DEVOTION for February 21st *A.D. 2026. Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

Saint Valentine’s Day 

Click “More” for The True Story.

  More...

________________________________________________

 

Does it matter which abbreviation   

B.C./A.D. or B.C.E./C.E. is used to describe a Calendar year?

Yes, it does. More than you think.

 

B.C./A.D. are abbreviations that stand for “Before Christ” and “Anno Domani” [Year of our Lord] A.D. Does NOT mean “After Death” as many erroneously believe.

 

B.C.E./C.E stand for “Before Common Era” and “Common Era”. [An effort to diminish the person of Jesus Christ by making no mention of Him].

The Lord Jesus Christ [Messiah and Anointed King] was born of a virgin girl named  Mary 2026 years ago in Bethlehem.   HE was crucified, and after three days, was raised from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave. He is GOD’S Incarnate WORD [The WORD made flesh.]  The Church is the Body of Christ, His espoused Bride to be, for whom HE will come again.

 

The singular event of His birth divides and establishes all Human History as having been either Before or After His Birth.     

 

John 1:1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the  WORD was GOD. Jesus Christ is GOD’s [incarnate] WORD, In The Flesh.      

 

I and my Father are One.   John 10:30
____________________________________________

 

The Indestructible Book [The Holy  BIBLE]

 

By Dr. David Brown

 

The 1769 Edition of The King James Bible is Divinely Inspired, Inerrant, Infallible, Providentially Preserved and Protected Words of GOD. They are God-Breathed and Eternal WORDS of GOD Almighty GOD. who calls Himself “I AM” [HE IS] is Omni-Lingual, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Immutable, All Wise, Omnipresent, Eternally Infinitely and Supremely Holy. He is the One-and-Only Triune Three-in-One GOD.

“I and my Father are one”.  John 10:30

________________________________
 

1 John 5:7  Is the fundamental scriptural  doctrine and essential tenet of the Trinity. [The Triune, [Three-in-One] GOD in-Three Persons   (This verse has been Changed in an attempt to diminish the authority and the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ or it has been Removed entirely in Modern Critical Text translations by apostates with  the untenable aim of protecting and supporting False Doctrine that gives rise to all manner of Cults, False Teaching and Heresies.

 

Jesus proclaims in John 10:30:   
30 “I and my Father are one.” 

Therefore, The incarnate WORD of GOD, [Jesus Christ (The Messiah) and His Father are ONE.]          

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, [Jesus Christ] and the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, [Holy Ghost] and the water [Life of the Father], and the blood; [The Sacrificial Blood of Jesus Christ]: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son [Jesus Christ (The Anointed Messiah and King)].

 

GOD is “I AM” and Jesus Christ is The WORD made Flesh, GOD’s WORD is infinite and endures FOREVER, from Eternity Past through Eternity Future, that never-ends.
___________________________________

 

Why Cults, False Teachers and Heretics Continue to try to take   1 John 5:7   out of the Bible.     

 

By Dr. Phil Stringer

 

1 John 5:7 Is The Great Trinitarian Proof Text of The Bible. (The immutable Doctrine of the Trinity.)

 

Daniel Webster was once asked. “Does it not bother you to believe in the Trinity since you cannot explain it?

 

And his answer was,  “What would bother me would be to have a God so small that I could fully explain Him.”
________________________________

 

Why The Traditional  Greek Text AKA The Received Text [Textus Receptus] TR? is Inspired, Inerrant and Immutable.

 

By Dr. David Sorenson

 

The above link presents a video of Translational Evidence that the Traditional Text is  Inerrant, Infallible and the Inspired [Word-by-Word and GOD-Breathed] Greek Text.  Length: (33:56 minutes)

______________________________________

 

The Heritical and Counterfeit Critical Greek Text of Westcott and Hort

By Dr. David Sorenson

_______________________________________________

 

The preaching, teaching and writings of Charles Spurgeon
are  saturated with God’s Word, the Bible.  His  publications continue to benefit readers with sermons and sound biblical teaching from one whose life was poured out like a drink offering to The Lord Jesus Christ,  to whom Charlie [Charles Spurgeon] was a fully devoted follower. His love of Jesus Christ manifested itself in an singular love for and a never-ceasing effort toward winning souls of the unsaved multitudes.  From one who became known as The Prince of Preachers he remained humble always proclaiming  Christ, and Him crucified.

 

His ministry continues to thrive today at London’s   Metropolitan Tabernacle. 
(Brief History)   a church begun in 1650 with a building erected by members of Charles Spurgeon’s 1861 congregation .

_______________________________________
 

A brief summary of the life and ministry of Charles Spurgeon
1834-1892   by John Piper   (58 minutes)

  

Spurgeon’s sermons are saturated with The Word of God, and continue to bless thousands in his sermons printed in the  63 volume set of the

Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit            

(CLICK HERE TO FIND A SPURGEON SERMON WITH THE SAME SCRIPTURE AS THE SERMON YOU MAY NOW BE PREPARING TO PREACH)  The complete 63 volume set of  printed sermons by Charles Spurgeon may be SEARCHED here.
_______________________________________________

             

              Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Conversion  In 1850,  in his own words.

_______________________________________________

 

All  Versions and editions of Bibles that are NOT  translated from the Traditional  Text [AKA the Received Text (Textus Receptus) TR or The Byzantine Text]  contain  variant  readings that diminish the person and works of Jesus Christ. All  Glory belongs to Almighty GOD.  He preserves and protects HIS WORD as immutable [incapability of mutation or any change] in the 1769 Edition of the 1611 King James Version  [KJV]. Bible This version is also known as the Authorized Version  [AV].   ALL GLORY,  LOVE, HONOR AND RESPECT  is due and must be given to the Omnipotent [Almighty], Omniscient [All-knowing], Omnipresent and Infinite GOD.

Over 5,000 hand written Greek Manuscripts support  the Traditional Text AKA The Textus Receptus with 99% agreement  among the manuscripts.
__________________________________________

 

Who was Charles Haddon Spurgeon?  (Click here for his brief Biography)

_____________________________________[1]

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION  for February 21st *A.D. 2026 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 

PRAYER 10, Part 3 of 9: February 21st THE MUSIC OF PRAISE.

ANECDOTE 204: February 21st THE RETURNING PRODIGAL.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: February 21st BLESSING ON LITTLENESS

-He [God] will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great- Psalm 115:13

MORNING: February 21st "HE[GOD] HATH SAID. " —Hebrews 13:5

EVENING: February 21st "UNDERSTANDEST THOU WHAT THOU READEST?"

[Do you understand what you are reading]? — Acts 8:30

A SINNER’S PRAYER February 21st 

________________________________________

 

PRAYER 10, Part 3 of 9 February 21st  THE MUSIC OF PRAISE.

[Father] We wish we knew how to do something for Thee. We pray that we may be helped to do so ere [before] we die; yea, that every flying hour may confess that we have brought Thy Gospel some renown; that we may so live as to extend the Redeemer’s kingdom at least in some little measure; that ours may not be a fruitless, wasted life; that no faculty [ability] of ours may lay by and rust; but to the utmost of our capacity may we be helped of the Divine Spirit to spend our whole life in real adoration. We know that

 

• he prays that serves,

• he praises that gives,

• he adores that obeys,

• and the life is the best music.

 

Oh! set it to good music, we pray Thee, and help us all through to keep to [on] each note, and may there be no false note in all the singing of our life, but all be according to that sacred score which is written out so fully in the life music of our Lord.

We beseech [implore] Thee to look down upon Thy children, and cheer us. Lord, lift us up. Come, Holy Spirit, like a fresh, bracing wind, and let our spirit, through Thy Spirit, rise upward toward God. [In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ] Amen.

(Attachment: PRAYER 10.doc)

________________________________________

ANECDOTE 204: February 21st THE RETURNING PRODIGAL.

 

Picture the case of the prodigal son when he went home. Suppose when he reached the house the elder brother had come to meet him. I must suppose that the elder brother had sweetened himself, and made himself amiable; and then I hear him [the elder brother] say, “Come in, brother, welcome home !” But I see the returning one stand there with the tears in his eyes, and I hear him lament [humbly say]

 

“I want to see my father. I must tell him that I have sinned and done evil in his sight.”

 

An old servant [may] whisper,

 

“Master John, I am glad to see you back. Be happy, for all the servants are rejoiced to hear the sound of your voice. It is true your father will not see you, but he has ordered the fatted calf to be killed for you, and here is the best robe, and a ring, and shoes for your feet, and we are told to put them upon you.”

 

All this would not content the poor penitent. I think I hear him cry

 

“I do not despise anything my father gives me, for I am not worthy to be as his hired servant; but what is all this unless I see his face, and know that he forgives me?

There is no taste in the feast, no glitter in the ring, no fitness in the shoes, no beauty in the robe unless I can see my father and can be reconciled to him.”

 

Do you not see that in the case of the prodigal son the great matter was to get his head into his father’s bosom, [hug his father] and there to sob out,

 

“Father, I have sinned.”

 

The one thing needful was the kiss of free forgiveness, the touch of those dear, warm, loving lips, which said,

 

“My dear child, I love you, and your faults are blotted out.”

 

That was the thing that gave his soul rest and perfect peace; and this is the mystery we come to preach to you, God himself drawing near to you in Christ Jesus, and out of His great beneficence [abundant grace] forgiving you all trespasses.

 

________________________________________

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK February 21 BLESSING ON LITTLENESS  

-He [God] will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great- Psalm 115:13

-Bendecira a los que temen a Jehova; A chicos y a grandes - Salmos 115:13

 

This is a word of cheer to those who are of humble station and mean [low] estate. Our God has a very gracious consideration for those of small property, small talent, small influence, small weight. God careth [cares] for the small things in creation, and even regards sparrows in their lighting [where and when they touch] upon the ground.

 

Nothing is small to God, for He makes use of insignificant agents [instrumentalities ] for the accomplishment of His purposes.

Let the least among men seek of God a blessing upon his littleness, and he shall find his contracted sphere [little world] to be a happy one.

 

Among those who fear the Lord there are little and great. Some are babes, and others are giants. But these are all blessed.

 

Little faith is blessed faith.

 

Trembling hope is blessed hope. Every grace of the Holy Spirit, even though it be only in the bud, bears a blessing within it. Moreover, the Lord Jesus bought both the small and the great with the same precious blood, and He has engaged to preserve the lambs as well as the full-grown sheep.

 

No mother overlooks her child because it is little; nay, the smaller it is, the more tenderly does she nurse it. If there be any preference with the Lord, He does not arrange them as -great and small,-[from great to small] but as -small and great [but from small to great]-.

 

Prayer: Thank you, Lord, that You bless us all, from small to great and will guide us continually as we stretch ourselves to meet the needs of the poor. Help us to be generous and to find peace, comfort and joy in You, in Jesus name I pray, Amen.

________________________________________

 

MORNING February 21st  "HE [GOD] HATH SAID. " —Hebrews 13:5

─ Él dijo. — Hebreos 13:5

 

IF we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there that will not fall with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God's covenant [divine promise]? Will not the distresses of life and the pangs of death, will not the corruptions within and the snares [traps] without, will not the trials [testing of faith] from above and the temptations [of eye and flesh] from beneath all seem but light afflictions, when we can hide ourselves beneath the bulwark [of]:

 

"He hath said"?

 

Yes; whether for delight in our quietude [quietness], or for strength in our conflict,

 

"He hath said"

 

must be our daily resort [defense]. And this may teach us the extreme value of

searching the Scriptures [Bible].

 

There may be a promise in the Word which would exactly fit your case, but you may not know of it, and therefore you miss its comfort.

You [we] are like prisoners in a dungeon with one key in the bunch that would unlock the door and you might be free; but if you will not look for it, you may remain a prisoner still, though liberty is so near at hand.

 

There may be a potent medicine in the great pharmacopoeia [medicine chest] of Scripture, and you may yet continue [to be] sick unless you will examine and search the Scriptures to discover what

 

"He hath said."

 

Should you not, besides reading the Bible, richly store your memory with the promises of God? You can remember the sayings of great men, and you treasure up the verses of renowned poets; ought you not to be profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty, or overthrow a doubt? Since

 

"He hath said"

 

is the source of all wisdom, and the fountain of all comfort, let it dwell in you richly, as

 

"A well of water, springing up unto everlasting life."

 

In this way you will grow healthy, strong, and happy in the divine life

[in Christ Jesus].

________________________________________

 

EVENING February 21st "UNDERSTANDEST THOU WHAT THOU READEST?"[you read]? — Acts 8:30

─Mas ¿entiendes lo que lees? —Hechos 8:30

 

WE would be better teachers of others and less liable to be carried about by every wind [force] of doctrine, if we sought to have a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. Since the Holy Spirit, the Author of the Scriptures, is He who alone can enlighten us rightly to understand them, we should constantly ask His teaching, and His guidance into all truth.

 

When the prophet Daniel wanted to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's dream, what did he do? He set himself to earnest prayer that God would open up [explain] the vision.

 

The apostle John, in his vision at [the Island of] Patmos, saw a book sealed with seven seals which none worthy was found to open, or so much as to look upon.

The book was afterwards opened by the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who had prevailed to open it; but it is written first

 

"I wept much."

 

The tears of John, which were his liquid prayers, were, so far as he was concerned, the sacred keys by which the folded book was opened. Therefore if, for your own and others' profit, you desire to be

 

"filled with the knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,"

 

remember that

 

prayer is your best means of study:

 

like Daniel, you shall understand the dream and the interpretation thereof when you have sought God; and like John you shall see the seven seals of precious truth unloosed, after you have wept much.

Stones are not broken except by an earnest use of the hammer, and the stone-breaker must go down on his knees. Use the hammer of diligence, let the knee of prayer be exercised, and there is not a stony doctrine in revelation that is useful for you to understand, that will not fly into splinters under the exercise of prayer and faith.

 

You may force your way through anything with the leverage of prayer. Thoughts and reasonings are like the steel wedges which give a hold on truth; but prayer is the lever, the prize that forces open the iron chest of sacred mystery, so we may get the treasure hidden within.

_______________________________________________ 

 

You too can cast your cares on the Lord… 

1. Call on Him. As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.. ...Psalm 55:16

2. Trust Him. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass ... Psalm 37:5

3. Come to Him. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest..  Matthew 11:28

4. Give Him the burden.  Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22]

 

The John Mark Publishing Company 

P.O. Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693

e-mail: michaelriley1008@gmail.com

Please send e-mail addresses of someone  you would like to receive DailySpurgeon.
… and pray for souls to be saved and believers to be strengthened

The Lord … is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  2 Peter 3:9

Pray also that believers will be led…                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide and proclaim God’s Word providentially protected and preserved by God, Himself.

 

John 3:16:   

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 

For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in Heaven. Psalm 119:89

God is not the author of confusion. 1 Corinthians 4:33­­

God, Himself, providentially protects and preserves His WORD. All of His Word is inspired, [God-breathed], self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful [omnipotent] Word.

 

 MISSION PURPOSE:         
 

We aim to be fully devoted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. We trust the Holy Spirit to impart God’s  divine revelation to us from His Word, the Holy Bible.  We trust that many who are lost will be saved, that believers will be comforted, strengthened and encouraged as we are being conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ; all, to God’s glory.

Divine Scripture is God’s infinite, eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable revelation to all mankind.  Herein, all revealed truth is given to the world. It is God-breathed [inspired] , self-authenticating [compare scripture to scripture]  and providentially protected and will endure, immutable, forever.  We purpose, therefore, with God enabling, to rightly divide and follow The Holy Bible in all things.  Personal guidance in Holiness and all divine revelation to His Church body are through God’s Holy Word, the Bible.

Hence, we resolve, God helping us, to pray, read, study, meditate-on, trust-in  and obey God’s revealed and divinely preserved Word,  holding it to be the final authority and legal precedent in all things as the divinely established Stare Decisis [Latin: to stand by that which is decided].

Therefore, the purpose of The John Mark Publishing Company is to publish and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every creature, ministering God’s love to all, especially those in the household of faith.  The Bible is God’s everlasting, inspired, (God breathed) inerrant, infallible, unchangeable, divinely protected and preserved Word of love and salvation to the entire world forever settled in heaven.

 

It is also the essence and  foundation of this ministry as we aim to encourage a fully devoted discipleship demonstrating  devotional vigor.
 

History: The preaching, teaching and writing  of Charles Haddon Spurgeonc, continues to reveal God’s love through His WORD, rightly divided and conforming to all doctrines of Biblical Christianity.  His work continues to benefit, bless and challenge readers through authentic Gospel preaching and sound biblical teaching. The Lord’s ministry through Charles Spurgeon  continues to flourish from  (Spurgeon’s)  Metropolitan Tabernacle,   (Brief History)

This Website is shared with the hope that growth in personal devotions and the edification of the church as well as fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ will be encouraged.  We desire that the written Word of God will be the Living  Word in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ to each and every reader.

To this end,  DailySpurgeon.com is offered to hear Gospel preaching and engage in daily devotions,  Bible study and meditation, prayer, and the singing of Sacred  praises and Worship to The Lord Jesus in Spirit and in Truth.

 

Adherence to Spurgeon’s calendared dates and original, unabridged text is carefully guarded.
_________________________________________________

Alterations in the Text that are  Caused by the inferior  Critical Text are found in: NIV, ESV, RSV and all other Modern Language Translations and are translated from the Critical Text which came from the Greek Codices Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.  90% is from Vaticanus and 8-9% from Sinaiticus  and were the principle Greek Texts invented by Westcott and Hort’s Greek Text. There are  more disagreements than there are agreements between these two sources.

 

17 verses are deleted out of the New Testament in the Critical Text. 7,000 words are deleted.

Codices Sinaiticus  and Vaticanus are counterfeits that were  overwritten in the 10th 11th and  completely overwritten in the 15th centuries. There are more points of disagreement than there are points of agreement between them.

The Geneva Bible was also translated from the Traditional Greek Text, The Textus Receptus [The Received Text] including  comments favorable to the Protestant Reformation  from, devoted,  faithful Christian men of GOD; Puritan Believers whose lives were  beyond reproach.
This Bible was 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 [The Received (Greek) Text] unlike any other Greek Text was taken  from more than 5,321 original Majority (Greek Manuscript) Text [MT] that agree 99% with one another. Other variant readings stem from Greek 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 [TR]

 

There is also translational evidence that establishes The Traditional Greek Text as both the OLDEST and the BEST. [The Counterfeit proofs  offered by Critical Test adherents].

 

__________________________________________________  

Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy   (169 minutes.)

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

The definitive and historical video Bridge to Babylon (URL above) documents the evidence as to  the explosive creation  of over 100 new Critical Text translations of the Bible into English.

Attempts to change the Bible by adding to, or taking away from the 1769 edition of the King James Version [KJV] of the Holy Bible will not  prevail because GOD Himself preserves and protects His inspired [God Breathed, Spoken] , inerrant, [without error] immutable [incapability of changing] and infallible [incapable of having error or failing] God Breathed [Spoken] WORDS. Eternal Protection and Preservation  from all counterfeit and variant readings and heresy, blasphemy, confusion , errors, additions to, or subtractions from the is freely given to WORD of GOD by GOD HIMSELF.

 

The Traditional Greek Text was first used  in the FIRST Church at Antioch and was later called  The Received Text [Textus Receptus TR].  Over 6 Billion King James Bibles account for more sales world-wide than any other version or edition of the Holy Bible. More than all other Versions and Editions Combined.
_____________________________________________

 

Can the Website  DAILYSPURGEON  be trusted? Is it trustworthy?
Is it of God?
YES, it can!    Yes, it is!     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.

Therefore I do confess,  that Jesus Christ is come  [is here]  in the flesh.

[All translations of the Bible that use  Greek translations other than the Traditional AKA the faithful Textus Receptus do not have the Greek word “ictin”.  This word  means “is” in English] and  its exclusion causes the meaning of its translation, “is here” to change to “has” come.

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

While this is a true statement, taken at face value, the  meaning of  “has come” is clearly not the same as “is here”. When “has” come is the meaning   the test God has given in His Word to discern whether words being analyzed are from the Spirit of God or the spirit of antichrist is made void.

One of the most well documented facts in all human history is that Jesus The Christ [The Anointed Messiah]  “has” come in the flesh. However, the essential question  is not whether the spirit [a spoken or written word] confesses that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh but, whether this confession affirms that Jesus Christ, “is come” [is here],  in the flesh.

 

Please Compare and consider [Meditate upon] this scripture with other related scriptures.  Precept upon precept, Line upon line… 
Isaiah 28:10-14
_________________________________________

 Ephesians 5:30-32
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 Church body and Bride of CHRIST]

“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 freely affirm and avow that Jesus Christ is hereNot “Has come”] in the flesh.
________________________________________________

Which Bible Is The Best?  (57 minutes) David Hocking

David’s Summary  (8 minutes) The problem behind Bible translations is not English.  The issue is what Greek text was being used.   I believe the true Author is The Holy Spirit. I believe this is the Word of God… We need to understand that The word of GOD in and of itself is power. Power to change your life and through the work of the Holy Spirit can produce the New Birth. We are born again of an incorruptible seed of the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.

- David Hocking
__________________________________________

 

THE  WORDS of GOD Are :
 

Immutable, [unchangeable and, incapable of mutation or change] 
Inspired, [God breathed, spoken],

Infallible,[Incapable of failing, making a mistake or being wrong]  

Inerrant [Without error]

Self-Authenticating  [The Bible is considered to be self-authenticating because proponents who believe it to be so know it contains inherent divine qualities—Such qualities are unity, majesty, power, and internal consistency—that reveal its divine origin, that convinces readers of its truth without relying on external historical proof or church testimony.

This concept, championed by the Reformation, know that the Holy Spirit illuminate:
the "heavenliness of its matter," the "efficacy of its doctrine," and the "majesty of its style" within the text itself, allowing God's Word to be received directly, the same way as seeing God's glory in Christ.]
 

Divinely Protected and Providentially Preserved:
Psalm 12:6-7:   6 The words of the Lord are pure words:
as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them [Thy Words] (Note Plural), O Lord, thou shalt preserve them [Thy Words] from this generation for ever. (KJV).

 

Isaiah 40:8: 8 The grass withereth, [withers] the flower fadeth [fades] :but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (KJV).

 

Matthew 5:18: 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (KJV).

Matthew 24:35: 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (AKJV).

1 Peter 1:23: 23 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.  (KJV).

1 Peter 1:25: 25 but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.  (KJV).

 

Psalm 119:89:  89 For ever, [sic] O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven, Psalm 119:89).  (KJV).

 

The Authorized King James Version (AKJV)  also known as The King James Version, Edition of 1769 (KJV), The Authorized Version (AV) and The Geneva Bible are faithful Translations from the preeminent, [surpassing all others],  Traditional Greek Text which predates the name given to the  Textus Receptus [The Received Text] TR, and is superior to all modern Critical Text translations rendered from inferiorGreek Sources that include: (Westcott & Hort, Nestle & Aland,  and Codices Vaticanus, Sinaiticus and Alexandrus).

 

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

 

John 1:1-3    1In the beginning was he Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in he beginning with God. 3 all things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

(KJV) The Authorized Version AV Translation was faithfully translated by fully consecrated,  and dedicated men of faith, beyond reproach, preeminent linguists, language scholars who were fully devoted followers of  The Lord Jesus Christ.   The 1611 King James translation is from the inerrant, inspired and immutable Textus Receptus [Received Text]:

 

Psalm 119:89  ל   (Lamed)  For ever, [sic] O  Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

 

“Thy Word” is The Inspired and Ultimate Stare Decisis [A Legal Term in Latin that establishes the principle of “Legal Precedence”. It means to stand by things decided, and  to uphold all things God-Breathed [Inspired] and therefore eternally, Divinely and immutably decided FOREVER]

 

4:1 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 [says] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] 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.

 

Therefore, I now confess that “Jesus Christ is here in the flesh.”  

 

[All other English translations of the Bible that use Greek manuscripts other than the Textus Receptus erroneously renders the English translation “Has come”.

      

 This Translation error is because inferior Greek manuscripts do not include the Greek word  “ictin”  (This is The Greek word for is that is found only in the Majority Text of the Textus Receptus) and therefore  the failure  to correctly translate “ictin” [Is Here] into English.

 

 The Authorized King James Version AKJV also known as The Authorized Version AV and the Geneva Bible stand alone in making and giving the correct translation: “is here”.

 

This  error: “has come” is self-evident, because non-believers, false prophets and even heretics  can, and sometimes will,  make the confession that He “has come” in the flesh. This is no surprise because the birth of Jesus Christ is the most well documented fact in all of recorded history.  Indeed, it is a true and factual statement that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. Yet, while this is, a true and factual statement, the meaning in scripture has now been erroneously changed. The new and erroneous meaning is that now even if He “has come” in the flesh  the confession that JESUS CHRIST IS HERE IN THE FLESH is impossible for THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST who is the creator of all heresies  to confess. Without it, Don’t  believe anything  that is said or written.

 

NEITHER does it provide for the test for believers to discern whether a spirit [voice or written words being read or heard] are from God or from the Antichrist.  It is  true that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh, but it’s essential that the confession that Jesus Christ,  “IS HERE IN THE FLESH” Be confessed  [be spoken].

________________________________________________________

 

By Reading, comparing and meditating on any specific Scripture together with other relevant Scriptures, God’s Word clarifies and self-authenticates:

 

Therefore we will read and meditate on:
1 John 4:1-3 with Ephesians 5:30-32

 

1 John 4:1-3

Authorized (King James) Version

1 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

30: for we are members of his [Jesus Christs’]  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 His bride the church.

 [We are members of His body, flesh and bones, one flesh with Him, as His bride the church].

He was born of a virgin 2026 years ago, and HE lives today,

and He is soon returning for His bride, The Church.

 

 "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
_______________________________________________________

Why Have Traditional  Sacred Hymns Endured for Such a Long aTime? 
 

Because God preserves and protects His Word. The lyrics in Sacred hymns are divinely God breathed [Inspired and Spoken by God] words and are therefore infinite, immutable and eternal.

 

(Text from Blogger: Notorius Meddler)
… 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

 

•  

Our prayer is that you have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior and Lord, or that you will do it now,  right now. 

 

Sing-along and Pray this Hymn wholeheartedly,  won’t you?
 

All To Jesus I Surrender

(49,592,993 views Jul 31, 2007)

______________________________________________________

 

The aim of dailyspurgeon.com  is to win souls and to encourage all believers to have greater love to and to become a fully devoted follower of the Lord Jesus Christ,  [The Messiah].

 

The Good News, (in Gospel song):   Jesus Saves,   He Lives!  and  Great Is Thy Faithfulness   (Tap to sing-along. Give voice to the truth, won’t you?) 

 

Join in, won’t you? to pray, hear and heed the gospel of Jesus Christ (Messiah), and  sing hymns and praises to worship Him in spirit and in truth.

___________________________________________________________

 

Sing  “If I Needed You” with Joey and Rory

UR:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WrfeHK3Yw

 

 

 PLAYLIST  INDEX  
Be blessed by This SACRED MUSIC, Won’t you?)

 

_________________________________________________

 

The aim of this Website is to encourage you to become a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ [The anointed Messiah and King].

• Pray to the Heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; to the only begotten Son, Jesus [The Christ [The anointed Messiah], and to The Holy Ghost [Spirit]. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
• Read GOD’s WORD, Hear, believe and obey the eternal, inspired (God breathed) , immutable, inerrant, infallible and providentially preserved and protected written Scriptures, The everlasting Word of God, revealed in His Holy Bible by The Holy Ghost and embodied in The Lord Jesus Christ, the living Word of GOD that is here in the flesh; 1 Peter 1:23
• Be [always 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 Jesus; Ephesians 5:18-19
• Not forsake the assembling of yourself together with other members of the Body of Christ [The Church] as the manner of some is; Hebrews 10:23-25  
 
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
- Jesus Christ  Matthew 18:19-20    

You are invited to come to the only true God. The God of  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through His only begotten Son, who is GOD’S  WORD, made flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God and to follow Him, because He is The Way, The Truth and The Life:  no man cometh unto the Father but by me [Him]   John 14:6-7

 

Receive God’s Gift of eternal love and  eternal life.   John 3:16 

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

To this end, please use the  Preaching, Sacred music, Sacred Literature and Devotional content that are offered here in the name of The Lord Jesus Christ, [Anointed  Messiah]. Amen.

 

Preaching is from The Metropolitan Tabernacle (London) by Pastor, Dr. Peter Masters, Charles Spurgeon other Reformed Preachers are prayerfully selected to focus on  \daily devotional topics so that sinners will be saved and believers will be  encouraged, challenged and built-up in the Faith of Jesus Christ.  We pray that all believers who visit the website will become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ fully conformed to the image of  Jesus Christ, The Messiah.

___________________________________________

 

 

Daily Devotions from dailyspurgeon.com  by Charles Haddon Spurgeon will include a selection from all of these publications each day:
 

• C.H. Spurgeon Prayers

• Spurgeon’s  Illustrative Anecdotes

• Faith’s Checkbook

• Morning

•  & Evening

 

It should be the  desire of every born-again  believer to worship God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength, in Spirit and in truth.   

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

 

To this end, Heavenly Father, we pray that You will bless all who visit this website and bring  many to confess the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.  We ask this in Jesus’ name,  Amen.

  DailySpurgeon.com

 

This Website can not replace nor can it be a substitute for the in-person, personal assembling of ourselves together as is the manner of some.  Hebrews 10:23-27  

 

Rather, its purpose is to save lost sinners and to teach and encourage believers through God’s Word and prayer to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ [The Anointed Messiah] in personal discipleship and worship  of the Lord Jesus as we are predestined to be conformed to His very image. 

“For whom God did foreknow he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son…” Romans 8:29

 

We are, instructed in the Word of GOD to assemble,  praise and worship God. Thus, we must assemble and worship the Lord Jesus Christ and exhort [encourage] and provoke one another to do good works.

Such worship may take place through, congregational singing of sacred hymns and spiritual songs, reading, preaching and obeying God’s Word, sharing Christian love and fellowship, agreeing together  with  specific public prayer requests, and reading and exhorting one another in the Word, to provoke one another to love and serve and bear witness with one another in the Holy Ghost.

 

Admonition: Online streaming cannot satisfy personal interaction or the warm fellowship of in-person assemblies of  brothers and sisters who are in Christ Jesus. Electronic media cannot substitute for the warm inter-personal love, fellowship, commitment, and compassion, nor does it provide for a kind and comforting touch or embrace of another believer.  e.g. Laying on of hands, 1 Timothy 4:14;  the right hands of Christian fellowship, Galatians 2:9; or an embrace, Acts 20:1; or greeting with a holy kiss,

1 Thessalonians 5:26.

 

 

We give thanks to the Lord, for the  Website DailySpurgeon.com  and pray that it will continue to be used of The Lord Jesus to build up fully devoted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ [Anointed Messiah] .  These followers will be taught to be disciples themselves and will then teach others to be disciples.

We pray that you will also be a radiant messenger of God to share the good news of Jesus Christ with every one, encouraging them to believe in Christ Jesus and to become the very image of Jesus Christ. 

 

This ministry was begun as daily e-mails of Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon were sent to John -Michael’s son, Jon Edward Riley.  Jon shared these messages with others and soon over 300 were added to the mailing list through his witness as he witnessed and  shared  his testimony with them.

Jon was called home by his loving Father in Heaven on January 16, 2021 leaving a legacy of this Website to minister to all who will  benefit in this labor of Love to the glorify God and His Eternal Kingdom. ALL Glory belongs to GOD, alone.

 

Jon is honored here; giving honor to whom honor is due.  Romans 13:7    

 

We pray that many will be born again, challenged, encouraged, and built-up to become fully devoted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and be conformed to His image; that they might be the firstborn among many brethren.  Romans 8:28-29.

_____________________________________________

 

A HEARTFELT  PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING FOR ARIKARA INDIAN BRAVES  
A video… by John-Michael’s son, Jon Edward Riley, [“White Owl”] To whom he Gives honor to whom honor is due.

(February 12, 1971- January16, 2021)

…from  a well beloved, Indigenous Brave, and in remembrance of him, my beloved son; comes his heartfelt prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord.
 

Concluding with…“ A Joyful Heart of Freedom” WAR CRY!     ( at video’s end)    June 15, 2020 

 

…This is a Video of tribute that  honors all Indigenous Braves  that gave Military Service and the families of Native-American Scouts from White Shield, North Dakota  who served in the armed services of The United States of America defending. …the land of the free and the home of the Brave.

 

The Video was recorded at…INDIAN SCOUT POST NO 1 Burial grounds, White Shield, North Dakota.

________________________________________

 

 Jon loved to say, “I’m a blood-bought, born-again Child of God!” to anyone he happened to meet.

… Jon’s  testimony lives on from one who, by grace, through faith was forever accepted in the Beloved; who’s loving ways brought the good news of Jesus to many. and one who is now present with the LORD  in glory forever.  One who, one day, we’ll reunite.. 
 

Jon  would sometimes just sing-out some of the following songs on the way to church, or just singing along with the Elvis Gospel CD that was always in our F-150’s CD player while riding with his Dad or,  Best of all, when  an inspired,  spontaneous praise from the Lord would just pop out from his joyful, creative, redeemed and loving heart.

 

Some of Jon’s Favorites:

I Love You Lord    by the Gaither choir

I Love You Lord  Universal Music Group

 I  LOVE  You  Lord   by Jared Reynolds
Where No One Stands Alone   Gaither Vocal Band

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

He Knows Just What I Need  by Elvis

How Great Thou Art    with  Elvis
Lead Me & Rock-a My Soul   Elvis and friends
Lead Me, Guide Me  by Elvis

It Is No Secret   by Elvis written by Stuart Hamblen

 

The following recordings were discovered several months  after Jon was called home on January 16th 2021.  It’s such a blessing, to hear Elvis sing the Gospel message in song but it can’t compare with the Glory of being in the presence of the LORD for all eternity.

 

LIFE    by Elvis         

 

       *I Can Only Imagine being present with the LORD,  or hearing the completed song the Lord completed with Jon when he arrived; a song known only to the Lord,  to Jon and the few who heard Jon sing it here. Lyrics remembered  from him singing:   "See my Jesus, Walkin' on duh Waduh"…  an original, inspired song from our beloved  Jon, himself a true and renown original.

 

* Click and sing:

 

 I CAN ONLY IMAGINE   with Wynonna Judd.

 

LOVE WITHOUT END, AMEN  (A Father’s Love) by George Strait honoring George H.W. Bush  (41st President) A favorite song of the President.

 

It’s also my sincere  message of love to all  my children, grand-children and great grand-children  and all loved ones.

  

…Jon would always say “Later”; [as in, see-ya later] instead of “good bye”.  It was the only farewell greeting he would ever use when parting company with a friend; and, everyone was Jon’s friend.

 … He would never  say “good-bye”.

Now, as we remember the sound of him saying “Later”, it rings true in a  new and deeper meaning and it brings a joy and comfort to the hearts of those whom he loved so well; those who love him still and will forever more.

 

… and how much sweeter to us now, are the promises in these two Hymns:  

 ’TILL WE MEET AGAIN. (sing along, won’t you?)

DOES JESUS CARE?    Gaither  Music TV

______________________________________________

 

COMFORT FOR THOSE IN GRIEF:       

No Tears in Heaven    Revelation 7:17  by Christian Sermons & Audio, August 6th 1865  by C. H. Spurgeon, recorded by Charles Koelsch.  ca. 2018

 

https://youtu.be/ehLMtrzuEVw   (Copy and paste for link to Spurgeon’s message:

“No Tears in Heaven”.

____________________________________

 

The Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, U.K. 
 Brief History  of The Metropolitan Tabernacle in London with Founder Charles Spurgeon from 1853 to 1892

 

THE WEB PAGE OF:   The Metropolitan Tabernacle  that live-streams  church services in real time from London.  Please visit this Website to  Live-stream prayer, scripture reading, singing of sacred hymns and gospel preaching,

 

Sunday *11.00 am  

 

Teaching Ministry

Sunday *6.30 pm

Gospel Sermon

Wednesday *6.30 pm

Bible Study

*London time

GOSPEL SERMONS

God Appeals to Reason  Isaiah 30:15-21   with Dr. Peter Masters

Before conversion, the claims of God mean nothing to us, but when God's Word speaks to our hearts, [by the Holy Spirit] the challenge becomes inescapable [and Irresistible ]. Self-searching begins, and the kindness of God's forgiving love is grasped as never before. Here is God's reasoning with souls.
God Gave them Up  by Alistair Begg

_________________________________________________
 

Dr, Peter Masters, Pastor,  METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, LONDON, U.K.

 TEACHING SERMONS 
Christ Prepares His Church

The call of the disciples, their unique role, and the care and patience of Christ in their training. Then the preparation of the church for extreme and persistent opposition, the reasons why demons were cast out, the unpardonable sin, and the supreme mark of true conversion.

Mark 3.13

Dr Peter Masters | 11:00am | December 2022

 

 

   GOSPEL SERMONS

  

Dr Peter Masters   6:30 pm | December 2022

    God Keeps His Promises

2 Corinthians 1.20

The goodness of God is fully demonstrated in the promises He makes in the Bible. That the Creator and Sovereign God should deign to give promises to us is amazing. Here are the major promises, how Christ makes them possible, and how we receive them.

____________________________

 

GOSPEL SERMONS

from Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee

  “Pay Day Someday”  A historic sermon by Robert G. Lee, venerable, beloved former pastor. 

"The Root of Bitterness” by Adrian Rogers, formerly the three-term President of The Southern Baptist Convention and founder of

 Love Worth Finding The Broadcast Ministry of  (Sermons by Adrian Rogers)

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­___________________________________

 

Sanctify Them Through Thy Truth      John 17:17    Dr. Peter Masters, Pastor
Sanctification (purification, consecration and commitment) by the Word is the will of Christ for His own, and here we turn to the first three of the Ten Commandments to challenge our souls. How should these be applied today in our lives and churches?
 

Closeness to Christ    2 Timothy 2:10-12   Dr.  Peter Masters

In this hostile world, believers cannot live successfully and fruitfully without Christ being with their spirits. Here is why the soul is also called the spirit, and what it means for Christ to be with our spirit. Examples and counsels for securing His nearness.

 

Good Friday Sermon 6:30 pm Friday April
Behold the Man   December 11th     John 19.5     Dr. Peter Masters

‘Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!’

What Is the Gospel  by the late Dr. R. C. Sproul
Christians are called to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but in our day there is confusion about the content of the Gospel. The biblical Gospel is challenged not only by Roman Catholics and liberals, but by those who claim to be evangelical. In this lecture, Dr. R. C. Sproul will clarify exactly what the Gospel is and what it is not.

The Years the Locust Has Eaten    Joel 2:21-27   Message by Charles Haddon Spurgeon from the Series: Truth Stranger Than Fiction, delivered on Lord’s day Evening May 30, 1896  

Recording by: Gavin Childress  44:24 minutes    304,103 views Jan 5, 2017

Thy Hand Was Heavy Upon Me  Psalm 32:3-4  by Charles H. Spurgeon

(Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings) - Preached on May 6. 1860 by C.H. Spurgeon at Exeter Hall. Recorded by Charles Koelsch,  Christian Sermons and Audio Books ca. 2018
The Phenomenon of Love Isaiah 63.7   Dr. Peter Masters  
The nature and scope of human love is impressive, but Divine love, made visible in history and, supremely in the atoning sacrifice of Christ, is limitless, freely bestowed and certain toward all who find Him. Here are the 'loving-kindnesses of the Lord' they experience.
Living for the Flesh or for the Spirit  Romans 8.5-6     Dr. Peter Masters
There are two classes of people in the Bible, those who focus on 'the flesh', and those who relate to the Spirit. Here are the characteristics and goals of each, and how God can free us from the captivity of flesh to know communion with Himself.
Mutual Debts in Marriage    1 Corinthians 7:3    Dr. Peter Masters  15 January 2012
A key word has slipped out of some modern translations – the marital debt of benevolence, meaning goodwill and kind benefits. Here are seven debts each has to the other in Christian marriage, a sevenfold bond and blessing to the crowning earthly friendship of life’s journey. Are we paying what is ‘due’?

God’s Order for Man and Women   1 Corinthians Ch 11   Dr. Peter Masters
Paul answers the question on the roles of husbands and wives and affirms conformity to the dress code of head coverings in Greek society at that time. With Calvin and major confessions we show that the ‘message’ of clothing may change in other ages and lands.

Things Only Believers See   1 Corinthians 2:9   Dr. Peter Masters
Sunday Morning 13 February 2022
The apostle impresses upon us the spiritual blindness of the unconverted state to the wonders revealed in the Gospel, including future glories (described here). Here also is the meaning of 'comparing spiritual things with spiritual,'   judging all things and living the mind of Christ
Jesus Christ Himself  (Text only)   Ephesians 2:20
Preached on March 15th  1883 by Charles Haddon  Spurgeon
Keeping Alive the Spirit   Ephesians 2:22    Dr. Peter Masters
Sunday Morning 11 April 2021 (March 17 Sermon) 
In the building of a spiritual family the work of the Holy Spirit is the vital power. Here several Holy Spirit verses in Ephesians are explored (including 'Be filled with the Spirit') to show the different activities of the Spirit in the Christian life.

The True Source of Power     with  Dr. Peter Masters
Sunday Morning 23 January 2022 
For the Gospel to be credible, (the Corinthians [and many today] erroneously taught), we need  conspicuous personalities or preachers. Here Paul proclaims the true source of spiritual power, the preaching of the cross of Christ, and why it is foolishness to the perishing and power to the saved. 
Why The Cross? 1958 by Billy Graham (38 min)

Two questions answered from The Bible:

Who crucified Jesus?

Why did Jesus die on the cross?
The Question of Questions \  Isaiah 53  by John MacArthur
The Authority of the Bible and the Uniqueness of Jesus the Savior
Living on the Word    Deuteronomy 8:3  Audio message by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Delivered on March 15th 1883, recorded by Charles Koelsch  51:04 minutes Christian Sermons and Audio books 160,059 views Aug 30, 2017
 

 

WHAT IS  REFORMED THEOLOGY?

  “It’s just a nickname for Biblical Christianity”. 

― Charles Spurgeon

 

Q & A   PANEL DISCUSSION: with Steve Lawson, John MacArthur,  &  the late, R.C. Sproul
Why Are So Many Against Reformed Theology?  What is it, anyway? 
 

PERSONAL TESTIMONIES: 

 

Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?  (Check it out, won’t you?)

 

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

 

A Former Mormon Tells their Conversion Story (61 minutes) to Sean McDowell

35,159 views Streamed live on May 19, 2021

________________________________________________________

 

SERMONS: from THE Metropolitan Tabernacle, Founded by Charles Haddon Spurgeon  (London, UK)

 

He Loved and Gave Himself   with Dr. Peter Masters

The enduring amazement of Paul the Apostle shines through these famous words, urging us to explore and ponder the glorious Person of Christ and the way in which He 'gave Himself', or handed Himself over, to the work of redeeming His people.

 

SING: O, How I Love Jesus (medley)    By Gaither Vocal Band

 

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.

 

The John Mark Publishing Company, 
P.O. Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA  92693, U.S.A.
or  e-mail: michaelriley1008@gmail.com
________________________________________

 

Please allow us to share the joy of your new birth with heaven. Heaven rejoices over each redeemed sinner.7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
Luke 15:7

________________________________________

DailySpurgeon.com

 

________________________________________

Please send the  e-mail addresses of someone you would like to receive Daily Spurgeon.

The John Mark Publishing Company P.O. Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693

e-mail: michaelriley1008@gmail.com

Visit this Website often and pass it on: dailyspurgeon.com

_________________________________________

 

SACRED LITERATURE

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

 

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

 

Daily Audio recordings of Episodes in The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan to provide a blessing from listening to this Sacred Literature classic. You may also choose to read short selections to your little ones before bed time  each night.
 

They will love the time you spend with them and “Christian”, The Pilgrim Protagonist and main character.

 

Pilgrim’s Progress is the world’s most famous allegory and is second only to the Holy Bible as the all-time, world-wide best seller. It’s also claimed by some to be the world’s first English novel as it predates  Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Caruso published in 1719
It blesses and has encouraged and instructed pilgrims of all ages for centuries.

 

ORIGINAL: The Pilgrim’s Progress  Pub. by Logos in 1853  from the 1678 Original 

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

 

The Pilgrim Progress is the world’s most widely published and most famous Allegory, It was commonly found among he scant possessions in the cabins of the early American Pioneers. It was  loved and  read, second only to the Holy Bible, God’s Word, of guidance, encouragement and comfort. It’s also considered, by some, to be the world’s first English novel and is the most published book of all time. other than the Bible. There were 1,300 editions printed before 1938, 250 years after the author's death. It remains among the world’s most famous literature.

________________________________________ 

 

You may choose to read, or  listen to, or share  with a little one, Pilgrim’s Progress as a bed time story.

It will bless, strengthen, encourage and instruct all pilgrims (readers and seekers) of all ages for a life-time.

 

Index to the 533 Scriptural  References cited in The Pilgrim's Progress    A.D. 1687 

        John Bunyan did not write nor hold to a “world view” of any kind. His inspired work, The Pilgrim’s Progress, known as the world’s most  published allegory,  does not subscribe to any world view at all  but proclaims God’s view on everything revealed and forever settled in Heaven Psalm 119:89 in The Holy Bible. 

 

John Bunyan merely, yet ardently believed God’s Word;  That it is God-breathed [inspired by God], Self-authenticating, Providentially-protected and propagated  immutable [unchanged and unchangeable] , inerrant [without error] , infallible [incapable of being mistaken or of being wrong], indestructible  and eternal written Word from GOD Himself for ever settled in Heaven.

 

________________________________________

 

ADULT AUDIO: (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

The Pilgrim’s Progress   by John Bunyan (Complete audio-book narrated by Christopher Glyn -6 ½ hours)

Preface: Bunyan’s letter​     

Episode 01: The City of Destruction      

Episode 02: Obstinate & Pliable      

Episode 03: The Swamp of Despond

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 19: Doubting Castle

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

________________________________________

 

CHILDREN’S VIDEO (GREAT FOR BEDTIME STORIES) 

Pilgrim’s Progress Drama presented in 9 parts.

DANGEROUS JOURNEY    

Part 1 The Slough of Despond [The Swamp]

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

Part 7 Doubting Castle

• Parts  8  & 9   The Dark River and  The Celestial City

________________________________________

 

PART II of PILGRIM’S PROGRESS – CHRISTIANA, The SEQUEL  (Enjoy this “Old English” dialect)

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

1 Part II 04   A Visit from Secret   4:50 Audio

2 Part II 05 Good News 2:25 Audio

3 Part II 28 Mount Charity 1:01 Audio

4 Part II 29 Fool & Want-Wit 1:16 Audio

5 Part II 31 Meeting Valiant-For-Truth 1:41 Audio

6 Part II 01 Valiant Does Battle 5:51 Audio

7 Part II 02 Valiant’s Story 3:35 Audio8 Part II 04 Which Way To Go 1:30 Audio

• 9 Part II 09 Stand-Fast’s 'Wife' 6:02 Audio

10 Part II 11 Stand-Fast’s Story 1:37 Audio

11 Part II 12 Beulah Land 3:20 Audio      

12 Part II 14 The Postman’s Visit 1:57 Audio

13 Part II 15 Christiana’s Blessing 5:55 Audio

14 Part II 16 Christiana Goes Over The River 1:20 Audio

15 Part II 19 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell 2:10 Audio

16 Part II 20 Old-Honest Called 1:41 Audio

17 Part II 21 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword 2:27 Audio

18 Part II 22 Stand-Fast’s Will 3:56 Audio

19 Part II 23 Christiana Nears The City 1:01 Audio

20 Part II 24 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry 4:45 Audio

____________________________________________

 

The John Mark Publishing Company, 
P.O. Box 21
San Juan Capistrano, CA  92693
U.S.A. 

 

or  e-mail: michaelriley1008@gmail.com

 

 

Where will you spend     E  T  E  R  N  I  T  Y ? by Billy Graham

 

HEAR  HIS  LAST RECORDRD MESSAGE:

                                                                       

URL:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7kULLmtL0

 

 

web site: DailySpurgeon.com

 

Please send the name and address of anyone who you would like to receive this publication. God bless you.

 

DO MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS WORSHIP THE SAME GOD?   (Click/Tap to find out.)

 

[1]