Thursday, December 31, 2020

Prepared for the Sudden Second Coming

 Prepared for the Sudden Second Coming, by Rev. Pieter van Ruitenburg [Text: Matthew 24:29-51  (Audio); Matthew 24:42-44 (Audio)]

He Giveth More Grace

 He Giveth More Grace, by Rev. Derek Erwin [Text: James 4:6 (Audio)]

Recommended Hymn:

He Giveth More Grace

A Full Net

 A Full Net, by Rev. W. Klaver [Text: Matthew 13:47-50 (Audio)]

News Roundup and Comment

 News Roundup and Comment, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America

Year of Fear...And Faith 2020 - Year in Review

 Year of Fear...And Faith 2020 - Year in Review, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

All Advances in Medicine From Christians - The Rise and Fall of Medical Science

 All Advances in Medicine From Christians - The Rise and Fall of Medical Science, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Hezekiah Teaches Us to Sing the Lord's Loving Deliverance

 Hezekiah Teaches Us to Sing the Lord's Loving Deliverance, by Pastor Eric Moerkyk [Text: Isaiah 38 (Audio)]

Without Our Constitution, We're Under Occupation

 Without Our Constitution, We're Under Occupation - americanthinker.com

Excerpt from this article:

"If you  believe, as all Americans should, that failure to abide by the strictures of the Constitution renders the institutions of government illegitimate, then I would argue that 2020 has crystallized an uncomfortab le reality: we are now under occupation by a hostile governing force."

Flashack: The End is Near (And It Can't Come Fast Enough!)

 The End is Near (And It Can't Come Fast Enough!) - townhall.com

Excerpt from this article:

"In 12 years, we'll all be dead. An unstoppable force will wipe out all of humanity, most of the animals, and even some of the cockroaches. It's not climate change, it's the smugness of the true believers, the brainwashed masses of millennials who will one day be in positions to implement the absolute bat-feces crazy ideas they are espousing today."
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For further research on climate change/global warming...

Standing On The Promises (The Promises of God) - Worship-in-Place Orchestra, First Baptist Atlanta


 

If you're not familiar with this wonderful hymn, you can listen to it by going here:

Standing on the Promises

Today in History - January 1 (Gregorian Calandar)

1773 The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:17-17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England (Source)

The following John Newton quote is from Spurgeon's Sermon Notes

"When I get to heaven, I shall see three wonders there: the first wonder will be the many people whom I did not expect to see; the second wonder will be to miss many people whom  I did expect to see there; and the third and greatest wonder will be to see myself there."


You may recognize John Newton from his great song: Amazing Grace

and lesser know but equally great hymn: Day of Judgment Day of Wonders 

1776 - General George Washington hoists the first United States flag, the Grand Union Flag at Prospect Hill (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Would George Washington have Succeeded from the Union with Robert E. Lee? by Christian Historian Bill Potter
George Washington: A Biographical Sketch, by Rushdoony, R.J.

1808 - The United States bans the importation of Slaves (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

 Exposing and Opposing Slavery Today, by Dr. Peter Hammond

Recommended reading:

The Welfare State Did What Slavery Couldn't - zerohedge.com

African Slavery Reexamined by Senegalese Academic - americanthinker.com

1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect (Source)

Recommended video:


Trump Delivers Remarks at Whirlpool Factory




This is a great speech. Now please read the following excerpt from Patrick Buchanan's book
The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy:
"No site better captures yesterday's America than Detroit, forge and furnace of America's democracy. Detroit is the burned out case of American cities. The Empire of the Sun has its revenge. Japanese imports helped kill the city that built the weapons that destroyed the empire. Now grandsons of the soldiers of the imperial army work at high paying manufacturing jobs once held by the fathers of ten-dollar-an-hour retail clerks in Macomb County.
"But why blame the Japanese? We did it to ourselves. We Americans created a post war trading regime, in which, over 25 years, Japan bought 400,000 American cars while selling us 40 million Japanese cars, a ratio of 100:1. One president after another sat still while a third of America's greatest industry was shipped off to Japan...
"Americans no longer make their own cameras, shoes, radios, TVs, toys. A fifth of our steal, a third of our autos, half our machine tools, and two-thirds of our textiles are made abroad...
"The decline and fall of Middle America was neither preordained nor inevitable. It was engineered in Washington D.C. Wages have fallen and the standard of living of American families has stagnated because of a basic law: the law of supply and demand. The price of labor has been dropping because the supply of labor has exploded...
"Having declared free trade and open borders to be American policy, why are we surprised that corporate executives padlocked their plants in the Rust Belt and moved over seas?  Why keep your plants here when you can manufacture at a fraction of the cost abroad, ship your goods back, and pocket the windfall profits that come from firing $20 an hour Americans and hiring fifty-cent-an-hour Asians? A pair of Nikes that sells for $150 in the United States costs $5 in wages to make in Indonesia. Any wonder that Nike president Philip Knight is the fifth richest man in America, with $5.2 billion, while his Indonesian workers make 31 cents an hour?" 

    Life from Non-Life? - Answers News: December 30, 2020


     

    Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #3 (1646, 1647)

     Question: What do the Scriptures principally teach?

    Answer: The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.

    Georgia Legislative Hearing Analysis, Lin Wood’s Emergency SCOTUS Petition, Sen. Ben Sasse Statement


     

    Today in the News - Friday, January 1, 2021

     News


    Dozens of Republicans to challenge electoral votes; Georgia judge grants ballot-access hearing | NTD


     

    Daily Bible Verses for Friday, January 1, 2020

     "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book." - Revelation 22:18,19 (Audio)

    The following sermons are on all or some of Revelation 22:18 & 19:

    Ulterior Motives? by Rev. Stephen Hamilton
    Whosoever Will, by Prof. Herman Hoeksema

    Daily Bible Reading for Friday, January 1, 2021

        Why don't you join me in my daily Bible reading? Each day, in addition to posting the new reading assignment, I also post links to related sermons. The websites that I use to guide me through these readings is oneyearbibleonline.comkingjamesbibleonline.org/, and biblegateway.com/For today, read:


    The Origin of Man and the Big Bang, by Dr. Ian Brown [Text: Genesis 1]
    Signature in the Cell, Pastor Kevin Boling Interviews Dr. Stephen Meyer [Text: Genesis 1]
    Six Days and the Eisegesis Problem, by Ken Ham [Text: Genesis]


    The following sermons are on Matthew 1:23:

    "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.'

    God With Us, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
    The Prophecy of Immanuel, by Rev. Henk Bergsma

    Psalm 1 (Audio)

    The Gospel of God in the Psalms, by Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson [Text: Psalm 1]

    Recommended hymns based on Psalm 1:



    Stumbling Blocks on the Road to Hell, by Rev. William McCrea [Text: Proverbs 1]

    Another year is dawning


     

    COVID-19 Relief Bill Includes 180 Day Deadline for UFO Report

     COVID-19 Relief Bill Includes 180 Day Deadline for UFO Report - zerohedge.com

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    Recommended reading:


    Pentagon Confirms 3 Videos Showing "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon" - msn.com


    The Bible says:

    "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations." Revelation 20:7,8 (Audio)

    Recommended radio broadcast:

    UFO Disclosure is Coming, by Pastor Mike Hoggard

    Wednesday, December 30, 2020

    U.S. Presidency Hangs in the Balance

     U.S. Presidency Hangs in the Balance, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America

    The Highlights of a Horrible Year

     The Highlights of a Horrible Year, by Ray Carscadden [Text: Psalm 65]\

    Recommended hymn based on Psalm 64:

    Praise Waits for Thee in Zion

    Weekly Update --- The Real Scandal of the Spending Bill


    Someone else has said:

      "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship and then a monarchy." (Source)

    "If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future of your children, your grandchildren, and your great-grandchildren, would you do it? Well, that is exactly what we are doing as a nation. Over the past several decades we have stolen $15 trillion dollars from future generations so that we could enjoy a dramatically inflated level of prosperity. Our 15 trillion dollar party has been a lot of fun, but what we have done to our children and our grandchildren has been beyond criminal. We ran up the greatest mountain of debt in the history of the planet and we are sticking them with the bill. Sadly, both political parties have been responsible for the big-spending that has been going on (Source)
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    Recommended videos:

    National Debt: Who Cares? - PragarU video

    Recommended reading:


     

    Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #2 (1646, 1647)

    Question: What rule hath God given to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him?

    Answer: The Word of God, which is contained in the Scriptures of the New and Old Testaments, is the only rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him.


    Sweden: Prime Minister Goes on Shopping Tour After Telling People to Avoid Malls

     Sweden: Prime Minister Goes on Shopping Tour After Telling People to Avoid Malls - legalinsurrection.com

    Recommended video (from the PM of Sweden!)

    I Enjoy Being a Swede, by Stan Boreson

    Here is a great version of Amazing Grace in English and Swedish:

    Recommended videos:

    Today in History - December 31

     1660 - James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France (Source)

    Recommended sermons and podcasts:

    Oliver Cromwell: Saint, Soldier, Statesmen, by Dr. Alan Cairns (Text: Hebrews 8)

    Oliver Cromwell, by Dr. Peter Hammond
    Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of England, by Rev. Ian Goligher (Text: 1 Samuel 18:12)

    1687 - The firsty Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope (Source)

    Recommended sermons and podcasts:

    The French Huguenots, by Peter Hammond

    1963 - The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently  becoming Zambia, Mlaawi and Rhodesia (Source)

    Recommended sermons and podcasts:

    Armistice 100, Remembrance Day and Rhodesia, by Dr. Peter Hammond

    2019 - The World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan/ This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic  (Source)

    From My Gospel Project:

    How to Benefit From a Pandemic 

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      Yes, They Cheat. We Have to Win Georgia Anyway

       Yes, They Cheat. We Have to Win Georgia Anyway - anncoulter.com

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      Joe Stalin said it best:

      "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." (See: What a Stalin Quote About Rigging Elections Reveals About the 2020 Election - frontpagemag.com)


      Today in the News - Thursday, December 31, 2020

              News


      Daily Bible Veres for Thursday, December 31, 2020

      "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." -  Malachi 3:8-10 (Audio)

      The following sermons are on Malachi 3:8-10:

      Robbing God! by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher
      Paying God Our Dues - The Price of Revival, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
      The Tithe is the Lord's, by Rev. Reginald Cranston
      William Colgate - The Toothpaste Man. by Rev. Roger Higginson
      The Encouragement of Giving, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton 


      2021: What Can We Expect?

       


      Daily Bible Reading for Thursday, December 31, 2020

         Why don't you join me in my daily Bible reading? Each day, in addition to posting the new reading assignment, I also post links to related sermons. The websites that I use to guide me through these readings is oneyearbibleonline.comkingjamesbibleonline.org/, and biblegateway.com/For today, read:



      The Gospel with the Birth of John, Jesus the Forerunner, by Rev. Hans Overduin [Text: Malachi 4]
      The Prophetic Text Concerning the Sun of Righteousness, by Rev. Henk Bergsma [Text: Malachi 4]

      The following sermons are on Malachi 3:8-10:

      "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."

      Robbing God! by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher
      Paying God Our Dues - The Price of Revival, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
      The Tithe is the Lord's, by Rev. Reginald Cranston
      William Colgate - The Toothpaste Man. by Rev. Roger Higginson
      The Encouragement of Giving, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton 


      The following sermons are on all or some of Revelation 22:18 & 19:

      "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."

      Ulterior Motives? by Rev. Stephen Hamilton
      Whosoever Will, by Prof. Herman Hoeksema


      Praise ye The LORD, Hallelujah, by Dr. Alan Cairns [Text: Psalm 150]

      Recommended hymns based on Psalm 150:

      Hallelujah! Praise Ye God!


      Encouragement for Mothers, by Rev. Ian Goligher [Text: Proverbs 31]
      Keeping On! by Pastor Joel Overduin [Text: Proverbs 31; Galatians 6]

      The following sermons are on Proverbs 31:30:

      "Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain;  but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised."

      The Blessed Mother, by Rev. Ian Goligher
      The Perfect Wife, by Rev. William Macleod

      Non Stop Christian Hymns of the Faith


       

      Tuesday, December 29, 2020

      Coronavirus and Future Events

       Coronavirus and Future Events, by Jim Schneider of Crosstalk America

      Saints and Sinners in Time and Eternity

       Saints and Sinners in Time and Eternity, by Rev. Patrick Baker

      Were the Frontier Folk Poorly Educated? Literacy Far Better in the 1800s

       Were the Frontier Folk Poorly Educated? Literacy Far Better in the 1800s, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

      The Coming Death of Just About All Rock and Roll Legends, by Dr. Paul J. Dean, Jr

      The Coming Death of Just About All Rock and Roll Legends, by Dr. Paul J. Dean, Jr

      Today in History - December 30

      AD 39 - Titus, Roman emperor is born (Source)

      Recommended sermons and podcasts:

      The Church and the Roman Empire, by Aaron Wright
      The Roman Empire and Irenaeus of Lyons, by Michael Haykin

      1702 - Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine (Source)

      Recommended sermons and podcasts:

      The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter

      1897 - The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand (Source)

      Recommended sermons and podcasts:

      Covenant and Conflict: The Spiritual Liberation of the Zulu, by Dr. Peter Hammond

      Overcoming the Resistance to Revival Today - English/Zulu Translation, by Dr. Peter Hammond

      David Livingstone - The Best Friend Africa Ever Had, by Dr. Peter Hammond

      1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed (Source)

      Recommended sermons and podcasts:

      Castro, Cuba, and Communism, by Dr. Peter Hammond

      Recommended reading:

       Note to the Department of Education: Mao Zedong Murdered 65 Million People - redstate.comWe Must Never Forget the 100 Million Victims of Communism - dailysignal.com


      1972 - Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends (Source)

      Here is what Ann Coulter has to say about the Vietnam War (From her book, 
      Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism):

      "Vietnam is the Left's favorite war because America lost."

      "Historical accounts of the Vietnam War are incomprehensible because liberals refuse to admit the failure of their national security strategy. The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars."

      "In the great Democratic tradition of taking the nation to war without a plan to win, only the Democrats could have produced Vietnam."

      "President Lyndon Johnson, who inherited the war when Kenedy was assassinated, viewed the Vietnam War as a method of proving the Democrats could be trusted with foreign policy, which they cannot."

      "Nixon had been elected in part based on his promise to end the war honorably. He would have done so, too, but for Democrats in Congress,"

      "A Republican President either wouldn't have started that war, or would have won it pretty fast."

      The Top 10 Most Suppressed News Stories of 2020

       The Top  10 Most Suppressed News Stories of 2020 - zerohedge.com

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      Recommended sermons and podcasts:

      The Rise of Citizen Journalism, by Pastor Kevin Boling

      Daily Quote for Wednesday, December 30, 2020

       "Today we call a person who continually rescues another person a codependent. In effect, codependent, boundaryless people, 'co-sign the note' of life for the irresponsible person. Then they end up paying the bills  - physically, emotionally and spiritually - and the spendthrift continues out of control with no consequences. He continues to be loved, pampered, and treated nicely. Establishing boundaries helps codependent people stop interrupting the Law of Sowing and Reaping in their loved one's lives. Boundaries force the person who is doing the sowing to also do the reaping." - Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life, by Dr. Henry Cloud &  Dr. John Townsend:

      Egg on Their Faces: 10 Climate Alarmist Predictions for 2020 That Went Horribly Wrong

       Egg on Their Faces: 10 Climate Alarmist Predictions for 2020 That Went Horribly Wrong - pjmedia.com

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      Liz Wheeler: How Dare You! 10 Reasons Not to Believe the Climate Change Criars


      Today in the News - Wednesday, December 30, 2020

             News


      Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #1 (1646, 1647)

       Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #1 (1646, 1647)

      Question: What is the Chief End of Man?

      Answer: Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

      Daily Bible Verses for Wednesday, December 30, 2020

       "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." - Romans 9:9,10 (Audio)

      The following sermons are on Romans 10:9 & 10:

      Are You Saved? by Rev. Ian Brown
      Confessing from the Heart, by Rev. Jarrold H. Lewis
      Turned Inside Out, by Dr. Alan Cairns
      Believing and Confessing the One True God, by Rev. Lawrence J. Bilkes

      Lou Dobbs Tonight 12/29/20 | Fox Business


       

      Daily Bible Reading for Wednesday, December 30, 2020

        Why don't you join me in my daily Bible reading? Each day, in addition to posting the new reading assignment, I also post links to related sermons. The websites that I use to guide me through these readings is oneyearbibleonline.comkingjamesbibleonline.org/, and biblegateway.com/For today, read:


      The Prophet Zechariah, by Rev Roger Higginson [Text: Zechariah 14:1-14]


      The main Message of Malachi, by Pastor Kevin Boling [Text: Malachi 1]
      Give Glory to God, by Rev. William Macleod [Text: Malachi 2:1-4]


      The following sermons are on Revelation 20. Here are the first 3 verses of this chapter:
      "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season." -  Revelation 20 (Audio)
      The following sermons are on Revelation 20. Here is the first three verses of Revelation 20:

      The Judgment of the Wicked, by Rev. John Greer
      God is Just, by Dr. David P. Murray
      The Millennium - Now or Later? by Rev. Ian Goligher
      I Saw the Dead, by Dr. David P. Murray
      And I Saw the Dead, by James Hamilton, The Street Preacher


      Christ and His People, by Rev. John Greer [Text: Psalm 148]
      And The Saints Shouted Hallelujah! by Rev. Kyle Paisley [Text: Psalm 149]

      Recommended hymns based on Psalm 148 & 149:





      Encouragement for Mothers, by Rev. Ian Goligher [Text: Proverbs 31]
      Keeping On! by Pastor Joel Overduin [Text: Proverbs 31; Galatians 6]

      How I Found Christ?

       How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)