How Will You Finish 2022? - Fearfully? by Dr. Joel Beeke [Text: Genesis 19:23-38]
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Friday, December 30, 2022
Today in the News - Saturday, December 31, 2022
Today's Headlines:
- Here Are 6 Times in 2022 That Science Broke Physics - cosmosmagazine.com
- Biden Repeats 2-State Solution in Message to Netanyahu - ynetnews.com
- Woman Finds Out She is Her Daughter's Mother - and Uncle - jpost.com
- California Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Legalize Magic Mushrooms, Other Psychedelics - zerohedge.com
- Russia Claims US Moving Bioweapons Research Facilities Out of Ukraine - naturalnews.com
- Do We Live in a Brave New World? Aldous Huxley's Warning to the World - lewrockwell.com
- What We Now Know - The CIA and FBI Have Been Corrupt for the Past 75 Years - americanthinker.com
- Andrew Tate Detained in Romania in Human Trafficking Case as Greta Gets Last Word - zerohedge.com
- CDC Urges Teachers, Administrators, School Nurses to Adopt LGBT Curriculum, Endorse Transgender Identity - dailysignal.com
Columnists:
- Katie Pavlich: The Omnibus Abomination - townhall.com
- Ron Paul: Omnibus Shows Congress's Priorities: Authoritarianism and War - lewrockwell.com
- Dan Bongino Video: A National Security Nightmare is Happening - frontpagemag.com
- Allen West: The Real Threat to the Republic - townhall.com
- Chuck Norris: Why Our Founding Fathers Didn't Celebrate the Holiday Like We Do - wnd.com
- Ben Shapiro: The Left's Cynical 'Speech is Violence' Ploy - cnsnews.com
- Cal Thomas: Bad Political Theatre - townhall.com
- Ann Coulter: Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI - anncoulter.com
- Patrick Buchanan: Still Against "Dead Consensus" - cnsnews.com
- John Stossel: Inconvenient Facts About Electric Cars - cnsnws.com
- Stephen Green: So Long, and Thanks for all the Judges - pjmedia.co
- Andrew Napolitano: Searching for Monsters - lewrockwell.com
- David Stockman: What History Tells Us About Taming Inflation - lewrockwell.com
- Larry Elder: Stanford University's Anti-American 'Wokeness' - townhall.com
Westminster Shorter Catechism Q & A #63-#66
#63
- Question: What is the fifth commandment?
- Answer: The fifth commandment is, Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
#64
- What is required in the fifth commandment?
- The fifth commandment requireth the preserving the honor, and performing the duties, belonging to every one in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals.
#65
- Question: What is forbidden in the Fifth Commandment?
- Answer: The Fifth Commandment forbiddeth the neglecting of, or doing anything against, the honor and duty which belongeth to every one in their several places and relations.
#66
- Question: What is in the reason annexed in the fifth commandment?
- Answer: The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is a promise of long life and prosperity (as far as it shall serve for God’s glory and their own good) to all such as keep this commandment.
Recommended Sermons
- WSC #57-#63: Keeping the Sabbath Holy, by JJ Lim [Text: Exodus 20:8-11 (Audio); Isaiah 58:13,14 (Audio)]
- WSC #64-#66: Honor To Whom Honor is Due, by JJ Lim [Text: Exodus 20:12 (Audio)]
Daily Bible Verse for Saturday, December 31, 2022
"Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom of God." - Acts 14:22 (Audio)
The following sermons are on Acts 14:22:- Perseverance: The Target of All Our Spiritual Enemies, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
- If I'm Saved, Why Am I Suffering So Much? by Rev. Colin Mercer
- Entering Into Heaven Through Many Tribulations, by Rev. Andrew Lanning
Daily Bible Reading for Saturday, December 31, 2022
The following Bible readings are taken from the website, Oneyearbibleonline.com. If you follow this reading plan you will read through the whole Bible in one year. I highly encourage you to do so. Also, the sermons below each section are ones that I have chosen from the website, Sermonaudio.com.
The following sermons are on all or part of 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."
- Does the Bible Command Christians to Tithe? by Dr. Alan Cairns
- Dick Turbin Christianity, by Dr. Ian Brown
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts."
- The Horrors of Hell, by Dr. Ian Brown
- The Rising of the Sun of Righteousness, by Dr. Alan Cairns
- The Rising of the Sun of Righteousness, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk
- How to Conduct Ourselves in the Day of Apostasy, by Rev. Norman Green
The following sermons are on all or part of Revelation 22:11 & 12: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."
- Kingdom of Darkness Bound, by Evangelist E. A. Johnston
- The Great Sifting, by Dr. Jerry Bilkes
- Behold, I Am Coming Soon, by Dr. Ian D. Campbell
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1 of 17), by William Law (1686-1761)
"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 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:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of 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." (Scriptures taken from https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/):
- In Light of World Events, Has God a Plan? by Dr. Ian Brown [Note: This sermon was preached in 2005]
- Jesus' Name Makes the Gospel So Clear, Near, Dear, by Rev. Hans Overduin
- God's Will and Man's Will, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
- Whosoever Wills of the Bible, by Evangelist Rolfe Barnard (1904-1969)
- The Last Invitation of the Bible (is), by Rev. David Kranendonk
- Ulterior Motives, by Rev. Stephen Hamilton
Recommended sermon: Reaching the Assurance of Forgiveness, by Pastor Carl A. Schouls [Text: Psalm 150]
Here are some sermons on Proverbs 31:10-24:
- Mother's Day: The Blessing of a Blessed Mother, by Rev. Pieter VanderMeyden [Text: Proverbs 31:28a]
- Biblical Relationships: Building, Helping, Morning, by Rev. Mark Kelderman [Text: Proverbs 31:30b]
- Keeping On, by Pastor Joel Overduin [Text: Proverbs 31; Galatians 6]
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Daily Bible Verses for Friday, December 30, 2022
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." - 2 Peter 3:8-10 (Audio)
The following sermons are on 2 Peter 3:8-10:- God's Estimate of Time, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
- The False Day-Age Theory, by Rev. Steven Hamilton
- LSD: An Antidote, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
- Satanic Warfare: The Road to Revival, by Keith Daniels, South African Evangelist
- The Second Coming Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by Rev. Cornelis (Neil) Pronk
- The World on Fire, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
- Global Warming on a Grand Scale, by Rev. Brian McClung
- Global Warming on a Grand Scale, Part 2, by Rev. Brian McClung
Today in the News - Friday, December 30, 2022
Today's Headlines:
- Queen's Former Chaplain Warns 'Multicultural, Multifaith' King Charles III Threatens British Monarchy - resistthemainstream.com
- Elon Musk: 'I'm OK with Going to Hell' - christianpost.com
- Vatican Says Health of Retired Pope Benedict XVI 'Worsening' - indianexpress.com
- Report Warn Risk of Nuclear at its Highest Since US Nuked Japan - zerohedge.com
- Four Rabbis Find Yeshua (Jesus) - israeltoday.co.il
- McDonald's Opts for Automation on Pick Ups and Orders: 'The Real Minimum Wage is Zero' - dailyfetched.com
- Economists: Over $31 Trillion National Debt Could Lead to Slow Moving Economic Demise - naturalnews.com
- 'They Knew I Did Nothing Wrong': Jan 6 Committee Withdraws Subpoena of Trump - dailysignal.com
- Medicaid Enrollees Hits 100 Million: Nearly 1/3 of Population - cnsnews.com
- They Were Punished for Being Right - americanthinker.com
Columnists:
- Katie Pavlich: The Omnibus Abomination - townhall.com
- Ron Paul: Omnibus Shows Congress's Priorities: Authoritarianism and War - lewrockwell.com
- Dan Bongino Video: A National Security Nightmare is Happening - frontpagemag.com
- Allen West: The Real Threat to the Republic - townhall.com
- Chuck Norris: Why Our Founding Fathers Didn't Celebrate the Holiday Like We Do - wnd.com
- Ben Shapiro: The Left's Cynical 'Speech is Violence' Ploy - cnsnews.com
- Cal Thomas: Bad Political Theatre - townhall.com
- Ann Coulter: Happy Kwanzaa! The Holiday Brought to You by the FBI - anncoulter.com
- Patrick Buchanan: Still Against "Dead Consensus" - cnsnews.com
- John Stossel: Inconvenient Facts About Electric Cars - cnsnws.com
- Stephen Green: So Long, and Thanks for all the Judges - pjmedia.co
- Andrew Napolitano: Searching for Monsters - lewrockwell.com
- David Stockman: What History Tells Us About Taming Inflation - lewrockwell.com
- Larry Elder: Stanford University's Anti-American 'Wokeness' - townhall.com
Economists: Over $31 Trillion National Debt Could Lead to Slow Moving Economic Demise
Economists: Over $31 Trillion National Debt Could Lead to Slow Moving Economic Demise - naturalnews.com
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Recommended reading:
- The National Debt Explosion Elephant in the Room - americantinker.com
- 9 House Republicans Help Push $1.7T Spending Bill Over the Line - msn.com
- US National Debt Blows Past $31 Trillion - zerohedge.com
- Omnibus Fraud - americanthinker.com
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Recommended video:
Ron Paul: Unsustainable Debt: U.S. Government's Interest Payments To Skyrocket
Flashback: Senator Boxer: 'Absolutely No Way We're Going to Cut Spending' - cnsnews.com
Note: The above article was published in 2014 when America's national debt was $17.8 trillion dollars. Today our national debt is somewhere around $31 trillion dollars. I say "somewhere" because our national debt is actually $142 trillion if you take into consideration the following: Unfunded Medicare Promises, Unfunded Social Security Promises, Publicly Held Debt, Pension and Retiree Healthcare Liabilities, and Other Liabilities (Source)
And that doesn't even take into consideration the numerous wars which our current administration seems to be trying to get us involved in! Mark Levin has said:
"You should view these politicians with the deepest contempt you can possibly imagine. What they are doing to this country, what they are doing to our finances - there is not a criminal in any federal prison, state prison, city or county jail with respect to financial crimes of any sort who collectively could have done the kind of damage that Barack Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and yes, willing, timid, gutless Republicans have done to this country! To your future, to your children and your grandchildren. What they are doing is with malice and with forethought." (emphasis mine) (source)
How to Disciple Nations - A Drive by on Generations
How to Disciple Nations - A Drive by on Generations, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
Elon Musk: 'I'm OK with Going to Hell'
Elon Musk: 'I'm OK with Going to Hell' - christianpost.com
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Our Lord Jesus said, "For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" - Matthew 16:26
Recommended podcast: The Coming Death of Just About All Rock and Roll Legends, by Dr. Paul J. Dean
Recommended sermon: I Saw the Dead, by Dr. David P. Murray.
The text for Dr. Murray's sermon is Revelation 20:11-15: "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." - Revelation 20:11-15 (Audio)
Four Rabbis Find Yeshua (Jesus)
Four Rabbis Find Yeshua (Jesus) - israeltoday.co.il
Excerpt: For 1,400 years, between the 4th and 18th centuries, there was not a single Messianic Jewish church or congregation on earth. Then suddenly, in the late 17th century, in a sovereign and supernatural way, the Holy Spirit began to bring Jews back to their Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). It was like a resurrection from the dead!
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The Bible says: "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved..." - Romans 11:25,26a
Recommended sermons:
- The 70 Weeks Prophecy, by Rev. John Sawtelle [Text: Daniel 9:20-27 (Audio)]
- The Restoration and Conversion of the Jews, by Pastor Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) [Text: Romans 11:25-27; Ezekiel 37:1-10]
- Minyan Man, by The Maccabeats
- I'm A Jew and I'm Proud, by Benny Ivri Anochi
Report Warn Risk of Nuclear War at its Highest Since US Nuked Japan
Report Warn Risk of Nuclear War at its Highest Since US Nuked Japan - zerohedge.com
Recommended reading:
- Patton: 1944: 'Most Merciful Father...Grant Us Fair Weather for Battle' to Crush Our Enemies - cnsnews.com
- Putin 2022: Putin Warned That 'Hiroshima & Nagasaki Nuke Attacks are Proof You Don't Need to Hit Major Cities to Win a War' in Macron Call - thesun.co.uk
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I just finished reading Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's book, Killing the Rising Sun. This book is about World War II, specifically the last part of the war leading up to and following the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Here are some of quotes from this great book:
- "In the blast that follows, a fireball spreads out over the target zone. It travels at one hundred times the speed of sound, rendering it silent. One-millionth of a second later, the people of Hiroshima began to incinerate."
- "But Enola Gay is safe. All twelve men on board are alive. In six hours they will celebrate with whiskey and lemonade and spend the night far from the hell they have just created."
- "The next day the chilling results of what the young officer saw from the air are reported on Japanese radio: 'Practically all living things, human and animal, were literally seared to death."
- "[President] Truman's face lights up. 'This is the greatest thing in history...'"
- "'Thank God for the atomic bomb' is a common refrain among American soldiers and sailors, who have been dreading the blood-bath sure to come if American troops invade the beaches of Japan. To many of them, the bombing of civilians is not an issue - it's payback for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor."
- "Oppenheimer soon leaves the stage, but not before bringing the house down with his final comment: 'My only regret is that we didn't develop the bomb in time to use it against the Germans.'"
Sometimes humor is appropriate when something is just too horrible for us to imagine - like dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Recommended video: Christmas at Ground Zero, by Weird Al Yankovich
Just a note: Both my father and my father-in-law were fighting in World War 2 when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Recommended reading: Killing the Rising Sun, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Recommended podcasts:
- Just War Theory, Pearl Harbor and the Second World War, by Historian Bill Potter
- Hiroshima, Scorched Earth, and Nuclear Warfare - Why We Don't Kill Women and Children, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
- Were the Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Justified? by Dr. Peter Hammond
- Was Pearl Harbor An Unprecedented Attack? by Dr. Peter Hammond
Vatican Says Health of Retired Pope Benedict XVI 'Worsening'
Vatican Says Health of Retired Pope Benedict XVI 'Worsening' - indianexpress.com
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From Pastor John MacArthur: "I'm often asked if the Pope will go to heaven. My response is this: 'Is the Pope Catholic?'"
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The following 2 quotes are from R. C. Sproul's (1939-2017) book Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification:
"Does saving faith require a trust in the righteousness of Christ alone as the grounds of our justification? Or may a person have a different view of the gospel and still be a Christian?"
Recommended reading:
- A Woman Rides the Beast: The Roman Catholic Church in the Last Days, by Dr. Dave Hunt
- Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification, by Dr. R. C. Sproul
Recommended sermon: The Black Pope and His Murdermen: Exposing the Jesuits, by Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley (1926-2014)
Note: I agree with Pastor MacArthur that if the Pope is Catholic then he probably is not going to make it to heaven. But lest my readers think that I'm just a "Catholic hater," I do have one quote from a Roman Catholic website that I repost from time to time that goes back to when Barack Obama was in the White House:
"Barack Obama is not the problem. We are! Abortion is. Public schools are. A rotting pop culture is. ...Divorce and homosexual 'marriage' are. Obama has been reelected simply because America, like any nation, will always only get the leaders she deserves. We told God to go to hell a long time ago, and God is now allowing us to see what life is like without him. So lead on, Mr. Obama!" (Emphasis mine)(Source)
"Barack Obama is not the problem. We are! Abortion is. Public schools are. A rotting pop culture is. ...Divorce and homosexual 'marriage' are. Obama has been reelected simply because America, like any nation, will always only get the leaders she deserves. We told God to go to hell a long time ago, and God is now allowing us to see what life is like without him. So lead on, Mr. Obama!" (Emphasis mine)(Source)
Queen's Former Chaplain Warns 'Multicultural, Multifaith' King Charles III Threatens British Monarchy
Queen's Former Chaplain Warns 'Multicultural, Multifaith' King Charles III Threatens British Monarchy - resistthemainstream.com
Recommended podcast: Far Too Distracted With Fake News Media Nonsense to Notice the Rise of CHRISLAM, by Geoffrey Grider of nowtheendbegins.com
Daily Sermon for the Hearing Impaired: To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be, by Joe W. Allen [Text: Ephesians]
Note: This daily sermon for the hearing impaired is dedicated to my good friend, David J. Bishop, who went home to be with his Lord Jesus on July 1, 2021. David was the inspiration for me to begin posting links to sermons for the hearing impaired. David's not deaf anymore. And the first words he heard were from our Lord Jesus, saying to him, "Well done, David, thou good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of thy Lord!" [Matthew 25:21 (Audio)]
Here is one of the last pictures David sent to me before he died. He was a big sports fan and LOVED the Seattle Seahawks! But David loved our Lord Jesus much, much more!
"Whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." - Romans 10:13
"My friend I stand in Judgment nowAnd feel that you're to blame somehow.
While on this earth I walked with you day by day
And never did you point the way.
"You knew the Lord in truth and glory,
But never did you tell the story.
My knowledge then was very dim,
You could have led me safe to him.
"Though we lived together here on earth
You never told me of the second birth.
And now I stand this day condemned,
Because you failed to mention him.
"You taught me many things, that's true,
I called you friend and trusted you.
But now I learned, now it's too late,
You could have kept me from this fate.
"We walked by day and talked by night,
And yet you showed me not the light.
You let me live, love and die,
And all the while you knew I'd never live on high.
"Yes, I called you friend in life,
And trusted you in joy and strife.
Yet in coming to this end,
I see you really weren't my friend!"
-My Friend, by D.J. Higgins
Recommended sermon:
The Deaf Ministry of Jesus, by Jon Speed
- Here is an excerpt from this sermon: "The deaf world does feel isolated. I've heard a statistic that only 1 to 2% of people who are deaf have had the gospel signed to them in American Sign Language. Only 1 to 2%"DailDai
Today in History - December 30, 2022
A special thanks to Wikipedia.com for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com
December 30
1702 - Queen Ann's War: James Moore, Governor of the Providence 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
1865 - Indian/English author, poet, and Nobel Prize laureate, Rudyard Kipling. is Born (Source)
Recommended sermon: The Gracious Lips of Jesus, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) [Text: Psalm 45:2]
Recommended poem by Rudyard Kipling:
"A volunteer from this state of Washington wrote: 'Our fighting blood was up, and we all wanted to kill 'n***rs.' ...This shooting human beings beats rabbit hunting all to pieces.' It was a time of intense racism in the United States. In the years between 1889 and 1903, on the average, every week, two Nigroes were lynched by mobs-hanged, burned, mutilated. The Filipinos were brown-skinned and strange looking to Americans...Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children prisoners and captives. Active insurgents and suspected people from lads ten up, the idea prevailing that the Philippino as such was little better than a dog..." - The Twentieth Century
Westminster Shorter catechism Q & A #53-56
#53
- Question: Which is the third commandment?
- Answer: The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
#54
- Question: What is required in the third commandment?
- Answer: The third commandment requireth the holy and reverent use of God’s names, titles, attributes, ordinances, word and works.
#55
- Question: What is forbidden in the third commandment?
- Answer: The third commandment forbiddaeth all prophaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.
#56
- Question: What is the reason annexed to the third commandment?
- Answer: The reason annexed to the third commandment is, that however the breakers of this commandment may escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgment.
Recommended Sermons
- WSC #53-55: God’s Third Commandment, by Dennis Prutow [Text: Exodus 20:7 (Audio)]
- WSC #56: The Third Commandment and the Gospel, by Dennis Prutow [Text: Exodus 20:7 (Audio)]
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Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
Here is Jonathan Edward's most famous sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ...
