Winning the Lost
God Depends on Us

God chose to give us, His people, responsibility for telling lost people how to be saved:
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.  Matthew 28:19-20
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.  Mark 16:15-16
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, 46And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.  Luke 24:44-47
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.  John 20:21-23
The Holy Spirit inspired Paul to explain that we must convince people that they need to be saved in order to go to Heaven instead of being cast into Hell even if they’re offended at being told they’re sinners:
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;  II Corinthians 5:11a
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.  Galatians 1:10
The Message

We must use the Word of God because God’s word is alive and powerful, not our words. We must convince sinners of their need for a savior before we can “Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” This message discusses some of the objections which people may offer when you try to give them the gospel of repentance and salvation.
It’s easy to convince most people that they’ve sinned by disobeying God. Did you ever disobey your parents? God commands you to obey your parents:
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.  Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.  Colossians 3:20
Did you ever take a cookie after your parents told you not to? You’ve stolen:
Thou shalt not steal.  Exodus 20:15
Sinners generally say they’re pretty good and try to convince themselves that God will let them into heaven because of all the good they do. We have to convince them of God’s view of their sins:
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.  Isaiah 64:6
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  Romans 3:10-12
Being Drawn

The Bible tells us that God must draw people before they can be saved:
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.  John 6:44
We have no way to know whether a person is being drawn or not, so we have to give the Word of God at every opportunity. We can pray that God will lead us to people whom He has drawn so that we can plant and water the Gospel, but it is God who gives the increase.
When God draws a person, they may be aware that something is wrong without knowing why. That is the best opportunity for us to find out where they’re thinking. These verses may help you overcome common problems.

Common Objections
MAY NOT REALLY BELIEVE IN GOD:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  Genesis 1:1
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.  Psalm 19:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.  Psalm 14:1
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.  Psalm 53:1
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.  Hebrews 3:4
MAY SAY THEY’RE AN AGNOSTIC:
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  Romans 1:20-21
MAY DENY BEING A SINNER IN SPITE OF YOUR SIMPLE EXPLANATION:
Of sin, because they believe not on me;  John 16:9
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  Romans 3:19-23
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.  James 2:10-11 
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.  James 4:17 
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  I John 1:8, 10
CLAIM TO BE GOOD ENOUGH NOT TO NEED A SAVIOR:
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.  John 3:3
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  John 3:17-18
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.  John 3:36
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.  Galatians 3:10
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9
BELIEVES THAT ALL MEN WILL EVENTUALLY BE SAVED
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.  Matthew 25:46 
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: 48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.  Mark 9:43-48
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.  Luke 16:26
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  John 3:16
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.  John 5:28-29
DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT
CHRIST IS GOD
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.  John 1:1-3
Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.  John 7:16-17
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:  Romans 1:4
DOES NOT UNDERSTAND “FAITH”
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:  John 1:12
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. 23Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;  Romans 4:21-24
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.  II Timothy 1:12
DOES NOT FEEL THE JOY THAT SHOULD COME BEFORE ACCEPTING CHRIST

Our feelings have nothing to do with Christ, salvation is based on faith, not feelings. Joy comes later:
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.  I Peter 1:8-9
AFRAID OF NOT BEING ABLE TO ENDURE AFTER BECOMING A CHRISTIAN
What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?  Luke 15:4
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.  John 10:27-28
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. 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.  Romans 8:29-30
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:  Philippians 1:6
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.  II Timothy 1:12
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, 25To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.  Jude 1:24-25
HESITATES BECAUSE OF WEAK FAITH
Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.  Mark 9:24b
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.  John 6:37
IS ALREADY SAVED BUT HAS FALLEN AWAY INTO BACKSLIDING
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips. 3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. 4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.  Hosea 14:1-4
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, 19And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. 20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. 21And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. 22But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: 23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:  Luke 15:18-23
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  I John 1:9
DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT SALVATION IS BY FAITH ALONE
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.  John 6:28-29
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.  Romans 4:2
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.  Ephesians 2:8-10
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.  Titus 3:8
CLINGS TO THE PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD
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. 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  I John 2:16-17
A sinner must become a Christian before the Holy Spirit can show what must be given up.
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.  Psalm 16:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.  Psalm 84:11
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  John 10:10
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.  John 15:11
NOT READY NOW;
WILL THINK ON IT
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.  Proverbs 27:1
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.  Proverbs 29:1
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:  Isaiah 55:6
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  John 3:18
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)  II Corinthians 6:2
TURNED OFF OR DISCOURAGED BY HYPOCRITICAL OR INCONSISTENT CHURCH MEMBERS
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.  Matthew 23:27
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, 51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  Matthew 24:50-51
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar;  Romans 3:3-4a
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.  Romans 14:12
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  Matthew 7:21
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  Matthew 7:16
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.  Matthew 7:2
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.  Matthew 13:25-30
A SINCERE PERSON WHO WANTS TO KNOW HOW TO BELONG TO GOD
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  John 3:16-17
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.  John 5:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.  John 6:47
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: 39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.  Acts 13:38-39
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.  I Peter 2:24
Thoughts

Tell how God saved you and blessed you. Your experience may be different so don’t overdo it.
Don’t argue. God expects you to present His gospel clearly so He can draw the person if He chooses.
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 46And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.  John 1:45-46
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.  II Timothy 2:24-26
Don’t become irritated. God was patient with you and He still is.
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.  Lamentations 3:22-23
Don’t be in a hurry. Give the Word of God time to do His work.
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.  Isaiah 40:31
Don’t insist, but it is good for a new believer to pray and thank God for salvation.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  Romans 10:9-10
Pray inwardly all the time you’re talking about the Lord. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you.
Pray without ceasing.  I Thessalonians 5:17
Don’t be anxious.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  Philippians 4:6
Don’t talk about the deep things of the Christian life. It takes time for a believer to be ready for meat.
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.  I Corinthians 3:2
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.  Philippians 2:12b
Do not say that the person is saved; let the Holy Spirit and God’s Word declare it and fruit confirm it.
for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.  I Samuel 16:7b
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Dr. John M. Asquith 6 min read - 4/18/23

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid, Matthew 5:14.

Jesus Christ spent the first 30 years of his life living the life of a young craftsman in a typical village. He grew up in a family with brothers and sisters. He attended the feasts in his village and those mandated by the law of Moses to be kept in Jerusalem.
He attended weddings and funerals.

In that time he would have seen and felt the interactions with local officials and with the Roman Government. He would have had time to hear strangers from other lands as they passed through Nazareth. He would have heard the stories told by those who had traveled abroad. He would have had years of sitting in the local synagogue hearing the people being instructed out of the books of the law.
After his baptism, and after his fasting for 40 days and being tempted in the wilderness, he taught the people. As he looked upon those people and reflected upon the utter darkness of the world of men, he saw a very small fraction of the entire population of the world and knew that unlike the rest of the world, these people had the light of the laws of God. They had the words of God.
He told them, Ye are the light of the world. He didn't tell them this because of some happy sappy spirit they generated or because they all hugged each other. He told them that because as they sought to live in this world, as they worked, raised a family and worshipped God, they did so with the scriptures of truth. We see this stated in Isaiah 8:20; To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
There was light in these people. It was the light of the word of God. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life, Proverbs 6:23. In a world in which ships sailed, armies marched, nations arose and fell, people were born, lived, and died without ever knowing truth, these poor remnants of the once great Jewish Kingdoms had the word of God. they were the light of the world.
This morning I talked with a bedridden man who is recovering from invasive surgery. We talked about the first 48 years of his life in which he had once flirted with going to a fundamental Baptist Church but like the vast majority of those we call converted had ultimately fallen back into the misery of alcohol and drugs.
His wife and he hated each other and shared a small house filled their strife. His two children who had grown and left the house were overcome with drugs and alcohol. His body was broken from a farm accident and he spent his time cultivating pot and tinkering about the house.
A number of years ago he listened to some preaching on a website which among other preachers carries some of my messages. He asked for my contact information and sent me an email. I treasure every contact. I emailed him back and answered a fairly simple question. After a few emails back and forth, I asked him where he lived. It was 73 miles away.
I went to see him. He met me at his door with a shaved head, tattoos all over and by jumping up and down like an excited child. His wife's hair was the typical purple and and red of the depressed. She was polite and brought my wife and I coffee. She was a broken preacher's daughter married to a loser and now herself living a low miserable life on state subsidies and food stamps.
We discussed the King James Bible. Why? Because it's a fascinating topic, and there isn't much point in going further with people if we can't settle on a final authority on which to find truth. We built a relationship talking about that bible. I offered to bring him to church since they had no car. He agreed and for 3 years I drove the 73 miles each way to pick him (eventually both of them) up, the 73 miles to get him to church and then the 73 miles to take him home and then the 73 miles to get myself back home.
In that time, he began to get a grip on the fact that God really did keep his promise and there really was a perfect bible. There really was a church which put that bible above the name of God. I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name, Psalm 138:2. He began to be ashamed of his sin.
I was his friend. We didn't just talk bible. We had other interests in common. We spent those hours in the car talking bible, Star Trek, and whatsoever else came into our minds. He confessed later that in those early days he would find secluded places in the church to take drugs. Then he became ashamed of that.
Eventually, now that he had a final authority, he came to realize the utter bankruptcy of his earlier profession of faith in a Fundamental Baptist Church. He had been given a thumbnail description of the gospel, had been induced to ask Jesus into his heart and had been assured that that was the definition of calling upon the name of the Lord.
In reality the thumbnail description of the gospel which may have worked in others, wrought no faith in him at all. He had come to the cross with Monopoly money for faith and left with Monopoly money for salvation. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?, Romans 10:14. In those days wherein he tried going to church, preachers would just keep telling him that since he had asked Jesus to save him, he must be saved.
The promises of faith did not work in him. He became jaded and disillusioned. Eventually, he and his wife succumbed to the miseries of sin and watched their little family dissolve.
I will never forget the day when he was too ill to come and someone else picked up his wife for church. As she came through the door, I asked "how is the old grump doing?". She told me that he wasn't a grump any more. He had become loving and caring. She marveled at the change. When I asked him about it later, he explained how the Holy Ghost had finally cornered him about his sin and unbelief. He had finally understood the cross as it pertained to him.
Today, his drunken and broken daughter has a new life in Christ and with her husband and son never miss the house of God. (Her written testimony) (Her oral testimony). His son also has a good profession of faith, attends church regularly and has announced a call to preach. They have all moved into the area to be close to the house of God.
As I talked with him this morning while he lay recuperating, he told me that he wished that he could stand on his rooftop and scream to people that the King James Bible is perfect. We reflected on how that information, and us developing his understanding of that had eventually brought him to a place where the Lord could break through his walls of pride and unbelief that manifested themselves is such vile sin.
I explained to him that he was the light of the world. On that sick bed as he recovered, he had the words of the living God in a King James Bible and knew it to be so. Most professing Christians have some uncertain flickering light in which they have no real confidence to guide them through dark places. King James Bible believers are the light of the world, not these sloppy agapee feel good sob sisters calling themselves Christian. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts, 2nd Peter 1:19.
I hear of people trying to witness to neighbors, car salesmen, convenience store clerks, friends, doctors, lawyers and the like. They have been told by countless churches and preachers to witness to as many people as possible. Our Western culture is saturated with such witness and yet nothing changes. In reality, most people consider themselves believers and can point to some time in which they brought Monopoly money to the cross and left with Monopoly money for faith. They just listen politely.
Try telling them that the King James Bible is perfect. Watch the effect. If you build a relationship on that premise you will watch it build in faith. You will need to be sharp and answer many hard questions. From the earliest grades in our schools, whether Christian or secular, doubt is cast on the veracity of every word of God. They will show an amazing level of sophistication in challenging the King James Bible.
  • Are you up to handling those challenges? Do you want to see lives actually change? Start by broadcasting the truth of the Word of God. The King James Bible is perfect. Build solid foundations on that. Watch what God does. John Asquith

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:16-17
God, who knew about you before you were born, loves you and will hear you if you pray to Him:
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
If you have ever told a lie or disobeyed your parents, you are a sinner who deserves to go to Hell just as my wife and I deserve to go to Hell because of our sins. God is perfect and He is holy. He cannot relate to us because of our sins. Blood must be shed to clean us from our sins.
without shedding of blood is no remission. Hebrews 9:22b
God is a loving, giving God. He sent His Son into the world to die to suffer the punishment for our sins. The blood He gave as He died is what washes away our sins. Once we realize that we cannot be good enough to get to Heaven and ask Jesus to forgive our sins, we belong to God and will go to Heaven when we die.
Our God is a giving, loving God. After Jesus gave His life by dying on the cross, God raised Him from the dead to demonstrate His power over death. Anyone who chooses to believe that Christ rose from the dead and that His blood washes away all sins will be saved.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10:9
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In the 7 sayings of Jesus on the cross, 3 had to do with our sin. Be challenged and encouraged in the Gospel with this Bible message.

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“The Fulfillment of the Great Commission”

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth.” Acts 1:8

When we read Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15, Luke
24:46-49, John 20:21-23, and Acts 1:8, we call these portions
of Scripture, from the lips of our Saviour, The Great
Commission. The word commission is defined as “an
instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of
people.” Jesus Christ commissioned His disciples (you and
me included) to GO and preach the Gospel to every creature.
In Acts 1:8, we see that we must begin with our Jerusalem. All
too often, we find ourselves boasting on the missions
supported through our church. I praise the Lord for mission
programs, but if we are not doing our part to reach our own
city, our Jerusalem, we are not doing our part, and we are
failing in the Great Commission.
While we can give and pray for our missionaries, let us not
forget our duty in regard to the Great Commission, with
reaching those close by. Take some Gospel tracts and give
them to others. Give your testimony of what the Lord has
done for you, always displaying Christ in your actions.
Witness to someone! Matthew 5:16 says, “Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven. ” -C.P.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” March 18, 2023 devotional by author CHRIS PARADISE, Pastor, New Hope Baptist Church, Rossville, GA. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.




Bill Taylor - My Favorite Easter message - the Gospel of Jesus Death,
Resurrection, Grace, Forgiveness, and Salvation in 2 Words – “and Peter”

We can sum up the entire Gospel in just two words – “and Peter.” Peter denied Jesus three times and felt terrible. After His resurrection, Jesus had the angel tell the women to be sure to include Peter in order to draw him back into the group of disciples,
AND HE WENT FISHING INSTEAD!
Jesus wants to draw everyone else in as well, and we get the privilege of telling them!





SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2021 by Bill Taylor
The Gospel of Jesus Death, Resurrection, Grace, Forgiveness, and Salvation in 2 Words – “and Peter”

The most painful part for Jesus about dying on the cross was being separated from God his Father (Mt. 27:46, Mk 15:34). God could not look on His Son while the guilt of all our sins, past, present and future rested on Jesus as He paid the penalty for our sins. When He rose from the dead, Jesus proved His power over death, so we know He will raise us up in His time (Jn. 11:24-25).

When Jesus told his disciples He had to die, Peter told Him it couldn’t happen. Jesus told him, Get thee behind me, Satan and called him an offence (Mt. 16:23, Mk. 8:33). Jesus didn’t want to be crucified – He prayed that His Father would not make Him do it (Mt. 26:39). Jesus, the man, was tempted as we are (Heb. 4:15). When we’re tempted not to follow one of God’s commands, the last thing we need is someone close to us telling us not to do what's right.

Peter denied Jesus 3 times during Jesus’ trial and felt terrible (Mt. 26:75, Lk. 22:62). That, by the way, is how we know that Peter did belong to Jesus. We’ve all heard people denying both Jesus and God as if it meant nothing.

The two resurrection words that warm my heart most are “and Peter.” The angel told the women who came to the tomb to finish anointing Jesus’ body, “But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter (Mark 16:7)”. Women like bringing peace and encouragement if men will listen. God knew that the women would tell Peter that Jesus still wanted him.

Women can melt a man by speaking kindly – Peter, you’re still a disciple – He wanted you by name! It worked – Peter was with the disciples when Jesus told them to Get Going! and gave them the Holy Ghost:
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:  John 20:21-22
When Jesus said “and Peter,” He knew Peter wouldn’t get going after receiving the Holy Ghost. He knew Peter would go fishing instead, and He said “and Peter” anyway!  Wow! Think about His love for you!

When Peter went fishing instead of starting the church as Jesus wanted, Jesus went after Peter again (Jn. 21). Having created Peter, Jesus knew that men are afraid to admit their feelings for fear of being hurt.

Peter had seen Jesus weep at Lazarus' tomb (Jn. 11:35), he saw Him mourn for Jerusalem (Mt. 23:37, Lk. 13:34) and Capernaum (Mt. 11:23, Lk. 10:15). Peter knew that if he let Jesus send him as God had sent Jesus, he would sorrow when people he loved refused the gospel. He wanted no part of Jesus’ sorrow or grief (Is. 53:3-4).

Peter was right about that. I sorrowed when my friend who was best man at my wedding refused to ask Jesus for salvation. As he recovered from a heart attack, I tried to tell him again. He finally said, “I get it. Free will means that I can choose to go to Hell if I want to.” His 2nd attack killed him about a week later.

Jesus pushed Peter to admit that Peter loved Him. That didn't make Peter love Jesus - he already did – but Peter wouldn’t recognize or admit his love for Jesus until Jesus pushed him.
Once he admitted to himself that he loved Jesus, Peter had to spread the word – Paul explained that it’s the love of Christ which pushes to do what He wants us to do (2 Cor. 5:14)! That’s why Jesus wants us to know and accept His love for us and ours for Him – we can’t do His work without it.

Similarly, a man must admit to himself that he loves his wife and then he must convince her that he loves her. If he doesn't do that, telling lost people that God loves them won't work because lost people will see that his wife doesn’t think he loves her.

How can anyone believe what we tell them about God’s Love for them if they see that we don’t love each other or that we don’t love them? When lost people see husband and wife forgiving one another and passing God's love and grace back and forth between them, however, they want God’s love for themselves. God gave us the privilege and the honor of telling them how to get it. Do you know how to tell them?

Jesus set us His example - "and Peter!" He meant and me, and He meant and my wife and our children and He meant and you. He meant and everyone who chooses to belong to Him, no matter what our sins may have been. We must forgive and encourage each other as Christ forgave and encouraged Peter.
Peter’s love was weak in John 21, but even weak love made him willing. God AZlways accepts whatever you have if you’re willing to serve Him. (2 Cor. 8:12). Peter planted and watered in his Pentecost sermon. God accepted what he had and gave increase to the church of about 3,000.

If your love is strong enough that you want to serve Him but don’t know how, find someone who is serving Him and help! God will give you more to do as you grow as Peter did.  As with Peter, Jesus began a good work in you and He will perform it until the day He returns (Phi. 1:6).

We sum up the gospel of repentance, grace, forgiveness, service, and love in two words, "and Peter."
POSTED BY BILL TAYLOR




NEW GOOD MESSAGE(S) - Jesus' Death, Resurrection,
Grace, Forgiveness, and Salvation
“Precious Blood”
“But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot:” I Peter 1:19

There is nothing cheap about our salvation. It was not
purchased with silver or gold, but with Christ’s precious blood.
Our text teaches that it was sovereign blood. The blood that
was shed on Calvary was not the blood of Adam, but was the
blood of God! Adam’s blood could never save anyone.
Christ’s blood was not contaminated by sin. Jesus had holy
blood and heavenly blood. His own blood flowing through
His veins.

It was sacrificial blood that pardoned us. He went to
Golgotha as a lamb and there died a sacrificial death. This
means He shed His blood willingly for all men. He died in our
place so we could be born again. He did not die for a chosen
few, but gave His life’s blood for all mankind.

Finally, we see that Jesus’ blood was sinless blood. It had
no spot or blemish in or on it. The blood of Christ is on the
Mercy Seat in Heaven today. His blood allows God to look
upon us. As the songwriter said, “When He sees me, He sees
the blood of the Lamb.” One day we will enter through the
gates of our heavenly home, and our only right of entrance will
be the blood of Jesus. Friend, it will be enough to allow us to
enter! The blood of Christ is precious because it is the only
way to gain access to Heaven! -R.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” April 5, 2023 devotional by author DR. RICK GRAVLEY, Pastor, Bible Baptist Church, Rossville, Rossville, GA. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. The Baptist Bread
“Out of Nazareth”
“And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.”
John 1:34
“Truly this was the Son of God. ” Matthew 27:54b

Out of Nazareth, Jesus came,
“The Son of God,” John proclaimed.
The devils trembled, and called His name.
He broke up a funeral in the town of Nain.

He walked on the water and calmed the waves,
Stood up to Pharisees strong and brave,
Went to a tomb, Lazarus to raise,
His power was greater than the grave.

The Son of God, serene and sublime,
Walked among us on the shores of time.
His words were gracious and sweeter than wine;
To read them, still touches this heart of mine.

Still He reaches with nail-scarred hand,
To help all lost and fallen man.
He still writes forgiveness in the sand,
Cleansing hearts as only He can.

He died alone on Calvary,
For sinners, just like you and me.
He’s coming back, just you wait and see,
To take us Home-forever to be. – W.T.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” March 16, 2023, devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. 
“The Saddest Statement in the Book of God

“And they all forsook him, and fled.” Mark 14:50
Judas kissed Him and called Christ-Master. The Jewish
mob (Josephus said it amounted to six hundred men!) with
torches in their hands and mayhem in their hearts, ” … laid their hands on him and took him.” (vs. 46). Peter cut Malchus’ ear off, Jesus queried them about the timing of the arrest and one young man fled naked from the scene (vss. 49-52).
Our sad verse today records the disgraceful truth, that all
His friends forsook Christ and fled like the cowards they were. In contrast, the shepherds and wiseman at the birth of Christ, and as a young child, (Matt. 2:11) sought Him. The shepherds of the fields and the wisemen from afar, came by faith, seeking the promised Messiah. The shepherds followed heavenly singing and the wisemen a traveling star that brought them to the Saviour, in spite of Herod’s impending wrath (cf. Matt. 2:16).
Yes, the shepherds and wisemen had seen an unearthly
phenomenon, but look what His forsaking friends had
observed: the dead raised, the blind given sight, lame men
leaping, deaf hearing, mute men speaking, thousands fed and
on and on, to the point John wrote that the libraries of the world could not hold the books that should be written about Him (cf. John 21:25).
My question today is, “Where are you in regard to Jesus
Christ? Are you trusting and testifying or denying and
disgracing Him with your life and lips?” -T.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” April 7, 2023, devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. 
“Because He Lives”

“But now is Christ risen from the dead ,… “I Corinthians 15:20
Because the resurrection did occur, validating the
authenticity of His sacrifice, many things are also true,
according to Paul in I Corinthians 15:
Because He lives, the preaching of His death, burial and
resurrection is valid (15:14).
Because He lives, our faith in the efficacy of His work at
the cross is valid (15:14).
Because He lives, our witnessing at His command and
encouragement is valid (15:15).
Because He lives, our hope in our future rising from the
dead is valid (15:15-16).
Because He lives, His work on the cross has removed our
sins forever (15:17).
Because He lives, there is the reality of seeing loved ones
who have gone before (15:18).
Because He lives, the misery of hopeless living has been
forever cancelled (15:19).
Because He lives, all else the Bible testifies is verified and
can be trusted (15:20-23).
Because He lives, we will share in His future kingdom on
earth, the City of God (15:24-25).
Because He lives, I will have a new body, one equipped for
all that eternity has in store (15:35ff).
Because He lives, I experienced a new life when I trusted
Him, as a fourteen-year-old boy, in 1955!
Because He lives, He indwells me as the Holy Spirit and
makes it possible for me to face anything! BECAUSE HE
LIVES! -G.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” April 8, 2023, by author Dr. Guy Goodell, Pastor, Bible Baptist Church, Hudson Falls, NY. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. The Baptist Bread
But Now Is Christ Risen!”

“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firstfruits of them that slept.” I Corinthians 15:20

There is no religious system in the world that can claim its
founder is still alive except biblical Christianity. According to Paul, all of our hopes are grounded in the literal, bodily
resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

Paul defines the “Gospel” as the death, burial and
resurrection of Jesus Christ (I Cor. 15:1-4). Then, Paul
demonstrates that there was a vast number of witnesses to
Christ’s appearance in a glorified body: Cephas (15:5); five
hundred, all at one time (vs.6); James (vs.7); all the apostles
(vs. 7); then at last by Paul on the road to Damascus (vs. 9).

If Christ did not rise, preaching is vain, our faith is in vain,
our witness is a fraud, we are yet in our sins and our hope is
vain (vss. 12-15). However, now that Christ has risen, we can anticipate our own resurrection (vs. 20ff), preaching has
power, faith is fruitful, our witness is genuine, our sins have
been forgiven and our hope of Heaven is real. Oh, and by the
way, the last enemy has been destroyed! Death itself (vs. 26).

Death may brag and boast that it has won. Jesus responds, and we can echo it, “Oh, no … just you wait and see!” For I read, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ” (vss. 55, 57). – G.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread”, April 9, 2023, by author Dr. Guy Goodell, Pastor, Bible Baptist Church, Hudson Falls, NY. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. The Baptist Bread
“The Resurrection, What Now?”

“Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat,
and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. ” Mark 16:14-15

With the victory over Japan in 1945, the United States
called for a complete and unconditional surrender. The
emperor of Japan signed the surrender on September 2, 1945. In addition, Hirohito had to admit that he was not a god. General MacArthur, for all intents and purposes, became the ruler of Japan. He saw the spiritual vacuum and the need for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Japanese people were in confusion after living so long under heathen beliefs.
MacArthur called for a thousand missionaries and a million
Bibles! Even this was not enough for seventy-one million
people! Some missionaries went. Bibles were sent and there
was some interest in Christianity for a while. Then things
began to turn around and the economy and industry became
their god.
After the victory of the resurrection, the disciples were in
unbelief and confusion. Peter and many of the disciples went
fishing. However, the need of the Gospel was greater than
ever. Jesus met with His disciples and called them back to
preaching the Gospel to every creature. Persecution would
come, Jerusalem would be leveled, but the Gospel did go out.
The world today is still engulfed in heathen religion. We
have just celebrated Christ’s resurrection. What now,
Christian? Spread the Gospel here and help the missionaries
over there! -C.S.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” April 10, 2023 devotional by author CHRIS STAUB, Pastor, Silvery Lane Baptist Church, Dearborn Hts. MI. With permission from Tim Green, editor The Baptist Bread

Bill Taylor - My Favorite Easter message - the Gospel of Jesus Death,
Resurrection, Grace, Forgiveness, and Salvation in 2 Words – “and Peter”

We can sum up the entire Gospel in just two words – “and Peter.” Peter denied Jesus three times and felt terrible. After His resurrection, Jesus had the angel tell the women to be sure to include Peter in order to draw him back into the group of disciples,
AND HE WENT FISHING INSTEAD!
Jesus wants to draw everyone else in as well,
and we get the privilege of telling them!





SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2021 by Bill Taylor
The Gospel of Jesus Death, Resurrection, Grace, Forgiveness, and Salvation in 2 Words – “and Peter”

The most painful part for Jesus about dying on the cross was being separated from God his Father (Mt. 27:46, Mk 15:34). God could not look on His Son while the guilt of all our sins, past, present and future rested on Jesus as He paid the penalty for our sins. When He rose from the dead, Jesus proved His power over death, so we know He will raise us up in His time (Jn. 11:24-25).

When Jesus told his disciples He had to die, Peter told Him it couldn’t happen. Jesus told him, Get thee behind me, Satan and called him an offence (Mt. 16:23, Mk. 8:33). Jesus didn’t want to be crucified – He prayed that His Father would not make Him do it (Mt. 26:39). Jesus, the man, was tempted as we are (Heb. 4:15). When we’re tempted not to follow one of God’s commands, the last thing we need is someone close to us telling us not to do what's right.

Peter denied Jesus 3 times during Jesus’ trial and felt terrible (Mt. 26:75, Lk. 22:62). That, by the way, is how we know that Peter did belong to Jesus. We’ve all heard people denying both Jesus and God as if it meant nothing.

The two resurrection words that warm my heart most are “and Peter.” The angel told the women who came to the tomb to finish anointing Jesus’ body, “But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter (Mark 16:7)”. Women like bringing peace and encouragement if men will listen. God knew that the women would tell Peter that Jesus still wanted him.

Women can melt a man by speaking kindly – Peter, you’re still a disciple – He wanted you by name! It worked – Peter was with the disciples when Jesus told them to Get Going! and gave them the Holy Ghost:
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. 22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:  John 20:21-22
When Jesus said “and Peter,” He knew Peter wouldn’t get going after receiving the Holy Ghost. He knew Peter would go fishing instead, and He said “and Peter” anyway!  Wow! Think about His love for you!

When Peter went fishing instead of starting the church as Jesus wanted, Jesus went after Peter again (Jn. 21). Having created Peter, Jesus knew that men are afraid to admit their feelings for fear of being hurt.

Peter had seen Jesus weep at Lazarus' tomb (Jn. 11:35), he saw Him mourn for Jerusalem (Mt. 23:37, Lk. 13:34) and Capernaum (Mt. 11:23, Lk. 10:15). Peter knew that if he let Jesus send him as God had sent Jesus, he would sorrow when people he loved refused the gospel. He wanted no part of Jesus’ sorrow or grief (Is. 53:3-4).

Peter was right about that. I sorrowed when my friend who was best man at my wedding refused to ask Jesus for salvation. As he recovered from a heart attack, I tried to tell him again. He finally said, “I get it. Free will means that I can choose to go to Hell if I want to.” His 2nd attack killed him about a week later.

Jesus pushed Peter to admit that Peter loved Him. That didn't make Peter love Jesus - he already did – but Peter wouldn’t recognize or admit his love for Jesus until Jesus pushed him.
Once he admitted to himself that he loved Jesus, Peter had to spread the word – Paul explained that it’s the love of Christ which pushes to do what He wants us to do (2 Cor. 5:14)! That’s why Jesus wants us to know and accept His love for us and ours for Him – we can’t do His work without it.

Similarly, a man must admit to himself that he loves his wife and then he must convince her that he loves her. If he doesn't do that, telling lost people that God loves them won't work because lost people will see that his wife doesn’t think he loves her.

How can anyone believe what we tell them about God’s Love for them if they see that we don’t love each other or that we don’t love them? When lost people see husband and wife forgiving one another and passing God's love and grace back and forth between them, however, they want God’s love for themselves. God gave us the privilege and the honor of telling them how to get it. Do you know how to tell them?

Jesus set us His example - "and Peter!" He meant and me, and He meant and my wife and our children and He meant and you. He meant and everyone who chooses to belong to Him, no matter what our sins may have been. We must forgive and encourage each other as Christ forgave and encouraged Peter.
Peter’s love was weak in John 21, but even weak love made him willing. God AZlways accepts whatever you have if you’re willing to serve Him. (2 Cor. 8:12). Peter planted and watered in his Pentecost sermon. God accepted what he had and gave increase to the church of about 3,000.

If your love is strong enough that you want to serve Him but don’t know how, find someone who is serving Him and help! God will give you more to do as you grow as Peter did.  As with Peter, Jesus began a good work in you and He will perform it until the day He returns (Phi. 1:6).

We sum up the gospel of repentance, grace, forgiveness, service, and love in two words, "and Peter."
POSTED BY BILL TAYLOR





In This Issue:
Volume: 902   March 27, 2023
Theme: Salvation

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Unacceptable Payment
Bill Brinkworth
Christopher eyed the video game one more time. The young, potential customer glanced at the counter salesman before he dug into his jean pockets. He was determined to buy that game. Imaginative visions of flying through space on his video game’s starship encouraged him to search his pockets even deeper.
He wrestled out of its denim prison one wiggling frog, which he pridefully placed on the store’s counter top. “Will you take this frog, and,” he then dug his dirty hand into another pocket and extruded three, long red licorice twists, and placed them next to the ribbeting amphibian, “and these three pieces of candy?”
“Young man,” the grimacing clerk answered, “We cannot take your frog or your candy. The price of that game is $29.95. You need that amount to walk out of here with the game.”
A persistent hand dove into a jacket pocket and produced a baseball mitt. “Well, this glove is one of the best you can buy. It is worth far more than $29.95. Won’t you take the glove for that game?”
The clerk shook his head.
“How’s about the glove, candy, the frog, and,” and out of his seemingly endless supply of pockets produced one more item and banged it on the countertop, “this packet of baseball cards? It’s got to be worth something.”
“Young man, I appreciate your effort; but the only payment acceptable is $29.95 in American currency. That is the only payment we recognize here.”
The boy wandered away, returning all his valuables to their denim storage facility. “It just ain’t right,” the boy muttered as he left the store, “It seems to me that my stuff is worth more than that lousy $29.95.”
Many think similarly about salvation. God says the only payment acceptable for anyone’s sins is the blood of His only Son, Jesus. Man still tries to pay his way to Heaven with his “currency.” 
Many try to pay for entrance into Heaven with their good works, performing “religious” rites, and following church rules. “Surely,” they think, “if my good deeds outweigh the bad things I have done, God will like what I have done and let me in.”
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
Our charitable donations, helping others, religious acts, sacrificial efforts, and good works may be good, but they will earn no one a ticket to Heaven. Those deeds are the frogs, candy, and baseball cards God will not accept as payment into Heaven. The only way anyone will get to Heaven is by receiving the price that Christ paid with His blood for our iniquities.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

His Part and God’s
Dr. Harry Ironside
A man rose in a meeting to testify to God’s saving grace. He told how the Lord had won his heart and given deliverance from the guilt and power of sin. The man spoke of Christ and His work but said nothing of his efforts.
The leader of the meeting was of a legalistic mindset. When the man’s testimony was ended, he added, “Our brother has only told us of the Lord’s part in his salvation. When I was converted, there was a whole lot I had to do myself before I could expect the Lord to do anything for me. Brother, didn’t you do your part first before God did His?”
The other man was on his feet instantly and replied, “Yes, sir. I clear done forgot. I didn’t tell you ‘bout my part, did I? Well, I did my part for over thirty years, runnin’ away from God as fast as my sins could carry me. That was my part. An’ God took aftah me till He run me down. That was His part.”
“There are either of two things we must do. One is to send back the message to Heaven that we don’t want the blood of Christ to cleanse us of our sin, or else accept it.” — D. L. Moody

Whosoever and Whatsoever
Author Unknown

Two precious words are often used in the mouth of Christ: whosoever and whatsoever.
“… And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” Rev. 22:17
“And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” John 14:13
“Whosoever” is outside the gate and lets in all who choose. “Whatsoever” is on the inside and gives those who enter the free range of all the region and treasury of grace. “Whosoever” makes salvation free. “Whatsoever” makes it full.
“What we mean by salvation is this: deliverance from the love of sin, rescue from the habit of sin, and to be set free from the desire to sin.”  — Spurgeon

Necessary and Enough
Dr. Harry Ironside
In a hospital ward, a lady missionary found an undersized and undeveloped little Irish boy whose pale, wizened face and emaciated form burdened her heart for the child. She spoke of his soul’s need, and he was made aware of his lost condition, insomuch that he seriously considered how he might be saved. 
Brought up a Catholic, he thought and spoke of penance, confessionals, sacraments, and the church, yet never mentioned Christ Jesus and His atoning work. The two talked about what the Scriptures said, but he made no decision at the time for salvation.
The following day the lady called upon him again and found his face aglow with a new found joy. Inquiring the reason, he replied with an assurance born of faith in the revealed Word of God, “O miss, I always knew that Jesus was necessary, but I never knew till yesterday that He was enough!”
“Human nature’s way of salvation is, ‘Do, do, do.’ God’s way of salvation is, ‘Done, done, it is all done.’ You have but to rely by faith on the atonement that Christ accomplished on the cross.”  — Spurgeon

“Just Ask for Them!”
Walter Knight
Colonel Teddy Roosevelt commanded a rough-rider regiment in Cuba during the Spanish War. He became much attached to his men and was concerned when several got sick.
Hearing that Miss Clara Barton (the lady who devoted herself to nursing the wounded soldiers) had received a shipment of medicines and food for the invalids under her care, Colonel Roosevelt requested her to sell a portion of them to him for the sick men of his regiment.
His request was refused. The Colonel was very troubled. He cared for his men and was willing to pay for the supplies out of his pocket.
“How can I get these things?” he asked. “I must have proper food for my sick men.”
“Just ask for them, Colonel.”
“Oh,” said Roosevelt, his face breaking into a smile, “that’s the way, is it? Then I ask for them.” He got the supplies at once.
Have you asked the Lord Jesus to save you from the wages of your sins?
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6:23

God Does the Saving
D. L. Moody
Men will never find salvation until they give up all efforts to save themselves. Someone asked a man how he got converted. To answer the question, he built a fire in a circle around a worm. After the worm had crawled around in every direction, it lay down to die. The man then reached over the flames, took the worm out, and put it in a safe place. “That is how we all get saved,” replied the man. “God does the saving.”
“Exposure to the Son prevents burning.”


“The Fulfillment of the Great Commission”

“But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is
come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth.” Acts 1:8

When we read Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15, Luke
24:46-49, John 20:21-23, and Acts 1:8, we call these portions
of Scripture, from the lips of our Saviour, The Great
Commission. The word commission is defined as “an
instruction, command, or duty given to a person or group of
people.” Jesus Christ commissioned His disciples (you and
me included) to GO and preach the Gospel to every creature.
In Acts 1:8, we see that we must begin with our Jerusalem. All
too often, we find ourselves boasting on the missions
supported through our church. I praise the Lord for mission
programs, but if we are not doing our part to reach our own
city, our Jerusalem, we are not doing our part, and we are
failing in the Great Commission.
While we can give and pray for our missionaries, let us not
forget our duty in regard to the Great Commission, with
reaching those close by. Take some Gospel tracts and give
them to others. Give your testimony of what the Lord has
done for you, always displaying Christ in your actions.
Witness to someone! Matthew 5:16 says, “Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven. ” -C.P.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” March 18, 2023 devotional by author CHRIS PARADISE, Pastor, New Hope Baptist Church, Rossville, GA. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.
Dr. John M. Asquith 3/17/23 4 min read

Knowledge Puffeth Up
Be not wise in your own conceits, Romans 12:16.

From time to time, I follow lines of debate on a Facebook site called the King James Bible Debate. I have been delighted with the overall administration of the group and even more delighted by the indepth research and understanding displayed by some of its contributors. Those with opposing views are always given complete liberty to express and defend those views until they get stuck in some kind of a loop in which they no longer answer competent questions, but merely repeat the same things over and over.

Administrator Will Kinney (probably the single most competent defender of the King James Bible alive today) eventually asks them a question paraphrased something like this "Do you have any bible or final authority anywhere on earth wherein you can find the truth?". Very few opposers of the King James Bible dare to answer that question.
In reality the very concept behind the new bibles and negative criticism of the King James Bible boils down to the thought that the original bible was marred by time and that no one really knows what that original really said. When a person who has accepted that premise begins to argue his or her particular point of attack on the King James Bible, eventually Will Kinney will pose that question. Do you or don't you have any final authority that you can access?
Most of his critics just refuse to answer. That in itself becomes an answer. When they won't answer, Will shuts off their access. It is very similar to what Jesus Christ did when he asked the Pharisees where John the Baptist got his authority.

Luke 20:4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
Luke 20:5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
Luke 20:6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
Luk 20:7 And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
Luke 20:8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

If a bible critic says that there is no text or combination of texts on earth that he can ultimately rely upon as perfect before God and as his final authority, he realizes just how precarious that makes his position. If he says that he has such an authority, he has to reveal it. Bible critics don't have such an authority. Will Kinney knows that and makes them admit it.
What comes back to me as I read these interactions is the Apostle Paul's admonition that Knowledge puffeth up. A more pertinent observation from these interactions is that that is an inverse ratio to the amount of knowledge a person has and the degree to which they are puffed up. It seems that the less a person knows, the more solidly he thinks he knows much.
All too often, someone who heard some tidbit of criticism of the King James Bible becomes swelled in self importance as they cast that tidbit into a debate on the King James Bible. When challenged to back up their tidbit, or when confronted by someone far more knowledgeable on the subject, they dig in. Reason and facts don't impress nor affect them.
This explains Solomon's proverb on the subject; The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason, Proverbs 26:16. If you ask an engineer why he used a particular steel on a bridge he can answer that. If you ask him what he would have used if that steel had been cost prohibitive, he can answer. You could go on and ask him a series of questions. He is a man who can render a reason.
What he could never do is to outlast a sluggard who has had oceans of time trying to justify his bizarre ideas. As each man is questioned, eventually the engineer will come to a place where his knowledge or memory fails him. Not so the sluggard. In his laziness to really study or to garner facts, he has woven a web of clever rejoinders that in his mind proves what he believes.
If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest, Proverbs 29:9. Eventually, these men need to be cut off from debate. There are men on the King James Bible debate who have spent decades studying the issues. That does not automatically make them right. What it does do is command a level of respect to actually listen to what they say when they challenge some little tidbit you heard in your freshman Greek class, or from some Sunday school teacher.
The movement against the King James Bible is a devilish movement which is often embraced by born again saints. The 19th century brought Darwinism, Marxism and modern Textual Criticism. Somehow after a century and a half of the failures of any of those systems to adequately explain how to live or to lift man from ignorance, there are still eager adherents to each.
Though I disagree with each of those destructive three, I have friends and family who adhere to at least one of them. There are decent well educated adherents among them. One of the ways that you can tell who has actually studied what they believe, is that they react knowledgeably and thoughtfully when challenged. They can argue without saying the same thing over and over.
As long as God gives me a voice in these matters, I have the hope that some of them can acknowledge the truth of the word of God. That will be a victory for them and for truth itself.

Dr. John M. Asquith 3/17/23 4 min read



“Weather Vane Christianity”

“When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: … And in the
morning, It will be foul weather to day: … ” Matthew 16:2b, 3a

Weather vanes have their place. They let one know which
way the winds are blowing. Lots of folk today spend too much
time trying to determine which way the wind is blowing
politically, economically, socially and worst of all, spiritually.
Politics, finances and cultural considerations may be helped if
facilitated by knowing which way the wind is blowing, but not
church or God’s work. Moses never asked for any man’s
opinion or ratification, even from Joshua or the 70, when he
descended Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments under his
arm! Elijah didn’t seek a forum or discuss his agenda with the
850 prophets and priests of Baal, at the “cook-out” on Mt.
Carmel! “Thus saith the LORD” eliminates weather vane
Christianity.
When Jesus spoke the words of our verses today, surely
there was no discussion with the rabble He was addressing.
The Pharisees and Sadducees were a constant “burr-in-the-
saddle” in regard to everything Christ did or said. He called
them wicked and adulterous in this righteous rebuke, thus,
reserving even stronger language for Matthew 23!
Weather vanes have their place, but are of little value when
matched up against God’s Word and Christ’s commands. One
very neglected portion of Scripture is the “I say unto you”
words of Christ in Matthew 5:18, 20, 22, 28, 32, 34, 39 and 44.
Jesus never offered a weather vane type of religion. His was
always, “Thus saith the Lord.” He spoke with His eyes
focused in one direction and His heart fixed like flint
on-Calvary and the cross! -T.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” March 14, 2023, devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. 


 "God's Will or Yours?"
" ... not my will, but thine, be done." Luke 22:42b

The crucified man approaches things with the same mind-
set. "Not my will, (I don't have one) but Thine be done." We
spend our lives making plans and trying to get God in on them!
We decide what we're going to do and then try to get God to
bless it. That's not the crucified life. That's ambition! If you
check ambition out in your Bible, it's not a healthy thing for a
child of God to be ambitious. Vision to do the will of God is
good, but ambition is self-seeking and sinful. He said in
Romans 6:11, "dead indeed unto sin. " Buddy, if I am dead, I
am dead! I don't have a program. There is no tomorrow for
self-will if I am practicing the crucified life. Most of us are
like the lost man in Luke 12-the rich fool saying, "I will build
greater barns. I will do this. I will go into semi-retirement. I
will eat, drink and be merry."
By the way, ambition started with Lucifer. In Isaiah
14:12-14, Lucifer, the son of the morning, the anointed cherub
that fell, he did it. God never created the devil. He made the
covering cherub. Do you know how Lucifer became the
devil? He became a devil when he replaced the will of God
with his own will. Five times in Isaiah 14:12-14, he said, "I
will, I will, I will, I will, I will." Let me ask you a question. If
replacing the will of God with his own will made a devil out of
him, what do you think it does to you? Self-exertion is not the
crucified life. Let God, Who is far wiser, make the plans for
your life ... the crucified life. - D.C.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” March 15, 2023 devotional by author DR. DENNIS CORLE, Evangelist, Claysburg, PA. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.


“What Do You Think”
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatso-
ever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be
any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8

The average politician today seems to have his brain
pickled in the brine of socialism and progressive thinking.
The average student has his mind soaked in the godless
philosophy of some mind-numbed, dope-addled professor!
Thinking for one’s self, from a Bible perspective is sanely and
sensibly confined to the eight guide posts of Philippians 4:8.
True and honest eliminate about ninety percent of what you
might read or hear from the disingenuous media of today. Just
and pure voids one hundred percent of what one would watch
on television’s sit-coms and the silliness of its deviltry. Lovely
and good silences the gossiping tongue and the critical voice
of most church folks; interacting as carnality controls more of
our lives than we want to admit. The virtuous and praise-
worthy actions of life seem to be thread-worn or hidden in the
spider-webbed closets of our lives.
Our thoughts often define our actions and ought to have
been left in the trash-bin, instead of acted upon. Paul
admonished in verse 9, “Those things, which ye have both
learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the
God of peace shall be with you. ‘
Well, Think of That!! – T.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” March 16, 2023, devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. 


“God’s Will for My Life, Or, My Life for God’s Will?”
” … that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable,
and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2b

As Christians, especially when we are young and
launching out on our own, we ask, “What is God’s will for my
life?” That’s a good question to ask, but while considering
what God wants me to do, maybe I should consider what He
wants done. This is not difficult to learn; it is spelled out
clearly in our Bible. He wants every creature to hear the
Gospel (Mark 16:16). He wants us to evangelize all people
groups, baptize believers, and then teach them all things that
He has commanded (Matt. 28:19-20). God wants no one to go
to Hell (II Peter 3:9). God wants no one ignorant of the truth,
and He desires all to be saved (I Tim. 2:4). He wants all
sinners, everywhere to repent; in fact, God demands it (Acts
17:30). We know that Christ’s death on the cross makes God’s
will possible, that God’s will is only accomplished as people
hear the Gospel, and that His truth goes only where men take
it. Nothing happens until the Gospel gets there!

So, knowing what God wants done, shouldn’t I consider
first investing my life in getting the Gospel to where it has not
gone? Jesus did not request prayer for more plumbers, pilots,
politicians, painters or programmers. The world can supply
plenty of those. He said to pray for more missionaries (Matt.
9:38). So, if I’m seeking God’s will for my life, I should give
serious thought to the mission field. Instead of looking for
God’s will for my life, I should surrender my life to God’s will. -R.C.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” March 13, 2023 devotional by author DR. REX COBB, Baptist Bible Translators, Bowie, TX. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.

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Dr. John M. Asquith (10/21/21) 1 min read

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine, 2nd Timothy 4:2.
The Apostle Paul admonished men to preach with two things, longsuffering and doctrine. I refer to myself as a doctrinal preacher. By that, I mean that I explain a doctrine from the pulpit, I expect the Holy Ghost to begin stirring in peoples’ hearts, and then I go wheresoever the Spirit of God leads me. I resolve to remain longsuffering because I have people who have sat in a blind stupor for many years only to awaken at some point to their peril or to their blindness.
I am putting a link to a message I preached at least 10 years ago, but which seems to illustrate the power of doctrine in preaching. At www.onesoulatatime.net you can hear many messages that may help you or someone that you love. The message is titled, The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. I attempt to use the law of Moses, the Gospels, and the Pauline Epistles to define that law and to make the hearer understand it.
This may help some of you who may wonder why I am stressing the study of Old Testament sacrifice.

May I highly recommend the tab on onesoulatatime.net that is labeled Leviticus. It is a series taught by Dale Morey of Liberty Behind Bars who was saved and trained here at Black Creek.


Solutions: 
We teach the entire counsel of God, based on the Authorized King James Bible, PROPER Biblical Interpretation, including prophecy and True Baptist Church History, Distinctives and Doctrine.

The Ten C’s ….. Now there are Ten!

(1) ... Greatest Commandments 
Matthew 22:36-40
(2) ... Great Commission  Matthew 28:16-20
(3) ... Earnestly Contend for the faith Jude 3-4, 20-25
(4) ... All the Counsel of God Acts 20:26-27
(5) ... One Christ Ephesians 4:4-6
(6) ... Another Christ 2 Corinthians 11:4
(7) ... With Compassion, Christians are to have compassion (1 Pe. 3:8; 1 Jn. 3:17; Jude 22). [See Charity, Labor, Love, Mercy.]
(8) ... Pray without ceasing I Thessalonians 5:17
(9) ... Creation Genesis 1:1-2, John 1:1-5 The seven c’s of creation!
(10) ...His Commandments in Old & New Testaments Revelation 22:14C

How to stop all this confusion out there?

  1. Get saved so you “can” understand!
  2. Start reading the KJB and pray every day!
  3. Learn the proper methods of literal interpretation!
  4. Learn “true” Baptist Church History!
  5. Learn and practice the entire counsel of God!
  6. Attend a good Bible Believing Independent Church regularly!




” Joy in Serving Jesus”

“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of
the Holy Ghost.” Romans 15:13
Go ahead and get in hot pursuit of wealth, your will, your
happiness, your program, your life; and I promise, you’re
going to lose it all. You’ll weep because you squandered it. Or
you can get in hot pursuit of the will of God. God’s program is
His will for your life. Get so consumed with His cause that
you just kind of lose yourself in it, and if you lose yourself in it,
you’ll find joy. Though there are some things to endure, you’ll
find joy.
Joy is one thing that gives us endurance. If I have joy, I can
endure. These long-faced Christians don’t ever accomplish
anything. They can’t endure anything because they have no
joy. They have no joy because they’re pursuing their own will.
They’re not lost in a cause. You will find your life if you will
lose it in the cause of Christ.
Today you and I need to decide, “I’m not going to find my
will and lose everything. I am going to get in hot pursuit of the
will of God and get consumed with doing God’s will. I’m
going to put my concentration so heavily on God’s program,
that I lose my program in His.” If you’ll do that, you won’t
want for joy. I guarantee you, the life that God has planned for
you is far better than one you have planned for yourself. You’ll
never find His will until you lose yours. – D.C.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” February 19, 2023 devotional by author DR. DENNIS CORLE, Evangelist, Claysburg, PA. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.



“Mansions Yes!!”

“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. ” John 14:2

David Brainerd (1718-1747) the great missionary to the
native Indians of America wrote:
“My soul will be astonished at the unsearchable
riches of divine grace when I arrive at the mansions, which the
blessed Saviour has gone before to prepare.”
I heard a well-known radio preacher say that we
fundamentalists will be surprised when we get to Glory and
find that we will only have rooms to dwell in. I think I’ll stay
with Brainerd’s report and the fifty plus brilliant men that gave
us the King James Bible! I also read a recent report that
another “version-of-the-month” said that we will dwell in
tents! I’m sure the Algonquin Indians Brainerd preached to
would wonder why God would put a teepee in His house! To
be real transparent with you, I really don’t plan on spending a
lot of time in my mansion in the first place. There will be
loved ones to meet, famous and non-descript Christians of the
past that I want to meet and hear their testimonies, and of
course, spend eons of time worshipping at the feet of our
Saviour!! By the way, I think we will be busy doing our
Father’s wise bestowment of our eternal duties, rejoicing at
being able to serve Him, love Him and worship Him!
Remember: Jesus Christ said, “I go to prepare a place for
you. ” And I don’t think the Carpenter that he was will be
building lean-tos or tents! -T.G.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from excerpts from the “Baptist Bread” February 21, 2023, devotional by author Dr. Tim Green, Revival In Our Time, Day Heights, OH. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread. 


“Protecting Freedom”

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their
wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land.” II Chronicles 7:14

God did not want Solomon’s accomplishments in the will
of God to overshadow personal holiness in the will of God.
We need to protect freedom so that freedom can protect us.
True freedom is the result of a nation’s right relationship with
God. “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free
indeed” (John 8:36).
Even fundamental churches miss the most important
element in the “formula for revival” (turn from their wicked
ways;). Freedom can only survive when holiness has the same
priority with the people that it has with God. It is not
perfection that God speaks about, but it is a willing
compliance with Him that He is concerned about. Praying for
revival will not bring revival, if the other three elements are
ignored. When churches and individual believers practice
‘preferred” sins and pray for revival, revival will not come.
Turning from one’s wicked ways will occur when the first
three elements are genuine: pray, seek my face, and humble
themselves. Superficial spirituality will not protect holiness,
and, therefore, it will not protect freedom. True freedom is the
result of righteousness! “But as he which hath called you is
holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is
written, Be ye holy; for I am holy ” (I Peter 1:15 & 16). – G.G.
Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread”, February 22, 2023, by author Dr. Guy Goodell, Pastor, Bible Baptist Church, Hudson Falls, NY. With permission from Tim Green, editor of Baptist Bread.




As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

As I have written before, the true trial of the King James Bible is not settled in manuscript evidence, controversies as to how certain words are translated, or outdated language. It can pass those trials, often with ease. There is a never ending assault made upon its integrity. The labor of the men and women who day in and day out publish materials and supporting arguments to refute the criticisms of the King James Bible is a indeed a glorious labor and I thank God for them.
These men and women are the true champions of the faith. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, Romans 10:17. Attack the word of God and you attack faith itself. Defend the word of God and you defend faith itself. They cannot be separated.
The true trial of a King James Bible is the trial of life itself. When I first began reading the King James Bible, I did so with resentment. A controversy had erupted in the overseas military bible study that I attended. There was a contingent who could not abide me using my New American Standard Bible while I taught. There were others who didn't care. When I switched to the King James Bible to appease the one faction, the other faction who used multiple versions didn't care.
As I began reading and studying the King James Bible, (I had been reading other versions for two years.) I became more settled. The words meant more to me. Often, I would need to stop and parse out what the English was saying, but when I did, it had a far greater impact upon me. It made my life better. Slowly and almost imperceptibly, the conviction built within me that this was indeed the word of God.
Since then, I am often reminded of Solomon's wisdom in determining the true mother of a live baby (1st Kings 3:16-28). One group at the bible study didn't really care what version I used. They didn't care what was cut out of the bible and what wasn't. The other group cared deeply. If you apply Solomon's wisdom to the Bible debate, it doesn't take long to see who has a natural affection for the word of God and who has a mere intellectual attachment.
The ministry here in Black Creek, New York often involves taking a person or family that has fallen through all safety cracks. They suffer from the effects of addictions, sexual immorality and foolishness. We ground them in the King James Bible. Invariably, it begins to affect them. We hear changes in their speech patterns. They come in eager to hear preaching. They find victory over some of the prevailing sins that have been dragging them down and destroying their lives.
They begin to get under conviction of sin. With just one exception in my 15 plus years here, every one of these people had been run through the Romans Road a few times in their lives. They prayed without faith and received empty assurances that they were heaven bound. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life, Ezekiel 13:22.
It doesn't take long after their lives begin to be molded by the King James Bible that the Holy Ghost is able to give them discernment as to whether or not they are in the faith. Their lives utterly change. Children who went to bed at night listening to drunken parents now go to bed in homes rich with the songs of Zion. Marriages are healed. Slackers get jobs.
Visitors to our church are often struck by the fervency and heart that goes into the singing. They see the excitement of children greeting each other. They see men and women huddled together talking and laughing together as they wait for services. When they take a closer look, they see the tattoos that cannot be hidden. As they get to know these people they marvel at the testimonies of hopelessness cured by Jesus Christ. We inject the King James Bible into their lives and they give it a trial. It passes that trial and then puts them on trial. As they fail that trial, they see Jesus Christ hanging on a cross paying their sin debt.
I realize that churches claim a lot of conversions. What distinguishes these conversions of which I speak is that they are visible in the house of God. Their homes and lives are gloriously changed. It started by getting them to try a King James bible and then teaching them to believe it.
For those of you who labor to defend our bible, thank you. You are the true heroes of faith in the 21st century.


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Wrestling a Verse
Dr. John M. Asquith 5 min read 01/19/2023

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ, 2nd Corinthians 2:17.

It was the Apostle Paul who wrote Romans 10:13, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. He did not intend it as an instruction in soul winning and he never used it as such. In fact, no one in the bible ever did. Search as you may. Search each and every occurrence where the Apostle Paul preached the gospel to unbelievers. He never used the "Romans Road" to lead anyone to Christ.
In Acts 16:30 he was directly asked, what must I do to be saved?. Paul did not tell him to "call upon the name of the Lord". He told him to "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ". A person cannot "call upon the name of the Lord" until they have believed. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?, Romans 10:14.
Calling upon the name of the Lord is something that a believer does. It is not something that an unbeliever does to become a believer. Imagine two groups of bedouins meeting at a desert watering hole. They are distrustful of each other. The leader of one group might ask the other group, what God do you call upon?. The best answer that could be given would be, "we call upon the name of the Lord".
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered, Joel 2:32. When pestilence comes, when the enemy attacks, when plague runs through a nation; it is those who call upon the name of the Lord who find deliverance. So it was in Israel, and so it is now. Men have been calling upon the name of the Lord since Genesis 4:26. God has been delivering such men ever since.
That brings us to the word "saved". There is a knee jerk reaction in most folks that equate "saved" with the process whereby God delivers a person from sin and translates them into the Kingdom of God. Indeed, that is one example of the bible word "saved". A person who receives Jesus Christ by believing the gospel is saved. He is saved from sin. He also receives a sure hope of the future deliverance from the penalty of his sin and from going through the wrath of God. It is one of many applications of the word.
In each and every place the word "saved" is used in the word of God it means delivered. What the person is delivered from depends upon the context.


Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee, 1st Timothy 4:16.
These people are already delivered from sin. By taking heed to the doctrine and by continuing therein, they save themselves from falling away or making a mess of their lives.

2. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me, Matthew 14:30.

Peter is not asking here to be delivered from sin. He wants to be delivered from drowning.

3. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed, Romans 13:11.

This verse gives us an insight into Paul's thinking. There is a salvation to come. He is speaking of the deliverance that God gives to those who call upon the name of the Lord. If you are a person who calls upon the name of the Lord, which by definition means that you have believed on him, you shall be saved. You will not be left to go through the great tribulation.

If you insist upon making the words "saved", "salvation", and "saved" to always mean "passing from death unto life", you will miss much of what the bible is saying.
Romans 10 is a chapter which defines the Apostle Paul's love for the Jews, it describes Moses's forewarnings about belief. It defines true faith as being a belief deep in the heart. It is belief that knows and trusts the the death burial of Jesus Christ. It is not a description of the mechanics of how to be saved.
If Catholic priest is asked to deliver a person from hell, he sprinkles water on him. A buddhist would teach him to meditate. A Muslim would circumcise him and teach him to pray to Allah. A Church of Christ Pastor will baptize him by immersion. 99% of Baptist preachers and their squishy brethren in Evangelicalism will get them to pray a specially worded prayer. Romans 10:13 has become a religious ceremony and is just as ineffective as any other religious ceremony.
The misapplication of Romans 10:13 has sent more people to hell in the last 50 years than almost any other form of sin out there. In times past, I have prayed with hundreds and hundreds of people while all the time enticing them to pray in accordance with the general understanding of Romans 10:13. I can find none of them in church. I can see no changed lives. But, when I look at those to whom I preached, begged God for their souls, waited for the Holy Ghost to convince them of sin and to guide them into believing Jesus Christ, I find fruit unto God.
Almost the only people in church today who trust Romans 10:13 for their salvation are those who from within the church at one (or a few) time (s) became concerned for their souls and sought relief. It may have been at an altar call, it may have been one on one conversation. They will cling to that futile hope against all the effort the Holy Ghost can send their way. Unwitting pastors will aid the deception. Their one and only one criteria for whether a person is saved or lost is their misguided reliance upon Romans 10:13.
These are people who because they are of good character regularly attend church. The Catholics have such people. The Muslims do. The Mormons do. the Jehovah Witnesses do. All religions do. All religions have people who hold onto promises of men wherein they think that they have eternal life. The misuse of Romans 10:13 has transformed good churches into holding cells for the unwitting damned.
They will take their attendance and their immersion in church activities, their private devotions, and all other religious trappings for evidence of salvation. It is not evidence of salvation in a Buddhist temple. Nor is it evidence of salvation in a Muslim Mosque. It is not evidence of salvation in a Baptist church. The evidence of salvation is a clear memory of, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, Acts 20:21. It is a witness of the Spirit of God; The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God, Romans 8:16.
I want to see the fruit of the Spirit in my people's lives. I sorrow when I perceive that love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: is not and never does run their private lives. I wait while the great God of Abraham, Isaac and of Jacob extends his longsuffering and goodness to them. He desires their deliverance, but one of the greatest hindrances to that deliverance is some past memory of praying that religious prayer. They will not let God get to the core of their sin to expose it for what it is so that he can heal them in the bowels of Christ Jesus.



Visible Results
Dr. John M. Asquith 5 min read 01/18/23

If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord, 1st Corinthians 9:2.

There once was a time when a man was considered a soul winner because of the great amount of people whose lives had been converted. His converts had lives which gave honor and glory to Jesus Christ. His converts could be seen in the church house. The great preachers of old were not declared great by climbing the pecking order of their respective circle of preachers as happens today.
They were recognized by the multitudes of converts who openly praised God for the ministry of such a man. Quite often, the established preachers of their day despised them and tried to explain away the crowds who gave Jesus Christ the glory because of such a man's ministry. Why would that matter to a man who along with the Apostle Paul could say; If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord, 1st Corinthians 9:2.
John Wesley, DL Moody, Spurgeon and so many more were never invited into the upper echelons of the ministry of their day. They were hoisted to prominence by the unrighteous mammon of their day who found peace and joy in Christ Jesus, and who recognized those men as having been the tool used by God to affect their glorious conversion.
Oh, how Fundamental churches have fallen! Today, men reach preeminence by carefully cultivating their standing. They groom their reputation by attending the right conferences, inviting the right speakers and taking the right stands. They build up their churches and keep the people satisfied by introducing programs. If they were to depend on their converts to hoist them to a higher reputation, they would need a detective agency to find them.
When I was a child growing up in Rural New York State, it was rare that we ever had more than one or two friends who wanted to play baseball. Usually, it was just 3 or 4 or even 2 of us in our back yard who played. We made up for the lack of players by using "invisibles". My friend would pitch to me and when I hit the ball, and if I made it to first base before he retrieved the ball, I would then call out, "invisible on first".
I would go back to the batter's box with the understanding that there was an invisible base runner on first base. If I hit the ball again and made it to first base, it was understood that my "invisible" had made it to second base. If I hit the ball again, my friend could get me out by grabbing the ball and reaching first base before I did, or he could step on second base before I reached first base and thereby get my "invisible" out.
This system worked well in lieu of having four or five players. If we managed to get an "invisible" on every base, the next hit would score a run. If we managed to get a two or three base hit, our "invisibles" were understood to have gained just as many bases. It was all great fun and an innovative way for a few country boys to play baseball when we didn't have enough players.
I'm watching "soul winners" play this same game. When we hit the ball back in those days and made it to first base, we declared an "invisible". Now, if a "soul winner" can induce a person to pray and ask Jesus to save them, they declare that person saved. The pews are full of invisible converts. No angels in heaven rejoiced for these hapless victims of modern day soul winning. No one passed from death unto life.
What does happen is that some street preacher gets a testosterone jolt as his victim walks away and the preacher sees himself as some great man of God. Some evangelist who couldn't fill a broom closet with visible converts ups his score in his next prayer letter. Some church will declare their last meeting a great success because of all of the saved souls but somehow it never affects their attendance figures.
Meanwhile, the Western World grows more wicked. The neighborhoods surrounding our churches inevitably grow more and more wicked. As each decade passes, we expect less and less out of those few who still attend church. Salt changes things that it touches. It melts ice. It preserves food. It enriches taste. Our "soul winners" change nothing. They are not salt.
Over ten years ago, I was invited to be a key speaker at Fundamentalist Bible conference. This took place down South with preachers and evangelists from Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina and perhaps a few more. I became frustrated when I realized that these men cared little for what I preached. I finally stopped speaking and opened the floor to discussion. I asked the assembled men to define a mature christian family.
They did well. As the discussion proceeded, we all agreed that a mature christian family wasn't perfect but that they were regular at church. Their home was run by biblical principles. Their standards of dress, music and other entertainment were changed. (We might all disagree to what extent, but nevertheless there is a change.) A mature Christian family is far more careful in educating their children.
I then asked each and every pastor who had a mature christian family in his church to stand up. They all did. I then asked them to sit down. My next question flummoxed them. I asked every pastor to stand who had found his particular mature christian family while they were still lost, had wooed them to Christ, and then labored over them until Christ was fully formed in them. No man stood. I told them they were like Confederate soldiers in the spring of 1865, full of the glory of the past but unable to change anything.
We have turned soul-winning into a religious activity. It has no power to convert but that has not slowed down anyone. When I describe what we do at Black Creek, people argue with me. They are sure that I go about it all wrong. When they visit, they love the services. They marvel over the testimonies. Yet they hate the recipe. We have saying here; "They love our cake, but hate the recipe".
If the only proof you could ever give to the seal of your calling was a group of people who gladly sit under your ministry and can testify to God's grace upon you in bringing them to Christ, could you gather such a crowd? Or, are they "invisibles" that you and your friends all pretend are there as you rack up your score.
Here are a few testimonies. (Here) (Here) (Here) (Here)



Salvation and the Local Church
Dr. John M. Asquith 2 days ago 5 min read 12/24/22

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame, 1st Corinthians 15:34.

We are at the tail end of a half century wherein churches practiced a concerted effort to send "soul winning" teams all throughout their local neighborhoods to reach every person in their town or city. For a while during this time, "soul winning" clinics and classes were held wherein each and every participant was taught how to to direct every conversation into a discussion of heaven or hell, saved or lost.
The end result of this rather novel approach to universal evangelism has been the shrinking of any effect churches have in their respective communities, the shrinking of congregations, the closure of churches in small communities, the lethargy of what few people most churches have left, and a couple of generations who have no desire for the faith of their parents.
About 16 years ago, I attended a church whose pastor faithfully knocked on doors every single Thursday evening. He organized his church members to do their own canvassing of the area on Thursday nights. He had been a pastor in that community for many years, but there was no person in that church who he had won to the Lord. I asked him about his track record.
Looking straight at him, I asked, "After 30 years in the ministry, is there any person in any church anywhere in the world who currently occupies a pew in any bible believing church who would testify that they had been unconverted until such time as you found them and led them to a saving knowledge in Jesus Christ?". "No" was his short answer. He looked at me like I had two heads. It didn't seem to occur to him that such an outcome mattered.
He had been trained in some goofball bible college in Hammond, Indiana and he intended to keep on doing the same thing over and over as long as he lived. To him, that was the calling. I was saved in January of 1982. At that time, Oliver Greene had been dead for ten years. Yet, I ran into his converts in almost every church that I visited. To this day, I still hear occasional people speak of being won to the Lord through the preaching or ministry of Oliver Greene.
Likewise, I have talked with converts of J. Frank Norris. I know many converts of Evangelist Sammy Allen. I have sat under the preaching of men won to the Lord by Tom Malone. What I have never run into is a convert of the founder and namesake of the goofball school in Indiana. He claimed more converts than all of those other men combined. I have met a few men who were saved while at that school, but they always speak of the preaching of a visiting speaker, not him. Search the internet. Try to find converts of that man.
The reality decades later is that the whole heavy pressure, soul winning schtick was a fraud perpetrated upon an unwitting generation of pastors who opened their churches to it. A gospel void of Holy Ghost wrought conviction, fear, and repentance has left the churches bankrupt. Churches grow today by enticing others who already believe as they do to come to their church. In towns with many churches this has led to a game of musical chairs.
I am not going to argue theories with anyone. I was saved after a convert of Oliver Greene took the time to woo me to Christ when I thought I had no need. I had been the victim of a repentenceless gospel. The Black Creek Baptist Church is a vessel filled with the fruits of bible salvation. Drug addicts are free. Their homes are testimonies to the grace of God. Drunks no longer drink booze. Fornicators and adulterers live wholesome lives with the joy of God. Felons are preachers.
I built relationships with these people. I loved them. I sacrificially gave to them. I made my home to be a welcome spot for them. I endured their bad behavior with gentle reproofs. I proved to them that there really was a word of God that they could read and hold in their hands. They began to find the house of God to be a refuge from a cruel hard world.
I preached doctrine to them from the pulpit until they began to think in bible terms. I took each and every one of them to the throne of grace in prayer. Today, they lift up holy hands without wrath or doubting and give praise to Jesus Christ who loved them and gave himself for them.
I defended them from the Fundamentalist super-soul winners who wanted to make them a notch on their belts. These men boast of zillions of converts. In reality, they only have numbers. Gladly would they turn my people into numbers to feed their own egos. My people would have become like all of the other victims of these men, lost and drifting in the world without victory or hope.
Do you want to see your church have fruit? Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you, John 15:16. If Jesus Christ really did choose you to serve him, do you have fruit that has remained? Can you stand against your peers? Can you truly believe that there really is a Holy Ghost and he really can move the heart of a sinner and he really can cause the Spirit of God to bear witness with their spirit?
Are you still deceived into thinking that the trite little prayer these people believe is what the Apostle Paul meant when he talked about calling on the name of the Lord? How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed?, Romans 10:14. For far too long our churches have watched people bring monopoly money for faith when they have prayed for deliverance. We watch them walk away with monopoly money for salvation. We spend our time doing what the Holy Ghost cannot and will not do. We convince them they they have eternal life. Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter, Ezekiel 13:10.
Please feel free to contact me. My book, Who moved the Goal Posts? : A Critique of 21st Century Soul Winning is on Kindle. I have mailed a free copy to each and every person who has desired one.



Dr. John M. Asquith 6 min read 12/16/22

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest, Amos 4:7.

In the Parable of the Sower the seed never changes. The man doing the sowing never changes his method. It is the ground itself that determined what happened to the seed. It is that fourth category of ground that brings forth fruit. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience, Luke 8:15. If any of my readers are truly weary of the incredible unfruitfulness of today's soul winning, and truly seek for ways to affect the community wherein they live, I believe that my last post, this one and the few to follow can help you.
Theories don't butter your bread. They don't win souls. They are fun to argue about on social media and they can advance you with your peers, but after a while, you need to roll up your sleeves and work. Our opening verse from Amos depicted a time in which the harvest was being held back. Do I have a reader so foolish that you would rush out and tell Amos's listeners that the fields were white to the harvest?
If you want to be fruitful and actually see change in your community because of your church, and you actually want to see people who are broken in sin receive grace and truth through Jesus Christ, and if you want to see them manifest that change in the congregation, you need to rethink your approach. Since the heart is desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9,10), how can an unbeliever have that good and honest heart that Jesus described in Luke 8:15?
The unbeliever can have that heart if the soul winner works with the Holy Ghost to prepare that heart. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase, 1st Corinthians 3:7. There is labor to be performed before God gives the increase.
When the Apostle Paul entered into a community to evangelize it, he entered the synagogue first. In that synagogue he found men and women, both Jew and Gentile who had been learning the precepts of the laws of God. They showed evidence of a fear of God. It was of just this sort of person that Jesus Christ spoke when he said, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few, Mark 9:37.
Where could a soul winner go today to find any equivalent group of people wherein laborers had planted seed and watered it? That was a rhetorical question. If a soul winner wants to find ground made ready for the good news of Jesus Christ in the 21st century, he had better labor with the Holy Ghost to prepare such ground.
Let's be practical. With very few exceptions in Western society, there is not any community prepared for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Why?

They don't believe the bible. The public schools purged the bible from their curriculum over a half century ago. Sunday schools and Christian schools have taught that the real bible hasn't been perfect for almost 2000 years.
People today have no concept of their sin. All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits, Proverbs 16:2.
People today do not believe Moses. Speaking of Moses, Jesus said; But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? John 5:47.
People are caught up in peer pressure. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? John 5:44.
If you really want to make a difference and you really are sick of fruitless professions, you need to take a more long term approach. It took William Carey 7 years to get his first Hindu to convert. The Moravians worked with John Wesly for a few years before they got him to trust Jesus Christ. Charles Spurgeon testified of months of conviction prior to finding relief in Christ Jesus. The people we meet today are closer to the Hindus of William Carey's India than the sinners of 18th and 19th century England. There is much work needed to prepare the soil.
Teach people that there really is a bible. If by the grace of God you are really a King James Bible believer, use that to the advantage of the gospel. Teach them what just about every Englishman, New Zealander, Australian, Canadian and American believed from their youth up from the mid 1600s to the mid 1900s. The King James Bible is the word of God. God really does speak to people.
That will take time. The myths of the new versions and the myth of evolution are deeply ingrained. I can assure you that they will work hard against the ability of your hearers to ever believe the word of God. I don't take much time on the evolution thing. I dismiss it with the statement that I don't believe in 2 celled creatures. For that matter, I don't believe in 4 celled, 8 celled, 16 celled or 32 celled creatures.
A man from my ministry who showed up here 7 or 8 years ago in the midst of an adulterous relationship and had little prior church experience began to take the preaching seriously. He had a typical bachelor's degree and it occured to me that his belief in evolution was strangling his ability to trust the scriptures. He didn't believe Moses. I told him one day to research 2 celled creatures. He has bible salvation today. He is married in honor. He is a trustee in our church. He has a calling to preach and never misses church.
His research into 2 celled creatures showed him the impossibility of evolution. He began to understand that he had been created and that he had sinned against his creator. The bible became easier to believe. I received a text from his wife one day in which she asked me to pray for him because he was locked in his room with a bible and was in agony for his soul. (His testimony).
Do you have the patience to add people to your congregation of listeners who are not fully settled but are willing and ready to listen? Can you wait until the Holy Ghost has broken down their unbelief, their pride and and has caused them to tremble before the law they spurned ('til my guilty soul emploring turned to calvary.)?
The theorists will scoff at all of this. Sitting with them is like sitting with a deer hunter who uses an imaginary gun. We all pretend that the McDonalds hamburger we are eating is venison steak. We all pretend that the empty wall is actually filled with mounted deer antlers. Somehow today, deer are different.
If you want to be effective you will need to stand against your peers. You will need to endure their criticisms as you patiently wait for your Hindu to have his heart made into good soil. You will need to ignore all of the critics who mock while your John Wesley wonders whether or not he has real salvation. It took me four years to get my first convert at the Black Creek Baptist Church. It took an additional 6 months for his wife to find relief in Christ. (Read this) (and this).
In that time I endured many doubters. Today, that same couple operate Liberty Behind Bars. Dale has a doctorate in Christian Counseling and has an active, vibrant prison ministry.
What is the classic definition of insanity? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If you truly want change and you truly want to see your church grow through changed lives, get ahold of Evangelist Timothy McVey's podcast. For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state, Philippians 2:20. He has become an essential and integrated part of the work of God at the Black Creek Baptist Church. We have him in a minimum of 3 times a year. God has blessed him with the ability to take your church right where it is and to move it ever so slightly without blowing people away. Get your people listening.
According to the Scriptures
Dr. John M. Asquith 7 min read 12/14/22

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1st Corinthians 15:3.

I am troubled over the state of churches. I am especially troubled over the propagation of the gospel. Years ago, Oliver Greene chided his listeners by telling them that, "He was afraid that the devil had slipped some of them a substitute". When the Wesleys began their campaigns in earnest, when George Whitefield preached the gospel, when the Anabaptists of Medieval Europe preached, it was the devil's henchmen inside of the churches and speaking for the churches that withstood them.
I myself almost missed the grace of God by receiving a cheap substitute for true bible repentance and by infiltrating a good ministry. Like any zealot of any religion, I learned the phraseology of the movement I was in. I fasted, I prayed, I street preached, I went door to door, I led people in the "sinner's prayer". I could talk for hours about tiny nuances of doctrine.
Like a good Black Muslim, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, Buddhist, or any other sincere religious adherent, I had quit fornicating. I had quit drugs and alcohol. I did not have a new man. I did these things in the strength of the flesh. Because I no longer did those things so destructive to the flesh and to life itself, I was happier.
I learned the speech, the doctrine, the habits, and the doctrine of Fundamental Baptists. I never missed church. When I did sin, I dutifully confessed it in prayer. I mistook my consciousness of sin and the tenderness of my conscience for the doctrine of the two natures. In reality it was one nature, a very fallen nature seeking relief and fulfilment through religion. My life was proof of the Apostle Paul's admonition in Romans 2:15, Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.
One of my thoughts would arise and condemn me. Another thought would then arise and accuse the first thought of being all wrong. It would excuse that thought and me. The next thought would come along and accuse them both of being wrong. It was my thoughts that accused and excused one another. I mistook that for the war of two natures within me.
A sinner in such a state is more pleasing to the devil than a sinner in some other form of religion. After all, he did vow; I will be like the most High, Isaiah 14:4. It pleases the devil well to have sinners learn the forms of true salvation and worship, to have them partake of the house of God, and yet to be ignorantly lost in their sins. This is not the first time in history that churches have fallen into such decay.
Such decay is usually a prelude to revival. Revival comes when God enlightens certain men of God as to the blindness of their age. Revival comes when such men cry out against the prevailing theology of their day. Such men are resisted by the orthodox leaders of the churches. Even though the average Fundamental pastor is impotent to affect change in his community, he wars against those who would compel him to change. Fundamental churches of the 21st century are powerless to affect the communities wherein they meet. Revival will happen when good fundamental church members start getting real bible salvation.
If you examine the last 1000 professions made in your church, you'll probably see one of three scriptural outcomes.

Luke 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. They prayed a prayer and no one ever saw the least change in them.
Luke 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. A big hubbub was made when these people made their profession but when one any little thing goes wrong or isn't quite what they want, they are gone.
Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. Jesus said that you can tell them by their fruit. These have no fruit.
Does your church have any people in it who demonstrate a sincere desire to unite with the house of God, live by the precepts of the word of God, mourn over their sin, and bit by bit become transformed by the word of God? Are these people there because you as a pastor, or your pastor found them out in the world lost without Jesus Christ and wooed them through the gospel until they sought Jesus Christ as a remedy for their sin? If you have such a family, and that family has been converted in the last 20 years, you have a truly unique church.
Invariably, when I ask that preaching at occasional preacher meetings, I will get refuted by someone who will tell a persona story of someone converted under their ministry. When I look into it, it always a 30 year old story. The soil with which we work today is distinctly different than it was 30 years ago.
A culture has formed within our churches wherein as many people as possible are persuaded, cajoled, pressured, tricked, and browbeat into praying the "sinner's prayer". In the early 80s a substantial fraction of those people actually tried church. In the last 40 years that fraction has shrunk until the average preacher has no real expectation of seeing such converts actually attend his church or ever acknowledge what took place.
This has led to a whole generation of preachers and apologists for this anemic gospel which has absolutely no saving power. Just as in Sodom a whole generation of children were raised who didn't know how babies were made and who ceased to ever see pregnancies or live births, our church members today rarely or never see changed lives. It is just generally accepted and understood that most people who are saved will never show the least evidence of it in their lives. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Like frogs in a pond who lay thousands of eggs and who see thousands of tadpoles spawned, these religiously sincere soul winners will pray with thousands. What happen to those tadpoles? The vast majority of them become fish food. What differentiates the frog from our religious but misguided soul winner is that the frog has a much higher fraction of her effort become living frogs. Most of her effort ends up as fish poop at the bottom of the pond, but every year there are a few new frogs in the pond. These modern day soul winners can never point to new life in the churches because of their efforts.
Most of the victims of these religious activists become men and women who exhibit zero evidence of salvation, but are now secure from any threat of ever really being saved because someone once promised them life. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life, Ezekiel 13:2. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage, 2nd Peter 2:19.
By the grace of God, and through the Black Creek Baptist Church jettisoning much of the last 50 years of teachings about the gospel and soul winning, we have a small but growing cadre of people whose lives have been utterly changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ. They NEVER miss church other than for illness. Their homes are transformed, their families, doctors and in some cases social workers have expressed amazement at the changes in them. Whoever stocks the beer and cigarettes at the local convenience stores has noticed a slackening in sales.
Nevertheless, the ever-so-wise theorists of fundamentalism are sure that we go about it all wrong. We are accused of Calvinism. We are accused of destroying the simplicity of the gospel. We are accused of Lordship salvation. We welcome such people to come and see. We publish testimonies on our website (here). You'll see that we have a couple of sister churches who have awakened to the gospel.
At times I feel like Lot in Sodom. What he did caused babies to be born. Josephus wrote that Sodom has become so depraved that there were no children younger than 12 years old in the city. Yet, Lot was accused of doing it all wrong.
For those who truly desire fruit in their churches, we will be looking at how the gospel got so diluted in our churches, and what we have done about it today. Hint: All too often I here certain dispensationalists narrow the definition of the to the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as if naught else needed to be preached. What they miss is that Paul said; how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1st Corinthians 15:3. We need to expound the scriptures from the law, the Psalms, the gospels, and from ALL of the epistles.
I lost some of you with that remark about ALL of the epistles. I hope that your theories bear fruit.

Luke 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Luke 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Luke 24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
Luke 24:47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Luke 24:48 And ye are witnesses of these things.

Dr. John M. Asquith 3 min read 2 hours ago 10/12/22

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever, Isaiah 32:17.

Modern day soul winning statistics can be likened to hearing that a baseball team is on a winning streak, but somehow their standings in the league never change. I still have some friends who honestly believe that all of the people who pray their little prayer with them are truly born again. There are charismatic preachers who ignore all evidence and truly believe that people leave their meetings truly healed. There are Catholic priests who truly believe those little pieces of bread are really the body of Jesus.
I have a friend in Davie County, North Carolina who keeps tabs on one such Independent King James Fundamental blah, blah, blah Baptist Church in his county. They publish their output of professions and he adds up the numbers. Every few years, they get enough professions to double the population of the entire county. Just like the baseball team that claims victory after victory and yet their standings reflect no such thing, such churches can show no change in their membership from their inflated statistics.
The place to count conversions is not at the altar. If instead of longing to see people make public professions so that we can burnish our statistics, why not start longing to see the grace of God manifest in people's lives. The most dangerous heresies are those that use a valid verse from a King James Bible but ignore the context. Romans 10:13 is such a verse. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Never mind that the next verse qualifies that statement. How shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed?
True belief brings true righteousness. True righteousness brings quietness and peace. When I meet new people, I cannot help but wonder what that person would be like with a conscience freed from sin. I try to picture that person lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting. I long to see that person standing in this miracle of grace that God so graciously imparted to me by Jesus Christ so many years ago.
No matter how seedy and sotted with sin a family is when I meet them, no matter how deep in sin they have stooped, I begin to pray that that that same Jesus Christ who so graciously delivered the woman at the well from sin, and who has washed so many in my ministry, might cleanse this family also. Just getting them to pray a little prayer, putting a notch on my belt, and watching them disappear will never satisfy me.
To this day, I grieve over those families and people who once sat under the preaching here in Black Creek and have now returned to their own vomit. They are not counted as soul-winning statistics. They are accounted as failures of my ministry. They accounted a great sorrow. I grieve doubly as I think of missed opportunities and mistakes made with them. When I see those families who now show forth the praises of Jesus Christ, I see the grace of God in them and in my ministry.
Set your sights on seeing new lives wrought by the Holy Ghost. Settle for nothing less. I preached in Black Creek for five years before I saw the first sinner crack. It took six more months before his wife was overcome by that schoolmaster, the law, and dragged to Jesus Christ for salvation. We wait for long periods of time to see people converted. They pray prayers, and they make professions, but until they are truly converted their changes are merely superficial and fleeting.
Every person who has ever emailed me and requested a copy of my book, Who Moved the Goal Posts? has had a copy mailed to them for free. It is also available on Amazon Kindle. We don't have mourner's benches in our churches because we don't have mourners. It took John Wesley, William Carey, Fanny Crosby, and Charles Spurgeon a long time sitting under preaching to ever come to repentance and to find salvation. Somehow, our stupid little microwave dish that we pass off as old-fashioned cooking can't change lives. Let's go back to what will. The true goal post is not a profession of faith. The true goal is to see a person's life utterly changed and turned around by Jesus Christ.



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THIS BOOK IS: ·
  1. A serious discussion about why we are not seeing new blood in our churches
  2. An alarm to all who sense that something is wrong
  3. A call to examine our ways
  4. An explanation of why churches cannot show tangible results from soul-winning

Japan, Italy and many other nations are experiencing a crisis in a declining birth rate. Slowly, other cultures other than their own are multiplying faster than their own populations and in doing so are threatening to forever change the character and structure of their respective nations. Our Fundamental Baptist Churches are in the same condition. Very, very few of our churches can point to new members gleaned from the world at large and who now profess the faith of Jesus while embracing the standards of our forefathers.

THIS BOOK WILL:
  • Examine changes in our nation's culture and our inability to respond biblically
  • Challenge pastors to come to grips with the crisis
  • Demonstrate how far we have drifted

May the God of Abraham, Isaac and of Jacob awaken some of my brethren to the depth of the deception happening in our culture and in our churches.


Again, we are told that our theological differences will disappear...
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Again, we are told that our theological differences will disappear if we will just get down on our knees together in prayer. Well, I can only say about that kind of prayer, which is indifferent to the question whether the gospel is true or false, that it is not Christian prayer...God save us from it!

Again, many say that instead of engaging in controversy in the church, we ought to pray to God for a revival; instead of polemics, we ought to have evangelism. Well, what kind of revival do you think that will be? What sort of evangelism is it that is indifferent to the question what evangel is it that is to be preached? Not a revival in the New Testament sense, not the evangelism that Paul meant when he said, “Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.”

No, my friends, there can be no true evangelism which makes common cause with the enemies of the cross of Christ. Souls will hardly be saved unless the evangelists can say with Paul: “If we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel than that which we preached unto you, let him be accursed!”

Every true revival is born in controversy, and leads to more controversy. That has been true ever since our Lord said that he came not to bring peace upon the earth but a sword. - J. Gresham Mac



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Again, we are told that our theological differences will disappear...
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Again, we are told that our theological differences will disappear if we will just get down on our knees together in prayer. Well, I can only say about that kind of prayer, which is indifferent to the question whether the gospel is true or false, that it is not Christian prayer...God save us from it!

Again, many say that instead of engaging in controversy in the church, we ought to pray to God for a revival; instead of polemics, we ought to have evangelism. Well, what kind of revival do you think that will be? What sort of evangelism is it that is indifferent to the question what evangel is it that is to be preached? Not a revival in the New Testament sense, not the evangelism that Paul meant when he said, “Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.”

No, my friends, there can be no true evangelism which makes common cause with the enemies of the cross of Christ. Souls will hardly be saved unless the evangelists can say with Paul: “If we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel than that which we preached unto you, let him be accursed!”

Every true revival is born in controversy, and leads to more controversy. That has been true ever since our Lord said that he came not to bring peace upon the earth but a sword. - J. Gresham Mac

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This book is:
A serious discussion of why we are not seeing new blood in our churches. An Alarm to all who sense that something is wrong. An explanation of why churches cannot show tangible results from soul-winning. This book will examine changes in our nation's culture and our inability to respond biblically.



From the FORWARD... page 10,11...

So now you must be saying to yourself; "Oh, it's one of these books... This must be a legalistic viewpoint on how to be and live as a Christian." My friend, keep reading: you may be pleasantly surprised, or maybe even better, questioning whether you truly have been born again. Philippians 2:12, 'Wherefore, my beloved, as we have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Hebrews 11:6, "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

In his book, Dr. John Asquith specifically illustrates what true, Bible salvation is and how one can have full assurance. In 1 John 5:13, it says, " These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." (underlined for emphasis) In this verse, it does not say that you might know (which, if that is what you believe, it will undoubtedly cast doubt in your salvation). 1 Timothy 2:8 says "I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." Can you honestly say that you do not doubt your salvation and lift up your hands towards a Holy and Just God? page 10,11 Forward by Amy Morey
Page 10,11, WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY by John Asquith Th.D. Amazon.com: Who Moved the Goal Posts




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THIS BOOK IS: ·
  1. A serious discussion about why we are not seeing new blood in our churches
  2. An alarm to all who sense that something is wrong
  3. A call to examine our ways
  4. An explanation of why churches cannot show tangible results from soul-winning

Japan, Italy and many other nations are experiencing a crisis in a declining birth rate. Slowly, other cultures other than their own are multiplying faster than their own populations and in doing so are threatening to forever change the character and structure of their respective nations. Our Fundamental Baptist Churches are in the same condition. Very, very few of our churches can point to new members gleaned from the world at large and who now profess the faith of Jesus while embracing the standards of our forefathers.

THIS BOOK WILL:
  • Examine changes in our nation's culture and our inability to respond biblically
  • Challenge pastors to come to grips with the crisis
  • Demonstrate how far we have drifted

May the God of Abraham, Isaac and of Jacob awaken some of my brethren to the depth of the deception happening in our culture and in our churches.



FORWARD

So now you must be saying to yourself; "Oh, it's one of these books... This must be a legalistic viewpoint on how to be and live as a Christian." My friend, keep reading: you may be pleasantly surprised, or maybe even better, questioning whether you truly have been born again. Philippians 2:12, 'Wherefore, my beloved, as we have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Hebrews 11:6, "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."


WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS?
A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
This book is:
A serious discussion of why we are not seeing new blood in our churches. An Alarm to all who sense that something is wrong. An explanation of why churches cannot show tangible results from soul-winning. This book will examine changes in our nation's culture and our inability to respond biblically.


"If a person to whom I was witnessing were to make an instant profession, and that profession was to be followed up by evidence of conversion that included a changed life and a desire for the house of God, I would rejoice. Otherwise, I would solemnly warn them to examine themselves, )
see page 82)."
WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
page 285 , John Asquith Th.D.

Who Moved the Goal Posts?

"This is a book about soul winning. Like most books on soul winning it will contain some practical advice on how to see a sinner get saved. Unlike most books, it will have a different measurement for determining just how successful a ministry's saul winning really is. This book will work on a twofold basis. There will be true-life accounts of actual sinners who found eternal life in Christ Jesus. Some of these will be well known historical figures such as D.L Moody or John Wesley. This book will also seek to explore the scriptures on salvation and compare them with modern practices. Right from the beginning, I will put forth my premise: we don't see results like these men saw, because we abort them at the altar." Page 21, WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY by John Asquith Th.D. Amazon.com : Who Moved the Goal Posts

A PREFACE
"When we think of the task of winning souls to Jesus Christ, we should think about it from God's perspective. Turnabout is fair play. Six thousand years ago, mankind was lost to God. God had made man. God had given him dominion over the entire earth, but man fell through the subtlety of the devil and through the deceitfulness of sin. No longer was it the natural state of man to be a son of God. Mankind became by nature depraved, and sons of the devil" Page 13, WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY by John Asquith Th.D.

Churches Must Address
Fundamentals, Not Symptoms

Enlarged June 8, 2022 (first published June 15, 2020)
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
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Black Lives Matter is a lose-knit coalition with the agenda of tearing down traditional America and replacing it with a socialist state that is a haven for moral perversion. They are enemies of the “old” America, as reflected in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the “old” America that is deeply influenced by the Bible. BLM’s platform calls for an end to capitalism, the redistribution of wealth, universal basic income, collective ownership of property, slashing military spending by 50%, and ending all aid to Israel. They are opposed to “the nuclear family” (the traditional biblical family of a father, mother, and children). They “foster a queer‐affirming network” and intend to “free themselves “from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking” (the biblical idea of morality). BLM is one of many organizations and movements with similar agendas. A large part of the Democratic party in America today shares this agenda. These people have proven that they will tell any lie, destroy anyone’s reputation, commit any violence, break any law, toward the fulfillment of their agenda. They only tear down; they never build up. They cannot point to a showcase nation or community built upon Marxist or Leftist principles that has superior justice, equality, economic opportunity, and liberty to America’s.



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This book is:
A serious discussion of why we are not seeing new blood in our churches. An Alarm to all who sense that something is wrong. An explanation of why churches cannot show tangible results from soul-winning. This book will examine changes in our nation's culture and our inability to respond biblically.

FORWARD

So now you must be saying to yourself; "Oh, it's one of these books... This must be a legalistic viewpoint on how to be and live as a Christian." My friend, keep reading: you may be pleasantly surprised, or maybe even better, questioning whether you truly have been born again. Philippians 2:12, 'Wherefore, my beloved, as we have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Hebrews 11:6, "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him."

In his book, Dr. John Asquith specifically illustrates what true, Bible salvation is and how one can have full assurance. In 1 John 5:13, it says, " These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." (underlined for emphasis) In this verse, it does not say that you might know (which, if that is what you believe, it will undoubtedly cast doubt in your salvation). 1 Timothy 2:8 says "I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." Can you honestly say that you do not doubt your salvation and lift up your hands towards a Holy and Just God? page 10,11 Forward by Amy Morey
Page 10,11, WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY by John Asquith Th.D. Amazon.com: Who Moved the Goal Posts
Who Moved the Goal Posts?

"This is a book about soul winning. Like most books on soul winning it will contain some practical advice on how to see a sinner get saved. Unlike most books, it will have a different measurement for determining just how successful a ministry's saul winning really is. This book will work on a twofold basis. There will be true-life accounts of actual sinners who found eternal life in Christ Jesus. Some of these will be well known historical figures such as D.L Moody or John Wesley. This book will also seek to explore the scriptures on salvation and compare them with modern practices. Right from the beginning, I will put forth my premise: we don't see results like these men saw, because we abort them at the altar." Page 21, WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY by John Asquith Th.D. Amazon.com : Who Moved the Goal Posts

This book is:
A serious discussion of why we are not seeing new blood in our churches. An Alarm to all who sense that something is wrong. An explanation of why churches cannot show tangible results from soul-winning.
This book will examine changes in our nation's culture and our inability to respond biblically.
A Preface

"When we think of the task of winning souls to Jesus Christ, we should think about it from God's perspective. Turnabout is fair play. Six thousand years ago, mankind was lost to God. God had made man. God had given him dominion over the entire earth, but man fell through the subtlety of the devil and through the deceitfulness of sin. No longer was it the natural state of man to be a son of God. Mankind became by nature depraved, and sons of the devil" Page 13, WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY by John Asquith Th.D.
"If a person to whom I was witnessing were to make an instant profession, and that profession was to be followed up by evidence of conversion that included a changed life and a desire for the house of God, I would rejoice. Otherwise, I would solemnly warn them to examine themselves, )
see page 82)."
WHO MOVED THE GOAL POSTS? A CRITIQUE OF SOUL WINNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
page 285 , John Asquith Th.D.

"Three Big Needs …
To learn everything else …."
Over 2 Years Ago by Roger Fulk May 2, 2019, 

(1) Need to read and study and believe
and apply the King James Bible.
(2) Need to study true Baptist Church History.
(3) Need to learn the proper methods of Biblical Interpretation.

If we learn the truth, the lies will stick out like a sore thumb!

IF WE STUDY AND LEARN THE TRUTH … THEN THE LIES WILL STICK OUT LIKE A ‘SORE THUMB” … IF YOU ARE A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER IN CHRIST, INDWELLED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HAVE DISCERNMENT! … I Corinthians 2:14





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Introduction to 2 Peter
and Jude

MacArthur New Testament Commentary
by John MacArthur, Moody Publishers 2005
Pages 1 and 2

"Second Peter (along with Jude) is viewed by some as the "dark corner" of the New Testament. As a result, it is not often preached, studied, discussed, or quoted. The book is even neglected in scholarly circles, where critics dismiss it as a pseudonymous (forged) letter, unworthy of serious study.

But the church of Jesus Christ ignores this epistle at its peril. After all, Peter wrote it to help believers face a world filled with subtle spiritual deception. Knowing that his death was imminent (1:14), the apostle wanted to remind his readers of the truths he had already taught them, so that those truths would continue to safeguard them after he was gone (v. 15). Peter also knew that the deadly threat of false teachers loomed large on the horizon; he wanted to expose the apostates in order to expel their demon doctrines from the church

Never has Peter's warning been more timely than it is today. The rapid advancement of mass media, coupled with the church's lack of discernment, has allowed doctrinal error to spread like wildfire. False teachers propagate their heresies via television, radio, the Internet, books, magazines, and seminars-doing whatever they can for their own selfpromotion. In the process, their deceit lures multitudes to exchange the truth for utter lies (cf. 1 Tim. 1:19; 2 Tim. 2:16-18). To make matters worse, - 2 PETER some in today's church, motivated by cowardly fear of rejection or misguided notions of love, are reluctant to expose today's apostates. Instead of countering error, they either embrace it or ignore it in the name of tolerance.

The apostle Peter, however, had no qualms about denouncing the deceivers who threatened his beloved flock. He recognized them for what they were: wolves in sheep's clothing (Matt. 7:15; Acts 20:29), lurking to devour the ignorant with their beguiling lies. Peter understood that false teachers are the emissaries of hell and pawns of Satan, motivated by the love of money, power, prestige, and prominence. Because they are masters of deception, they successfully peddle the doctrines of demons to unsuspecting souls, marketing eternal ruin as if it were eternal life. .

The only sure defense against their tactics is found in the truth of God's Word. Peter knew this, of course, which is why he penned this epistle. As a true man of God, he was deeply concerned to protect those under his spiritual care." Continued in the book...!

MacArthur New Testament Commentary by John MacArthur,
Moody Publishers 2005 Pages 1 and 2



"Three Big Needs …
To learn everything else …."
2 Years Ago Roger Fulk May 2, 2019, 

(1) Need to read and study and believe
and apply the King James Bible.
(2) Need to study true Baptist Church History.
(3) Need to learn the proper methods of Biblical Interpretation.

If we learn the truth, the lies will stick out like a sore thumb!

IF WE STUDY AND LEARN THE TRUTH … THEN THE LIES WILL STICK OUT LIKE A ‘SORE THUMB” … IF YOU ARE A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER IN CHRIST INDWELLED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HAVE DISCERNMENT! … I Corinthians 2:14

Understanding Born Again Part I
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, 1st John 5:1.


If we went down to a redneck bar in just about any American city and we polled the drunks as they came out and asked them if Jesus is the Christ, they would almost all respond, "Of course he is". Does that mean they are they born of God? I think we all realize that what they are saying is not a revelation from the Holy Ghost, it something they learned from flannel graphs during a vacation bible school, at Sunday school, or from some catechism.
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost, 1st Corinthians 12:3. We could get a parrot to say "Jesus is the Lord" and he might say it over and over, but it would not be a sign that our parrot is speaking by the Holy Ghost, it is something the flesh taught him.
Jesus Christ himself expressed the difference when after Peter identified him as the Christ, the son of the living God, he told Peter; Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven, Matthew 16:17. The western world, the vast array of today's churches, and alas even our fundamental churches are full of people whose only revelation that Jesus is the Christ came from flesh and blood, not from an inner revelation wrought by the Holy Ghost.
The Apostle John told us that if we believe that Jesus is the Christ we are born of God. The Apostle Paul told us that no man can say that Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Ghost. Jesus Christ told Peter that him knowing that Jesus was the Christ was a revelation from the Father, and yet we have people who can't connect the dots and realize that Paul and John are both speaking of the same thing.
Sometimes people ask me if I am a liberal or a conservative. I never answer that outright. I tell them what I believe. To many people that is a non-answer. They just look at me blankly and ask again whether I am a liberal or a conservative. They have no idea what those words really mean. When they have to judge for themselves whether I am a liberal or a conservative, they do not have the intellectual tools to do so based on the evidence that I have given them. I have had the same thing happen when people ask me if I am a Calvinist or an Arminian.
The Apostle Paul never uses the term, "born again" and those who lack the ability to identify what it means to be born again can't see it in his writing. Before we look at what the Apostle Paul has to say about the state of being born of God, we'll look at the statement I made in the last post when I said that no one could be born again until the incarnation of Jesus Christ. We'll look at an Old Testament saint make the transition from being secure in the promises of God to being born into the Kingdom of God. It happens right before our eyes. The Apostle Paul explained that to us if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.
Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph, John 1:45. Philip identifies Jesus Christ as the son of Joseph. That is something the Holy Ghost would never do. In fact when it becomes necessary to link Jesus Christ with Joseph, the scripture use the term "supposed". And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, Luke 3:23. The Holy Ghost would never call Jesus the son of Joseph. What Philip unwittingly did was to call Jesus Christ accursed. He put him under the sin of Adam and under the curse of Coniah (Jeremiah 22:28-30).
There is no evidence in Philip that he is born again or that he spoke by the Holy Ghost. What he did do, was to bring Nathaniel to see Jesus Christ. When Jesus Christ saw Nathaniel he identified him as a man of faith who was already saved by Old Testament precepts. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!, John 1:47. Jesus Christ has flagged two points about Nathaniel, one point made by David in the Psalms and one identified by the Apostle Paul in Romans.
Jesus called him an Israelite indeed. Here is where we need the Apostle Paul to do his job, take us by the hand and explain to us Gentiles what that means. That is his job. Paul tells us; For they are not all Israel which are of Israel, Romans 9:6. He goes on to explain that a person isn't considered to be the true Israel if they are not of the promise and that God always keeps a remnant. Jesus Christ identified Nathaniel as being part of that remnant, an Israelite indeed.
David spoke of such people when he said; Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile, Psalm 32:2. Jesus Christ identified Nathaniel as being such a man in whom was no guile. This is not a man lost and on his way to hell. So many people view all of the crowds of people in the Gospels and in the synagogues of Acts as being lost sinners on their way to hell.
Nathaniel is no such person. What Nathaniel doesn't know is that the man standing in front of him is the one whose spirit dwells in his heart. What he does know is that the man standing in front of him just read him on the inward parts and identified his true spiritual condition. Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me?, John 1:48. Jews require a sign so Jesus gave him one; Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee, John 1:48.
Nathaniel became part of the transition. He did not get saved in John 1, he got born again. By what evidence? Look at what he says next; Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel, John 1:49. John explained in 1st John that believing that Jesus is the son of God is the proof that they are born again.
A person could not be born again prior to the incarnation because the proof of being born again is believing that Jesus is the son of God. That means believing that if you were to take a DNA sample of the man Christ Jesus and test every man who ever lived you would never find a father on this earth. God is his Father. I can explain that to you and you may be able to parrot those words, but until such time as the Holy Ghost births the new man inside of you, it will be just flesh and blood teaching you. When you are born again you will know that Jesus is the Christ and that he is born of God as surely as an arctic tern knows to fly from pole to pole, as sure as a new born baby knows to suckle and as sure as the Father knows his son. It is a miracle.

Dr. John M. Asquith Nov 11, 2021 4 min read

Understanding Born Again Part II
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God, 1st John 3:9.

There is no single stronger assurance of eternal security in the word of God than 1st John 3:9. The Arminian or the person who believes that the new nature of a believer can die is forced to change that verse to keep his theology. Oddly, fundamentalists have long had a dispute with that verse. They try to change it to "does not practice sin" instead of cannot sin. That is not what the verse says.
The new nature in a believer is born as pure as the birth of Jesus Christ himself. It is a spotless birth in which the new nature born inside of the newly converted believer is as holy and pure as the baby that lay in a manger in Bethlehem. The Apostle Paul spoke of this when he said; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, Ephesians 4:24.
What could be more righteous and truly holy than to be incapable of sin by birth? Some may object that Paul spoke of a created nature whereas John spoke of a birthed nature. I ask the reader, were you born or created? The answer is that you are both. Every baby in a hospital nursery is a creation from God birthed to its mother. As usual, the Apostle Paul is more detailed. Under what precept would the Lord bestow such a great blessing on those who heard John or Peter preach and then deny the greatest single blessing ever given to man to those who were converted under the Apostle Paul?
The Apostle Paul spoke of living with such a contradiction in natures, a body of flesh prone to sin and an inward man incapable of sin. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin, Romans 7:25. If we look into Paul's statement a little deeper we find that the good apostle is describing the inward battle of a person born of God.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I, Romans 7:15. What is a person in reality? Is he what we see, or is he what is on the inward part? For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he, Proverbs 23:7. Or, as Samuel said; for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart, 1st Samuel 16:7. In Romans 7:15-25 the Apostle Paul expresses his anguish and his solution to having two distinct different natures operating within him.
He is telling us that inside of him (the real him) is a will to God's will. That is the polar opposite of an unconverted person who struggles with religious affections or sense of duty, but in his inward part desires sin. Watch the following verse and see that Paul identifies his true inner self to have a will for God. As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. What keeps religious people lost is their unwillingness to see their true heart and admit they they are at heart, breakers of the laws of God.

Romans 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Romans 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Romans 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:18 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 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Romans 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

That is the testimony of the new birth. It is the testimony of a man whose heart is pure and holy because it is born of God. Because Paul doesn't call it that, the person who lacks understanding can't see it.



Warnings about Unbiblical Interpretations USING MODERN VERSIONS!
I Trow Not Dr. John M. Asquith 4 days ago 4 min read

Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not, Luke 17:9.

In the word "trow" we have a word that is no longer commonly used. In fact, its usage in Luke 17:9 is probably the only time most of us will ever encounter the word. That of course is a horror story to the proponents of the new bibles. Imagine the horror of little Poopsie having to actually cipher out what a word means from the context! The proponents of the new bibles who so often decry the modern trends in dumbing down students in public education take front and center stage in dumbing down their students when it comes to the bible.
Before we look at the meaning of the word which almost jumps out in the context, let us consider teaching students to reason. It is a fact of history that most of the colonial ancestors of Canadians and Americans, and I presume other English Speaking nations had only two books in their humble homes. They had a King James Bible and they had Pilgrim's Progress. What education they received was often sporadic and limited. Somehow, men of this ilk were able to understand and to form great republics upon this earth; republics so great that the poor of this earth still strive to enter them.
I have read many books about the era of the founding of the United States, the history of England itself and am somewhat familiar with the histories of other English Speaking nations. What stands out as we look back on these people is how well they learned to reason. The ability to reason is clearly missing in the masses of people today.
For those who would inculcate a love of reason and an ability to think clearly in their students, there is no greater tool on this earth than a King James Bible. It is written in exact and clear English. As we have said so often before, no generation of men ever spoke King James English. It has always been an exact language constructed from English Lexicons, but grammatically formed to perfectly reflect the sense of the Greek and Hebrew manuscripts from which it came.
Though we may find snippets or streams of similar grammatical construction or word usage in other sources such as Shakespeare or Milton, none of those sources have the exact unerring and constant grammar of our King James Bible. To teach a student to read a King James Bible is to teach them to think in exact and complete thoughts. It is to teach them the ability to construct sentences in such a way that thought can be logically and unerringly expressed.
Over the years, I have learned that the most effective teaching tools in life often teach more than what is on the surface. A child joining a sports team learns more than the game itself. He learns teamwork, obedience, the pain of losing and the joy of winning. A good literature course will do more than to teach a student to read. It carries them to foreign lands, other times and to other cultures.
Until the new bibles came along with the the express purpose of seeing to it that our young would never have to reason out any word or phrase, bible reading taught logical thought and ingrained our young in an international expression of the English Language which is common with all of the other English speaking people of earth who retained our King James Bible.
I have commented before about the rapid improvement I hear in the speech patterns of our converts at the Black Creek Baptist Church. People who hitherto fore had resented reading anything not on an electronic device and whose conversation reflected the slang of their limited spheres, now speak in far more coherent sentences. They have expanded their reading to works other than the bible and find joy in learning.
What a strange goal our bible correcting friends have set for their young charges! They seek to teach them bible truth, but only when framed with a linguistic and logic structure with which they are already comfortable. At no other time in our history have bible educators ever sought to limit the educational value of the bible.
To hear these same people grouse about the dumbed down standards of today's public education, and to hear them boast about their own elevated standards in their Christian schools, we would think that they would use the same elevated bible from which their forefathers learned. Alas, we would think so in vain. They have bought into their own propaganda to the detriment of themselves and their students.
"Trow" and "true" come from common root words. It is obvious from the context of Luke 17:9, that to say, "I trow not" is to say that you disagree. I have never run across a person who did not get that from the context. Various words in the English Language have taken strange paths to get where they are today. For example, warden and guardian come from the same root word. Depending on whether the user of the common root word was a native Anglo-Saxon speaker or a speaker of Old Norse, the user framed the word differently in his mouth. Two distinctly different sounds came out and eventually similar but different meanings formed.
Shirt and skirt are another example of two words diverging based on the speech pattern of its speakers. We see that even within Israel, those who were native speakers of Hebrew pronounced some words differently. Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand, Judges 12:6.
In the word "trow" we have a verb that means to acknowledge something as true. I don't know whether any of my fellow English Speaking brethren in the far flung corners of the earth still use such a delightful and useful word, but I am glad that my students learn it.


God Gets it Right

And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof, Jeremiah 34:18.

When did the men of Jeremiah's day pass between the two parts of the calf? It wasn't done in their lifetimes but God held them to account. When Abraham laid out the sacrifice of Genesis 15, he undoubtedly passed between the halves of the young heifer that he killed before the smoking lamp passed between the two halves. The men of Jeremiah's day were all physically of the seed of Abraham, and as a result, God saw them as in his loins.

Genesis 15:7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis 15:8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
Genesis 15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Genesis 15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Genesis 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Genesis 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

It should not strike a student of the bible as strange that God should account the good works of a father to be part of a son's heritage. After all, when did Levi pay tithe?

Hebrews 7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
Hebrews 7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

When God looks upon a man or woman, he not only sees that person, but he sees those who will emerge from their loins. When Abraham paid a tithe, God saw beyond Abraham and saw three generations further. He saw Levi and you can be sure he saw (and sees) each and every person to come from the loins of Abraham.
Therefore, when God looked upon The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf; Jeremiah 34:19, he was looking at people who had not been born when Abraham made his sacrifice and wouldn't be born for hundreds of years.
Does he view the descendants of women like he does the descendants of men? Yes, he does. As the Lord said to Eve, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel, Genesis 3:15. You will note that when God looked upon Eve, he saw much more than Eve, he saw every generation that would come forth from her. We know that before a woman is ever born, she already has every egg that she will ever have. You can be sure that Eve did, and that God could see each and every child who would ever be born from her.
That brings us to an understanding for one of the greater quandaries in a King James Bible. How old was Ahaziah when he began to reign? 2nd Kings says that he was 22 years of age. Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel, 2nd Kings 8:26. 2nd Chronicles says that he was 42 years old. Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri, 2nd Chronicles 22:2.
If Ahaziah was really 42 years of age when he began to reign then he was older than his father. Everything would be easier if we just followed the Septuagint which makes both passages give the same age of 22. We are told by the Apostle Paul not to do so when he said;

Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
If I have a choice between a version of scripture prepared for Gentile eyes such as the Septuagint, or the Hebrew Bible carried by the Jews with their great advantage of having that oracles of God committed unto them, I'm going to follow the lead of the King James translators who used the text carried by those well advantaged Jews for a few thousand years. What if the Septuagint which differs with the text behind the King James Bible makes more sense? Then I need to revamp my thinking.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts, Isaiah 55:9. One of the purposes of scripture is to snare the proud and scornful. But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken, Isaiah 28:13. The very next verse tells us who is snared; Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem, vs.14.
Could it be that the modern church has chosen the corrupt scholars of the bible colleges to be their rulers in matters of faith? Have we really degenerated to the point that we cannot really know what God says until we check with these men. If you read the NIV or ESV you are in that boat. Each of those corrupt versions follows the Septuagint in 2nd Chronicles 22:2.

NIV: Ahaziah was twenty-two[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

ESV: Ahaziah was twenty-two[a] years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.

What makes Ahaziah different than other kings of Judah? He is different because of the wicked lineage of his mother, and that when he dies, his mother rules in his stead. God separated the lineage of David and the Kingdom of Judah from the Northern Kingdom of Israel. As godly a man as King Jehoshaphat was, he broke down a barrier erected by God and made affinity with Ahab. As we saw in one of the last posts (Here), affinity is a relationship based on marriage.
That affinity was to be the destruction of Jehoshaphat's house after his death. His son Jehoram killed his brethren who were the other sons of Jehoshaphat, and was so wickedly intertwined with the house of Ahab that he was able to kill princes of that house. Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel, 2nd Chronicles 21:4.
The age given in 2nd Chronicles for the how old Ahaziah was when he began to reign is the age that Athaliah was when her son who as a seed had been in her womb for 42 years began to reign. Scripture is meant to instruct, but it will ensnare the proud. Every single date, number, name, and location in a King James Bible is an infallible data point that will either instruct the wise or ensnare the proud.
To study the reign of Jehoshaphat is to give us an understanding of how and why some of the old venerable ministries of our very recent past have been so corrupted when the man of God who passed away left it to his particular version of Ahab's kindred. As godly as Jehoshaphat was, he left an inheritance that was quickly corrupted and defiled because of his associations in life. That will explain much of the degeneration of our fundamental churches in these last two decades.

The Bible plan is for preachers to train preacher boys themselves...
The Bible plan is for preachers to train preacher boys themselves...

“The Bible plan is for preachers to train preacher boys themselves. If you think they must have college, as least train them doctrinally yourself first, then allow them to go to college. I believe that preachers need to give birth to preachers. I’m not putting down Bible colleges and saying that there is not a place for them, but I’m saying that at least pastors better check the school out very carefully. Before they send young people off, they should have trained them enough that the school will not be able to remove what pastors and parents have put in them.” William R. Byers, The History of the King James Bible and the People Called Baptists, p.192

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Submission to the King James Bible
Dr. John M. Asquith 24 hours ago 3 min read

And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes, II Kings 22:11.

We know from the story of King Josiah that he set about to restore and build the house of God. Commendable as that was, it was the discovery of the word of God lying amidst the discarded junk that transformed the kingdom. And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant, II Kings 23:3.
I hear a lot about men seeking to build churches or seeking to build up old ones. What is too often lacking is a covenant to utterly submit to the word of God. Let's not fool ourselves. Any man who does not believe that the King James Bible is perfect and who is not willing to submit himself to what it says is not submitted to the word of God. The word of God is submitted to him.
He picks and chooses according to his own lights what is truly from God and what is not. His congregation trusts in his scholarship and resources to give them light as to what is scripture and what is not. In such a church, no matter what they claim in their doctrinal statements, and no matter what they profess, the word of God is under subjection to the preacher, not vice versa.
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple, Psalms 119:130. Josiah did well to begin the repair to God's house, but it was the entrance of the word of God that brought light. A good building and willing congregation was not enough. It was when a willing congregation was given understanding by the light of God's word that God began his true work.
Over the next week, Mormons will fill their various houses of worship. They will sing. They will rejoice in fellowship one with another. They will live clean lives. Their hymns are often God honoring.
I have attended prayer gatherings of the local Muslim community in my area. They are a clean, well educated group who clearly love one another and find a comradeship of being strangers together in our country. Jehovah Witnesses will gather and discuss their outreach to the community. They are greatly affectioned one to another and they look forward to their gatherings. In each of these cases the people will tell you that their participation in their faith gives them meaning in life. Hey, if you and your family join a bowling group it will transform your family and give you purpose and draw you close to new people.
All too often, preachers mistake a willing congregation which is kindly affectioned one to another and following fundamental precepts for a congregation filled with the light of God. If that preacher stands in judgment on the word of God, his church is under a shadow of darkness. Let him not measure his work by attendance, zeal, the joy of the gatherings or any other such measurement. Let him measure his work by the entrance of the word of God and the work that it does.
Unless a preacher is 100% committed to the King James Bible as the word of God and he is 100% committed to its precepts as written, he labors to build a work of man and when the rain and the winds come, it will wash away, or worse, it will become a fossilized tradition bound relic. We are living in the 21st century. I bear witness to you that God has winked at the ignorance of men concerning his word in past generations but there is no longer any excuse for any preacher to not trust a King James Bible. The evidence is overwhelming and abundant.
I stood in awe in my church building this morning. In prayer I brought many of our current problems and distresses to the the throne of God. I also marveled before God at what God can do when a broken and hurt people come into a broken and hurt church with a broken and hurt preacher and submit themselves to a King James Bible.



“When you study the Greek, you are not studying the Bible; you are studying one man’s opinion of the definition of Greek words. Most of the time those Greek theologians that you are studying don’t believe the King James Bible is right. They have come up with their own definitions of those Greek words. Many of the Greek definitions given in these lexicons (note lex-I-cons) line up with the corrupt NIV translation. It is unbelievable that we have been so brainwashed and so lied to and that we have been so gullible to believe that these men can help us understand our Bible better.” Dan Goodwin, Hath God Said?, pp.70-71

“When ‘scholarly men’ from the ‘recognized schools’ have finished the work of tampering with the pages of Holy Writ, when they have made their last joke or pun about its ‘archaic language’ and supposed ‘errors,’ when the pens of ‘higher criticism’ and the volumes on ‘textual criticism’ have all vanished from the pages of history, THE INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD WILL STILL STAND!” Dr. Bruce D. Cummons, The Foundation and Authority of the Word of God, p.58
AN UPDATE: Word Studies
Dr. John M. Asquith Dec 20, 2021 2 min read

GENERAL LAWS OF HERMENEUTICS … Interpreting The Bible
Prepared By Robert J. Sargent “A Comprehensive Study in HERMENEUTICS,
BIBLE STUDY METHODS & EXPOSITORY TEACHING” Page 91, 1994.


“Confusion reigns over the realm of Christendom today, and it is without doubt that Satan is using this to keep the “minds of them which believe not” blinded from the truth of the Gospel. Indeed, most Christians themselves are ignorant of “the whole counsel of God”, especially as it relates to Church truth. Much of this confusion stems from faulty interpretation of the Word of God. Many differences over doctrine are rooted in the method of Biblical interpretation employed; thus it is extremely important to be grounded in the basic principles of hermeneutics.

I. THE GOLDEN RULE OF BIBLE INTERPRETATION
Of all the principles of hermeneutics, this one rule stands supreme:
“Interpret Scripture with Scripture.”
This is the meaning of II Peter 1:20b — “…no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” In other words, a passage of the Bible is to be interpreted by comparing (I Corinthians 2:13d) it with other parts of the Bible. Scripture is its own interpreter!

A. Private Interpretation Of Scripture.
  1. A private interpretation is one whereby a Scripture passage is ‘isolated’ (kept private) from, and interpreted without, any reference to the rest of the Bible.
  2. e.g. Interpreting John 16:23 privately could easily lead to a “nameit, claim-it” teaching, whereby all a Christian need do to receive anything he wants is ask for it in Jesus’ Name. Comparing Scripture with Scripture, however, shows that prayer is conditional, and to ask in Jesus’ Name means to ask according to His will (I John 5:14,15), to ask by faith —that is, according to the Word of God — (James 1:6), and to ask as one who is abiding in Christ (John 15:7), etc.
  3. A private interpretation is one whereby the interpreter himself establishes the meaning of a Scripture according to his own definition. Such an interpretation is very likely to reflect the denominational, traditional, or philosophical bias of the interpreter. e.g. John 3:5 — “Except a man be born of water…”
  4. A common private interpretation of this passage is that baptism is essential for salvation. That is the position of Catholics, Campbellites, and many Protestants.” … continued in the book!
Prepared By Robert J. Sargent “A Comprehensive Study in HERMENEUTICS,
BIBLE STUDY METHODS & EXPOSITORY TEACHING” Page 91, 1994.

God does not require a believer to be well educated before they can be used.

I have seen Holy Spirit filled uneducated people preach circles around those who went to Bible College.

It's not the education that makes someone a good preacher or well versed in God's Word. It's being given the gift of discernment, and being able to allow the Holy Spirit to preach through you. Or at least listen to what the Holy Spirit says.
AN UPDATE: An Interlude
Dr. John M. Asquith Dec 7, 2021 5 min read

Here was my original question and my first answer: "In regards to Bible Study and asking questions in the local church ... Please give me clarity to the following sources for answering your questions. Please give me scriptures."
  1. Pastors that teach
  2. Elders not a novice
  3. Teachers
  4. Deacons
  5. Commentaries
  6. Bishops

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Pastors
Dr. John M. Asquith Feb 12, 2019 8 min read

And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding, Jeremiah 3:15.
Among the many English words used by the Holy Ghost to interpret the words of God into English is the word "pastor". It never shows up in the bible until Jeremiah uses it 8 times. It is never used again except for one time when the Apostle Paul uses Jeremiah's word to explain one of the gifts that God gives to men. To understand that word we need to look at a couple of things that made Jeremiah unique.

Jeremiah began his ministrations to Israel after the first third of King Josiah's reign. It was a time of promise and seeming revival. I call it Josiah's revival and see it as distinguished by its thoroughness and its zeal. It was a revival given reluctantly by God and it was cut off when Josiah misunderstood his mandate. Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo, 2nd Chronicles 35:22. In King David's time or in Jehoshaphat's time, God would never have allowed a Gentile King to have so traversed Israel. The sins of Manasseh changed all that. God spoke through a Gentile to Josiah and he didn't discern it as being of God.

The prophecy given to Josiah was that he would die in peace. Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again, 2nd chronicles 34:28. Josiah died in peace in two senses. He was a peace with God which considering the history of the kings was quite a feat. Secondly, the chaos and war the engulfed Jerusalem started immediately after he died.

I think that Jeremiah had a hard time with that. Years later he was to say; O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten, Jeremiah 20:7-11. Jeremiah lived in difficult times of transition.

Jeremiah wrote the Book of Lamentations after Josiah's death, not when Nebuchadnezzar sacked the city as is commonly supposed. And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations, 2nd Chronicles 35:25. The Lamentations are prophetic of the sacking of Jerusalem and later times, but they date from Necho's conquest.

The temple was stripped of its glory during Jeremiah's ministry which overlapped with Ezekiel's visions. Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims. And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above, Ezekiel 10: 18,19. Jeremiah's ministry was similar to the Apostle Paul's ministry in that he ministered in a time when the Nation of Israel was stripped of its secular power, stripped of the power of the law (Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD, Lamentations 2:9.) When the false Jews of Paul's day sought to bring the emptiness of the covenants that they themselves had defiled and rendered worthless, Paul quoted the Philistine leaders who were confronted by Israel seeking to hide behind the Arc which they themselves had dishonored. As the Philistine leaders had told their men; Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight, 1st Samuel 4:9. Even so the Apostle Paul was to tell the Corinthians, Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong, 1st Corinthians 16:13.

What word can we use to describe those leaders of the people who for either ill or good lead the people, but do not occupy the traditional roles of the established Kingdom of Judah because those roles were made void by the hand of God? Jeremiah called them pastors. Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD, Jeremiah 23:1. For some odd reason scholars try to discern the meaning of the word through translation analysis when in reality the context of the usage pretty well gives it away. They are scattering flocks of sheep from the pastures of God. Do I really need to spend years in a classroom studying Hebrew to understand that they are shepherds? Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness, Jeremiah 12:10. Do I need to trudge through endless lexicons to see that they are husbandmen?
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit, Jeremiah 2:8. Do we need to go any farther than this verse to see that the pastors are something apart from priests and prophets? A pastor could be a dual role as in the case of Jeremiah. As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee, Jeremiah 17:16. When God wanted Jeremiah to prophesy, he did not cease being a pastor.

Almost all of my friends who are evangelists have heard me beseech them to take a church. They are good men. They are like the Americans who fought in Vietnam. Good men fighting a bad plan. They occupy a village for a weekend. Everyone swears loyalty and pays up their taxes. They count the bodies to report their success. They leave on Monday and the Viet Cong slip back in and run things until next year's visitation. It is the formula for defeat. God bless a man like Sammy Allen who has pastored a church since 1960 and yet preached 50 weeks out of every year since then as an evangelist. He is almost always back in his church every Sunday to lead his flock. Jeremiah filled two roles, he was a pastor, but he did not hasten from being so to follow God. My friends have done so, and it is hastening the destruction of this nation.

A good pastor is a gift from God. And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding, Jeremiah 3:15. This is where the Apostle Paul borrows the term from Jeremiah. He lists the gifts that Jesus Christ gave unto men when he resurrected from the dead. And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers, Ephesians 4:11. So often that verse is misread. It is errantly read to mean that God gave some men the gift of being apostles, some men were given the gift of being prophets and so on. That is not what it says. By reading it that way they stumble over the pastor and teacher combination.

Paul is telling us that if you study the Book of Acts you will see that God sent apostles to some men. That was the gift for those men. Peter or James or John came to them. To some men he sent prophets such as Agabus. To some men he sent evangelists such as Phillip. To most men he sends pastors and teachers. This is really part of the formula for the Baptist Church. They are two distinct different gifts given to men. The word pastor is often interchanged with the word bishop, but that is an error.

When the Apostle Paul described the two great offices of the church, he used the terms Bishop and Deacon. Pastor is not a church office though a man should never be a bishop who cannot be a pastor. A bishop is to be a seasoned leader who is apt to teach and can rule the church having proven himself in his lifestyle, his years of service and his ability to teach. Our modern church constitutions and bylaws call this office a pastor, but God does not. God calls him a bishop, but every qualification that he is supposed to have compels him to be a pastor.

I am the bishop of the Black Creek Baptist Church. Under God, I execute executive authority for the good or ill of my church. I am a pastor to my people, but I am not the only pastor. We have two men who have been ordained bishops of Baptist churches, myself and Pastor Roger Hain who in perfect Holy Ghost harmony exercises his gifts as a gift to my people. He retired after pastoring a church for 39 ½ years. In God's good grace to us, he gave him as a gift to us to co-labor with me.

We have another man, Dale Morey who because he has three living women with whom he has shared holy matrimony, it is not the practice of this ministry to ordain him as a bishop or a deacon. He ministers to the prisoners of Western New York. He counsels in our church. He teaches classes and he fills pulpits. To those men and women who weep while he preaches to them of the grace of God given to such a sinner as himself, and who receive his letters and other visitations, he is the only pastor they know. If the Pharisees were to forbid those people from calling him such, the very rocks and stones would call it out. He does not exercise executive authority in the church under any bible office.

What then is the difference between a pastor and a teacher. A teacher teaches. So does a pastor. A pastor goes farther than just teaching. He guides a flock. He chooses teaching material. A teacher is responsible for what he teaches. A pastor organizes who teaches, what is taught, and watches the flock to see to it that they are properly fed. Such a combination of men is truly a gift from God to men. Both Jeremiah and Paul tell us that in Jeremiah 3:15 and Ephesians 4:11. For the sake of bible accuracy, do not confound the words pastor and bishop. Bishop is a bible office. A pastor is a gift to men. They may be one and the same man in many cases, and certainly every bishop should be a pastor, but every pastor need not be a bishop, yet he needs to be under the authority of a bishop. That's how God runs his church.

Bishoprick
Dr. John M. Asquith Sep 5, 2019 4 min read
Updated: Oct 14

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take, Acts 1:20. There are few words in a King James Bible as controversial as the word "bishoprick". It is one of 11 words that Miles Smith changed of his own accord in between receiving the translation committee's final draft of the King James Bible, and his own polishing of that work. It has been reported that many of the Presbyterian translators saw that change as a betrayal. Certainly, there are many today who see it as such. We will look at why they believe that, and then why the word is accurate.
When Peter says that, "it is written", he is quoting Psalms 109:8, Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Why doesn't the King James Bible use the word "office" when quoting that verse, and what is the difference? To understand that, we must understand the difference between the words "translation" and "interpretation". The word "translation" is only used in our bible three times and none of those times is discussing rendering something said in one language into another language. Instead, our bible uses the word "interpretation" when a word used in the Old Testament in Hebrew, is then rendered into Greek in the New Testament. The Holy Ghost does not give the gift of "translation of tongues", it gives the gift of "interpretation of tongues".
Translations are often stiff and awkward. Somehow, translating a series of words found in a sentence in one language, rarely sound the same when the same words are strung together as translated individual words. It often looks like gibberish. As an experiment, I would challenge my reader to pull up a Google translating program and write a sentence into it. Have the program translate it into a common European language. Then copy that translation which you may have no ability to understand and paste it back into a program that will translate it back into English. There are whole Youtube channels dedicated to the hilarity of such antics. It will not be what you originally wrote.
Whenever the word of God renders a word from on language to another, it always interprets the word. The King James Bible is best understood as the Holy Ghost's interpretation of the Word of God into the English Language. A word can be honestly translated many different ways. Only an interpreter can make sense of it. Imagine a movie in which two street thugs are leaning on an old brick wall in an alley. A big black limousine pulls into the alley and one thug says to the other, "Last week, I laid a rock through that cat's windshield".
We know what that thug said. We can picture him smashing that windshield with a rock. It implies a casual disrespectful violence. When it is rendered through a couple of languages, the casualness of the violence is missing. What is needed isn't an exact translation. What is needed is a living breathing spirit that can think about and understand what what was said, and then say the same thing in another language so that the reader has the same feel. That is a gift that the King James Translators clearly had. So many new translations of the bible read like a teletype account of a football game, all facts and no spirit.
Why then is "bishoprick" the correct word? Why didn't the translators render the Greek word exactly as they had rendered the Hebrew word and left it as "office"? Was Miles Smith justified in what he did? Well, the word "office" in Psalms 109:8 implies more than just a title and responsibility. Jesus tells us that territory went with it. And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, Matthew 19:28. The land grant the God gives to Israel in Ezekiel 48 will be ruled by the twelve apostles. The New Testament always expands and explains the Old Testament. What is a mystery in one, is explained in the other.
Of course, Episcopalians were delighted at the concept of physical territory being ascribed to an office. To this day, the Episcopalians (meaning rule by bishops) cannot discern the difference between a bishop over a local church and an apostle. In this respect they are like Roman Catholics. I am a Baptist. I am a bishop over a local church. My church is named for a territory, It is the Black Creek Baptist Church, all churches in the bible were named for the territories they were in. That does not give me temporal authority over my territory as is, and has been practiced by the persecuting churches of old. The apostles will have temporal authority over a physical territory in the regeneration.
As far as I know, the King James Bible of the English Language is the only primary tongue (meaning that it was translated directly from the original languages) that has used the term "bishoprick". That is from an old Anglo-Saxon word derived from the German word "reich" , meaning a territory. Its usage here is another illustration of why we have a perfect bible.
An Interlude
Dr. John M. Asquith Dec 7, 2021 5 min read

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction, 2nd Peter 3:16.

I have learned that when I preach or teach something that some find difficult, there is usually someone who will raise their hand and ask a question. In most of my services it is acceptable and encouraged to ask questions. (We squelched that in our Sunday Morning service, not because it is too hard for me, but because visitors found it too strange.) I have learned that when I answer that one person's question or objection, others are quietly nodding as they too had the same question.
I have had long correspondence with a pastor from Texas who usually compliments or commends my posts. After my last post which mentioned the spiritual death of Jesus Christ, he objected and reproved me. In that he was straight forward and respectful, I had no qualms with what he wrote and it only furthered my respect for him. He wrote this:

Your post concerning the spiritual death of Christ is a doctrine that
has been propagated by many of the prosperity preachers of the past
and present. It started with E W Kenyon and taken up by Kenneth E
Hagin, Kenneth Copeland and many others in the past years. I was
around that false narrative and heard it quite a lot in the 80's. I
believe our Lord Jesus died physically on the cross and his body was
laid in the tomb and he rose from the dead after three days, but his
Spirit was at all times alive. Please investigate this further
especially who and when this was taught and why. So much is wrong with
the prosperity teachings and their claims. Please stay with the pure
Word of the Bible, the King James Authorized Text. You do a tremendous
job teaching this. Leave the other alone.
May God bless you and your ministry.

How can I help but to respect such a man? I am fairly certain that if one man objected, others probably did also. Here is my reply:

I'll take some time to answer what you wrote for two reasons. One is that I have coveted the correspondence that you have sent to me. Secondly, what one man in kindness expresses as an objection is usually something that others think, but are not gentlemen enough to say so.
Think for a moment of the Apostle Paul is his first foray into Macedonia. A young woman possessed with a spirit of divination follows him and in doing so correctly identifies him for exactly what he is, a servant of the most high God. The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation, Acts 16:17. No truer words were ever spoken but they grieved the Apostle Paul. Why? Because a great truth from God was being broadcast by a devil possessed woman. Anyone who heard that truth later from someone else's mouth would instantly associate it with doctrines of devils. Paul cast out that spirit.
Whether or not what I wrote about the spiritual death of Jesus Christ is true cannot be judged solely on whether or not a person possessed of devils or strongly influenced by devils said it before I did.
It may well be that when I am done, you may still strongly disagree. before you do so, please consider this; is death separation as I said in the post? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also, James 2:26. I know of no other definition in the bible for physical death other than James 2:26. The rich man in hell was conscious, but he was separated from his body. He had a bigger problem. He was separate from God.
Is the definition of spiritual death, separation from God?
When Adam sinned, God performed what he promised; Adam died the day wherein he ate of the tree; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die, Genesis 2:17. He certainly and surely did not physically die that day. He lived 900 years. He became separate from God that day. By God's definition of what he did to Adam that day, Adam died spiritually.
His progeny have been born that way ever since with one exception. Jesus Christ was born without sin. He was not separated from the Father by his birth among men. He did not have a sin nature. He did no evil. Nevertheless, For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, 2nd Corinthians 5:21. He became a worm and no man, Psalm 22:6. One of two things happened; either the Father forsook him, or he feigned that the Father forsook him, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Psalm 22:1.
I do not believe that Jesus feared the death of the cross when he prayed in the garden, Take away this cup from me, Mark 14:36. I have read the testimonies of too many brave men who faced terrible deaths to believe that when Jesus feared, he feared the cross. The bible says; he endured the cross, despising the shame, Hebrews 12:2. He endured it and despised it, but he did not fear it.
What then made him fear? Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared, Hebrews 5:7. Certainly he is not disobeying his own commandment not to fear what men can do unto them, but to fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body into hell, Matthew 10:28.
He was afraid to be separate from the Father and indeed he was separated. He was not separated because of any sin that he had done. Instead he tasted the agony of yours and my spiritual death. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man, Hebrews 2:9.
If you judge me to be wrong in this, please do so based upon the sense of scripture in its context, not on whether or not devilish men previously said it. There are things that the Jehovah Witnesses have right. The same can be said for the Mormons and for the Muslims. I will not throw out the truth because some cult happened to embrace it. All too often, evil men wrestle some truth in the scripture for devilish reasons and in so doing bring dishonor upon the word of God.

Thank you for the manly way in which you confronted this


What we can learn about the Ordaining of Bishops from the Fall of the Anointed Cherub Part I
Dr. John M. Asquith Feb 13, 2019 4 min read

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil, I Timothy 3:6.
Just what did Paul mean when he said, the condemnation of the devil? To understand that we need to look at Ezekiel 28 wherein the fall of the anointed Cherub is well documented. When we look, we find this gem; Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee, Ezekiel 28:17. Just how did the devil's brightness corrupt his wisdom?
As the anointed Cherub that covereth, he carried God's light. His brightness was a direct reflection of his closeness to God. When I was a young preacher, a novice, I sometimes was given insights by the word of God that eclipsed even my teachers' insights on a narrow subject. God often grants this grace to young aspiring preachers and students of the word of God. It is always a joy to me when one of my students is given such an insight and can expound it to me in humility and wisdom.
Many times after such an insight, I would get in the pulpit and preach using that very insight which was holy and from God. I would watch experienced preachers and mature church members murmur with delight at the grace and wisdom I showed. The problem with that is that I didn't have a life that matched the insight. I wasn't living in fornication and I wasn't extorting money, but when I look back on those days, I see a young man who though outwardly had the appearance of a mature Christian, and in fact could easily have impressed an ordination board, I spent more of each day walking in my carnal nature then in walking in the Spirit.
I was often overthrown with pride and my wisdom would be corrupted when I was given overmuch applause. The cause of my fall was never some creepy sin, it was all too often the very brightness given to me by God. Part of the duty of the Bishop of a church is to insure that the man in front of him preparing to be ordained into an executive office within the church is seasoned enough in the grace of God that he could never be considered a novice. His very talents and brightness will be turned against him.
I cannot read 2nd Corinthians 4:2 without lowering my head in shame. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. It was easy and profitable for me to renounce the obvious open sins of life. How I prospered when the Lord took fornication, alcohol, evil communications and uncleanness away from me!
It was the hidden things of dishonesty that continually defiled me. To fudge on a tax form or a bill of sale was second nature to me. Little white lies seemed to keep me out of trouble. All of that time I was a grief to the Spirit of God. I have learned that the Lord will oft times give great insights and blessings to the newest and even weakest saints of God. He tenderly wraps those same blessings in his chastening. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby, Hebrews 12:11.
A man is never ready to be a bishop who has not experienced seasons of blessings and chastisement that have effectively purged the rascal inside of him. My God has put me through things that I would not unleash on my worst enemy. I have watched foes mock me and friends turn their heads away at the severity of God's rebuke in my life. He has never forsaken me. He forsook Jesus Christ on the cross for a season (Psalms 22:1) and will never forsake him again. I am in Christ.
God did not make me the Bishop of the Black Creek Baptist Church until I was 53 years old. I have seen men successfully be bishops at an earlier age, but they will testify to you of cycles of blessings and chastisement that are not for the novice. Rehoboam was 41 years old when he became the King of Israel and yet King Abijah under the anointing and inspiration of God described him in rebuke to Jeroboam; And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them, 2nd Chronicles 13:7. (Thank you for that insight Brother McVey.)
Part of the destruction of our Western churches has been the reluctance of young men to grow up. The men who stood in row after row at Gettysburg and Antietam were often 16 and 17 year old men who after the war were able to settle down and earn a living, marry a wife and raise a family. Our government now considers 26 year olds to be juveniles and sadly that can be seen reflected in our churches.
Too many churches are occupied by men demoralized over their calling and utterly ineffectual in advancing the Kingdom of God through the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. These men often shrink in fear for their livelihood. They are capable of great preaching on occasion. What they do not have is the ability to be consistent. They cling to their position through church politics. They fear the rebuke of their peers. They view every new thought and concept through the lens of how they will be received in their standing with the brethren. Such men should be under a bishop. They should not be a bishop.

What we can learn about the Ordaining of Bishops from the Fall of the Anointed Cherub Part II Dr. John M. Asquith Feb 14, 2019 5 min read

Not greedy of filthy lucre, I Timothy 3:3.
Some years ago, I was approached by a preacher who believed that the King James Bible had been translated errantly when the Apostle Paul said; For the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows, 1st Timothy 6:10. He reasoned that when a man was tempted to fornication, gluttony, drunkenness and pride that money had no part in those things. According to his wisdom, money was not the root of all evil and the King James Bible should have said it differently. It was misleading people.
What he missed while trying to reason in languages that he could barely read and certainly not think in, was that the Apostle Paul was making a comment on the fall of the anointed cherub. By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches, Ezekiel 28:5. The Apostle Paul pinpointed the exact time and place wherein evil took root.
The anointed cherub took his eyes off of the God that he had been anointed to glorify and began to look at the riches that his God had so graciously granted to him. In the fall of Adam, that was transferred to man's nature. Part of my sorrow in pastoring among poor rural people in a very fallen America is that without having any of the trappings of wealth, they have the sorrows of wealth.
Without having two cents to rub together, they covet money. They often live in shabby rusted trailers at the end of muddy driveways and dream of taking their next welfare payment and buying a winning lottery ticket. They can be seen at convenience store counters huddled over a string of lottery tickets slowly scratching away hoping to end their poverty. Their schemes and shading of laws by lying to social services and ex-spouses keep them in perpetual misery and sorrow.
In the early 1970s I left rural Western New York and began to meet city people my age from New York City and Long Island. I remember being shocked at how many of them came from broken homes, hated their own siblings and needed antidepressants. They were sustained by rich parents who sent them all of the latest toys and gadgets and saw to it that they had sufficient party money. I had seen sorrow and broken homes in Cattaraugus County, New York but never had I seen such a level of hopelessness. Those homes were by far the minority and those who came from them coped on a higher level.
Thirty years later, I returned to Western New York. Due to the blessings of socialism, the general despair that I had seen on the faces of the rich spoiled kids was now on the faces of the poor. Now the poor came from broken homes. They hated their siblings. They all have smartphones and party money. They are on antidepressants. They are pierced through with the sorrows of coveted wealth without even getting a sniff at the money itself.
God seeks for men in such circumstances. He seeks for men who can handle wealth or handle poverty. He looks for men who will not be blinded by lack, or blinded by plenty. The Apostle Paul was to say; Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content, Phillipians 4:11. Paul found contentment in saying; Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace, 1st Corinthians 4:11. But he also found contentment in a hired house with servants. And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, Acts 28:30.
Paul's last days in Rome are often depicted as a man chained to a dungeon wall eeking out epistles. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was a Roman citizen under house arrest wherein his only chain was his legal obligation to report to Cesar. He had just saved the life of one of the richest citizens of the Isle of Melita (Malta) and earned the gratitude of the Roman governor. You can be sure that the post of being governor on such a lucrative trade route was not held by any poor man.
Paul came to Rome with unexpected riches to write those last epistles and to wait to make his case to Cesar. We know from 2nd Timothy that the wealth did not turn Paul's head. He knew that the answer that he was about to give Nero would cost him his head. For those who find the plain truth of Acts 28:30 to be strange and contrary to what they have always heard, read the book, Roman Society and Law in the New Testament (Sarum Lectures 1960-1961) by Sherwin-White AN. You will see that Paul's chain was a legal chain.
When a man is ordained as a bishop, he cannot be greedy of filthy lucre. We often think of that as gambling money or bank robbery proceeds, but the sad reality is that filthy lucre is any money held by a man through covetousness. I have heard more than one missionary or evangelist tell me that he was promised all of the money from a particular meeting only to receive far less than that as a pastor secretly shifted funds.
I am reminded of the old joke about the preacher who told his wife that he had received an offer to pastor from another church. He told her that he would need to pray about it. She asked him if the new job had a larger salary. When he said that it did, she told him that while he was praying she would be upstairs packing.
One thing that I see in the blighted landscape of broken and fallen American churches is the sorry results of pastors who have continually moved on in discontent. As a pastor makes a few good moves, and as his people seem unthankful over them, he gets the feeling that he should have a larger church. I heartily agree. I tell them to make the church they have larger. Since they don't really have a clue how to do that, they get into the musical chairs game.
I have the honor to serve with a man who started an Independent Baptist Church in a small impoverished Pennsylvania town. They built their sanctuary in a corn field miles from anywhere. After 39 1/2 years of laboring in one spot, they had a regular attendance of over 150 people and a mission budget measured in 6 figures. They launched men and women to foreign fields and domestic pastorates. There is no limit to what God can do with a man who ignores the lure of filthy lucre but channels everything back into the work of God.
He spends his retirement as a janitor in a local library. I often wonder at the people who see him sweeping floors or cleaning bathrooms if they know about the eternal mansion that Jesus Christ has built for that man. It has been to our honor at the Black Creek Baptist Church to call him Pastor Emeritus and to learn from his experience. The love of money is where evil took root. A man must be measured long and hard to see that he does not covet after filthy lucre before he is ever ordained as a Bishop.


Dr. John M. Asquith Nov. 21, 2021
  • 3 min read

Adoption
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons, Galatians 4:5.

In order to understand adoption, we need to back up a little and look at another doctrine that runs hand in hand with adoption, imputation. One of the things that imputed righteousness and adoption have in common is that they are both future events absolutely guaranteed to the saint of God. It is popular to say that we have imputed righteousness just as Abraham did, but we do not. The Apostle Paul puts our imputed righteousness in the future.

Romans 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
Romans 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

For a moment, try to forget your indoctrination and try to focus on what Paul is saying. Start by getting the context. Abraham had a body, a soul and a spirit. Romans Chapter 4 is not about the complete man. It speaks of his flesh. What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?, Romans 4:1. The Apostle Paul went to great lengths to teach us. Part of that teaching is to explain how God handles the problem of sinful flesh.
We know that God can change a heart, and we know that he can give a man another spirit. What he does not do here on this earth is give a man a new body. What God did for Abraham was to impute God's righteousness to Abraham's flesh. When Abraham walked on this earth, God treated his flesh as if it was God's own flesh. He poured wealth and honor upon it. He made promises to its offspring.
This is not the status of the Christian. A Christian will have imputed righteousness to his flesh, but he does not have it now. A Christian does not need imputed righteousness to get into heaven, His inward man is the righteousness of God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, 2nd Corinthians 5:21. The inward man of a Christian is perfectly righteous. In fact, it is as righteous as God himself. It is the righteousness of God. It is no wonder that we are called new creatures in Christ.
It is in the process of adoption that God imputes righteousness to the flesh of a Christian. My inward man is born of God. We are told that it cannot sin, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God, 1st John 3:9. My flesh has a problem. It cannot stop sinning. It cannot be born of God as my inward man is. My flesh was born on April 2, 1954 in Salamanca, New York. Its father is a man who was a sinner just as I am. In order for my flesh to be allowed into heaven it needs two things. It needs the righteousness of God imputed to it, and it needs God the Father to adopt it as his own. That is exactly what the good apostle promised it when he said, to whom it shall be imputed, and it is the gist of Romans chapter 8.
Read Romans 8:23. In plain English it tells you that we are waiting for the adoption and it tells us that the adoption is the redemption of our body. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body, Romans 8:23. If you have salvation you are not adopted. You shall be adopted. God has given you the Spirit of adoption. That Spirit is the earnest of your inheritance. It is God's proof inside of the believer that God will redeem our bodies.

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Ephesians 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

The redemption of the purchased possession is the rapture. It is the adoption of our bodies by God the Father after he imputes righteousness to our flesh. If you have salvation that is a sure thing.

Dr. John M. Asquith Nov. 22, 2021
  • 3 min read

Regeneration
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, 2nd Peter 3:3.

If there is any one place wherein all major Christian doctrines merge into one vision of the future, it is the kingdom to come wherein Jesus Christ rules the earth while living here on it. Peter called that time the times of refreshing. He also called it or the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began, Acts 3:19-21.
That time is a time in which, The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them, Isaiah 11:6. This is an idyllic time in which the pain of Adam's sin is removed from the earth by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
When Adam sinned, part of the curse that came upon the earth was thorns and thistles, Genesis 3:18. Jesus Christ, our Adam from above wore thorns upon his brow. He bore the curse of the earth upon himself and paved the way for a regenerated earth whereon the environment and ways of Eden will prevail upon the entire earth. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den, Isaiah 11:8.
Man and nature will live in such harmony that there will be four harvests a year in which; Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt, Amos 9:13. Imagine an impatient plowman waiting for the reaper to finish reaping the last crop so that he can plow again.
Jesus Christ promised his disciples that they would help rule in those days. And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel, Matthew 19:28. What is important is that he called that time the regeneration. We know of some species that regenerate limbs if they are severed. It is called regeneration because something that was lost is generated again. It is restored to what it was. God will restore this earth to what it was when he gave it to Adam.
The saint of God has a place in that future in which the Spirit of God remakes the earth into that blessed kingdom. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body, Romans 8:23. We will one day have bodies meet for that world, but right now we have the firstfruits of the Spirit of God for that world. We each have our new nature on the inward parts; which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, Ephesians 4:24.
When we receive our new bodies, God will not change anything in our new natures. They are exactly what God wants in that new heaven and earth. They are the firstfruits of the Spirit. To know Jesus Christ and to know the deliverance of Jesus Christ is to partake in the sweetness of regeneration in the inward parts. There will come a day in which God regenerates this entire earth. We have been partially prepared for that day. Romans 8:23 says that we groan waiting to be made complete.
Herein is the key to Titus 3:5; Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Renewing of the Holy Ghost?, when did man ever have the Holy Ghost? Man had the Holy Ghost in the Garden of Eden before he fell. God plans on regenerating this entire world and in that plan is his marvelous plan for the saints of God who live in these last times. He gave us the washing of regeneration on the inward parts. He renewed the Holy Ghost in man in the special relationship he has given us in Christ Jesus. In receiving such, we have received the firstfruits of the Spirit, and like the firstfruits of old, we are offered to our high priest Jesus Christ. To God be the glory.




GENERAL LAWS OF HERMENEUTICS … Interpreting The Bible
Prepared By Robert J. Sargent “A Comprehensive Study in HERMENEUTICS,
BIBLE STUDY METHODS & EXPOSITORY TEACHING” Page 91, 1994.


“Confusion reigns over the realm of Christendom today, and it is without doubt that Satan is using this to keep the “minds of them which believe not” blinded from the truth of the Gospel. Indeed, most Christians themselves are ignorant of “the whole counsel of God”, especially as it relates to Church truth. Much of this confusion stems from faulty interpretation of the Word of God. Many differences over doctrine are rooted in the method of Biblical interpretation employed; thus it is extremely important to be grounded in the basic principles of hermeneutics.

I. THE GOLDEN RULE OF BIBLE INTERPRETATION
Of all the principles of hermeneutics, this one rule stands supreme:
“Interpret Scripture with Scripture.”
This is the meaning of II Peter 1:20b — “…no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.” In other words, a passage of the Bible is to be interpreted by comparing (I Corinthians 2:13d) it with other parts of the Bible. Scripture is its own interpreter!

A. Private Interpretation Of Scripture.
  1. A private interpretation is one whereby a Scripture passage is ‘isolated’ (kept private) from, and interpreted without, any reference to the rest of the Bible.
  2. e.g. Interpreting John 16:23 privately could easily lead to a “nameit, claim-it” teaching, whereby all a Christian need do to receive anything he wants is ask for it in Jesus’ Name. Comparing Scripture with Scripture, however, shows that prayer is conditional, and to ask in Jesus’ Name means to ask according to His will (I John 5:14,15), to ask by faith —that is, according to the Word of God — (James 1:6), and to ask as one who is abiding in Christ (John 15:7), etc.
  3. A private interpretation is one whereby the interpreter himself establishes the meaning of a Scripture according to his own definition. Such an interpretation is very likely to reflect the denominational, traditional, or philosophical bias of the interpreter. e.g. John 3:5 — “Except a man be born of water…”
  4. A common private interpretation of this passage is that baptism is essential for salvation. That is the position of Catholics, Campbellites, and many Protestants.” … continued in the book!
Prepared By Robert J. Sargent “A Comprehensive Study in HERMENEUTICS,
BIBLE STUDY METHODS & EXPOSITORY TEACHING” Page 91, 1994.



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But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me, Galatians 2:6.
This blog was started in February of 2017 and will be five years old in just a couple of short months. It's primary purpose was to distinguish the Cambridge Text of the King James Bible as it was edited in the early 20th century from other editions or texts of the King James Bible. We have published posts on its history, its editing process and problems with alternative texts.
We have also examined words as used in our King James Bible to highlight the excellence of its text and to educate our readers as to the excellence of the fine word smithing evident in our bible. As many of my readers know, I also write about doctrine. When I write about doctrine, I am not wedded to any theology. I am wedded to the words of God as represented by the King James Bible. I know no other authority for faith or practice.
For a doctrine to be true it most be exactly what a King James Bible says in its proper context and applied to the people and time for whom it is intended. I occasionally receive communications or writings from good men who when they argue a point, refer to Greek or Hebrew to help make their point. They might as well make reference to wind speeds on the Martian plains as recorded by our latest probes. Discourses on Greek or Hebrew renderings add absolutely nothing to me.
If a writer feels a need to resort to Greek or Hebrew, that writer needs to offer no greater proof that he has strayed from what a King James Bible says. I am always certain that the writer's ability in the ancient languages has no comparison to the excellency of the King James Translation. An earlier post Exploding the Myth of the Greek explains the futility of their Greekifying. It has never been answered and is unanswerable. The King James Bible is the word of God. That is final. It needs no other explanation than for me to clearly state that what a King James Bible says is what God says.


Dr. John M. Asquith Apr 12, 2018 9 min rea

This is a reprint from an Article that I wrote for Pastor Frank Townsend's excellent Old Paths Publication. It is also Chapter 2 in my Book Further Thoughts on the Word of God.
Preachers believing in the King James Bible can be roughly divided into two groups. The first is those who have seen through the absurdity of the new versions and the texts behind them. They don't necessarily see the King James Bible as infallible. They merely find it fundamentally safe to carry and preach it as a bulwark against the folly of the new versions.

The second group sees the King James Bible as the Word of God. They have varying ideas about the veracity of the actual English words. Some, like me, believe the actual English words to be given by inspiration of God. Others find it intellectually safer to believe that God was somehow involved in the translation, but they shrink from concept of the absolute, utter infallibility of a King James Bible.

The common sticking point against believing the English words of a King James Bible is a mythical concept of the Greek Bible. The purpose of this first article is to explode the myth of the Greek.

If you are reading this article the odds are very high that you do not know anyone who speaks Greek. Yet you have probably heard countless preachers allude to knowing Greek. For the most part these would be Greek scholars are like young boys on a play ground who square off with each other and claim to know karate. They parlay, get into their stances, hoot and holler, but you have to be very ignorant of karate to think they know what they are doing.

Whenever I preach to a crowd loaded with preachers I like to ask if there is anyone who speaks Spanish. There is almost always a fluent speaker of the Spanish language in attendance. I ask him from the floor if he could translate a few sentences for me. I then give a sentence similar to this "Take this twenty dollar bill upstairs and give it to grandma so that she can buy some ham downtown.

He can readily rattle that off in Spanish. He speaks Spanish. He can think in Spanish. He really knows the language. I then ask if there is any preacher in the house who knows Greek. They are strangely silent. Many of them are doubtlessly guilty of making people believe they know Greek, but in the context of the last test, they keep their mouths shut. They don't know the Greek language.

I then ask the Spanish speaker if he would consider me to know Spanish if all I could do was read the alphabet, conjugate a few hundred verbs and read a few texts with the help of a lexicon. The Spanish speaker will usually grin and say no. Others in the audience begin to see the point. The self-purported Greek experts begin to shift uncomfortably.

I lived in the nation of Greece for three years. It is an incredibly superstitious nation whose idolatry is medieval. Every one of the priests of this superstitious system can read ancient Greek fluently. In fact, anyone who has graduated from high school can read ancient Greek, because in one year they study in the Modern Greek and write their lessons in ancient Greek, while in the next year they study in the ancient Greek but write in the Modern Greek.

What confounds the Western student is the pronunciation. Western schools pronounce Greek differently. John Lacsaris reintroduced Greek to the Western Church after the fall of Constantinople in 1490. John Lacsaris would have spoken Greek with the Byzantine accent. Western scholars quickly gave it a Latin pronunciation. Accordingly, a word such as eulogia with the Latin pronunciation would be pronounced as evlowgeea (the g is hard) in Greece. The word eucharisto is pronounced efcahrdistow.

Every few years I hear another story of some Western student getting off of a plane in Athens and trying to say something in Greek. What he says is absolutely incomprehensible to the Greek. The Western student will shake his head sadly and remark that they don't even know their own heritage. What the student doesn't realize is that if he had written his remark, the lowliest janitor in the airport could have read it and responded in kind.

When I first returned to the states I began to hear preachers make remarks about how knowing the Greek would clear up mysteries in the Word of God. I found that puzzling. I had lived for three years in a land where everyone could read it and think in ancient Greek, and yet they crawled up hot dusty roads to light incense for idols. The people I knew who professed salvation by grace and walked in the light of God's Word were reading an English Bible.

Even Greek professors in a typical bible college don't really speak Greek. For example, they can't interpret a preaching service for foreign visitors by doing the translation in Greek. That was a common technique with the Latin language a hundred years ago. When a professional group encountered difficulty in a given tongue a colleague would begin interpreting in Latin. Everyone was able to participate.

I doubt that any reader of this article will find anyone in any bible college able to render that service in Greek. Someone might object that it is primarily used as a written language and not spoken. Tell them to write it in Greek, or at least take notes in Greek. The King James translators could have done either. The little boys in their karate poses will not be able.

Today the brightest of students are most apt to go into the sciences or engineering. Occasionally we hear of a student who scores a perfect 1600 on his SAT test or some other remarkable achievement. Universities line up to court students of this caliber. When they graduate, the doors of industry are flung open to them.

Today those same students do not study the classics. In the 1600's young men of that caliber went to Oxford or Cambridge and studied the classical languages. The same zeal used today to reach outer space, strengthen computers, study the atom or other such research was channeled into the classical languages.

They didn't go to college to learn Greek. They had been reading, writing and speaking Greek since their earliest education. In C. S. Lewis's autobiographical work, Surprised By Joy, he gives glimpses into the typical classical education he received via private tutor. He recounts afternoons when he and his tutor would just sit around and chat in Greek. Even his light moments of relaxation were immersed in the Greek language.

Imagine their mirth if they were to encounter the average preacher today claiming to know Greek. The sad reality is that the average so-called Greek professor could not have been hired as a tutor to a high school student one hundred years ago. The average janitor at the Helenikon International Airport in Athens is more fluent in the ancient Greek tongue than most supposed experts in the Greek language practicing karate poses for their unsuspecting and adoring students.

Dr. Bill Bradley, author of Purified Seven Times: The Miracle of the English Bible, states in his lecture series that there is only one, maybe two scholars living today who would have been qualified to have sat on the King James translating committee. In 1611 two universities produced fifty-four such men.

In my twenty-two years of salvation I have yet to hear anyone who changed the wording of the King James Bible because he felt compelled by the Greek. Every single change I have ever heard attempted, and I have heard many, was made because the text the preacher was reading did not as fully support the preacher's current point or doctrine. The preacher then reached into the Greek and found a justification to exalt his point of view.

I am reminded of a statement made by my eleventh grade health teacher about rationalization. Coach Chadick wanted every boy present to know the first rule of rationalization: Anything can be rationalized if you want to do it badly enough. Being able to rationalize an action does not make it right or wrong. Not being fluent in the Greek language, but only having access to lexicons, makes a preacher able to rationalize any correction he wants to make.

If I were to give a statement to a gathering of foreign students, imagine the confusion if I were to allow them to use a dictionary and render my statement any way they saw fit as long as they could find some justification in the dictionary.

A statement such as, " Everyone move to the back and find a seat, should make sense to anyone. If that statement were to be interpreted like the average preacher interprets Greek it could have many meanings.

One student might get up and say that when 21st century Americans talked about moving they were referring to a change of address. Another enterprising linguist might suggest that the word "back" was a reference to moving back in social order. Another might say it most generally referred to the spinal area. One who really had access to more sources than the others might call attention to the American habit of calling a move from the Western United States to the Eastern portion, going back.

Take note. The students who made such a mockery out of the simple statement were not stupid. In fact, the more resources to which they had access, the more capable they were of confusing their audience. The more resources they had, the more able they were to render their interpretation to whatever best suited their needs. Imagine when they reached the word "seat".

Today's Greekifiers work similarly. When they find a clear-cut passage in the King James Bible that doesn't say what they want it to say they run to the Greek. Keep this in mind. They do not speak the language. They just look at the various words and try to find some historical or linguistic justification for making it say what they want it to say.

If Greek were such a panacea for understanding the Word of God, we could expect the top Greek faculties to agree on key issues. Once a man learned Greek he should be firm with all scholars on such issues as election, the charismatic movement, the deity of Christ, a pretribulation rapture, etc. One would think that all true Greek scholars would be in one denomination.

Every denomination has supposed experts in the Greek language. The Jehovah Witnesses do. The Mormons do. The Catholics do and so do the Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and every other denomination. The layman in his pew has a false sense of security that somewhere in the upper echelons or possibly in the pulpit is a man who can back up everything with the Greek. He is sadly mistaken.

There is no excuse for Baptists to use such hocus-pocus. The King James Bible as it is written is a Baptist book. It is the proof for Baptist doctrine. The great miracle behind that statement is that the men who translated the King James Bible despised Baptists. They were divided between Arminians and Calvinists as well as Episcopalians and Presbyterians. They all believed in a state church. In their intellectual honesty they forged a book that destroyed the bedrock tenets of their various denominations. The Presbyterians, Episcopalians and all their offshoot denominations have had to abandon the King James Bible in order to uphold their respective theologies.

Taken as it is written, keeping each context straight, the King James Bible refutes current Protestant and Catholic theology. A person cannot teach a state church without changing the last preposition in Luke 17:21. Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. The Arminian position falls apart if 1John 3:9 is left exactly as it appears in the AV 1611. Whosoever is born of God (the inward man of I Pet 3: 4) doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Calvinists rage against Hebrews 2:9b as it appeared in 1611. That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

A King James Bible will always teach the Baptist position. Yet, the Baptists did not create the King James Bible, the King James Bible created the Baptists. The other denominations have been forced to constantly re-edit and rework their bibles every few years. They refuse to change their doctrine. They must, therefore change their bible. They all grope through a morass of faulty manuscripts in a language that is foreign to them. They will stay in that state until the antichrist appears to give them a common faith.

Not surprisingly, there is as much ambiguity and confusion among Greek scholars as among those who know nothing of the language. Men do not learn their doctrine from reading Greek. They learn their doctrine in English and then spend a lifetime trying to justify it with the limited Greek they know.

A true Bible believer is one who believes the words as they are written. A simple rule of thumb for determining if a preacher is in error is to see if what he says contradicts the King James Bible in any point in its proper context. Changing a passage to make it fit a theological point, even if that point is a true one in a different context, is like a person who carves a piece of a jigsaw puzzle to make it fit the picture. He may make it fit where he is, but somewhere else something will not go together right.

A King James Bible will never contradict itself in any point. Any change using the Greek will make it do so. After its holiness and power, the greatest single proof that the King James Bible is the Word of God is that by keeping each verse in context, and quoting it just as it stands, it is impossible to teach a heresy. Why would anyone tamper with such a Bible?

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APPLYING STUDY TO PREACHING
Dr. John M. Asquith 4 days ago (10/21/21) 1 min read

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine, 2nd Timothy 4:2.
The Apostle Paul admonished men to preach with two things, longsuffering anttd doctrine. I refer to myself as a doctrinal preacher. By that, I mean that I explain a doctrine from the pulpit, I expect the Holy Ghost to begin stirring in peoples’ hearts, and then I go wheresoever the Spirit of God leads me. I resolve to remain longsuffering because I have people who have sat in a blind stupor for many years only to awaken at some point to their peril or to their blindness.
I am putting a link to a message I preached at least 10 years ago, but which seems to illustrate the power of doctrine in preaching. At www.onesoulatatime.net you can hear many messages that may help you or someone that you love. The message is titled, The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. I attempt to use the law of Moses, the Gospels, and the Pauline Epistles to define that law and to make the hearer understand it.
This may help some of you who may wonder why I am stressing the study of Old Testament sacrifice.
May I highly recommend the tab on onesoulatatime.net that is labeled Leviticus. It is a series taught by Dale Morey of Liberty Behind Bars who was saved and trained here at Black Creek.
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KJV in Vietnam

I'm not much of a facebook person, but recently a young Vietnamese man sent a note via fb. This is his note:
"Hi teacher Paul, I has lived and taught in Hanoi for 1 year. And one study now are reading the KJV. Does anyone have your book in Hanoi."

He refers to English for Bible Readers, and we are trying to get him a copy. Well, this is a great blessing! Imagine, in Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnamese Communism, not only is there a Bible study, they are conducting a King James Bible study! (Many of the younger Vietnamese speak some level of English.)

"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord" (1 Cor. 15:58).

Amen.


Pastor John Asquith, New York, USA: We live in a time when it seems everyone is trying their hand at writing about the King James Bible. Very few of these books and articles have anything new to offer. My surprise was great when I was given a copy of Paul Scott's excellent work, English For Bible Readers.

Here was a book that filled a great void in explaining the vocabulary and the rules (grammar) for the English of the King James Bible. I have long rued the absence of such a book and have seen much mischief done by those ignorant of the rules for the King's English. This book was intended for Vietnamese Christians reading the King James Bible, but in providing for their need, Brother Scott has provided for his own nation's need. To God be the glory.

I can only hope that the reader will find the same satisfaction in reading this work. I have spent thirty years studying the King James Bible, but I felt like a boy in short pants as I turned the pages of this book: I learned something from almost every page. Every Christian English program in every King James-believing school should have this book for a textbook.

Pastor John Asquith, New York, USA

"I consumed English for Bible Readers in short order and am determined to get it into the hands of other men. - Pastor Stephen Charette, Massachusetts, USA

Before approaching English for Bible Readers, I had no idea about the deep and wonderful vocabulary as well as the style of the King James Bible. I have seen many people using the other versions, which seem easier to read and understand. However, through this book, I realized that English for Bible Readers is indeed an accurate and wonderful aid in exploring the Bible. I am amazed at the way the King James Bible expresses God's Word, and thanks to Teacher Paul Scott's work, I have explored many interesting revelations that may only exist in the King James Bible.

As you read through English for Bible Readers, you will find this book a very helpful tool to understand more clearly about the powerful Word of God. Also, you can approach a larger knowledge of history, grammar etc, and above all, you can find many answers to your very own needs in this book.

It was a great pleasure for me to be the translator of English for Bible Readers-Vietnamese version. As a translator, and also as a young Vietnamese reader, I have found my inspiration from this source. My prayer is that all readers, especially the readers in Vietnam, will enjoy this book. An amazing point of view is waiting for you to explore and meditate.

Teacher Bao Chau, Vietnam

English for Bible Readers

by Paul W. Scott

English for Bible Readers
Copyright @ 2008 Paul Scott
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Bible.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ...... a
Prologue .... .c
Introduction ...... l
History ..... .7
Fidelity & Focus ......... 17
Original Debate ......... 25
Vocabulary ...... 41
Personal Pronouns ....... 51
Reflexive Pronouns .... 63
Relative Pronouns ...... 71
Verbs ..... 79
Auxiliary Verbs ......... 91
Verbs: Past Tense ....... 97
Verbs: Present Tense ..... .101
Verbs: Future Tense ... .. 109
Punctuation ... .113
Conclusion .121
Common Questions ... .125
Final Exam ........... 135
Testimony ................. 139





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Reconciling Contradictory Passages



Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;

When the Apostle Paul wrote of the inner chamber of the Tabernacle and listed those things contained therein, he included the golden censer. There is a revelation here and there is a clue here. The revelation is that the High Priest's censer was made of gold. The clue tells you that the Apostle Paul is zeroing in on a particular day when he describes for us what is in the Most Holy Place.
First, let's get one thing straight. There is no "Holy of Holies" in your King James Bible. "Holy of Holies" would be a literal translation of the Hebrew into English if "Holy" was a noun in English like it is in Hebrew. It is not. When you hear a preacher say Holy of Holies, his speech bewrayeth him. You know that he learned his doctrine from the particular point on which he is speaking from commentaries not from reading a King James Bible. Our bible correctly interprets the Hebrew phrase as "the Most Holy Place".
(There are older preachers much more spiritually sound than I will ever be who consistently use unbiblical terms such as Holy of Holies. Our awareness of the majesty of the King James Bible and the profusion of excellent resources to prove its inspiration and excellence were missing in their younger days. Leave them alone. If you want to provoke my ire, run up and rebuke one of these godly men in my presence. What we need to do is train today's younger preachers ( 60 and under) to speak biblically. If the older ones feel a need after years of pleasing God to sharpen their preaching so be it.)
Why did the Apostle Paul place the golden censer in the Most Holy Place when Moses only lists the Mercy Seat for furniture in there? In Hebrews 9:4, the NIV in its never ending bid to make scripture unintelligible clearly contradicts Moses by placing the Golden Altar of Incense in the Most Holy Place; which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. The ESV does the same thing.
Fortunately the King James translators were not that ignorant. The truth is that the golden censer was in the Most Holy Place one day every year. Moses describes the High Priest's duty on the Day of Atonement; And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail, Leviticus 16:12. The clue that we get when reading Hebrews 9:4, is that the Apostle Paul is describing the Most Holy Place as it was on the Day of Atonement while the High Priest was present.
The golden censer is in the Most Holy Place because the High Priest was commanded to take it in with him once a year. You can be sure he also brought it back out. The Apostle Paul has given a snapshot of that day.
If you read the rest of Hebrews Chapter 9, that becomes obvious. To whom is it not obvious? It is not obvious to those who have been taught that the bible is too hard to perfectly translate and that they must always seek outside sources to understand difficult passages. The truth is not obvious to those who search through all of the other versions to get a consensus for the truth.
For those of us who by the grace of our God know that he has fulfilled his promise of a perfect bible by giving us the King James Bible, we wait when we are confused by a seeming contradiction. We approach the contradiction with a humility that says that we are but flesh and our bible is eternally holy. We bow our heads and ask the God of all comfort to comfort us with the understanding that we so clearly lack. We then trust the written words of a King James Bible to show us and we trust the Holy Ghost to enlighten us by using those words.
The King James Bible is the words of the Holy Ghost. He will not speak outside of it. There are passages in my bible in which God has revealed their sense to me in in mere minutes and there are some in which he has taken 5, 10, 15, and even 40 years to ground me in the precepts that I need to understand that given passage. What I will never do is grope in the burning garbage heaps of the new translations or search the draught pits of the lexicons to gain insight. "Trusting your King James Bible" and "trusting God" are synonymous phrases.

Builded or Built
Paul Scott
Sep 12, 2021 4 min read

Both builded and built are past participles of build. Dictionaries, even my beloved Oxford, dismiss the difference. They declare, Builded = Built; it’s simply a poetic, and now archaic, version of built. I have never believed this, but for years wondered without understanding why the Bible translators used both, sometimes within the same sentence:

“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”
- Hebrews 3:4

Surely they knew what they were doing, and didn’t just randomly throw in an archaic or poetic participle. Why would they use one, and then, in a seemingly identical case, use the other?
“…and there builded an altar unto the Lord….and there he builded an altar unto the LORD….” Genesis 12:7, 8

Poetic? Hmmmm, later, the same man, doing exactly the same activity:

“…and Abraham built an altar there….” - Genesis 22:9

We’ve looked into transitive / intransitive verbs, object and subject, and other such grammatical escape hatches – but nothing was conclusive. Until, in daily reading in Nehemiah, something caught my attention. This is early in the eureka!! reaction and so with both excitement and trepidation I present my findings to the blog readers and humbly ask you to judge the value of the nugget: is it real or fool’s gold?

Wall Building
In Nehemiah, chapter 3, the Jews were repairing the wall. In 3:1, they builded. In 3:2, next to him builded. Then, and not randomly, in 3:3, “But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build…” Ah, with the helping verb did, the base verb is used. Why? Why not builded? Keep reading: “…who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and locks thereof, and the bars thereof.” Something included here that the sentences of builded (3:1,2) did not have: Beams, doors, locks, and bars. Everything necessary to complete this section of wall.

Moving ahead to Nehemiah chapter 3:14,15.

“He built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.”

He gathered together a complete set of materials and hardware: built is used. This pattern is repeated in 3:15.

Now, the opponents mocked the Jews as they began to repair the wall (4:1-3), word came to Sanballat that “we builded the wall.” (Far from complete or secure: even a fox, if he jumped on the wall, would knock it down!)
But, after the prayers and hard work of the Jews, this declaration,

“So built we the wall, and all the wall was joined together…” (4:6)

Notice the words used in context: all and together. Again, built, not builded, is used. Curious.

It’s my conclusion that Built is associated with the descriptors of the subject: all and together.
So, according to this thesis, in the opposite corner sits builded – and the descriptors associated with this supposed archaic participle are the opposites of all and together: incomplete and separated.

Let’s read on and see if this pans out. Being physically threatened, the Jews had to divide the repairmen into groups, one to affect repairs (while bearing arms) and the other stood guard. While they all were involved, not all were involved with the action of TO BUILD.

“They which builded on the wall….and so builded…” (Neh. 4:17,18)

Here, in describing the actual builders, the poetic past participle is used: builded.
To prove my case, that the KJV translators weren’t just randomly throwing in poetic words (such as builded), but were in fact revealing great details. So, we read on regarding the condition of these builded repairmen:

“The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.” - Nehemiah 4:19

Builded = separated (not together). Interesting

Is it tedious to continue with these proofs? I hope not! One more from Nehemiah: in chapter 6: 1, Nehemiah states that the enemies “…heard that I builded the wall…” Here builded is used; but, the wall had no breach left therein. It would seem the wall was completed, and therefore built, instead of builded, should be used. I wonder if the translators, led by the Holy Spirit, recognized the apparent contradiction – for the sentence continues with a parenthetical clause:

“…(though at the time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) …”
(Neh. 6:1)

Not quite finished; the doors were not set up. Builded is used. Then, after additional intrigue and prayers, he makes a point to tell us he did get the doors set up, and he reports in this context “…the wall was built…” (7:1)

"Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the door…."(7:1)

Now it’s finished, including the doors. Built isused.

Altar Building
Back to Genesis 12:7, 8; 22:9. Is there anything incomplete that would require the use of builded, rather than built? Check out the text of Gen. 22:9: Abraham built an altar there; why use built here? The answer is in 22:8: “ … so they went both of them together.”

Back in the accounts of chapter 12: Isaac, the sacrifice, wasn’t with his father. Builded is used. Later, as recorded in chapter 22, Isaac is present, they are together. Built is used.

House Building
One more case:
“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”
Hebrews 3:4

Following our logic, we would expect to find words such as together and all connected with built; and a sense of incompleteness with builded. And, yes, this holds true here: all things follows built. Also note the actors (the builders): some man = builded; God = built. One is obviously secure, one isn’t.

And yet again, this is consistent with the theme of Hebrews. The First (O.T. system), represented by Moses and the Law, and revealed as some man, was incomplete; unable to complete the job of our salvation. Builded.

The Second (N.T. faith), presented by Christ, revealed as God, is better than the First in every way. It’s complete, it’s all. Built.

And, again, from Nehemiah:
“Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded” (Neh. 7:4).

Clearly the focus has been on building the wall, not their houses. Their houses were not completed; this is confirmed by the participle builded.

Dictionaries and “experts” have their place, but they often take the east route to explain differences between words like built and builded. Give the translators and the Holy Spirit the benefit of the doubt and thereby find real nuggets along the way. What an excellent communication tool we have in the Early Modern English of the Authorized Version (KJV).

Nugget or fool’s gold?

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A Simple Bible Study
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him, 1st John 2:27.

Perhaps one of the greatest stumbling blocks to really understanding the bible is the lie that you need some man to teach you. This statement may seem hypocritical coming from a man who teaches the bible. I think that everyone can agree that the simple basics of the bible should be taught to everyone in their youth or sometime after they first become acquainted with the bible. Such teaching is for beginners or for those who have strayed through carnality. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat, Hebrews 5:12.
At the Black Creek Baptist Church as I am sure many churches do, we use Sunday School to augment the bible instruction for young people who do not get it at home. There we hope to give the students the general body of Christian knowledge concerning the bible itself and important bible stories and principles. We are blessed to have teachers who truly love their students and truly care that they learn the precepts of God.
Where we differ from many churches is our encouragement to the people to study their bibles for themselves. Evangelist Timothy McVey has pointed out that in most revival meetings the emphasis of altar calls is to call the people to greater service. An evangelist gets up and preaches one of his 20 or so stock messages. When he is done, he gets the piano player to play some hymn while he softly asks all of the people who have heads bowed and eyes closed if they are doing enough for God. He then invites them up to the altar to get that right with God.
The result in most of our Fundamental Baptist Churches is a body of members who are worn out as the church shrinks year by year. We have not had to emphasize service here in Black Creek. God has blessed us with a few who are happy to serve. What we emphasize is for them to know God better. They won't do that by hours of prayer. If you think that hours of prayer will help you know God better, go join a cloistered monastery or convent. Prayer is when you talk to God. I'm all for that, but you don't learn about a person by talking to them. You learn about a person by listening to them.
The King James Bible is how to listen to God. The better you know your bible, the more you will know about God. I am not denying that there are times when the Holy Ghost impresses certain thoughts or ideas onto someone's consciousness. I just know that all cults, false teachers, mystics, bible correcters and just about everyone else claims to get special prodding or insight from God. The only way to discern whether or not that prodding is holy and from God is to be in harmony with a King James Bible. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them, Isaiah 8:20. The way false teachers get around that is to search through various versions until they find one that agrees with their inner thoughts. A King James Bible is security against that.
One study that I give my people is the study of the Tabernacle. Once it finally occurs to you that there is no revelation on this earth about the Tabernacle that is not contained in the words of a King James Bible, you can research the Tabernacle for yourself without teaching aides. Get a piece of paper and draw a simple outline of the Tabernacle walls. Make an inch to be a cubit or use some other ratio, but draw an outline of the walls by just using the text of your bible.
Once you have that basic outline, begin to make simple drawings of each piece of the Tabernacle. Keep in mind that everything that God told Moses is written for us in English. We may not know what a horn looked like, or how Bezaleel formed the crown of certain objects, but we can know the exact dimensions of each object. Draw them with what ever skill level you have. I have almost no skill in drawing but with a ruler for a straight edge and with a King James Bible, I was able to draw each piece.
The next step is to locate the place of each piece in the simple drawing you have of the Tabernacle itself. Even these simple things that I have instructed you to do can be vexing. If you wrestle them out and not cheat by looking up other drawings of the Tabernacle, you can eventually get it. There are few greater satisfactions in bible study than to be stymied by something that you just can't seem to see, pray to God to help you find it, and then eventually find the key to that puzzle written in some other place in the bible than where you had been looking.
It is this kind of study that will turn you into a doctrinal bible believer. The King James Bible movement is a big tent. There are many in its ranks who can expound the historical accuracy of our King James Bible and then ignore what it says doctrinally. I teach my people that there are historical bible believers and there are doctrinal bible believers.
It is the King James Bible and the King James Bible alone which will make you into a doctrinal bible believer. I see my role as a pastor and a teacher not as a quarterback calling the plays, but as a blocker in a running play. I give my people the ball and try to use my preaching to block all of the pitfalls that will slow them down or tackle them. It is my joy to see my people run with the word of God and slowly be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God, Ephesians 3:18,19. Learning the breadth, and length, an depth, and height is joy to a bible believer. Start with the Tabernacle.

Trust your King James Bible.

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Dr. John M. Asquith 10/17/21
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Reconciling Contradictory Passages
Hebrews 9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Hebrews 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;


When the Apostle Paul wrote of the inner chamber of the Tabernacle and listed those things contained therein, he included the golden censer. There is a revelation here and there is a clue here. The revelation is that the High Priest's censer was made of gold. The clue tells you that the Apostle Paul is zeroing in on a particular day when he describes for us what is in the Most Holy Place.
First, let's get one thing straight. There is no "Holy of Holies" in your King James Bible. "Holy of Holies" would be a literal translation of the Hebrew into English if "Holy" was a noun in English like it is in Hebrew. It is not. When you hear a preacher say Holy of Holies, his speech bewrayeth him. You know that he learned his doctrine from the particular point on which he is speaking from commentaries not from reading a King James Bible. Our bible correctly interprets the Hebrew phrase as "the Most Holy Place".
(There are older preachers much more spiritually sound than I will ever be who consistently use unbiblical terms such as Holy of Holies. Our awareness of the majesty of the King James Bible and the profusion of excellent resources to prove its inspiration and excellence were missing in their younger days. Leave them alone. If you want to provoke my ire, run up and rebuke one of these godly men in my presence. What we need to do is train today's younger preachers ( 60 and under) to speak biblically. If the older ones feel a need after years of pleasing God to sharpen their preaching so be it.)
Why did the Apostle Paul place the golden censer in the Most Holy Place when Moses only lists the Mercy Seat for furniture in there? In Hebrews 9:4, the NIV in its never ending bid to make scripture unintelligible clearly contradicts Moses by placing the Golden Altar of Incense in the Most Holy Place; which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. The ESV does the same thing.
Fortunately the King James translators were not that ignorant. The truth is that the golden censer was in the Most Holy Place one day every year. Moses describes the High Priest's duty on the Day of Atonement; And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail, Leviticus 16:12. The clue that we get when reading Hebrews 9:4, is that the Apostle Paul is describing the Most Holy Place as it was on the Day of Atonement while the High Priest was present.
The golden censer is in the Most Holy Place because the High Priest was commanded to take it in with him once a year. You can be sure he also brought it back out. The Apostle Paul has given a snapshot of that day.
If you read the rest of Hebrews Chapter 9, that becomes obvious. To whom is it not obvious? It is not obvious to those who have been taught that the bible is too hard to perfectly translate and that they must always seek outside sources to understand difficult passages. The truth is not obvious to those who search through all of the other versions to get a consensus for the truth.
For those of us who by the grace of our God know that he has fulfilled his promise of a perfect bible by giving us the King James Bible, we wait when we are confused by a seeming contradiction. We approach the contradiction with a humility that says that we are but flesh and our bible is eternally holy. We bow our heads and ask the God of all comfort to comfort us with the understanding that we so clearly lack. We then trust the written words of a King James Bible to show us and we trust the Holy Ghost to enlighten us by using those words.
The King James Bible is the words of the Holy Ghost. He will not speak outside of it. There are passages in my bible in which God has revealed their sense to me in in mere minutes and there are some in which he has taken 5, 10, 15, and even 40 years to ground me in the precepts that I need to understand that given passage. What I will never do is grope in the burning garbage heaps of the new translations or search the draught pits of the lexicons to gain insight. "Trusting your King James Bible" and "trusting God" are synonymous phrases.




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Understanding

Dr. John M. Asquith
Oct 7, 2021 3 min read

Understandest thou what thou readest?, Acts 8:30.

There are still places in a King James Bible that I have no idea why they say what they say. For over 40 years, when I have read such a passages I have wondered. The last things that I ever intend to do about those passages is to consult a commentary or to consult a lexicon in an attempt to decipher the meaning by borrowing some alternative meaning for a Greek or Hebrew word.
In that period of time, I have had many passages come alive for me. Passages that for 25 to 30 years had seemed incomprehensible to me suddenly made sense as I read them. Over the many years when those passages had seemed dark to me, I slowly built my knowledge and understanding in other passages. Like tumblers in a combination lock, as I slowly learned and understood more about supporting passages to a particular place, the passage that had so vexed me unlocked its meanings for me.
There is simply no substitute for understanding the word of God other than to allow precept to be added to precept and line to be added to line.

Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

We have the word of God in this other tongue and through it God speaks to us. What is all too often lacking is understanding. The devil has wrought havoc in the churches by this lack of understanding. Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way, Psalm 119:104.
There is a three pronged approach to understanding the bible.

1. There must be a perfect bible that the reader can trust. Recently, Brother Paul Scott published a post titled Builded or Built. Some time ago, he had contacted me and noted that the King James Bible used both forms of the word "build". When he saw that both words were in use and even were used in the same verse (Hebrews 3:4) he realized that each word had a slightly different meaning. How did he know that? He knew that they had different meaning because he believed the text in front of him. He knew that it was never arbitrary or haphazard for any particular word to be used. There is always a reason and it is to God's pleasure to reveal that reason. Trusting that the bible in front of us is always the first step.
By believing what he saw written, Brother Scott was able to resist the dictionaries that said that the words were synonymous. Clearly they were not synonymous in a King James Bible. He then was able to look at each word as it was used in context and God showed him the difference.

2. God must give a person understanding. Apart from receiving the Holy Ghost in John 20:22, and utterly separated from the Day of Pentecost, Jesus Christ opened the understanding of his disciples. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, Luke 24:45. Understanding does not come naturally to men. The Apostle Paul spoke of the natural state of man when he said; There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God, Romans 3:11.
No man ever sought God until God enabled him to seek. Just as a palsied man could not stretch forth his hand until he heard Jesus Christ command him to do so, a sinner is unable to seek God until he hears the command to seek God through the preaching of the word of God. So is the man who would seek to understand the things of God. Let him ask the Lord to open his understanding. That was some of the best advice that I ever got as a young man.

3. A man or woman who seeks to understand must pay a price. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth, 1st Timothy 2:15. Solomon said; much study is a weariness of the flesh, Ecclesiastes 12:12. There is a occasional joy to bible study, but there is more often than not a weariness to the flesh. Reading the bible and studying the bible are two distinctly different things. a person who seeks to understand and know God must do both.
Does Gender Matter?

Dr. John M. Asquith
Sep 22, 2021 3 min read

That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother, Jeremiah 34:9.

The Prophet Jeremiah was very specific when he recorded the liberty that King Zedekiah proclaimed for the people. Every man was to release his manservants, and every man was to release his maidservants. Whether the person was an Hebrew (male) or a Hebrewess (female) mattered to God. Our King James Bible preserves that gender specific language. The new bibles gloss over such old fashioned gender specific terms as Hebrewess by just saying, "whether they be male or female". Does that matter?
It matters if you want a perfect bible without error. A Moabite was not allowed into the Congregation of Israel even unto the 10th generation. An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever, Deuteronomy 23:3. If a Moabite could not enter into the Congregation of the Lord forever, how did Ruth enter in? Why was David made King if a Moabite could not enter in even to the tenth generation?
The answer is simple. Ruth was not a Moabite. The NIV calls her a Moabite as in Ruth 1:22: So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite. The ESV calls her a Moabite in the same place as well as every other place that it can: So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her. The word of God does not call her a Moabite; So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest, Ruth 1:22.
We have an exact bible. Even though there are distinct different words for a male and a female Moabite or Moabitess, God did not ban a Moabitess from entering the congregation. He banned the Moabite. God made provision for bringing enemy females into the congregation.

Deuteronomy 21:10: When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
Deuteronomy 21:11: And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
Deuteronomy 21:12: Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deuteronomy 21:13: And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

The problem with the new versions is that no one expects minute accuracy. God intended that we have a bible that is correct in every jot and tittle. It is impossible for a King James Bible to contradict itself in any passage as long as the reader keeps in mind the context with which he is dealing. No other version can say that. Surprise, surprise, gender matters in the word of God! You probably have friends who are angry over the modern gender confusion going on in our culture and then proudly carry a new version which coyly goes along with the confusion. Stick to your King James Bible. There are no errors in it.

Dr. John M. Asquith Sep 9, 2021 5 min read

Principles of Interpretation II
But they could not shew the interpretation of the thing, Daniel 5:15.

Why couldn't the wise men of Babylon show the interpretation?, because they did not have the word of God. The first and foremost principle of interpretation is that without the word of God there can be no certainty. I am not saying that all King James Bible believers have identical interpretations of all major passages of the bible. What we have in harmony is that we know that the truth is contained within the pages of our King James Bible. The truth is in the actual text itself, and that any person with average intelligence who can read English, and has a relationship with the Holy Ghost can be given an understanding as good as any person who ever read the original manuscripts.
In fact, we have an advantage over any person with the original manuscripts. The people at Thessalonica who received Paul's two letters had those and copies of some other letters as well as access to the Old Testament. In our King James Bible we have the complete infallible scriptures in a readable and accessible format, all in one language. What follows will be three principles of interpretation that can guide the bible believer.
How do we know when a psalm is messianic? In other words, just as the Ethiopian Eunuch asked Phillip, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?, Acts 8:34. How do we know when we read a psalm whether the writer is speaking of himself or he is speaking of the coming Messiah? We follow Peter's lead in Acts 2.
When Peter addressed the crowd who gathered on the Day of Pentecost, he had their attention, but the crowd came out of curiosity not out of a sense that he had apostolic insight. When he quoted Psalm 16 he stated that David was speaking of Jesus Christ. Today we accept that because we know that he spoke as given understanding from God. The crowd before him needed to be convinced.

Acts 2:25: For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
Acts 2:26: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Acts 2:27: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 2:28: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

What Peter did was to reason with them.

Acts 2:29: Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Acts 2:30: Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Act 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

What he reasoned was that Psalm 16 could not possibly apply to David the author of the psalm because the psalm stated, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. It was obvious to all who listened to Peter that day that King David did see corruption. He was in a tomb in Jerusalem. Peter left them no choice. If a psalm says something in the first person such as saying "I" or "me", and it was not possible for that psalm to be speaking of the author himself, the psalm is a messianic psalm. It speaks of Jesus Christ.
Using that reasoning, look at Psalm 22: 16, they pierced my hands and my feet. Ask yourself the question, in all of the passages describing the life of David, is there a time when his hands and feet were pierced? No, there was not. Therefore the Messiah will have his hands and his feet pierced. It really is that simple. As you go through the psalms, there will be places where the psalms disrupt certain theologies when that rule is applied, but either Peter's reasoning was right or it was wrong. If a psalm states something as if it is happening to the author, and yet it cannot be the author, then the psalm is messianic.
Having an exact bible means that you can trust whether a word is plural or singular. That may seem like a very small matter but the Apostle Paul found meaning in passages such as Genesis 22:17 wherein Moses wrote, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies. Earlier, when Moses wrote of Abraham's seed he made it plural. Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, Genesis 15:13.
Even though the Book of Genesis was written 1400 years earlier, the apostle trusted whether a word was plural or singular. He didn't say, " By revelation I know that Christ is the seed of Abraham". He merely trusted that those who read his letter would trust a 1400 year old text. He didn't need any divine revelation beyond the word of God itself as it sat in front of him after 1400 years.
The next thing that the Bible believer can use to properly interpret a passage is to look at the tense of a verb. When the Sadducees tempted Jesus Christ about the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead, they made up a scenario in which after a man had died without his wife ever giving birth, the man's brother married him. In turn, that brother died only to be replaced by another brother. Then the Sadducees played their trump card; Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her, Matthew 22:28.
Jesus Christ quoted Moses to answer them and in doing so he trusted the tense of the verb in a verse that on the surface had nothing to do with the resurrection.
Mat 22:31: But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
Mat 22:32: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
God did not say "I was the God of Abraham", he said, I am the God of Abraham. As the Lord spoke to Moses, it was understood that Abraham was with God at that moment. Their relationship was not ended by his death. The absolute only thing that God used to prove that was the tense of the verb from a 1400 year old text.
When you are reading the words of a King James Bible, there is no need to run to commentaries, lexicons or other devices to understand what a passage is saying. Trust it as it is. One of the truly great things that I learned from Dr. Peter Ruckman was that if a man changes any word in a text, it is because what he is teaching is not what the text actually says. Look at what the text says. If you can not understand it, bow your head and pray.
I have had passages allude me for decades only to come to life at a far distant time when I was better prepared to understand. I am so glad that I did not run to some man's writings to get the understanding. By trusting the verse just as they were written, and by patiently waiting, the Lord was eventually able to give me an understanding such as I never would have had if I had had a man teach me.
The first rule of bible interpretation is to trust the word of God as it is written. That is a King James Bible.


Dr. John M. Asquith Sep 1, 2021 4 min read

Principles of Interpretation: Part I
Do not interpretations belong to God? Genesis 40:8.

Most people do not get their bible interpretations from the bible itself. They subscribe to a particular theology or understanding of certain bible doctrines based on their denomination, peer group, or commentaries. The idea that the average person of average intelligence and average education can pick up a bible and understand it to the point of settling major theological questions is simply absurd to the world at large.
One barrier in the world's thinking is that they don't believe that they have the complete and accurate word of God. To them, reading a bible is a religious exercise, not a means of gaining infallible truth. When they see a King James Bible believer exposit a doctrine or defend a position based on the words of the King James Bible and only on the words of a King James Bible, they assume the King James Bible believer is trapped in some legalistic web wherein he is afraid to peek at other versions.
The best mathematicians in the world could not solve an algebraic inscription on an ancient wall if some of the numbers were missing or their veracity was in doubt. Different mathematicians would get differing answers if the scholars who fed them data gave them differing numbers based on their hunches as to what the original equation said. Likewise, any puzzle involving logic can not be solved with any accuracy if any of the facts are in doubt or missing.
The bible works no differently. Granted, we have an advantage over the mathematician seeking to solve an ancient inscription or the logician who seeks to solve an ancient logistical puzzle. We have the spirit of the author of the bible living within us. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God, 1st Corinthians 2:12. Nevertheless, God communicates to us in words. His spirit is there to give us an understanding of those words, but without those words the spirit does not communicate anything above the level of feelings. God promised us something better.
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever, Isaiah 59:21. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away, Mark 13:31. Could anything be more clear than those two verses? The first principle that needs to be understood in being able to interpret the bible is that the words of God have been miraculously preserved on this earth and that they are accessible to the common man.
Where could a person find such words? Hint! Hint! The Apostle Paul told you where to look:

Romans 3:1: What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
Romans 3:2: Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

When the Apostle Paul spoke of the Jews in the Book of Romans, he was not talking about converted Jews who had embraced the cross of Jesus Christ. He went so far as to tell us that; As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes, Romans 11:28. God has not stopped his love for the Jews, but they have rejected the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is to these same people that God committed the oracles of God. It was to them that the promise of Isaiah 59:21 was made. They are the people carrying about a perfect Old Testament in Hebrew.
It is telling that the modern versions uniformly reject the text carried by those same Jews. The translators and compilers of the new bibles do not believe that there is a book anywhere on this earth that is 100% the words of God. The Old Testament in the King James Bible is the interpretation of those Hebrew words carried by those Jews and commended by the Apostle Paul into a classical form of English writing that preserves the nuances and accuracy of the Hebrew Language.
The new versions are a hodge-podge of guesses by various scholars as to what they think the text should be based on many sources other than the text the Apostle Paul endorsed. The very premisses of those versions are that you, the average person on the street are not smart enough to think in the carefully crafted words of the King James Bible even though all of your forefathers who did not speak King James English could. And, they believe that the promises of Isaiah 59:21 and Mark 13:31 misfired.
If your King James Bible is practically the only English version that believes the Hebrew Text as the good apostle told us to trust it, you can have great confidence that it has the New Testament straight also. The history of how that text came to us is long and meanders through many people and places, but is available in books written by many different authors. A person does not have to tie up part of his or her intellect to believe that they have a perfect scripture. There is a perfectly accessible road map from the present day back to the apostles' time which documents the accuracy of the King James Bible for those who care to look.
To interpret the bible properly, you must have the proper words.


INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW SERIES ...
LONG OVER DUE! (9/28/21)


GOOD INTRODUCTION
INCLUDING MOST RECENT POSTS!



One of the most important responsibilities
Christians have is to study the
Scriptures for themselves.

IF WE STUDY AND LEARN THE TRUTH … THEN THE LIES WILL STICK OUT LIKE A ‘SORE THUMB” … IF YOU ARE A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER IN CHRIST INDWELLED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HAVE DISCERNMENT! … I Corinthians 2:14

This is true of any subject in life! Any subject! The Bible is a benchmark for the TRUTH! Any TRUTH! If you study and learn the truth about the Historical Baptist Distinctives you will readily see the falsehoods that (most) of all the (other) ‘religions and cults’ that are not based on Baptistic Theology and Distinctives have. If you use modern versions and not the King James Bible and listen to false teachers (Jude 3) you will become very confused!





ANNOUNCING THE NEW SERIES ...
LONG OVER DUE! September 24, 2021

Dr. John M. Asquith 9/15/21 by permission

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: Amos 8:11.

There has been a 50 year push in most Evangelical or Fundamental churches to tell as many people as possible about Jesus Christ. At the end of that 50 year push, far fewer people know or understand Jesus Christ than ever before. Regardless of anyone else's theology, I have found that explaining to people that God's word is here on this earth, that it is perfect and that they can know it has done more to awaken people to righteousness than anything else.

Booker T. Washington once said that he wearied of young ex-slaves who had been sent off to Europe for a fancy education by wealthy do-gooders. He said they could dress fancy and discourse for hours on the various interest rates of European bonds and stocks but couldn't understand why their fathers lost a dollar on every bale of cotton they sold. Our bible colleges and local church institutes have spewed forth their modern equivalent in the ministry.

We have young men who dress right, preach well, and have very fundamental theologies. They cannot get a neighborhood to change. They can't get a family to change and they can't get an individual to change. They are utterly impotent. Their idea of soul winning is the Baptist Sacrament wherein they get people to pray their little prayer and pretend that these people truly believed.

What do tadpoles become? If you said, "frogs" you are about .001% right. Most tadpoles become fish food. Very few ever become frogs. What do these hapless victims of the Baptist Sacrament become? If you said, "saints of God" you are less accurate than your first answer. Our towns and cities all over America are filled with people who have been run through the mill of easy believism only to blend back into the sin laden lifestyles wherein the preacher found them.

The Black Creek Baptist Church is in Allegany County New York which lost 5% of its population in the last census and is down to 46,456 people. Most industry has moved out. Our township which is quite large has 700 people. A good portion of them are Amish who would never come to one of our services. In 14 years we have gone from an average attendance of 15 to 25 to an average of 60 to 80. We have drawn many people from broken drug sotted homes who had fallen through every safety net. Many of their lives are irrevocably changed. Doctors have noticed, social workers have noticed and the men who stock beer in the convenience stores have noticed.

My emphasis to the broken victims of New York State's overworked welfare system and the broken families and discouraged population is that there is a bible. It is the King James Bible. God speaks to us. We have the absolute, 100% true words of the living God. I teach them to read it. I teach them to apply it to their lives. As their lives improve, they begin to realize that the bible they are reading is indeed true. At some point they begin to tremble over the sin in their lives and become soundly converted by Jesus Christ.

I am no longer interested in debating the "theologically pure" who are quite sure that my ways are wrong. I just intend to teach a lost a dying world that the King James Bible is the word of God and that it is infallible and that they themselves can know what it says. The people who have received that teaching can't get enough church. They come for Sunday School, two services on Sunday, Wednesday Night, and they come to Thursday Night Bible Study. I hear complaints that we don't have enough meetings. My church is filled with actual converts as well as some who have drifted from other churches.

With all of that said, I am developing a bible institute degree to teach the King James Bible itself. I want them to know its vocabulary, its history, the history of England and of the English Language. I want them to be familiar with the various arguments for and against it. I want them to be sound in presenting the word of God, defending the word of God and then, and only then, preaching the word of God. If a man does that, Jesus Christ will be glorified and lives will change.

Here is a representative course that we are offering. If you want to take the course on your own, please feel free to do so. For this course we are using Will Kinney's website which he has graciously made available to the world at large. He is not associated with us, but we are indebted to him.


Brand Plucked Web: The Essential Will Kinney

Course Description:

This course will familiarize the student with the writings and research of Will Kinney. His website, Brandplucked.webs.com is probably the largest and most comprehensive compilation of defenses and explanations for the integrity of the King James Bible. As long as the internet continues in its current form, most challenges to the King James Bible whether they be historical, doctrinal, or linguistic can be successfully researched on Mr. Kinney’s site. The goal of this course is to make the student able use this site when researching difficult questions concerning our King James Bible.


Requirements:

1. Watch the first video under the heading; KJB Videos titled, Did God preserve His Inerrant words and are they found in the. King James Bible.

A. What are the four positions outlined by Will Kinney as the only four possible positions concerning the preservation of the word of God? List them and give a brief explanation of each position.
B. Considering position #4, explain in detail how Mr. Kinney helped you understand the position of an inerrant King James Bible.
C. Take one of the other 3 positions and refute it in more detail using your own words as if you were defending the King James Bible from a person who held that position.
2. Read the Article, Reasons why the King James Bible is the absolute Standard- God’s Historic Witness to the Truth.
A. Write a 500 words or more essay summarizing Mr. Kinney’s reasoning.
3. Read the Article, The Old Fashioned language of the King James Bible, subtitled, The “Old Fashioned Language” of the King James Bible “Archaic and Inerrant” beats “Modernized and Wrong Any Day of the Week.
A. Read the link on the 40 concrete examples of falsehoods taught by these fake bible versions. Choose 5 of them and explain why they are so dangerous.

4. Under the Heading KJB Videos, select 25 of the videos. Watch each of the 25 and summarize each video.
5. Using Google, type in a verse from scripture and then write Brandplucked after it. Briefly write what you found.
6. Write a final paper on how Will Kinney has helped you to appreciate the King James Bible. In that paper explain how his refutation of false versions helped as well as his explanations about the truth of the King James Bible. Minimum 1000 words.


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PUBLISHED POSTS FOR YOUR EDIFICATION
Matthew 7:13-14 KJV By Bill Brinkworth

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13-14 KJV

There are many that claim to be Christian, but are not! They are heathen. Heathen are the unsaved, and those bound for Hell. Calling themselves Christians will not make them saved. Examine what the Bible says about heathen cloaked under the name “Christian”:
  • Heathens are sometimes called Christians or God’s people.
  • “… That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.” Amos 9:11-12
  • This verse is speaking of a time not yet come, but the principle applies to these latter days. Not all that claim to be children of God are children of God
  • Heathens pray.
  • “… But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.” Matthew 6:6-7
  • It is ironic that the outline for prayer (Matthew 6:9-13) that follows these verses is what many so-called “Christian” faiths vainly (without thought or meaning, empty of feeling) pray over and over.
  • Heathens have religion also!
  • “… This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15:7-9
  • There have always been those that believe themselves to be children of God, but were not. It was the religious that had killed Jesus and persecuted His followers.
  • Heathens can think God is using them. (However, many times Satan, the deceiver, is blinding them, and deceiving them with false miracles from “God”.)
  • “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me , Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:20-23
  • Heathens can go through religious routines and rituals.
  • “Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth … and you thrust out.” Luke 13:26-28
  • They went to the house of God, but that didn’t make them His.
Many are religious, but lost. People may think they are Christians, but may not be. There is only one way to be a child of God — God’s way.
“… Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3.
Are you “born again”? Are you going to Heaven by God’s narrow way of trusting Christ’s payment for your sins with His blood? Or are you a heathen bound for Hell?

“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. ” Colossians 4:5 KJV

God said we are to walk in wisdom concerning the lost. Did you ever stop to think about it? That man, unsaved out there, is related to us about using our time. That is what God said, “…toward them that are without, … ” in order to reach them. Did you ever stop to think that a man out there puts a higher value on Christian living than he does about Christian doctrine? He never thinks much or wonders, “What do those people do over there at that Baptist church? But he thinks an awful lot about, “I wonder how those people at that Baptist church live?” This is uncanny about how unsaved people think of saved people.

The salvation of a man’s soul depends greatly upon what he thinks of you. You mark it down, not so much what he thinks of the Bible, or what he thinks of Jesus, or what he thinks of preaching. But the salvation of many a lost person depends on what he thinks of you and I as a Christian.

Our own estimation of your spiritual self, will determine what you do in the matter of time and witnessing to somebody else. I believe with all my heart, that a lot of people never witness or use their time to get someone saved, because of a poor estimation of their own spiritual life. God says, “Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. ”

God has made us managers of time. — T.M.

Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” August, 25, 2021 devotional by author Dr. Tom Malone (Deceased), Pontiac, MI. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.


One of the most important responsibilities Christians have is to study the Scriptures for themselves. Church is important, and one can learn quite a lot from the man of God in the pulpit, but it is up to us to study and understand what the Word of God says.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” II Tim. 2:15

II Timothy 2:15 teaches us five things about studying the Word of God:




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