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You Were Asked To Pray For:
All of Our
Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East,
Zee Mink Fuller and Family, Her son’s Bryan Armstrong and Hunter Hackie,
Daughter Shannon, and Brother Philip & Sondra Thornsberry, Virgil and
Alice Hoskins, Larry Hoskins, Andrew Preston, Helen Maggard, Renee Jackson, Larry Mollette, Linda Mollette, Larry
Mollette II and Family, Shawn Bradford, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny
& Nita Mollette, Verna Mae Allen, Nita Jo Marsh, Justin Bookout, Mrs.
White, Thomas White, Wendell Henderson,
Judy Dunn, Joshua Kidd, Donnie Henderson, Kevin Henderson, Rosalie Graves,
Joe Henderson, Jim Stagner, Shelia Riggs,
Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don Hammond, Archie and Barbara Griffin and
son Daniel, Larry Platt, Edna Garvin, Bro. Kluth, Brother & Sister Bob
Keller, Wanda Fowler, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Mansfield Ohio, Kathy
Rosinbaum, Brother Keith & Susie Kennison, Brice baby, Brenda Galusha,
Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, Bobby Walker, Gary
Perkins and Wife, Luann Reynolds, Bro. & Sis. Pugh,
Timothy Fails, Jim & Linda Meier, Ernie & Lynn Ashworth, Brother
David and Sister Anne Shortt, Brother David and Susan Hitt, Manuel Seymour,
Zach Seymour, Mike Akins, Elvis
and Betty Beck, Chiquita Walker,
Robert Goodwin, Bro. Sergey
Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.
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A
Thought From C. H. Spurgeon:
MAINTAIN THE DIFFERENCE
"And I will put a division between my people
and thy people: tomorrow shall this sign be" Exod.
8:23
Pharoah has a people, and the Lord has a people. These may
dwell together, and seem to fare alike, but there is a division between them,
and the Lord will make it apparent. Not for ever shall one event happen alike
to all, but there shall be great difference between the men of the world and
the people of Jehovah's choice.
This may happen in the time
of judgments, when the Lord becomes the sanctuary of His saints. It is very
conspicuous in the conversion of believers when their sin is put away, while
unbelievers remain under condemnation. From that moment they become a
distinct race, come under a new discipline, and enjoy new blessings. Their
homes, henceforth, are free from the grievous swarms of evils which defile
and torment the Egyptians. They are kept from the pollution of lust, the bite
of care, the corruption of falsehood, and the cruel torment of hatred, which
devour many families.
Rest assured, tried
believer, that though you have your troubles you are saved from swarms of
worse ones, which infest the homes and hearts of the servants of the world's
Prince. The Lord has put a division; see to it that you keep up the division
in spirit, aim, character and company.
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A Thought For The Week:
Little Obstinate
"Do not be like the the
mule . . ." Psalm 32:9
Little Obstinate was born and brought up in the City of Destruction. His father
was old 'Spare the Rod', and his mother's name was 'Spoil the
Child'. Little Obstinate was the only child of his parents. He
was born when they were no longer young, and they doted on their only child,
and gave him his own way in everything.
Everything he asked for he got, and if he did not immediately get it you
would have heard his screams and his kicks three doors off! His parents were
not in themselves bad people, but, if Solomon speaks true, they hated
their child, for they gave him all his own way in everything, and nothing
would ever make them
say 'no' to him, or lift up the ROD when he said 'no' to them.
Little Obstinate's two parents were far from
ungodly people, though they lived in such a city; but they were daily destroying
their only son by letting him always have his own way, and by never saying
no to his greed, and his lies, and his anger, and his noisy and disorderly
ways. Eli in the Old Testament was not a bad man, but he destroyed both the
ark of the Lord and himself and his sons also, because his sons made
themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
The meekness, the sweetness, the docility, and the love of a chastised
child has gone to all our hearts in a way we can
never forget. There is something sometimes almost past description in the way
a chastised child clings to and kisses the hand that chastised it. But poor
old 'Spare the Rod' never had experiences like that. And little
Obstinate, having been born like Job's wild donkey's colt, grew up to be
a man
like David's unbridled mule, until in after life he became the author
of all the evil and mischief that is associated in our minds with his evil
name.
In old 'Spare the Rod's' child also this true proverb was fulfilled, that 'the
child is the father of the man'. For all that little Obstinate had
been in the nursery, in the schoolroom, and in the playground; all that, only
in an aggravated way; he was as a youth and as a grown up man.
As to the cure of obstinacy; the ROD in a firm, watchful, wise, and
loving hand will cure it.
And much agonizing prayer will above all cure it.
"He who spares the ROD hates his son, but he who loves him is
careful to discipline him." Proverbs 13:24
"Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the ROD of discipline
will drive it far from him." Proverbs 22:15
"Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with
the ROD, he will not die. Punish him with the ROD and save his soul from
death." Proverbs 23:13-14
"The ROD of correction imparts wisdom, but an undisciplined child
disgraces his mother." Proverbs 29:15
By (Alexander Whyte,
"Pictures from Pilgrim's Progress)
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THE RISE OF ATHEIST AMERICA
Why almost half of voters polled say they'd support a God-denier for
president.
The signs are everywhere. Many of America's top-selling books right
now are angry, in-your-face, atheist manifestos. Judges try to outdo each
other in banning references to God like the Ten Commandments and the
"Under God" phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance. And nearly half of
Americans, according to a recent Gallup poll,
would be willing to vote for an atheist for president of the United States of America
– a nation founded by devout Christians.
In its groundbreaking September edition, titled "THE RISE OF
ATHEIST AMERICA," WND's monthly Whistleblower
magazine provides a powerfully eye-opening analysis of what's really behind
the current atheist phenomenon.
“This is atheism's moment," brags David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus Books, celebrating the tremendous success of
anti-God bestsellers like "God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons
Everything" by journalist Christopher Hitchens
and "The God Delusion" by Oxford
evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. "Mr. Hitchens
has written the category killer," he says, "and we're excited about
having the next book." That's right – this fall the publishing world
will further cash in on the anti-God juggernaut with the release of "The
Pocket Atheist," featuring the writings of famous atheists, edited by Hitchens.
In earlier eras, atheists were on the fringes of society, mistrusted by
the mainstream. Those few who dared to publicly push their beliefs on
society, like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, were widely
regarded as malevolent kooks. But today, Hitchens'
No. 1 New York Times bestseller, which has dominated the nonfiction charts
for months, boldly condemns religion – including Christianity – as
"violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and
bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of
women and coercive toward children."
Source:
World Net Daily you can read the complete article at WorldNetDaily.com
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