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DEVOTION for November 13th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this 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” in English)

BC/AD versus BCE/CE What’s the difference?​

Defend the Truth. Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2024 years ago, is now here in the   flesh from GOD through His body and bride, the church and lives forevermore, time without end  and He’s coming again.

 

PRAYER 15, Part 6 of 9: THE PEACE OF GOD.

ANECDOTE 104: Changeable Christians

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK November 13th THE UNFAILING WATCH    C.H. Spurgeon

-Behold, he that keepeth [keeps] Israel shall neither slumber [doze off] nor sleep- Psalm 121:4

MORNING: "The branch cannot bear fruit of itself. "— John 15:4

EVENING: "Men ought always to pray. "— Luke 18:1

A SINNER’S PRAYER

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PRAYER 15, Part 6 of 9

THE PEACE OF GOD

Lord God, the Holy Ghost, may faith grow in men; may they believe in Christ to the saving of their souls.

May their little faith brighten into strong faith, and may their strong faith ripen into the full assurance of faith. May we all have this last blessing; may we believe God fully; may we never waver. Resting in the Great Surety and High Priest of the New Covenant may we feel “the peace of God which passeth [is beyond] all understanding,” and may we enter into rest.

Bless Thy people that are at rest, and deepen that rest. May the rest that Thou givest [give] be further enhanced by the rest which they find when they take Thy yoke [harness for working together] upon them and learn of Thee. May Thy Word be very sweet to them. May there come over our spirits a deep calm, as when Christ hushed [quieted] both winds and waves. May we feel not only resignation to Thy will, but delight in it, feeling pleased with all the Lord provides. May we rest in our God and be quite happy in the thought that our sins and our iniquities He will remember no more.

[We ask this in the matchless name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 15.doc)

 

ANECDOTE 104: Changeable Christians.

I knew a Christian man right well to whom I was accustomed to use one salutation whenever I saw him. He was a good man, but changeable. I said to him,

“Good morning, friend! what are you now?” He was once a valiant Arminian, setting young people right as to the errors of my Calvinistic teaching.

A short time after, he became exceedingly Calvinistic himself, and wanted to screw me up [make me into a hyper-Calvinist] several degrees; but I declined to yield.

Anon [later on] he became a Baptist, and agreed with me on all points, so far as I know. This was not good enough, and therefore he became a Plymouth Brother: and after that he went to the Church from which he originally set out.[His original church]

 

When I next met him, I said, “Good morning, brother, what are you now?” He replied, “That is too bad, Mr. Spurgeon; you asked me the same question last time.” I replied, “Did I? But what are you now? Will the same answer do?”

I knew it would not. I would earnestly say to all such brethren,

 

“Be sober.” It cannot be wise to stagger all over the road in this fashion. Make sure of your footing when you stand; [and then] make doubly sure of it before you shift [change].

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK   November 13 THE UNFAILING WATCH C.H. Spurgeon

-Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber [snooze] nor sleep- Psalm 121:4

-He aqui, no se adormecerá ni dormirá El que guarda a Israel- Salmos 121:4

 

Jehovah is -the Keeper [protector] of Israel.- No form of unconsciousness ever steals [unexpectedly comes] over Him, neither the deeper slumber [sleep] nor the slighter [slightest, dozing] sleep. He never fails to watch the house and the heart of His people.

This is a sufficient reason for our resting in perfect peace. Alexander [the Great] said that he slept because his friend Parmenio watched; much more may we sleep because our God is our guard.

-Behold- is here set up to call our attention to the cheering truth. Israel, when he had a stone for his pillow, fell asleep; but his God was awake, and came in vision to His servant. When we lie defenseless, Jehovah Himself will cover our head.

 

The Lord keeps His people as a rich man keeps his treasure, as a captain keeps a city with a garrison [armory], as a sentry keeps watch over his sovereign. None can harm those who are in such keeping.

 

Let me put my soul into His dear hands. He never forgets us, never ceases actively to care for [watch over] us, never finds Himself unable to preserve us. O my Lord, keep me, lest I wander and fall and perish.

 

Prayer: Keep [protect] me, Heavenly Father that I may keep thy commandments. By thine un-slumbering care prevent my sleeping like the sluggard [deadbeat], and perishing like those [spiritually dead] who sleep the sleep of death. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus, Amen.

 

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… and pray that many souls will be born again and the disciple-ing and strengthening of all believers.

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

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

 

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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.  

 

John 3:16

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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 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.

 

vis. The Textus Receptus TR [Received Text] is faithfully rendered from an overwhelming agreement among the majority of the 5,321 extant New Testament, Greek manuscripts  known as the  MT. [Majority Text]. The Old Testament Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts were meticulously copied by hand [manuscript] by the Masoretic scribes. These are the manuscripts  from which  the Old Testament King James version  was translated onto English.

In order to produce the Modern Greek to support the Critical Text theory, only Fifty-five manuscripts from the totality of the 5,321 Majority Text MT were hand-picked and they were selected from  the inferior Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices. These fifty-five manuscripts  brought  variant readings and were created, ostensibly, to justify the creation of an alternative Greek text to the Textus Receptus which had been under attack by Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland for many years.

The Codices known as Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are inferior as they often are in disagreement with one another and give rise to variant readings They have been infused with invented Greek text where no Greek text from the Fifty-five hand-picked manuscripts was found.

They invented but did not disclose themselves as the source  of the new Greek translation.  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 silence as to the authorship of the Greek Text from which all the 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.

Scripture based on The Greek text of Westcott &  Hort and Nestle & Aland of a secular or denominational tradition allow modern textual criticism  to  rob God of His Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, Inerrancy and  Infallibility and to diminish Glory from His infinite and everlasting “I AM” that deserves and demands ALL GLORY.

 

 

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

 

 

MORNING November 13

"The branch cannot bear fruit of itself. "— John 15:4

- El pámpano no puede llevar fruto de sí mismo¾ Juan 15:4

 

HOW did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on His great atonement [your sin payment paid in-full], and rested on His finished righteousness. Ah, what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? Then indeed the vine flourished, the tender grape appeared, the pomegranates budded forth, and the beds of spices gave forth their smell. Have you declined since then? If you have, we charge you to remember that time of love and repent and do your first works.

 

Be most in [repeat often] those engagements which you have experimentally [by experience] proved to draw you nearest to Christ, because it is from Him that all your fruits proceed. Any holy exercise which will bring you to Him will help you to bear fruit.

The sun is, no doubt, a great worker in fruit-creating among the trees of the orchard, and Jesus is still more so among the trees of His garden of grace. When have you been the most fruitless? Has not it been when you have lived farthest from the Lord Jesus Christ, when you have slackened in prayer, when you have departed from the simplicity of your faith, when your graces have engrossed your attention instead of your Lord, when you have said, "My mountain stands firm, I shall never be moved," and have forgotten where your strength dwells—has not it been then that your fruit has ceased?

 

Some of us have been taught by terrible abasements of heart before the Lord that we have nothing out of Christ; and when we have seen the utter barrenness and death of all creature power we have cried in anguish [bitterly],

 

"From Him all my fruit must be found, for no fruit can ever come from me."

We are taught by past experience that the most simply we depend on the grace of God in [Jesus] Christ, and wait on the Holy Spirit, the more we shall bring forth fruit unto God.

Oh, to trust Jesus for fruit as well as for life!

 

EVENING November 13

"Men ought always to pray. "— Luke 18:1

—Es necesario orar siempre— Lucas 18:1

 

IF men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more [ought] Christian men.

Jesus has sent His church into the world on the same errand on which He Himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that the church is the world's priest? Creation is dumb [silent], but the church is to find a mouth for it. It is the church's high privilege to pray with acceptance: the door of grace is always open for our petitions [prayer requests], and they never return empty-handed.

 

The veil [separating the Holy of Holies in the temple] was rent [ripped from top to bottom] for the church; the blood was sprinkled upon the altar for us; God constantly invites us to ask what we will [want] . Will we refuse the privilege which angels might envy? Are we not the bride of Christ? May we not go to our King at every hour? Shall we allow the precious privilege to be unused?

 

The church always has need for prayer. There are always some in our midst who are declining or falling into open sin. There are lambs to be prayed for that they may be carried in Christ's bosom, [His arms] the strong, lest [for fear they don’t] grow presumptuous and the weak, lest [for fear they] become despairing.[depressed]

If we kept up prayer meetings four and-twenty hours in the day, all the days in the year, we might never be without a special subject for supplication. Are we ever without the sick and the poor, the afflicted and the wavering? Are we ever without those who seek the conversion of relatives, the reclaiming of backsliders, or the salvation of the depraved? Nay, [No] with congregations constantly gathering, with ministers always preaching, with millions of sinners lying dead in trespasses and sins, in a country over which the darkness of Romanism [Roman Catholic church] is certainly descending, in a world full of idols, cruelties, devilries, if we, as the church, do not pray, how shall we excuse this base neglect of the commission of our loving Lord?

 

Let the church be constant in supplication. Let every private believer cast his mite [his part] of prayer into the treasury. 

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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 your death on the cross  I would spend eternity in Hell’s fire.

Thank you Lord Jesus that You loved 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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MISSION STATEMENT
Our solemn  aim is to trust and obey the Lord Jesus in everything. This  relies completely upon God to achieve His purpose for us through His means. We purpose, with God’s empowerment and  help,  to save the lost, comfort, strengthen and encourage believers, and  rightly divide God’s Word to proclaim the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ to every creature.

        The Holy Bible is God’s eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable revealed and divinely preserved Word.  It is His supernatural, complete scripture  of all revealed truth.  He brings guidance through it to us personally and to each local body of Christian believers. With God’s empowerment, we will read, study, meditate-on, trust-in  and obey God’s Holy Bible and encourage others to do the same. We hold it to be the supreme authority and the preeminent and divinely established Stare Decisis [Latin: to stand by that which is decided, the legal principle of precedence,   literally "to stand by decided matters"] in all things. 

       Therefore, the purpose of The John Mark Publishing Company is to publish the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every creature. And, to serve all, in love,  especially those in the household of faith. This purpose compels us to follow, and rightly present, God’s Holy Word, the Bible as God’s divinely preserved truth; the foundation of this ministry.
 

Tabernacle History:
       The  inspired preaching, teaching, soul winning and writings of Charles Haddon Spurgeon were solely based, empowered and inspired by God’s Holy Word the Bible.  His written sermons and devotional content continue to benefit today’s readers with authentic  Gospel preaching and sound biblical teaching. His ministry continues to flourish from the original (Spurgeon’s)  Metropolitan Tabernacle,  a church fellowship began in 1650 with the present  building constructed by members of the congregation in 1861 and rebuilt after the second world war..

        Spurgeon's written materials are for the edification of the church body as well as a great benefit, blessing and challenge to all readers. Our desire is that the written Word of God will become the Living  Word in each and every reader. To this end, a calendar is indexed (top, right) on the Home page of DailySpurgeon.com for daily study, meditation and prayer. An unabridged and strictly maintained fidelity to Spurgeon’s original calendar and unabridged text is carefully guarded.
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*Charles Dumah Riley, Sr. (AKA: Daddy, "CD", and Paw Paw) 1897 – 1987

Note: JM witnessed the last few hours of his *Daddy’s life on earth coming to an end and heard him say “Amen” over and over, affirming his own life’s conclusion and giving testimony of God’s goodness to him and his agreement and surrender to his earthly departure to be eternally present with the Lord Jesus. 

Amen... Amen… Amen!

 

Hear Harry Belafonte’s AMEN

 

My Daddy’s  prayer before every meal, always offered in the gravity and reverence in his unique  deep Bass voice of prayer:

“Accept our thanks for these and all other blessings, we humbly ask in Thy name, Amen.” 

 

You can cast your cares on the Lord…

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

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

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

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

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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 taught by the Holy Spirit and will rightly divide God’s Holy Word preserved by God, Himself.

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God has preserved His Word through  The Masoretic Hebrew and Aramaic languages of the Old Testament and the GreekTextus Receptus of the New Testament:
 

In contrast, the Incomplete and unsealed codices of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are not translated from the  5,321 Majority Text Greek manuscripts, that became the Textus Receptus [Original Masoretic Hebrew and the Greek Textus Receptus].

 

The Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts  present variant readings rather than that of the well-established and settled majority Texts. They disagree often with one another as well as with the settled majority texts. Thus, an attempt to create a pretext that will continue to justify a never-ending demand for additional editions and interpretations. These unsettled differences and bias in certain sectarian doctrine [dogma] have led to the production of multiple “modern” editions with ambiguities, many variant readings and confusion from the explosion of unending, new editions.

Profit-driven publishers have embraced such an economic windfall to sell a continual flow of “new and better” English edition of The Bible. They give too little attention to the fidelity and accuracy already settled [in heaven] in majority manuscripts of the Masoretic Hebrew and the  Greek Textus Receptus.

 

Psalm 119:89-90

ל Lamed

89 Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:

thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. [abides]

God, Himself, providentially protects and preserves His Word. His Word is the God-breathed, self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful Word, settled in heaven. He is not the author of confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33 

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Our Prayer: Dear Lord, empower your ministry to win many souls, and serve those in need, especially those in the household of faith, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Precaution: The content presented from this website can be beneficial, but it  cannot substitute for gathering together, in-person, with other believers to hear the preaching of God’s Word and to worship and sing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ [the Messiah].

 

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The Hebrew Masoretic Text copied faithfully by Masoretic scribes was the original Old Testament. (The Jewish Tanakh) is the Hebrew source from which translations into other languages were made. These manuscripts are providentially protected of God and always give the greatest glory to God when compared to other translations.  Editorial notations, variant and sometimes ambiguous readings taken from Codices Vaticanus, or Sinaiticus consistently allow  nuanced meanings to diminish God’s Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence or other divine attributes from being fully voiced.

 

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Printed Prayer: Printed prayers must not be read or offered as a substitute for personal, fervent, effectual, heart-felt, prayer. They are offered, rather, to warm the hearts of those who will presently seek a season of fervent, authentic two-way, heart-to-heart fellowship and prayer with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Authentic revelations from God during prayer are always consistent with His revealed Word, the Bible.

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 My Prayer is that You would touch, lift up, encourage and teach all who faithfully minister your Word. Bless all who minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May Your blessing and holy anointing fall fresh upon each dear reader and abide with each one who rightly divides and faithfully proclaims Your Word [The Bible]. Please save many souls; and may all be glory be yours alone. I pray this in the name of our Redeemer, The Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

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 You too can cast your cares on the Lord…

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

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

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

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

 Devotions are:

 
MISSION STATEMENT:
Our aim, with God’s  help,  is to be Christlike in all that we think, do and say. We desire to fulfill the Great Commission by taking the GOOD NEWS of Salvation by Grace through Faith in Jesus Christ [The Messiah] to every creature, and to make disciples and baptize  them in the name of the Father, the Son  and the Holy Ghost.
 
Published Titles written by Spurgeon are included each day in DailySpurgeon.com

·       C.H. Spurgeon Prayers

·       Spurgeon’s  Illustrative Anecdotes

·       Faith’s Checkbook

·       Morning & Evening

These titles are from the inspired body of work created from the preaching and writing of Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892. He created an unexcelled  legacy of gospel preaching and exposition and is known as the “Prince of Preachers”.  Spurgeon has been and is today widely read with great benefit from the 1800’s to this present time. He is the beloved founder of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England (Thriving TODAY through the faithful preaching of the Gospel and the Sacred Worship of Jesus the Christ [Messiah].) 

 

 [Click this link to live-stream current gospel preaching in real time each Sunday from London by Dr. Peter Masters, Metropolitan Tabernacle pastor since 1970.
      

Prayer: Lord Jesus, please be blessed by the winning of many souls, and give us love and compassion toward all who are in need, especially those in the household of faith. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and for His sake, Amen. 

    

      Disclaimer: The John Mark Publishing Company does not praise or exalt  Charles H. Spurgeon beyond the honor due him. He didn’t need or want it when he was here on earth and has no need for it now, in Heaven. Our aim is to lift up and glorify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and to preach HIM and Him crucified.

 

      Precaution: These Devotional Messages and prayers alone can not substitute for continual fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Neither do they replace personal reading, meditation, prayer and fasting over God's divinely preserved and eternal Word. (The King James version (KJV), also known also as the Authorized Version (AKJV), is the preferred English Bible because its accuracy and fidelity to the Greek Textus Receptus [received text] and the Hebrew Masoretic Text) avoid doctrinal and editorial weakness found in many contemporary editions.

      Written Prayers by Spurgeon must not be offered as a substitute for personal, intimate fervent, heart-felt, prayer. They are rather intended to warm the hearts of those who are seeking a season of authentic two-way, heart-to-heart  fellowship and prayer with the Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit.    

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The Speciality of Evangelistic Preaching

 

Dr Peter Masters

Pastor, Metropolitan Tabernacle

In two lectures Dr Masters demonstrated the urgent necessity of regular, persuasive Gospel preaching, together with the clear New Testament precedents and examples, the difficulties

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MOST RECENT SUNDAY SERMONS: from  Metropolitan Tabernacle London, U.K.

 

Featured Sermon

The Necessity of Evangelistic Preaching

We post this week this message from our recent Day of Special Studies, due to its immense importance in our churches today. Here are the biblical arguments for the revival of a once-universal practice. (This is Part I of two addresses.)

 

 

Gospel Sermon  Sunday 21 July 2024 | 6:30pm

Why Should We Believe?

Mark 4.23

God appeals to our intelligent minds - but will we listen? Our inclination is to turn away, but if God in His mercy places in us a thirst for certain things, we listen and come to Him. Here are the needs that draw us to God.

 

 

Bible Study  Wednesday 24 July 2024 | 7:30pm

How Mosaic Worship Foretold Christ

Hebrews 9.1

'Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all.'

 

Teaching Sermon  Sunday 21 July 2024 | 11:00am

The Believer’s Vow

Genesis 28.20

New believers when truly enlightened and saved are moved to make a pledge or vow to God, which will be renewed and deepened throughout this pilgrimage. Here are the important features of such vows, their scope, and their benefits and blessings.

 

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The above link is to search for specific words or Scriptures in the King James inerrant and infallible  English Version  (KJV)  because it is providentially protected and preserved by GOD Himself through the only translation into English by faithful brethren from the 5,312 established majority text manuscripts MT from which the New Testament  Greek Textus Receptus [received text] was taken  and the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament (Jewish Tanakh).  These manuscripts are providentially protected, and give greater glory to God when compared to the variant readings of all post KJV  translations. Modern Critical Texts are based on only 55 hand picked Greek manuscripts fabricated from either Westcott and Hort or Nestle and Aland. Both of these Greek textual sources make the assumption that OLDER IS BETTER. Of course, this assumption is not valid in any place   the older manuscripts err from the Textus Receptus..

 

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DEFENDING  THE  KING JAMES BIBLE    by the Millennium Bible Institute 

URL: https://youtu.be/RL1px3GRfo4 

This video presents the truth  for those who seek to learn about and use the providentially protected, preserved and immutable Holy Bible that is both inerrant [without error] and infallible and gives God alone, the utmost praise, and the greatest glory due to HIMSELF. Praise and worship are rightfully insisted upon and commanded in God’s  inspired [God-Breathed (Spoken) Word from God himself. 
HOLY WORDS  that were given by God through the Holy Ghost, word by word, to His  Holy Prophets and Apostles comprise all eternal Holy Scripture. (Matthew 5:18)

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HOW HAS  THE MAJORITY TEXT AND  THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS BEEN PROVIDENTIALLY PROTECTED AND PRESERVED? 

 

The inspired, god breathed, immortal words, were  uttered, word-by-word, to the  holy prophets and apostles who were chosen of God and moved by the holy ghost. These words are protected and preserved in holy scripture and are written word-by-word and are immutable, [unchangeable] without error, and infallible [incapable of making a mistake or being wrong]. and for ever [sic] settled in heaven by God himself in the self authenticating word of god, itself. 

 

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89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

 Psalm 119:89

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21For the prophecy [prophecies] came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.  
2 Peter 1:21

 

Authorized (King James) Version:

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

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See evidence that God is not the author of confusion ...

 

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This Documentary will explain the how the Man-made explosion of over 100 English Translations of the Holy BIBLE occurred.    

 

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The complete Inside  Story of Westcott and Hort: 

 Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort  (Text only)

URL:   https://www.febc.edu.sg/article/def_the_inside_story_of_westcott_and_hort

 

 

In 1870, The Anglican Church of England passed a resolution to revise the English Bible. The New Testament revision committee which finally consisted of 25 scholars (though only about 16 eventually attended the meetings) which included Westcott and Hort. The committee worked for ten years in the Jerusalem chamber, and these two scholars swept the Revision Committee along with them after work commenced. In fact, the “Cambridge trio” (Westcott, Hort and Lightfoot) colluded with others to dominate the meetings with their views of the text and to defeat any who opposed them. Their *letters reveal this conspiracy:

* Letters from close relatives are quoted in the Inside Story above

The only voice defending the Textus Receptus was Dr Scrivener, probably the foremost scholar of the day in the manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and the history of the Text. But he was systematically outvoted by the Cambridge trio and outdone by Hort’s powerful debating skill. When the revision was completed, the revision committee had altered the Greek Text in 5,337 places,

thus violating the original rule that had been set for the committee of not altering the Greek Text unless absolutely necessary to do so.
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CONCLUSION

In conclusion, let it be said that no matter how good any modern version of the New Testament is in other ways, it is clearly blemished if the work of Westcott and Hort or Nestle & Aland.is present in it. The presence of their work means that it is based on  defective text. Those who honor the Word of God must not promote any of these versions by the church, not because the content of the version is entirely  evil in itself, but because being contented to use a weakened version rather than the existing, preserved, inerrant unblemished one, dishonors God. If God has preserved for His people a good Greek text of the New Testament for 18 centuries, how dishonoring it must  be to Him if His people now chose versions that are  based on  the defective and inferior  Greek manuscript  invented  by Westcott & Hort or Nestle & Aland.

 

Let the biblical story of Nadab and Abihu be a lesson for us all:

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled” (Lev 10:1–6).

– Published in The Burning Bush, Volume 4 Number 1, January 1998

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