DEVOTION  for August 15th   

From the writings of Charles Haddon Spurgeon

PRAYER 3, Part 4 THE LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE OR END

ANECDOTE 16, ATONEMENT - The Sinner’s Ransom.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: A NAME GUARANTEE

-And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son- John 14:13

MORNING: "Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide." —Genesis 24:63

EVENING: "And I will give you an heart off flesh. " —Ezekiel 36:26

A SINNER'S PRAYER

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THE LOVE WITHOUT MEASURE OR END

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Furthermore, we ask of Thee, [we ask of You] our Father, this day to perfect Thy work [Your work] within our hearts. We are saved [by grace through faith in Jesus Christ Ephesians 2:8], but we would be [we desire to be] saved from sin of every form and degree; from sins that lie within, and we are scarcely aware that they are there. If we have any pride of which we are not conscious, any unbelief of which we are not aware, if there is a clinging to the creature [a fleshly appetite or a soulish, self-centered human being], a form of idolatry which we have not yet perceived, we pray Thee, Lord, to search us as with candles [divine light] till Thou dost [until You do] spy out [find] the evil and then put it away. We are not satisfied with pardoned sin, [we want NO sin for which we have to ask forgiveness] “We pray, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”

(today’s PRAISE music)

Help us in our daily life, in our families, in our relations as husbands or wives, parents; or children, masters or servants [employers, employees, domestic helpers, or nannies], in our business transactions with our fellow men, in our dealings with the Church of God, may we be true, upright, pure; kept from the great transgression because we are kept from the minor [lesser ones]. Oh! that we may be such as glorify Christ. Save us, we pray Thee, from the common [lifeless] religion; give us the peculiar [particular, specific] grace of a peculiar people.

May we abide in Christ, may we live near to God. Let not the frivolities [amusements or entertainments] of the world have any power over us whatever. May we be too full-grown in grace to be bewitched with the toys which are only becoming [attractive to] children. Oh! give us [help us] to especially serve Thee, and, this prayer we have already prayed but we pray it again: make us useful in the salvation of our fellow man. O Lord, have we lived so long in the world and yet are our [our own] children unconverted? May we never rest until they are truly saved. Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? [That we trust in Jesus?] Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? [The good news that Jesus is the Messiah] Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day. Make us all missionaries at home or in the street, or in our workshop, wherever Providence has cast our lot, may we there shine as lights in the world.

[In Jesus name I pray, Amen.] ________________________________________

ANECDOTE 16, ATONEMENT - The Sinner’s Ransom.

But there stands forth on our behalf “the Wonderful, the Counselor [Jesus Christ] ;” he takes his brief in hand and begins to plead. Hark [Listen carefully to] what he says, and see how all opinion is turned at once! “I confess,” says he, “that every word is true that the last accuser has said. My client pleads guilty to every charge; but I have a full pardon signed by God’s own hand, purchased by my own blood;” and, stripping himself, he shows his breast, and bares his arm, and says, “These [souls] were given to me of my Father before the foundation of the world. I bare their sins in my own body on the tree [cross]. My Father justified them; I pardoned them.”

And then, mounting to the highest [main] point, he reaches the climax of grace as he exclaims, “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? Canst thou [Can You] O God? Hast thou not justified ? [Haven’t You justified them?] I cannot, [justify them] for I died.” Then he sits down, in triumph, saying, “Whom he [The Father] justified, them he also glorified. Nothing shall be able to separate them from the love of God.” Shall not each ransomed sinner shout with joy?

[ Hallelujah !]

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK AUGUST 15 C.H. Spurgeon 1834 - 1892

A NAME GUARANTEE

-And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son- John 14:13

-Y todo lo que pidiereis al Padre en mi nombre, esto hare, para que el Padre sea glorificado en el Hijo- Juan 14:13

It is not every believer who has yet [even now] learned to pray in [Jesus] Christ’s name. To ask not only for His sake, but in His name, as authorized by Him, is a high order of prayer. We would not dare to ask for some things in that blessed name, for it would be a wretched profanation of it [profanity]; but when the petition is so clearly right that we dare set the name of Jesus to it, then it must be granted. Prayer is all the more sure to succeed because it is for the Father’s glory through the Son. It glorifies His truth, His faithfulness, His power, His grace. The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father’s love to Him, and the honor which He has put upon Him. The glory of Jesus and of the Father are so wrapped up together, that the grace which magnifies the one magnifies the other. The channel [stream] is made famous through the fullness [abundant volume] of the fountain [spring], and the fountain is honored through the channel [stream] by which it flows.

If the answering of our prayers would dishonor our Lord, we would not pray; but since in this thing He is glorified, we will pray without ceasing in that dear name in which God and His people have a fellowship of delight.

Prayer: Thank You Father that when the petition is so clearly right that we dare to set the name of Jesus to it, then it must be granted. Prayer is all the more, sure to succeed because it is for Your glory, Father, through Your Son. It glorifies His truth, His faithfulness, His power, and His grace. Thank You that The glory of Jesus and of You, Father, are so wrapped up together, that the grace which magnifies the one magnifies the other.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Pray also that believers rightly divide [faithfully analyze and preach] God’s eternal Word, preserved by God, Himself, that 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. John 3:16 vis. Textus Receptus (majority held texts agreeing in hundreds of manuscripts from Original Greek.)

Pray that all followers of Jesus Christ faithfully proclaim God’s Word to every creature.

in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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MORNING August 15

"Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide." —Genesis 24:63

— Y había salido Isaac a meditar al campo, a la hora de la tarde…—Génesis 24:63

VERY admirable was his [Isaac’s] occupation. If those who spend so many hours in idle company, light reading, and useless pastimes [amusements, T.V. etc.], could learn wisdom they would find more profitable society [friends] and more interesting engagements in meditation than in the vanities [self absorbing things] which now have such charms for them.

We would all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were alone more often. Meditation chews the cud [second chewing and normal digestion of cows] extractng the real nutriment [benefit] from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

When Jesus is the theme, meditation is sweet indeed. Isaac found Rebecca while engaged in private musings [reflections]; many others have found their best beloved there.

Very admirable was the choice of place. In the field we have a study hung round with [supported by many] texts for thought. From the cedar [tree] to the hyssop [herb bush], from the soaring eagle down to the chirping grasshopper, from the blue expanse of heaven to a drop of [morning] dew, all things are full of teaching and when the eye is divinely opened that teaching flashes on the mind far more vividly than from written books.

Our little rooms [inside a house] are neither so healthy, so suggestive, so agreeable, or so inspiring as the fields [out doors]. Let us count nothing common or unclean but feel that all created things point to their Maker, and the field will at once be hallowed [seen as holy].

Very admirable was the season. The season of sun set as it draws a veil over the day, befits [duly brings] that repose of the soul when earthborn cares yield to the joys of heavenly communion [companionship].

The glory of the setting sun excites our wonder, and the solemnity of approaching night awakens our awe [wonderment]. If the business of this day will permit it, it will be well, dear reader, if you can spare an hour to walk in the field at eventide [sunset], but if not, the Lord is in the town too, and will meet with you in your chamber [room] or in the crowded street.

Let your heart go to meet Him. ________________________________________

EVENING August 15

"And I will give you an heart off flesh. " —Ezekiel 36:26

—Y os daré corazón de carne. —Ezequiel 36:26

A HEART of flesh is known by its tenderness concerning sin. To have indulged a foul [sensual] imagination or to have allowed a wild desire to tarry even for a moment is quite enough to make a heart of flesh grieve [sense a true sorrow] before the Lord.

The [person with a] heart of stone calls a great iniquity nothing, but not so the heart of flesh.

If to the right or left I stray,

That moment, Lord, reprove;

And let me weep my life away,

For having grieved thy love.

The heart of flesh is tender [sensitive] to God's will. My Lord “Will-be-will” [Mr. Self-will] is a great blusterer, [one who roars loudly with empty threats, menaces or protests] and it is hard to subject him to God's will; but when the heart of flesh is given, the will quivers like an aspen leaf in every breath of heaven, and bows like a willow in every breeze of God's Spirit.

[This character, (Mr. Self-will), is personified in The Pilgrim’s Progress

(The worlds most widely read and most famous Allegory written by John Bunyan)]

The natural will is cold, hard iron, which cannot be hammered into form, but the renewed will, like molten metal, is soon molded by the hand of [God’s] grace. In the fleshy heart there is a tenderness of the affections.

The hard heart does not love the Redeemer, but the renewed heart burns with affection towards Him. The hard heart is selfish and coldly demands, "Why should I weep for sin? Why should I love the Lord?"

But the heart of flesh says; "Lord, You know that I love You; help me to love You more!" Many are the privileges of this renewed heart; " 'Tis [It is] here the [Holy] Spirit dwells, 'tis here that Jesus rests." It is fitted to receive every spiritual blessing, and every blessing comes to it. It is prepared to yield every heavenly fruit to the honor and praise of God, and therefore the Lord delights in it.

A tender heart is the best defense against sin, and the best preparation for heaven. A renewed heart stands on its watchtower [on guard] looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus.

Have you [Do you have] this heart of flesh?

[Ask for it now, won’t you?]

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A SINNER’S PRAYER: … FOR WHOSOEVER:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank You, Heavenly Father that you raised Jesus from the dead. He is alive and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave.

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

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

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

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

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

The Incomplete and unsealed codices of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are not majority texts, [Original Masoretic Hebrew and the Greek Textus Receptus]. Sinaiticus and Vaticanus present variant, ambiguous and erroneous readings rather than that of the well-established and settled texts. They disagree often with one another as well as with the settled majority texts. Thus, an attempt to create a pretext that will continue to justify a never-ending demand for additional editions and interpretations. These unsettled differences and bias in certain sectarian doctrine [dogma] have led to the production of multiple “modern” editions with ambiguities, many variant readings and confusion from the explosion of unending, new editions.

Profit-driven publishers have embraced such an economic windfall to sell a continual flow of “new and better” English edition of The Bible. They give too little attention to the fidelity and accuracy already settled [in heaven] in majority manuscripts of the Masoretic Hebrew and the  Greek Textus Receptus.

Psalm 119:89-90

ל Lamed

89 Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:

thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. [abides]

God, Himself, providentially protects and preserves His Word. His Word is the God-breathed, self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful Word, settled in heaven. He is not the author of confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33 

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jTHE MOST POPULAR ENGLISH BIBLE that has endured for more than 400 years is The Authorized King James Bible. (KJV) It is immutable, inerrant, infallible and eternal. It will endure for ever and it is self-authenticating.

GOD’S HOLY WORD is Immutable and infallible. It is God breathed, 

Self-Authenticating, Providentially Protected and Preserved and For ever Settled in Heaven, Psalm 119:89

Is It The Best? David Hocking

https://youtu.be/execQXFRZMY

David’s Summary

https://youtu.be/execQXFRZMY?t=2957

(8 min.) The problem is not English, but which Greek text was used to render the English translation.

DEFENDING KING JAMES [AND EXPOSING MAMMON] from The Millennium Bible Institute 

https://youtu.be/RL1px3GRfo4

(This video is for those who seek to use the best Bible to give God the utmost praise and worship and the greatest glory that is insisted upon and rightfully commanded by His inspired and providentially preserved inerrant and infallible HOLY WORD)

Westcott and Hort conspiracy exposed

https://www.febc.edu.sg/v15/article/def_the_inside_story_of_westcott_and_hort

(Click for The Inside Story of Westcott and Hort.

In 1870, The Church of England finally passed a resolution to revise the English Bible. The New Testament revision committee 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 quoted in 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, they had altered the Greek Text in 5337 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.

MISSION STATEMENT:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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