Daily Spurgeon

DEVOTION   for  June 21st  *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892

PLEASE VIEW THE FOLLOWING VIDEO TO DETERMINE  WHETHER YOUR                   PREFERRED VERSION  OF THE BIBLE HAS BEEN AND IS IS PROTECTED AND               PRESERVED BY GOD AS INSPIRED [GOD-BREATHED,
WORD  FOR WORD], INNERANT, INFALLIBLE,  IMMUTABLE AND HOLY   
WORD OF GOD?

Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC5rUbs_-E&t=9s
(2 hrs. 49 mins.)

This video presents historical evidence explaining the explosion of over 100 published  English versions  of the Bible. This continuing attempt to replace, add or take away from the 1769 King James Version of the Holy Bible do not  prevail because GOD Himself preserves and protects His Holy Scripture from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion and error.

Note: The New King James Version does NOT follow the Greek text  of the Textus Receptus, but a Greek Text fabricated by Westcott and Hort and is therefore inferior to the  trustworthy 1769 [1611] King James Version, the  KJV!

JESUS CHRIST, THE MESSIAH, IS RISEN  INDEED! HE IS ALIVE FOREVERMORE!

Resurrection 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:

EASTER [Resurrection Sunday] IS NEVER OVER BECAUSE…

Jesus said:

John 11:25 -26  “I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. Believest  thou this?”  2 Timothy 2:8-26

8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.

9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

13 If we believe not, yet he abideth [abides] faithful: he cannot deny himself.

14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth [pottery] ; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.

21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet [the perfect match] for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife.

24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

e25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure [perhaps] will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION   for  June 21st  *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892

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

Yes!   Stand for the Truth, Won’t you?

Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon

URL:  https://www.gotquestions.org/Charles-Haddon-Spurgeon.html

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.

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION written and calendared for the exact date of June 21st .

PREACHING  from Metropolitan Tabernacle London, U.K.  (C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892)

Sudden and Unexpected Conversions   Luke 23:42  with  Dr. Peter Masters, Pastor

As Christ hung on the cross in agony of body and soul, making atonement for all who would be saved, a criminal being executed alongside Him began to see Him in a new light, and yielded his life to Him. Here is that 'model' conversion, and what was involved [Remember me”]

SACRED  PRAISE:

 Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior by Gaither Music TV Congregation

Do, Lord, Do Remember Me  with Mauldin Harmony Arrangement Music selections came to mind from SERMON’S SCRIPTURE VERSE  Luke 23:42)                 

… be [be being filled, right now] 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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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 whisper-it-out in prayer …

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Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon
https://youtu.be/PNzpbk4P6Gc

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DEVOTION   for  June 21st  *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892

PRAYER 23, June 21st  4 of 7   THE LOOK OF FAITH

ANECDOTE 325: Praying for Individuals.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: June 21st   HE WITH US; WE WITH HIM

-The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened- —Proverbs 10:27

MORNING: June 21st  "He shall build the temple of the Lord; and He shall bear the glory. "

—Zechariah 6:13

EVENING: June 21st  "That those things which cannot be shaken may remain." Hebreos 12:27

A SINNER'S PRAYER

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PRAYER June 21st, Part 4 of 7

THE LOOK OF FAITH

We have no merit, no claim, no righteousness of our own. Oh! now, dear Savior, we look up to Thee. Oh! that some might look for the first time, and those of us that have long looked would fix our happy gaze again upon that blessed substitutionary sacrifice [the Lord Jesus] wherein is all our hope.

Dear Savior, we do take Thee to be everything to us, our sin-bearer and our sin-destroyer. We have not a shadow of a shade of a hope anywhere but in Thyself,

Thy life,

Thy death,

Thy resurrection,

Thine ascension,

Thy glory,

Thy reign,

Thy second advent [coming];

these are the only stars in our sky.

[Thank You Father for Jesus the Messiah who made atonement and salvation possible. I receive You Lord Jesus as my savior and Lord in Your name Lord Jesus, Amen.] (Complete Prayer is attached in e-mail: PRAYER 23.doc)

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ANECDOTE 325: Praying for Individuals.

I remember George Whitfield says when he began to pray, his first prayer was that God would convert those with whom he used to play at cards [play cards with] and waste his Sundays. “And blessed be God,” he says, “I *got every one of them.”

*Led them all to Faith in Christ Jesus

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK June 21st HE WITH US; WE WITH HIM C.H. Spurgeon

-The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened

- Proverbs 10:27

-El temor de Jehova aumentara los dias: Mas los anos de los impíos seran acortado

- Proverbios 10:27

There is no doubt about it. The fear of the Lord leads to virtuous habits, and these prevent that waste of life which comes of sin and vice. The holy rest which springs out of faith in the Lord Jesus also greatly helps a man when he is ill.

Every physician rejoices to have a patient whose mind is fully at ease.

Worry kills, but confidence in God is like healing medicine.

We have therefore all the arrangements for long life, and if it be really for our good, we shall see a good old age, and come to our graves as shocks [stalks] of corn in their season. Let us not be overcome with sudden expectation of death the moment we have a finger-ache, but let us rather expect that we may have to work on through a considerable length of days. And what if we should soon be called to the higher sphere? [heaven] Certainly there would be nothing to deplore in such a summons, but everything to rejoice in.

Living or dying we are the Lord’s. If we live, Jesus will be with us; if we die, we shall be with Jesus.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time, but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Prayer: Thank You Lord Jesus, for long life that is given to those that fear You. Help me to use Your gift of time for the highest good. May I be used to bring the truth of salvation to someone today. Give me a willing heart and a firm resolve to follow You today in Your name Lord Jesus I pray, Amen. 

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MORNING June 21st

"He shall build the temple of the Lord; and He shall bear the glory. "—Zechariah 6:13

-El edificará el templo de Jehová, y el llevará gloria-—Zacarías 6:13

[Jesus] CHRIST Himself is the builder of His spiritual temple, and He has built it on the mountains of His unchangeable affection,

His omnipotent [infinite, all-powerful] grace, and

His infallible [unmistakable] truthfulness.

But as it was in Solomon's temple, so in this; the materials need making ready [need to be prepared]. 

 There are the "Cedars of Lebanon," but they are not framed for the building; they are not cut down, and shaped, and made into those planks of cedar, whose odoriferous [fragrant] beauty shall make glad the courts of the Lord's house in Paradise.

There are also the rough stones still in the quarry, they must be hewn [cut] and squared. All this is Christ's own work. Each individual believer is being prepared, and polished, and made ready for his place in the temple; but Christ's own hand performs the preparation-work.

Afflictions cannot sanctify, excepting as they are used by Him to this end.

Our prayers and efforts cannot make us ready for heaven, apart from the hand of Jesus, who rightly fashions our hearts.

As in the building of Solomon's temple,

“there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in the house”, [of worship] because all was brought perfectly ready for the exact spot it was to occupy.

—so is it with the temple which Jesus builds;

the making ready is all done on earth. When we reach heaven, there will be

no sanctifying us there,

no squaring us with affliction,

no planning [sizing, trimming or shaping] us with suffering.

No, we must be made meet [completely finished] here—all that Christ will do beforehand; and when He has done it, we shall be ferried [transported] by a loving hand across the stream of death, and brought to the heavenly Jerusalem, to abide as eternal pillars in the temple of our Lord.

Beneath His eye and care,

The edifice [building] shall rise,

Majestic, strong, and fair,

And shine above the skies.

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EVENING June 21st

"That those things which cannot be shaken may remain." —Hebrews 12:27

—Declara la mudanza de las cosas movibles, como de cosas que son firmes.—

Hebreos 12:27

WE have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken [taken away], and it does not become [is not fitting for] a Christian man to set much store by [put faith in] them, for there is nothing stable [permanent] beneath these rolling skies; change is written on all things.

Yet, we have certain "things which cannot be shaken," and I invite you this evening to think of them that if the things which can be shaken, should all be taken away, you may derive [still have] real comfort from the things that cannot be shaken which will remain.

Whatever your losses have been, or may be, you enjoy present salvation.

You are standing at the foot of His cross, trusting alone in the merit of Jesus' precious blood, and no rise or fall of the markets can interfere with your salvation in Him; no breaking of banks, no failures and bankruptcies can touch that.

Then you are a child of God this evening. God is your Father. No change of circumstances can ever rob you of that. Although by losses you might be brought to poverty and stripped bare, you can say,

"He is my Father still. In my Father's house are many mansions; therefore will I not be troubled."

You have another permanent blessing, namely, the love of Jesus Christ.

He who is God and Man loves you with all the strength of His affectionate nature—

nothing can affect that.

The fig tree may not blossom and the flocks may cease from the field; it matters not to the man who can sing,

"My Beloved is mine, and I am His."

Our best portion and richest heritage we cannot lose. Whatever troubles come, let us play the man [be a man]; let us show that we are not such little children as to be cast down by what may happen in this poor fleeting state of time.

Our country is *Immanuel's land, our hope is above the sky, and, therefore, calm as the summer's ocean;

we will see the wreck of everything earthborn, and yet rejoice in the God of our salvation.

*God with us 

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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FEATURED INTERVIEW on TBN with Former Saddleback Pastor,  Rick Warren.

URL:

https://www.tbnplus.com/c/sy/sMW1pnGB?episodeId=EJGY0J8Q&play=1

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  

It has become my heart-felt song to all my children  too.

URL:  https://youtu.be/rkscNqCCDl0

Statler Brothers Concert:

Do You Remember These  (The Good Old Days)

URL: https://youtu.be/6zTBebFb0v0?t=360

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FEATURED BIOGRAPHICAL VIDEOS  : 

C.H. Spurgeon The Peoples Preacher  ( 70 min.)  Historically accurate Feature Film of the one called The Prince of Preachers  
 

2,018,939 views May 14, 2020       ―a video into the life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, widely known first as the “people’s preacher” who was later known as “The Prince of Preachers”.

It follows his trials and triumphs with historical accuracy pointing always to Jesus Christ and proclaiming, “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh [takes] away the sin of the world.”

Here is an intimate account of one of the greatest preachers in the history of the church. We follow him from his youth where, as a young preacher he is called Charlie, boy preacher of the Finns. to become the minister to London’s largest Baptist congregation and soon captures the love and respect of Great Britan to become one of its most influential figures.

Made by the award-winning Christian Television Association and filmed on location in England, Scotland, France and Germany, this film vividly captures the spirit and message of a man whose eventful life is highly relevant to the twenty-first century.

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

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 The following two videos, by John Piper and Steve Lawson provide background context for  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 to bless and benefit thousands, worldwide,  through the publication and use of his printed sermons; sermons inspired, prepared and delivered in the God-breathed inerrant and infallible WORD of GOD itself.

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

URL:

https://youtu.be/PNzpbk4P6Gc

The Preserved, Immutable, Infallible and Inerrant WORD OF GOD was saturated  into and always  proclaimed in the preaching of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. His sermons continue to bless and benefit thousands through the publication of his printed sermons; sermons inspired, prepared and delivered in the God-breathed, inerrant and infallible WORD of GOD.

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John-Michael participated in this year’s Christmas concert.
Christmas at the Shores 2023

Directed by Choirmaster Robert Perry. Enjoy.
URL:
https://youtu.be/PXYCBV5HyG8?t=340

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TODAY'S  DEVOTION
URL:

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·       A Prayer

·       An Anecdote

·       A promise from Faith’s Checkbook

·       Selections from  Morning & Evening

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  that proclaims the Gospel of Jesus Christ [The Messiah], and  the great commission for believers to go into  all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

This ministry was begun with the sending of  e-mails of  Spurgeon’s  Faith’s Checkbook,  to Jon Edward Riley (1971- 2021). A mailing list was started and grew rapidly with the addition of many who learned of this publication and wanted it sent to them directly. This mailing list  continues to be used to distribute dailyspurgeon.com   and we trust that it will continue to encourage whole-hearted devotional vigor of Love, and oneness with Jesus Christ through the study and obedience of GOD’S WORD.

Devotional Content published here has been  written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon. We pray that many will be born-again  and the born-again will be built-up in the Faith of Jesus Christ, by God’s grace and with His help. May God be pleased to sustain this ministry begun with my beloved son, Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021)  honored here as one to whom honor is due.

He would  often  say,   to anyone who would listen:

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

Amen.

Hymns of  comfort:  

’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 1861to support a congregation of  vibrant, doctrinally sound, Gospel preaching, Sacred Praise and Hymn singing body of believing and devoted Disciples; followers of  the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Is dailyspurgeon.com   trustworthy?

Is it true?     Is it of God? 

We apply this Scripture to discern whether what we hear is of God and therefore  true or not.

1 John 4:1-3  Beloved ones, don’t be believing every spirit [voice] you hear but be testing the spirits [voices] whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Here’s how you know the Spirit [voice]  of God: Every spirit [voice] 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 [voice] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 

Therefore, we should [must] test every voice [spirit] whether it is from God, bonified and trustworthy to be believed only if it  confesses [states]  that… 

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

Westcott & Hort and  Nestle & Alland did not use the Textus Receptus, that was rendered from the 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts,  known as  the Majority Text.

Instead,they used their own Greek  translations that they created using only  55 Greek manuscripts selected out of  the 5,321 Majority Texts.

Their Greek translation  is faulty.  Translations other than King James overlook the original Greek verb “ictin” [To be] [is] (third person singular) that is translated in virtually all Majority Texts MT and  subsequently in the Textus Receptus [Received Text] therefore they   fail to correctly translate  the Greek verb  as, “Is come” [Is here].  (When it’s ranslated aright from the Received Text (TR)  in the King James Version only) 

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 majorityagreement with one another.   The TR  [Textus Receptus] is rendered from this overwhelming body of agreement from Majority Text of primary manuscript sources.

Both Westcott & Hort and Nestles & Alland have omitted the verb “is”, from the Greek text. This error may be described as res ipsa loquitur meaning the thing speaks for itself.

 Therefore, the alternate Greek  fabrications generated by these two sources are not actually translations at all but their own  creations.

How do we know? 

Because non-believers and false prophets can indeed, and often do, affirm that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. Practically anyone can  make this confession as the  birth of Jesus Christ is considered by virtually all respected historians to be the most well documented fact in history. That He has come is generally acknowledged by nonbelievers and believers alike.   However, here’s the point. There is a huge difference between “Has come” and “Is Here”. “Has come” falls 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 not surprising nor is it, per se, a false statement. Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. However, this  fails to present a  Rubric necessary 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, proffered and inferred in the contextfor scriptural discernment. 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.

Namely, it does not provide a sound hypothesis to discern whether a spirit [spoken or written words]  are from God or the spirit of Antichrist.

Virtually anyone [or any spirit] may avow that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. But as you can see, this does not resolve the issue of whether something should or should not be believed or followed. Why?  Once again,  because virtually anyone and everyone can and often do confess that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. This leaves absent a valid and efficacious hypothesis to discern the truth.

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  is a failed attempt to represent itself as efficacious for true spiritual discernment as outlined in 1 John Chapter 4: 1-3.

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  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 members of His body, flesh and bone, [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 2024 years ago and  He lives today.

He’s coming again,  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 should acknowledge and readily confess 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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BEST BIBLE TRANSLATION:

GOD’S WORD is Infallible, without error and Immutable, It is Inspired [God breathed], Self-Authenticating and Providentially Protected and Preserved by GOD Himself.
                                                                                                                                                                                                For ever, O Lord, thy word is Settled in Heaven, Psalm 119:89

The Authorized King James Bible AKJV

Is It The Best?   By David Hocking

David’s Summary  (8 min.) The problem is not with English, but whether the best Greek text was used as the Primary source for the translation.