Sermon Sunday – Charles Spurgeon Remembrance of Christ
May 29, 2011 at 7:51 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | Leave a commentTags: abortion, absurd, Adam, affection, agony, America, Apollyon, ateasetees, attention, baptism, beast, bed, benefit, Bible, bird, blasphemy, blessing, blood, bread, brother, business, cage, calling, Calvary, Christ, Christian, church, compromise, conscience, courage, coward, creature, crime, cross, crown, cup, damnation, death, deliverance, descent, desecrate, desert, despise, dragon, drunk, duel, dumb, election, embalm, emblem, eucharist, evangelism, everlasting, evil, evny, experience, extraction, fact, faith, finished, flesh, foe, forget, Gethsemane, girdle, glory, God, gospel, grace, gratitude, grief, guilt, Hallelujah, heart, hell, helm, holy, Holy Ghost, hope, hour, imagination, Islam, Israel, Jehovah, Jesus, Jordan, Judah, judgment, Lamb, law, life, lion, London, Lord, Lord's Supper, love, lusts, mariner, marriage, martyr, memory, mercy, Messiah, miserable, mistake, mock, monarch, money, monument, moon, mother, murder, murderer, nailed, nature, ocean, ordinance, passion, pastor, patience, peace, persecution, Pharisee, photograph, Pilate, pilgrim, pillow, poverty, power, prayer, race, regenerate, remembrance, remnant, repent, rescue, sabbath, salvation, Savior, scepter, scripture, season, sin, slander, smile, soldier, son, sorrow, soul, spectator, stone, suffering, sun, tears, temple, tempt, ten commandments, thorn, traveller, treasure, trial, truth, victory, vile, visage, water, wicked, wilderness, wine, worm
A Sermon
Delivered on Sabbath Evening, January 7th, 1855, by the
REV. C. H. Spurgeon
At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.
“This do in remembrance of me.”—1 Corinthians 11:24.
It seems, then, that Christians may forget Christ. The text implies the possibility of forgetfulness concerning him whom gratitude and affection should constrain them to remember. There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous, and our remembrance superficial in its character, or changing in its nature. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas, too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It seems at first sight too gross a crime to lay at the door of converted men. It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb should ever forget their Ransomer; that those who have been loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should ever forget that Son; but if startling to the ear, it is alas, too apparent to the eye to allow us to deny the fact. Forget him who ne’er forgot us! Forget him who poured his blood forth for our sins! Forget him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes it is not only possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault of all of us, that we can remember anything except Christ. The object which we should make the monarch of our hearts, is the very thing we are most inclined to forget. Where one would think that memory would linger, and unmindfulness would be an unknown intruder, that is the spot which is desecrated by the feet of forgetfulness, and that the place where memory too seldom looks. I appeal to the conscience of every Christian here: Can you deny the truth of what I utter? Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should have your eye steadily fixed upon the cross. It is the incessant round of world, world, world; the constant din of earth, earth, earth, that takes away the soul from Christ. Oh! my friends, is it not too sadly true that we can recollect anything but Christ, and forget nothing so easy as him whom we ought to remember? While memory will preserve a poisoned weed, it suffereth the Rose of Sharon to wither. Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – Charles Spurgeon Remembrance of Christ…
Persecution Friday: Uzbekistan
May 27, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, Anvar Rajapov, ateasetees, Baptist, Bible, book, charges, children, Christian, church, compromise, computer, confiscation, death, evangelism, evidence, faith, God, gospel, grace, Hamza, hell, holy, hope, illegal, investigate, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, literature, love, marriage, mercy, money, murder, pastor, peace, persecution, police, prayer, proselytism, raid, religion, repent, salvation, scripture, sin, Tashkent, tax, ten commandments, truth, Ulmas Shukurov, Uzbekistan, Voice of the Martyrs
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Uzbekistan: Raids Increase in April
Christians in Uzbekistan have faced increased persecution recently in the form of raids, literature confiscations, court-ordered literature destruction and heavy fines.
On April 5, Police and National Security Service (NSS) officers raided the home of Anvar Rajapov, a believer in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent, according to Forum 18 News Service. Police confiscated about 250 religious books and recordings, a computer and Rajapov’s passport. A police officer also photographed Rajapov’s children without his knowledge.
Rajapov was convicted on April 14 of violating five articles of the administrative code, including those prohibiting the illegal storage of religious materials, the illegal organization of meetings, and proselytism. Rajapov was fined 80 times the minimum monthly wage, or about $2,330. The judge also ordered the destruction of the religious books confiscated in the raid, “except for those that can be allowed for internal use of religious communities.”
Local Christians told Forum 18 that the court had produced no evidence to support the charges brought against Rajapov. “The whole case is fabricated,” one believer said. He added that the judge “did not even investigate the case but just signed the hastily and carelessly prepared decision.” Local believers said the head of the city district committee, Ulmas Shukurov, had called for Rajapov to be punished and expelled from the district because he had left Islam and accepted Christianity. Shukurov accompanied police on the raid of Rajapov’s house.
Rajapov’s case is not uncommon, as Uzbekistan’s courts frequently order the confiscation and destruction of religious literature, including Bibles. Uzbek authorities conducted two raids in April on the Hamza District Baptist Church, also located in Tashkent. In a raid on April 7, police confiscated thousands of Christian books from the church as well as money belonging to a church member. Four days later, on April 11, police and NSS officers raided a church-owned flat nearby, confiscating printing equipment and tens of thousands of Christian books. Four church members were each fined between 50 and 100 times the minimum monthly wage, according to Forum 18. In addition, tax authorities fined the church the equivalent of about $4,090 on April 28 for failing to use a cash register to record sales and donations.
Genesis 11:10-32
May 23, 2011 at 6:18 pm | Posted in Bible Study, Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abortion, Abram, Adam, America, Arpachshad, ateasetees, Bible, boring, Canaan, Christian, church, compromise, death, earth, Eber, evangelism, evolution, faith, generation, Genesis, God, gospel, grace, Haran, Hebrew, hell, holy, hope, Israel, Jesus, Jewish, judgment, law, life, lineage, Lot, love, marriage, mercy, Milcah, million, money, murder, name, Noah, pastor, peace, prayer, record, repent, salvation, Sarai, scripture, Shem, sin, ten commandments, Terah, truth, Ur, years
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters. Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah; and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters. Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber; and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters. Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg; and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters. Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu; and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters. Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug; and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters. Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor; and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters. Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah; and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters. Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. Now these are the records of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran became the father of Lot. Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. Sarai was barren; she had no child. Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there. The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran. Continue Reading Genesis 11:10-32…
Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Authentic Religion
May 22, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | 2 CommentsTags: abomination, abortion, action, affection, Ahab, alive, America, angel, ateasetees, authentic, banquet, betray, Bible, bishop, blaspheme, blemish, brass, brethren, brood, builder, Christian, church, churchianity, churchmanship, comfort, common sense, compromise, comtempt, condemn, conduct, confidence, counterfeit, cruel, curse, dead, death, decent, Deliverer, delusion, denomination, detestable, devil, disciple, doctrine, evangelical, evangelism, examine, extreme, faith, false, feeble, feeling, formal, friend, fruit, garment, genuine, God, gold, good, gospel, grace, greed, guilty, heart, heathen, heaven, hell, Herod, holiness, hollow, holy, honest, hope, hospitality, humility, hypocrite, idol, ignorant, imitation, independent, inferior, influence, injury, intrinsic, inward, iron, Israel, J.C. Ryle, Jesus, Jonah, Judas Iscariot, Judge, judgment, kindness, law, life, living, lost, love, lust, make believe, marriage, married, Mediator, meekness, merciful, mercy, mina, minister, money, moral, murder, net, nominal, outside, parable, pastor, Paul, peace, persevere, piety, pleasure, poet, pray, prayer, pretense, pride, priest, profession, prostitute, proud, pulpit, reason, Redeemer, religion, repent, respect, revival, ritual, root, salvation, sanctuary, Saul, scripture, sham, silver, Simon Magus, sin, sincere, slur, snake, solid, sons, soul, sower, substantial, talents, tax, ten commandments, thief, thorough, tongue, traitor, truth, unjust, unselfish, viper, virgin, war, weak, weeds, wickedness, words, works, worldliness, worship, wrath, wretched
Authentic Religion
by
J. C. Ryle
(1816-1900)
“Rejected silver” (Jeremiah 6:30)
“Nothing but leaves” (Mark 11:13)
“Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth”
(1 John 3:18).
“You have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead” (Revelation 3:1)
If we profess to have any religion at all, let us be careful that it is authentic. I say it emphatically, and I repeat the saying: Let us be careful that our religion is authentic.
What do I mean when I use the word “authentic.” I mean that which is genuine, and sincere, and honest, and thorough. I mean that which is not inferior, and hollow, and formal, and false, and counterfeit, and sham, and nominal. “Authentic” religion is not mere show, and pretense, and skin-deep feeling, and temporary profession, and works only on the outside. It is something inward, solid, substantial, intrinsic, living, lasting. We know the difference between counterfeit and authentic money–between solid gold and tinsel–between plated metal and silver–between authentic stone and plaster imitation. Let us think of these things as we consider the subject of this paper. What is the character of our religion? Is it authentic? It may be weak, and feeble, and mingled with many defects. That is not the point before us today. Is our religion authentic? Is it true?
The times in which we live demand attention to this subject. A want of authenticity is a striking feature of a vast amount of religion in the present day. Poets have sometimes told us that the world has passed through four different states or conditions. We have had a golden age, and a silver age, a brass age, and an iron age. How far this is true, I do not stop to inquire. But I fear there is little doubt as to the character of the age in which we live. It is universally an age of cheap metal and alloy. If we measure the religion of the age by its apparent quantity, there is much of it. But if we measure it by its quality, there is indeed very little. On every side we want MORE AUTHENTICITY. Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Authentic Religion…
Genesis 11:1-9
May 16, 2011 at 9:25 pm | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: abortion, Abraham, Ararat, ark, ateasetees, Babel, Bible, black, blessing, Canaan, Christian, church, city, climate, compromise, death, disobedience, DNA, evangelism, faith, family, flood, Genesis, God, gospel, grace, group, Ham, heaven, hell, holy, hope, Israel, Japheth, Jesus, judgment, language, law, life, love, marriage, mercy, money, mortar, murder, Noah, participate, pastor, pattern, peace, people, planet, prayer, rebellion, repent, salvation, scatter, scripture, Shem, Shinar, shop, sin, skin, stone, tar, ten commandments, tower, trait, truth, weather, white
Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words. It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. The LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth. Continue Reading Genesis 11:1-9…
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