top of page

DEVOTION for November 16th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord” in English)

BC/AD versus BCE/CE What’s the difference?​

Defend the Truth. Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2024 years ago, is now here in the   flesh from GOD through His body and bride, the church and lives forevermore, time without end  and He’s coming again.

___________________________________

 

DON’T MISS THIS:

 

Trump Endorses God Bless the USA KJV Bible   (Click Here)

 

Why the King James Bible of 1611 Remains the Most Popular Translation in History

URL: https://www.history.com/news/king-james-bible-most-popular

 

Seven reasons to read (or hear) the Pilgrim’s Progress

URL:  https://openthebible.org/article/seven-good-reasons-to-read-pilgrims-progress/#:~:text=It's%20a%20classic

ADULT AUDIO:

The Pilgrim’s Progress   by John Bunyan (Complete audio-book narrated by Christopher Glyn)\\

 

Preface: Bunyan’s letter​     

Episode 01: The City of Destruction      

Episode 02: Obstinate & Pliable      

Episode 03: The Swamp of Despond

Episode 04: Mr. Worldly Wiseman

Episode 05: The Narrow Gate

Ø  Episode 06: The House of the Interpreter           

Episode 07: The Cross

Episode 08: Simple, Sloth & Presumption

Episode 09: Formalist & Hypocrisy

Episode 10: The Hill Difficulty

Episode 11: Timorous & Mistrust

Episode 12: The Palace Beautiful

Episode 13: Battle with Apollyon

Episode 14: The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Episode 15: Christian Meets Faithful & Talkative

Episode 16:  Mr. By-ends      Town of Fair Speech

Episode 17: The Hill Lucre [Gain and Greed]

Episode 18: By-path Meadow   Vain Confidence

Episode 19: Doubting Castle

Episode 20: The Delectable Mountains

Episode 21:   Ignorance  (Conceit)

Episode 22:  The Flatterer​

Episode 23: Atheist

Episode 24: The Enchanted Ground

Episode 25: Ignorance Rejoins the Pilgrims

Episode 26:  Beulah Land

Episode 27: The River of Death

Episode 28:  The Celestial City

 

________________________________________

CHILDREN’S VIDEO (Illustrated) 

Pilgrim’s Progress Drama presented in 9 parts.

 

DANGEROUS JOURNEY    

Part 1 The Slough of Despond [The Swamp]

Part 2 The Interpreter’s House

Part 3 The Hill Difficulty

Ø  Part 4 The Fight with Apollyon

Part 5 The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Part 6   Vanity Fair

Part 7 Doubting Castle

Parts  8  & 9   The Dark River and  The Celestial City

_________________________________________

 

PART II – CHRISTIANA, The Sequel  (Narration is“Old English dialect”)


PRINT:  -  The Pilgrim’s Progress  Part II   Christiana by  John Bunyan 


AUDIO: These Audio files will advance and play the next episode automatically, if not paused, closed  or stopped.
    

 1 A Visit from Secret  4:50  Audio  

 2 Good News  2:25  Audio

Mount Charity  1:01  Audio

Fool  & Want-Wit    1:16  Audio

Valiant-For-Truth  1:41 Audio

Valiant Does Battle 5:51  Audio

Valiant’s Story  3:35  Audio

Which Way To Go  1:30  Audio

Stand-Fast’s 'Wife'   6:02  Audio

10 Stand-Fast’s Story   1:37  Audio

11 Beulah Land  3:20  2018  Audio

12 The Postman’s Visit  1:57  2018  Audio

13 Christiana’s Blessing  5:55  Audio

Ø  14 Christiana Goes Over The River  1:20  Audio

15 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell   2:10  Audio                                                                          

16 Old-Honest Called    1:41  Audio

17 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword  2:27  Audio

18 Stand-Fast’s Will   3:56  Audio   

19 Christiana Nears The City  1:01  Audio 

20 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry   4:45  Audio 

DEVOTION for November 16th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord” in English)

BC/AD versus BCE/CE What’s the difference?​

Defend the Truth. Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2024 years ago, is now here in the   flesh from GOD through His body and bride, the church and lives forevermore, time without end  and He’s coming again.

___________________________________

 

DON’T MISS THIS:

 

Trump Endorses God Bless the USA KJV Bible   (Click Here)

 

Why the King James Bible of 1611 Remains the Most Popular Translation in History

URL: https://www.history.com/news/king-james-bible-most-popular

 

Seven reasons to read (or hear) the Pilgrim’s Progress

URL:  https://openthebible.org/article/seven-good-reasons-to-read-pilgrims-progress/#:~:text=It's%20a%20classic

 

_________________________________

 

ADULT AUDIO:

The Pilgrim’s Progress   by John Bunyan (Complete audio-book narrated by Christopher Glyn)\\

 

Preface: Bunyan’s letter​     

Episode 01: The City of Destruction      

Episode 02: Obstinate & Pliable      

Episode 03: The Swamp of Despond

Episode 04: Mr. Worldly Wiseman

Episode 05: The Narrow Gate

Episode 07: The Cross

Episode 08: Simple, Sloth & Presumption

Episode 09: Formalist & Hypocrisy

Episode 10: The Hill Difficulty

Episode 11: Timorous & Mistrust

Episode 12: The Palace Beautiful

Episode 13: Battle with Apollyon

Episode 14: The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Episode 15: Christian Meets Faithful & Talkative

Episode 16:  Mr. By-ends      Town of Fair Speech

Episode 17: The Hill Lucre [Gain and Greed]

Episode 18: By-path Meadow   Vain Confidence

Episode 19: Doubting Castle

Episode 20: The Delectable Mountains

Episode 21:   Ignorance  (Conceit)

Episode 22:  The Flatterer​

Episode 23: Atheist

Episode 24: The Enchanted Ground

Episode 25: Ignorance Rejoins the Pilgrims

Episode 26:  Beulah Land

Episode 27: The River of Death

Episode 28:  The Celestial City

 

________________________________________

CHILDREN’S VIDEO (Illustrated) 

Pilgrim’s Progress Drama presented in 9 parts.

 

DANGEROUS JOURNEY    

Part 1 The Slough of Despond [The Swamp]

Part 2 The Interpreter’s House

Part 3 The Hill Difficulty

Part 5 The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Part 6   Vanity Fair

Part 7 Doubting Castle

Parts  8  & 9   The Dark River and  The Celestial City

_________________________________________

 

PART II – CHRISTIANA, The Sequel  (Narration is“Old English dialect”)


PRINT:  -  The Pilgrim’s Progress  Part II   Christiana by  John Bunyan 


AUDIO: These Audio files will advance and play the next episode automatically, if not paused, closed  or stopped.
    

 1 A Visit from Secret  4:50  Audio  

 2 Good News  2:25  Audio

Mount Charity  1:01  Audio

Fool  & Want-Wit    1:16  Audio

Valiant-For-Truth  1:41 Audio

Valiant Does Battle 5:51  Audio

Valiant’s Story  3:35  Audio

Which Way To Go  1:30  Audio

Stand-Fast’s 'Wife'   6:02  Audio

10 Stand-Fast’s Story   1:37  Audio

11 Beulah Land  3:20  2018  Audio

12 The Postman’s Visit  1:57  2018  Audio

13 Christiana’s Blessing  5:55  Audio

15 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell   2:10  Audio                                                                          

16 Old-Honest Called    1:41  Audio

17 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword  2:27  Audio

18 Stand-Fast’s Will   3:56  Audio   

19 Christiana Nears The City  1:01  Audio 

20 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry   4:45  Audio 

DEVOTION for November 16th *A.D. 2024 Written and calendared for this date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.

 

*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord” in English)

BC/AD versus BCE/CE What’s the difference?​

Defend the Truth. Won’t you? 

 

Jesus Christ [Messiah] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2024 years ago, is now here in the   flesh from GOD through His body and bride, the church and lives forevermore, time without end  and He’s coming again.

 

PRAYER 15, Part 9 of 9: THE PEACE OF GOD.

ANECDOTE 107: The Martyr’s Victory.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK:  WEAPONS DOOMED TO FAIL

-No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn- Isaiah 54:17

MORNING: "The Lord is my portion, saith [says] my soul. "— Lamentations 3:24

EVENING: "Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty. "— Isaiah 33:17

A SINNER’S PRAYER

______________________________________

PRAYER 15, Part 9 of 9

THE PEACE OF GOD.

But what of all this [praying] ? Our heart goes far beyond all this:

 

“Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; for Thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever and ever.”

 

“Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.”

 

All things are in Thy hand, come quickly; the cries of Thy people persuade Thee,

 

“the Spirit and the bride say, come,”

 

make no tarrying [don’t delay], O, our Redeemer, and unto the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God of our Lord Jesus Christ be glory for ever and ever.

[In the Holy name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 15.doc) Amen

________________________________________

ANECDOTE 107: The Martyr’s Victory.

There is a martyr in prison: the chains are on his wrists, and yet he sings. It has been announced to him that to-morrow is his burning day [he is to be burned at the stake]. He claps his hands right merrily, and smiles while he says,

“ It will be sharp work tomorrow, I shall breakfast below on fiery tribulations, but afterward I will sup [dine] with Christ [Jesus].

Tomorrow is my wedding day, the day for which I have long panted, [longed for] when I shall sign [sign off on] the testimony of my life by a glorious death.”

 

The time is come [is here]; the men with the halberts [battle axes] precede him through the streets. Mark the serenity of the martyr’s countenance. He turns to some who look upon him, and exclaims, “I value these iron chains far more than if they had been of gold; it is a sweet thing to die for Christ.” There are a few of the boldest of the saints gathered round the stake, and as he unrobes himself, ere [before] he stands upon the fagots [firewood] to receive his doom, he tells them that it is a joyous thing to be a soldier of Christ, to be allowed to give his body to be burned; and he shakes hands with them, and bids them “Good-by” with merry cheer.

One would think he were going to a bridal [wedding] rather than to be burned. He steps upon the fagots [firewood]; the chain is put about his middle; and after a brief word of prayer, as soon as the fire begins to ascend, he speaks to the people with manful boldness. But hark! he sings whilst the fagots [burning fire wood] are crackling and the smoke is blowing upward. He sings, and when his nether parts are burned, he still goes on chanting sweetly some psalm of old.

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble; therefore, will we not fear, though the earth be removed and the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” 

________________________________________

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK November 16 WEAPONS DOOMED TO FAIL  C.H. Spurgeon

-No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn- Isaiah 54:17

 

There is great clatter in the forges and smithies [Blacksmith shop] of the enemy. They are making weapons wherewith to smite [attack] the saints. They could not even do as much as this if the Lord of saints did not allow them [to do it]; for He has created the smith [iron worker] that bloweth [blows] the coals [pumps the bellows [into] the fire. But see how busily they labor! How many swords and spears they fashion! It matters nothing, [doesn’t matter] for on the blade of every weapon you may read this inscription: -It shall not prosper-.

 

But now listen to another noise: it is the strife [battle] of tongues. Tongues are more terrible instruments than can be made with hammers and anvils, and the evil which they inflict cuts deeper and spreads wider. What will become of us now?

 

Slander, falsehood, insinuation, ridicule — these are poisoned arrows; how can we meet them? The Lord God promises us that, if we cannot silence them, we shall, at least, escape from being ruined by them. They condemn us for the moment, but we shall condemn them at [the] last, and forever.

 

The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped, and their falsehoods shall be turned to the honor of those good men who suffered by them.

Prayer: Thank You Lord that no weapon formed against your children [me] shall prosper. Thank You that You will condemn every tongue that is raised against us. I stand on and embrace this promise in the name of Your only begotten, Holy and Beloved Son, the Lord Jesus, Amen.

 

The John Mark Publishing Company   P.O.  Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA  92693 
e-mail:  michaelriley1008@gmail.com

 

Please send e-mail addresses of anyone you would like to receive  DailySpurgeon.com each day.   
       … and pray for the saving of souls and strengthening  of believers. 

The Lord … is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9

 

Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit to rightly divide God’s eternal Word preserved by God, Himself.

      For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten [supernaturally fathered] Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

 

John 3:16  

 

vis. The Textus Receptus TR [Received Text] is the faithfully rendered Greek text with an overwhelming agreement in and among the majority of the 5,321 extant New Testament, Greek manuscripts  known as the  MT. [Majority Text]. The Old Testament Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts were meticulously copied by hand [manuscript] by the Masoretic scribes. These are the manuscripts  from which  the Original King James version  was translated onto English.

In order for Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland to create the Modern Greek to shore up  the highly nuanced Critical Text theory, only Fifty-five manuscripts from the 5,321 Majority Text MT were hand-picked and they were not from the Textus Receptus but were selected from  the inferior Sinaiticus and Vaticanus codices. These fifty-five manuscripts  brought  variant readings and were created, ostensibly, to justify the creation of an alternative Greek text to the Textus Receptus which had been under spurious attack by Westcott & Hort and Nestle & Aland for many years.

The Codices known as Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are inferior because they often are in disagreement with the Textus Receptus and incredibly, with one another. They give rise to variant readings and embrace secular doctrine bias not supported by scripture translated from the Majority Text or Textus Receptus.  They have been infused by  invented Greek text where an absence of Greek text from the Fifty-five hand-picked manuscripts was found.

They invented but did not disclose themselves as the source  of the new Greek translation.  They supplied this new Greek translation to all Committee members with the aim to revise the King James Bible. However, They insisted on a code of silence as to the authorship of the Greek Text from which all the Revisions were to be based. All members of the committee were required to agree to this code.

Modern textual criticism is based on the assumption that older manuscripts are, de-facto, more accurate. Actually, the continuous and unsettled changes from their  variant readings reflect error, doctrinal ambiguities and biases not supported by the Majority Text.

Scripture based on The Greek text of Westcott &  Hort and Nestle & Aland of a secular or denominational tradition allow modern textual criticism  to  rob God of His Sovereignty, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, Inerrancy and  Infallibility and to diminish Glory from His infinite and everlasting “I AM” that deserves and demands ALL GLORY.

 

This direct Translation is from the Textus Receptus [Received Text] (The overwhelming majority of extant Greek texts distinct from codices Alexandrinus, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus which often, proven through their multiple editions, do not agree with one another and have introduced modern biblical criticism translations which bring ambiguities and uncertainties in the multitude of English translations that purport to address unsettled, uncertain and variant readings that occur in Greek manuscripts, listed above except for the Textus Receptus;  the received, providentially protected and preserved inspired, self-authenticating Greek text that contains no unscriptural sectarian dogma or unsettled doctrine and is the source of the Authorized King James English Translation ).

 

For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in Heaven. Psalm 119:89

 

________________________________________

MORNING November 16

"The Lord is my portion, saith [says] my soul. "— Lamentations 3:24

— Mi parte es Jehová , dijo [dice] mi alma¾ Lamentations 3:24

IT is not "the Lord is partly my portion," nor "The Lord is in my portion;" but He Himself makes up the sum total of my soul's inheritance. Within the circum¬ference of that circle lies all that we possess or desire. The Lord is my portion. Not His grace merely, nor His love, nor His covenant [divine promise], but Jehovah Himself. He has chosen us for His portion, and we have chosen Him for ours. It is true that the Lord must first choose our in¬heritance for us, or else we shall never choose it for ourselves; but if we are really called according to the purpose of electing love, we can sing

Lov’d of my God for Him again

With love intense I burn;

Chosen of Him ere [before] time began,

I choose Him in return.

The Lord is our all-sufficient portion. God fills Himself; and if God is all-sufficient in Himself, He must be all-sufficient for us. It is not easy to satisfy man's desires. When he dreams that he is satisfied, he wakes at once to the perception that there is something beyond, and straightway the leech [parasite] in his heart cries, "Give, give." But all that we can wish for is to be found in our divine portion, so that we ask, "Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides Thee."

Well may we "delight ourselves in the Lord" who makes us to drink of the river of His pleasures. Our faith stretches her wings and mounts like an eagle into the heaven of divine love as to her proper dwelling place. "The lines have fallen to us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage." Let us rejoice in the Lord al¬ways; let us show to the world that we are a happy and blessed people, and thus induce them to exclaim,

“We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”

________________________________________

EVENING November 16

"Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty. "— Isaiah 33:17

—Tus ojos verán al Rey en su hermosura— Isaías 33:17

THE more you know about Christ the less you will be satisfied with superficial [shallow] views of Him; and the more deeply you study His transactions in the eternal covenant, His engagements on your behalf as the eternal Surety,[Payment in Full] and the fullness of His grace which shines in all His offices, the more truly will you see the King in His beauty. Be much in such outlooks. [Meditate often on Him] Long more and more to see Jesus.

Meditation and contemplation are often like windows of agate [translucent stone like a playing marble] and gates of carbuncle [rounded cut garnet with no facets], through which we behold the Redeemer. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. Would that [Wouldn’t it be wonderful if] our conversation were more in heaven and that we were more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord. More meditation, and the beauty of the King would flash on us with more resplendence [brilliance]. Beloved, it is very probable that we shall have such a sight of our glorious King as we never had before, when we come to die.

Many saints in dying have looked up from amid the stormy waters and have seen Jesus walking on the waves of the sea and heard Him say, "It is I; be not afraid." Ah, yes! When the tenement [the old house of our body] begins to shake, and the clay falls away, we see Christ through the rifts and between the rafters the sunlight of heaven comes streaming in. But if we want to see face to face the "King in His beauty," we must go to heaven for the sight, or the King must come here in person. 0 that he would come on the wings of the wind!

He is our Husband, and we are widowed by His absence; He is our Brother dear and fair, and we are lonely without Him. Thick veils and clouds hang between our souls and their true life: when shall the day break and the shadows flee away? Oh, long-expected day, begin!

 

_________________________________________

 

                 A  SINNER’S  PRAYER

Whosoever shall call on the name of the lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21

 Pray and call on the name of the Lord Jesus, like this. Won’t you? 

“Lord Jesus, I’m a sinner. I’m lost and hopeless to save myself. Without your death on the cross  I would spend eternity in Hell’s fire.

Thank you Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was born and that You have always loved me and will never reject or turn your back on me. I know You are the Way, the Truth and the Life and that no one can come to the Father but by You.  

Thank you, Father that You have caused for me to see myself as I am; a lost sinner.  But,  because of Your love and goodness, You have made a way and given me the desire to come to You, to turn away from my sin and to trust in You, Lord Jesus.  You took my place on the cross and provided the way for  me to be forgiven. Thank You.
Thank You that You prompted a desire in me to believe in You, the only begotten  Son of God who died on the cross to be the sacrifice that would  atone for my sins.

Thank You, Father for Your love that allowed Jesus to suffer and die in my place. Thank You that You raised Jesus from the dead. He is RISEN and is ALIVE and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave and in Christ Jesus I am free.

You raised Jesus from the dead, gave Him a Glorified body and after he was seen by many witnesses on earth You took Him up to reign with You  in heaven.  

Thank you, Father,  for saving me in the name, of Your only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Romans 6:11  

Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you always give witness to and exalt the Lord Jesus Christ. 
John 16:8-11

With all my heart, thank you Lord for saving me.
Live Your life in me,  Lord Jesus, in Your name I pray, Amen.

_____________________________

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Please allow us to share in the  joy of your having received  the new birth with you and the heavenly angels in Heaven as they rejoices over each redeemed sinner. Luke 15:7

The John Mark Publishing Company, P.O. Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693, U.S.A. or e-mail: michaelriley1008@gmail.com
 

 The John Mark Publishing Company,  P.O. Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA  92693, U.S.A.   Write us,  won’t you?­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

 

 

MISSION STATEMENT
Our solemn  aim is to trust and obey the Lord Jesus in everything. This  relies completely upon God to achieve His purpose for us through His means. We purpose, with God’s empowerment and  help,  to save the lost, comfort, strengthen and encourage believers, and  rightly divide God’s Word to proclaim the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ to every creature.

        The Holy Bible is God’s eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable revealed and divinely preserved Word.  It is His supernatural, complete scripture  of all revealed truth.  He brings guidance through it to us personally and to each local body of Christian believers. With God’s empowerment, we will read, study, meditate-on, trust-in  and obey God’s Holy Bible and encourage others to do the same. We hold it to be the supreme authority and the preeminent and divinely established Stare Decisis [Latin: to stand by that which is decided, the legal principle of precedence,   literally "to stand by decided matters"] in all things. 


       Therefore, the purpose of The John Mark Publishing Company is to publish the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every creature. And, to serve all, in love,  especially those in the household of faith. This purpose compels us to follow, and rightly present, God’s Holy Word, the Bible as God’s divinely preserved truth; the foundation of this ministry.
 

Tabernacle History:
       The  inspired preaching, teaching, soul winning and writings of Charles Haddon Spurgeon were solely based, empowered and inspired by God’s Holy Word the Bible.  His written sermons and devotional content continue to benefit today’s readers with authentic  Gospel preaching and sound biblical teaching. His ministry continues to flourish from the original (Spurgeon’s)  Metropolitan Tabernacle,  a church fellowship began in 1650 with the present  building constructed by members of the congregation in 1861 and rebuilt after the second world war..

        Spurgeon's written materials are for the edification of the church body as well as a great benefit, blessing and challenge to all readers. Our desire is that the written Word of God will become the Living  Word in each and every reader. To this end, a calendar is indexed (top, right) on the Home page of DailySpurgeon.com for daily study, meditation and prayer. An unabridged and strictly maintained fidelity to Spurgeon’s original calendar and unabridged text is carefully guarded.
_______________________________________

 

*Charles Dumah Riley, Sr. (AKA: Daddy, "CD", and Paw Paw) 1897 – 1987

Note: JM witnessed the last few hours of his *Daddy’s life on earth coming to an end and heard him say “Amen” over and over, affirming his own life’s conclusion and giving testimony of God’s goodness to him and his agreement and surrender to his earthly departure to be eternally present with the Lord Jesus. 

Amen... Amen… Amen!

 

Hear Harry Belafonte’s AMEN

 

My Daddy’s  prayer before every meal, always offered in the gravity and reverence in his unique  deep Bass voice of prayer:

“Accept our thanks for these and all other blessings, we humbly ask in Thy name, Amen.” 

 

You can cast your cares on the Lord…

1. Call on Him. As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.. ...Psalm 55:16

2. Trust Him. Commit thy way unto the Lord;  and he shall bring it to pass ... Psalm 37:5

3. Come to Him, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I [He] will give you rest.. Matthew 11:28

4. Give Him the burden. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22]

________________________________________

 

The John Mark Publishing Company P.O. Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693

e-mail: michaelriley1008@gmail.com

Please send e-mail addresses of anyone who you would like to receive DailySpurgeon via email daily.

… and pray for souls to be saved and believers to be strengthened.

The Lord … is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9

Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit and will rightly divide God’s Holy Word preserved by God, Himself.

________________________________________

 

God has preserved His Word through  The Masoretic Hebrew and Aramaic languages of the Old Testament and the GreekTextus Receptus of the New Testament:
 

In contrast, the Incomplete and unsealed codices of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are not translated from the  5,321 Majority Text Greek manuscripts, that became the Textus Receptus [Original Masoretic Hebrew and the Greek Textus Receptus].

 

The Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts  present variant readings rather than that of the well-established and settled majority Texts. They disagree often with one another as well as with the settled majority texts. Thus, an attempt to create a pretext that will continue to justify a never-ending demand for additional editions and interpretations. These unsettled differences and bias in certain sectarian doctrine [dogma] have led to the production of multiple “modern” editions with ambiguities, many variant readings and confusion from the explosion of unending, new editions.

Profit-driven publishers have embraced such an economic windfall to sell a continual flow of “new and better” English edition of The Bible. They give too little attention to the fidelity and accuracy already settled [in heaven] in majority manuscripts of the Masoretic Hebrew and the  Greek Textus Receptus.

 

Psalm 119:89-90

ל Lamed

89 Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:

thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. [abides]

God, Himself, providentially protects and preserves His Word. His Word is the God-breathed, self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful Word, settled in heaven. He is not the author of confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33 

________________________________________

________________________________________

Our Prayer: Dear Lord, empower your ministry to win many souls, and serve those in need, especially those in the household of faith, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Disclaimer: The John Mark Publishing Company honors the memory of Charles H. Spurgeon his writing and preaching. Honor to whom honor is due. He didn’t want praise then and doesn’t  need it now. Our aim is to lift up and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and to preach Christ Jesus only and him crucified.

Precaution: The content presented from this website can be beneficial, but it  cannot substitute for gathering together, in-person, with other believers to hear the preaching of God’s Word and to worship and sing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ [the Messiah].

 

The Authorized King James Version (AKJV), also known as the Authorized Version (AV), is the authentic. inerrant, and infallible  English Bible because it is rendered [translated into English] accurately and faithfully from the extant 5,321 majority Greek manuscripts text from which the Greek Textus Receptus, [received text] manuscripts of the New Testament is taken.

 

The Hebrew Masoretic Text copied faithfully by Masoretic scribes was the original Old Testament. (The Jewish Tanakh) is the Hebrew source from which translations into other languages were made. These manuscripts are providentially protected of God and always give the greatest glory to God when compared to other translations.  Editorial notations, variant and sometimes ambiguous readings taken from Codices Vaticanus, or Sinaiticus consistently allow  nuanced meanings to diminish God’s Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence or other divine attributes from being fully voiced.

 

The Authorized King James version is unique also in that the requirement of Great Brittan that all King James bibles be printed only by the Cambridge University Press, The Crown’s Authorized Printer. No other [person or publisher] may print, copy or import the King James Bible into Great Brittan by order of the Crown.

 

Printed Prayer: Printed prayers must not be read or offered as a substitute for personal, fervent, effectual, heart-felt, prayer. They are offered, rather, to warm the hearts of those who will presently seek a season of fervent, authentic two-way, heart-to-heart fellowship and prayer with the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Authentic revelations from God during prayer are always consistent with His revealed Word, the Bible.

Preaching Preparation: When preparing to preach, please send us the text reference that has been chosen if you would like us to send the Spurgeon Sermon addressing the same text.

 My Prayer is that You would touch, lift up, encourage and teach all who faithfully minister your Word. Bless all who minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ. May Your blessing and holy anointing fall fresh upon each dear reader and abide with each one who rightly divides and faithfully proclaims Your Word [The Bible]. Please save many souls; and may all be glory be yours alone. I pray this in the name of our Redeemer, The Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Distribution: The Publishing Company sends Daily Spurgeon by e-mail, to all request received. No fee or registration is required. Please send the e-mail address of all who you would like to add to our mailing list. Also, please FORWARD these e-mails freely to anyone you choose.

Send requests to michaelriley1008@gmail.com

 

Editorial Support: for DailySpurgeon

[Brackets] are used to clarify words and expressions that are not commonly used in, present day (USA) English. No changes other than spelling differences between UK and United States English (USA) noted with asterisks * have been made to the original, unabridged text. Bible scripture links are underlined blue text.(English: AKJV, Authorized King James Version; Spanish: Reina Valera Gomez). Brackets, ( […] ) clarify meaning and yellow highlighting are used for emphasis. These additions are the only ones made by the Publishing company.

Confidentiality Pledge: The mailing list is strictly confidential and will not be used or distributed in any way for any purpose other than to send this daily message except for occasional, confidential prayer requests.

Copyright: Prayers, Anecdotes, Faith’s Checkbook and Morning & Evening by C.H. Spurgeon are public domain and free from any © copyright limitation or restriction. Please Forward, copy and share freely, [Social media, US mail etc.] Your partnership is acknowledged with gratitude.

All requests to “Unsubscribe” will be honored promptly.

Printed Copies: You may request a printed copy of any DailySpurgeon issue at:

The John Mark Publishing Company, PO BOX 21 San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693 U.S.A. or michaelriley1008@gmail.com

 

________________________________________

 

 You too can cast your cares on the Lord…

Call on Him. As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.. ...Psalm 55:16

Trust Him. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass ... Psalm 37:5

Give Him the burden.  Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22]

Come to Him. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest..  Matthew 11:28

 Devotions are:

 
MISSION STATEMENT:
Our aim, with God’s  help,  is to be Christlike in all that we think, do and say. We desire to fulfill the Great Commission by taking the GOOD NEWS of Salvation by Grace through Faith in Jesus Christ [The Messiah] to every creature, and to make disciples and baptize  them in the name of the Father, the Son  and the Holy Ghost.
 
Published Titles written by Spurgeon are included each day in DailySpurgeon.com

·       C.H. Spurgeon Prayers

·       Spurgeon’s  Illustrative Anecdotes

·       Faith’s Checkbook

·       Morning & Evening

These titles are from the inspired body of work created from the preaching and writing of Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892. He created an unexcelled  legacy of gospel preaching and exposition and is known as the “Prince of Preachers”.  Spurgeon has been and is today widely read with great benefit from the 1800’s to this present time. He is the beloved founder of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England (Thriving TODAY through the faithful preaching of the Gospel and the Sacred Worship of Jesus the Christ [Messiah].) 

 

 [Click this link to live-stream current gospel preaching in real time each Sunday from London by Dr. Peter Masters, Metropolitan Tabernacle pastor since 1970.
      

Prayer: Lord Jesus, please be blessed by the winning of many souls, and give us love and compassion toward all who are in need, especially those in the household of faith. I pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and for His sake, Amen. 

    

      Disclaimer: The John Mark Publishing Company does not praise or exalt  Charles H. Spurgeon beyond the honor due him. He didn’t need or want it when he was here on earth and has no need for it now, in Heaven. Our aim is to lift up and glorify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and to preach HIM and Him crucified.

 

      Precaution: These Devotional Messages and prayers alone can not substitute for continual fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Neither do they replace personal reading, meditation, prayer and fasting over God's divinely preserved and eternal Word. (The King James version (KJV), also known also as the Authorized Version (AKJV), is the preferred English Bible because its accuracy and fidelity to the Greek Textus Receptus [received text] and the Hebrew Masoretic Text) avoid doctrinal and editorial weakness found in many contemporary editions.

      Written Prayers by Spurgeon must not be offered as a substitute for personal, intimate fervent, heart-felt, prayer. They are rather intended to warm the hearts of those who are seeking a season of authentic two-way, heart-to-heart  fellowship and prayer with the Father, His Son and the Holy Spirit.    

        Preaching  Preparation: Use links below to Find and compare a sermon by Charles H. Spurgeon from the same scripture reference of a sermon you may now be preparing.

 

'New Testament
URL:

https://www.spurgeongems.org/spurgeon-sermons/

 

Old Testament 
URL:

 https://www.spurgeongems.org/spurgeon-sermons/   (copy and paste)
_____________________________

 

The Speciality of Evangelistic Preaching

 

Dr Peter Masters

Pastor, Metropolitan Tabernacle

In two lectures Dr Masters demonstrated the urgent necessity of regular, persuasive Gospel preaching, together with the clear New Testament precedents and examples, the difficulties

______________________________

 

MOST RECENT SUNDAY SERMONS: from  Metropolitan Tabernacle London, U.K.

 

Featured Sermon

The Necessity of Evangelistic Preaching

We post this week this message from our recent Day of Special Studies, due to its immense importance in our churches today. Here are the biblical arguments for the revival of a once-universal practice. (This is Part I of two addresses.)

 

 

Gospel Sermon  Sunday 21 July 2024 | 6:30pm

Why Should We Believe?

Mark 4.23

God appeals to our intelligent minds - but will we listen? Our inclination is to turn away, but if God in His mercy places in us a thirst for certain things, we listen and come to Him. Here are the needs that draw us to God.

 

 

Bible Study  Wednesday 24 July 2024 | 7:30pm

How Mosaic Worship Foretold Christ

Hebrews 9.1

'Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all.'

 

Teaching Sermon  Sunday 21 July 2024 | 11:00am

The Believer’s Vow

Genesis 28.20

New believers when truly enlightened and saved are moved to make a pledge or vow to God, which will be renewed and deepened throughout this pilgrimage. Here are the important features of such vows, their scope, and their benefits and blessings.

 

____________________________

 

Prayer for Website visitors: 

 

Dear Father, please lift up, build up, encourage and draw to Yourself all who may visit the Daily Spurgeon website.  Bless the preaching of the Gospel presented hereand be glorified in your all sufficient, atoning grace to redeem all who call on the name of the Lord Jesus, the  Christ [Messiah], in Your name, Lord Jesus, Amen.

 

Distribution:  In order to provide  the most reliable means of distribution, The John Mark Publishing Company will  send Daily Spurgeon  by e-mail to anyone making such request. Just send your e-mail address to

Michaelriley1008@gmail.com

 

Editorial Support: [Brackets inform of ALL additions to the unabridged text of Spurgeon]  to clarify words and expressions that are unfamiliar or not in present-day  (USA) English use.  
No changes other than spelling differences between the UK and the United States English (USA) have been made to Spurgeon’s original,  unabridged text.  Scripture references are blue hyperlinks to The Bible text. (English: AKJV, Authorized King James Version]; Spanish: Reina Valera/Gomez)   


Copyright: Prayers, Anecdotes, Faith’s Checkbook  and  MORNING & EVENING, by C.H.  Spurgeon are public domain. Please copy and share freely with anyone who comes to mind. Your partnership in this work is acknowledged with joy and gratitude. 

A Complimentary King James Bible is available from:  

The John Mark Publishing Company,

P.O.  BOX 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA  92693  U.S.A.

__________________________________________

 The  Authorized King James Bible 

URL:  https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/

 

The above link is to search for specific words or Scriptures in the King James inerrant and infallible  English Version  (KJV)  because it is providentially protected and preserved by GOD Himself through the only translation into English by faithful brethren from the 5,312 established majority text manuscripts MT from which the New Testament  Greek Textus Receptus [received text] was taken  and the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament (Jewish Tanakh).  These manuscripts are providentially protected, and give greater glory to God when compared to the variant readings of all post KJV  translations. Modern Critical Texts are based on only 55 hand picked Greek manuscripts fabricated from either Westcott and Hort or Nestle and Aland. Both of these Greek textual sources make the assumption that OLDER IS BETTER. Of course, this assumption is not valid in any place   the older manuscripts err from the Textus Receptus..

 

The established majority manuscripts and the Textus Receptus avoid doctrinal error, and inaccuracies in translation, uninspired editorial notations, variant or ambiguous readings which taken from Codices Vaticanus, or Sinaiticus.

Copyright: The King James Version is also distinguished by the requirement of Great Brittan that all King James bibles be printed by the Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s authorized printer. No one other than the Crown’s printer, is allowed print, copy or import the King James Bible into Great Brittan by order of the Crown.

 

In the United States there is no Copyright protection to restrict the free printing of the KJV. It is the only Bible version that may be printed freely as Public Domain. Any  new publication that changes 10% or more of any existing  publication may procure a lucrative Copyright protection to restrict unauthorized printing of the new publication. Therefore,  the NKJV, NIV and many other modern  translations. Only the King James Version New Testament is unique from among the over 100 English translations that follow modern textual criticism and only the King James is faithfully translated from the well-established  Greek Textus Receptus as the  Primary time tested and self-authenticating Greek Source.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_________________________________
 

DEFENDING  THE  KING JAMES BIBLE    by the Millennium Bible Institute 


URL: https://youtu.be/RL1px3GRfo4 


This video presents the truth  for those who seek to learn about and use the providentially protected, preserved and immutable Holy Bible that is both inerrant [without error] and infallible and gives God alone, the utmost praise, and the greatest glory due to HIMSELF. Praise and worship are rightfully insisted upon and commanded in God’s  inspired [God-Breathed (Spoken) Word from God himself. 
HOLY WORDS  that were given by God through the Holy Ghost, word by word, to His  Holy Prophets and Apostles comprise all eternal Holy Scripture. (Matthew 5:18)

__________________________________

 

HOW HAS  THE MAJORITY TEXT AND  THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS BEEN PROVIDENTIALLY PROTECTED AND PRESERVED? 

 

The inspired, god breathed, immortal words, were  uttered, word-by-word, to the  holy prophets and apostles who were chosen of God and moved by the holy ghost. These words are protected and preserved in holy scripture and are written word-by-word and are immutable, [unchangeable] without error, and infallible [incapable of making a mistake or being wrong]. and for ever [sic] settled in heaven by God himself in the self authenticating word of god, itself. 

 

The Authorized (King James) Holy Bible.

 

ל  Lamed

89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

 Psalm 119:89


Authorized (King James) Version:

21For the prophecy [prophecies] came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.  
2 Peter 1:21

 

Authorized (King James) Version:

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 
John 1:1

_____________________________________________

 

See evidence that God is not the author of confusion ...

 

VIDEO (2 hrs. 49 mins.)

This Documentary will explain the how the Man-made explosion of over 100 English Translations of the Holy BIBLE occurred.    

 

URL:https://youtu.be/vIC5rUbs_-E?si=hLdDxc580z-dvPdi 

___________________________________________

 

 

The complete Inside  Story of Westcott and Hort: 

 Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort  (Text only)


URL:   https://www.febc.edu.sg/article/def_the_inside_story_of_westcott_and_hort

 

 

In 1870, The Anglican Church of England passed a resolution to revise the English Bible. The New Testament revision committee which finally consisted of 25 scholars (though only about 16 eventually attended the meetings) which included Westcott and Hort. The committee worked for ten years in the Jerusalem chamber, and these two scholars swept the Revision Committee along with them after work commenced. In fact, the “Cambridge trio” (Westcott, Hort and Lightfoot) colluded with others to dominate the meetings with their views of the text and to defeat any who opposed them. Their *letters reveal this conspiracy:

* Letters from close relatives are quoted in the Inside Story above

The only voice defending the Textus Receptus was Dr Scrivener, probably the foremost scholar of the day in the manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and the history of the Text. But he was systematically outvoted by the Cambridge trio and outdone by Hort’s powerful debating skill. When the revision was completed, the revision committee had altered the Greek Text in 5,337 places,

thus violating the original rule that had been set for the committee of not altering the Greek Text unless absolutely necessary to do so.
____________________________________

 

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, let it be said that no matter how good any modern version of the New Testament is in other ways, it is clearly blemished if the work of Westcott and Hort or Nestle & Aland.is present in it. The presence of their work means that it is based on  defective text. Those who honor the Word of God must not promote any of these versions by the church, not because the content of the version is entirely  evil in itself, but because being contented to use a weakened version rather than the existing, preserved, inerrant unblemished one, dishonors God. If God has preserved for His people a good Greek text of the New Testament for 18 centuries, how dishonoring it must  be to Him if His people now chose versions that are  based on  the defective and inferior  Greek manuscript  invented  by Westcott & Hort or Nestle & Aland.

 

Let the biblical story of Nadab and Abihu be a lesson for us all:

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled” (Lev 10:1–6).

– Published in The Burning Bush, Volume 4 Number 1, January 1998

________________________________________

DailySpurgeon.com (website)

“Follow” us on Facebook

“Comment” and “Re-tweet” on Twitter , won’t you?

Thanks.

________________________________________

Please send e-mail addresses of those you would like to receive DailySpurgeon each day.

The John Mark Publishing Company P.O. Box 21, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693

e-mail: michaelriley1008@gmail.com

         

Visit site often and pass it on: DailySpurgeon.com 

bottom of page