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Msg #1447 Thanksgiving with Integrity

Msg #1447 Thanksgiving with Integrity

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

Thanksgiving is a verb. Before one can do it certain ingredients need to be correct in their life. When thanksgiving is a noun it is to bubble out of our life like root-beer poured on vanilla ice-cream. Again it requires the right ingredients. When ingredients are right it bubbles out and is well pleasing to our Lord. David lists the necessary ingredients in Psalm 26. Ingredient#1, “I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD.” Ingredient#2 “Thy loving kindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.” Ingredient#3 “I have not sat with vain persons… dissemblers, (or) the wicked.” Ingredient#4 “I wash mine hands in innocency: so I will compass thine altar, O LORD.” Why these ingredients? “That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.” (vr. 7) But the Bible also delineates a thanksgiving that makes the Lord sick. In Amos 4 it states, “The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness… that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish hooks.” The ingredients for this scorned thanksgiving are present in our nations “Which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.” This religious nation says “Come to Bethel, and transgress… and bring your sacrifice.” Bethel means “The house of God,” but God no longer dwelt at Bethel. Jeroboam, who caused Israel to sin, had set up a golden calf and made Bethel a place of false worship. He did this to keep people from true worship in Jerusalem, where God dwelt. In their false worship they “offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven.” Be careful about integrity and about this world's apostate churches which are a house of God in name only. Happy Thanksgiving.

 

An Essay for week #47 11/23/2014

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Msg #1448 Calvary

Msg #1448 Calvary

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

Dr. Luke writes the third gospel with incredible insight about the crucifixion. Luke was not an apostle, but had listened to them preach for thirty years. He traveled extensively with the Apostle Paul and now, during Paul's imprisonment, Luke publishes “The Gospel According To Luke.” Luke had the blessing of the apostles on his writings, but it is more important that he wrote as he was moved by the Holy Ghost. Each word he penned is God's word. His narrative takes Jesus through the triumphal entry, three days of teaching, the last supper, the trial, and to a hill called Calvary. There is no narrative more solemn or more moving for the blood bought, born-again, believer, for “God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” The substitutionary death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the gospel message which Dr. Luke portrays in the word's of God. Would to God I might hold it with a little more daily esteem. It is precious enough to die for, many have. It is precious enough to live for, many are. Luke also records the boldness Peter's witness, “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ… Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts2:36, 4:12) And again, “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.” (Acts5:30-31) It is still foolishness to scholars, but the power of God to believers.

 

An Essay for week #48 11/30/2014

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Msg #1507 Leadership School

Msg #1507 Leadership School

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

Every husband is thrust into the role of leadership. When you stand at an altar, and a young lady promises to love, honor, and obey… well, you are now in a leadership position. Moses was enrolled in God's leadership school and husbands are too. How is school going? Husbands are to be God's spokesman in the home, and the family's spokesman before the LORD God. Before Moses could be God's spokesman, 1) he had to stand in the presence of God, 2) he had to hear the words of the LORD God, and 3) he had to personally talk to the LORD God. How many times did Moses go up into the mountain to meet with God? How many times did he stay for forty days? Remember when he came down from talking with God and glowed so bright they put a vail over his head? So, how much time should a leader spend with the LORD God? How much glow do you bring into your home? When Israel chided him about water, bread or meat Moses took it to God. God allowed circumstances in Israels journey, things which drove Moses into God's presence as their intercessor. When calamities of life come, sometimes, God is just waiting for the responsible leader to come into his presence. Military leadership school teaches that a leader must do three things well. 1) He must see the larger picture and always keep the goal in view. 2) He must motivate people to do things they do not ordinarily do. And 3) He must meet the needs of people. In the Christian home God will take care of those when we confess our need and take care to meet with him daily. It worked well for Moses. So, how IS school going? Keep looking up.

 

An Essay for week #7 Feb 15, 15

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Msg #1506 Purpose and Union for Valentines

Msg #1506 Purpose and Union for Valentines

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What the LORD God reveals about our wives is remarkable. What men don't understand about women is remarkable. The value added to the husbands who study what God said is even more remarkable. Allow some remarks on these “remarkables.” God gives three reasons why the woman can't do some things which the man is commanded to do. 1Tim. 2:13-15 lists all three reasons. First, “For Adam was first formed, then Eve.” 1Cor. 11:9 states this first reason, “Neither was man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.” Genesis 1:18 states it, “And the LORD God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help (appropriate) for him.” Two more reasons given, the woman is designed for mothering (vr. 15) and the helping-mothering design makes women the weaker vessel, more prone to deception. (vr.14,1Pet 3:7) The LORD God said that a man alone is not complete. Husband, the best design for your completion is the little woman you married. It is a pretty sorry man who sets on his hands until his appropriate helper is forced to get out in front and do the leading. The woman is a weaker vessel physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Husbands, the stronger, are to stand up and be the guardian and protector physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Women are different than men. That used to go without saying. The epitome of married life is that God, the three-in-one, designed marriage between man and woman, that these two-in-one could reflect his perfect unity. God's design for your marriage is that the intimate physical union, the secure emotional union, and the God honoring spiritual union can make your marriage and your home a taste of paradise here on earth. Repair the breaches and have a Happy Valentines Day.

An Essay for week #6 Feb 8, 15

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Msg #1504 Charity Suffereth Long and Wrong

Msg #1504 Charity Suffereth Long and Wrong

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1Cor 13:13). These three instruments of Christianity remain hallmarks of maturity, maturity of his Church and maturity of his disciples. Consider three things about the greatest of these, charity. First that 1Cor 13 supremely depicts charity. It shows its supreme value (vr.1-3), character (vr.4-7), and endurance (vr8-13). In good English the word “charity” is larger than the word “love,” as much as the Greek word “agapos” is larger than “phileo.” (see John 21:15a&b) One is selfless, the other still holds some measure of selfish. This chapter delineates the purest and most selfless of Godly love, and it is rightly translated “charity.” Second, consider that charity motivates our action. The believer is to be the ambassador for Christ, with a ministry of reconciliation (2Cor5:20, 17-19). In 2Cor 5 Paul describes why we labor for Christ while still in the flesh. These motivations seem to follow a progression of maturity: #1 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (vr.10), #2 “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord” (vr. 11), and #3 “For the love of Christ constraineth us” (vr.14). What does this love constrain us to do? To preach the gospel to every creature. Lastly, consider that charity tells who we are. “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another…. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another…. If ye love me keep my commandments…. This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you…. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you” (John 13:34-35, 14:15, 15:12-14). The pure love of Christ indwells us, involves us, and identifies us. Awesome!

 

An Essay for week #4 Jan 25, 15

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Msg #1505 A Crucible Called Marriage

Msg #1505 A Crucible Called Marriage

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

The epistle which answers the most questions about marriage and divorce also provides a list of fifteen characteristics of true love. There is no greater laboratory for testing every one of these fifteen qualities than the institution of marriage. There is no institution better equipped to reveal the depths and purity of God's love than the Christian home. Some crucial things found when entering this laboratory is that love suffereth long, is not easily provoked, and endureth all things. An entry into marriage is intended to be a full time and a lifetime testing of our ability to demonstrate true love. In marriage love is not a gushy feeling, it is a command of God. And in this laboratory of God's design, a true love grows and develops… or not. Never let it be said in your home, “We drifted apart.” Jesus says of his commands, “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” Purpose to maintain a Christlike, Christian marriage. The marriage vows only have provision for a love which will endure all things. Marriage vows are sacred vows taken before God and man. Christian marriage vows contain the line, “Until death do us part.” They have no prenuptial agreement about another way of ending this arrangement. They require one man and one woman for one lifetime, faithfulness and fidelity. There is a life time commitment in the vow. It also contains the clause, “In sickness and health, for richer or poorer.” That is only an introduction to “enduring all things.” The full depth of “suffering long” is tested in the crucible of life. It is played out in the bedroom, in the finances and in old family ties of a Christian home. The laboratory where, “enduring all things,” is tested, is indeed called marriage.

 

An Essay for week #5 Feb 1, 15

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Msg #1503 Faith and Hope

Msg #1503 Faith and Hope

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

Some people have a propensity for the curious; they are students. It is curious that our Lord announces that only three things will abide into His Church's maturity; faith, hope, and charity. Prophesying and speaking in tongues falls amongst the immature. In these “Last Days” the attempted resurrection of the immature things is more disheartening and heretical than curious. But that faith and hope abide together is curious. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. What then is hope? Peter instructs saints to always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is in you, but Job, in the pits of despair said “All hope is lost”, yeah indeed, he said that God himself took it away from him (Job 7:6, 17:15, 19:10). In Matthew 8:28-34 the only hope of hogs, and some men, is comfort, food and health. But in his dialogue Job words the supreme hope of a believer, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me” (Job 19:25-27). Faith and hope unite to bring us salvation (Rom 8:24). Faith carries us through the needs of this life while the believer's hope abides unassuaged by cares of this world. “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1Cor 13:13). Pursue charity, “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear” (1Pet 3:15).

 

 

An Essay for week #3 Jan 18, 15

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Msg #1502 The Word and Faith

Msg #1502 The Word and Faith

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

There is a substance of things hoped for. There is an evidence of things not seen. It is both “The Word” that became flesh and dwelt among us, and it is “The Word” which is as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Think of the substance of both. Think of the evidence of both. “The Word”, in each form, is the manifestation of God. The subject of Hebrews eleven is faith. We understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, and how do we understand that? By the Word of God which communicates it and by “The Word” in the flesh who confirmed it. Note that if we have any measure of faith, we receive it because “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” Note also, that if we believe in Jesus Christ, Galatians 2:16 says we believe “by the faith OF Jesus Christ”, it is not my faith. If you use a modernist's bible, they suppose what God meant to say, and their Gal 2:16 takes out the faith OF Jesus Christ, and substitutes our puny faith. It is important to study the Words of God, not modernist copyright words. Hebrews eleven goes on contending that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Last year Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis debated Bill Nye the Science Guy. Although it was an excellent exercise in apologetics, the Science Guy could not believe! No inerrant Bible, no Christ, no faith. Know an inerrant Bible, know Christ, know faith. For Bill Nye seeing is believing, but for a Christian, believing is seeing, “and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. (Eph 2:8-9) In 2015 let us grow in faith.

 

An Essay for week #2 Jan 11, 15

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Msg #1501 A Man A Plan

Msg #1501 A Man A Plan

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

Read backwards the line “A man a plan a canal panama” and you get what you started with. It is called a palindrome. I cannot think about a plan without that line coming to mind. It is called senility. The year 2015 is upon us and we need a plan, a goal, a resolution, a five year schema with several annual achievable objectives. The Kingdom of God does not operate like any kingdom of this world. The twelve disciples and I try to force fit it into achievable resolutions, but Jesus puts it succinctly, “He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal” (John 12:25). In his Kingdom, to save your life you loose it, abundant life comes when we die daily, to gain bread, cast thy bread upon the water, to gain riches, give away all that you have. My plans are more attractive. But he still insists, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (vr. 24) His plan does not have a “Purpose Driven” Church, Life or Anything! It is like, “He must increase and I must decrease!” I dare not belittle resolutions, but this year I want to hear Paul beseeching me by the mercies of God, that I present my body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God. (Rom 12) May I “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5), and let that corn of wheat die, as I quote “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me” (Gal 2:20). Happy New Year.

 

An Essay for week #1 Jan 4, 15

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Msg #1452 The Grandest Opposition Ever Conceived

Msg #1452 The Grandest Opposition Ever Conceived

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

In the annals of human history no birth has been more opposed than the Noel just celebrated. Ever since God said that he would put enmity between Satan's seed and woman's seed, Satan has hated male births; ONE would bruise his head. Cain, “who was of that wicked one” (1John 3:12) slew his brother Able, so that the first male born became the first first degree murderer. Satan one, God zero. Satan heard God promise Abram, “And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives… if it be a son, then ye shall kill him” (Exod 1:15). Satan two, God zero. Satan heard God promise David, “And when Athaliah… saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal” (2Kings 11:1). Of Athaliah, as vile as mother Jezebel, one could say “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth” (John 8:44). Satan three, God zero. Remember in this contest, God only needs ONE! Satan contaminates the Davidic line, “Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David” (Jer 36:30) God sent his chosen into bondage where Hamon said “If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed” (Est 3:9). God said, “behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son” (Luk 1:31). “Then Herod… was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem!” Satan six, God zero. “And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS.” God ONE, Satan zero! Suppose Satan is a poor looser? Ask Adolf Hitler.

 

An Essay for week #52 12/28/2014

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