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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION  for October 25th *A.D. 2026 written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon.

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I am so grateful for GOD’S blessing through the assistance of Tom DeOro in bringing Daily Spurgeon.tv to the Internet for the enrichment of DailySpurgeon,com,  an internet site that brings Gospel Content from Charles Haddon Spurgeon and supports the continued use of the Immutable Authorized King James Bible (1769 edition). Our prayer is that through this instrumentality many will be Born Again and will continue in the Joy of the Lord, peace that passes understanding, the continued loving fellowship with one another  and the God-kind [Agape] of love that GOD has so generously given.

Thank you in the name of  The Lord Jesus Christ [Anointed Messiah] for His sake and by His Grace, All Glory to Him.
Your brother in Christ,
John Michael
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Posted on 10/25/2026:

The Holy Scriptures for the Persian People –Pr Pooyan Mehrshahi
URL: (Click Here)  55 Minutes
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SPURGEON’S FINAL SERMON
URL: (Click Here)  33 Minutes

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Posted on 10/23/2026:

THE PURITANS
URL: (Click Here for last 10 minutes)   124 Minutes
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ELVIS (Click Here)  …for the Back Story of  His very First singing performance as a 10 year old boy at the Tupelo, Mississippi  FAIR.

…  now hear him sing  “OLD SHEP”, The same song he sang back then, now that he’s a Super Star.
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What Actually Happens the Moment You're Born Again?

Are You Certain you are Born Again? by CHARLES SPURGEONTop of Form

URL:  (Click Here)   37 Minutes
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The True Story of  JOHN CALVIN: The Man Who Reformed the Church

URL: (Click Here)    25 Minutes
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MARTIN LUTHER (1)

The man who Freed GOD’S WORD
He was used of God to Translate the NEW TESTAMENT into German in 1521-1522 from the Source Text of the 1519 Second Edition of Erasmus’s Greek New Testament that became known as The Textus Receptus. It was the First Bible to be translated into a language other than Latin that could be understood by the Common people and used of GOD to be the driving force in the PROTESTANT REFORMATION

URL (Click Here) 44 minutes

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MARTIN LUTHER, The Monk Who Changed Christianity (2)

URL   (Click Here) 25 minutes
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THE SUPERIORITY OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

By Dr. Joe Shakour

URL: (Click Here)
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DR. ROBERT G. LEE, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis Tennessee is recorded here, preaching  the remarkably inspired  SERMON
 “Pay Day Someday”   (Click Here)   75 minutes

He preached this message  over 1,000 times to over a million people resulting in  many being drawn to confess and repent [turn away from] their sins, and to look to Christ Jesus, and Him alone for eternal life, and to confess Him publicly  to be their Savior and Lord as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Dr. Lee preached from The Formal Equivalent (Literal / word-for-word)  Providentially Preserved and Protected, Everlasting WORD of GOD, The 1769 Edition of The Authorized, Authoritative King James Bible: The Inspired [God Breathed],  Immutable! [never will be changed], inerrant and Infallible [incapable of error].
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DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION  for October 23rd *A.D. 2026 written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon.

King James the First of England Approved, Authorized, Commissioned and provided the leadership to create a new version of the Bible. This new Bible translation was directed by the King to be based on the existing Bishop’s Bible  (The Bishop’s Bible consists of The Old Testament copied from the ancient Hebrew [Masoretic] text.  The meticulous work of preserving and copying the ancient Hebrew text was done by the faithful Masoretes. Their core mission was to safeguard the original Hebrew Scriptures [The Tanakh / Old Testament] so that its meaning, pronunciation and accuracy would never be lost.

The Priest / Scribe ultimate biblical model for this role is Ezra 7:12 “Ezra the Priest, the scribe of the law”.  

The Traditional [original, Received Greek Text] The Textus Receptus is the Master text from which the King James translation of the New Testament is taken. The King James Version of 1769 is Providentially preserved and protected and is the most  authoritative  and most quoted, and most read Bible version ever. It has circulated over 6 Billion copies. This is more than all the other versions and editions Combined and has become the Most Influential, faithful and best Bible ever.

The NEW King James version is inferior to the [OLD 1769] King James.

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DR. JEFF RIDDLE makes the Case that the Traditional Text, also known as The Received Text, [The Textus Receptus, TR] ARE THE PROVIDENTIALY PRESERVED , IMMUTABLE, INSPRED Words of GOD.

The Defense of the Received Text  (Click here)  61 Minutes

[The Textus Receptus TR, THE TRADITIONAL AUTHORITATIVE GREEK TEXT]
By Dr. Jeff Riddle

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THE TESTIMONY OF CHARLES SPURGEON'S CONVERSION IN HIS OWN WORDS. (Click here)
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—*A.D. does NOT mean “After Death”. 
Rather,  it abbreviates Anno Domini;
… a Latin phrase adopted into English that means:
“Year of our Lord."
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Does BC/AD versus BCE/CE  really matter? …YES. IT DOES! 
Defend the Truth. Stand against the attempt to mislead, Won’t you?  ...More
The new terms are meaningless because BCE and CE still denote the exact number of years in relationship to the birth in Bethlehem of Jesus Christ [The Anointed Messiah].

Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, said: 'This amounts to the dumbing down of the Christian basis of our culture, language and history. These changes are unnecessary and they don't achieve the BBC’s objective [of wiping out any mention of or reference to Jesus Christ, His birth or His life]. ’

'Whether you use “Common Era, CE” or “Anno Domini, AD”, the date is actually still exact same same for both and the reference point is still the birth of [Jesus] Christ.

DR. DOUG  LEVESQUE  presents a Historical account to show why we should not rely on the more than 1,100 dumbed- down English translations from the CRITICAL TEXT. An Inferior text that was  cobbled together by self-appointed  men following Satan’s  questioning words in the Garden of Eden to Eve in the Garden of Eden,
“Hath God Said ?”

The Critical Text's Flawed Bibles  (From All Other Than The Textus Receptus Source Text) (Click Here)  27 minutes
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The Providentially Provided and Inspired  Life of King James  (Click Here)
Text from Wikipedia
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Bridge to Babylon The 1881 Textual Criticism Controversy  (Click Here)
(169 minutes. Video)[jM1]  

“Bridge to Babylon” is an exceptionally thoughtful Treatise of the explosion of over 1,100 English translations  of the Bible. An expose of the continuous  attempts to replace the Traditional 1769 King James Version of God’s Holy, Inerrant, Infallible  and Immutable Bible. All Attempts fail because GOD Himself providentially preserves and protects His Inspired  [God Breathed/Spoken] Words from all heresy, blasphemy, confusion, error and misinterpretation .

Over six Billion extant  (1769) King James Bibles establish it as the most widely printed, read and distributed book in human history. This is more than all other translations put  together and it continues to be the most quoted and most read  Bible ever.

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Scroll to bottom of p. 28  for  “ 19 EPISODES” of  THE  PILGRIM’S PROGRESS written in 1678 and is second only to the Bible as the all-time most widely printed and distributed book ever.  It has never been out of print.

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A Memorial Honoring the Memory of John Michael’s *Dad: 

The  last words, spoken by John Michael’s beloved Daddy.

*Charles Dumah Riley, Sr. (AKA: Daddy, "CD", and Paw Paw) 1897 – 1987

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

Amen... Amen… and  Amen!

My Daddy’s standard prayer before every meal, was always offered with all gravity, reverence and always heard in the unique sound of his deep Bass prayer voice:

“Accept our thanks for these and all other blessings, we humbly ask in Thy name, Amen.” 
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Please select and view a presentation today from among these five videos. 

DR. PHILIP STRINGER is highly recommended.)

THE KING JAMES VERSION [1769] IS THE FINAL, PRESERVED, PROTECTED and AUTHORITATIVE, INSPIRED [GOD BREATHED],  IMMUTABLE,  INNERANT AND INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD.

 

(1)  URL: (Click here) 38 Minutes             

You will be blessed as you discover GOD’S AUTHORITATIVE,  inspired [God breathed] , immutable, inerrant, infallible, providentially  preserved and  protected written and revealed Word [Words] of GOD.

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DR. DAVID L. BROWN (1 video)

THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT ARE NOT THE SAME.
(2)  URL: (click here)
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DR. DAVID SORENSON: (3 videos)

(1)  -THE MAKING OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

(3)  URL: (Click here)
 

  THE TRADITIONAL TEXT: ITS HISTORY & RELIABILITY

(4)  URL: (Click here)

 

THE TRADITIONAL TEXT (ALSO KNOWN AS THE RECEIVED TEXT [TEXTUS RECEPTUS]  VERSUS THE CRITICAL TEXT [Man’s critical thoughts and interpretations to take the place of God’s actual, God Breathed (Inspired) WORDS that were given to Prophets and Apostles and written as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.]

(5)  URL: (Click here)

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Discerning between The Holy Ghost and the spirit of false teachers / the Antichrist:

Is this Website from God and therefore trustworthy?

God says in His WORD to try every spirit to discern [determine] whether they are of God, and therefore whether they should be believed or not.

1 John 4:1-3

Chapter 4 
1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try [test] the spirits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye [by this you all [will] know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth [confesses] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh is of God: 3 and every spirit that confesseth not [doesn’t confess] that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof [of which] ye [you all] have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Therefore, Daily Spurgeon’s Website must hereby confess that

 

"Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh!” as the Body, The Bride of Christ; of His Church.
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SERMON: from Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle  (London)

Defining Spiritual Meat    1 Corinthians 3:1-10    with Dr. Peter Masters
PRAISE:  Sing the new song that God will give you. See EVENING below.
(…be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19 )

 

DAILY SPURGEON and DEVOTION for  October 25th    written and calendared by Charles H.  Spurgeon

TODAY’S   PRINT:
 

PRAYER 13, Part 6 of 11 October 25th : THE WINGS OF PRAYER.

ANECDOTE 85: October 25th  IMMEDIATE HEALING.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: October 25th   GOD FIRST, THEN EXTRAS

-But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you  -Matthew 6:33
MORNING: October 25th  "FOR THE TRUTH'S SAKE, WHICH DWELLETH [Lives] IN US, AND SHALL BE WITH US FOR EVER. " — 2 John 1:2
EVENING:  "SHE GLEANED IN THE FIELD AFTER THE REAPERS: AND HER HAP WAS TO LIGHT ON A PART OF THE FIELD BELONGING UNTO BOAZ, WHO WAS OF THE KINDRED OF ELIMELECH. " — Ruth 2:3
A  SINNERS PRAYER: October 25th

 

DailySpurgeon is a collection of inspired,  encouraging, and   challenging devotional messages by Charles Haddon Spurgeon for such worship.  I pray it be used, Heavenly Father, to the save the lost.  Encourage and embolden us as we “Study to shew [show] ourselves approved unto God, workers that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing [sharing] the word of truth.”
 2 Timothy 2:15   …in Jesus Christ’s name, Amen. 

 

        Loving and worshiping God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength in Spirit and in truth is our labor of love and the duty of every believer. This heart’s desire will grow stronger as we give ourselves to prayer, reading and meditating on God’s Word, gathering ourselves together to hear Gospel preaching,  and singing Psalms, sacred hymns and spiritual songs.
 

        To these ends, we pray DailySpurgeon.com  will be a benefit .  Heavenly Father, we ask that it be acceptable to You and that many nonbelieving souls will be brought to faith in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

We ask also that it may inspire greater devotion, consecration and personal discipleship in every believer.

 

 This web site is not intended, were it possible, to take the place of Christian fellowship, live gospel preaching or congregational gathering for praise and worship. But rather, it is intended to encourage and strengthen personal prayer, Bible study and obedience to God’s Word.

“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

 
DailySpurgeon.com  empowered by God, is for saving the lost and ministering worship to the Church, the body of Christ. It’s a website  containing selections from the writings of Charles H. Spurgeon, Sermons from The Metropolitan Tabernacle  and sacred music. It includes Bible  reading, prayers, anecdotes, devotional thoughts, as well as the singing of Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. …be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

 

Lord, please strengthen, encourage and challenge all believers in the faith and draw unbelievers to yourself. 

We pray for abundant and frequent harvests of souls and that all non-believers will repent and turn away from sin, look to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.  We pray that all believers remain faithful as we are being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ;  by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Romans 8:28-30

 

Live streaming schedule from  The Metropolitan Tabernacle  in London, U.K.      
Worship services consist of  prayer, scripture reading, congregational singing of traditional, sacred hymns and Gospel preaching and teaching from the Holy Bible. 
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CONTENTS:


TODAY’S SERMON: from Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle  (London U.K.)

Guarding the Truth    2 John Ch. 1    with Dr. Peter Masters


PRAISE: The Lord’s Prayer    by Bill and Gloria Gaither …be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

 

DEVOTION for October 25th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

 

PRAYER 13, Part 6 of 11   THE WINGS OF PRAYER.

ANECDOTE 85:  Immediate Healing.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK  October 25th       GOD FIRST, THEN EXTRAS   C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892

-But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you  -Matthew 6:33

MORNING October 25 

"For the truth's sake, which dwelleth [lives] in us, and shall be with us for ever. "— 2 John 1:2

 EVENING       October 25

"She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who wasof the kindred of Elimelech. "— Ruth 2:3

A SINNER’S PRAYER
 

TODAY’S DEVOTION Written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon for today’s date

 

PRAYER 13, Part 6 of 11
THE WINGS OF PRAYER.

       

May experience teach us more and more how to avoid occasions of sin. May we grow more watchful; may we have a greater supremacy over our own spirit; may we be able to control ourselves under all circumstances, and so act that if the Master were to come at any moment, we should not be ashamed to give our account into His hands.  Lord, we are not what we want to be. This is our sorrow. Oh!  that Thou wouldest, [would] by Thy Spirit, help us in the walks of life to adorn [exalt] the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

[In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 13.doc)

 

ANECDOTE 85: October 25th  IMMEDIATE HEALING.
 
We love the physician who heals speedily. If you find a skillful physician who can heal you of a sad disease even in years, you go to him, and are thankful. But suppose some wondrous man who with a touch could heal you, who with the very glance of his eyes could make you well at once, and stanch that blood [bleeding] or stop that disease, or turn aside that evil thing and make you well, would you not go to him, and feel that he was a great physician indeed? 

 

So [it is] with [Jesus] Christ. There shall be a man standing there with all his sins upon his head, and he may yet go down these stairs just [justified], complete in [Jesus] Christ, without a sin, freed from its damning power, delivered from all his guilt and iniquity, in one single instant!

       

It is a marvelous thing, beyond our power and comprehension. It is done in an instant.  God stamps [seals] it; the man is pardoned. He goes away in that same instant justified, as the publican did when he said,

 

“ Lord, have mercy upon me, a sinner,”

 

And then  received the mercy for which he sued [requested].

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK  October 25th     GOD FIRST, THEN EXTRAS   C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892

-But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you  -Matthew 6:33
 

-Mas buscad primeramente el reino de Dios y su justicia, y todas estas cosas os serán anadidas-  Mateo 6:33

  

See how the Bible begins: -In the beginning GOD.- Let your life open in the same way. Seek with your whole soul, first and foremost, the kingdom of God, as the place of your citizenship, and His righteousness as the character of your life. As for the rest, it will come from the Lord Himself without your being anxious concerning it. All that is needful for this life and godliness -shall be added unto you.- What a promise this is!

 

Food, raiment [clothing], home, and so forth, God undertakes to add to you while you seek Him.

 

[Because] You mind His business, and He will mind yours.

 

  • If you want paper and string, you get them [thrown in with no additional charge]  when you buy more important goods; and just so all that we need of earthly things we shall have thrown in [joined together] with the kingdom. He who is an heir of salvation shall not die of starvation; and he who clothes his soul with the righteousness of God cannot [will not] be left of the Lord with a naked body.

    Away with carking [complaining] care. Set all your mind upon seeking the Lord. Covetousness is poverty, and anxiety is misery: trust in God is an estate, and likeness to God is a heavenly inheritance. Lord, I seek thee, be found of me.


Prayer: Thank You Lord that all that is needful for this life and godliness -shall be added unto me as I seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.  I have this promise, in You, [alone] Lord Jesus, Amen. 
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       … and pray for many souls to be saved 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 taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide and proclaim God’s eternal Word preserved by God, Himself.


John 3:16

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A16+&version=AKJV (Click Here)

  
vis. The Textus Receptus TR [Received Text] is faithfully rendered and in substantial agreement with the overwhelming majority of 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts  of the New Testament known as the  MT. [Majority Text] from which the Textus Recptus was compiled. The Hebrew  manuscripts were meticulously copied by hand [manuscript] by the Masoretic  scribes of the Old Testament. Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices are inferior as they are found to be in disagreement with one another. They have been combined with invented Greek source texts.

 

A mere Fifty-five 55 manuscripts from the 5,321 were hand-picked from  the compromised codices containing multiple  variant readings set forth in modern textual criticism ostensibly to explain the need  for an alternative Greek text from the Textus Receptus that was for many years targeted  by  Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland who invented but did not disclose themselves to be the source  of their new Greek translation. They insisted on a code of silence as to the authorship of the Greek Text  from which all the Revisions were to be made from all members of the committee who were making the 1881 revisions RV  to the King James Bible.

 

Modern textual criticism is based on the false presupposition  that older manuscripts are, de-facto, better. Actually, the continuous unsettled changes from the variant readings reflect doctrinal ambiguities and are used to bolster doctrine that is  unsupported by scripture; secular or denominational traditions or blasphemous  translations to  diminish God’s Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, Inerrancy or Infallibility and to rob Glory from His infinite and everlasting “I AM” that is deserves ALL THE GLORY.

 

MORNING October 25th

 

"For the truth's sake, which dwelleth [lives] in us, and shall be with us for ever. "— 2 John 1:2
—Por la verdad que está en nosotros, y sera perpetuamente con nosotros—2 Juan 1:2

ONCE let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdues the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal [hellish] can dislodge it [put it away]. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the house. 

      

This is a Christian necessity;  he is no Christian who doth [does] not thus believe. Those who feel the vital power of the gospel [of Jesus Christ], and know the might of the Holy Ghost as He opens, applies, and seals the Lord's Word would sooner be torn to pieces than be rent [torn]  away from the gospel of their salvation. What a thousand mercies are wrapped up in the assurance that the truth will be with us forever; it will be our living support, our dying comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory.
      

This is Christian privilege and without it our faith would be of little worth. Some truths we outgrow and leave behind, for they are but rudiments and lessons for beginners, but we cannot thus deal with Divine truth, for though it is sweet food for babes, it is in the highest sense strong meat for men.

 

The truth that we are sinners is painfully with us to humble and make us watchful; the more blessed truth that whosoever believes on the Lord Jesus shall be saved, abides with us as our hope and joy.

 

Experience, so far from [contrary to] loosening our hold of the doctrines  [teachings] of grace, has knit us to them more and more firmly; our grounds and motives for believing are now more strong, more numerous than ever, and we have reason to expect that it will be so until in death we clasp [embrace] the Savior in our arms.

 

Wherever this abiding love of truth can be discovered, we are bound to exercise our love. No narrow circle can contain our gracious sympathies, [as] wide as the election of grace must be our communion of heart [heart-felt love].  Much of error may be mingled with truth received. Let us war with the error but still love the brother for the measure of truth we see in Him; above all let us love and spread the truth [of Christ’s Gospel] ourselves.

 EVENING       October 25th

"SHE GLEANED IN THE FIELD AFTER THE REAPERS: AND HER HAP WAS TO LIGHT ON A PART OF THE FIELD BELONGING UNTO BOAZ, WHO WASOF THE KINDRED OF ELIMELECH. " —  Ruth 2:3
 

—Espigó en el campo en pos de los segadores: y aconteció por ventura, que la suerte del campo era de Booz, el cual era de la parentela de Elimelech— Rut 2:3.
     
HER hap  [good fortune]  was.   Yes, it seemed nothing but an accidental happenstance, but how divinely was it planned! Ruth had gone forth with her mother's blessing under the care of her mother's God to [an] humble but honorable toil, and the providence of God was guiding her every step. 

Little did she know that amid the sheaves [stacks of grain] she would find a husband, that he would make her the joint owner of all those broad acres, and that she, a poor foreigner, would become one of the pro-genitors [in the ancestral linage] of the great Messiah. 

God is very good to those who trust in Him and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us tomorrow, but this sweet fact may cheer us, that no good thing shall be withheld.

Chance [Luck] is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything. The trivial events of today or tomorrow may involve consequences of the highest importance. 0 Lord, deal as graciously with Your servants [of today] as You did with Ruth.
     
How blessed would it be, if, in wandering in the field of meditation tonight, our "hap" should be to "light" [land] on the place where our next Kinsman [next-of-kin] will reveal Himself to us! 0 Spirit of God, guide us to Him. We would sooner glean [gather picked-over grain]  in His field than bear [carry] away the whole harvest from any other. 

0h, for the footsteps of His flock, that may conduct us to the green pastures where He dwells! This is a weary world when Jesus is away—we could better do without sun and moon than without Him—but how divinely fair [lovely] all things become in the glory of His presence! 

Our souls know the virtue that dwells in Jesus and can never be content without Him.  We will wait in prayer this night until our "hap" [good fortune] shall be to light [land] on a part of the field belonging to Jesus wherein

He will manifest Himself to us.

 

 


A SINNERS PRAYER  October 25th     
Come to Jesus by believing and (whole heartedly) praying a prayer like this:

“Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner. I’m lost and hopeless without You.  I will never be able to save myself. Without You and your death on the cross I would spend eternity in Hell when I die.

      I know that by doing my best or being good or justifying my own behavior as "good"   or "OK" will never  save me.

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

      I come to You right now, Lord Jesus.   Please save me. I believe You died on the cross to take my place and to put my sin nature to death. I know You always keep your word. Please save me. You say that you won’t reject anyone who comes to You. I'm coming    to You now. Thank You for saving me.

      I  give myself  to You, Lord Jesus. I declare that You are my Savior and Lord. Please   forgive me for all my sins. I’m sorry for every sin (bad thoughts, bad words and bad things I have done) and look to You to free me from the guilt and penalty of them, to keep me free from the power of sin and empower me overcome any temptation from sin’s     presence. Thank you for forgiving all of my sins by dying on the cross and paying for   my punishment. By nature and heritage I am a sinner, but now I'm clean by Your blood that you bled for me at Calvary [on the cross].

        Thank you Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was born and that You love me now and will always love me and will never reject or turn your back on   me.

        Thank you Heavenly Father that You let me see myself as the sinner that I am.  But, because You are good You have made a way I can be forgiven and have even given me the desire to come to You, turning away from my sin and to trusting in the Lord Jesus.  You have forgiven me because He took my place and You have made it possible for me to be born again [from above].


You gave Your only begotten Son to, give up  His life and die on the cross to pay my sin debt. Not just mine alone, but the sins of the whole world.

      Thank You, Heavenly Father that you raised Jesus from the dead. He is ALIVE and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave. In Christ Jesus there is no condemnation. After You raised Him from the dead You gave Him a Glorified, [everlasting] physical body and  after he was seen by many witnesses on earth You took Him up to reign with You in heaven.
 

         I pray in the name, of Your only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ with a grateful heart.   Thank You for saving me heavenly Father and for sending the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, for my guidance and solemn instruction into all truth.,  Amen.”

    With all my heart, I thank you Lord Jesus for saving me.
I ask now that You live Your life through me in Your name, Lord Jesus  I pray, Amen.


Please allow us to celebrate with you and with the angels in heaven at the news of your new birth.   Please write to:

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[You too 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; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass ... Psalm 37:5

  3. Come to Him. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I 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]

 

Abide in me Lord Jesus in Your name I pray, Amen.

 



Please allow us to celebrate with you and with the angels in heaven your new birth. Write to:

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The John Mark Publishing Company 

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Sing:  This Little Light of Mine  Children’s  Chorus  by JAMJAR   Sing-along won’t you?  This PRAISE music came to mind from today’s  ANECDOTE.

Better [to] have two lights than only one. The light of creation is a bright light. God may be seen in the stars; his name is written in gilt letters on the brow of night; you may discover his glory in the ocean waves, yea, in the trees of the field; but it is better to read it in two books than in one.

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David Hocking (click here)   enlightens us  with  historical facts that make viewing  the case for the OLD KING JAMES VERSION; time well spent.

You will find it here [in the Bible] more clearly revealed; for he has written this book himself, and he has given you the key to understand it, through the Holy Spirit. Ah, beloved, let us thank God for this Bible; let us love it; let us count it more precious than much fine gold.

[The Authorized immutable King James Version, (AKJV) used  by Charles Spurgeon is
God’s preserved, and protected  inerrant and immutable Word.

 David Hocking  makes the case for the Protected translation of the Bible, and points out the textual errors of “Critical Text” and the erroneous Theory followed by all modern English translations due to Westcott and Hort’s inferior Greek Translation of the New Testament. Text that follows  incomplete and conflicting Greek manuscripts rather than the coherent and reliable Traditional Text [Received Text (Textus Receptus)] for the New Testament and the Masoretic Hebrew Text for the New and Old Testament respectively of the Authorized King James Bible.

“The Bible, The Whole Bible and Nothing but the Bible” is an  expression David Hocking expresses often.

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TODAY’S SERMON:
Behold Your God     Isaiah 40:9    with Dr. Peter Masters

URL:
https://metropolitantabernacle.org/sermons-online/behold-your-god/

Our society today knows so little about almighty God, having willfully shut Him out of all consideration. But look, says the Bible, at His attributes, ways and plans. Consider the uniqueness of God and compare His actions, plans and promises with those of human society.

The Most Hated Christian Doctrine   by John MacArthur


URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1fFRyDLbMA



SACRED HYMN and GOSPEL SELECTIONS:

(…be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord;

Ephesians 5:18-19  
 
I Will Sing The Wondrous Story

Blessed Assurance

 


 

The Love of God    Bill Gaither with Choir

 I Love You Lord   by Jared Reynolds
In loving memory of  Jon Edward Riley  (1971-2021) who would sometimes just bust-out singing this beautiful praise;  often, on the way to church with his Dad.

  …“Later” [see-ya later] was how he always said farewell  … he would never say “good-bye”.  Remembering how Jon always said  “Later” brings a special  joy to those he loved so well. … and brings to mind the promise of the song:

’Till We Meet Again.  By Jeremiah Rankin (1880) with Antrim Mennonite Choir

Amen.



FEATURED SERMON:

From The Metropolitan Tabernacle (C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892)
Duty and Fruits of Brotherly Love    1 John 4:7     with Dr. Peter Masters

From the warning against false teachers, the apostle turns again to the great duty of love to fellow believers, providing fourteen compelling reasons (with benefits) for honoring this obligation. Here love is defined, its actions and activities listed, and the reasons surveyed.


Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?     NO! (Click HERE to find out why.)

 

The natural will is cold, hard iron, which cannot be hammered into form, but the renewed will, like molten metal, is soon molded by the hand of [God’s] grace. In the fleshy heart there is a tenderness of the affections.  

The hard heart does not love the Redeemer, but the renewed heart burns with affection towards Him. The hard heart is selfish and coldly demands, "Why should I weep for sin? Why should I love the Lord?"

But the heart of flesh says;
"Lord, You know that I love You; help me to love You more!"

Many are the privileges of this renewed heart;   " 'Tis [It is] here the [Holy] Spirit dwells, 'tis here that Jesus rests.  "  It is fitted to receive every spiritual blessing, and every blessing comes to it. It is prepared to yield every heavenly fruit to the honor and praise of God, and therefore the Lord delights in it.

A tender heart is the best defense against sin, and the best preparation for heaven. A renewed heart stands on its watchtower [on guard] looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus.

Have you [Do you have] this heart of flesh?

[Pray and Ask for it now,  won’t you?]

 

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Thank you.  
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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 to rightly divide God’s Holy Word preserved by God, Himself.

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John 3:16 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.

THE INFERIOR CRITICAL TEXT:

The Incomplete and unsealed codices of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus do not pretend to be majority texts, [Original Masoretic Hebrew and the Greek Textus Receptus]. Sinaiticus and Vaticanus present variant, ambiguous and erroneous readings rather than that of the well-established and settled 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. GOD is not the author of confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33 

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WHO IS THE GOD OF THE BIBLE? 
by David Hocking

WHAT ARE HIS NAMES?

 

(1 One)   His Name is INCOMPREHENSIBLE!

Exodus 3:13-15 “13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.”


Isaiah 9:6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
and the government shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.


Psalm 139:6

Authorized (King James) Version

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”

 

 

(2 Two)  His Name is INFINITE!

Psalm 145:1-3
1 I will extol thee, my God, O king;
and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
2 Every day will I bless thee;
and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
and his greatness is unsearchable.

Romans 11:33
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
 

(3 Three)   His Name is INCORRUPTABLE!

              (two issues:  holy  and eternal)

Psalm 72:17
“His name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in Him: all nations shall call Him blessed.”

Psalm 99:3
“Let them praise Thy great and terrible name; for it is Holy.”

Psalm 111:9
“Holy and reverend is His name.”
Psalm 135:13
Thy Name, O LORD  endureth for ever; and Thy memorial,  O LORD, throughout all generations.”
Psalm 145:21
“Let all flesh bless His holy Name for ever and ever.”

 

(4 Four)  His name is IMMUTABLE! [Unchanged and unchangeable]

Malachi 3:6
“For I am the LORD, I change not.”

Hebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have (1) a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon (2) the hope set before us.”

 

(5 Five)  His name is INCOMPARABLE! [Without Equal]

Deuteronomy 4:35
“Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightiest know that the LORD He is God;  there is none else beside Him.”

Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

 

 (6 Six)   His Name is INDESCRIBABLE! [No description adequately describes HIM] 
 
El, Eloah, Elyon, Elohim, Adon, Adonai, - Yah, Yahveh
(The Names for GOD used 10,952 times in the Bible!)
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To Abraham – His Name is El Shaddai [God Almighty, Abundant Provider,  Provider of More than Enough]
 

Genesis17:1   ,
And when Abram was ninety and nine (99) years old,  the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I Am, the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
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Why Cults, False Teachers and Heretics have tried to delete 1 John 5:7
from the Bible.    

 By Dr. Phil Stringer

 

In Defense of I John 5:7

By Dr. Phil Stringer


1 John 5:7 Is The Great Trinitarian Proof Text of The Bible. (For The immutable Doctrine of the Trinity.)
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Why The Traditional  Greek Text Also Known As The Received Text [Latin: Textus Receptus] TR is Inspired, Inerrant and Immutable.

By Dr. David Sorenson

In addition to overwhelming evidence of authenticity from the 5,321 Majority Text Greek manuscripts, this link gives Translational Evidence that proves the age of the Textus Receptus to be older than the  Codices Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrus.
(Inferior Greek sources used in Critical Text translations.)

This includes Westcott and Hort, Nestle and Aland and the Codices Sinaiticus and *Vaticanus.

*The final Greek Text so deemed, authorized and sanctioned by the Catholic Church and The Vatican.
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The Lord Jesus *Christ  [The*Anointed Messiah]

was supernaturally Fathered by the Holy Ghost,  and born of a teen-aged virgin girl named  Mary 2026 years ago in Bethlehem of Judea.

He was crucified, and His lifeless body was placed in a tomb. After three days, GOD  brought Him back to life again, and raised HIM from the dead victorious over sin, death and the grave.

He is GOD’S Incarnate WORD and Everlasting SACRIFICE, The LAMB of GOD, [THE WORD of GOD made flesh.]  The CHURCH is the BODY of *Christ,
*[The MESSIAH.]

[The CHURCH] is His espoused [Legally Obligated] Bride, for whom HE will come again to consummate the Marriage in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the Preserved and Protected Words of GOD.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               These WORDS are God-Breathed, [Spoken] Eternal WORDS spoken by Almighty GOD. The same GOD who calls Himself “I AM”, is Omni-Lingual, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Immutable, All-Wise, Omnipresent, Eternally and Supremely Holy. He is the One-and-Only Triune, Three-in-One GOD.


“I and my Father are one”.  John 10:30

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1 John 5:7  Is the fundamental scriptural  basis for the doctrine and essential tenet of the Trinity. [The Triune, [Three-in-One] GOD in-Three Persons   (This verse has been omitted or Changed to diminish the authority and the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ or has been Removed entirely from all Critical Text translations by apostates that hold to the untenable goal of False Doctrine that gives rise to all manner of Cults, False Teaching, Heresies, false Prophets, Agnostics, Gnostics, Atheists and  Pagans.


Therefore, The incarnate WORD of GOD, [Jesus *Christ
(*The Anointed MESSIAH) and His Father are ONE.]  John 10:30

7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, [Jesus Christ] and the Holy Ghost: and
THESE THREE ARE ONE. John 10:30


8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, [Holy Ghost] and the Water [Life of the Father], and the Blood; [The Sacrificial Blood of Jesus Christ]: and these three AGREE IN ONE. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son,  [The LORD Jesus *Christ
*(The Anointed Messiah)].

 

GOD calls Himself “I AM” and Jesus Christ is The WORD made Flesh, GOD’s WORD is infinite and will endure FOREVER, from Eternity Past through the never-ending Eternal Future.
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Why Cults, False Teachers, Heretics and Critical Text adherents  have tried to take   1 John 5:7   out of the Holy Bible.     

 

By Dr. Phil Stringer

1 John 5:7 Is The Great Trinitarian Proof Text of The Bible. (That establishes the  immutable Doctrine of the Trinity.)

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Daniel Webster [Writer of the Webster’s Dictionary] was once asked. “Does it not bother you to believe in the Trinity since you cannot explain it?

 

His answer was,  “What would bother me would be to have a God so small that I could fully explain Him.”
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The Traditional Text: It's History & Manifestation

By Dr. David Sorenson

In addition to evidence of authenticity from the 5,321 Majority Text manuscripts, this link presents Translational Evidence that the Traditional Text is Inerrant, Infallible and is the Inspired [Word-by-Word, GOD-Breathed Greek Text that moved the Prophets and Apostles to write precisely the Greek and Hebrew words they were told to write by the Holy Ghost]

The Traditional Text.  Length: (33:56 minutes)

The Traditional Greek Text was printed, not written by Desiderius Erasmus and was used  in the FIRST Christian Church at Antioch. It was later called The Received Text [vis. Latin: The Textus Receptus TR]. 

Over Five Billion King James (1769 Edition) Bibles, [NOT the NEW King James Version which is based on the inferior Critical Greek Text] account for more sales world-wide than all other version or edition of the Holy Bible combined.

This is more than all other Bible Versions and Editions put-together.
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 The Critical Text vs. The Traditional Text
(Also Known As The Received Text , The Textus Receptus  TR , and The Authorised Version AV and AKJV)

 

By Dr. David Sorenson

 

…So, Dr. Sorenson, “I hear You are King James Only.”
 
No, I’m Traditional Text only. But if you come to the view and the conviction of being Traditional Text only, you will be Only King James.

The issue is not translational.


Marketing ploys by publishing companies with little basis in reality would have us to believe that the new versions  are:
 

  • Easier to read.

  • More modern.

  • More accurate (Not  true)
     

The truth is that the KJV remains The most popular. (is still the most popularly read Bible in America). Over five billion copies of the King James (1769) is greater than all the other versions and editions combined.


The issue comes down to the textual issue. By That, I refer to the underlying Greek text. I guess we could say texts, plural but particularly that of the New Testament. On the one hand is the Traditional Text from which the only major English translation is the King James Version of the Bible. The Traditional Text.

On the other hand, is the Critical Text sometimes called the eclectic text from whence all the other translations come. And some will say well there really is no difference between them. The difference you could amount to is just the footnotes in the bottom of a page. (This is Not true) He was not dishonest but just repeating what someone had told him.

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The Remarkable life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon’s Testimony, as told by Him. (The Prince of Preachers)

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Link to Complete Index in The Pilgrim’s Progress of  Bible Scripture References (click here to open link).

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Thank you, Lord, for DailySpurgeon.com  a website given by You to encourage and support personal devotions to the Lord Jesus. This ministry started with sending e-mails of Faith’s Checkbook by Charles H. Spurgeon to Jon Edward Riley and others he would add.. 

Jon was called home by his loving Father in Heaven on January 16, 2021.

His  memory is honored here, giving honor to whom honor is due. We pray that through this and all other instrumentalities that God may effect, many will be born again, challenged, encouraged, and supported to grow in personal devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ while being conformed to His image; that they might be the firstborn among many brethren.. Romans 13:7   Romans 8:28-29

 

A PRAYER OF GRATITUDE:  (Tribute to the BRAVE) by Jon Edward Riley, 

(February 12, 1971- January16, 2021)

From an Indigenous, Irish, well beloved All-American son giving a prayer of gratitude to the Lord for  a  “ Heart of Freedom”

INDIAN SCOUT POST NO 1 Burial grounds at White Shield, North Dakota.

… a compassionate prayer of gratitude, thanking the Lord for the Military Service of Native-American Scouts serving the United States of America. …the land of the free and the home of the Brave.

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Jon loved to say, “I’m a blood bought, born-again child of God!” to anyone he happened to meet.

… Jon’s testimony is from one who, by grace through faith was forever accepted in the Beloved; who’s loving ways brought the good news of Jesus to many. and one who is present with the LORD in glory forever. One with whom we’ll one day meet again.

Amen.

Jon would sometimes just sing-out some of the following songs on the way to church, or sometimes just singing along with the Elvis Gospel CD that was always in our F-150’s CD player while riding with his Dad or,

Best of all, when an inspired, spontaneous praise from the Lord would just pop out from his joyful and loving heart.
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The Life of King James  (Click Here forText)

 ORIGINAL SACRED LITERATURE:
The Pilgrim’s Progress,    by John Bunyan

Beginning at its  original publication in 1678 it has NEVER been out of print.

 

"All the flowers in God's garden are double." There is no single mercy. You may think you have but one mercy, but you shall find it to be a whole cluster of mercies. It is abounding mercy. Millions have received it, yet far from its being exhausted, it is as fresh, as full, and as free as ever. 

It is unfailing mercy. It will never leave you. If mercy is your friend, mercy will be with you in temptation to keep you from yielding; with you in trouble to prevent you from sinking; with you [in] living to be the light and life of your countenance; and with you [in]  dying  to be the joy of your soul when earthly comfort is ebbing fast [slipping away].


You may want to read the daily selections as a bed time story for you and your little ones. .

It’s the world’s most famous allegory and is  the all-time, world-wide best seller second only to the Bible. Some believe it to be the world’s first novel written in English.

 

It will bless, encourage  and instruct pilgrims (readers and seekers) of all ages for a life-time.

My Lord “Will-be-will” [Mr. Self-will] is a great blusterer, [one who roars loudly with empty threats, menaces or protests] and it is hard to subject him to God's will; but when the heart of flesh is given, the will quivers like an aspen leaf in every breath of heaven, and bows like a willow in every breeze of God's Spirit.

 

Mr.  Self-will  is a personification  in The Pilgrim’s Progress

(The world’s  most widely read and most famous Allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678 and has NEVER been out of print.)

 

Link to Complete Index of   Bible Scripture References   included in The Pilgrim’s Progress are found by this Link.

 

ADULT VIDEO:
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS EPISODES 1-19

 

 

CHILDREN’S VIDEOS 

Illustrated Adaptation from  Pilgrim’s Progress    (Complete video -2 hours)   Presented in 10 parts.

Part 2 Obstinate and Pliable

Part 3  The Interpreter’s House

 

Part 4  The Hill Difficulty

Part 5  The Fight with Apollyon

Part 6  The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Part 7  Vanity Fair

Part 8  Doubting Castle

Part 9  The Dark River

Part 10The Celestial City  

PART II – CHRISTIANA, The SEQUEL  (Enjoy this “Old English” dialect)

AUDIO: These files will advance to the next recording automatically, if not paused.              

1 Part II 04   A Visit from Secret   4:50 Audio

2 Part II 05 Good News 2:25 Audio

4 Part II 29 Fool & Want-Wit 1:16 Audio

5 Part II 31 Meeting Valiant-For-Truth 1:41 Audio

6 Part II 01 Valiant Does Battle 5:51 Audio

7 Part II 02 Valiant’s Story 3:35 Audio

8 Part II 04 Which Way To Go 1:30 Audio

9 Part II 09 Stand-Fast’s 'Wife' 6:02 Audio

10 Part II 11 Stand-Fast’s Story 1:37 Audio

11 Part II 12 Beulah Land 3:20 Audio      

12 Part II 14 The Postman’s Visit 1:57 Audio

13 Part II 15 Christiana’s Blessing 5:55 Audio

14 Part II 16 Christiana Goes Over The River 1:20 Audio

  1. art II 17 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell 2:10 Audio

16 art II 18 Old-Honest Called 1:41 Audio

17 Part II 19 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword 2:27 Audio
18 Part II 20 Stand-Fast’s Will 3:56 Audio

19 Part II 21 Christiana Nears The City 1:01 Audio

20 Part II 22 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry 4:45 Audio

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TRADITIONAL and  CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
By Blogger, Notorius Meddler

We Sing Sacred Music that’s loved and has been passed down through the ages and we also, embrace new Sacred Praise and Worship Music that magnifies and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ by using doctrinally sound, faithfully divided and proclaimed scripture rendered accurately into sacred, scriptural  lyrics.
Why Have Traditional Gospel Hymns Endured for so many years?   

URL: https://www.randyspecktacular.com/2008/09/old-gospel-hymn.html
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… be being filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

SACRED  ORATORY: 

Handle’s Messiah  A Complete Performance of World’s most Beloved Christmas Oratory by American BACH Soloists at the Grace Cathedral. [Libretto is exclusively from Old Testament book of Isaiah]. 

 

BABY’S FIRST SONGS:
Jesus Loves Me This I Know  by Gaither Vocal Band

 

OTHER CHILDREN’S  FAVORITES:

Praise Him, Praise Him All Ye Little Children   Hillsong Kids

What a Wonderful World  by Luis Armstrong

Noah’s Arky Arky     by the Cedarmont Kids
Away in a Manger by The Gaither Studio
Away in a Manger by Gaither Vocal Band
O Be Careful Little Eyes What You See by the Cedarmont Kids

Jesus Loves Me   All three verses

Children’s Medley  with Rosemary Siemens with children singing

This Little Light Of Mine  Cedarmont Kids

 

A Mighty Fortress written by Martin Luther with Steve Green

Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall

Amazing Grace by Guy Penrod, Gaither Voice Band

Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Singing Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022

Blessed Assurance by the Isaacs

Blessed Assurance by Sounds like Reign
Blessed Assurance  by Gaithers with Larry Ford and Lillie Knauls

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary   by Gaithers  

Chosen Generation  Medley:  We Are Able, Power in The Blood, Are You Washed, Victory In Jesus, Houston Covenant Church.

Christ Receiveth Sinful Men Traditional with Lyrics 

Grace, Grace God’s Grace by Gaither Choir

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
I Will Sing of My Redeemer by Gaither Music TV 

If That Isn’t Love Love Can Turn The World Gaither Premiere

Jesus Saves by The salvation Army Choir

Jesus Saves Temple Baptist Church Powell, Tennessee

Johnny Cash sings I Shall Not Be Moved

Just A Little Talk With Jesus by Gaither Choir

Let Others See Jesus in You (Me) by  BB McKinney
I Shall Not Be Moved  Elvis and The Million Dollar Quartet

More About Jesus    by The Blackwood Brothers

Oh, The Blood of Jesus, Nothing But The Blood, Near The Cross  Medley by Gaithers
 

Onward Christian Soldiers Salvation Army Band

Praise Him, Praise Him  by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him  Bombay Christian Fellowship from 1869 of Hymn by Fanny J. Crosby 
Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Rescue The Perishing 1869 by Fanny Crosby with Altar of Praise Chorale S E Simonte
Mary Did You Know?  Gaither Music TV by Mark Lowery
O Little Town of Bethlehem  Gaither Vocal Band
It Is No Secret  by ELVIS
There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood   by The Hymn Club 

Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 
Redeemed  by Guy Penrod Bill and Gloria Gaither

Rock of Ages   Antrim Mennonite Choir

Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Singing at Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022

Standing on the Promises of God by Gaither Voice Band

Surely Our God Is Able by Gaither Congregation 

Sweet Hour of Prayer “An Old Farmer praying” by Jimmy Dean (from a wheel chair)

The Love of God   by Gaithers with Gardner, Penrod and Phelps
The Love Of God   by the Gaither congregation

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

There’s Within My Heart a Melody by Gaither Congregation with Jake Hess 

Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus     by Casting Crowns

Trust and Obey  Vagle Brothers written1887 by Daniel Towner music John Sammis. 
Come Thy Fount (lyrics & chords) Chris Rice

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus  withThe Living Stones Quartet   by Helen Howarth Lemmel 1922
Angles We Have heard On High  by Christendom College & Schola Gregoriana
When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder  Gaither Congregation
Worthy is the Lamb. Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir                         

 

SACRED  PRAISE:

Away in a Manger by Phil Wickham… 
Away In a Manger, Traditional Version   by Casting Crowns

Because He Lives Gaither Choir

Bless the Lord, O My Soul by Bill an Gloria Gaither Congregation

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary by Gaithers 

Camp Meeting Tonight (…On The Old Camp Ground)  by Mississippi John Hunt (Library of Congress)

Everything Is Beautiful  (Jesus Loves the Little Children) by Ray Stevens   

Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin   by Sovereign Grace Music

Hallelujah, What a Savior A Cappella by the Nelons

He Has Made Me Glad Sing with music only, voices or both (choose R/L or both ear buds)

He Touched Me by Elvis Presley

Holy Spirit Breathe on Me with Anne Jernigan 

How Great Thou Art    by the Statler Brothers

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
I See the Lord  by Gaither Vocal Band

I See The Lord by Chris Falson

I Shall Not Be Moved (Rockabilly) By the Million Dollar Quartet

I Shall Not Be Moved The Statler Brothers

I Shall Not Be Moved by Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash

I Shall Not Be Moved Statler Brother’s Quartet

I Then Shall Live by Bill Gaither 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I’ll Fly Away    by Gaither Congregation 

I’ve Just Seen Jesus       Larnelle Harris & Sandi Patti (Gaither) 

If That Isn’t Love Love   Gaither Premiere

It Is Well With My Soul by Guy Penrod and David Phelps

Jesus Is The Sweetest Name I Know by Alvin Slaughter

Jesus Loves Me This I Know by Gaither Vocal Band 
 

Jesus Messiah by The Gaither Vocal Band

Lead Me, Guide Me by Elvis

Majesty   By The Gaither Congregation  

Majesty Gaither Voice Band

Near To The Heart of God by the Mennonite Choir 

Nothing But The Blood by Buddy Greene, (Harmonica) Gaither

O The Blood of Jesus by Glory Kim

Oh Happy Day The Edwin Hawkins Singers

Oh The Blood of Jesus by Gaither Congregation

Open the Eyes of My Heart by Paul Baloche 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Praise Him, Praise Him  by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him  Bombay Christian Fellowship A hymn from 1869  by Fanny J. Crosby 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Praise Him, Praise Him written by Fanny Crosby

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord written by Fanny Crosby

Redeemed, Redeemed by Gaither soloists

Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.

Standing on the Promises of God by Praise Praise

Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place - The Woodlands Methodist Church

Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place - Woodlands TX Methodist Church

Sweet Hour of Prayer by Guy Penrod

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

The Love of God by Gaither, Penrod, Phelps, Gardner

The Name of the Lord    Gaithers

The Old Rugged Cross Made the Difference by Guy Penrod, Gaither Singers

The Old Rugged Cross by Johnny and June Carter Cash

The Wings of a Snow White Dove with Loretta Lynn & Chrystal Gayle 

This Train Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis

Thy Word Is a Lamp unto My Feet Gaither Music with Amy Grant

To God Be The Glory Congregation (with lyrics

Vaya Con Dios Bilingual English & Spanish by Julio Iglesias  James 4:8

We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

We Shall Behold Him   by Sandi Patti Sing-along, won’t you?

We Shall Behold Him   by Sandi Patti Sing-along, won’t you?

We’re Marching To Zion Gaither Congregational Singing

We”re Marching to Zion   by Issac Watts  Sing with The Hymn Club  Sing-along won’t you? 

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (…I’ll be there) the Gaithers

When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 

Where We'll Never Grow Old   by Jim Reeves

Worthy Is The Lamb  with Gaither vocal Band

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

You Are My All In All Gaither Voice Band

You Never  Let Go      by Guy Penrod

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SACRED LITERATURE:

ORIGINAL: The Pilgrim’s Progress  Pub. by Logos,1853 from 1678 Original by John Bunyan

REVISED TEXT by Barry E. Horner: The Pilgrim’s Progrefs [sic]... 

 

in Pilgrim’s Progress. (Tthe World’s most widely circulated Allegory by John Bunyan, also credited, by some, as being the world’s first English novel.  

IT’S FREE. No subscription required. You may choose to read at your own pace, or you may want to view DailySpugeon.com for daily encounters with Pilgrim.)

 

"Christ in us is Christ reigning." reminds me [Spurgeon's comment] of Mr. Bunyan’s picture of [the town of] Mansoul, …when the Prince Immanuel laid siege to it, and Diabolus from within the city strove to keep him out. It was a, hard time for Mansoul then; but when at last the battering rams had broken down the gates, and the silver trumpets sounded, and the prince’s captains entered the breach, then on a day the prince himself did ride down the city’s streets, while liberated citizens welcomed him with all their hearts, hung out all their streamers, and made the church towers rock again as the bells rang out merry peals [melody] , for the king himself was come. Up to the castle of the heart he rode in triumph, and took his royal throne to be henceforth the sole lord and king of the city.

Christ in you is a right royal word. Christ swaying his scepter from the center of your being over every power and faculty, desire and resolve, bringing every thought into captivity to himself, oh, this is glory begun, and the sure pledge of heaven. Oh for more of the imperial sovereignty of Jesus; it is our liberty to be absolutely under his sway.

 

ADULT AUDIO Episodes and CHILDREN’S VIDEO Story Parts:

You may choose to read or listen to Pilgrim’s Progress as a bed time story.

It’s the world’s most famous allegory and is the all-time, world-wide best seller second only to the Bible. Some believe it to be the world’s first novel written in English.

It will bless, encourage and instruct pilgrims (readers and seekers) of all ages for a life-time.

Link to Complete Index of Bible Scripture References (open link).

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ADULT AUDIO:

The Pilgrim’s Progress   by John Bunyan (Complete audio-book narrated by Christopher Glyn -6 ½ hours)

Preface: Bunyan’s letter​     

Episode 01: The City of Destruction      

Episode 02: Obstinate & Pliable      

Episode 03: The Swamp of Despond

Episode 04: Mr. Worldly Wiseman

Episode 05: The Narrow Gate

Episode 06: The House of the Interpreter      

Episode 07: The Cross

Episode 08: Simple, Sloth & Presumption

Episode 09: Formalist & Hypocrisy

Episode 10: The Hill Difficulty

Episode 11: Timorous & Mistrust

Episode 12: The Palace Beautiful

Episode 13: Battle with Apollyon

Episode 14: The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Episode 15: Christian Meets Faithful & Talkative

  • Episode 16:  Mr. By-ends      Town of Fair Speech

Episode 17: The Hill Lucre [Gain and Greed]

Episode 18: By-path Meadow   Vain Confidence

Episode 19: Doubting Castle

Episode 20: The Delectable Mountains

Episode 21:   Ignorance    Conceit

Episode 22:  The Flatterer​

Episode 23: Atheist

Episode 24: The Enchanted Ground

Episode 25: Ignorance Rejoins the Pilgrims

Episode 26:  Beulah Land

Episode 27: The River of Death

Episode 28:  The Celestial City

The Pilgrim's Progress is probably the most published books in the English language of all time, other than the Bible; 1,300 editions have been printed before 1938, 250 years after the author's death; It’s the most famous Allegory ever written.

 

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CHILDREN’S VIDEO (Illustrated Adaptation) 

Pilgrim’s Progress Drama presented in 9 parts.

DANGEROUS JOURNEY    

Part 1 The Slough of Despond [The Swamp]

Part 3 The Hill Difficulty

Part 4 The Fight with Apollyon

Part 5 The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Part 6   Vanity Fair

Part 7 Doubting Castle

Parts  8  & 9   The Dark River and  The Celestial City

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PART II – CHRISTIANA, The SEQUEL  (Enjoy this “Old English” dialect)

AUDIO: These files will advance to and play the next recording automatically, if not paused.
               

1 Part II 04   A Visit from Secret   4:50 Audio

2 Part II 05 Good News 2:25 Audio

3 Part II 28 Mount Charity 1:01 Audio

4 Part II 29 Fool & Want-Wit 1:16 Audio

6 Part II 01 Valiant Does Battle 5:51 Audio

7 Part II 02 Valiant’s Story 3:35 Audio

8 Part II 04 Which Way To Go 1:30 Audio

9 Part II 09 Stand-Fast’s 'Wife' 6:02 Audio

10 Part II 11 Stand-Fast’s Story 1:37 Audio

11 Part II 12 Beulah Land 3:20 Audio      

12 Part II 14 The Postman’s Visit 1:57 Audio

13 Part II 15 Christiana’s Blessing 5:55 Audio

14 Part II 16 Christiana Goes Over The River 1:20 Audio

15 Part II 19 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell 2:10 Audio

16 Part II 20 Old-Honest Called 1:41 Audio

17 Part II 21 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword 2:27 Audio

18 Part II 22 Stand-Fast’s Will 3:56 Audio

19 Part II 23 Christiana Nears The City 1:01 Audio

20 Part II 24 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry 4:45 Audio

DEVOTION for October 25th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

 

PRAYER 13, Part 6 of 11   THE WINGS OF PRAYER.

ANECDOTE 85:  Immediate Healing.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK  October 25      GOD FIRST, THEN EXTRAS   C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892

-But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you  -Matthew 6:33

MORNING October 25 

"For the truth's sake, which dwelleth [lives] in us, and shall be with us for ever. "— 2 John 1:2

 EVENING       October 25

"She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who wasof the kindred of Elimelech. "— Ruth 2:3

A SINNER’S PRAYER
 

TODAY’S DEVOTION Written and calendared by Charles Spurgeon for today’s date

 

PRAYER 13, Part 6 of 11
THE WINGS OF PRAYER.

       

May experience teach us more and more how to avoid occasions of sin. May we grow more watchful; may we have a greater supremacy over our own spirit; may we be able to control ourselves under all circumstances, and so act that if the Master were to come at any moment, we should not be ashamed to give our account into His hands.  Lord, we are not what we want to be. This is our sorrow. Oh!  that Thou wouldest, [would] by Thy Spirit, help us in the walks of life to adorn [exalt] the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

[In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 13.doc)

 

ANECDOTE 85:  Immediate Healing.
 
We love the physician who heals speedily. If you find a skillful physician who can heal you of a sad disease even in years, you go to him, and are thankful. But suppose some wondrous man who with a touch could heal you, who with the very glance of his eyes could make you well at once, and stanch that blood [bleeding] or stop that disease, or turn aside that evil thing and make you well, would you not go to him, and feel that he was a great physician indeed? 

 

So [it is] with [Jesus] Christ. There shall be a man standing there with all his sins upon his head, and he may yet go down these stairs just [justified], complete in [Jesus] Christ, without a sin, freed from its damning power, delivered from all his guilt and iniquity, in one single instant!

       

It is a marvelous thing, beyond our power and comprehension. It is done in an instant.  God stamps [seals] it; the man is pardoned. He goes away in that same instant justified, as the publican did when he said,

 

“ Lord, have mercy upon me, a sinner,”

 

And then  received the mercy for which he sued [requested].

 

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK  October 25    GOD FIRST, THEN EXTRAS   C.H. Spurgeon 1834-1892

-But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you  -Matthew 6:33
-Mas buscad primeramente el reino de Dios y su justicia, y todas estas cosas os serán anadidas-  Mateo 6:33

  

See how the Bible opens: -In the beginning GOD.- Let your life open in the same way. Seek with your whole soul, first and foremost, the kingdom of God, as the place of your citizenship, and His righteousness as the character of your life. As for the rest, it will come from the Lord Himself without your being anxious concerning it. All that is needful for this life and godliness -shall be added unto you.- What a promise this is!

 

Food, raiment [clothing], home, and so forth, God undertakes to add to you while you seek Him.

 

[If] You mind His business, and He will mind yours.

 

  • If you want paper and string, you get them given in [thrown in with no additional charge]  when you buy more important goods; and just so all that we need of earthly things we shall have thrown in [joined together] with the kingdom. He who is an heir of salvation shall not die of starvation; and he who clothes his soul with the righteousness of God cannot be left of the Lord with a naked body.

    Away with carking [complaining] care. Set all your mind upon seeking the Lord. Covetousness is poverty, and anxiety is misery: trust in God is an estate, and likeness to God is a heavenly inheritance. Lord, I seek thee, be found of me.


Prayer: Thank You Lord that all that is needful for this life and godliness -shall be added unto me as I seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.  I have this promise, in You,  Lord Jesus, Amen. 
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       … and pray for the saving of many souls and making disciples 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 taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide and proclaim God’s eternal Word preserved by God, Himself.

 

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten [supernaturally fathered] Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but may be having eternal life.
John 3:16

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A16+&version=AKJV

  
vis. The Textus Receptus TR [Received Text] was faithfully rendered and was in substantial agreement with the overwhelming majority of 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts  of the New Testament known as the  MT. [Majority Text] from which the Textus Recptus was compiled. The Hebrew  manuscripts were meticulously copied by hand [manuscript] by the Masoretic  scribes of the Old Testament. Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices are not of comparable quality as   they are often found to be in disagreement with one another. They have been combined with invented Greek m

 

Never-the-less, a mere Fifty-five 55 manuscripts from the 5,321 were hand-picked from  these compromised codices containing multiple  variant readings and were set forth in modern textual criticism ostensibly to explain the need  for an alternative Greek text from the Textus Receptus that was for many years under attack by  Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland who invented but did not disclose themselves as the source  of their new Greek translation. They insisted on a code of silence as to the authorship of the Greek Text  from which all the Revisions were to be made from all members of the committee who were making revisions to the King James Bible.

 

Modern textual criticism is based on the  false assumption that older manuscripts are, de-facto, better. Actually, the unsettled changes from the variant readings reflect doctrinal ambiguities and are sometimes used to bolster doctrine that is  unsupported in scripture of a secular or denominational tradition or to allow blasphemous  translations to  diminish God’s Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, Inerrancy or Infallibility and to rob Glory from His infinite and everlasting “I AM” that is deserving of ALL GLORY.

 

MORNING October 25

 

"For the truth's sake, which dwelleth [lives] in us, and shall be with us for ever. "— 2 John 1:2
—Por la verdad que está en nosotros, y sera perpetuamente con nosotros—2 Juan 1:2

ONCE let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdues the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal [hellish] can dislodge it [put it away]. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the house. 

      

This is a Christian necessity;  he is no Christian who doth [does] not thus believe. Those who feel the vital power of the gospel [of Jesus Christ], and know the might of the Holy Ghost as He opens, applies, and seals the Lord's Word would sooner be torn to pieces than be rent [torn]  away from the gospel of their salvation. What a thousand mercies are wrapped up in the assurance that the truth will be with us forever; it will be our living support, our dying comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory.
      

This is Christian privilege and without it our faith would be of little worth. Some truths we outgrow and leave behind, for they are but rudiments and lessons for beginners, but we cannot thus deal with Divine truth, for though it is sweet food for babes, it is in the highest sense strong meat for men.

 

The truth that we are sinners is painfully with us to humble and make us watchful; the more blessed truth that whosoever believes on the Lord Jesus shall be saved, abides with us as our hope and joy.

 

Experience, so far from [contrary to] loosening our hold of the doctrines  [teachings] of grace, has knit us to them more and more firmly; our grounds and motives for believing are now more strong, more numerous than ever, and we have reason to expect that it will be so until in death we clasp [embrace] the Savior in our arms.

 

Wherever this abiding love of truth can be discovered, we are bound to exercise our love. No narrow circle can contain our gracious sympathies, [as] wide as the election of grace must be our communion of heart [heart-felt love].  Much of error may be mingled with truth received. Let us war with the error but still love the brother for the measure of truth we see in Him; above all let us love and spread the truth [of Christ’s Gospel] ourselves.

 EVENING       October 25

"She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who wasof the kindred of Elimelech. "—  Ruth 2:3
—Espigó en el campo en pos de los segadores: y aconteció por ventura, que la suerte del campo era de Booz, el cual era de la parentela de Elimelech— Rut 2:3.
     
HER hap  [good fortune]  was.   Yes, it seemed nothing but an accidental happenstance, but how divinely was it planned! Ruth had gone forth with her mother's blessing under the care of her mother's God to [an] humble but honorable toil, and the providence of God was guiding her every step. 

Little did she know that amid the sheaves [stacks of grain] she would find a husband, that he would make her the joint owner of all those broad acres, and that she, a poor foreigner, would become one of the pro-genitors [in the ancestral linage] of the great Messiah. 

God is very good to those who trust in Him and often surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen to us tomorrow, but this sweet fact may cheer us, that no good thing shall be withheld.

Chance [Luck] is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the hand of God in everything. The trivial events of today or tomorrow may involve consequences of the highest importance. 0 Lord, deal as graciously with Your servants [of today] as You did with Ruth.
     
How blessed would it be, if, in wandering in the field of meditation tonight, our "hap" should be to "light" [land] on the place where our next Kinsman [next-of-kin] will reveal Himself to us! 0 Spirit of God, guide us to Him. We would sooner glean [gather picked-over grain]  in His field than bear [carry] away the whole harvest from any other. 

0h, for the footsteps of His flock, that may conduct us to the green pastures where He dwells! This is a weary world when Jesus is away—we could better do without sun and moon than without Him—but how divinely fair [lovely] all things become in the glory of His presence! 

Our souls know the virtue that dwells in Jesus and can never be content without Him.  We will wait in prayer this night until our "hap" [good fortune] shall be to light [land] on a part of the field belonging to Jesus wherein

He will manifest Himself to 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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        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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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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 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

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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

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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.    

        Preaching  Preparation: Use links below to Find and compare a sermon by Charles H. Spurgeon from the same scripture reference of a sermon you may now be preparing.

 

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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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URL:  https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/

 

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.

Copyright: The King James Version is also distinguished by the requirement of Great Brittan that all King James bibles be printed by the Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s authorized printer. No one other than the Crown’s printer, is allowed print, copy or import the King James Bible into Great Brittan by order of the Crown.

 

In the United States there is no Copyright protection to restrict the free printing of the KJV. It is the only Bible version that may be printed freely as Public Domain. Any  new publication that changes 10% or more of any existing  publication may procure a lucrative Copyright protection to restrict unauthorized printing of the new publication. Therefore,  the NKJV, NIV and many other modern  translations. Only the King James Version New Testament is unique from among the over 100 English translations that follow modern textual criticism and only the King James is faithfully translated from the well-established  Greek Textus Receptus as the  Primary time tested and self-authenticating Greek Source.

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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.

 Psalm 119:89


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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