We use the excuse that we don’t have a degree in theology or Bible, or the Pastor is the one who is supposed to make sure we know these things. There is no possible way he can do that in a couple of hours a week. You must read and study the Word for yourself – then if you have any questions you should ask your pastor or another mature Christian to explain what you don’t understand.

If you don’t really know the truth, it will be easy for Satan to make you believe a lie. Usually he will give you just enough truth to make you think that everything he says is the truth.

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If we sometimes looked a little more to the connection of sentences, we should be kept from very dangerous errors. The Bible ought to be treated in conformity with common sense, as you would use any other book. If you took the writings of any author, however carefully he might express himself, if you picked out a sentence here and a sentence there, [you] might make the man to say what he never believed; nay, even make him to be the supporter of opinions which he abhors. So it is with the Bible: if you pay no regard to the connection and general run of the passage, you miss the mind of the Spirit of God, and rather thrust your own mind into God’s words than bring out God’s mind from the words of the Holy Ghost.

From a sermon entitled “Working Out What Is Worked In,” delivered July 12, 1868.

The Daily Spurgeon

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No matter what version of the Bible you read, you will never truly be able to understand it without the Holy Spirit opening your mind, comprehension, and ears to hear the real truth – not just the truth as you have always perceived it to be.

If you don’t read the Bible with the determination that you want to know the truth, your mind will filter the parts that make you uncomfortable, telling you that the changes you need to make are far beyond your grasp or helping you justify why you don’t need to change.

*  If you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, make it a point to read the Bible for a few minutes each morning. You can start out with 5 or 10 minutes, asking the Holy Spirit to show you truths that you have never seen before. It won’t take long for you to look at the Bible differently. It will change your life to the point that you will never want to go back to where you were before.

Don’t let Satan make you believe the lie that the Bible is boring or just an old fashioned irrelevant book that is out of date for today’s times. Its Words are life, health, and well-being for the one who reads it and applies its words to their life.

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God has given each of these for our own best interest, so we all need to get back to the basics and take them seriously. Not only that, but God will bless you for keeping His Commandments.

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Rev. Lockridge gets all excited as he describes the many things God is to the Christian that are listed in the Bible, and I get excited as I listen to Him.

Below is a copy of the sermon in case you would like to read it. The video is much better because he puts so much emotion into it, but the words he says are very powerful.

That’s My King Video

“Do You Know Him?” by S.M. Lockridge

“The Bible says my King is a seven-way king….

• He’s the King of the Jews;
• He’s the King of Israel;
• He’s the King of Righteousness…
• He’s the King of the Ages….
• He’s the King of Heaven…
• He’s the King of Glory…
• He’s the King of Kings, and He’s the Lord of Lords.

That’s my King. Well…I wonder, do you know Him?…David said, “The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork.  My King is a sovereign King.  No means of measure can define His limitless love.  No far seeing telescope can bring into visibility the coastline of His shoreless supply.  No barrier can hinder Him from pouring out His blessings.

• He’s enduringly strong…
• He’s entirely sincere…
• He’s eternally steadfast…
• He’s immortally graceful…
• He’s imperially powerful…
• He’s impartially merciful…

Do you know Him?

• He’s the greatest phenomenon that ever crossed the horizon of this world.
• He’s God’s Son…
• He’s a sinner’s Savior..
• He’s the centerpiece of civilization…
• He stands in the solitude of Himself…
• He’s unparalleled…
• He’s unprecedented…
• He’s the loftiest idea in literature…
• He’s the highest personality in philosophy…
• He’s the supreme problem in higher criticism…
• He’s the fundamental doctrine of true theology…
• He’s the cardinal necessity of spiritual religion…
• He’s the miracle of the age…
• He’s the superlative of everything good that you choose to call Him…
• He’s the only one qualified to be an all sufficient Savior

I wonder if you know Him today?

• He supplies strength for the weak…
• He’s available for the tempted and the tried…
• He sympathizes and He saves…
• He strengthens and sustains…
• He guards and He guides…
• He heals the sick…
• He cleanses lepers…
• He forgives sinners…
• He discharges debtors…
• He delivers captives…
• He defends the feeble…
• He blesses the young…
• He serves the unfortunate…
• He regards the aged…
• He rewards the diligent…
• And He beautifies the meek.

I wonder if you know Him?  Well, my King…is the King…

• He’s the key to knowledge…
• He’s the wellspring to wisdom…
• He’s the doorway of deliverance…
• He’s the pathway of peace…
• He’s the roadway of righteousness …
• He’s the highway of holiness…
• He’s the gateway of glory

Do you know Him?  Well…

• His office is manifold…
• His promise is sure…
• His light is matchless…
• His goodness is limitless…
• His mercy is everlasting…
• His love never changes…
• His Word is enough…
• His grace is sufficient…
• His reign is righteous…
• and His yoke is easy, and his burden is light.

I wish I could describe Him to you, but

• He’s indescribable…
• He’s incomprehensible…
• He’s invincible…
• He’s irresistible.

Well,

• You can’t get Him out of your mind…
• You can’t get Him off of your hand…
• You can’t out live Him,
• and you can’t live without Him…
• The Pharisees couldn’t stand Him, but they found out they couldn’t stop Him…
• Pilate couldn’t find any fault in Him…
• The witnesses couldn’t get their testimonies to agree…
• Herod couldn’t kill Him…
• Death couldn’t handle Him,
• And the grave couldn’t hold Him.

Yea!, that’s my King, that’s my King.  Father…”Yours is the Kingdom…and the Power…and the Glory…Forever”…and ever, and ever, and ever, and ever.  How long is that?  And when you get through with all the forevers, then…AMEN and AMEN!

S M Lockridge

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You are God’s Child if you have asked Jesus to come into your heart as your Savior; only then can you call Him by name and be one of  His People.

God always has conditions for His Blessings. He promises to do His part if you promise to do yours.

Below are His conditions:

shall humble themselves

AND

pray

AND

seek my face

AND

turn from their wicked ways

In the Greek, the AND connecting all these verses means you must do ALL of them, not just choose which ones you want to do and leave the others out.

Then God says after His Requirements are met, He will hear your request, forgive sin, and bring healing and restoration.

You have to really want revival in your own life and in your church before God will send it. If you are tired of  living a powerless Christian life, make the choice to meet the requirements of this verse. God will reveal Himself to you in a marvelous way.

Don’t settle for powerlessness in your Christian life any longer.

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What an awesome word picture!

If God takes care of the birds and flowers, how much more will He take care of you if you will just trust Him. Instead of looking at your problems, set your eyes on Him and don’t let the cares of the world drag you down.

Trust, try, and prove him to see what He will do in your life.

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THE   BELL
I KNOW WHO I AM
I am God’s child (John 1:12)
I am Christ’s friend (John 15:15)
I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17)
I am bought with a price (1 Cor 6:19-20)
I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1)
I am a personal witness of Christ.  (Acts 1:8)
I am the salt & light of the earth (Matt 5:13-14)
I am a member of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27)
I am free forever from condemnation ( Rom. 8:1-2)
I am a citizen of Heaven. I am significant (Phil 3:20)
I am free from any charge against me (Rom.. 8:31-34)
I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor 5:17-21)
I have access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:18)
I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Eph. 2:6)
I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom 8:35-39)
I am established, anointed, sealed by God  (2 Cor 1:21-22)
I am assured all things work together for good  (Rom. 8:28)
I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit (John 15:16)
I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3:12)
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13)
I am the branch of the true vine, a c hannel of His life (John 15: 1-5)
I am God’s temple (1 Cor. 3: 16). I am complete in Christ (Col. 2: 10)
I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).. I have been justified (Romans 5:1)
I am God’s co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor 6:1). I am God’s workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected. (Phil. 1: 5)
I have been redeemed and forgiven ( Col 1:14). I have been adopted as God’s child (Eph 1:5)
I belong to God
Do you know
Who you are?

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When you decide to do weight lifting, you either use your own equipment or go to the gym. Then you decide on a plan of action that coincides with your desired effect. Lastly, you must be disciplined enough not to let other things distract you from your goal. If you don’t do these things, you probably won’t attain the lean, toned, and muscled body that you started out to achieve.

Hebrews 11: 1 -  Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

If you do your weight lifting exercises correctly and diligently, it won’t be long before it is noticeable that your plan is working; you can see it with your own eyes.

True faith works in the same way as exercise because it helps you to become a person with whom God is pleased. The difference between the two is you can’t always see the results of faith immediately. It is something you do on a daily basis that is between you and God. He wants you to learn to know Him so well that you have no doubts that what He has told you will come to pass. You just believe Him – PERIOD.

In the Greek substance means a setting under (support), figuratively concrete essence; confidence.

Faith gives reality or real substance to things hoped for. It is a basis, or foundation, for support. It is the real thing.

God desires your obedience, but He wants something even more – your ability to believe you can receive from Him BEFORE you have seen it. You can’t just order God to do whatever you want, but when He tells you something, He wants you to know His Character so well that you have no doubt that whatever He told you will come to pass. Then when it does, you are not surprised because you have been waiting for it to happen, you just didn’t know exactly when it would happen.

God loves you much more than you could ever imagine. Trust Him with everything going on in your life right now – He wants to meet your every need.

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Recently, the CoMission ministry, which Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored, sent a team to Stavropol. The city’s history was not known at that time. But when our team was having difficulties getting Bibles shipped from Moscow, someone mentioned the existence of a warehouse outside of town where these confiscated Bibles had been stored ever since Stalin’s day.

After much prayer by the team, one member finally got up the courage to go to the warehouse and ask the officials if the Bibles were still there. Sure enough, they were. Then the CoMission asked if the Bibles could be removed and distributed again to the people of Stavropol. The answer was ‘yes’!

The next day the CoMission team returned with a truck and several Russian people to help load the Bibles. One helper was a young man, who was a skeptical, hostile, and agnostic collegian who had come only for the day’s wages.

As they were loading the Bibles, one team member noticed that the young man had disappeared. Eventually, then found him in a corner of the warehouse weeping.

He had slipped away hoping to quietly take a Bible. What he found shook him to the core. The inside page of the Bible he picked up had the handwritten signature of his own grandmother! It had been her Bible! Out of the many thousands of Bibles still left in that warehouse, he stole the one belonging to his grandmother — a woman persecuted for her faith all her life.

No wonder he was weeping — God had just dramatically revealed Himself to this young man. His grandmother had no doubt prayed for him and for her city. Her prayers had followed him, and now this young man’s life has been transformed by the very Bible that his grandmother found so dear.

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The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide. That’s two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house.

Life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold. A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine. Biblical scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been. Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands, using modern tools and with occasional help from his son Roy.

Huibers, a Christian man, said he hopes the project will renew interest in Christianity in the Netherlands, where church going has fallen dramatically in the past 50 years.

Mr Huibers spent nearly two years building the ark. He began building in May 2005, after he dreamed of the Netherlands being flooded.

“In February 1992, I had a dream that Holland will become flooded. The next day, I found a book about Noah’s Ark in the local bookshop, and since then, my dream has been to build the ark,” he said.

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