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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION  for January 31st    *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.

 

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This Documentary presents comprehensive historical facts that led to the unending plethora of over 100 published versionsof the English Bible. These continual but unsuccessfulattempts to replace the King James Version KJV Bible will not succeed because GOD Himselfpreserves and protects His Holy Scriptures from all heresy, blasphemy, compromise and confusion.

 

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The Verdict  (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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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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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION  for January 31st   *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 6. Part 4 of 5 THE WONDERS [of] CALVARY. [The Cross]

ANECDOTE 182: Fear Not Faith.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: January 31  GOD ALWAYS HEARS

-My God will hear me- Micah 7:7

MORNING: "The Lord our Righteousness. " –Jeremiah 23:6

EVENING: "Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. " ─ 2 Samuel 18:23

A SINNER’S PRAYER 

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PRAYER 6 Part 4 of 5  THE WONDERS [of] CALVARY. [The Crucifixion]

 

Lord, get us up above the world. Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, and mount and bear [carry] us on Thy [Your] wings, far from these inferior sorrows and inferior joys, up where eternal ages roll.

May we ascend [come up] in joyful contemplation, and may our spirit come back again, strong for all its service, armed for all its battles, armored for all its dangers, and made ready to live heaven on earth, until by-and-by [sooner or later] we shall live heaven, in heaven.

 

Great Father, be with Thy waiting people, any in great trouble do Thou greatly help [them]; any that are despondent, sweetly comfort and cheer; any that have erred, and are smarting [suffering] under their own sin, [Lord] bring them back and heal their wounds; any that this day are panting after [thirsty for] holiness, give them the desire of their hearts; any that are longing for usefulness, [Lord] lead them into ways of usefulness.

 

Lord, we want to live while we live. We do pray that we may not merely groan out [barely have] an existence here below, nor live as earthworms crawling back into our holes and dragging now and then a sere [withered] leaf with us; but oh! give us to live as we ought to live, with a new life that Thou hast [have] put into us, with the divine quickening [enlivening] which has lifted us as much above common men as men are lifted above the beasts that perish.

 

Do not let us always be hampered like poor half-hatched birds within the egg; may we chip the shell to-day and get out into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Grant us this, we pray Thee in the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen]

 

(Attachment: PRAYER 6.doc) 

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ANECDOTE 182: Fear Not Faith.

A soldier in the army of the Potomac, of whom I somewhere read, was taken to the rear to die. He was badly wounded; he was also suffering from fever. Someone had told him, just before the fever came on, of a soldier found asleep at his post who was condemned to die. The poor fellow in his delirium imagining that he was that soldier, cried out to the doctor who was attending him, “Sir, I am to be shot to-morrow morning; and as I wish to have all right [everything settled], I want you to send for the chaplain at once. I want to see him.”

 

The doctor, to calm his fears, said. “No, no, you are not to be shot to-morrow morning ; it’s a mistake.” “Oh, but I am, “ he said; “I know I shall.” “But I will be here,” said the doctor, “and if any one comes to touch you, I will have him arrested. I will take care you shall not die.” “Is it so, doctor?” said he, in calmer accents [speech], “then you need not send for the chaplain; I shall not want him just yet.”

So, the truth came out that fear, not faith, animated [motivated] him, though it was but spoken in a feverish dream. 

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FAITH’ S CHECKBOOK JANUARY 31   GOD ALWAYS HEARS  by C.H. Spurgeon

-My God will hear me- Micah 7:7

-El Dios mio me oirá- Miqueas 7:7

 

Friends may be unfaithful, but the Lord will not turn away from the gracious soul; on the contrary, He will hear all its desires. The prophet says,

 

-Keep the doors of thy mouth [quiet] from her that lieth in thy bosom [lies near your heart]. A man’s enemies are the men of his own house.-

 

This is a wretched [horrible] state of affairs; but even in such a case the Best Friend remains true, and we may tell Him all our grief. Our wisdom is to look unto the Lord, and not to quarrel [fight] with men or women. If our loving appeals are disregarded by our own relatives, let us wait upon the God of our salvation, for He will hear us. He will hear us all the more because of the unkindness and oppression of others, and we shall soon have reason to cry [shout out],

 

-Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy!-

 

Because God is the living God, He can hear; because He is a loving God, He will hear; because He is our covenant God, He has bound Himself to hear us. If we can, each one speak of Him as -My God,- we may with absolute certainty say, -My God will hear me.- Come, then, O bleeding heart, and let thy [your] sorrows tell themselves out to the Lord thy God! I will bow the knee in secret, and inwardly whisper,

 

-My God will hear me.-

 

Prayer: Thank you Father that You are my God and You will hear me [and all believers] and keep [protect] [us] wherever I [we] go In Jesus name, Amen.
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… and pray for souls to be saved and believers to be strengthened

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

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

 

John 3:16:   

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

 

This KJV Translation is from  the Textus Receptus (TR)  [Received Text] and is an example of the majority of 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts rendered br Scrivner from The Majority Text MT and are in substantial and overwhelming agreement and avoid inferior, ambiguous or  missing primary source texts of the variant readings found in  codices Alexandrinus, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus [from the Vatican]. There is substantial disagreement and missing texts among these Greek codices which do not agree with one another, and  are created from incomplete codices and introduce the  modern biblical criticism theory that embraces ambiguities, uncertainties and variant readings [multiple interpretations]. These are found in a multitude of new English translations and contain doctrinal compromises that nuance-away or otherwise diminish  the highest glory due to God Almighty.  The TR is the original primary New Testament Greek source of the Authorized King James Translation. It’s the ONLY ENGLISH translation that comes directly from the protected, preserved and  superior Textus Receptus.

 

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

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

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

 

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MORNING January 31

"The Lord our Righteousness. " –Jeremiah 23:6

─ Jehová, Justicia Nuestra─ Jeremías 23:6
 

IT will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often are the saints of God downcast and sad! I do not think they ought to be. I do not think they would be if they could always see their perfection in [Jesus] Christ.

There are some who are always talking about corruption, and the depravity [moral bankruptcy] of the heart, and the innate [inborn] evil of the soul. This is quite true, but why not go a little further, and remember that we are

 

“perfect in Christ Jesus.”

It is no wonder that those who are dwelling upon [obsessed with] their own corruption should wear such downcast looks. But surely if we call to mind that

 

“Christ is made unto us righteousness,”

 

we shall be of good cheer [cheerful]. Though distresses afflict [worry] me, though Satan assault [create apprehension or fear in me], though there may be many things to experience before I get to heaven, those are done for me in the covenant [God’s divine promise] of divine grace [holy, undeserved favor].

There is nothing wanting [missing] in my Lord; [Jesus] Christ has done it all.

On the cross He said,

 

"It is finished!"

 

and if it be finished, then I am complete in Him, and can rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, "Not having mine [my] own righteousness, which is of the law, but that [righteousness] which is through the faith of [Jesus] Christ,

 

the righteousness which is of God by faith."

 

You will not find on this side of heaven a holier people than those who receive into their hearts the doctrine [teaching] of Christ's righteousness. When the believer says,

 

"I live on Christ alone, I rest on him solely for salvation, and I believe that, however unworthy [I may be], I am still saved in Jesus"

 

then there rises up a motive of gratitude.

 

"Shall I not live to [Jesus] Christ? Shall I not love Him and serve Him, seeing that I am saved by His merits?"

 

"The love of [Jesus] Christ constraineth [compels] us," "that they which live should not henceforth [from now on] live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them [us]."

 

If [we are] saved by imputed righteousness, [credited to us by Jesus] we shall greatly value imparted [shared] righteousness.

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EVENING January 31

"Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. " ─ 2 Samuel 18:23

 

MORNING: "The Lord our Righteousness. " –Jeremiah 23:6

EVENING: "Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi. " ─

─ Corrió pues Ahimaas por el camino de la llanura, y pasó delante de Cusi.

─ 2 Samuel 18:23

 

RUNNING is not everything, there is much in the way we select [the road]: a swift foot over hill and down dale [valley] will not keep pace with a slower traveler on level ground.

 

How is it with my spiritual journey? Am I laboring up the hill of my own works and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions, or do I run by the plain way of

 

"Believe and live"?

 

How blessed is it to wait on the Lord by faith! The soul runs without weariness and walks without fainting in the way of believing. Christ Jesus is the way of life, and He is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners.

 

Am I found in this way, or am I hunting after another track [pathway] such as priestcraft or metaphysics [supernatural phenomenon] may promise me? I read [present tense] that the wayfaring man, though a fool, cannot even stumble onto the way of holiness.

 

Have I been delivered from proud reason and been brought as a little child to rest in Jesus' love? If so, by God's grace, I shall outrun the strongest runner who chooses any other path.

 

I may remember this truth to my profit in my daily cares and needs. My wisest course is to go at once to my God and not to wander in a round-about manner to this friend and that. He knows my wants [needs] and can relieve them; to whom should I repair [go] but to Him by the direct appeal of prayer, and the plain argument of the promise.

 

"Straightforward makes the best runner."

 

I will not parley [chat or small-talk] with the servants, but hasten to their Master.

In reading this passage, it strikes me that if men vie [compete] with each other in common matters and one outruns the other, I ought to run in solemn earnestness so that I may obtain [be victorious].

Lord, help me to gird up the loins of my mind, [be at the ready] and press forward toward the mark for the prize of my high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

 

A SINNER’S PRAYER: … FOR WHOSOEVER:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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