Category: scripture

Though You Be Looked Upon as a Fool

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Let not the child of God become discouraged because his efforts to please Christ make some of those who call themselves Christians speak evil of him. Let not the Christian imagine that fiery trials are an evidence of God’s disapproval. “Rejoice, and be exceeding glad.” Not only are the afflictions that faithfulness to Christ involves to be patiently endured, but they are to be received with joy and gladness.

The world may despise them as fanatics, professors of religion may regard them as narrow-minded sectarians, and their relatives may look upon them as fools. But the great God owns them as His children even now, distinguishing them by tokens of His peculiar regard and causing His Spirit within them to witness to them that they are sons of God. But in the Day to come, He will publicly avow His relationship to them in the presence of an assembled universe. However humble their present situation in life may be, however despised and misrepresented by their fellow men, they shall yet “shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father” (Matthew 13:43).

– Arthur Pink, “The Beatitudes” (1886-1952)

Joy for the Cast-Out

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Hear the Word of the Lord, ye that tremble at His guard; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for My name’s sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but He shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. -Isaiah 66:5 

Possibly this text may not apply to one in a thousand of the readers of this little book of promises; but the Lord cheers that one in such words as these. Let us pray for all such as are cast out wrongfully from the society which they love. May the Lord appear to their joy!

The text applies to truly gracious men who tremble at the word of the Lord. These were hated of their brethren and at length cast out because of their fidelity and their holiness. This must have been very bitter to them; and all the more so because their casting out was done in the name of religion, and professedly with the view of glorifying God. How much is done for the devil in the name of God! The use of the name of Jehovah to add venom to the bite of the old serpent is an instance of his subtlety.

The appearing of the Lord for them is the hope of His persecuted people. He appears as the advocate and defender of His elect; and when He does so it means a clear deliverance for the God-fearing and shame for their oppressors. O Lord, fulfill this word to those whom men are deriding! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

http://bible.christiansunite.com/Faiths_Checkbook/faith0301.shtml

The Origins Of The Easter Holiday Season

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Perverting the First Promise

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Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.

This is the first promise of a Redeemer that was said to Adam and Eve. Until the Tower of Babel, and after, many satan inspired false religions tried to fulfill or abort this promise (meaning to get people to believe a lie as truth thus keeping them from the true Redeemer). This is how pagan religions began. Mother-child goddess worship is a perversion of God’s first promise of a Redeemer.

Our Righteous Cause

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And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. – Ephesians 5:11

The uprisings of error often cause us dismay. Not unfrequently a foul old heresy is brought out as a brand new discovery, and all the world admires it, and wonders whence it came. Now, whenever these old heresies crop up, and are brought out as new, and lead men astray, it is a great comfort when you and I are able to say, “I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, Thou knowest. I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation; I have not concealed Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth from the great congregation.” (Psalm 40:10) Let men propagate whatever errors they choose, if we have no share in misleading the people, and are continually engaged in instructing them, we may wrap ourselves in our integrity, and lay the matter before our God to vindicate our righteous cause. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0977.cfm

A Must Watch Video for Doubters

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It is a most serious matter. How does one worship God by disobeying Him?

Therefore I will number you for the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear, but did evil before My eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight.” – Isaiah 65:12

Psalm 81:8-13

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Hear, O My people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto Me;
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
But My people would not hearken to My voice; and Israel would none of Me.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. (https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/10-11.htm)

The Plague of Goddess Worship / Feminine Spirit

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Sunday Service: 2 April 2017