DAILY SPURGEON for August 22nd   *A.D. 2024  written and calendared by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

SPECIAL SPURGEON SERMON: “Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ”

[Christ Jesus]

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

Note: This Sermon was referenced in the Men’s Bible Study on Wednesday, August 14th 2024 at South Shores Church and is featured here as an unabridged Audio recording of Sermon
# 1245 that was preached originally by Charles Spurgeon in 1875 from his home church, The Metropolitan Tabernacle, London.
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*A.D. does NOT mean “After Death”, a common mistake.

It is an abbreviation from the Latin  words Anno Domini;  a shortened term, actually meaning:   “Year of our Lord”.  

BCE/CE or  BC/AD   What’s the difference? Open this link…   Won’t you?

 He was born of a virgin 2,024 years ago, is alive today, and is coming soon

for His  bride; the Church  [The born-again redeemed believers in Christ Jesus].

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Do You trust this website?

Is it of God?

Is it trustworthy?

1 John 4:1-3

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

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

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

And He was born of a virgin 2,024 years ago in Bethlehem,

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

[All redeemed believers].

"And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:

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

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

1 Timothy 3:16

Let me invite you to accept and receive  the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and to publicly confess Him as such before men. He will therefore be able to acknowledge and confess you before His Father in Heaven. He is The God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob. Following your public confession, You also invited to follow Him in believer’s baptism by immersion. 

Jesus came from Galilee t o Jordan to be baptized by John the Baptist. But, John forbad [refused] Him and said, “I have need to be baptized of You and [yet] you are coming to me?” [for baptism] And Jesus answering him said, “Suffer it to be so [Allow this]: for thus it becometh [is fitting and right for] us to fulfil all righteousness.” 

 Matthew 3:15

Baptism is not required for salvation. Remember, Jesus said to the thief on the cross, who acknowledged Jesus’ innocence and said to him.

“Remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

And Jesus said to him,

“Verily [Truly] I say to you, Today you shall be with me in paradise.” Luke 23:43

The act of Baptism pictures the Lord’s death, burial  and resurrection and the believer’s death to self, burial, and resurrection to walk in newness of life.

It bears witness to the preaching of John the Baptist who preached that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and exhorted Repentance from sin and the Baptism of atonement. Therefore, the act of baptism is not required for salvation but as John preached it is is to be followed to fulfil all righteousness

This website is not intended, were it possible, to take the place of the personal gathering of believers fellowship or congregational worship in  local bodies of believers.

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

Following the Lord Jesus Christ in His purpose for us is our desire. We trust Him for our salvation, guidance, strength and our eternal destiny. We desire to and will, with His help, follow Him in soul winning by use of DailySpurgeon or any instrumentality He may bestow. We invite and encourage non-believers to turn away from sin, look to Him and be saved.

We trust that believers (old and new) will benefit in knowing that He will sustain, guide and build us up as we are being conformed to the image of Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The DailySpurgeon website consists  of devotional writings, prayers, sacred music  and sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, that  rightly divide God’s Word. The Sermons from The Metropolitan Tabernacle and sacred congregational music of worship and praise are to encourage believers to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

INTERVIEW with Former Saddleback Pastor,  Rick Warren.

URL:https://www.tbnplus.com/c/sy/sMW1pnGB?episodeId=EJGY0J8Q&play=1

FEATURED MUSIC

Elvis in Spirit and Ever Lasting Life
 

URL:   https://youtu.be/SbryzR_3dR4

If That Isn’t Love    Gaither Premiere

URL:https://youtu.be/unfOWRtg81U?t=2982

Love Without End   George Strait performing George W Bush’s favorite  

Note: It has become my heart-felt song to all of my children  too.

URL:  https://youtu.be/rkscNqCCDl0

Statler Brothers Concert:

Do You Remember These  (The Good Old Days)

URL: https://youtu.be/6zTBebFb0v0?t=360 

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BIOGRAPHICAL VIDEO of Charles Haddon Spurgeon  1834-1892: 

C.H. Spurgeon The Peoples Preacher  ( 70 min.)  Historically accurate Feature Film of the one called The Prince of Preachers  

URL:
https://www.google.com/search?q=documentary+of+charles+spurgeon+with+grandson&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS825US825&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgAECMYJxjqAjIJCAAQIxgnGOoCMgkIARAjGCcY6gIyCQgCECMYJxjqAjIJCAMQIxgnGOoCMgkIBBAjGCcY6gIyCQgFECMYJxjqAjIJCAYQIxgnGOoCMgkIBxAjGCcY6gLSAQ0xNTEzOTcwNTFqMGo3qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4d8e1dc0,vid:cKYQW5KB40U,st:0

2,018,939 views May 14, 2020       ―a video into the life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who was widely known in his teens as the “people’s preacher” who later became known as “The Prince of Preachers”.

This Documentary follows the trials and triumphs of Charles Spurgeon with keen historical accuracy and accurately portrays him consistently and faithfully preaching Jesus Christ proclaiming, “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh [takes] away the sin of the world.”

It’s an intimate account of one of the greatest preachers in the history of the church. We follow him from his youth where, as a young preacher he is called Charlie, boy preacher of the Finns. to become the minister to London’s largest Baptist congregation and soon captures the love and respect of Great Britan to become one of its most influential and enduring figures.

Produced by the award-winning Christian Television Association and filmed on location in England, Scotland, France and Germany, this film vividly captures the spirit, message and legacy of a man whose eventful life and Christian ministry is supremely  relevant to the present.

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 The following two videos, by John Piper and Steve Lawson provide background context for  the life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.  1834 -1892

The Life and Ministry of Charles Spurgeon   by John Piper (58 min)
URL:

https://youtu.be/028S_gnFcJQ

The preaching of Charles Haddon Spurgeon continues to bless and benefit thousands, worldwide,  through the publication and use of his printed sermons; sermons inspired, prepared and delivered from the God-breathed inerrant and infallible WORD of GOD itself.

Who is Charles Haddon Spurgeon?  by Steven Lawson  (38 min)

URL:https://youtu.be/PNzpbk4P6Gc

The Preserved, Immutable, Infallible and Inerrant WORD OF GOD was saturated  into and always  proclaimed in the preaching of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. His sermons continue to bless and benefit thousands through the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit the publication of his printed sermons; sermons, prepared and delivered from the God-breathed, inerrant and infallible WORD of GOD. The Holy Bible.

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DailySpurgeon webmaster John-Michael participated in this year’s Christmas concert
Christmas at the Shores 2023
 

Directed by Robert Perry.

Presented by South Shores Church 
Dana Point, California. 92675

Enjoy it, won’t you?
 

URL:https://youtu.be/PXYCBV5HyG8?t=340
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TODAY'S  DEVOTION
URL:

https://m.facebook.com/johnmichael.riley     (FACEBOOK)

·       Prayer

·       A Spurgeon Anecdote

·       A promise from Faith’s Checkbook

·       Selections from  Morning & Evening

RECENT DEVOTIONS  (FACEBOOK)
 

URL:https://m.facebook.com/johnmichael.riley
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Rejoice In The LORD Always  tap to sing along, won’t you?  Philippians 4:4

URL:https://youtu.be/8Rs1SeuBgU0

Thank You LORD for dailyspurgeon.com  a website that  proclaims Jesus as the the Christ [Messiah and Anointed King] to all the world .

This website ministry grew from sending e-mails of daily promises from  Charles Spurgeon’s  Faith’s Checkbook a book of daily promises from Scripture  to John Michael’s son, Jon Edward Riley (1971- 2021). When Jon shared them with others, they asked to be added to the mailing list. This mailing list  continues to be used to distribute dailyspurgeon.com .  Our prayer is that it will continue to encourage fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ in personal devotional vigor in  Love, obedience and oneness with Jesus Christ through the empowered study of and obedience to GOD’S WORD empowered by the Holy Ghost.

Multiple Devotional publications  by Charles Spurgeon are now brought together day by day at dailyspurgeon.com

This devotional content was written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon over 200 years ago yet  continue to bring inspiration, eternal relevance and encouragement today. We pray that many will be born-again and be built-up in the Faith of Jesus Christ. May God be pleased to sustain this ministry begun with a beloved son, Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021)  honored here as one to whom honor is due.

Jon Edward could  sometimes be heard saying:

“I’m a blood-bought, born-again child of God.”

as he would tell others about JESUS.

Amen.
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Hymns to comfort the grieving:  

’Till We Meet Again 
 

Does Jesus Care? Gaither Music TV  (A Guaranteed SURE CURE for "PITY PARTIES"!)

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A thriving  ministry continues  from Charles Spurgeon’s home church, the  Metropolitan Tabernacle begun in London in 1650.   (Brief History)  The present  church building was constructed in 1861to support a congregation of  vibrant, doctrinally sound, Gospel preaching, Sacred Praise and Hymn singing body of believing and devoted Disciples; followers of  the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Is dailyspurgeon.com   a trustworthy website?

Is it true?     Is it of God? 

We ought to  apply the following Scripture to everything we hear/read in order to discern whether what we are  hearing/reading is of God and therefore whether or not it should be believed.
 

1 John 4:1-3  Beloved ones, don’t be believing every spirit [word] you hear but be testing the spirits [words] whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Here’s how you know if it is the Spirit [voice]  of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, having come from God, is of God:  and every spirit that confesses not 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. 

Therefore, we ought to  test every voice [spirit] whether it is from God, bonified and trustworthy to be believed only if it  confesses [states]  that… 

“Jesus Christ is here, in the flesh having come from God .”

Greek manuscripts invented by Westcott & Hort and  Nestle & Alland fail to make this confession nor did they use the well established Textus Receptus that is rendered from the 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts,  known to be  in overwhelming agreement with one another as  the Majority Text.

Instead,they used their own Greek  translations that they created using only  55 Greek manuscripts selected from  the 5,321 Majority Texts Greek manuscripts..

Their Greek translation  presents faulty readings in many places. One example is  All translations other than the King James version overlook the original Greek verb “ictin” [To be] [is] (third person singular) that is translated in substantially  all Majority Texts MT and  subsequently in the Textus Receptus [Received Text] therefore they   fail to correctly translate  the Greek verb  as, “Is come” [Is here].  (Translated aright from the Received Text (TR)  in the King James Version only) 

This  error occurs  because the  modern critical Greek text, created by Westcott & Hort and Nestles & Alland DO NOT follow the  MT [Majority Texts] of 5,321 Greek manuscripts that  affirm substantial agreement with one another.   The TR  [Textus Receptus] is rendered from an overwhelming agreement found among the Majority Text of 5,321 primary Greek manuscript sources.

Both Westcott & Hort and Nestles & Alland have omitted the verb “is”, from the Greek text. This error may be described as res ipsa loquitur meaning the thing speaks for itself.

 Therefore, the alternate Greek  fabrications generated by these two sources are not actually translations at all but are introduced as translations but actually  represent merely  their own  Greek language creations unsupported by the reliability of the Majority Text or the Textus Receptus.

How do we know? 

Because we hear non-believers and false prophets both assert that Jesus Christ 
“has come” in the flesh. Practically anyone can  make this confession as the  birth of Jesus Christ is considered by respected historians to be the most well documented fact in all of human history. That He has come is generally acknowledged by nonbelievers and believers alike.   However, here’s the point. There is a huge difference between “Has come” and “Is Here”. “Has come” falls woefully short of the essential and clear meaning of the confession “Is Here”. Just because something “has come” it can not be assumed, inferred or deduced that it also “is here”.

The “has come” assertion is not surprising nor is it, per se, a false statement. Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. However, this  fails to present a  logical framework  to discern whether the sprit [voice] being tested [tried] is from God or from false prophets in the spirit of antichrist. 

Again, the expression “has come” rather than  “is come” [is here]  is not, per se a false statement.

However, it fails to deliver a valid hypothesis, by which discernment is accurately revealed. The failure here  to establish a logical and rhetorically sound rubric to judge  the question of whether spirits [words] are from God or from false prophets and the spirit of antichrist is absent if “has come” becomes the favored reading.

Namely, “has come” is such a wide-spread belief held to be historically true by all, it does not provide a sound standard to discern whether a spirit [spoken or written words]  are from God or the spirit of Antichrist.

Almost anyone [or any spirit] can declare that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. But as you can see, this does not resolve the issue of whether something should or should not be believed or followed. Why?  Once again,  because almost anyone can and often does confess that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. This is an insufficient standard. The standard must be whether the confession that Jesus is here  alone, gives an efficacious standard to discern truth from error.

Again, while it is  true that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh, this alone is inadequate to discern truth from error. “Has come” does not mean the same thing as “is come [is here],  from God, in the flesh” and therefore fails to be efficacious for true spiritual discernment as outlined in 1 John Chapter 4: 1-3.

Furthermore, as we  compare  Scripture with  scripture in 1 John 4:1-3 and  Ephesians 5:30-32 

we comprehend God’s message regarding  the body of Jesus Christ  being in the Flesh vis-à-vis The Body of Christ, The Corporate Church.

Compare  1 John 4:1-3   with Ephesians 5:30-32 

1 John 4:1-3  Authorized (King James) Version

4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come 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. 

Ephesians 5:30-32 
Authorized (King James) Version

30 for we are members of his [Jesus Christ’s]  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 speak concerning  Christ and the church. 

 [So, we are members of His body, flesh and bone, [we are] one flesh with Him,  The Body of Christ is (In the flesh); and is the incarnate Body of believers].

 He was born of a virgin 2024 years ago and  He lives today.

He’s coming again,  for His bride; the Church [Blood-bought, Born-again members of His body].

When a believer considers the fact that they are members of the body of Christ [The Church] , they should acknowledge and readily confess that…

“Jesus Christ is here, from God,  in the flesh,” because  We are the Body of Christ; The Church, in the flesh!  Amen.

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BEST BIBLE TRANSLATION:

GOD’S WORD is Infallible, without error and Immutable, It is Inspired [God breathed], Self-Authenticating and Providentially Protected and Preserved by GOD Himself.
                                                                                                                                                           For ever, O Lord, thy word is Settled in Heaven, Psalm 119:89

The Authorized King James Bible AKJV

Is It The Best?   By David Hocking (57 min.)

David’s Summary  (8 min.) The problem is not with English, but whether the best Greek text was used as the Primary source for the translation.