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Be Courageous, Mr. President

Consider this regarding modern "tongues"...

26What is the outcome then, brethren? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.27If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret;28but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.29Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment.30But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.31For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;32and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;33for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

...that one section negates 99% of modern tongue speaking congregations...

A Tip For You:

Let me give you an invaluable tip! I've found something that money can't buy and I want to share it with you. I've usually been content with my life. But one day I was brought face-to-face with a serious matter. It was a simple statement from the bible: "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)


I had always felt that I was a decent sort of person, and that when I died God would give me a place in Heaven. So this new truth was shocking! Certain sins began to stand out in my mind and I knew I had never been forgiven. But, in reading the Bible, I came across some marvelous promises: "God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8), and the words: "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).

When I understood that Jesus died for me, I received Him as my Savior. And as the Bible promised, God forgave my sins and gave me eternal life.

Now here's my tip to you: you too can receive Christ. Your sins can be forgiven and you can have eternal life! Why not start reading the Gospel of John today? In it you will discover how Jesus Christ died for your sins and rose form the grave to offer you salvation. If you could work for a million years you'd never be able to buy this wonderful new life that God freely offers to you.

Lakeside Bible Church
18940 Freeport Drive
Montgomery, TX 77356
936.582.1977

On Salvation and True Believers

I would like to reference an article published on www.sfpulpit.com to make you think a bit about your salvation...

It is noteworthy that Jesus referred to the Holy Spirit as “the Spirit of truth.” As God, He is the essence of truth; as a Paraclete, He is the One who guides us into truth. That’s why apart from Him, it is impossible for sinful human beings to know or understand any spiritual truth. Paul wrote,

To us God revealed [His wisdom] through the Spirit… that we might know the things freely given to us by God… [things which] a natural man does not accept… for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. (1 Cor. 2:10, 12, 14)

The unregenerate have no facility for spiritual perception. They cannot comprehend spiritual truth because they are spiritually dead (Eph. 2:1), unable to respond to anything except their own sinful passions. Believers, on the other hand, are actually taught spiritual truth by God Himself (John 6:45). In fact, much of the Holy Spirit’s ministry to you as a believer involves teaching you (John 14:26; 1 Cor. 2:13; 1 John 2:20, 27); guiding you into the truth of Christ (John 16:13-14); and illuminating the truth for you (1 Cor. 2:12).

Note:

• An unsaved man is spiritually Dead in Sin
  
• An unsaved man is a Slave to Sin
• An unsaved man is unable to accept the Word of God, which is how a person is saved
• A person must have the Holy Spirit to understand and accept

A couple questions that come to mind:

• How does someone who is dead make himself alive?
• Why does one man choose God while another does not?
  

The Gospel

"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near." Isa 55:6- (NIV).

What is the gospel of Jesus Christ?

You may be wondering whether the cross of Christ is efficacious to save you. Have you ever been curious what it means when Christians ask you: "Are you saved?" Perhaps you have asked yourself, "from what am I being saved?"

Dr. John Gerstner has rightly said that there is one place better than heaven, and one place worse than hell. It is right now. If you are a Christian you are in a better place than heaven because you can work out of gratitude to God for what He has done and be rewarded with gifts of grace. As a Christian, you can be conformed more to Christ's likeness through sanctification. However, for the unbeliever, now is a worse place than hell. The unbeliever is storing up wrath upon himself for the day of wrath. Every moment that he remains in unbelief, he is storing up eternal judgment that will be passed upon him one day. Therefore, now is the day of salvation…seek the LORD while he may be found; he may be found of you.

Read very carefully below.

1. God is not only supremely merciful, but also supremely just. And his justice requires (as he hath revealed himself in his Word) that our sins committed against his infinite majesty should be punished, not only with temporal, but with eternal punishments, both in body and soul; which we can not escape, unless satisfaction be made to the justice of God.



2. Since, therefore, we are unable to make that satisfaction in our own persons, or to deliver ourselves from the wrath of God, he hath been pleased of his infinite mercy to give his only-begotten Son for our surety, who was made sin, and became a curse for us and in our stead, that he might make satisfaction to divine justice on our behalf.
   
   
3. The death of the Son of God is the only and most perfect sacrifice and satisfaction for sin; is of infinite worth and value, abundantly sufficient to expiate the sins of the whole world.
   
   
4. This death derives its infinite value and dignity from these considerations; because the person who submitted to it was not only really man and perfectly holy, but also the only-begotten Son of God, of the same eternal and infinite essence with the Father and Holy Spirit, which qualifications were necessary to constitute him a Saviour for us; and because it was attended with a sense of the wrath and curse of God due to us for sin.
   
   
5. Moreover the promise of the gospel is, that whosoever believeth in Christ crucified shall not perish, but have everlasting life. This promise, together with the command to repent and believe, ought to be declared and published to all nations, and to all persons promiscuously and without distinction, to whom God out of his good pleasure sends the gospel.
   
   
6. And, whereas many who are called by the gospel do not repent nor believe in Christ, but perish in unbelief; this is not owing to any defect or insufficiency in the sacrifice offered by Christ upon the cross, but is wholly to be imputed to themselves.
   
   
7. But as many as truly believe, and are delivered and saved from sin and destruction through the death of Christ, are indebted for this benefit solely to the grace of God given them in Christ from everlasting, and not to any merit of their own.
   
   
8. For this was the sovereign counsel and most gracious will and purpose of God the Father, that the quickening and saving efficacy of the most precious death of his Son should extend to all the elect, for bestowing upon them alone the gift of justifying faith, thereby to bring them infallibly to salvation: that is, it was the will of God, that Christ by the blood of the cross, whereby he confirmed the new covenant, should effectually redeem out of every people, tribe, nation, to salvation, and given to him by the Father; that he should confer upon them faith, which, together with all the other saving gifts of the Holy Spirit, he purchased for them by his death; should purge them from all sin, both original and actual, whether committed before or after believing; and having faithfully preserved them even to the end, should at last bring them free from every spot and blemish to the enjoyment of glory in his own presence forever.
   
   
9. This purpose proceeding from everlasting love towards the elect, has, from the beginning of the world to this day, been powerfully accomplished, and will, henceforward, still continue to be accomplished, notwithstanding all the ineffectual opposition to the gates of hell; so that the elect in due time may be gathered together into one, and that there never may be wanting a Church composed of believers, the foundation of which is laid in the blood of Christ, which may steadfastly love and faithfully serve him as their Saviour, who, as a bridegroom for his bride, laid down his life for them upon the cross; and which may celebrate his praises here and through eternity.

From the Second Head of Doctrine at the Synod of Dort, 1619

Mr. Evolutionist, Answer me this...

Where did the info in DNA come from?

How long would it take ink & paper to write a book?

Can information self-organize?

How can mutations create new information?

Mutations can function only to degrade and rearrange, right?

Why are there no examples of 2-celled animals (living or non-living)?