Mike sounds like there must have been a master list of sermons for pastors, since our associate preached on John 3 also. BTW, I have a good friend theologically trained and it is very hard to convince him of the idea of God’s Sovereign Sovereignty (an old S Lewis Johnson term.) People just don’t get… Continue reading Are you born again?
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Turning the Corner
Well Summer Solstice has past, and we are slowly headed back to days of longer darkness. No prophetic thought there, but I did find the link below to be so odd....today it seems if you have a bent to join with David and Saul and many others along this path you can now learn it… Continue reading Turning the Corner
Filthy Lucre (True or False?)
I love how the KJV translations use the correct words... KJV Search Results 5 Verses Found, 5 Matches 1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 1Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy… Continue reading Filthy Lucre (True or False?)
Persecution and the spread of the Gospel
“What I mean is that the Bible clearly teaches and men such as Luther, Tyndale, Calvin, Knox, Owen, Edwards, et cetera affirmed that the Gospel is narrow in focus. It is not broad. The door unto salvation is not wide nor is it easy to find”
Powerful Tyndall text also. So sad that today we read the modern books but not the old paths.
Jer 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Jer 6:17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
by Mike Ratliff
14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17 This I command you, that you love one another.
18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you…
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