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DEVOTION for January 25th   *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord”.

BC/AD versus BCE/CE Is there a  difference?​

Yes. Stand for the Truth, Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

 

DON’T MISS THIS:

 

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


(2 hrs. 49 mins.)

This Documentary presents the historical facts that accompany the publication of over 100 English versionsof the Bible. These continual but unsuccessfulattempts to replace the King James Version KJV Bible can not prevail because GOD Himselfpreserves and protects His inerrant and infallible Holy Scripture from all heresy, blasphemy, compromise or confusion.

 

BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE:

GOD’S WORD (Immutable, God breathed, Self-Authenticating. Providentially Protected and Preserved and Forever Settled in Heaven, Psalm 119:89) The Authorized King James Bible

Is It The Best?   David Hocking

 

David’s Summary  (8 min.) The problem is not English, but is which Greek text was used to translate the Greek into English. [The Textus Receptus (Received Text) was rendered from 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts known as the Majority Text  MT. These manuscripts overwhelmingly agree with one another and do not contain the heretical biases found in the Greek Text of Westcott & Hort  and Nestle & Aland. The Foundational support of these two Greek Texts rest upon only 55 hand-picked  manuscripts from the extant Majority Text instead of all 5,321. 

 

SPECIAL FEATURES:

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHTSCJ77SM8

 

URL: https://godblesstheusabible.com/

 

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

 

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

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Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

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DEVOTION  for January 25th  *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord”.

BC/AD versus BCE/CE Is there a  difference?​

Yes. Stand for the Truth, Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

 

PRAYER 5. Part 4 of 6 TO THE KING ETERNAL,

ANECDOTE 176: Wasted Zeal.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: January 25  HE ACTS ON HONEST CONFESSION

-He looketh [looks] upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light- Job 33:27-28

MORNING: "I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on [given] us." —Isaiah 63:7

EVENING: "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. "—Romans 3:31

A SINNER’S PRAYER 

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PRAYER 5 Part 4 of 6

TO THE KING ETERNAL,

 

Thou must be King whatever becomes of us. Thou must be glorified whatever becomes of us. But yet we have to mourn that we cannot always get to feel this rapture and ardour [passion] of love as we should. Oh! at times Thou dost [do] manifest Thyself to us so charmingly that heaven itself could scarce be happier than the world becomes when Thou art [are] with us in it. But when Thou art [are] gone and we are in the dark, oh! give us the love that loves in the dark, that loves when there is no comfortable sense of Thy presence.

 

Let us not be dependent upon feeling, but may we ever love Thee, so that if Thou didst [did] turn Thy back on us by the year together we would think none the less of Thee, for Thou art [are] unspeakably to be beloved whatsoever Thou doest [do], and if Thou dost [do] give us rough words, yet still we would cling to Thee, and if the rod be used till we tingle again, yet still will we love Thee, for Thou art [are] infinitely to ‘be beloved of’ all men and angels, and Thy Father loved Thee.

Make our hearts to love Thee evermore the same. With all the capacity for love that there is in us, and with all the more, that Thou canst [can] give us, may we love our Lord in spirit and in truth.

Help us, Lord, to conquer sin out of love to Thee. Help some dear strugglers that have been mastered by sin sometimes, and they are struggling against it; give them the victory, Lord, and when the battle gets very sharp, and they are tempted to give way a little, help them to be very firm and very strong, never giving up hope in the Lord Jesus, and resolving that if they perish they will perish at His feet and nowhere else but there.

[In the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen]


(Attachment: PRAYER 5.doc)

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ANECDOTE 176: Wasted Zeal.


We like to associate with people who have hearts, not dry leather bottles [containers], out of which all the juice has gone; but those who have heart, and soul, and life, and fire, and go [energy]. I love to meet with those who believe in something, and who work under the pressure of their belief, and give their strength to the carrying out of what they believe to be the will of God.
 

It does seem a very great pity that any zeal should be wasted, and that any one full of zeal should yet miss his way [go in the wrong direction]. We fear that there are some who will do so. If you want to go to York [a town, North of Spurgeon’s home] you may ride very fast south, but you will not get to York with all your speed. Unless you turn your rein [direction of your horses] towards the north, you may ride a thousand horses to death, and never see the gates of the old city.

It is of no use to be zealous if you are zealous in a wrong cause; but when we meet with any who are such, I say that they become peculiarly the object of a Christian’s prayers.


Pray for the zealous with all your hearts, for it is such a pity that one of them should go astray [wrong].

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK JANUARY 25   HE ACTS ON HONEST CONFESSION
by C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892


-He looketh [looks] upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light- Job 33:27-28

-El mira sobre los hombres; y el que dijere: Pequé, y perverti lo recto, Y no me ha aprovechado; Dios redimirá su alma, que no pase al sepulcro, Y su vida se verá en luz- Job 33:27-28
 

This is a word of truth, gathered from the experience of a man of God, and it is tantamount [equal] to a promise. What the Lord has done, and is doing, He will continue to do while the world stands [exists]. The Lord will receive into His bosom [close to His heart] all who come to Him with a sincere confession of their sin; in fact, He is always on the look-out to discover any that are in trouble because of their faults.

Can we not endorse the language here used? Have we not [haven’t we] sinned, sinned personally so as to say,  -I have sinned-?

 

Sinned willfully, having perverted that which is right? Sinned so as to discover that there is no profit in it, but an eternal loss? Let us, then, go to God with this honest acknowledgment. He asks no more.We can do no less. Let us plead His promise in the name of Jesus. He will deliver us from the pit of hell which yawns for us; He will grant us life and light. Why should we despair? Why should we even doubt?

The Lord does not mock humble souls. He means what He says.

 

The guilty can be forgiven.

 

Those who deserve execution can receive free pardon. Lord, we confess, and we pray thee to forgive! [us].

 

Prayer: Thank you, Father that You look upon me, and if I say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it was of no benefit to me; You will deliver my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.

 

I do confess that I have sinned, perverting that which was right and it did me no good. I trust you, Lord Jesus to save, protect and guide me, and everything that pertains to me. Give me dear Lord the blessed assurance of salvation, I ask in the name of Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus, Amen.

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       … and pray that many souls will be saved and that all believers will be strengthened. 


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

2 Peter 3:9

 

Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide God’s eternal Word preserved and protected by God, Himself.

 

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

The Textus Receptus TR [Received Text] is the faithfully rendered Greek text with strong agreement among the overwhelming majority of the 5,321 extant New Testament, Greek manuscripts  known as the  MT. [Majority Text].

The Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of the Old Testament were meticulously copied by hand and checked  by the Masoretic scribes. These are the manuscripts  from which  the Original 1611 King James version  was translated onto English.

In order for Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland to have created  their new Modern Critical Greek text they selected only 55 from Siniaticus and Vaticanus  Texts.

These 55 hand-picked manuscripts from which many variant and inferior readings were brought forth, from their new Greek text were created through highly nuanced readings from Westcott & Hort’s  Critical Text theory.  Only Fifty-five 55 manuscripts of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were used to retrofit their newly invented Greek text. These 55  hand-picked and they were not from the primary  manuscripts  from which the Textus Receptus was rendered but were selected from  the inferior Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices. These fifty-five manuscripts  brought  variant readings and were created, , to retrofit the creation of alternative Greek text to replace the primary and highly reliable source of the  Textus Receptus. Their bias against  the Textus Receptus was a spurious, ungrounded and longstanding  attack by Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland for many years.

Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are inferior because they are in disagreement with the Textus Receptus and incredibly, in disagreement with one another. They give rise to variant readings and embrace secular doctrine bias not supported by scripture translated from the Majority Text or the Textus Receptus.  They have been infused by the  invented new Greek text when  words for a word-for-word  correspondence were absent. from the scant Fifty-five hand-picked and highly prejudicial fraction of the 5,321 Majority Text  MT manuscripts occurred.  

These newly invented  Greek texts were  not disclosed to the revision committee themselves as the source  of these  new Greek translations. A code of secrecy was demanded from each member of the Revision Committee.    They supplied this new Greek translation to all Committee members with the aim to revise the King James Bible. However, They insisted on a code of secrecy as to the authorship of the Greek Text from which all Revisions were to be based. All members of the committee were required to agree to this code.

Modern textual criticism is based on the assumption that older manuscripts are, de-facto, more accurate. Actually, the continuous and unsettled changes from their  variant readings reflect error, doctrinal ambiguities and biases not supported by the Majority Text or Textus Receptus.

Scripture based on The Greek text of Westcott &  Hort or  Nestle & Aland embrace a secular or denominational doctrine bias or tradition that allows modern textual criticism  to  rob God of Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, Inerrancy and  Infallibility due HIM ALONE and to diminish Glory from the infinite and everlasting “I AM” who is WORTHY, who deserves and demands ALL GLORY!

 

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, protects and preserves all of His inspired SCRIPTURE.  HIS God-breathed, self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, everlasting inerrant,[Without Error] infallible, [Never Fails] infinite [Has always existed from Eternity Past to Eternity Future   and all-powerful [Omnipotent] WORD.

 

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MORNING January 25


"I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on [given] us." —Isaiah 63:7

— De las misericordias de Jehová haré memoria, de las alabanzas de Jehová conforme á todo lo que Johová nos ha dado— Isaías 63:7
 

AND can you not do this [can’t you do this]? Are there no mercies you have experienced? Even though you are gloomy [sad] now, can you forget that blessed hour when Jesus met you and said,

“Come unto me” ?

Can you not remember that rapturous moment when He snapped your fetters [shackles], dashed [threw] your chains to the earth [ground], and said,

“I came to break your bonds and set you free”?


Or if the love of your first commitment [to the Lord] is forgotten, there must surely be some precious milestone along the road of life, not quite grown over with moss, that happily reminds you of His mercy toward you? What! Did you never have a sickness like that which you are suffering now, and did he not restore you? Were you never poor before, that did he not [when He didn’t] supply your wants [needs]? Were you never in straits [difficulties] before, that did He not deliver you?

Arise [get up], go to the river of your experience, and pull up a few bulrushes, and plait [weave] them into an ark [boat], in which your infant-faith may float safely on the stream. Forget not [don’t forget] what God has done for you: turn over the book of your remembrance, [remember] and consider the days of old [the past].

Can you not remember the hill Mizar? Did the Lord never meet with you at [Mount] Hermon? Have you never climbed the Delectable Mountains? Have you never been helped in time of need? I know you have. Go back, then, a little way to the choice mercies of yesterday, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps [lights] of the past, they will glitter through the darkness, and you will trust in the Lord until the day break and the shadows flee away.

 

“Remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving-kindnesses, for they have been ever of old [they have always been here, a long, long time].”
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EVENING January 25

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. "—Romans 3:31

—¿Luego dehacemos la ley por la fe? En ninguna manera; antes establecemos la ley— Romanos 3:31
 


WHEN the believer is adopted into the Lord's family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once. But then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant [divine promise]. Believer, you are God's child; it is your first duty to obey your heavenly Father. A servile [servant’s] spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child. Because you are a beloved child, you are now bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation [suggestion] of His will.

Does He bid you to fulfill a sacred ordinance? It is at your peril that you neglect it, for you will be disobeying your Father. Does He command you to seek the image of Jesus? Is it not your joy to do so? Does Jesus tell you,

"Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"?

Then not because the law commands, but because your Savior enjoins, you will labor to be perfect in holiness.

Does He bid his saints to love one another? Do it, not because the law says

"Love thy neighbor,"

but because Jesus says

"If ye love Me, keep My commandments."

This is the commandment that He has given unto you

"that ye love one another."

Are you told to distribute [give] to the poor? Do it, not because charity is a burden that you dare not shirk [resist], but because Jesus teaches,

"Give to him that asks of thee." Does the Word say,

"Love God with all your heart"? Look at the commandment and reply,

"Ah, commandment, Christ hath fulfilled you already. I have no need, therefore, to fulfill you for my salvation, but I rejoice to yield obedience to you because God is my Father now and He has a claim upon me I would not dispute."

May the Holy Ghost make your heart obedient to the constraining power of Christ's love, that your prayer may be,


"Make me to go in the path of Thy commandments; for therein do I delight."


Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of [excuse] for sin.   

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

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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, U.K.
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Can You trust this website?

Is it of God?

Is it trustworthy?

1 John  Chapter 4

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, says] 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 [declare and affirm] "Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh."

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He has always 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, the WORD made flesh,

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 trust in  the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and to publicly confess [declare] Him as such before men [publicly]. 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, what 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 then, Jesus said to him:

 

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


Baptism pictures the Lord’s death, burial  and resurrection and the believer’s new birth.

 

It bears witness with 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 it is an act of obedience to fulfil all righteousness.

Matthew 3:15


Romans 6:3-5:

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

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This website is not intended, were it possible, to take the place of in-person, physical gatherings of believers for Gospel Preaching, congregational praise and worship and Christian fellowship of  local Church bodies of believers.

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

 

Following the Lord Jesus Christ in His purpose for us is our aim. 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 or any instrumentality He may choose. We invite and encourage non-believers to turn away from sin, look to Him and be saved.

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

 

 dailyspurgeon.com

 includes daily devotions by Charles Spurgeon of:

 

A Prayer,

An Anecdote,

Faith’s Checkbook [God’s Promises]

Morning and Evening [Daily Devotions]

 

Sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 and Sermons by Peter Masters preached at The Metropolitan Tabernacle during Worship services that always include sacred congregational singing to be an encouragement to believers to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

 

 

Behold, therefore: Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh.   1ohn 4:1-3

He was born of a virgin 2,021 years ago, is alive today,

and is coming soon for His bride; the Church (All 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

 

SACRED  HYMNS:  (Sing along, won’t you?)

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God  Words and Music by Martin Luther (1529)Translated by Frederick H. Hedge (1852)   Christian Sermons and Audio Books
Marvelous Grace   by the Pilgrim Mennonite Mission Choir
Grace, Greater than Our Sin  by The Gaithers

 

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You are invited to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior and Lord,  then to worship Him in Spirit and in truth; through prayer, reading, meditating on and obeying His Word, the Holy Bible  brought in Gospel preaching, and the singing of psalms, sacred hymns and spiritual songs.

 

Worship God in spirit and in truth.
 
• Pray with our heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; 1 Thessalonians 5:17
• Hear and obey the eternal, inspired, immutable, inerrant, infallible, revealed and protected Word of God, revealed through Jesus Christ, the living Word; 1 Peter 1:23
• Be [Be being] filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19
• Forsake not Gathering in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.  - Jesus Christ 
Matthew 18:20  

 

DailySpurgeon is a Website to inspire and support believers in the worship of God; the God of Abraham, Isaak and Jacob. Daily content is offered that include Audio, Video and Print selections. Video content consist of sermons from Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle (London, U.K.) and of praises including Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Devotional selections are by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and consist of: prayers. anecdotes, “Faith’s Check Book” and “Morning and Evening” devotional messages.

 

The  joy of every believer, is full when we  Love and worship Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength and that we do so in Spirit and in truth. He blesses us  as we study, meditate and act upon His Word.  We will not forsake the gathering together to worship, hear God’s Word, and sing Psalms, sacred hymns and spiritual songs in person.
 

To this end, Heavenly Father, we pray You will bless all who visit DailySpurgeon.com .  We ask that You bring nonbelievers to faith in Christ Jesus and that You will inspire fervent devotion, and active discipleship in each believer to Your glory.  We ask this in Jesus name and for His sake, Amen.
 

The website is  not intended to replace the gathering with other believers to worship, and to hear face-to-face Gospel preaching, enjoy fellowship, and join together in prayer, and the study of God’s Word in the  presence of the Lord Jesus and with fellowship of other believers.

 

Rather, it is a resource that may be useful in developing a more active personal discipleship and a more fervent personal devotion to the Lord.

 

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

   2 Timothy 2:15 

  

We thank thee Lord for providing dailyspurgeon.com  to expand  the e-mail ministry that was begun with  Jon Edward Riley 1971-2021 and his Dad, John Michael.

We honor Jon’s memory here, giving honor to those whom honor is due;  those who honor the Lord Jesus.      Romans 13:7

 

Jon loved to say when he would share hus  his testimony:  “I’m a blood bought, born-again child of God.”


… his testimony as a forgiven, redeemed sinner, now and forevermore a child of God and forever accepted in the Beloved Son of God, and in the Glory of His presence now, and forevermore.     

Amen.

I Will Sing Of The Mercies Of The Lord Forever     by Cedarmont Kids                      

He Hideth My Soul  by Gaither Music Video

He Arose    by  Isbaptist Toronto 

He Lives  by First Baptist Atlanta,  

 

SPECIAL MUSIC: 

  

  • Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall             
     

 

 TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM  A “Native Thang” from North Dakota (click/tap for video)

The heart of Freedom from a Native Son, Thanking the Lord and Honoring the Military Service of Native American Scouts and  all Armed Service Veterans of the United States of America. …the land of the free and the home of the Brave.

Remembering Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021) who would sometimes just bust-out singing the following songs; sometimes, on the way to church sometimes just singing along with the Elvis Gospel CD that was always kept in the truck’s CD player or, even better, a song the Lord would spontaneously put in his joyful and loving heart.

 

 I LOVE You Lord      by Jared Reynolds

How Great Thou Art    with Elvis

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

 

…Jon always said “Later”; [see-ya-later] instead of “good bye”. It was his standard greeting to bid farewell … He would never  say “good-bye”. Now, as we remember the sound of him saying “Later”, it rings very true as to its new and deeper meaning and it brings a joyfulness and comfort to the hearts of those he loved so well; those who love him still and will forever more.

… we are  reminded of the promise of the Hymn:  

 ’Till We Meet Again. Amen.

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GOD’S  WORD

From The Metropolitan Tabernacle    (C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892) Live-streamed worship services from London.  

 (Brief History)  

 

SERMON:

Life’s Greatest Mental Block   John 7:6   with Dr. Peter Masters

The scribes of Christ's day were accomplished men, but a strange fog clouded their reaction to Him. Though amazed at Him and His teaching, they refused to listen. Here is why, and how the same mental block shuts off many from God today.

 

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER MUSLIM  
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?

 

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

 

From Statler Brothers Concert:

Do You Remember These   [jM1]  (The Good Old Days)

THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMILE… SOME MIGHT LOL Laugh out Loud!

 

URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=do+you+remember+these+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS825US825&oq=do+you+remember+these+youtube&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMgoIBBAAGKIEGIkFMgoIBRAAGIAEGKIEMgoIBhAAGIAEGKIE0gEJMjI4MjJqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3b61ac64,vid:puGQsQux80k,st:0
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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       ―This video of the life and ministry of Charles Haddon

 

Spurgeon, who was known in his teens as the “people’s preacher” and later became known as “The Prince of Preachers”.

 

This Documentary follows Charles Spurgeon’s life accurately portraying him faithfully preaching Jesus Christ, “ The Lamb of God which taketh [takes] away the sin of the world.”

 

It presents an intimate account of one of the greatest preachers in the history of the Christian faith. He is followed from his youth where, as a young preacher he was called Charlie, Boy preacher of the Finns and soon become the minister to London’s largest Baptist congregation. He captured the love and respect of Great Britan to become one of its most influential and enduring figures.

 

The video was produced by the award-winning Christian Television Association and filmed on location in England, Scotland, France and Germany, vividly capturing the spirit, purpose and legacy of a man whose life and Christian ministry continues to be extremely relevant and instructive to the present day. 

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 These additional  videos, by John Piper and Steve Lawson provide more background context to  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 through his many published writings to bless and benefit thousands, worldwide,  through their publication on the Internet and in print  of his sermons. Additionally, His Commentaries, Personal Devotions  and Lectures to My Students; constitute an  unparalleled legacy of  and inspired Biblical sermons, prepared,  delivered and always saturated in  the God-breathed inerrant and infallible WORD of GOD.

 

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

…an introduction by Steven Lawson, formerly Pastor of Trinity Bible Church, Dallas, Texas.

URL:https://youtu.be/PNzpbk4P6Gc

 

The Preserved, Immutable, Infallible and Inerrant WORD OF GOD saturated the preaching of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. His sermons continue to bless and benefit thousands through the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, a publication of his printed sermons;, prepared and delivered from the God-breathed, inerrant and infallible WORD of GOD. The Holy Bible. 
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Jesus Christ [Messiah- Anointed King]  has always 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, the WORD made flesh,

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

 

You’re invited to receive the Lord Jesus Christ [The Messiah] as your Savior and Lord and to publicly confess your trust in Him so He  will then be able to acknowledge you before His Father, The God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob. Jesus answered him and  said, “Suffer it to be so [to let this happen]: for thus it becometh [is in accord with] 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 and physical 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.

DailySpurgeon.com website consists  of devotional writings, prayers, sacred music  and sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and the current Pastor ofThe Metropolitan Tabernacle Peter Masters, who  rightly proclaim God’s Word. Sermons and sacred congregational music seek to save lost souls and to encourage believers to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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The Preserved, Immutable, Infallible and Inerrant WORD OF GOD saturated  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.

 

 

John-Michael Riley, web director of

dailyspurgeon.com   and member of The South Shores choir presents the 2024 Christmas concert. Click and Enjoy.

Christmas at the Shores 2024
 

Directed by Ray Medina, Minister of Music

South Shores Church 
Dana Point, California. 92675

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

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

·       A Prayer by Charles Spurgeon

·       A Spurgeon Anecdote

·       A promise from Faith’s Checkbook by Charles Spurgeon

·       AM and PM   Selections from  Morning & Evening by Charles Spurgeon

 

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, the Christ [Messiah and Anointed King] to all the world .

 

This website ministry grew from a beginning of sending e-mails 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 this mailing list. This mailing list grew to over 400 and  continues to be used in the  distribution of  the website content  Our prayer is that it will continue to encourage followers of Jesus Christ in vigorous  personal devotions of  Love, obedience and oneness with Jesus Christ through the study of and obedience to GOD’S WORD empowered by the Holy Ghost.

 

Devotional contents  by Charles Spurgeon are brought together daily at dailyspurgeon.com

These devotional contents were written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon over 200 years ago yet  continue to have a significant relevance today.

 

We pray that many lost souls will be born-again and then be built-up in the Faith of Jesus Christ. May God sustain, guide and protect this ministry begun with John Michael’s  beloved son, Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021)  honored here as one to whom honor is due.

 

Jon Edward loved to say, 

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

…then, he would tell them about JESUS and his love. John 3:16
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A ministry was begun in London in the 1600’s and continues to this day from Charles Spurgeon’s home church, The  Metropolitan Tabernacle 
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Is this website   dailyspurgeon.com   trustworthy?

Is it true?     Is it of God? 

We should apply the following Scripture to everything we hear/read to discern whether what we are  hearing or 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 beloved, we must test every voice [written or spoken]  to discern whether it is from God or not. By applying these scripture verses we can determine with certainty if the scriptural standard that protects believers from believing false prophets has been met.   We can thereby identify false witnesses and determine not to believe or follow them.  The voice [spirit] being tested should not be believed unless it confesses [states]  that… 

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

 

Two Greek manuscripts that were cobbled together by Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland do not make this confession nor do they follow the Textus Receptus  rendered from 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts,  which  agree overwhelmingly with each other  known as as the Majority Text. The 5,321  Majority Text is the source from which the trusted Textus Receptus was rendered.

 

Instead, these two purveyors of Greek texts used their own Greek  translations that they invented by hand picking only 55 of the 5,321extant Greek manuscripts. When these 55 Manuscripts did not contain the text being translated, they inserted their own invented and unfounded Greek text. 

 

Their invented Greek translation  presented variant  readings different than the Textus Receptus [Received Text] in many places. One example  from 1 John, Chapter 4 where  all English 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] and therefore have failed to correctly translate  the Greek verb  as, “Is come” [Is here].  (correctly Translated from the Textus Receptus [Received Text (TR)]  in the King James Version) 

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 ignore the verb “is”, from their invented  Greek text and place “has come” instead.

This error may be legally described as res ipsa loquitur a latin phrase that means “the thing speaks for itself”.

 Therefore, the Greek  inventions generated by these two sources are not actually translations, even though they are introduced as translations, but actually  represent their own  Greek language inventions unsupported by the reliability of the Majority Texts and the Textus Receptus.


How do we know? 

We know because both  non-believers and false prophets assert that Jesus Christ 
“has come” in the flesh. Practically anyone  can make this confession as the  birth of Jesus Christ is considered by 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 in meaning between “Has come” and “Is Here”. “Has come” is 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 generally held.  It is not, per se, a false statement. Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. However, this  falls short of  presenting a logical rubric 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 spiritual understanding can be discerned. 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” is  the favored reading.

 

Actually, “has come” is such a wide-spread belief held to be historically true by all, yet, 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 see, this does not resolve the issue of whether something should or should not be believed as true or followed. Why?  Once again,  because almost anyone can and often does confess that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. But, his 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.

 

Further, 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 Scripture with Scripture:  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 flesh and bone members of His body, 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 2025 years ago and He’s alive today.                       

He’s coming again  soon,  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 will see and acknowledge 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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THE BEST BIBLE TRANSLATION:
 

Why The KING JAMES is Best  by Steven Houck

Even though [some misinformed Bible readers believe] the King James Version has its weaknesses, it is an excellent translation and by far the best version [and the version most in demand today]. We must not be taken in by the modern versions and their claims. Our 400 years old Bible is to be preferred above all others because it is better than them all.

1) It was translated by men who are unsurpassed in their knowledge of Biblical studies.

2) The translators were pious men of God who believed in the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures.

3) It is the mature fruit of generations of English translations as well as the careful work of its translators.
4) The King James Version is based upon the Received Text rather than the critical Greek text of modern versions. [vis. Sinaiticus and Vaticanus.]
5) It is a word-for-word translation which faithfully and accurately reflects the originals [of the Majority Texts, MT].

6) The language is one of reverence and respect which gives honor [and greater glory] to the majesty of its Author.

7) Of all the English versions of today, it alone is the Bible of the Reformation.

8) Our spiritual forefathers thought so highly of it that they were willing to suffer and even die for it.

9) It is the version which has been recognized for generations and generations as the Bible God has given to His English-speaking Church.

 

[A 10th reason why it is best is added here by DailySpurgeon.com]

 

10) The KJV is the work of 54 translators selected and organized into seven companies. (2), from Westminster (2), from Cambridge, (2), from Oxford and (1)  from London. The work was done openly allowing each company to receive inquiries or comments during the course of the work.  When an issue of disagreement arose, it was addressed in Prayer and discussion was continued until the difference was resolved unanimously and without objection.

 

BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE:

GOD’S WORD (Immutable, God breathed, Self-Authenticating. Providentially Protected and Preserved and Forever Settled in Heaven, Psalm 119:89) The Authorized King James Bible

Is It The Best?   David Hocking

 

David’s Summary  (8 min.) The problem is not English, but is which Greek text was used to translate the Greek into English. [The Textus Receptus (Received Text) was rendered from 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts known as the Majority Text  MT. These manuscripts overwhelmingly agree with one another and do not contain the heretical biases found in the Greek Text of Westcott & Hort  and Nestle & Aland. The Foundational support of these two Greek Texts rest upon only 55 hand-picked  manuscripts from the extant Majority Text instead of all 5,321. 

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Commitment to the Word of God

Long before the Conservative Resurgence, Dr. R.G. Lee was the Southern Baptist champion of biblical infallibility and inerrancy. In his sermon, “The Word of God – Not Broken and Not Bound,” first published in 1930, Dr. Lee proclaimed, “All who wrote are immortalized by their writing of this great Book [The Holy Bible],

 

… “supernatural in origin, divine in authorship, human in penmanship, infallible in authority, infinite in scope, universal in interest, personal in application, regenerative in power, inspired [God breathed] in totality.”

 

Dr Robert G. Lee preached a sermon Payday Someday   over 1,000 times and was the Senior Pastor of one of the first Megachurches, Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee,

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Christ [Messiah, the anointed King] Jesus, The LORD GOD, was born of a virgin 2024 years ago, is here in the flesh today and will live forevermore, time without end  and
He’s returning soon,
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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, the Christ [Messiah and Anointed King] to all the world .

 

This website ministry grew from a beginning of sending e-mails of 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 this mailing list. This mailing list grew to over 400 and  continues to be used in the  distribution of  the website contents.  Our prayer is that it will continue to encourage followers of Jesus Christ in a more vigorous  personal devotion to  Love, obedience and oneness with Jesus Christ through the study of and obedience to GOD’S WORD empowered by the Holy Ghost.

 

We pray that many will be born-again and built-up in the Faith of Jesus Christ. May God sustain, guide and protect this ministry begun with John Michael’s  beloved son, Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021)  honored here as one to whom honor is due.

 

Jon Edward loved to say, 

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

 

…then, he would tell them about JESUS and his love. John 3:16
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Hymn of comfort:

 

When We All Get to Heaven  Terry Blackwood and Gaither Congregation

Band  (Sing along, won’t you?) 
 

 I Love You Lord   by Jared Reynolds
In loving memory of  Jon Edward Riley  (1971-2021) who would sometimes just bust-out singing this beautiful praise;  often, on the way to church.

  ’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 1861 to accommodate a vibrant congregation of Gospel hungry members fully devoted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ [The Messiah].

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TRADITIONAL and  CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
By Blogger, Notorius Meddler

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

SACRED  MUSIC: 

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

 

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

 

CHILDREN’S  FAVORITES:

Praise Him, Praise Him All Ye Little Children   Hillsong Kids

What a Wonderful World  by Luis Armstrong

Noah’s Arky Arky     by the Cedarmont Kids
Away in a Manger by The Gaither Studio
Away in a Manger by Gaither Vocal Band

Away in a Manger by Phil Wickham… 
Away In a Manger, Traditional Version   by Casting Crowns
O Be Careful Little Eyes What You See by the Cedarmont Kids

Jesus Loves Me   All three verses

Children’s Medley  with Rosemary Siemens with children singing

This Little Light Of Mine  Cedarmont Kids

A Mighty Fortress written by Martin Luther with Steve Green

Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall

Amazing Grace by Guy Penrod, Gaither Voice Band

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

Blessed Assurance by the Isaacs

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

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary   by Gaithers  

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

Christ Receiveth Sinful Men Traditional with Lyrics 

Grace, Grace God’s Grace by Gaither Choir

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
I Will Sing of My Redeemer by Gaither Music TV 

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

Jesus Saves by The salvation Army Choir

Jesus Saves Temple Baptist Church Powell, Tennessee

Johnny Cash sings I Shall Not Be Moved

Just A Little Talk With Jesus by Gaither Choir

Let Others See Jesus in You (Me) by  BB McKinney
I Shall Not Be Moved  Elvis and The Million Dollar Quartet

More About Jesus    by The Blackwood Brothers

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

Onward Christian Soldiers Salvation Army Band

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

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

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

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

Rock of Ages   Antrim Mennonite Choir

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

Standing on the Promises of God by Gaither Voice Band

Surely Our God Is Able by Gaither Congregation 

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

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

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

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

Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus     by Casting Crowns

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

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus  withThe Living Stones Quartet   by Helen Howarth Lemmel 1922
Angles We Have heard On High  by Christendom College & Schola Gregoriana
When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder  Gaither Congregation
Worthy is the Lamb. Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir                         

Because He Lives Gaither Choir

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

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary by Gaithers 

Camp Meeting Tonight (…On The Old Camp Ground)  by Mississippi John Hunt (Library of Congress)

Everything Is Beautiful  (Jesus Loves the Little Children) by Ray Stevens   

Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin   by Sovereign Grace Music

Hallelujah, What a Savior A Cappella by the Nelons

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

He Touched Me by Elvis Presley

Holy Spirit Breathe on Me with Anne Jernigan 

How Great Thou Art    by the Statler Brothers

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
I See the Lord  by Gaither Vocal Band

I See The Lord by Chris Falson

I Shall Not Be Moved (Rockabilly) By the Million Dollar Quartet

I Shall Not Be Moved The Statler Brothers

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

I Shall Not Be Moved Statler Brother’s Quartet

I Then Shall Live by Bill Gaither 

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

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

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

I’ll Fly Away    by Gaither Congregation 

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

If That Isn’t Love Love   Gaither Premiere

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

Jesus Is The Sweetest Name I Know by Alvin Slaughter

Jesus Loves Me This I Know by Gaither Vocal Band 

Jesus Messiah by The Gaither Vocal Band

Lead Me, Guide Me by Elvis

Majesty   By The Gaither Congregation  

Majesty Gaither Voice Band

Near To The Heart of God by the Mennonite Choir 

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

O The Blood of Jesus by Glory Kim

Oh Happy Day The Edwin Hawkins Singers

Oh The Blood of Jesus by Gaither Congregation

Open the Eyes of My Heart by Paul Baloche 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Praise Him, Praise Him  by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him  Bombay Christian Fellowship A hymn from 1869  by Fanny J. Crosby 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Praise Him, Praise Him written by Fanny Crosby

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord written by Fanny Crosby

Redeemed, Redeemed by Gaither soloists

Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.

Standing on the Promises of God by Praise Praise

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

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

Sweet Hour of Prayer by Guy Penrod

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

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

The Name of the Lord    Gaithers

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

The Old Rugged Cross by Johnny and June Carter Cash

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

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

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

To God Be The Glory Congregation (with lyrics

Vaya Con Dios Bilingual English & Spanish by Julio Iglesias  James 4:8

We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

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

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

We’re Marching To Zion Gaither Congregational Singing

We”re Marching to Zion   by Issac Watts  Sing with The Hymn Club  Sing-along won’t you? 

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

When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 

Where We'll Never Grow Old   by Jim Reeves

Worthy Is The Lamb  with Gaither vocal Band

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

You Are My All In All Gaither Voice Band

You Never  Let Go      by Guy Penrod

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

2 Peter 3:9

 

Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide God’s eternal Word preserved and protected by God, Himself.

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

DEVOTION  for January 25th  *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord”.

BC/AD versus BCE/CE Is there a  difference?​

Yes. Stand for the Truth, Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago,    was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and   He, Himself, is coming again.

 

PRAYER 5. Part 4 of 6 TO THE KING ETERNAL,

ANECDOTE 176: Wasted Zeal.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: January 25  HE ACTS ON HONEST CONFESSION

-He looketh [looks] upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light- Job 33:27-28

MORNING: "I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on [given] us." —Isaiah 63:7

EVENING: "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. "—Romans 3:31

A SINNER’S PRAYER 

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PRAYER 5 Part 4 of 6

TO THE KING ETERNAL,

 

Thou must be King whatever becomes of us. Thou must be glorified whatever becomes of us. But yet we have to mourn that we cannot always get to feel this rapture and ardour [passion] of love as we should. Oh! at times Thou dost [do] manifest Thyself to us so charmingly that heaven itself could scarce be happier than the world becomes when Thou art [are] with us in it. But when Thou art [are] gone and we are in the dark, oh! give us the love that loves in the dark, that loves when there is no comfortable sense of Thy presence.

 

Let us not be dependent upon feeling, but may we ever love Thee, so that if Thou didst [did] turn Thy back on us by the year together we would think none the less of Thee, for Thou art [are] unspeakably to be beloved whatsoever Thou doest [do], and if Thou dost [do] give us rough words, yet still we would cling to Thee, and if the rod be used till we tingle again, yet still will we love Thee, for Thou art [are] infinitely to ‘be beloved of’ all men and angels, and Thy Father loved Thee.

Make our hearts to love Thee evermore the same. With all the capacity for love that there is in us, and with all the more, that Thou canst [can] give us, may we love our Lord in spirit and in truth.

Help us, Lord, to conquer sin out of love to Thee. Help some dear strugglers that have been mastered by sin sometimes, and they are struggling against it; give them the victory, Lord, and when the battle gets very sharp, and they are tempted to give way a little, help them to be very firm and very strong, never giving up hope in the Lord Jesus, and resolving that if they perish they will perish at His feet and nowhere else but there.

[In the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen]


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ANECDOTE 176: Wasted Zeal.


We like to associate with people who have hearts, not dry leather bottles [containers], out of which all the juice has gone; but those who have heart, and soul, and life, and fire, and go [energy]. I love to meet with those who believe in something, and who work under the pressure of their belief, and give their strength to the carrying out of what they believe to be the will of God.
 

It does seem a very great pity that any zeal should be wasted, and that any one full of zeal should yet miss his way [go in the wrong direction]. We fear that there are some who will do so. If you want to go to York [a town, North of Spurgeon’s home] you may ride very fast south, but you will not get to York with all your speed. Unless you turn your rein [direction of your horses] towards the north, you may ride a thousand horses to death, and never see the gates of the old city.

It is of no use to be zealous if you are zealous in a wrong cause; but when we meet with any who are such, I say that they become peculiarly the object of a Christian’s prayers.


Pray for the zealous with all your hearts, for it is such a pity that one of them should go astray [wrong].

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK JANUARY 25   HE ACTS ON HONEST CONFESSION
by C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892


-He looketh [looks] upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light- Job 33:27-28

-El mira sobre los hombres; y el que dijere: Pequé, y perverti lo recto, Y no me ha aprovechado; Dios redimirá su alma, que no pase al sepulcro, Y su vida se verá en luz- Job 33:27-28
 

This is a word of truth, gathered from the experience of a man of God, and it is tantamount [equal] to a promise. What the Lord has done, and is doing, He will continue to do while the world stands [exists]. The Lord will receive into His bosom [close to His heart] all who come to Him with a sincere confession of their sin; in fact, He is always on the look-out to discover any that are in trouble because of their faults.

Can we not endorse the language here used? Have we not [haven’t we] sinned, sinned personally so as to say,  -I have sinned-?

 

Sinned willfully, having perverted that which is right? Sinned so as to discover that there is no profit in it, but an eternal loss? Let us, then, go to God with this honest acknowledgment. He asks no more.We can do no less. Let us plead His promise in the name of Jesus. He will deliver us from the pit of hell which yawns for us; He will grant us life and light. Why should we despair? Why should we even doubt?

The Lord does not mock humble souls. He means what He says.

 

The guilty can be forgiven.

 

Those who deserve execution can receive free pardon. Lord, we confess, and we pray thee to forgive! [us].

 

Prayer: Thank you, Father that You look upon me, and if I say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it was of no benefit to me; You will deliver my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall see the light.

 

I do confess that I have sinned, perverting that which was right and it did me no good. I trust you, Lord Jesus to save, protect and guide me, and everything that pertains to me. Give me dear Lord the blessed assurance of salvation, I ask in the name of Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus, Amen.

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

2 Peter 3:9

 

Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide God’s eternal Word preserved and protected by God, Himself.

 

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

The Textus Receptus TR [Received Text] is the faithfully rendered Greek text with strong agreement among the overwhelming majority of the 5,321 extant New Testament, Greek manuscripts  known as the  MT. [Majority Text].

The Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of the Old Testament were meticulously copied by hand and checked  by the Masoretic scribes. These are the manuscripts  from which  the Original 1611 King James version  was translated onto English.

In order for Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland to have created  their new Modern Critical Greek text they selected only 55 from Siniaticus and Vaticanus  Texts.

These 55 hand-picked manuscripts from which many variant and inferior readings were brought forth, from their new Greek text were created through highly nuanced readings from Westcott & Hort’s  Critical Text theory.  Only Fifty-five 55 manuscripts of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were used to retrofit their newly invented Greek text. These 55  hand-picked and they were not from the primary  manuscripts  from which the Textus Receptus was rendered but were selected from  the inferior Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices. These fifty-five manuscripts  brought  variant readings and were created, , to retrofit the creation of alternative Greek text to replace the primary and highly reliable source of the  Textus Receptus. Their bias against  the Textus Receptus was a spurious, ungrounded and longstanding  attack by Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland for many years.

Codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are inferior because they are in disagreement with the Textus Receptus and incredibly, in disagreement with one another. They give rise to variant readings and embrace secular doctrine bias not supported by scripture translated from the Majority Text or the Textus Receptus.  They have been infused by the  invented new Greek text when  words for a word-for-word  correspondence were absent. from the scant Fifty-five hand-picked and highly prejudicial fraction of the 5,321 Majority Text  MT manuscripts occurred.  

These newly invented  Greek texts were  not disclosed to the revision committee themselves as the source  of these  new Greek translations. A code of secrecy was demanded from each member of the Revision Committee.    They supplied this new Greek translation to all Committee members with the aim to revise the King James Bible. However, They insisted on a code of secrecy as to the authorship of the Greek Text from which all Revisions were to be based. All members of the committee were required to agree to this code.

Modern textual criticism is based on the assumption that older manuscripts are, de-facto, more accurate. Actually, the continuous and unsettled changes from their  variant readings reflect error, doctrinal ambiguities and biases not supported by the Majority Text or Textus Receptus.

Scripture based on The Greek text of Westcott &  Hort or  Nestle & Aland embrace a secular or denominational doctrine bias or tradition that allows modern textual criticism  to  rob God of Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, Inerrancy and  Infallibility due HIM ALONE and to diminish Glory from the infinite and everlasting “I AM” who is WORTHY, who deserves and demands ALL GLORY!

 

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, protects and preserves all of His inspired SCRIPTURE.  HIS God-breathed, self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, everlasting inerrant,[Without Error] infallible, [Never Fails] infinite [Has always existed from Eternity Past to Eternity Future   and all-powerful [Omnipotent] WORD.

 

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MORNING January 25


"I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on [given] us." —Isaiah 63:7

— De las misericordias de Jehová haré memoria, de las alabanzas de Jehová conforme á todo lo que Johová nos ha dado— Isaías 63:7
 

AND can you not do this [can’t you do this]? Are there no mercies you have experienced? Even though you are gloomy [sad] now, can you forget that blessed hour when Jesus met you and said,

“Come unto me” ?

Can you not remember that rapturous moment when He snapped your fetters [shackles], dashed [threw] your chains to the earth [ground], and said,

“I came to break your bonds and set you free”?


Or if the love of your first commitment [to the Lord] is forgotten, there must surely be some precious milestone along the road of life, not quite grown over with moss, that happily reminds you of His mercy toward you? What! Did you never have a sickness like that which you are suffering now, and did he not restore you? Were you never poor before, that did he not [when He didn’t] supply your wants [needs]? Were you never in straits [difficulties] before, that did He not deliver you?

Arise [get up], go to the river of your experience, and pull up a few bulrushes, and plait [weave] them into an ark [boat], in which your infant-faith may float safely on the stream. Forget not [don’t forget] what God has done for you: turn over the book of your remembrance, [remember] and consider the days of old [the past].

Can you not remember the hill Mizar? Did the Lord never meet with you at [Mount] Hermon? Have you never climbed the Delectable Mountains? Have you never been helped in time of need? I know you have. Go back, then, a little way to the choice mercies of yesterday, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps [lights] of the past, they will glitter through the darkness, and you will trust in the Lord until the day break and the shadows flee away.

 

“Remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving-kindnesses, for they have been ever of old [they have always been here, a long, long time].”
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EVENING January 25

"Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. "—Romans 3:31

—¿Luego dehacemos la ley por la fe? En ninguna manera; antes establecemos la ley— Romanos 3:31
 


WHEN the believer is adopted into the Lord's family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once. But then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant [divine promise]. Believer, you are God's child; it is your first duty to obey your heavenly Father. A servile [servant’s] spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child. Because you are a beloved child, you are now bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation [suggestion] of His will.

Does He bid you to fulfill a sacred ordinance? It is at your peril that you neglect it, for you will be disobeying your Father. Does He command you to seek the image of Jesus? Is it not your joy to do so? Does Jesus tell you,

"Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"?

Then not because the law commands, but because your Savior enjoins, you will labor to be perfect in holiness.

Does He bid his saints to love one another? Do it, not because the law says

"Love thy neighbor,"

but because Jesus says

"If ye love Me, keep My commandments."

This is the commandment that He has given unto you

"that ye love one another."

Are you told to distribute [give] to the poor? Do it, not because charity is a burden that you dare not shirk [resist], but because Jesus teaches,

"Give to him that asks of thee." Does the Word say,

"Love God with all your heart"? Look at the commandment and reply,

"Ah, commandment, Christ hath fulfilled you already. I have no need, therefore, to fulfill you for my salvation, but I rejoice to yield obedience to you because God is my Father now and He has a claim upon me I would not dispute."

May the Holy Ghost make your heart obedient to the constraining power of Christ's love, that your prayer may be,


"Make me to go in the path of Thy commandments; for therein do I delight."


Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of [excuse] for sin.   

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SACRED LITERATURE:

ORIGINAL: The Pilgrim’s Progress  Pub. by Logos,1853 from 1678 Original by John Bunyan

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

 

in Pilgrim’s Progress. (Tthe World’s most widely circulated Allegory by John Bunyan, also credited, by some, as being the world’s first English novel. 

IT’S FREE. No subscription required. You may choose to read at your own pace, or you may want to view DailySpugeon.com for daily encounters with Pilgrim.)

 

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

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

 

ADULT AUDIO Episodes and CHILDREN’S VIDEO Story Parts:

You may choose to read or listen to Pilgrim’s Progress as a bed time story.

It’s the world’s most famous allegory and is the all-time, world-wide best seller second only to the Bible. Some believe it to be the world’s first novel written in English.

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

Link to Complete Index of Bible Scripture References (open link).

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ADULT AUDIO:

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 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

The Pilgrim's Progress is probably the most published books in the English language of all time, other than the Bible; 1,300 editions have been printed before 1938, 250 years after the author's death; It’s the most famous Allegory ever written.

 

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CHILDREN’S VIDEO (Illustrated Adaptation) 

Pilgrim’s Progress Drama presented in 9 parts.

DANGEROUS JOURNEY    

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

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

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

1Part 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

[1]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 Audio

8 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

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

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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].

 

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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.
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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 and faithful Textus Receptus do not contain the Greek word “ictin”.  This word  means “is” in English] and  its exclusion causes the meaning of its English equivalent, “is here” to change from “is” come” [“is”   here] 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 negated.

 

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

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 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 here

[Not “Has come”] in the flesh.

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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
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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.]
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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. (AKJV).

 

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

 

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. (AKJV).

 

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.  (AKJV).

 

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.  (AKJV).

 

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

 

The Authorized King James Version (AKJV)  also known as The King James Version of 1769 (KJV) The Authorized Version (AV) and The Geneva Bible are faithful Translations from the preeminent, [surpassing all others], The Traditional Greek translation of the Textus Receptus [Received Text] TR that is superior to all Critical Text translations from other Greek Sources including (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.
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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.

 

1 John 4:1-3  

 (AKJV) The Authorized Version AKJV 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 Latin phrase used in Legal terminology  that establishes the principle of “Legal Precedence” that means to stand by things decided, and with reference to Holy Scripture, to uphold all things God-Breathed [Inspired] and therefore eternally and immutably decided]

 

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].

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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,9 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
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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

 

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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)

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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 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.

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Sing  “If I Needed You” with Joey and Rory

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

 

 

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

 

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The aim of this Website is to encourage you to:

• 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.

 

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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, [The 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 and will become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ fully conformed to the image of  The Messiah, Jesus Christ.

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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.

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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.

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

… Jon’s  testimony 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

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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”.

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

 

TODAY’S WEB PAGE:   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.

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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)

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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

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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.

 

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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

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SACRED LITERATURE

 

 

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

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