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DEVOTION for October 14th 2025
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Only the Textus Receptus [Received Text] is produced from the more than 5,321 original Majority Greek Text Manuscripts MT and agree 99% with one another. All other variant readings are translated from either Westcott and Hort’s or Nestle and Aland’s, Greek Texts fabricated from only a handful [45] of Majority Text Manuscripts MT and lack the trustworthiness produced in the inspired 1769 [1611] King James Version, KJV and the Geneva Bibles; the only two translations from the reliable, inspired, immutable and divinely protected Textus Receptus.
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Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy
(1) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC5rUbs_-E&t=9s
(169 mins.)
The Bridge to Babylon video presents historical evidence that accounts for the explosion of over 100 different English version translations of the Bible. The continuing attempts to replace, add or take away from the 1769 King James Version of the Holy Bible can not prevail because GOD Himself preserves and protects His inspired Holy Words
from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion , error additions, subtractions and changes.
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*A.D. does NOT mean “After Death”.
It abbreviates Anno Domini;
It’s a Latin phrase adopted into English that means:
Come “Year of our Lord."
BC/AD versus BCE/CE What’s the difference?​
Defend the Truth. Won’t you? ...More
Is the website DAILYSPURGEON trustworthy?
Is it of God?
Beloved ones, don’t be believing every spirit [everyone or everything] you hear but be testing the spirit [voice] whether it is of God: because many false prophets have gone [come] out into the world. Here’s how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit [voice] that confesses [avows] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, having come[who came] out of God, is of God: and every spirit that confesses not [doesn’t audibly avow] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
I hereby confess, out-loud, that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh.
[All translations of the Bible that use a Greek text other than the traditional and reliable Textus Receptus ignore the word “ictin” (the Greek word that means “is” in English). This omission causes “is here” to change its meaning from “is come” [is here] to “has come”.
This error is self-evident as non-believers, false prophets and even heretics can, and frequently do, declare that He “has come” [in the flesh.
While this is a true statement when taken at face value, the meaning “has come” is clearly not the same as “is here”; the valid test to discern between the Spirit of God and the spirit of antichrist.
The most well documented fact in all of recorded human history is that Jesus Christ [Messiah] “has come” in the flesh. The essential question, however, is not whether the spirit [words or person] being tested confesses that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh but, whether Jesus Christ, “is here”, [present tense] (NOW) from God, in the flesh.
30 for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Compare, here, scripture with scripture: “I speak concerning Christ and the church.” [the fleshly embodiment, here, of the body of Christ].
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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for October 14th * A.D. 2025 written and calendared by Charles H. Spurgeon.
The Lord Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, 1 John 4:2-4
was born of a virgin A.D. 2025 years ago. (PRESENT YEAR)
He’s alive today, has existed from the beginning as God’s eternal Word,
and He’s returning soon for his bride, the Church.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,
believed on in the world, received up into glory. 1 Timothy 3:16
Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth:
for I am God and there is none else. Isaiah 45:22
* BCE/CE vs. BC/AD What’s the difference?
Learn the difference; defend the Truth. Won’t you?
A.D. does NOT mean “After Death” as many mistakenly believe. It is Latin for Anno Domini, a phrase adopted into English usage that means “Year of [the/our] Lord”. The complete original phrase "anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi" means "in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ”. A.D. is used with B.C. Before Christ to divide all known history before and after the birth of Jesus Christ. ...More
Worship God in Spirit and in Truth:
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Praying with our heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; 1 Thessalonians 5:17
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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
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Gather 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.
Matthew 18:20 - Jesus Christ
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2 Timothy 2:15 …in Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.
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“Study to show yourself approved unto God, a worker that needs not be ashamed, rightly dividing [accurately comprehending and sharing] the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15
Our aim is to follow the Lord Jesus Christ who says, “I am the way, the truth and the life…” John 14:6
Jesus was lifted up from the earth, hung on the cross and gave up his life to save sinners, John 12:32 Therefore, we pray that many should not perish, but come believing in Jesus Christ and have everlasting life. This invitation is extended to all non-believers for them to turn away from sin, look to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. We pray also that all believers will be built up being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:28-30
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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION FOR October 14th *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892
PRAYER 12. Part 5: ON HOLY GROUND. October 14th
ANECDOTE 74: October 14th Christ the Door.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: October 14th NEVER ASHAMED
-Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven- Matthew 10:32
MORNING: October 14th "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.” Philippians 3:8
EVENING: October 14th "And be not conformed to this world. "— Romans 12:2
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A SINNER’S PRAYER
PRAYER 12. Part 5 of 10 October 14th ON HOLY GROUND.
[Our Father] We do, with all our hearts, pray “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” Lord, help us to do Thy will. Take the crippled [fallen] kingdom of our manhood [human nature] and reign Thou [You reign] over it. Let spirit and body be consecrated to [Thee] God. May there be no reserves [set asides]; may everything be given up to Thee [You]. Reign forever! Pierced King, despised and nailed to a tree, sit Thou [Yourself] on the glorious high throne in our hearts, and may our lives prove that Thou art [You are] Lord over us; by our every thought and desire, and imagination, and word, and act, in every respect being under Thy [Your] divine control.
[I pray in the name of Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ], Amen.
(Attachment: PRAYER 12.doc)
ANECDOTE 74: October 14th Christ, The Door.
I read a story the other day of some Russians crossing wide plains studded over here and there with forests. The villages were ten or a dozen miles from each other, the wolves were out, the horses were rushing forward madly, the travelers could hear the baying [howling] of the wolves behind them; and, although the horses tore along with all speed, yet the wolves were fast behind, and they only escaped, as we say, “by the skin of their teeth,” managing just to get inside some hut that stood in the road, and to shut-to the door. Then they could hear the wolves leap on the roof; they could hear them dash against the sides of the hut; they could hear them gnawing at the door, and howling, and making all sorts of dismal noises; but the travelers were safe, because they had entered in by the door, and the door was shut.
Now, when a man is in Christ, he can hear, as it were, the devils howling like wolves, all fierce and hungry for him ; and his own sins, like wolves are seeking to drag him down to destruction. But he has got [entered] into Christ, and that is such a shelter that all the devils in the world, if they were to come at once, could not start [break] a single beam of that eternal refuge: it must stand fast, although the earth and heaven should pass away. Now, to every man and woman, [Jesus] Christ says that if they have entered in by the door, [by faith in Jesus Christ] they shall be saved.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK October 14th C.H. Spurgeon 1834 to 1892
NEVER ASHAMED
…Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven…Matthew 10:32
-Cualquiera pues que me confesare delante de los hombres, le confesare yo tambien delante de mi Padre que esta en los cielos- Mateo 10:32
Gracious promise! It is a great Joy to me to confess my Lord. Whatever my faults may be, I am not ashamed of Jesus, nor do I fear to declare the doctrines [truths] of His cross. O Lord, I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. Sweet is the prospect which the text sets before me! Friends forsake and enemies exult [rejoice], but the Lord does not disown His servant.
Doubtless my Lord will own me even here, and give me new tokens [proofs] of His favorable regard. But there comes a day when I must stand before the great Father. What bliss [joyfulness] to think that Jesus will confess me then! He will say, …This man truly trusted me, and was willing to be reproached for my name’s sake; and therefore I acknowledge him as mine … .
The other day a great man was made a knight, and the Queen handed him a jeweled garter [band to hold up socks and shirt sleeves before elastic was invented]; but what of that? [So what!] It will be an honor beyond all honors for the Lord Jesus to confess us in the presence of the divine Majesty in the Heavens.
Never let me be ashamed to own [to claim, speak up and speak out for] my Lord. Never let me indulge [allow] a cowardly silence, or allow a faint-hearted compromise [. Shall I blush [be embarrassed] to own [claim] Him who promises to own [speak up for] me?
Prayer: Thank You dear Lord that You confess whosoever has confessed you publicly on earth to Your Father in heaven. I receive this promise in your name and for your sake Lord Jesus. Amen.
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… and pray for the saving of souls and strengthening of believers.
The Lord … is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide God’s eternal Word preserved by God, Himself.
MORNING October 14th
"I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. " —
Philippians 3:8
EVENING: October 14th "And be not conformed to this world. "— Romans 12:2
—Reputo todas las cosas pérdida por el eminente conocimiento de Cristo Jesús, mi Señor
— Filipenses 3:8
SPIRITUAL knowledge of Christ will be [is] a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person's acquaintance with Him.
No, I must know Him myself; I must know Him on my own account. It will be an intelligent knowledge.
I must know Him, not as the visionary dreams of Him, but as the Word reveals Him.
I must know His natures, divine and human.
I must know His offices, His attributes, His works, His shame, His glory.
I must meditate on Him until I "comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the love of Christ, which passes [is beyond] knowledge."
It will be an affectionate knowledge of Him; indeed, if I know Him at all, I must love Him.
An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.
Our knowledge of Him will be a satisfying knowledge. When I know my Savior, my mind will be full to the brim—I shall feel that I have that which my spirit panted after [sorely longed for]. "This is that bread whereof if a man eat he shall never hunger."
At the same time it will be an exciting knowledge; the more I know of my Beloved, the more I shall want to know. The higher I climb, the loftier will be the summits which invite my eager footsteps. I shall want the more as I get the more.
Like the miser's treasure, my gold will make me covet more.
To conclude, this knowledge of Christ Jesus will be a most-happy-one; in fact, so elevating that sometimes it will completely bear me up above all trials and doubts and sorrows; and it will, while I enjoy it, make me something more than "Man that is born of woman, who is of few days, and full of trouble,"
for it will fling about me the immortality of the ever-living Savior and gird [support] me with the golden girdle of His eternal joy.
Come, my soul, sit at Jesus' feet and learn of Him all this day.
DEVOTION for October 14th *A.D. 2024
Written and calendared 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?
PRAYER 12.doc)
ANECDOTE 74: Christ, The Door.
I read a story the other day of some Russians crossing wide plains studded over here and there with forests. The villages were ten or a dozen miles from each other, the wolves were out, the horses were rushing forward madly, the travelers could hear the baying [howling] of the wolves behind them; and, although the horses tore along with all speed, yet the wolves were fast behind, and they only escaped, as we say, “by the skin of their teeth,” managing just to get inside some hut that stood in the road, and to shut-to the door. Then they could hear the wolves leap on the roof; they could hear them dash against the sides of the hut; they could hear them gnawing at the door, and howling, and making all sorts of dismal noises; but the travelers were safe, because they had entered in by the door, and the door was shut.
Now, when a man is in Christ, he can hear, as it were, the devils howling like wolves, all fierce and hungry for him ; and his own sins, like wolves are seeking to drag him down to destruction. But he has got [entered] into Christ, and that is such a shelter that all the devils in the world, if they were to come at once, could not start [break] a single beam of that eternal refuge: it must stand fast, although the earth and heaven should pass away. Now, to every man and woman, [Jesus] Christ says that if they have entered in by the door, [by faith in Jesus Christ] they shall be saved.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK October 14 by C.H. Spurgeon 1834 to 1892
NEVER ASHAMED
…Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven…Matthew 10:32
-Cualquiera pues que me confesare delante de los hombres, le confesare yo tambien delante de mi Padre que esta en los cielos- Mateo 10:32
Gracious promise! It is a great Joy to me to confess my Lord. Whatever my faults may be, I am not ashamed of Jesus, nor do I fear to declare the doctrines [truths] of His cross. O Lord, I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart. Sweet is the prospect which the text sets before me! Friends forsake and enemies exult [rejoice], but the Lord does not disown His servant.
Doubtless my Lord will own me even here, and give me new tokens [proofs] of His favorable regard. But there comes a day when I must stand before the great Father. What bliss [joyfulness] to think that Jesus will confess me then! He will say, …This man truly trusted me, and was willing to be reproached for my name’s sake; and therefore I acknowledge him as mine … .
The other day a great man was made a knight, and the Queen handed him a jeweled garter [band to hold up socks and shirt sleeves before elastic was invented]; but what of that? [So what!] It will be an honor beyond all honors for the Lord Jesus to confess us in the presence of the divine Majesty in the Heavens.
Never let me be ashamed to own [to claim, speak up and speak out for] my Lord. Never let me indulge [allow] a cowardly silence, or allow a faint-hearted compromise [. Shall I blush [be embarrassed] to own [claim] Him who promises to own [speak up for] me?
Prayer: Thank You dear Lord that You confess whosoever has confessed you publicly on earth to Your Father in heaven. I receive this promise in your name and for your sake Lord Jesus. Amen.
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… and pray for the saving of souls and strengthening of believers.
The Lord … is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide God’s eternal Word preserved by God, Himself.
MORNING October 14
"I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. " —
Philippians 3:8
EVENING: "And be not conformed to this world. "— Romans 12:2
—Reputo todas las cosas pérdida por el eminente conocimiento de Cristo Jesús, mi Señor
— Filipenses 3:8
SPIRITUAL knowledge of Christ will be [is] a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person's acquaintance with Him.
No, I must know Him myself; I must know Him on my own account. It will be an intelligent knowledge.
I must know Him, not as the visionary dreams of Him, but as the Word reveals Him.
I must know His natures, divine and human.
I must know His offices, His attributes, His works, His shame, His glory.
I must meditate on Him until I "comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and know the love of Christ, which passeth [passes, is beyond] knowledge."
It will be an affectionate knowledge of Him; indeed, if I know Him at all, I must love Him.
An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.
Our knowledge of Him will be a satisfying knowledge. When I know my Savior, my mind will be full to the brim—I shall feel that I have that which my spirit panted after [sorely longed for]. "This is that bread whereof if a man eat he shall never hunger."
At the same time it will be an exciting knowledge; the more I know of my Beloved, the more I shall want to know. The higher I climb, the loftier will be the summits which invite my eager footsteps. I shall want the more as I get the more.
Like the miser's treasure, my gold will make me covet more.
To conclude, this knowledge of Christ Jesus will be a most-happy-one; in fact, so elevating that sometimes it will completely bear me up above all trials and doubts and sorrows; and it will, while I enjoy it, make me something more than "Man that is born of woman, who is of few days, and full of trouble,"
for it will fling about me the immortality of the ever-living Savior and gird [support] me with the golden girdle of His eternal joy.
Come, my soul, sit at Jesus' feet and learn of Him all this day.
EVENING October 14
"And be not conformed to this world. "—Romans 12:2
—No os conforméis á este siglo— Romanos 12:2
IF a Christian can possibly be saved while he conforms to this world, it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired.
Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner [seaman] climbs the rocks of his native country?
Then be worldly; be mixed up with Mammonites [seekers of uncertain riches] and refuse to go without [outside] the camp bearing Christ's reproach.
But would you have a heaven below as well as a heaven above? Would you comprehend with all saints what are the heights and depths, and know the love of Christ which passes knowledge?
Would you [like to] receive an abundant entrance into the joy of your Lord?
Then come out from among them and be ye separate; touch not the unclean thing.
Would you attain the full assurance of faith? You cannot gain it while you commune with sinners.
Would you flame with vehement love? Your love will be dampened by the drenchings [downpours] of godless society.
You cannot become a great Christian —you may be a babe in grace, but you never can be a perfect man in Christ Jesus— while you yield yourself to the worldly maxims [sayings] and modes of business of men of the world.
It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier [member of the king’s royal court] is too intimate with his king's enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous.
Little thorns make great blisters, little moths destroy fine garments, and little frivolities and little rogueries [weird behavior] will rob religion of a thousand joys.
0 professor, too little separated from sinners, you know not what you lose by your conformity to the world. It cuts the tendons of your strength, and makes you creep [crawl] where you ought to run. Then, for your own comfort's sake and for the sake of your growth in grace, if you be a Christian, be a Christian, and be a marked and distinct one.
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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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..
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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.
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
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.
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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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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
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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.
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Devotions are:
· C.H. Spurgeon Prayers
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· 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.
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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.
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
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
'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
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..
The established majority manuscripts and the Textus Receptus avoid doctrinal error, and inaccuracies in translation, uninspired editorial notations, variant or ambiguous readings which taken from Codices Vaticanus, or Sinaiticus.
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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.
The Authorized (King James) Holy Bible.
ל Lamed
89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
Authorized (King James) Version:
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 ...
VIDEO (2 hrs. 49 mins.)
This Documentary will explain the how the Man-made explosion of over 100 English Translations of the Holy BIBLE occurred.
URL:https://youtu.be/vIC5rUbs_-E?si=hLdDxc580z-dvPdi
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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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