Category: Penny Pulpit

Msg #1541 Preach the Gospel

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Thou art worthy, O Lord, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, the Son of God who quickens and the Son of Man who judgeth. The Revelation of Jesus Christ is more that, than anything else. Awash in a rebellious society that has rejected the LORD God as their Creator, is a tiny remnant of believers who hold to the infallible inerrant Word. Awash in an apostate Laodicean church that preaches a gospel of evolution, socialism, global warming and sodomy, this tiny remnant preaches the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Awash in an agnostic, pluralistic, hell-bent world under condemnation, this tiny remnant knows the Saviour and are witnesses that Jesus Saves. What possible difference could it make? They are just a remnant. It could make an eternal difference to your neighbor, your coworker, and your kin. For we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Bev and I have grandchildren awash in this vile drug ridden society and our daily prayer is that God would touch some believer near them, a believer who would open their mouth and preach Christ crucified. The Righteous Judge of all the earth is soon returning, and you live right next door to someone's prayed over loved one. In these last of the last days the remnant needs to keep the main thing the main thing because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. He closed his revelation saying “I come quickly, Amen.” May we daily speak up for Christ.

An Essay for week #41 Oct 11, 2015

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Msg #1538 You Hath He Quickened

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” Thus begins the second chapter of Ephesians. Quickening is the central commodity of the dispensation of grace which engulfs us. It is missing from the dispensations that went before. The Apostle Paul emphasizes it here as the ingredient which is revealed in exposing the mystery of Christ. In this verse, however, the phrase “hath he quickened” is in italics. Some have said, “it is in italics, and all italicized words have been supplied by the translators and can therefore be left out!” Actually the italicized text of the King James Authorized version CANNOT be left out if a clear understanding of the Greek/Hebrew text is of value. The italics, as used by the King James translators (and only the King James translators, no modernist ecumenical translators dared to afford such a careful consideration), represents necessary clarifying English words used to capture the complete Greek/Hebrew meaning. The actual words might not be present in the Greek/Hebrew syntax, but in the expertise of the fifty-seven linguistic experts which took seven years to translate God's words, the italics words are VERY necessary for competent consideration. Translation is never a word-for-word operation. Only the KJV translators had the professional courtesy to indicate the necessary English additions with italics lettering. Discarding their noble work is ill advised at best. The point here is that quickening is central in NT salvation and is well worth our study. Jesus gives a short dissertation on it in John 5 and 6 (cf5:21, 6:63). If you have eternal life, it is installed by Christ's quickening. If you do not have Christ's quickening, you are still dead in trespasses and sins. Quickening is permanent and it only comes at conversion. He that hath the Son hath life.

An Essay for week #38 Sep 20, 2015

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Msg #1535 Ephesians' Introduction

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Diagramming sentences is often the best and sometimes the only way of capturing what Scripture contains. The sentences of Ephesians' introduction are burdensome and run-on. That is not a criticism, it is an observation: when God writes a run-on sentence, “run-on” may be the wrong cliché to assign to it. In any regard, diagramming Paul's introduction yields a five-seven-and five list of what the Father-Son-and Holy Ghost does in this new dispensation called grace. When the body of this book is analyzed each of these introduction pieces will preach as an explanatory list. There are five things that God the father has done in this new dispensation, “to the praise of the glory of his grace” (Be sure the list is expounded “to the praise of the glory of his grace”); seven things the Christ has done in this new dispensation of grace, “that we should be to the praise of his glory” (Again, take particular note of the purpose); and lastly, five things which the Holy Spirit of God does, these being “to the praise of his glory.” Such a powerful introduction commands that our attention be focused on the body of this letter. What God did, what Christ has accomplished, and what the Holy Spirit is doing, all to usher in a new dispensation of grace, is the meat of this letter. Sorry John Calvin and “Institutes of the Christian Religion,” this is not the old covenant refurbished or reformed, it is the new covenant in his blood. The first step in the study of such a dissertation should be in understanding Paul's use of the word “dispensation.” It unlocks the “mystery” of what Paul is writing to these Gentiles. Now watch this. (Careful, the infamous red-neck's words before you call the ambulance are always: “Watch this!”)

An Essay for week #35 Aug 30, 2015

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Msg#1605 Thursday Day Five

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Thursday the fifth day of creation sees the first addition of life to God's universe. This is huge, but not more-so than previous days in God's creation. Abundant life in the waters is barely comprehensible; the variety and divergence of life forms have not been categorized to this day. “And fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven” (Gen 1:20b), is equally overwhelming in variety. In this creation of life consider two things very carefully: diet and reproduction. Before Adam sinned there was no death in God's creation. “As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin” (Rom 5:12a). With no death, robins ate no worms, sharks ate no fish. Man brought about two curses on the world and it is likely that living creatures were not eaten until God spoke Genesis 9:3 after the second one. Fish and fowl were created quite different from what we see now. Secondly these creatures were fruitful and multiplied “after their kind.” As if to slap the atheistic evolutionist's theory with folly he emphasizes that procreation is only “after his kind.” And this emphasis is captured in a fifth grade reading level repeatedly in God's accounting. When one says “God bless you,” they are asking God to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. When David says, “Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name” (Psalm 103:1), he is asking his soul to do something for God that God cannot do for himself (that is profound). When God blesses creatures with procreation, it is something that they cannot naturally do by themselves. Procreation is, and forever will be, a miracle of God: after their kind.

An Essay for week #5 Jan 31, 16

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Msg #1601 Day One

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The opening line of the Holy Bible has seven Hebrew words that mark the first day of the universe and it says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Here time begins, three-dimensional space begins, and matter begins. They are necessarily created by a force outside of time, outside of 3-D space, and outside of matter; the self-existent one is called God. Modernist scholars know that eventually heaven becomes the heavens, so they set out to correct his first seven words by making heaven, the three dimensional space, be heavens, the three layers of the heavens yet to be created. For the sake of a copyright they ignore God's warnings about changing his words. Shame on every copyright one of them. When atheistic evolutionists proved rocks were a million years old, accommodating Bible students inserted a million years of time after God's first seven words. These gaptist then invented a whole civilization created and destroyed in the imagined gap after God's seven word opening. Fiction writers! Roman allegorists decided a day wasn't a day and developed a profound allegorical teaching where “evening and morning” really meant millions of years. Only a remnant, holding to the inerrancy of verbally inspired Scriptures, believe what God said in his opening ten sentences. Written on a 5^th grade reading level, God said matter was at first without form and void, and that 3D space had darkness on the face of the deep. He ordered matter into atoms and then molecules of H₂O, and he pierced the darkness with light. God says what he means and means what he says. Here he describes what he considers a days work and ends it with nothing but water and light. Trust God's word, don't trust modern scholars.

An Essay for week #1 Jan 3, 16

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