Daily Spurgeon
DAILY SPURGEON for June 25th *A.D. 2024 written and calendared by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
*A.D. does NOT mean “After Death”, a common mistake. It is an abbreviation from the Latin words Anno Domini; a shortened term, actually meaning: “Year of our Lord”.
BCE/CE or BC/AD What’s the difference? Open this link… Won’t you?
He was born of a virgin 2,024 years ago, is alive today, and is coming soon
for His bride; the Church of the born-again redeemed
TRADITIONAL and CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
By Blogger, Notorius Meddler
We Sing Sacred Music that’s loved and has been passed down through the ages and we also, embrace new Sacred Praise and Worship Music that magnifies and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ by using doctrinally sound, faithfully divided and proclaimed scripture rendered accurately into musical 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 and Most Performed Christmas ORATORY:
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
OTHER CHILDREN’S FAVORITES:
Children’s Medley with Rosemary Siemens with children singing
God Is So Good Children’s Chorus
Praise Him, Praise Him All Ye Little Children Hillsong Kids
Jesus Loves Me All three verses
Noah’s Arky Arky by the Cedarmont Kids
Away in a Manger by The Gaither Studio
Away in a Manger by Gaither Vocal Band
O Be Careful Little Eyes What You See by the Cedarmont Kids
This Little Light Of Mine Cedarmont Kids
What a Wonderful World by Luis Armstrong
SACRED HYMNS: (Sing, won’t you?
189,225 views Jul 22, 2014
A Mighty Fortress written by Martin Luther with Steve Green
Amazing Grace by Guy Penrod, Gaither Voice Band
Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall AMAZING and UNIQUE
Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Sung at Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022
Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Singing Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022
Blessed Assurance by Sounds like Reign
Blessed Assurance by Gaithers with Larry Ford and Lillie Knauls
Blessed Assurance by the Isaacs
Bringing in The Sheaves Marshall Hall
Bringing in the Sheaves Toronto Baptist congregation
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 Arose ! by Kingdom Quartet Written by Robert Lowry 1874
Christ Arose! by Kingdom Quartet Written by Robert Lowry 1874
Christ Receiveth Sinful Men Traditional with Lyrics
Grace, Grace God’s Grace by Gaither Choir
I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
I Need Thee Every Hour Fernando Ortega
If That Isn’t Love Love Can Turn The World Gaither Premiere
Jesus Is All the World to Me Chonda Pierce (Stand up Comedy and Classic Hymn written by by William Lamartine Thompson 1904)
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
Worthy is the Lamb. Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
I Shall Not Be Moved Elvis and The Million Dollar Quartet
More About Jesus by The Blackwood Brothers
My All in All Gaither Homecoming
Oh, the Blood of Jesus Bill & Gloria Gaither (Medley)
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
Rock of Ages Tennessee Ernie Ford with brief introduction written by Augustus Montague. Toplady, music by Thomas Hastings. 1762
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 Fanny Crosby Story (45 min video of world’s most prolific Hymn writer of all time)
The Fanny Crosby Story (45 min. video of world’s most prolific Hymn writer of all time)
The Haven of Rest by The Bill Gaither Congregation
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
The Old Rugged Cross Hymn from Whitewell Metroplitan Tabernacle, Belfast Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Singing at Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022
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
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus Allison Durham Speer and Steve Amerson written by Helen Howarth Lemmel in 1922 inspired by a tract entitled Foccused, written by the missionary Isabella Lilias Trotter. Lemmel first published the hymn in England as a pamphlet in 1918, 260,442 views Sep 20, 2012
When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder Gaither Congregation
Oh The Blood of Jesus by Gaither Congregation
I Will Sing of My Redeemer by Gaither Music TV
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SACRED PRAISES: (Alphabetical Order)
Amen, The Anthem by Harry Belafonte (See EVENING for Note:)
Away in a Manger by Phil Wickham…
Traditional Version by Casting
Because He Lives Gaither Choir
Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational at Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022
Bless the Lord, O My Soul by Bill an Gloria Gaither Congregation
Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary by Gaithers
Christ Arose ! by Kingdom Quartet Written by Robert Lowry 1874
Do, Lord, Do Remember Me with Mauldin Harmony Arrangement Music selections came to mind from SERMON’S SCRIPTURE VERSE Luke 23:42
God Is So Good Children’s Chorus
Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin by Bob Kauflin of Sovereign Grace
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)
Holy Spirit Breathe on Me with Anne Jernigan
How Great Thou Art by the Statler Brothers
How Great Thou Art by Chris Rice
How Great Thou Art by Chris Rice
I Know that My Redeemer Liveth Handel’s Messiah, by 11 year old Henry Jenkenson
I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
He Touched Me by Elvis Presley
I See the Lord by Gaither Vocal Band
I See The Lord by Chris Falson
Redeemed by Gaither soloists
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 Sing of the Mercies of the Lord by Squirrel 24
I’ll Fly Away by Gaither Congregation
I’ll Fly Away with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis
I’ve Got Peace Like a River by Phoenix Children’s Choir
I’ve Just Seen Jesus Larnelle Harris & Sandi Patti (Gaither)
If That Isn’t Love Love Gaither Premiere
In The Garden by Elvis Presley
In The Garden by Elvis Presley
In The Garden by Elvis Presley
Is Your All on the Altar by Outreach Quartet
Is Your All on the Altar by Outreach Quartet
Is Your All on the Altar by Outreach Quartet
Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin by Bob Kauflin of Sovereign Grace
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
Praise Him, Praise Him by Loma Linda University Church
Jesus Messiah by The Gaither Vocal Band
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest Name I Know by John Lomacang`
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
Never Grow Old by Jim Reeves
Nothing But The Blood by Buddy Greene, (Harmonica) Gaither
O Happy Day Ewin Hawkins, Anthony Brown & Combined Choirs, FBC of Glenarden
O The Blood of Jesus by Glory Kim
Oh The Blood of Jesus by Gaither Congregation
Open the Eyes of My Heart by Paul Baloche
Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior by Gaither Music TV Congregation
Praise Him, Praise Him by Loma Linda University Church
Praise Him, Praise Him by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him Bombay Christian A hymn from 1869 by Fanny J. Crosby
Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin by Sovereign Grace Music
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.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir
Send the Light Four-part Harmony with ONE artist by Charles H. Gabriel 1887
Showers of Blessing Solo by Jimmy Dean
Showers of Blessings by Gaither Congregation
Showers of Blessings by Gaither Congregation
Standing on the Promises of God by Praise Praise
Standing on the Promises by IsBaptist Toronto
Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place - Woodlands TX Methodist Church
Sweet Hour of Prayer by Guy Penrod
Sweet Little Jesus Boy by Andy Williams
Sweet Little Jesus Boy by Andy Williams
Tell Me The Story of Jesus by Carman
I Love To Tell The Story by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Where We'll Never Grow Old by Jim Reeves
The Battle Belongs to the Lord by John Michael Talbot
The Love of God by Gaither, Penrod, Phelps, Gardner
The Love Of God Gaither congregation
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
Then Came the Morning at Gaither Tent Revival with Guy Penrod Above All by Lenny LeBlanc
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
Trees of the Field by Gaither Congregation
Vaya Con Dios Bilingual by Julio Iglesias James 4:8
Victory in Jesus by Guy Penrod
Victory in Jesus by Guy Penrod
Victory in Jesus by Guy Penrod
We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
We Shall Behold Him by Sandi Patti Sing-along, won’t you?
We’re Marching To Zion Gaither Congregational Singing
When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder by Gaithers
He Hideth My Soul by Guy Penrod
When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder by Gaither Congregation
When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (…I’ll be there) the Gaithers
When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder by Gaither Congregation
Whosoever Surely Meaneth Me Congregational Singing
Worthy Is The Lamb with Gaither vocal Band
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 Jeremy Camp
You Never Let Go by Jeremy Camp
You Never Let Go by Matt Redman
You Never Let Go by Guy Penrod
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INVITATION
You are invited to confess and turn away from of all your sins, look in faith to Jesus Christ
[The Messiah] and confess openly and publicly that HE alone is your Lord and Savior.
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This website can never replace the in-person Church gatherings with other believers to worship, hear Gospel preaching, enjoy Christian fellowship, provoke good works and join together in prayer, and the study of God’s Word in the presence of and in fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's a resource to help develop a deeper devotion to the Lord Jesus in an ever deepening and abiding love of HIM according to Scripture, God’s Holy Bible.
1 John 4:19 ― We love Him because He first loved us.
“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker that needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing [understanding and sharing] the word of truth. [The Holy Bible] ” 2 Timothy 2:15
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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
•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.
Matthew18:20
URL: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt+18%3A20&version=AKJV
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TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM From “A Native Thang” [sic] North Dakota (click for video)
URL:
https://www.facebook.com/100010348029573/videos/1184240418597548/
This is The heart of Freedom from a Native Son, thanking the Lord and Honoring the Military Service of Native American Scouts, and all Veterans …of the land of the free and the home of the Brave.
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As Jon remembered veterans, we remember him: Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021) who would, on occasion, 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”; as in [see’ya later] instead of “good bye”. It was his unique way to bid farewell … He would never say “good-bye”. Now, remembering the sound of his voice saying “Later”, it rings true with a 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 always will.
… we are reminded of the promise of the Hymn:
’Till We Meet Again. Amen.
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GOD’S INSPIRED, INERRANT, INFALLIBLE and IMMUTABLE WORD OF GOD AND…
STILL THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR BIBLE
BY: SARAH PRUITT
UPDATED: JULY 13, 2023
URL:
https://www.history.com/news/king-james-bible-most-popular
For more than 400 years is The Authorized King James Bible. (KJV) It is immutable, inerrant, infallible and eternal. It will endure for ever, protected and preserved by God HIMSELF.
GOD’S WORD is
For ever Settled in Heaven Psalm 119:89
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TODAY’S SERMON:
From Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle (Brief History)
Four Unexpected Features of Faith John 1:29 with Dr, Peter Masters
Most people are surprised - even shocked - when they hear these four vital facts of the Christian faith. Yet these have been the means of drawing vast numbers to seek Christ since He came to earth. Here is how John the Baptist introduced the Savior
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COMMITMENT TO THE infallibility and inerrancy of the WORD OF GOD and
PAYDAY SOMEDAY
(R.G. Lee’s Signature Sermon)
URL: https://youtu.be/0mstq4QTyrQ
… A Peerless Pulpiteer (Biographical Text) was Dr. Robert G. Lee, Pastor, Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee
URL:
https://christianindex.org/stories/rg-lee-a-peerless-pulpiteer,1680
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,” published in 1930, in which Dr. Lee stated the following regarding the HOLY BIBLE: (KJV)
“All [Prophets and Apostles] who wrote are immortalized by their writing of this great Book, 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. R.G. Lee preached a much requested sermon called Payday Someday over 1,000 times.
Why was it so powerful? Why was it requested and preached so many times?
Click above link or URL here and see, Won’t you?
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mstq4QTyrQ
SERMON CLASSICS:
Why The Cross? 1958 Billy Graham (38 min)
Powerful, heavyweight, urgent message for the present day.
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Who crucified Jesus?
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Why did Jesus die on the cross?
Be Filled with the Spirit Ephesians 5:18 with Dr. Peter Masters Metropolitan Tabernacle:
Living on the Word Deuteronomy 8:3 (Christian Sermons and Audio books) Delivered on March 15th 1883 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, recorded by Charles Koelsch.
COMFORT IN GRIEF
No Tears in Heaven Revelation 7:17 (Christian Sermons and Audio books) Delivered on August 6th 1865 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon Audio recorded by Charles Koelsch.
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MOST RECENT SERMONS from London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle by Dr. Peter Masters, Pastor
Teaching SermonS Sunday 16 June 2024 | 11:00am
God’s Glory in View
The climax of 1 Peter is the prayer that we, having suffered in some measure on earth, will be fully repaired, fixed firmly on the road, providing a sure basis for those who follow us. Here also we explore the definition of God's glory.
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Gospel Sermon Sunday 16 June 2024 | 6:30pm
The Disaster of Investing All in Earth, not Heaven
The richest king of his time, who indulged to extremes in pleasure, intellectual pursuits and creative skills, and who kept 700 wives - Solomon - eventually found a godless life futile and turned to the Lord. Here is his experience and his appeal to all for conversion.
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Teaching Sermon Wednesday 19 June 2024 | 7:30pm
Things That Accompany Salvation
'But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.'
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TESTIMONY OF FORMER ISLAMIST:
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
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SACRED LITERATURE:
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS by John Bunyan is the most famous Allegory, world-wide and the Most widely Published Book of all time and was printed in over 200 Languages. It has NEVER, since 1698, been out-of-print.
Only The King James Bible was more widely published than The Pilgrim’s Progress.
ONLINE PRINT LIBRARY: (No Enrollment Fee or Registration required)
BUNYAN’S ORIGINAL of 1678: The Pilgrim’s Progress Published in 1853 by Logos
REVISED VERSION: The Pilgrim’s Progrefs [sic] 1999 by Barry E. Horner
OLD ENGLISH PRINT: The Pilgrim’s Progress Part II AKA Christiana
(Christian’s wife, Christiana and children; their dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country.)
Pilgrim Progress is the world’s most famous Allegory, It and the Bible were commonly the only books to be found in the cabin of early American Settlers and were loved and read more than any book, second only to the Holy Bible. It’s also considered, by some, as being the world’s first English novel. It’s likely the most published book other than the Bible of all time. There were 1,300 editions printed before 1938, 250 years after the Bunyan’s death. Hence, the world’s most famous Allegory.
Comment on Pilgrim’s Progress by Charles H. Spurgeon from the Spurgeon Sermon
“Christ in You”.
Spurgeon: Christ in us is Christ reigning." reminds me 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 [happy melodies] , for the king himself was come. Up to the castle of the heart [main castle] 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, The Messiah; our liberty to be absolutely under his sway.
Spurgeon Sermon: Christ in You, Preached May 13, 1883 Scripture: Colossians 1:27 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 29 (cit. II. THE SWEETNESS OF THIS MYSTERY, WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, § 5)
You may choose to read, listen or share Pilgrim’s Progress with your little ones as a bed time story. It will bless, strengthen, encourage and instruct pilgrims of all ages and will create precious and enduring memories in little ears.
Spurgeon read it for the first time as a precocious five year old reader and would returned to read it over 100 times during the course of his remarkable ministry as a Baptist pastor who is known as The Prince of Preachers .
Link here for the Complete Index of the Bible Scriptures that saturates The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan preferring God’s view to all “World Views”.
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ADULT AUDIO: PART I
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (Complete audio-book narrated by Christopher Glyn)
Preface: Bunyan’s letter
Episode 01: The City of Destruction
Episode 02: Obstinate & Pliable
Episode 04: Mr. Worldly Wiseman
Episode 05: The Narrow Gate
Episode 06: The House of the Interpreter
Episode 07: The Cross
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Episode 08: Simple, Sloth & Presumption
Episode 09: Formalist & Hypocrisy
Episode 10: The Hill Difficulty
Episode 11: Timorous & Mistrust
Episode 12: The Palace Beautiful
Episode 13: Battle with Apollyon
Episode 14: The Valley of the Shadow of Death
Episode 15: Christian Meets Faithful & Talkative
Episode 16: Mr. By-ends Town of Fair Speech
Episode 17: The Hill Lucre [Gain and Greed]
Episode 18: By-path Meadow Vain Confidence
Episode 19: Doubting Castle
Episode 20: The Delectable Mountains
Episode 21: Ignorance (Conceit)
Episode 22: The Flatterer
Episode 23: Atheist
Episode 24: The Enchanted Ground
Episode 25: Ignorance Rejoins the Pilgrims
Episode 26: Beulah Land
Episode 27: The River of Death
Episode 28: The Celestial City
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ILLUSTRATED VIDEO (Recommended Bed Time Story)
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.
1 A Visit from Secret 4:50 Audio
2 Good News 2:25 Audio
3 Mount Charity 1:01 Audio
4 Fool & Want-Wit 1:16 Audio
5 Valiant-For-Truth 1:41 Audio
6 Valiant Does Battle 5:51 Audio
7 Valiant’s Story 3:35 Audio
8 Which Way To Go 1:30 Audio
9 Stand-Fast’s 'Wife' 6:02 Audio
10 Stand-Fast’s Story 1:37 Audio
11 Beulah Land 3:20 2018 Audio
12 The Postman’s Visit 1:57 2018 Audio
13 Christiana’s Blessing 5:55 Audio
14 Christiana Goes Over The River 1:20 Audio
15 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell 2:10 Audio
16 Old-Honest Called 1:41 Audio
17 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword 2:27 Audio Bequeath (Definition)
18 Stand-Fast’s Will 3:56 Audio
19 Christiana Nears The City 1:01 Audio
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20 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry 4:45 Audio
DEVOTION for June 25th
Written And Calendared By Charles H. Spurgeon.
PRAYER: Part 7 of 7 THE LOOK OF FAITH
ANECDOTE: 323: God Listening to Prayer
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: June 25 A STAIRCASE TO HEAVEN
-And he [God] saith [says] unto him, [Jacob] Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man- [Jesus Christ] John 1:51
MORNING: "Get thee up into the high mountain. "—Isaiah 40:9
EVENING: "The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. " —Genesis 8:9
A SINNER'S PRAYER
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BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL! Gaither Congregation (Sing with us, won’t you?)
https://youtu.be/d3pQOmFts0E
Amen, The Anthem by Harry Belafonte
https://youtu.be/UfEwnRV_qdU
* Note: In God’s divine providence, Harry Belafonte died April 25, 2023; one day before the posting anniversary of this Amen Anthem. It will continue to warm the hearts of all who breathe-it-out in prayer …
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Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon
https://youtu.be/PNzpbk4P6Gc
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TODAY’S DEVOTION:
PRAYER 23, Part 7 of 7.
THE LOOK OF FAITH
Father, glorify Thy Son that Thy Son may glorify Thee. Holy Spirit, do Thine office [will, purpose and move] and take of these things of Christ and reveal [make known] them unto us. We gather up [put together] all our prayers in that salvation through the blood of the Lamb, [The Lord Jesus]. Amen.
(Complete Prayer: PRAYER 23.doc)
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ANECDOTE 323: God Listening to Prayer.
A good brother of my acquaintance, a minister of the gospel, going to preach from the text that God will hear prayer, called upon [paid a visit to] one of his poor people, who said when the visit was over that she had greatly enjoyed his call [visit].
He thought to himself, “I have scarcely said a word, and yet she says that I have done her good.” Turning to her, he inquired, “Sister, how can I have done you good, for I have hardly spoken with you?”
“Ah, sir,” she replied, “you have listened so kindly: you have heard all I had to say, and there are very few who will do that.”
Just so. [That’s it.] People in deep trouble like somebody to hear them all through: even little children are comforted by telling mother all about it.
We are in such a hurry with poor troubled spirits that we hasten [rush] them on to the end of the sentence, and try to make them skip the dreary details. But to them this seems unkind, for their story is sacred; and therefore, they go slowly on with it, till we are quite tired. I have often hurried on a poor despondent creature till I have seen the uselessness of it [rushing them]: it is always best to let them spin on [keep on telling their story]. It does them good.
To tell out the heart [speak what’s on their heart] to a patient listener is a great relief to a burdened spirit, and the heart must do it in its own way. Here is a sweet assurance,
“My God will hear me.”
I may be very bad, and what I say may be very broken, and I may groan a good deal, and I may say the same thing over and over again, and my whole ditty [story] may be very stupid ; but,
“My God will hear me.”
He is in no hurry: he is the God of patience. He will listen to my dreary talk, and endure [be patient with] each gloomy particular.
I need not hold him as the Ancient Mariner held the wedding guest who was unwilling to hear his weary rhyme of the sea: [1834 Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]
my God will willingly listen to me right through, from beginning to end, groans and all.
“My God will hear me.”
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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK JUNE 25 A STAIRCASE TO HEAVEN (Jacob’s Ladder)
By C.H. Spurgeon 1834 – 1892
-And he [God] saith [says] unto him, [Jacob]
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man [Jesus Christ] - John 1:51
Y dicele: De cierto, de cierto os digo: De aqui adelante vereis el cielo abierto, y los angeles de Dios que suben y descienden sobre el Hijo del hombre- Juan 1:51
Yes, to our faith this sight is plain even at this day [even today]. We do see Heaven opened. Jesus Himself has opened that kingdom to all believers. We gaze [stare] into the place of mystery and glory, for He has revealed it to us. We shall enter it soon, for He is the way.
Now we see the explanation of Jacob’s ladder. Between earth and Heaven there is a holy commerce [of communications]; prayer ascends, and answers come down, by the way of [through] Jesus, the Mediator. We see this ladder when we see our Lord.
In Him a stairway of light now furnishes a clear passage to the throne of the Most High.
Let us use it, and send up by it the messengers of our prayers. We shall live the angelic life ourselves if we run up to Heaven in intercession, and lay hold upon the blessings of the covenant, and then descend again to scatter those gifts among the sons of men.
This choice sight which Jacob only saw in a dream we will turn into a bright reality. This very day we will be up and down the ladder each hour; climbing in communion, [two-way prayer] and coming down in labor [to work] to save our fellow-men.
This is thy promise, O Lord Jesus, let us joyfully see it fulfilled.
Prayer: Thank You Lord Jesus, for this, that was also given to Jacob in a dream. Thank You that it has become a treasured reality to me and all those who trust in You. You give much more than we can imagine through Jesus who ascends and descends to the Father on our behalf. Help me [us] to be in close prayer fellowship with You, moment by moment. Please help me to be always in fellowship with You. In Your name, Lord Jesus I pray, Amen.
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MORNING June 25
"Get thee up into the high mountain. "—Isaiah 40:9
-Súbete sobre un monte alto — Isaías 40:9
OUR knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of the Welsh mountains [in Wales]. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be only one-half as high as it really is.
Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the stream at the foot of the mountain. Climb the first rising knoll, [hill] and the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the country for four or five miles round, and you are delighted with the widening prospect. Mount still [go higher], and the scene enlarges; until at last, when you are on the summit and look east, west, north, and south, you see almost all England lying before you.
Yonder [over there] is a forest in some distant county, perhaps two hundred miles away, and here the sea, and there a shining river and the smoking chimneys of a manufacturing town, or the masts of the ships in a busy port. All these things please and delight you, and you say,
"I could not have imagined that so much could be seen at this elevation."
Now, the Christian life is of the same order [like that, too].
When we first believe in Christ we see but little of Him. The higher we climb the more we discover of His beauties. But who has ever reached the summit? Who has known all the heights and depths of the love of Christ that passes knowledge? Paul, when grown old, sitting grey-haired, shivering in a dungeon in Rome, could say with greater emphasis than we can,
"I know whom I have believed,"
for each experience had been like the climbing of a hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his death seemed like gaining the top of the mountain, from which he could see the whole of the faithfulness and the love of Him to whom he had committed his soul.
Get up, dear friend, [climb up] into the high mountain.
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EVENING June 25
"The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. " —Genesis 8:9
—No halló la paloma donde sentar la planta de su pie —Génesis 8:9
READER, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion [faith] is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe [great suffering from loss, misfortune, or trouble] unto you.
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet [bedspread] broad enough to cover her in the chambers [bedrooms] of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of His preciousness.
But if, on the other hand, you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it [then that] would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it forever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it, for [to be with] your God.
—your God—is what your soul craves after [wants above all] ;
then be of good courage, you are a child of God.
With all your sins and imperfections, take this to your comfort: if your soul has no rest in sin, you are not as the sinner is! If you are still crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten you, for you have not quite forgotten Him.
The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of Him.
We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness, we want the manna [heavenly nourishment] which drops-from on high; our skin bottles of creature confidence [comforts] cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is [Jesus] Christ.
When you feed on Him your soul can sing,
"He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's,"
but if you have Him not, [don’t have Him] your bursting wine vat [barrels] and well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction:
rather, lament [sorrow] over them [earthly wealth] in the words of wisdom,
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!"
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A SINNER’S PRAYER
Whosoever shall call on the name of the lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21
Pray and call on the name of the Lord Jesus, like this. Won’t you?
“Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner. I’m lost and hopeless to save myself. Without you and your blood that was shed for me and Your death on the cross I would spend eternity in Hell’s fire.
Thank you Lord Jesus that You love me and died for me before I was born and that You have always loved me and will never reject or turn your back on me. I know You are the Way, the Truth and the Life and that no one can come to the Father but by You.
Thank you, Father that You have caused for me to see myself as I am; a lost sinner. But, because of Your love and goodness, You have made a way and given me the desire to come to You, to turn away from my sin and to trust in You, Lord Jesus. You took my place on the cross and provided the way for me to be forgiven. Thank You.
Thank You that You prompted a desire in me to believe in You, the only begotten Son of God who died on the cross to be the sacrifice that would atone for my sins.
Thank You, Father for Your love that allowed Jesus to suffer and die in my place. Thank You that You raised Jesus from the dead. He is RISEN and is ALIVE and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave and in Christ Jesus I am free.
You raised Jesus from the dead, gave Him a Glorified body and after he was seen by many witnesses on earth You took Him up to reign with You in heaven.
Thank you, Father, for saving me in the name, of Your only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Romans 6:11
Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you always give witness to and exalt the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 16:8-11
With all my heart, thank you Lord for saving me.
Live Your life in me, Lord Jesus, in Your name I pray, Amen.
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Please allow us to share in the joy of your having received the new birth with you and the heavenly angels in Heaven as they rejoices over each redeemed sinner. Luke 15:7
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