TODAY'S QUOTE

"If I could turn back time and do those thirty years over

again, I would spend even more time meditating in the 

Bible and less time reading other Christian books."  

-Jack Deere in

Surprised by the Voice of God.

WATCH OUT FOR PREACHERS

In my last post I pointed out how the Apostle Paul being in

prison for Christ in Rome actually encouraged others to 

share the message of Christ.

But Paul continues;

"It is true that some are preaching out of jealousy

and rivalry.  But others preach about Christ with

pure motives."  

&

"Those others do not have pure motives as they 

preach about Christ.  They preach with selfish 

ambition, not sincerely, ..."  

(Philippians 1: 15 & 17 NLT). 

I thank God that I grew up among a group of people

who were hard working, honest, God fearing people -

including their preachers.   But as I lived in this old

world I learned that is not true of everyone, including

preachers.  Like those in Rome that Paul mentioned,

some today "preach with selfish ambition, not sincerely,".

Lets just say it this way.  It could be revealing to get

a look at their bank account even if they might be a

"big name preacher".

Remember, Jesus Christ himself told us in advance;

"For false messiahs and false prophets will rise

up and perform great signs and wonders so as 

to deceive, if possible, even God's chosen ones.

See, I have warned you about this ahead of time."

(Matthew 24, 25 NLT)

Another thing to consider about any preacher.

My father was one of those honest hardworking,

God fearing preachers.  He would not have done

anything in the world to mislead someone.  As we

say, "He was as honest as the day is long." and

truthful all the way.

But as time went along I have learned that some of 

the things even my father had been taught were 

incorrect.  Consequently, though he was teaching

with all honesty on his part.  He still was preaching

and teaching some errors.

So, what is the answer?

How do we know the truth about life, heaven and 

hell and everything related to us?

I know.  

I have shared this picture before.

But I love it.

That picture has the total essence

of how to get the truth.

TODAY'S QUOTE

"He demonstrated that one can trust

the God of the Bible for every need,

whether temporal or spiritual."  

- Brother Bakht Singh of India

p.24.

READ THE BOOK

After reading and studying the Bible many years
I have learned that there is a lot of misinformation
about it.  Even a large number of honest, truthful
people hold some wrong teachings about it.

The problem seems to be not the person, preacher
or teacher.  But the fact that they took somebody
else's word for something without checking it out.

READ THE BIBLE FOR YOURSELF. 

The Apostle Paul mentions such people when
he said;

"For some men, straying from these things,

have turned aside to fruitless discussion, 

wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though

they do not understand either what they are

saying or the matters about which they make

confident assertions."

(1Timothy 1:6,7 NASB)

Jesus Christ said it a different way;

"Let them alone; they are blind guides of the

blind.  And if a blind man guides a blind man,

both will fall into a pit."  

(Matthew 15:14 NASB)

READ THE BIBLE FOR YOURSELF.

If you will read the Bible for yourself you will not 

need to read all those other books about the Bible.

But you will have the straight truth for yourself.

Just a personal suggestion.

If possible use a version that uses the same

language that you do.  There is nothing especially

Holy about reading the Bible in some quaint odd

language that no one uses anymore.

I would further suggest that you do not read 

it in a hurry.  But take it slow and easy.  Let

it talk to you.   Ask God to reveal the things 

to you that He wants you to see and understand.

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"The word 'joy' is found 164 times in a concordance

of the Bible, and the word 'rejoice' is repeated 191

times.  Truly the Bible is a book of joy and gladness,

because it is a record of God's relationships with

man and of man's continuous search for communion

and fellowship."

- Kirby Page

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith,

neither is feeling faith; but believing when

we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and 

everywhere the Bible tell us our salvation

is to be by faith.  Therefore we just believe

before we feel, ad often against out feelings,

if we would honor God by our faith."

-Hannah Whitall Smith 

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"So great is my veneration of the Bible,

that the earlier my children begin to 

read it the more confident will be my

hope that they will prove useful citizens

of their country and respectable members

of society."

- John Quincy Adams

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"I took up that word Love, and I do not know how

many weeks I spent in studying the passages in

which it occurs, till at last I could not help loving

people.  I had been feeding on love so long that I was

anxious to do everybody good I came in contact

with.  I got full of it.  It ran out my fingers.  You take

up the subject of love in the Bible!  You will get so

full of it that all you have to do is to open your lips,

and a flood of the Love of God flows out. "

- D. L. Moody

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"Down through the centuries in times of trouble,

temptation, trial, bereavement, and crisis, God has

brought courage to the hearts of those who love

Him.  The Bible is crowded with assurances of 

God's help and comfort in every kind of trouble

which might cause fears to arise in the human heart.

-Billy Graham

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible

than to have faith in D. L. Moody, for Moody

has fooled me lots of times."

- D. L. Moody 

THE REAL STUFF

Can you believe it?       
When I want honey, I want honey.  I want it
 to be all honey - 100% honey.  Not just  75%
honey. 
You are the same way aren't you?

Or if I am eating banana pudding -

keep the lemons out.

But how about instructions for life itself???

I want the instructions to come from the manufacture

himself - not some "Know it all".

When I was an auto technician it was hard to believe

the number of people who came in with problems

all BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT READ THE 

OWNER'S MANUAL.

Most of us are the same way.  The one who made you

and gives you life it's self -GOD- gave us an instruction

manual - the HOLY BIBLE.

It not only will tell you how to live, it will keep you 

out of trouble and give you comfort and courage like

no other book on earth.

Grab a copy an feed out of it daily.

IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE 

for the better.

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to

take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence,

make time.  Whatever keeps me from pray, solitude,

and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy

if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower."

-Tommy Barnett  

GETTING GOD'S ATTENTION

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Have you considered the many ways people attempt 

to get God's attention.  Favorable attention that is.

Nothing escapes his notice.  So in that sense, every

thing gets his attention.  But we do not want his attention

in the sense of something that would "make him sick"

and want to puke.  But we want his attention in the sense

that would make him feel favorably toward us.

Some things that people do in an attempt to get God's

attention, but his very word tells us would "backfire" on

us.

Standing on the street corner praying loud long winded

prayers does not get his attention.  In fact he does not 

pay any attention to them.

Giving large sums of money to the work of God does not

bring us into favorable attention with God.  We cannot buy

his favor with money.

Going through a set of rituals does not get his attention.

It might make you think you are doing something religious,

but it is a wast of your time.

Sitting in some goofy uncomfortable position and emptying

your mind so the Devil can put his thoughts in it does no good.

We could go on and on and on.  But you get the point.  What

we do does not necessarily get the attention we want from God.

What gets the attention of God?

He himself self said;

"But to this one I will look,

To him who is humble and contrite of spirit,

and who trembles at My word."

(Isaiah 66:2 NASB)   

Not an overdose of "self esteem",

but:

Humility,

remorse or sorrow for wrongs,

a fearful respect for God''s word

the Holy Bible.

PROFESSIONAL CHRISTIAN STUDENTS

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You have met them.  People who find it easier to 

study than to work.  So they go to school as long

as they can get grants or someone to feed them.

We call them "professional students".

I must confess that in the Christian realm I along

with many others have become "professional students".

No, not for money.  But it is far easier to sit at a desk

or with other people of a like mind and study the Bible

than it is to go out and live out the Bible instructions of 

service.  So we spend our spare time going to "Bible

Studies", or "Bible conferences" etc.

We use as our excuse the reference in the Old King

 James version 11 Timothy 2:15;

"Study to show thyself approved

unto God, a workman that needeth

not to be ashamed, rightly dividing

the word of truth."

But stop and think a minute.  [I am sure you 

can better than I can.]  The same writer in the

same version said;

"And that ye study to be quiet,"

(1 Thessalonians 4:11 KJV)  

Have you ever undertaken a study or a

class in how to be quiet?  No, because that

is not what the old English meant.  The Greek

word translated "study" here meant;

"be diligent".  In other words put into practice

what you have been learning.

I love to read, study and soak up the truths of

the Bible.  But with God's help I intend to put

them more into practice.

MINISTRIES

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HELP

I seem to be missing something.

I have read my Bible from cover to cover as they say.

But, I cannot find anything about:

John the Baptist ministries,

or

Jesus of Nazareth ministries,

or

Simon Peter ministries,

or 

Saul of Tarsus ministries

or

etc. etc. etc

Didn't these guys know how to do it?

Or,

perhaps the Scriptures had a different out look.

Consider;

"And his gifts were that some should be apostles,

some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors

and teachers, to equip the saints for the work

of ministry, ..."

(Ephesians 4:11,12 RSV)  

My friend,

every born again child of God is a minister.

Just a thought from "grandpa's ministries".

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"The secret of my success?  It is simple.

It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways

acknowledge Him and He shall direct

thy paths."

-George Washington Carver

WARNING

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WARNING

The prophecies the Holy Bible made have been coming

true right on schedule.   There have been literally hundreds

of the Bible's prophecies come true to date.

There is another that I read over just this morning - again.

When Jesus was on the way to the cross there were a lot

of women crying because of his coming death.   But he 

said to them:

"Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me,

but weep for yourselves and for your children.

For behold, the days are coming when they will

say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that

never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

Then they will begin to SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS, 

'FALL ON US,' AND TO THE HILLS, COVER US.'"

(Luke 23:28-30 NASB) 

O.K.

What's the big deal?

Look at our attitude toward having children today.

We are right in the middle of that time frame.

The next part is explained more fully in a another

part of the Scriptures.

"Then the kings of the earth and the great men and

the commanders and the rich and the strong and

every slave and free man hid themselves in the 

caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

and they said to the mountains  and to the rocks,

"Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him

who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the

Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come,

and who is able to stand."

(Revelation 6:15-17 NASB)  

The second part of that prophecy is when Christ

returns - which will be very soon - and he will

pour out the wrath of God on this old world.

ARE YOU READY? 

TODAY'S QUOTE

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"The history of all great characters of the Bible

is summed up in this one sentence:  They

acquainted themselves with God and acquiesced

His will in all things."

-Richard Cecil

FAKE NEWS

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Fake news.  It is one of the big issues of the day.

One site or source I often see on Facebook I can never

trust.  It is always "Breaking News".  And usually something

that could be an encouragement.  For example:

Kim Jong Un.  The whole world would be better off

without this guy.  I read that he and most of his "top

brass" had been killed my navy seals.  But apparently

they did not do a good job of killing this guy.

So, latter I read that he had been killed in a terrible accident.

He had been given a snowmobile by Putin as a gift and ran

into a tree, or something killing him again.  

But, it seems that Kim Jong Un does not know that he

is supposed to be dead.

But fake news is not something new.  Christ himself told

us:

"For false Christs and false prophets will arise

and will show great signs and wonders, so as to

mislead, if possible, even the elect"

(Matthew 24:24 NASB)  

Hey!

That is today.

I know.  You say there are people you can trust.

That is true.  And there have been many people

in my life time that I could trust.  But, sometimes

they have been fed false or fake information.  So,

they faithfully feed you the false information.

However,

there is one thing you can trust - the HOLY BIBLE

Pick one up and you can read tomorrows news.

It will tell you what is going to happen - and it

will happen.  It will tell you what is going to 

happen to you - and it will.

SCRABBLE BOARD THEOLOGY

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Several of the most popular doctrines or teachings 

in the "Christian" world today were arrived at by

"scrabble board theology".

They take a hand full of letters, or verses, and arrange

them in the order they want and -BEHOLD - a doctrine

that is very pleasing to themselves and every one else. 

Unfortunately, just because these "proof texts" come

out of the Bible, it does not make it a Bible truth.

How do we know what is right then?

I am glad you ask that question.  It's very simple.  Pull the 

old Berean trick on them.  It has worked for several thousand

years.

"Now these were more noble-minded than those in

Thessalonica, for they receive the word with great

eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see

whether these things were so."

(Acts 17:11 NASB) 

There you have it.  Just three simple steps.

1.  Pick up your Bible and put it in your hands.

2. Read it.

3.  Leave it in the order God put it.