you say that you must do something or be a great loser; then do what this morning’s promise advises:

 

-Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.-

 

This advice will not cost you money, but is worth far more. Be calm and quiet. Wait upon the Lord: tell Him your grievance: spread the Rabshakeh’s [Cup bearer’s]  letter  

 

URL:  https://liamthatcher.com/2021/03/02/the-rabshakeh-strategy/

 

before the Lord, and this of itself will be an ease to your burdened mind. Besides, there is the promise,

-He shall save thee.- God will find a way of deliverance for you.

 

How He will do it neither you nor I can guess, but do it He will. If the Lord save you, this will be a deal [lot] better than getting into petty quarrels, and covering yourself with filth by wrestling with the unclean.
 

Be no more angry. [Don’t continue in anger]
Leave your suit [grievance issue] with the Judge of all.

 

Prayer: Thank you that you teach us to not say, “I will recompense evil; but to wait on You Lord, and You shall save- Lord Jesus, help me to wait upon You. I believe You died for my sins and that God raised You from the dead. Thank You for saving me. Please help me to be holy. -I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.- Galatians 2:20. In Jesus name, Amen.

 

I Pray also that all pastors, workers and believers everywhere rightly divide God’s everlasting Word, to declare, preach and share the good news that Jesus suffered and died on the cross so that eternal life is given to all who trust in Him. Pray that all redeemed, born-again blood-bought children of God abide faithful and share the Good News of Jesus Christ with every creature.

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MORNING April 30

"Thou art [are] my hope in the day of evil. " —Jeremiah 17:17

---Esperanza mía eres tú en el día malo. —Jeremías 17:17

 

THE path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God's Word, "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace," and it is a great truth, that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be

 

"As the shining light that shineth [shines] more and more unto the perfect day,"

then sometimes that light is eclipsed.

 

At certain periods clouds cover the believer's sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. There are many who have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the "green pastures" by the side of the "still waters," but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded.

Instead of the [Promised] Land of Goshen, they have to tread the sandy desert; in the place of sweet waters, they find troubled streams, bitter to the taste, and they say,

 

"Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not happen."

 

Oh! say not this [don’t say this], you who are walking in darkness. The best of God's saints must drink the wormwood [bitterness]; the dearest of His children must bear the cross.

 

No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can always keep his harp [happiness] from [hanging on] the willows [trees]. [From going silent]

 

Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and unclouded path because you were weak and timid. He tempered [softened] the wind to the shorn lamb [with no wool for warmth], but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life, you must enter the riper and rougher experience of God's full-grown children. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. 

 

The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

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EVENING April 30

"The Lord taketh pleasure in His people. " —Psalm 149:4

---Jehová toma contentamiento con su pueblo—Salmos 149:4

 

HOW comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of His people's interests that He does not consider, and there is nothing that concerns their welfare that is not important to Him. Not merely does He think of you, believer, as an immortal being, but as a mortal being too. Do not deny it or doubt it:

 

"The very hairs of your head are all numbered." "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he [the good man] delighteth in His [The Lord’s] way."

 

It would be a sad thing for us if this mantle of love did not cover all our concerns, for what mischief might be done to us in that part of our business that did not come under our gracious Lord's inspection! Believer, rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your common affairs [every day routines]. The breadth of His tender love is such that you may resort to Him in all matters; for all your afflictions He is afflicted, and 

 

like as a father pities his children, so does He pity you.

 

The meanest [most insignificant] interests of all His saints are all borne [carried] on the broad bosom [chest] of the Son of God. Oh, what a heart is His, that does not merely comprehend [know] the persons of His people, but comprehends also the diverse and innumerable concerns of all those persons!

Do you think, 0 Christian, that you can measure the love of Christ? Think of what His love has brought you—justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life!

The riches of His goodness are un-searchable [beyond comprehension]; you will never be able to tell them out [stop talking about them] or even conceive them.

 

Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus' marvelous loving-kindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment?

 

0 my soul, tune your harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to your rest rejoicing, for

you are no desolate wanderer, but 

 

a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by the Lord.

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"The Amen. "—Revelation 3:14

—He aquí dice el Amén —Apocalipsis 3:14

 

Sing: Amen with Harry Belafonte

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Note:

JM witnessed the last moments of his *Daddy’s life on earth and heard him say “Amen” repeatedly and continuously affirming his own life and testimony of God’s goodness to him and his agreement for his imminent departure and to be present with his Lord Jesus. Amen... Amen… Amen!

*Charles Dumah Riley, Sr. 1897 – 1987  ("C. D." as his beloved and loving wife referred to him. She incorporated “CD” into her personal signature when she would sign checks from their JOINT CHECKING ACCOUNT with  (“Mrs. CD Riley”)  [Mrs. C.D. Riley]

 

His one, never changing, prayer of thanksgiving before every meal where he was present and without fail during  all every day family meals:
(Always offered with gravity and reverence through the unique sound of his deep prayer voice)

 

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

 

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A SINNER’S PRAYER:   … FOR WHOSOEVER: [For One and all]

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 hopeless.  I can’t save myself. Without your death on the cross for my sin debt I would be condemned to spend eternity condemned to Hell. I have been  self-centered 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 guilty and sorry for each and every sin I have done and look to You to forgive me of 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, because of my sin  and You say,  “It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21.

 

Right now, just as I am, I call on You, Lord Jesus to save me,  I trust You, to  be my Lord and Savior from now on.
Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You have forgiven me of all my sins.  I ask You to abide in me and give me the desire to always follow You.
You paid the price for all of my sins by dying on the cross.  Even the sins of the whole world.

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

 

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

 

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. Romans  8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [Holy Ghost, Comforter, Spirit of Truth]
 

Thank You for saving me heavenly Father. With all my heart, thank you Father for saving me in Jesus’ name,  Amen.


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89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

 Psalm 119:89


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21For the prophecy [prophecies] came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.  
2 Peter 1:21

 

Authorized (King James) Version:

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
John 1:1

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See evidence that God is not the author of confusion in a remarkable...

 

VIDEO That will explain the how the Man-made explosion of over 100 English Translations of the Holy BIBLE occurred.    

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 The complete Inside  Story of Westcott and Hort: 

 Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort  (Text only)
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In 1870, The Anglican Church of England passed a resolution to revise the English Bible. The New Testament revision committee which finally consisted of 25 scholars (though only about 16 eventually attended the meetings) which included Westcott and Hort. The committee worked for ten years in the Jerusalem chamber, and these two scholars swept the Revision Committee along with them after work commenced. In fact, the “Cambridge trio” (Westcott, Hort and Lightfoot) colluded with others to dominate the meetings with their views of the text and to defeat any who opposed them. Their *letters reveal this conspiracy:

* Letters from close relatives are quoted in the Inside Story above

The only voice defending the Textus Receptus was Dr Scrivener, probably the foremost scholar of the day in the manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and the history of the Text. But he was systematically outvoted by the Cambridge trio and outdone by Hort’s powerful debating skill. When the revision was completed, the revision committee had altered the Greek Text in 5,337 places,

thus violating the original rule that had been set for the committee of not altering the Greek Text unless absolutely necessary to do so.
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CONCLUSION

In conclusion, let it be said that no matter how good any modern version of the New Testament is in other ways, it is clearly blemished if the work of Westcott and Hort is present in it. The presence of their work means that it is based on a defective text. Those who want to honor the Word of God must not promote the use of any of these versions by the church, not because the content of the version is evil in itself, but because the attitude of being contented to use a blemished version rather than an existing unblemished one, dishonors God. If God has taken the trouble to preserve for His people a good Greek text of the New Testament for 18 centuries, how dishonoring it would be to Him if His people now chose instead to change over to a version that is based on a defective text.

 

Let the biblical story of Nadab and Abihu be a lesson to all:

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled” (Lev 10:1–6).

– Published in The Burning Bush, Volume 4 Number 1, January 1998

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1 Corinthians 14:33  Authorized (King James) Version

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DEVOTION for  November 14th  *A,D, 2025.

 

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All Bible versions NOT  translated from the Textus Receptus [The (traditional) Received Greek Text] include variant  readings that diminish the full  glory and the most Holy reverence due to Almighty GOD, that He preserves and protects it immutably  in the 1769 Edition of the 1611 King James Version  KJV Bible. This version is also known as the Authorized King James  Version  AKJV and the  Authorized Version AV. ALL GLORY is due to and must be given to the Omnipotent Lord of ALL.

 

The Geneva Bible was also faithfully translated from the Greek Textus Receptus and included  comments favorable to the Protestant Reformation  from inspired, devoted,  faithful Christian men of GOD; They were Puritan Believers known to be  beyond reproach.

This Bible was first brought to Plymouth Massachusetts  in the American Colonies by the Puritan Pilgrims guided by Captain Christopher Jones’s on the Mayflower sailing ship in 1620. A 1592 Edition of the Geneva Bible that belonging to a Mayflower passenger and the Governor of the Plymouth Colony (Later to become the State of   Massachusetts) by William Bradford and is on display at the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the oldest continuously operating public museum in the United States.

 

The traditional Textus Receptus [Received Greek Text] unlike any other Greek Text was taken  from more than 5,321 original Majority Greek Manuscripts MT that agree 98% with one another. Other variant readings are translations invented by  either Westcott and Hort or Nestle and Aland. These fabricated Greek Texts were translated from only a handful [45] of Majority Text Manuscripts MT and  lack the  trustworthiness of  the inspired 1769 [1611] King James Version, KJV or the Geneva Bible and are the only two translations of the traditional, reliable, inspired, [GOD BREATHED] immutable and providentially and divinely protected Textus Receptus.

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Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy

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

 

The Bridge to Babylon video presents evidence that tracks the explosion of more than 100 new versions of English translations  of the Bible. The continuing attempts to replace, add or take away from the 1769 King James Version of the Holy Bible does not  prevail because GOD Himself preserves and protects The  inspired, inerrant, immutable and infallible  Holy Word of GOD from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion , errors, additions, subtractions or changes.

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 BCE/CE  vs.  BC/AD     What’s the difference?
defend the Truth.   Won’t you?

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

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Can   DAILYSPURGEON  be trusted? Is it trustworthy?

Is it of God?

YES!   Here’s why.

 

1 John 4:1-3

Beloved ones, don’t be believing every spirit [everyone or !everything] you hear but be testing the spirit [voice] whether it is of God: because many false prophets have gone [come] out into the world. Here’s how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit [voice] that confesses [avows] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, having come[who came] out of God, is of God: and every spirit that confesses not [doesn’t audibly avow] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

 I therefore must and do audibly confess,  that Jesus Christ is come  [is here]  in the flesh.

 

[All translations of the Bible that use a Greek text other than the traditional and faithful Textus Receptus ignore the Greek word “ictin” [the Greek word that means “is” in English].  This omission causes the meaning of “is here” to  be changed from “is” come” [is here] to “has” come”.

 

This error is self-evident because non-believers, false prophets, atheists or heretics can, and frequently do, affirm that Jesus Christ “has come” [in the flesh].

 

While this is a true statement, when taken at face value, the  meaning  “has come” is clearly not the same as “is here”; which is the valid, scriptural test of  discernment to know if words are from the Spirit of God or the spirit of antichrist.

 

The most well documented fact in all of human history is that the Lord Jesus Christ [The Messiah]  “has” come in the flesh. However, the question of much greater importance,  is not whether the spirit [a spoken or written word] being considered and tested confesses that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh but, whether the confession being made affirms that Jesus Christ, “is come” [is here], from God, in the flesh.

 

Ephesians 5:30-32

30 for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

32 This is a great mystery: but I [The Apostle Paul]  speak concerning Christ and the church.  [The body of CHRIST]

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“I speak concerning Christ and the church.” [the fleshly embodiment, here and now ,  of the body of Christ]. Because  followers of Jesus Christ are members of the incarnate Body of Christ [The Church] I affirm and avow that Jesus Christ is here [Not “Has come”] in the flesh.

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Compare and consider [Meditate on] scripture with scripture:  Precept upon precept, Line upon line… 
Isaiah 28:10-14

 

Isaiah Chapter 28 

 

1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one [crown of pride] , which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth [sits]  in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

11 For with stammering [stuttering] lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, [totally  voided]  and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

19 From the time that it goeth [goes] forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only [merely] to understand the report.

20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

21 For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth  [very angry] as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

24 Doth [does] the plowman plow all day to sow? doth [does] he open and break the clods of his ground?

25 When he hath [has] made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, [black’ cumin]  and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie [rye] in their place?

26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for November 14th  *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

 

`Spurgeon’s prayer for America featured in the PRAYER selection today:


The Lord Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, 1 John 4:2-4
was born of a virgin  A.D. 2025  years ago.                     . 
 

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  

 

Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth:
for I am God and there is none else.   Isaiah 45:22      

 

BCE/CE  vs.  BC/AD     What’s the difference?
Learn the difference;  defend the Truth.   Won’t you?

It’s a mistake to believe that A.D. means “After Death” as many do. It actually abbreviates  Latin for Anno Domini,  a  phrase brought into English usage that means  “Year of [the/our] Lord”.  The complete  original phrase "anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi" means "in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ”. A.D. is used with B.C. Before Christ  to divide all of history before and after the birth of Jesus Christ [The Messiah].   ...More

 

Please join us in prayer, devotional study, gospel preaching, and singing sacred hymns and praises as we worship God in spirit and in truth.
 

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

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

  • Being filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;    Ephesians 5:18-19

  • By not Forsaking not the Gathering together of Believers in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
    For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.  - Jesus Christ 
    Matthew 18:20    
     

SERMON: November 14th   from Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle  (London, U.K.)

Christ Teaches Assurance   John 14:1-18   with Dr. Peter Masters

The future apostles are taught the steps to be taken when the soul is wounded or jaded, vital for all who love and serve the Lord. Here are the Lord's five themes for reflection, enabling obedience to, 'Let not your heart be troubled'.
PRAISE: November 14th  Jesus, Name Above All Names  The Maranatha Singers


TESTIMONY: November 14th       
Do Muslims And Christians Worship The Same God?       

 

PRAYER 15, Part 7 of 9: November 14th THE PEACE OF GOD.

ANECDOTE 104: November 14th  Folly of  “the Blues.” [being depressed]
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: November 14th  THE NAME TO USE

-If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it-   John 14:14
MORNING: November 14th "I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that [also] swear by [King]  Malcham [idol of the Ammonites] "— Zephaniah 1:5
EVENING: November 14th  "And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give
the younger before the firstborn. "— Genesis 29:26

A PRAYER FOR  SINNERS:  November 14th
 

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TODAY’S  CONTENTS:
 

SERMON: November 14th       

from Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle  (London)

Christ Teaches Assurance   John 14:1-18   with Dr. Peter Masters


PRAISE: November 14th       

Jesus, Name Above All Names…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

PRAYER 15, Part 7 of 9 November 14th 

THE PEACE OF GOD.

         He has brought us into covenant [divine promise] with Him by a covenant which can never fail, so like David we may say this morning:

 

“Although my house be not so with God, yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.”

 

Lord, bless Thy Word throughout the world. Prosper all missions amongst the heathen, all work among the Mohammedans [Islamist]; and, oh! send Thy grace to the churches at home.

 

Turn the current of thought which sets so strong in the wrong direction, and bring men to love the simplicities of the Gospel [The Good news that  Jesus, the Messiah Saves sinners].

 

Remember our country in great mercy, and in all ranks and conditions of men do Thou [You do] give the blessing.

[We ask this In the wonderful name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 15.doc)



ANECDOTE 104: November 14th   Folly of  “the Blues.” [being depressed]
A sick and suffering brother rebuked me the other day for being cast down. [depressed] 

He said to me, “We ought never to show the white feather: but I think you do sometimes.” I asked him what he meant, and he replied, “You sometimes seem to grow [become] desponding and low. Now I am near to die, but I have no clouds and no fears.” I rejoiced to see him so joyous, and I answered, “That is right, my brother, blame me as much as you please for my unbelief, I richly deserve it.” “Why,”  [“Well,”]  he said, “you are the father of many of us. Did you not bring me and my friend over yonder to Christ?  “If you get low in spirit after so much blessing, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.”  I could say no other than,

“I am ashamed of myself, and I desire to be more confident in the future.”

Brethren, we must hope, and not fear.

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK  November 14th 

THE NAME TO USE by  C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892

-If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it-   John 14:14
-Si algo [cualesquiera]  pidiereis en mi nombre, yo lo haré-  Juan 14:14 

 

What a wide promise! Anything! Whether large or small, all my needs are covered by that word   -anything.-  Come, my soul, be free at the mercy seat, and hear thy Lord saying to thee,  -Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.-  What a wise promise! We are always to ask in the name of Jesus. While this encourages us, it also honors Him. This is a constant plea. Occasionally every other plea is darkened, especially such as we could draw from our own relation to God, or our experience of His grace; but at such times the name of Jesus is as mighty at the throne as ever, and we may plead it with full assurance. What an instructive prayer!

 

I may not ask for anything to which I cannot put Christ’s  hand and seal.

 

I dare not use my Lord’s name to a selfish or willful [what I want] petition. I may only use my
Lord’s  name to prayers which He would Himself pray if He were in my case [circumstance]. It is a high privilege to be authorized to ask in the name of Jesus as if Jesus Himself asked; but our love to Him will never allow us to set that name where He would not have set [put] it.   Am I asking for that which Jesus approves? 

 

Dare I put His seal [name] to my prayer?  Then I have that which I seek [desire] of the Father.
 

Prayer: Thank You Lord Jesus that You will do anything we ask, in Your name; in harmony with your authority and will. Help us to associate Your name always in ways that bring only honor and glory to You.  I ask this in Your Holy name, Lord Jesus,  Amen. 

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       … and pray for the saving of souls and strengthening  of 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 God’s eternal Word preserved by God, Himself.

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

 

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

 

The Incomplete codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are not included in the majority texts [Masoretic and Textus Receptus]. They present variant and ambiguous readings from that of  the overwhelmingly well-established majority texts.  They disagree often with one another as well as with the settled majority texts thus, providing a pretext attempting to justify the need for additional translations.  These unsettled differences and bolstering of certain sectarian doctrine [dogma] have produced ambiguities, many variant readings and confusion from the explosion of unending, new translations.

 

Publishers cash-in by marketing the “new and better”,  never ceasing, English translations of The Bible, [World’s best seller of all time] with too little consideration for maintaining the fidelity and accuracy already settled from the majority manuscripts of the Masoretic Hebrew and the Textus Receptus Greek.

 

God, Himself, has and will always preserve His immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful Word.

MORNING  November 14th    
"I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that [also] swear by [King]  Malcham.[national idol of the Ammonites] "— Zephaniah 1:5

 Exterminaré a los que se inclinan jurando por Jehová y jurando por su rey [Malcus]  Sofonías 1:5

      SUCH persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, but bowed at the same time to Malcham.  

 

But duplicity is abominable with God—His soul hates hypocrisy [double mindedness]. The idolater who distinctly gives himself to his false god, has one sin less than he who brings his polluted and detestable sacrifice to the tem­ple of the Lord while His heart is with the world and its sins. 

 

To hold [keep company] with the hare [rabbit] and run with the hounds is a dastard's  [evil and cowardly]   policy. In the common matters of daily life a double-minded man is despised, but in religion he is loathsome to the last degree. The penalty pronounced in the verse before us is terrible, but it is well deserved; for how should divine justice spare the sinner, who knows the right, approves it, and professes to follow it, but all the while loves the evil and gives it dominion in his heart?

 

My soul, search yourself this morning, and see whether you are guilty of double dealing. You profess to be a follower of Jesus—do you truly love Him?  Is your heart right with God? Are you of the family of old Father Honest, or are you a relative of Mr. By-ends [characters “personified” in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress  the one [Father Honest] portraying complete honesty but the other [Mr. By-ends]  believed that the end justified the means]?   [For] A name to live is of little value if it be indeed dead in trespasses and sins. To have one foot on the land of truth, and another on the sea of falsehood, will involve a terrible fall and a total ruin.[Jesus] Christ will be all or nothing.  God fills the whole universe, and hence there is no room for another god; if He reigns in my heart, then there will be no space for another reigning power. Do I rest alone on Jesus crucified and live alone for Him? Is it my desire to do so? Is my heart set on so doing? If so, blessed be the mighty grace which has led me to salvation; and if not so,

 

0 Lord, pardon my sad offense, and unite my heart to fear Your name.

 EVENING   November 14th    

"And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. "— Genesis 29:26
—Y Labán respondió: No se hace así en nuestro lugar, que se dé la menor antes de la mayor— Génesis 29:26

 

       WE do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we do not hesitate to learn from the custom [his culture] which he quoted as his excuse. There are some things that must be taken in order, and if we would win the second we must secure the first. The second may be the more lovely in our eyes, but the rule of the heavenly country must stand, and the elder must be married first.

 

For instance, many men desire the beautiful and well favored Rachel of joy and peace in believing,  but they must first be wedded [married] to the tender-eyed  Leah of repentance. Every one falls in love with happiness, and many would cheerfully serve twice [two times] seven years to enjoy it, but  according to the rule of the Lord's kingdom, the Leah of real holiness must be beloved of our soul before the Rachel of true happiness can be attained.

 

Heaven stands not first but second, and only by persevering to the end can we win a portion in it. The cross must be carried before the crown can be worn. We must follow our Lord in His humiliation, or we shall never rest with Him in glory.


My soul, what do you say, are you so vain as to hope to break through the heavenly rule? Do you hope for re­ward without labor, or honor without toil? Dismiss the idle expectation, and be content to take the ill-favored things for the sake of the sweet love of Jesus, which will recompense for all. 

 

In such a spirit, laboring and suf­fering, you will find bitters grow sweet, and hard things easy. Like Jacob, your years of service will seem to you but a few days for the love you have for Jesus; and when the dear hour of the wedding feast shall come, all your toils shall be as though they had never been

 

—an hour with Jesus will make up for ages of pain and labor.

 

                                          Jesus, to win Thyself so fair,

     Thy cross I will with gladness bear: 
              Since so the rules of heaven ordain, 

The first I'll wed the next to gain.


 

MISSION STATEMENT:

           
Ecclesiastes 12:13

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

 Our solemn  aim is to trust and obey the Lord Jesus in everything. We must rely upon God completely to achieve His purposes for 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:
       The  inspired preaching, teaching, soul winning and writings of Charles Haddon Spurgeon were solely based, empowered and inspired by God’s Holy Word the Bible.  His written sermons and devotional messages continue to benefit today’s readers through authentic  Gospel preaching and sound biblical teaching. His ministry continues to flourish from the original (Spurgeon’s)  Metropolitan Tabernacle a church begun in 1650.  The present  building was constructed in 1861 and rebuilt after the destruction during the second world war.

 

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 every believer and to spread the Gospel [Good news] of Jesus Christ, the Messiah to every person.

 

The Gospel in brief:
 

  • God is infinitely Holy and good. (He is the God of all grace.  He is not willing that any should perish)

  • Man is bad. (Totally depraved, hopeless and lost)

  • God made provision (Through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ to save each lost one who will come)  Whosoever will [whoever wants to] may come. This means you too.  After you come, you will see that you were saved before the foundation of the world)

 

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Soul Winning is the chief goal of this ministry.  Charles Spurgeon, beloved former-pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle  demonstrated a life time of gospel preaching and Soul Winning.  You may live-stream worship services from the Tabernacle with Dr. Peter Masters, pastor since 1960 in London, U.K.  Join us, won’t you? 

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Our Prayer: Dear Lord, use any and all means you choose to save souls. Empower us to serve and minister to the lost and those in need, especially those in the household of faith. Revive, encourage, strengthen, and edify us as we  follow you. Help us to  share You, your lovingkindness, and the Gospel of your salvation.  May we pray fervently with  fasting according to your will and may we be the church triumphant in soul winning, and in all things holy as we follow You. In Jesus Christ name, Amen.

We offer ourselves with gratitude for your sacrifice at calvary, given to provide eternal salvation for all who believe. Accept our thanks for these and all other blessing we humbly ask in Thy name, Amen.

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A SINNERS PRAYER    (FOR WHO SO EVER):
Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21

  

 So, pray and call on the name of the Lord Jesus and be saved   … won’t you? 

 
(Pray out loud and from your heart)

“Lord Jesus, I’m lost.  I’m a selfish, sinful and hopeless sinner.  I cannot save myself. Without you and your willing sacrifice on the cross  to save me, I would be bound for Hell. In my sinfulness I reflect my fallen nature.  Without Your grace, I’m  totally depraved and I sin because I am a sinner. Please save me.

I now realize that doing my best, or being good, or as good as I can, or being better than others or rationalizing or making excuses for myself can never save me.

I look to You, alone  Lord Jesus to save me. I call on You right now to save me.  You died on the cross in my place to pay  for my sin. You say in Your word,  “It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21. I call  on Your name, right now Lord Jesus.  I come to You,  just as I am, trusting You to save me. I look to you  as my Lord and Savior.
Please forgive me of all my sin. I’m sorry for each one. Thank you, Lord,  for saving me.  You paid the price, in full,  for all of my sins and the sins of the whole world once and for all by suffering and dying on the cross.  
Thank You that You loved me so much that you would die for me.

Thank you, Heavenly Father, for saving me.  Thank You that You  bringing me to see Your love for me and that the wages of sin is death but eternal life is mine through the Lord Jesus Christ who suffered and died as the sacrifice  Lamb of God.  

 

     Thank You, Heavenly Father that you raised Jesus from the dead victorious over sin, death and the grave and that in Him I can now be, for all eternity, born again.

Thank you for saving  me. Guide me by the Holy Spirit into all truth and make me into the very image of Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ, my Savior and Lord.   In His name I pray, Amen.
 

May we celebrate your new birth with you, the angels in heaven and our local body of believers.  Angels in heaven rejoice in the redemption of each sinner who comes to the Lord Jesus.  Write us, won’t you?
 

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A  SINNER’S   PRAYER:  

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

    Pray and call on the name of the Lord Jesus.

 

Pray like this, won’t you? :  

“Lord Jesus, I’m a lost sinner hopeless without You.  I will never be able to save myself. Without your death on the cross to pay my sin debt I would be condemned to spend eternity condemned in Hell. By nature  and  practice I am a sinner. I’m  totally depraved and  I sin because I am a sinner. Please forgive me.

I realize that doing my best or being as good as possible, or being better than other people or having good excuses can never save me.
I look to You, alone  Lord Jesus to save me.
I call on You,  by name,  Lord Jesus, right now to save me.  You died on the cross in my place to pay  for my sin. Your Word says,  “It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21. Thank You, Lord.

 

     Right now, I surrender my sinful self  to You,  just as I am, Lord Jesus. I trust You to forgive me and save me and be my Lord and Savior.
Please forgive me for all my sins. I’m sorry for every sin (bad thoughts, words and things I have done) and look to You to forgive me of them all.  I need your strength to overcome sin’s temptations. Thank you for forgiving me.
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 have made the way  of  redemption, forgiveness and  atonement for me  and have drawn me away from sin and death into Life  in Your only begotten son.  He took  my place and suffered my punishment.

 

     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 therefore now no condemnation.
 

     Thank You for saving me heavenly Father and for sending the Holy Spirit for my guidance, comfort  and solemn instruction into all truth,  Amen.”

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

 

 

 

     Please allow us to rejoice over your new birth in the presence of angels in heaven who rejoice over one sinner that repents. Luke 15:10

 

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