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be ready all the time

2/28/2018

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        Be Ready All the Time

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: (1Peter 3:15)

(Anna, the prophetess, was always ready.)

 
BE READY ALL THE TIME. If we belong to the Lord as Savior and Lord, we are to be looking for opportunities to share our faith with others. We do not have to be Bible scholars to share our faith in Christ.  In the early days of Christianity, the common people simply shared what they knew, and it was effective. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ (1John 1:3).  
 
IN OUR TEXT FOR TODAY (1 Peter 3:15), they were instructed to be ready. When someone asked them about their hope in Christ, they were to explain their reason for believing in Christ. The word was getting out about the Jewish preacher who had been crucified in Jerusalem and rose from the dead. People wanted to know more about it and they were asking the ones who saw it all happen. These witnesses running away from Jerusalem simply shared what they knew with others and whatever Old Testament Scriptures they could remember. They were not street preachers. They didn’t have to beg for an audience.
 
BEFORE THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS CONVERTED TO CHRIST, he was a brilliant zealot on behalf of the Temple hierarchy. His name was Saul of Tarsus and he apparently headed up the gestapo that was snooping and arresting everybody they could. They were trying to stamp out a new sect of dangerous crazies that the people of Antioch called: Christians (Little Christs!)
 
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word.  (Acts 8:3-4)

THEY WERE ARRESTING ORDINARY FAMILY PEOPLE who had children and had a trade of some kind to feed their families. Saul was destroying these people by putting them in jail. But they could not find all of them. Some of these dangerous people were escaping and scattering everywhere. As they were scattered, they loaded up their donkey with tools for their trade and all the food they could take with them.
 

As they traveled out from Jerusalem, they talked to everyone who would listen to them and told them about the Jewish Messiah they had seen. They had watched Him die on a cross between two thieves and was buried. Everybody they talked to had seen it turn dark for three hours and felt the earth quake and heard the stories coming out of Jerusalem. These people coming out of Jerusalem told everyone that Jesus, the preacher, had been raised from the dead and they had seen Him.

THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ESCAPING SAUL'S POLICEMEN were explaining how all of this fulfilled the prophecies by Moses and Isaiah and other prophets. They were “preaching the word.” There were no New Testaments books. They would not be written for another thirty years.

They were common, everyday Jews who were just like the people they were meeting along the road. None of them were Apostles. None. They were not trained as speakers and teachers. But, they preached the word.

THIS IS HOW NOT TO BE A WITNESS FOR THE LORD. When I was in my late teens, one night I was eating a hamburger with another student in a restaurant in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. A young man came in and approached two city bus drivers who had just finished their shift and had walked over from the bus depot next door.

They were pouring some whiskey into a coke. The young man blurted out: “You’re going to hell!” He kept it up and annoyed the tired drivers. One of the drivers took out his pocket knife and opened it and said: “If you don’t go on and leave us alone, I’m going to cut off your necktie.” (The young man apparently had just come from a church meeting.)


That didn’t slow down the “witness.". Suddenly the driver grabbed the tie in one hand and with a razor-sharp knife, whacked off the tie and handed it to the young man. Stunned, he looked down at the stub of his necktie and blurted out:  “You cut off my tie! You cut off my tie!”

WELL, SO MUCH FOR OVER-DOING IT in "witnessing for the Lord."  The bus driver was in no mood to be preached to after a long shift of bus driving in heavy traffic. He rescued himself and sent the “witness” on his way. The young witness might have saved his neck tie if he had read the above verse. My friend and I watched the whole thing and agreed that there was a better way to do it.

 
DIGGING DEEPER
 

 “WHAT IS MEANT BY OUR SANCTIFYING THE LORD OUR GOD? It cannot mean to make him holy, for he is perfectly holy, whatever may be our estimate of him; and our views of him evidently can make no change in his character. The meaning therefore must be, that we should regard him as holy in our estimate of him, or in the feelings which we have toward him.” (Barnes)

“DO YOU HAVE A LITTLE SANCTUARY, A LITTLE CHAPEL IN YOUR OWN HEART? When you are riding along in the car or walking down the street or are in the shop or office or classroom, is there a little chapel in your heart where you can withdraw and sanctify the Lord God in your heart? If there is, folk outside will know that you belong to God, and you will not have to mouth it all the time or make yourself obnoxious by making some pious statement. Oh, if in our lives today we would sanctify the Lord God in our hearts. How we need to do that!” (McGee)

PETER WAS TELLING THOSE CHRISTIANS, (and the rest of us), to make room for the Lord to have His rightful place in our hearts.  Being a witness for the Lord won’t be nearly as hard if we will take care of this first and maintain it all the time. If the Lord has to beg to get a little insignificant place in our lives, never mind about being a witness for Him.

Peter wrote a concise manual of doctrine and Christian living that was sufficient for Christians in the toughest place imaginable: The Roman Empire.  We are to be ready all the time. If you want to be a witness for the Lord, talk it over with Him and ask Him to give you His power and directions for being a witness. Memorize John 3:16 and go at it. You’ll find that there are thousands of people you can witness to.

“Do you know the best-loved Bible verse in the whole world?” (Wait for an answer.) “Do you want to hear it?” Quote the verse. Ask questions. “Did you know that God loves you?” Have you thought about Jesus dying on the cross? Did you know that He paid for all your sins on the cross?”


JUST WALK THROUGH THAT VERSE, ONE POINT AT A TIME. Then, there are four questions to ask everybody you get a chance to ask them. 1. Do you need to be saved?   2. Do you want to be saved?  3. Do you know how to be saved? 4. Do you want me to pray with you?  Practice saying those four questions until you can remember them. Practice on a friend or family member. Go with it and see what the Lord will do with your efforts. Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 MARCH 1, 2018 – THURSDAY
  A.M. Numbers 23-27   P.M.  Mark 8:1-38
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that,
if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him (1John 5:14-15).
 
Song for Today: 
How Great Thou Art  (7:43) ( Kim Collingsworth & Family & Orchestra)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO67xEESp1M


In my mind, this woman is the best Christian pianist there is, today. She plays as unto the Lord and mouths the words. The vocal part is in the background. It looks like a nine-foot grand piano and she is part of the piano. Sooo-moving! I hope you have the time to listen to all of it! I must hear again. (Second day to hear this outstanding song.)

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the eyes of the lord...

2/27/2018

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                The Eyes of the Lord…

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil
(1Peter 3:12).

 
WE ARE PLODDING THROUGH PETER'S first epistle. He wrote about how to live the Christian life in a world that is hostile to God. We learn a lot about God and ourselves in studying these two books. Have you thought about the eyes of the Lord?
 
ON HIS FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL Johnny’s mother walked with him to school. On the second day he wanted to walk the two blocks by himself, so his friends wouldn’t see his mother walking with him. But she made a deal with him: she would walk several steps behind him. A month went by and he wanted no more of Mommy’s walking behind him. He had met a school mate who would walk with him. This wise mother called the other boy’s mother and they recruited two women to quietly walk several yards behind without the boys seeing them.
 
However, several days later Johnny said to his little friend: “Freddie have you noticed those two women walking behind us every morning?” “Yeah, I’ve seen em.”  “Do you know who they are?” “Well, I don’t know for sure but I’ve heard about em.” “Do you know their names?” “Well, I don’t know for sure but I think I’ve heard my mother talk about em.” “Who are they?” “I think it’s Marcie and Gracie.”
 
ISN'T IT JUST LIKE THE LORD to impart His own caring nature into mothers? Most mothers watch their babies like a mother hen watching her biddies. And who taught mother hens to watch their biddies? And who taught mama bears to watch out for her cubs and sows to watch out for her pigs? Messin’ with cubs and pigs can shorten your life!
 
IF WE CAN DEPEND ON THE SUN TO COME UP IN THE EAST, we can depend on the eyes of the Lord to be watching over us every day if we know Him and are trying to obey Him in everything we do. If we need to talk to Him, we are assured that His ears are open to listen. All Christians don’t know that. If we are self-centered and away from the Lord, we can count on the face of the Lord being against us.
 
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him (2Chronicles 16:9a).
  
DIGGING DEEPER. 
Peter continues by asking: And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; (1Peter 3:13-14)

“The idea is, that God would protect them, though the next verse shows that the apostle did not mean to teach that there would be absolute security, for it is implied there that they might be called to suffer for righteousness” sake.  The Saviour was persecuted by wicked people, though his life was wholly spent in doing good; the apostles were put to death, though following his example; and good people have often suffered persecution, though laboring only to do good.

“… still it is true as a general thing that a life of integrity and benevolence leans hard toward safety, even in a wicked world. People who are upright and pure; who live to do good to others who are characteristically benevolent and who are imitators of God - are those who usually pass life with the most tranquility and security….. The world ultimately judges right respecting character, and renders “honor to whom honor is due. Compare Psalm 37:3-6.” (Barnes-abbreviated)
 
THE THREE HEBREW CHILDREN ARE A GOOD EXAMPLE of the right attitude when faced with suffering or death for the Lord’s sake. They said humbly to Nebuchadnezzar (in today’s Iraq): If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.  But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up (Daniel 3:17-18). Then…
 
Nebuchadnezzar went into a rage! Everyone is not going to be happy when you agree with God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:10). Here is our emergency kit: Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).
 
HERE IS THE COMFORTINGG THOUGHT: “When I’m walking with God, nothing is going to happen to me unless God approves it and is going to walk with me through it to the other side. We have His word on this:

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.  (Romans 8:28-29)

GOD DOESN'T WASTE ANYTHING. He is going to use your pain and sorrow as tools to make you into the image of His Son. That is the big picture. Not only did God save you, His plan is to make you to be like His Son, Jesus. God is making a lot of people to be like Him. They are called: “Many Brethren.” It takes a lot of things for God to make us into the image of His Son. It takes “all things.” In the hard days, it will help if we remember:
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil (1Peter 3:12). Ω
 

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 28, 2018 – WEDNESDAY
  A.M. Numbers 21-22   P.M.  Mark 7:14-37
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that,
if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him (1John 5:14-15).
 
Song for Today: 
How Great Thou Art  (7:43) ( Kim Collingsworth & Family & Orchestra)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO67xEESp1M

In my mind, this woman is the best Christian pianist there is, today. She plays as unto the Lord and mouths the words. The vocal part is in the background. It looks like a nine-foot grand piano and she is part of the piano. Sooo-moving! I hope you have the time to listen to all of it! I must hear again.
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Mouth Management...

2/26/2018

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          Mouth Management…

For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:  Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue (pursue) it (1Peter 3:10-11).
 
THE BIBLE TELLS US HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN and how to live on the way there. I love to visit the Library of Congress. It’s first building is a piece of art. The link to their website (https://www.loc.gov/collections/ ) is impressive. Thomas Jefferson’s library is in the old building and some copies of the Bible. The library is massive, requiring three large buildings to house it and an impressive number of librarians.

THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY BOOK in that massive library  that can tell the future. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:  (Isaiah 46:10)

THIS BOOK ALSO TELLS US THE ADVANTAGE OF CONTROLLING OUR TONGUES. What does this mean, to control our tongues? I went through seven commentators to search it out. In summary it means: “Don’t run your mouth.”

WHEN PEOPLE REBEL AGAINST GOD, IT WILL AFFECT THEIR TONGUES. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:  Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?  (Psalm 12:3-4)  The Lord will put up with a proud mouth for a while, but there comes a day when He says: “Enough!” One way or another, God will put a stop to the arrogance that says my mouth is my own and I will say what I please. The problem is not the mouth. The problem is the wicked heart.

One man said that when he got saved he lost half his vocabulary. He couldn’t cuss and say vile things any more and he had to learn how to talk again. It is good when God gets hold of the heart and that heart gets hold of the tongue and everybody around knows that God has moved in.

I HAD LEARNED JOHN 3:16 IN THE 2ND GRADE BUT HAD NOT TAKEN IT TO HEART. In the 4th grade I was in a city school and I wanted to be one of the rough boys. So, I practiced cussin’ and got pretty good at it. But in October, 1943 God arrested me in the bean market where revival preaching was going on hot and heavy and I knew I was the wickedest kid in school.

That was 74 years ago and I remember it as well as yesterday. I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me. There was no brass band, no shouting, no noise. I was….stunned. The next day was different. Everything was different. A new direction. A new boss. Jesus was Lord and I aimed to please Him.
   

I MEMORIZED A VERSE FIFTY YEARS AGO THAT HAS HELPED ME A LOT: In the multitude of words there wanteth [lacketh] not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise (Proverbs 10:19). When I took this to heart, I saw that there is a law working against my mouth:  “just keep it up and you’ll dig a hole deep enough for somebody to step on your head.” Our tongues can do this. So many times, I’ve said things that before the words were out of my mouth I knew I had said the wrong thing. Did that ever happen to you? It seems that the tongue is so much quicker than the brain.

PETER QUOTES THE OLD TESTAMENT IN WRITING OUR TEXT FOR TODAY: 
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?  Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.  Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it (Psalm 34:12-14).

 “Peter says that we are to refrain from constantly speaking evil of others. And we are to refrain from speaking "guile," from being deceptive and not telling the truth.” (McGee)
What is Guile? Deception. “The skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.” Misuse of the tongue may have broken more homes and put more people in an early grave than alcohol, drugs, and organized crime combined. 

JAMES WARNS ABOUT THE TONGUE: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain (James 1:26). For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body (James 3:2).
 
The greatest things that can happen in your life is to give your heart to the Lord. The next greatest thing that can happen in your life is to determine that you will walk with the Lord every day, the rest of your life. This is not for half-hearted people. This is for people who mean business with God and are determined to walk with Him.
 
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.  (1Corinthians 10:13) Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 27, 2018 – TUESDAY
  A.M. Numbers 18-20   P.M.  Mark 7:1-13
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him (1John 5:14-15).
 
Song for Today: 
Since Jesus Came Into My Heart  (2:15) ( Camp Meeting)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqN7qeuy9K4
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is healing in the atonement?

2/25/2018

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              Is Healing in the Atonement? 
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls (1Peter 2:24-25).
 
Today, we return to 1Peter and will continue for a while. When I studied this book in the mid-fifties, Dr. Savoy Adams told us at the beginning of the class that our final exam would be to write the book from memory. That was a good exercise, but I didn’t retain it long. I didn’t review it daily long enough for it to become permanent. I like Peter’s two short books. They are rich on living the Christian life and in doctrine.
 
IS PHYSICAL HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT? A reader asked why I didn’t deal with the issue of healing in the atonement as we travel this way. (That was ten years ago.) The reason I didn’t was because I was focusing on the verses that deal with Christian living. Also, these morning articles are thimble-size and the healing issue is more bucket-size. So, let’s look at it. Let me say up front: I do not believe physical healing in this life is in the Atonement, but I do believe that God often heals. I have been healed myself and have witnessed the healing of others.  It’s a little long but it’s better not to break it in half.
 
Isaiah 53:5-6 are the usual main verses used to try to make the case for physical-healing being in the atonement. The idea is that healing is as valid as forgiveness of sins.
 
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.  (Isaiah 53:5-6)
 
The case focuses on the words of Isaiah: “we are healed.” Walvoord and Zuck point out that Peter’s reference to Isaiah deals with the past tense: “by His wounds you have been healed.” Other scholars agree that it is a completed action. That is, the legal payment for sin is a one-time accomplished fact. In Isaiah it was as though it had already happened. Peter says: “ye were healed.”
 

I HAVE MANY PENTECOSTAL FRIENDS and when I traveled in NC in defending the religious liberty of Christian schools, found myself in their churches and spending the night with Pentecostal pastors. Sometimes we sat up late at night discussing this. I did not argue with them. I simply wanted to know their position and why they believed it. I found them to be honest and honorable men.  They pointed out that forgiveness of sin and physical healing were combined in Isaiah; that disease has resulted from Adam’s fall and the devil’s persecution of God’s creation. However, I saw that there were gaps in their system of belief; some of the pieces were missing.
 
J. Vernon McGee questions: “Of what are we healed? This passage from Isaiah clearly states that we are healed of our transgressions and iniquities. You say to me, "Are you sure about that?" I know this is what these verses are talking about because Peter says: "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed" (1Peter 2:24). Healed of what? "Sins." Peter is making it very clear that he is talking about sin.”

“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:6). It was your iniquity and mine which was laid upon Him. Obviously, Isaiah is referring to the fact that Christ would grapple with the great fundamental problem of sin.

To contend that healing is in the Atonement is beside the point. So is a glorified body in the Atonement, but I don't have mine yet. Do you? Also, a new earth with the curse removed is in the Atonement of Christ, but it is obvious that we do not have these yet. In this day when sin and Satan still hold sway, there is no release from sickness as an imperative of the Atonement.”

Donald C. Stamps (deceased) who wrote the study notes for the Full Life Study Bible (Pentecostal-Charismatic) does not quibble over that comment by Peter. It is too clear to argue the point in 1Peter.2:24.

John MacArthur states in his MacArthur Bible Commentary “Through the wounds of Christ at the Cross, believers are healed spiritually from the deadly disease of sin. Physical healing comes at glorification only, when there is no more physical pain, illness, or death (Rev. 21:4)” (P.1911 in the MacArthur Study Bible).

Dr. John R. Rice (deceased) of the Sword of the Lord Publishers, wrote a pamphlet taking about the same position. He emphasized that “healing is in the atonement” in that when the complete plan of redemption is fully implemented, our glorified bodies will have no pain or sickness and therefore will embody the finished act of atonement made by Christ on the cross.

We must not skip over this:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed (1Peter 2:24). Christ bore our sins in his own body on the tree. But please read the following verses carefully:
 
When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses (Matthew 8:16-17).
 
IN THIS EVENT, CHRIST IS NOT ON THE CROSS BUT ON THE GROUND. He has not yet been nailed to the cross. But while walking around on the ground, He fulfilled part of Isaiah’s prophecy. In this brief incident, He separates healing from the Atonement. None of the Atonement took place on the ground. The Atonement took place on the cross with the shedding of blood. In the healing of these people, Jesus shed no blood. This does not take away from the fact that ultimately, we will be healed by having new glorified bodies.
 
BIBLE EXCEPTIONS TO HEALING IN THE ATONEMENT: 
McGee goes further: " Why did Paul urge Timothy to take a little wine for his stomach? Why didn't he urge him to get his healing in the Atonement? Why didn't James urge the saints to claim the Atonement when he asked them to call in the elders to pray? (see James 5:13-15). Why didn't Paul claim healing in the Atonement when he mentioned the fact that there was given to him a thorn in the flesh?

"And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me" (2Corinthians 12:7-9.
 

“There are other examples recorded concerning this subject. Paul, in Philippians, had a regular hospital on his hands. Epaphroditus had been ill (see Philippians 2:25-27), and Paul did not use the Atonement to claim healing.
My friend, we need to face the fact that it is not always God's will to heal. However, sometimes it is God's will to heal. Apparently, Paul knew nothing of this modern…” (view of healing being in the Atonement.)

Paul was able to raise one from the dead, but he could not remedy his own thorn in the flesh nor heal his good friend Epaphroditus. Philippians 2:25-27) Then we move down to modern times.  Several surveys have shown that many people in Pentecostal churches need and use medical care and only a few experience healing. I have seen wheel chairs in their services occupied by paraplegics.

Oral Roberts had many people healed in his tent meetings. I don’t question that. I do question the doctrinal framework he used to explain the healings. Apparently, he came to question it himself since at some point he raised millions of dollars to build a big hospital. A lot of people were not being healed and he was honest enough to admit it. I’m not endorsing Oral Roberts. I’m just reporting what I see.

John Wimber was a teacher at the Fuller Seminary and began to have powerful manifestations for healing through his prayers and his hands. He was slow to come around to it. From his ministry came the Vineyard churches, maybe 200 or so. But John Wimber’s own book includes his own testimony that he had a defective heart that he could not get healed. He died from it. I’m not endorsing John Wimber.

I was in the home of a dear Christian brother in North Carolina, a pastor, who had cancer. He believed healing was in the Atonement and told me he had “claimed” his healing because it had been accomplished at Calvary. I listened. He said he was having some troubling cancer symptoms continuing but those symptoms were from the devil to hinder his faith. He was renouncing the symptoms and believing that the Atonement had provided for his healing as well as his salvation. Within a year he was dead from cancer. His wife lived several years after that. These were sweet, sincere Christians.

At the 700 Club (CBN) I was interviewed twice (1978-80) related to the battle we were having over religious liberty in NC. They practice a highly professional quality of journalism. There’s no doubt in my mind that God has healed hundreds of people and made it known through CBN cameras. That’s God’s business and I am not going to scoff at it. I fear God. I cannot endorse Pat Roberson for several reasons, but God requires that we exercise righteous judgment.

The official position of the CBN ministries is that healing is in the Atonement and anyone can be healed just as anyone can be saved. It’s easier to say that when hundreds of healed people are coming through your cameras. But, I don’t believe that is the explanation. I called CBN one day and talked with a man I had never met. I asked him directly if he believed healing is in the Atonement. He did not hesitate: “No, I don’t.” I wondered how many others there shared his belief.

Then, I noticed that Pat Robertson had surgery for prostate cancer. He wears reading glasses, so he can see how to read. Pat Robertson is growing old. His wife has had surgery for breast cancer. Even though he exercises and eats for health, old age is doing a number on him. Pat Robertson is a loving, compassionate man whose ministry has dug over 4,000 wells for the poor. Over a thousand cleft palates have been repaired and he has led in helping the down-trodden in so many ways.

But, he will not lick the last sickness. All the leaders of that generation who have preached that healing is in the Atonement will die one day. I may go first. One thing to keep your eye on: “The last sickness is never healed. NEVER!”  If healing were in the Atonement, the last sickness could always be healed because the last sickness would be covered in the Atonement. Christians could forego death and live as long as Enoch.

Some people who believe that healing is in the Atonement try to help the doctrine along by suggesting that all Christians could be healed if only there was no sin in the life. It would seem then, that all Christians lose their purity of faith in God, get sick and die. This leaves Joni Erickson Tada in a bad fix. Is there a more faithful or sweeter Christian than Joni? All people die of something that’s wrong with the body. There is no other way to die. If healing is in the Atonement, it is highly out of place for Christians to die.

After the flu, I became paralyzed with Guillion Berre’ (French Polio). (1986). A second attack paralyzed my right eye and it turned in so that I saw double. I could not hold a tooth brush or comb. My neurologist diagnosed me and spoke of “scrubbing” my blood through a machine. My eye surgeon said it would take months for my eyes to heal, IF they were to heal. Second attacks sometimes turned inward and paralyzed the lungs and heart, killing the patient. I wore a heart monitor for a while.

Three months later, January 1, 1987, about 11:00 a.m., I was alone and scooting my feet along six inches at a time facing the north wind, crying out to the Lord in great desperation. Suddenly, two pine trees became one tree. In ten seconds my eyes were healed. The rest of my body healed very slowly and today, 30 years later, I am damaged from my hips down. Healing for my eyes was instant. The rest of the body was slow and part of it never healed. God in mercy healed my eyes so I could read and function and for the rest of my life I would know that He was there that morning.

On the Blue Ridge Parkway in a mountain chalet, I fasted and prayed with several preachers, my son, and a young man named Jack. He had a smashed foot and ankle from a motorcycle skid. It was a mess. The bones were too smashed for the surgeons to do much with them. As we gathered around Jack to pray, my hands were around his ankle. Suddenly I felt heat coming from his ankle. I said to myself : “This sure is a warm-blooded dude.” We stood up and Jack stared out the window. In slow words of amazement he said: “I think I’m healed.” He tested weight on his foot, then stepped, then bounced around. Jack was healed during that brief prayer session.

In the home of a retired couple, I visited a home to find the lady stumbling into the living room, weak and trembling. She had bleeding ulcers and had just vomited up a blended raw egg. Doctors would not operate on her. We prayed. As I knelt on the right end of the couch I sensed nothing. I left quietly. A month later I met them in the parking lot of the grocery store. Their story: “As we were praying, I felt something moving in my stomach. Then I was hungry. Then I wished that you would hurry and leave. I rushed into the kitchen and cooked herself a hamburger with big slices of tomato and onion and ate every bite and have been eating them every day since.”

There are other stories, but you get the picture. I am not a faith healer. I do not believe that any of these healings occurred because healing is in the Atonement. It is obvious that there is a living God who answers prayer. Here is the master verse on prayer:
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him (1John 5:14-15). Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 26, 2018 – MONDAY
  A.M. Numbers 16-17   P.M.  Mark 6:36-56
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Good Verses to Memorize:
 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that,
if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:  And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him (1John 5:14-15).
 
Song for Today: 
Praise Him, Praise Him (3:13) (Fanny Crosby-The Hymn Club)
          
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the brevity of life...

2/22/2018

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         The Brevity of Life…(Edited 2/23/2018)

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.  (Proverbs 27:1) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  (James 4:14)

THIS WEEK, THE NATION HAS TURNED its attention to the death of Billy Graham, who lived just nine months short of a hundred years. When I was sixteen, my daddy bought a new 1950 Ford pickup that included a radio. A year or so later, one Sunday night I came across a fiery preacher who was laying it out. I listened to the end of the program and heard them say it was Billy Graham on the Hour of Decision and that I could hear him again next Sunday. So, I did…as regularly as I could. That was my introduction to Billy Graham.

In 1953 when he came to Chattanooga, I was enrolled in Tennessee Temple College and attended every meeting. As his ministry grew, he made some changes in who he would get to sponsor him, and this created division among pastors as to whether or not they would participate in his meetings. Today, I leave that decision with the Lord because he is God’s servant and He will decide those things. It did bother me that he began to have infidel church leaders in positions of leadership in his meetings, praised them as great men and sent new converts back into their churches. He narrowed his message to offend as few people as possible.

I have listened to many of his recorded messages and he always preached Christ. When he gave the invitation, it was always to receive Christ as Savior and Lord and he included repentance in his messages. He focused on the gospel and never got into other issues such as abortion. I wished many times that he would have taken up the cause of the unborn babies who are being murdered. He spoke often of the wickedness of America but was never specific.

There was never a hint of scandal against him in his personal living or in his handling of money entrusted to him. He left behind two strong children: Franklin Graham and Ann Graham Lotz who preach and teach a strong Bible message.

EVANGELIST MORDEDAI HAM was the preacher in Charlotte, NC who led 17-year-old Billy Graham to Christ. At the close of Mordecai Ham’s ministry, he was the guest speaker at Highland Park Baptist Church. His book was just out: “50 Years on the Battlefront.” I bought a copy. At the close of the service, Temple students lined up to get Dr. Ham to sign our Bibles. The young man in front of me was wearing charcoal trousers with a wide pink stripe down the sides.

HE HANDED HIS BIBLE TO DR. HAM AND SAID: “God has called me to be a big-time evangelist." Dr. Ham, didn’t bat an eye or flinch. He just signed the boy’s Bible and handed it back to him as he said: “You’ll never make it, son.” Then it was my turn to hand him my Bible. I wasn’t going to tell Dr. Ham… anything…. about what I was going to do. Nothing. I knew that in Dr. Ham’s meetings,on several occasions, people had died during the invitation when Dr. Ham would go to them and plead with them to be saved. So, I just waited to get my Bible back, so I could go back to my seat. That was the man who led Billy Graham to Christ. This was also the man who had tried to baptize a cat when he was a boy.

ALL THIS WEEK I HAVE BEEN A BIT WITHDRAWN AND MOODY as I have given some time to thinking how short life is. It was 66 years ago when I heard Billy Graham the first time and suddenly he is 100 years old and dead. In those days it looked like revival was promising. I was young and excited that I could have a part in sharing the Gospel. Yes sir, I was going to help get it done. But along with that there are so many things I wish I could do over; things I wish I had not said and I’m not going to tell you what they were. In those days I knew a lot and then I began to discover that I didn’t know much of anything. So many times, I proved to be the Head Dummy.

FINALLY, I REALIZED THAT THE BEST I COULD DO was to let God do through me whatever He wanted to do and leave the results up to Him. The idea of working for God and getting Him to help me do His work was not the smart way of going about it.  So, if I can keep Dan, straight and surrendered to God, I will have it about right.


LIFE IS SHORT...BUT WHO KNOWS ABOUT IT? It’s a well-kept secret. Only the old people know about it. The young read about it but with them it is academic. Death? Yes, but it’s for somebody else. They can’t imagine the world being without them. Leave them alone and let them be children. They will find the secret in due time. Right now, the big deal is to be able to get their driver’s license and then they’re busy until they’re downsizing into retirement.

IT HIT ME HARD WHEN BROTHER ROLOFF WAS KILLED. A storm ripped off the wing of his plane at 20,000 feet. I played piano for him to sing at times in meetings and we talked on the phone. When Kent Kelly and I visited his home in Corpus Christi, TX he fixed a salad for us in his kitchen while he paced the floor with his long extension cord and talked with people in the U.S. and Germany. People wanting help with troubled youth.

WHEN PAUL FERGUSON WENT TO HEAVEN, I knew that life is short. I had had him in meetings where I was a pastor. I interviewed him for six days to jot down some things about his life. God did some things in his life that were unusual, to say the least. I wrote them down in the book: Paul Ferguson the Fighter. Dr. Roberson read the manuscript, wrote some in the front of the book and gave me the title for the book. While we were talking those six days, many times we were overwhelmed by the presence of the Lord and had to stop and weep in His presence. When Paul went home to Heaven, it was a powerful statement to me on how short life is.

THEN, DR. LEE ROBERSON WENT HOME. I didn’t go to his funeral. I knew it would be crowded. I went to his funeral at home. I still miss him. In the spring of 1952 I met him one evening at 6:00 o’clock in his office with my pastor from Stevenson, AL. He was in his prime. He became my second daddy. Still is. He had some faults. I didn’t care. I still don’t care. Moses had some faults. I love to go back and visit with Moses. Those ornery hoodlums gave him a fit. He was always begging God not to kill them. Dr. Roberson was like Moses. I missed him when he went home. Life is short.

PASTOR KENT KELLY WENT HOME AND LIFE WAS GETTING SHORTER.
We spent many hours together discussing issues and strategies for dealing with government overreach into our schools and churches in North Carolina. We talked about Bible subjects and found we agreed so very much. A man whose heart was bent toward God and loved people as his own. When he went home, I was being taught how short life is.


WE'VE GOT FAMILY AND FRIENDS GOING HOME and their departure always reminds us that life is short. Oh, my friend! Has it occurred to you that life is short and if you need to get saved, you need to get saved right now? Not tomorrow. Right now. If you are saved, are you walking with God and are you surrendered to Him? Because life is short, we can look forward to Heaven….soon. If you have to wait ten years, that’s soon. Life is short. Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 23, 2018 – FRIDAY
  A.M. Numbers 8-10   P.M. Mark 5:1-20
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)

Song for Today: 
Just When I Need Him (2:47) (Dr. Lee Roberson)

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the christian home and equity

2/21/2018

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         The Christian Home and Equity 
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.  (Isaiah 59:14)
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.  (Deuteronomy 15:11)

THE CHRISTIAN HOME IS THE BEST PLACE FOR COMPASSION to develop. Some children are born with a tendency to share what they have with others and some are born with a tendency to be “bankers and money managers” and hoard everything. The Old and New Testaments are full of God’s urging His people to be mindful of the poor and needy and the infirmed. I don’t find anything about government redistribution of the wealth to get this done. We could talk about: justice, mercy, manners, etc. It all comes out of attitude. I don’t know which word would be best, today.

But, clearly, the Bible urges people to be mindful of the needs of others. When it says to “open thine hand wide,” it is talking about our own hands. Everyone who is able, is to work. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.  (Ephesians 4:28)

THE HOME IS THE PLACE TO TEACH CHILDREN TO GIVE TO THE LORD and to give to those who are truly in need. When I speak of “equity,” I’m not talking about making sure everyone has the same amount of money. I’m not talking about socialism and communism. We’re talking about treating everyone with respect and fairness. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, said: “The problem with socialism, is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.” Sir Winston Churchill said: “If you are not a socialist when you are young, you have not heart. If you’re still a socialist when you’re fifty, then you have no head.”

In today’s world, I don’t prefer to use the term “equity” because there are those who think that everyone should have about the same amount of wealth. That’s not the Bible meaning of the word, but some people have twisted it. Everyone should have equal opportunity, but everyone is not guaranteed the same outcome. Some will work harder than others. Some will buy things they don’t need and get themselves hopelessly in debt. Everyone does not have the same brainpower or the same winning personality. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.  (Deuteronomy 8:18)

THE BIBLE HAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT MONEY AND WEALTH. We should tithe our income (profit) to the Lord. A tithe is a tenth: 10%. The next 10%, if at all possible, should be put into a savings account. Let the 2nd 10% build up and use it for emergencies. After a while, transfer some of it over into a reserve account for retirement. The home needs a realistic budget to help in managing the family’s finances. That helps us to get permission from ourselves if we want to buy something. Amazon Books has some good books for helping with family budgets. Children should be taught how to handle money. He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.  (Proverbs 21:17)

CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT ABOUT THE DEBT TRAP and the danger of credit cards. If the credit card cannot be paid off every month without owing interest, it should be put in a drawer or destroyed. A card is a handy device for buying all kinds of things and earn 1% of the purchase from the credit card company. We have done this for years. But, if ever we could not pay the card off on time and avoid paying interest, then the card would have to be parked, IMMEDIATELY!

CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE HOW TO HANDLE MONEY and credit cards and how to budget what money they have. It’s a lot cheaper to be poor if you are not a slave to the bank and credit cards.  The rich ruleth over the poor, and the
borrower is servant to the lender.  (Proverbs 22:7)

Equity, justice, mercy. These have always been important words and children should know them and have respect for each of them. Study these words in the Bible with your children just as soon as they’re old enough to understand when you tell them what they mean. They will understand justice and mercy easier than equity, so, start with justice and mercy.

MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT RESPECT FOR WOMEN AND PEOPLE OF COLOR in less than 30 minutes. Aunt Mandy, an older, black widow woman who lived around the corner from us, was my object lesson. My friends I ran with talked some with Aunt Mandy and I didn’t know what to think about it. I had never seen nor talked with a black person before. So, I asked my mother about it. She explained that God made us all and some with different colors of skin.

Soon after that, I walked past Aunt Mandy’s door (the house was built right on the street with no front yard) and spoke to her. She smiled and spoke back. She invited me to come in. The house was clean and smelled good and we had a good time talking. I went back every now and then and talked with Aunt Mandy.

 
My mother taught me at a young age to respect women, to open the door for them and to say “Yes Ma’am” and “No Ma’am.” Then there were the little amenities of “Thank you, please, and May I?” These are helpful little ball bearings that help to make the wheel of life turn a little easier as we respect one another.
 
WE WERE POOR AS A CHURCH MOUSE, but my mother told me one day that a Junior-Senior banquet was coming up in 10 years and I needed to know how to eat properly at the banquet. (Yes, that happened.) We practiced the use of the fork and spoon and cutting meat and the use of a napkin and where to set the drink by the plate. My brother was ten years older than me and the Junior-Senior banquet was coming up for him right away. So, I got in on his training with ten years yet to go. Maybe the hardest thing was eating without elbows being on the table and one hand being in the lap. (I never did get a handle on that.) 
 
My mother taught me more than I thought, and things would come to mind when I began to go into social settings and opening doors for the women and older people. (Everybody was older than me, so I got a lot of practice in opening doors for people.) What my mother didn’t learn from her mother, she learned from reading the Nashville Banner newspaper that came in the mail Monday-Saturday.
 
In short, what I mean by “Equity” is being nice to everybody you meet and not just a select few. Everybody is worthy of respect. A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.  (Proverbs 15:1) A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.  (Proverbs 25:11) I tell you, folks, there’s a lot of good stuff in God’s Book.
My daddy taught me a lot of good things too, but not the same things my mother taught me.  Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 22, 2018 – THURSDAY
  A.M.
. Numbers 7   P.M. Mark 4:21-41
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)

Song for Today: 
Rock of Ages  (4:04) (Vestal Goodman; The Martins; Gaither Group)

 
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The Christian Home and Work

2/20/2018

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   The Christian Home and Work
So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.  (Nehemiah 4:6)

NEHEMIAH WAS A JEWISH CAPTIVE who was the cupbearer to Artaxerxes, king of Persia. He had the dangerous job of protecting the king by tasting the king’s food and drink before the king had any of it. If no ill effect occurred to Nehemiah, then the king would have some. The king would have to trust his cupbearer not to poison him. This close relationship produced a close bond between the two. Nehemiah was like a member of the family.
 
THE KING STUDIED EVERYTHING ABOUT HIS CUP-BEARER so that he knew his mood by looking at his face. The cup-bearer had to be cheerful and uplifting to the king so that he was not an emotional burden on the king. The king had enough weight on him without bearing the weight of a distraught cup-bearer. A cup-bearer could be dismissed or even lose his life if he came into the king’s presence down in the dumps, with a grumpy disposition.
 
ONE DAY NEHEMIAH CAME INTO THE KING'S ROOM WITH A SAD FACE.  A messenger had visited him and told him that Jerusalem was in very bad shape. The king picked up on it and asked Nehemiah what was going on. Fearfully, Nehemiah explained it to the King. Artaxerxes liked Nehemiah and ended up giving Nehemiah some time off to go to Jerusalem and rebuild the wall around it.

In our text today, we have a statement about their progress on the wall. It was half-way up, because the Jews who were building the wall “had a mind to work.”  When the wall was finished, they had done the whole job in just 52 days; a little less than two months.

 
I’M REMINDED OF JOSEPH IN EGYPT when he brought his family to Egypt to live in the land of Goshen. Pharaoh had great respect for Joseph and asked him about his family. When Pharaoh learned that they were herdsmen by profession, Pharaoh said:  The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.  (Genesis 47:6)

Pharaoh knew what it took to get things done: men of activity. My daddy was like that. He finished the eighth grade and “was a hustler.”  He owned and operated a sawmill and he had to have men working for him who were “hustlers.” That was a common word in his day that meant “he moved!” I heard my dad use that word many times in talking with other men. He always wanted to know if a man was a hustler.

“Work” occurs 420 times in the Bible. It is God’s will that we work. The Bible tells the lazy person to study the ant that works hard.
 
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:  Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.  (Proverbs 6:6-11)

I typed the above verses on a 3x5 card and required all of my children to memorize them. We went over them again and again, for several weeks. Usually, I just gave them a verse or two per week. This card had six verses on it, so we took extra time to get them memorized.

Did you ever scrape the top off an ant hill? They’re all moving. I had to tackle a 12” ant hill this past week. It’s amazing how thousands of ants can work together and build a hill, digging tunnels and moving so much dirt to the top and capping off their city. They work. They work smart.

A CHRISTIAN HOME SHOULD TEACH THE CHILDREN TO WORK at things suitable for them. By the time they are 4-5 years old, they are old enough to do little jobs that have to be done and then praised to the roof top for the good job they did!

At our house with four children, we had a posting place where the jobs were posted for each one. Each day, when the assigned job was done, they got a gold star for a job well-done. We taught them how to do the job and why it was important to do it.

When they were in their teens, they began to work at Burger Chef and the Kroger Super-Market. One day at supper, one of them who worked at Kroger’s, said: “Dad, I don’t believe some of the young people at Kroger’s know how to work.” My response was: “Really? Tell me about it.”

WE NOTICE IN OUR TEXT THAT the “people had a mind to work.” That’s where the work ethic comes from: the mind. Teach a child to work at things they can do and teach them to do it well. It becomes a way of life and will serve them well.

At our house during my early years, the Great Depression was on. I remember the 8-10 (sometimes more) men who worked at Dad’s mill “up in the hollow.” They ate at our table and slept in a bunk house in the back yard, built out of sawmill slabs. My mother fed them breakfast and supper at our table and packed them a man-size lunch in a lard bucket.

EVERYBODY AT OUR HOUSE WORKED. That’s what we did. I never thought of it as a hardship. 
Mama also raised a garden and canned a lot of veggies for the winter. At five, I was in charge of bean bugs and potato bugs. With a little can of kerosene, I worked the rows of plants and dropped the bugs into the kerosene. It was a big deal!

I also helped with dishwashing (duly trained). Mama turned a cane-bottom chair backwards and moved it close to the table. I stood on my knees in the chair. She handed me the dishes as she washed them in hot water with lye soap. I rinsed them in another pan of water and dried them and set them on the table. Nobody ever told me how that was “child labor.” Everybody had a job to do.

We rested an hour and it was time to begin supper for the sawmill workers. Boy could they put away the groceries, heavy in potatoes and cornbread. Our beverage was fresh water out of the well. (No electricity. No refrigeration.) Daddy was always working at the sawmill (until we went bankrupt in 1938 and lost it.)


MY MOTHER NEVER PUSHED ME or “worked me down” or fussed at me. She taught me and let me do what I could. As I grew, she gave me bigger jobs and more responsibility. She had taught school for a while after she finished the 8th grade. She was a good teacher. Our contact with the outside world was church and the daily newspaper, the Nashville Banner delivered a day late. Mama read the paper front to back.

She saved the papers and in the fall the papers were used for wallpaper. When I took an afternoon nap, I enjoyed looking at all the display ads: new Chevrolet cars ($759) or “Walking a mile for a Camel cigarette.” Teaching children, gently, how to work is good for them. Eventually I got to draw water out of the well and milk the cow and ride the mules home from the field to the water barrel. It’s all about growing up in a Christian home. Ω

 
Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 21, 2018 – WEDNESDAY
  A.M. Numbers 5-6   P.M. Mark 4:1-20
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)

Song for Today: 
This World is Not My Home (2:11) (Men’s Trio - Calvary Mem. Church)

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the christian home AND ENTERTAINMENT

2/20/2018

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      The Christian Home
                      and
           Entertainment


Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  (1John 2:15-17)

“ON APRIL 30, 1939, THE DAY THAT NEW YORK'S WORLD FAIR OPENED, the American public was introduced to the first U.S. television broadcast as President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech to welcome thousands of attendees.” (Google) Later that year, Hitler’s NAZI Germany would invade Poland and World War 2 would be at hand, and the death of 60 million people.

1939 IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST DEFINING YEARS in American history when so much change would come about that would affect the American home, including Christian homes. It wasn’t so much the war as it was the technology that was being birthed at the time.  The changing technology and the awesome growth of American wealth was a powerful influence on the American home. It won’t be long until this new technology of 1939 will give us powerful computers for our pockets with phones attached to them and we can then become hermits as our relationships dry up.
 

THE PRESSURES ON THE CHRISTIAN HOME are now powerful and complicated. The enemy of the Christian home is not just one thing; we have many things contrary to the Christian home.  On this page I would like to think about our entertainment. We need the Word of God and prayer and the exercise of Christian living.

WE ALSO NEED SOME ENTERTAINMENT, a diversion from the heavy burdens of work and responsibility. A nation needs a day off once a week and needs national holidays when we shift attention from duty to something else. God provided those kinds of days in His system of the Mosaic Law in the Old Testament. There were days of celebration, three times a year. God made us so that we need a change of pace every few days.

OUR ENTERTAINMENT NEEDS TO BE IN HARMONY with the Lordship of Christ and His program of living. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;  (2Corinthians 10:5) I  know of no any verse that covers everything better than this verse.

GOD COMMANDED THE ISRAELITES (AND US): Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:3) Our entertainment must fit into these verses. The Bible is a sufficient guide for faith and practice. When we consider any part of life in the Christian home, we will find directions by name or by principle in this Book.

GOD IS NOT A WET BLANKET UPON EVERY PARTY, but He is every bit who He claims to be: The Almighty God with whom we have to do. There is no conflict between good entertainment and the Lord of our lives.

I MUST MENTION WHAT I HAVE SEEN HAPPEN IN THE LAST 40 YEARS. It is almost common today in our affluent society to see Christian families come together and while we wait for dinner to be ready and on the table, those who are not in the kitchen are sitting around with their smart phones with eyes and ears glued to the utterances of the little thing in their hands.

No? Then, I am so glad your family life has not been ruined by these little monsters. I think we could improve family life if we had a dedicated bucket in the living room and the dining room. In this bucket, everyone would deposit these little machines that have stolen our eyes and ears away from each other. and we would be forced to talk to one another. How is it that our family comes home at night for fellowship and we are not talking to each other?

I know, I know, our families are dim-witted and have nothing worth listening to and we are too dumb to engage each other in conversation.  We’re just not worth talking to? Hmmm. That hurts.

THAT'S JUST THE INTRODUCTION. There is a multi-billion-dollar industry that makes video games into killing machines that makes it fun to kill people. And the much larger screen in the living room addicts our cravings to see drama that must have at least one vivid sex scene in between the explosions and inhumanity toward humanity.  Do you think this junk can be devoured week after week and have no effect on the individual and Christian homes?

My friend, I must tell you that we are in crisis today of inviting a den of serpents to fill our eyes and ears and capture our cravings. Our Christian homes need to be places where God is welcome, and the Holy Spirit is not grieved.

THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE READING IN THE HOME. Read good books to the children. Let them read books to us that is on their level. Help children to love good books, good stories. I must tell you that it is dangerous not to read good books to your children. It is dangerous not to roll on the floor and play games with the toddlers. There’s something wonderful and good about playing hide-and-go-seek and ring around the roses and hop-scotch and skipping rope and soft ball and shooting baskets.

CHILDREN SHOULDN'T HAVE TO ALWAYS GO TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S HOUSE you think? And, the home should be the school room where children invite their friends to spend the night and how to have social interchange without destroying everything, you think? Do you ever play: “I spy..?” The others have to guess what you spy.

I learned about playing marbles from my grandpa. He told me how they made their marbles by taking pieces of limestone and dropping them in a chiseled-out hole under a water fall and letting them turn until they were round. If you want to play unfair and put life-time memories in your children, make cookies and mess up the kitchen.

Once you get started at this, your kids may want to hang around until they’re thirty. If that happens, you can threaten them that they can stay and when you’re ninety, they can take care of you.

CHRISTIAN FAMILIES OUGHT TO BE WHERE CHILDREN have enough confidence in their parents that they can talk to Mom and Dad about the serious stuff, if need be.  Don’t try to be buddies with your children. You’re not one of them. You are the authority figure and you’d better keep it that way. But it won’t hurt to get down in the floor with them, or go swimming with them.

I GREW UP WITH ANIMALS AROUND THE HOME. I still love cats, dogs, goats, pigs, cows, horses, birds and watching squirrels at a distance. (They can bite all the way through your thumb in a blink of the eye.) No, I never had a pet snake or lizard.
 

SPLASH AND SWIM WITH YOUR CHILDREN. Play catch and softball and whatever comes handy. All the boys carried knives to school when I was in the 2nd grade. I learned knife-care from Grandpa. I got a knife at least twice for Christmas…carried them to school cause all the other boys got knives for Christmas. We didn’t cut each other or fight with knives.  Guns? Grew up with them and how to stay alive with them. Oh yes…and plenty of time with sling shots. I have a new-fangled sling-shot beside my reading chair from Walmart and a bottle of bee-bee’s. There’s a little boy inside of every man, even old men.
 

IF I STILL HAD YOUNG CHILDREN IN THE HOME, we probably would have a TV, but mom and dad would be in charge of it and the kids would not have one in their bedrooms. Computers? Not in the bedroom. It would be located in the living room or dining room and they would know it’s under the eyes of mom and dad. Computers would be a privilege and not a right.  Cell phones, smart phones, under control of parents and that’s the only way they could have one.

Trusting them would be their responsibility to be earned. It’s not a birthright. Oh yes, and keep your promises you make to your kids…ice cream, spanking, whatever.  (And this is all under “ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HOME.”) 

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 20, 2018 – TUESDAY
  A.M. Numbers 3-4  P.M. Mark 3:22-35
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)

Song for Today: 
He’s Still Working On Me (1:34) (Class at Calvary Mem. Church)

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the christian home and education

2/18/2018

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  The Christian Home and Education

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.  (2Timothy 3:15) Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.  (Proverbs 19:27)

HALF OF A CHILD'S EDUCATION is finished by the time the child is five years old, according to some professionals. A native Chinese pastor told us in chapel that the Chinese language is not hard: even the children speak it. Indeed, by the time a child is five years old, he or she can recognize several thousand words. Add to that their knowledge gained about objects, people, food and issues of comfort and discomfort. That’s a lot of education.

When they turn six, we get into compulsory school attendance. Who is going to teach the child? What is going to be taught to the child? What kind of school companions is the child going to bond to and copy? (This is going to be a little longer than usual.)

 
WHERE DO YOU THINK MOSES GOT HIS KNOWLEDGE and determination to live for God and defend his own people? Remember his mother, who was hired by Pharaoh’s daughter to nurse the little boy in the basket found on the Nile river?  I suspect Moses’ mother taught him up a storm while he was with her. She nursed him a long time and then we can suppose that she continued a relationship with him as he visited her through the years.
 
Today, many Americans think of the education of children as being in a building down the street, owned, regulated, and staffed by the state government. At the same time, there is a surge of realization that there are viable alternatives to the public school.

I ATTENDED PUBLIC GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, GRADES 1-12  Most of those schools were staffed by Christians. I was privileged to attend the Homesteads High School in Crossville, TN. (Grades 7-12). The quality of teaching was outstanding and most of the teachers were Christians. Brother Joselyn came on Thursdays with a flannelgraph story. He was the nicest man who ever smiled while he told young people about the coming judgment of God upon unrepentant sinners and about the love of God who sent His Son to die on a bloody cross.

 
WE ARE HEARING A LOT THESE DAYS ABOUT SCHOOL CHOICE so that parents can be more effective in helping their children get a better education, kindergarten through high school. All states have compulsory attendance laws that will, hopefully, result in some kind and level of education. Back in the 1800’s when compulsory attendance laws were being written, they knew they could only require school attendance. The problem: you cannot teach a child against his will. That is why we have compulsory school attendance laws rather than compulsory education laws.
 
One in four children in America grow up without being able to read. I recommend that you check out the eleven facts about literacy in America at this web site. https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-literacy-america . If you search Google, you can find a lot there.
 
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE AND EDUCATION ARE NOT ALWAYS THE SAME THING.
Thousands of high school graduates cannot read at the first-grade level. Many cannot read their diplomas. Many more cannot write a sentence. These deficiencies show up when students study for a driver’s license or apply for a job or try to enter the military. It is generally conceded that the State has a compelling interest in requiring that all children be taught: reading, writing, basic computing (math), and something about the history of their country.

 
THERE IS SUCH A THING AS BAD EDUCATION that causes children to become biased against “the words of knowledge (the Word of God).” Our Founding Fathers knew a lot and believed a lot about the importance of children being educated. Some of our Founding Fathers left their written testimony of how important it was to teach children about God and the Bible. They feared that the nation would descend into chaos if children were not taught character based upon the Bible. John Adams said in a speech on October 11, 1798: Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
 
THE FIRST SCHOOLS IN AMERICA WERE CONDUCTED IN CHURCHES. The first teachers were the pastors of those schools. The first textbook in those schools was the Bible. (Yes, they taught reading from the Bible. Later, they taught from the McGuffey Reader.)

At that time, the English language was still settling out and the King James Bible was used as the reference point for the definition of words. The King James Bible was also the reference point in matters of law. If there was a question concerning law, the Bible was consulted along with British Common Law to determine the more precise meaning of the law. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton Universities were all established for training pastors in the Bible and associated subjects.

 
During the early period of American history, it was customary for responsible parents to teach their children reading, writing and how to count and figure. Then, if they wanted them to “get an education,” they sent them to school somewhere if there was one and they could afford it. That practice produced what some historians call: “the most literate time in American history.” Dr. R. A. Rushdoony, of California made that statement to the pastors in North Carolina while we were contesting the State of North Carolina. The statement meant that a higher percentage of the population could read than at any time since.
 
America has many minimally educated people, but the percentage is not as high as it was when our nation was being founded in the 1700’s. A great number of people in America today cannot read at all. They cannot read road signs or a menu in a restaurant.
 
While our government consisted of Thirteen Colonies, an ongoing debate was taking place among the people. The Federalist Papers was a series of widely distributed articles on the formation of our new government. It is reported that farmers would fold the paper and stick it in their pockets and read it while they let their mules cool and rest in the fields. Those farmers had been educated by their mothers when they were children. They could read about the issues of the day and voted to establish the state and federal governments of our country because they could read.
 
A CHRISTIAN HOME SHOULD MAKE SURE THEIR CHILDREN CAN READ AND WRITE, count money, balance a check book, etc. MAKE SURE your children know a lot about the Bible and DO ALL YOU CAN TO LEAD THEM TO THE LORD. The greatest reason our early American forefathers taught their children to read was, so they could read the Bible.

The big disappointment today is that many who can read, do not read their Bibles. You see, even among Christians, we are in a downward slide. Our population is ceasing to read…. anything. We are gravitating toward pictures. Some schools are reluctant to teach cursive writing. If you can’t do cursive writing, how are you going to sign a check?

 
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A GOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL. Increasingly, people are realizing this and doing what they can to put their children in a Christian school. These schools are not available in all parts of the country. Thousands of people cherish this practice enough to sell their homes and move to an area that has a Christian school.

Thousands of other people are engaging in teaching their children at home. That’s a tricky thing if you do that. It’s easy to be careless and let the children miss their education. But many homes are teaching their children at home. In fact, many people who don’t claim to be Christians are home schooling because they recognize the importance of giving their children a good educational foundation.

 
There are some concerned Christian parents who don’t make enough money to eat and send their children to a Christian school. But, I must remind us all that the power of prayer is strong and if that is you, then pray that God will show you what to do. Read the Bible to your children and let them have a part in reading the Bible. Pray with your children daily. Have your own school of prayer in your home, with your children. Go through the doors God opens for you.
 
IF YOU ARE TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN AT HOME, please make sure you are not cheating them. Make sure they are using a strong curriculum and that you are organized and time-conscious to get all the subjects in day-after-day. I have never doubted that an average mother can teach her mother at home, but I must be honest and say that you absolutely must be a disciplined and responsible person to get the job done.
 
In Jacksonville, Florida when I was a high school principal at Trinity Christian Academy, I learned that the occupation that had the most children in Christian schools in America was public school teachers. They try to keep their children in a Christian school through the first three grades to make sure their children learn how to read. I was stunned when I learned that. These public-school teachers know the score. If their children don’t learn how to read in the first three grades, they will be behind the rest of their school time. They teach in a public school and they’re afraid their own children will come up short.
 
When we were in a big lawsuit with the State of North Carolina that wanted to maintain an iron-grip on the Christian schools, I learned something else. Our Constitutional attorney, William Ball, subpoenaed the State Superintendent of Public Schools, Dr. Craig Philips, to testify under oath. Atty. Ball asked him if the public schools were a good example for the church schools to follow. He hesitated, stammered, hemmed, and hawed. Our attorney kept after him to answer the question. Dr. Phillips finally confessed that the public schools were not performing as he would like for them to do.
 
At this point, I must acknowledge that some public schools do a good job of teaching basic education. My observation so far has been that much if not most of those schools are in rural areas where the local community has a greater influence on the operation of those schools. There are some dedicated Christians who teach in public schools, but they are a small minority. I know some dedicated Christians who teach in public schools who are angels of mercy and light in their classrooms and private counseling. Their lives are a strong influence on the lives of their students. 
 
At the same time, we must acknowledge that all teachers in public schools must teach from the curriculum and books handed to them and if they don’t, they will lose their jobs. Many Christian teachers in public schools have lost their jobs from their private counseling with students who come to them. In some rural schools, this may not be the case because from the principal down, the entire staff is made up of Christians. But, these schools are an exception and not the rule.
 
The official position of science books used in public schools is that evolution is scientific and factual. It is the religious dogma of public education. If I had the space, I would talk about the beginning of public education and the influence of Horace Mann and later of John Dewey at Columbia University. John Dewey signed the Humanist Manifest0 of 1933 which stated that they reject “the ghost in the machine” (that man has a soul). And:  No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.”
 
I could talk about the doctrines and conditions of public education that have fueled the explosive growth of Christian schools and then of home schooling. Why do people pay taxes to pay for public education and then pay again to send their children to a Christian school?
 
I’m just reporting some things that you should know if you have school-age children or grandchildren. Parents are responsible not only to feed and clothe their children: we are responsible before God to educate our children in the Word of God and in the essentials of education for today. An old Jewish proverb says that if you don’t teach your son a trade, you are teaching him to steal.
 
THE PROPHET HOSEA LAMENTED: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.  (Hosea 4:6)  That’s a scary verse! Don’t you think? Ω

Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 19, 2018 – MONDAY
  A.M. Numbers 1-2  P.M. Mark 3:1-21
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Good Verses to Memorize:  
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)

Song for Today: 
Standing on the Promises (1:49) (Class at Calvary Mem. Church)

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The christian home and the old nature

2/15/2018

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                     and The Old Nature


Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:  Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. (1Peter 3:8-9)
 
WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD... If people who gather in houses of worship could be as nice and orderly as the building?  From the wording in these verses two thousand years ago, whatever is flawed in human nature was flawed a long time ago. It also appears that getting saved, even truly saved, does not eliminate the old depraved nature we drag around with us all the time. Paul was troubled with this. He said: I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  (Romans 7:21)
 

THE CHRISTIAN HOME IS GREATLY IMPACTED by the old fleshly nature that remains and clings to us ‘till death. The old sin nature of each family member is alive and well in every Christian home. Would to God we could park our old sin nature at the front door of our homes so that we have nothing but wonderful people living in the Christian home. The Christian home is a gymnasium, a work-place where the Christian faith is being worked into the lives of each family member. The process of wrestling with the old nature and overcoming it, is called: “sanctification.” It continues until we die.
 
DO YOU EVER HAVE TROUBLE WITH THIS WILD PERSON who looks back at you from the bathroom mirror? When the phone rings, does it ever strike your match?  Christians everywhere recognize the Apostle Paul as the leading Christian of all times and he had to say: O wretched man that I am! A saved man said that. He didn’t feel like singing hymns all the time. People got on his nerves. In fact, he said: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.  (Romans 7:18)
 
But he said he had a solution for the wretched man that dogged his steps: I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord…  (Romans 7:25). …Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:27). The best portrayal of his struggle is:
 
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.  (Galatians 2:20) This could be translated: “by the faithfulness of the Son of God.”  
 
I CAN'T LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. I must let Christ live His life through me. How do I do that? Two words: seek and surrender. My job is to aggressively surrender to Him; To be sensitive to His leading in my spirit. If someone crosses me like a pagan, I don’t have to join in. We are to go beyond our own plans and think of others. Most people are having a hard time with something. A crabby waitress may be carrying a great burden she can’t handle. We are to:  Bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you (Luke 6:28). Sometimes that’s hard to do. Flying off the handle is easier… isn’t it?
 
Paul said that in his struggle to triumph over his wretched self, he had to die to self. He said: …  I die daily (1Corinthians 15:31). Death was all around him. He might be killed any day, and this reminded him to forget about petty things and to focus on his mission and who he belonged to.
 
JESUS PUT IT THIS WAY: Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal (John 12:24-25). I memorized this 50 years ago, but I was forced to realize that this death-to-self-thing is a daily exercise.
 
Paul tells us that the end result is to:  Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.  (Romans 12:16) Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: (Romans 15:5)
 
There is much to be gained by realizing the nature of “struggle” within the Christian home. It’s the same struggle everyone has with the world, the flesh, and the devil. But, in the Christian home, it is bigger and more complicated. We get the opportunity to deny self and to benefit others instead of our selves. Do you live in a Christian home?
 
 When we say: Christian home, we are using “Christian” as an adjective and not as a noun. A Christian is always one person, a noun. Christian music is an adjective. Music cannot be converted. But, there is something about the music that fulfills the ideals of the Christian faith. A Christian home is patterned after the ideals of the Christian faith. It is always a piece of on-going work. It is never finished in its quest for Christ-likeness. Ω

 Read Through the Bible in a Year
 FEBRUARY 16, 2018 – FRIDAY
  A.M. Leviticus 22-23   P.M. Mark 1:1-22
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A Good Verse to Memorize:  
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1Corinthians 10:31)

Song for Today: 
He Washed My Eyes With Tears & We’ll Talk It Over (4:44)
(Ira Stanfield and Gaither Group)  (Ira gives his testimony behind the songs.)

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