DEVOTION for October 29th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord” in English)

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

Defend the Truth. Won’t you? 

The Lord Jesus, who is God in human flesh, was born of a virgin 2024 years ago,
He lives today and will live forevermore and He’s coming soon,

PRAYER 13, Part 10: THE WINGS OF PRAYER.

ANECDOTE 89:  The Righteous Safe.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK:  MAINTAIN THE DIFFERENCE

And I will put a division between my people and thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be   Exodus 8:23
MORNING: "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven" — Matthew 6:9
EVENING: "But their eyes were holden that they should not know Him. "— Luke 24:16

A SINNER’S  PRAYER:

DEVOTION for October 29th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

SERMON: from Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle  (London)

The Christian Warfare    Jude 3     with Dr. Peter Masters

PRAISE: The Lord’s Prayer    Matthew 6:9-13   with Andrea Bocelli, symphony and chorus…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  Today’s music came to mind from MORNING selection.

PRAYER 13, Part 10  of 11  THE WINGS OF PRAYER.  CH Spurgeon

Oh! help us. Spirit of the living God, continue still to travail [labor] in us. Let the groanings that cannot be uttered remain within our Spirit, for these are growing pains, and we shall grow while we can sigh and cry, while we can confess and mourn; yet this is not without a blessed hopefulness that

He that hath [has] begun a good work in us will perfect it in the day of Christ [Jesus, the Messiah]. 

Bless, we pray Thee, at this time, the entire Church of God in every part of the earth. Prosper the work and service of Christian people, however they endeavor to spread the kingdom of [Jesus] Christ.

Convert the heathen [unbelievers]; enlighten those that are in any form of error. Bring the entire Church back to the original form of Christianity.

Make her first pure, and then she shall be united.

O, Savior, let Thy kingdom come. Oh! that Thou wouldest [would] reign, and

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

[I pray this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 13.doc)

ANECDOTE 89:  The Righteous Safe.
      A certain carping infidel [complaining unbeliever], after having argued with a poor countryman who knew the faith, but who knew little else, said to him, “Well, Hodge, you really are so stupid that there is no use of arguing with you,  I cannot get you out of this absurd religion of yours.”

“Ah! well,” said Hodge, “I dare say I am stupid, master, but do you know we poor people like to have two strings to our bow ?” 

“Well,” said the critic, “what do you mean by that ?”  “Master, I’ll show you. Suppose it should all turn out as you say; suppose there is no God, and there is no hereafter, don’t  you see I am as well off as you are?  Certainly, it will not be any worse for me than it will be for you, if we both of us get annihilated.

But don’t you see if it should happen to be true as I believe, what will become of you!”  Clearly in either case it must be right with the righteous;  for if he should have ignorantly received a cunningly devised fable, yet, seeing according to his own experience, it makes him a better and a happier man, so far so good he is no loser here; and he will be certainly at the last in no worse a position than the man who rejected the holy and comfortable influences of what he styled [saw as] a deception.

While, if the religion of Jesus should be true — ah! ghastly  “IF”  for you who doubt it?—  if it should all be true, ah! Then, your weeping and your wailing at the discovery will be a terrible contrast to the joy and glory which God has reserved for them that love him.

Upon the very lowest possible ground it will be well with the righteous, as well, at any rate, as with the best of other men.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK October 29 MAINTAIN THE DIFFERENCE C.H. Spurgeon
And I will put a division between my people and thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be.   Exodus 8:23
-Y yo pondré redencion entre mi pueblo y el tuyo. Mañana será esta senal- Exodo 8:23 
 

Pharoah has a people, and the Lord has a people. These may dwell together, and seem to fare [get along] alike but there is a division between them, and the Lord will make it apparent. Not for ever shall one event happen alike to all, but there shall be great difference between the men of the world and the people of Jehovah’s choice  [the chosen].

This may happen in the time of judgments, when the Lord becomes the sanctuary  [place of refuge and safety] of His saints. It is very conspicuous in the conversion of believers when their sin is put away, while unbelievers remain under condemnation.  From that moment they [believers] become a distinct race [a peculiar people], [having] come under a new discipline, and enjoying  new blessings. Their homes, henceforth [from that time forward], are free from the grievous swarms of evils which defile and torment the Egyptians [unredeemed]. They [believers] are kept from the pollution of lust, the bite of care [the pain of worry],  the corruption of falsehood, and the cruel torment of hatred, which devour many families. 

Rest assured, tried believer, that though you have your troubles you are saved from swarms of worse ones, which infest the homes and hearts of the servants of the world’s Prince [Satan].

       The Lord has put a division; see to it that you keep up the division in spirit, aim, [purpose] character and [good] company.
 

Prayer: Thank You Lord that we have been chosen, forgiven and redeemed from the consequences of our sins.  Thank  You that You put a division between the world’s people and Your chosen and redeemed people.  
Thank You for the atonement for our sins paid in full on the cross once and for ever through Your only begotten Son. Please help  me to see and adhere to this division clearly every day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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       … and pray for the saving of many  souls and the disciple-ing and strengthening  of all believers.

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

2 Peter 3:9

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

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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  

John 3:16

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

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.
 

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 taken. 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 scant 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 29

"After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven. . . ." —Matthew 6:9
Vosotros, pues, oraréis así: Padre nuestro que estás en los cielos…— Mateo 6:9

  THIS prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption,
       

“Our Father.”

There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, "I will arise, and go unto my Father." This childlike spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father
      

"in heaven," and ascends to devout adoration,

"Hallowed [Holy] be Thy name." The child lisping, "Abba, Father," grows into the cherub [angelic child] crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy."

There is but a step from rapturous [ecstatic, joyful] worship to the glowing missionary spirit, which is a sure outgrowth of filial [the family relationship of a child and parent] love and reverent adoration—

"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
[God’s will on earth done like it is in heaven; His kingdom authority]

Next follows the heartfelt expression of dependence on God—

"Give us this day our daily bread."
 

Being further illuminated by the [Holy] Spirit he discovers that he is not only dependent, but sinful, hence he entreats [earnestly asks] for mercy,

"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors."

And being pardoned, having the righteousness of Christ imputed and knowing his acceptance with God he humbly supplicates[earnestly asks] for holy perseverance,

"Lead us not into temptation."

The man who is really forgiven is anxious [eager] not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious [eager] desire for sanctification.

"Forgive us our debts," that is justification; 

"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," [the evil one] that is sanctification in its negative and positive forms. As the result of all this, there follows a triumphant ascription of praise,
 

"Thine [Yours] is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever,      Amen." 

We rejoice that our King reigns in providence and shall reign in grace, from the river even to the ends of the earth, and of His dominion, there shall be no end. Thus, from a sense of adoption, up to fellowship with our reigning Lord, this short model of prayer conducts the soul.    
Lord, teach us thus to pray.

EVENING  October 29

"But their eyes were holden that they should not know   — Luke 24:16

—Mas los ojos de ellos estaban embargados, para que no le conociesen— Lucas 24:16

THE disciples ought to have known Jesus; they had heard His voice so often, and gazed on that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful [a wonder] they did not discover [recognize] Him. 
Yet is it not so with you also?

 
You have not seen Jesus lately. You have been to His table, and you have not met Him there. You are in dark trouble this evening, and though He plainly says,

"It is I, be not afraid,"

yet you cannot discern  [see] Him. Alas!  [Oh, my!]  our eyes are holden  [fixed and searching] . We know His voice; we have looked into His face; we have leaned our head upon His bosom, and yet, though Christ is very near us we are saying,

"0 that I knew where I might find Him" 

We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to reflect His image, and yet how possible it is for us to open that precious book and have no glimpse of the Well-beloved!

 
Dear child of God, are you in that state? Jesus feeds among the lilies of the Word, and you walk among those lilies and yet you behold Him not [don’t see Him]. He is accustomed to walk through the glades of Scripture and to commune with His people, as the Father did with Adam in the cool of the day, and yet you are in the garden of Scripture but cannot see Him though He is always there. 

And why do we not see Him? It must be ascribed in our case, as in the disciples',

to unbelief. 

They evidently did not expect to see Jesus, and therefore they did not know [see] Him. To a great extent in spiritual things, we get what we expect of the Lord.

Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. Make it your prayer,

"Lord, open my eyes, that I may see my Savior present with me." 

It is a blessed thing to want to see Him; but oh! it is better far to gaze on Him. To those who seek Him He is kind; but 

to those who find Him,

beyond expression is He dear!    [He is dear beyond expression!]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amen... Amen… Amen!

Hear Harry Belafonte’s AMEN

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

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

You can cast your cares on the Lord…

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

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

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

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

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… and pray for souls to be saved and believers to be strengthened.

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

2 Peter 3:9

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

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

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

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

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

Psalm 119:89-90

ל Lamed

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

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:

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

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

1 Corinthians 14:33 

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

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 You too can cast your cares on the Lord…

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

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

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

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

 Devotions are:

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

·       C.H. Spurgeon Prayers

·       Spurgeon’s  Illustrative Anecdotes

·       Faith’s Checkbook

·       Morning & Evening

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Speciality of Evangelistic Preaching

Dr Peter Masters

Pastor, Metropolitan Tabernacle

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

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

Featured Sermon

The Necessity of Evangelistic Preaching

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

Gospel Sermon  Sunday 21 July 2024 | 6:30pm

Why Should We Believe?

Mark 4.23

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

Bible Study  Wednesday 24 July 2024 | 7:30pm

How Mosaic Worship Foretold Christ

Hebrews 9.1

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

Teaching Sermon  Sunday 21 July 2024 | 11:00am

The Believer’s Vow

Genesis 28.20

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

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

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.

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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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