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Msg# 1247 A Thanksgiving Stairway

 

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Msg# 1247 A Thanksgiving Stairway
What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

It is applicable for all humanity, certainly all Gentiles. It is applicable
for all nations, certainly for ours that just took an irreversible step into
progressive social liberalism via a 51% vote. It is applicable to all
individuals, even professed Christians. “Because that when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful.” (Rom1:21a) The seven
steps listed in this staircase lead humanity, nations, and individuals down
and away from God. The top step is to know God. To actually know him in
every sense of the word. The first step down and away is to 'glorify Him
not.' The first and greatest commandment involves giving Him all glory. The
second step down and away is in not being thankful. In Adam all humanity
knew God; in his offspring humanity took the six steps down and away and
ended up underwater. In Shem, Ham and Japheth all nations knew God; each
steps down and away to reach the lowest ebb of depravity and call sodomy
acceptable! God tries the reigns of every man; He sent the true light which
lighteth every man that cometh into the world,” but individuals descend down
this staircase away from God, and no matter their upbringing or education,
they land on that bottom step. Two crucial questions need to be addressed.
Which step you crossing? and Which direction you going? I am thankful that I
was born and raised in a country that has a national day of Thanksgiving.
Although all nature and all nations decline down those stairs, by God's
grace I will not cross the step where I am not thankful, I'll face up, give
God his glory and come to know him more each day. No matter which step, move
up a step or two this Thanksgiving week.

An Essay from week # 47, Sunday, November 18, 2012

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Msg# 1248 The Gospel As First Presented

 

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Msg# 1248 The Gospel As First Presented

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

A student of the first preaching of the gospel will know Peter’s outline in Acts 2. Your gospel preach should start, as did this message, with an explanation that you are not just drunk or weird or abnormal. You have been touched by the hand of God and now have the presence of the Holy Spirit of God, just like the Bible says. Most of the world thinks Bible Believing Christians are just weird; Peter clarified their misconceptions right up front. Clarify that what happened to you is exactly what the Bible says should happen. Next clarify that there is a judgment day coming and they need to be saved from that great and notable day of the Lord. Then, as in verse 21 introduce the gospel: “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. “ Four points make a solid introduction. Now Peter introduces Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God. They must know the man before they know the Christ, so be meticulous. This Jesus was crucified, by God’s design, and God hath raised him up victorious over death. God’s Word says that this was to happen to the Christ, and Jesus was the Christ! And this Christ is seated at the right hand of God exalted. Jesus is the Lord! Whosoever believeth on him, cannot do so until they believe in Jesus, that he was Christ, and He is Lord, vrs36, “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. “ Now they were pricked in the heart. Not by Peter’s words, but by God. You cannot do God’s job here, just do yours, preach the gospel to every creature.

 

An Essay from week # 48, Sunday, November 25, 2012

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Msg# 1246 A Golden Rule for Sheep

 

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Msg# 1246 A Golden Rule for Sheep

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” is the golden rule recited and rehearsed by religion, and once-upon-a-time by all school children, but it falls way short of what Jesus actually taught. Jesus taught his rule no less than three times to no less than three audiences. Each account records two commandments: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Jesus' 'golden rule' has two parts but even so the second part is much larger than what we 'do' or don't 'do' to each other. In fact it is larger than a rule, “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another.” When a professed believer is missing His love you can glimpse through a sheep's clothing. If you are a 'believer' who can harbor hate for your 'neighbor' check you own 'sheep's clothing', it might be you are not clothed in His righteousness. If you are entangled in a Baptist Church fight look around because somebody there is not loving their neighbor as they love themselves, and you can get a glimpse through their sheep's clothing, perhaps find a wolf. When you glimpse, check to see if you love that person like Jesus does and you can check out your own duds. “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments … For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” No Christ, no Love. Know Christ, know Love.

 

An Essay from week # 46, Sunday, November 11, 2012

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Msg# 1246b A Rebuttal to Gov. Huckabee

 

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Mgs# 1246b A Rebuttal to Gov. Huckabee
Dear Governor Huckabee,

Yesterday, Tue, Nov 13, from a college day room, I overheard a portion of
your interview on some talk show and was sorely disappointed in the host but
equally in your argument. He said that you said people would go to hell for
voting wrong. He then gave you ample opportunity to explain why a person
goes to hell and despite my whispered prayer that you get this one right,
you missed the opportunity with royal disgrace. You chose rather to try and
teach the mocking jeering lost world about a 'bema seat' judgment where
saints will one day stand. Please re-evaluate your profession, if you ever
'had it' you have certainly lost your ability to be a Preacher of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ. Certainly saints will answer for their actions, but you
were not preaching to saints yesterday. You had an ideal opportunity to
explain to a mocking host that people go to hell for rejecting the perfect
redeeming work of the only begotten son of God, that it is not of works lest
any man should boast, that God so loved that world that ….” You absolutely
missed it Mike Huckabee. You left your host and all his jeering fans
thinking their righteous works would determine where they go for eternity.
It is high time to ask yourself what is your profession? You used to be a
Preacher of the Gospel, now you are no more than a governor with no gospel
witness even visible. I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left
thy first love. Very sad.

An Essay from week # 46, Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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Msg# 1244 The Last of the Dispensations

 

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Msg# 1244 The Last of the Dispensations

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The Millennial Reign of Christ is both undeniable and incomprehensible. “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.” (Jer 23) Christ's literal 1,000 year reign was so incomprehensible that Clement, a 3rd century philosopher of Alexandria Egypt denied it completely. Origin, his student and the father of Bible criticism, passed on Clement's faithless unbelieving hearsay to Saint Augustine who secured it for the Roman church who fastened it into Calvin's Covenant Theology and election philosophy! Let God be true and every man a liar, there is coming a 1,000 year reign of Christ, wherein Satan is bound, the curse is lifted, and the wolf and the lamb nap together. Swords are beat into plows, and every nation marches to Jerusalem to worship the Christ sitting on the throne of David. There is a temple built there which is far larger than that whole city is today. And departing from it men “look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against (God): for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched;…” Incomprehensible, but believable. Very believable.

An Essay from week # 44, Sunday, October 28, 2012

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Msg# 1245 Lahai-roi – He Sees Me

 

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Msg# 1245 Lahai-roi – He Sees Me

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Psalm 33:12 says “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD.” Arguably the United States of America could have laid claim to that clause, but that was years ago. If the religion of a nation is what it teaches her children, the USA changed drastically about the time of the Stokes trial. Now teaching them to worship the creature more than the Creator. The Psalm goes on to clarify that God is watching all from heaven. He points out the feckless efforts of kings (and presidents) of human strength or of horses (war machines). Nor is our salvation found in a voting booth! In America the majority is in favor of woman conveniently killing their children in the womb and they approve sodomy as an alternate parenting technique. The majority call evil good, and good evil. The Psalmist makes it clear that “The eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him” and “upon them that hope in his mercy.” Is his eye upon you? Isn’t it great being in the eye of our Creator? American children, after Stokes, were brought up and trained that a dog eventually mutates into a horse; don’t expect normal thinking from them. After the election dust settles, there will only be a minority that will say “Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.” Join this minority in America, you will only get gross intolerance from the world, but you get the Creator's eye. God says, “Blessed are all they that put their trust in the LORD.” This Psalm starts with a command to rejoice, praise, and sing. You have got his eye; be about His business.

 

An Essay from week # 45, Sunday, November 04, 2012

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Msg #1314 America's Inordinate Affections

Msg #1314 America's Inordinate Affections

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

How bad could it get when the people forgo the moral compass of right and wrong, a compass driven by God and dictated in His Word? America has rejected our Lord Jesus as their Christ as in his Luke 19 parable, “His citizens hated him, and sent a message after him saying. We will not have this man to reign over us.” The book of Judges closes with answer to our question. It concludes in verse “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” But it concludes in His-story with shock and awe that appalls even the most vile. And it came to pass that a Levite lost his concubine who played the harlot and he went to her fathers house to retrieve her. A Levite, a supposed minister of Jehovah God, a teacher of the Law of God and example of his Holy God, had lost definition of marriage, spurned God's written law and lost natural affection while nurturing inordinate affection just like the world around him. Man pursues fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence and covetousness. The closing account in Judges, where this Levite gives his harlot concubine to marauding homosexual sodomites who rape her and leave her dead on his door step contains all these depravities of man. Society's calloused sensitivities are only appalled when 12 pieces of the dead concubine are dispersed throughout. An ugly war ensues when a whole tribe of Benjamin inordinatly insists on defending the homosexual's 'civil rights' to sodomize. God has already documented how far man will go when every man is doing what is right in their own eyes. What is a Christian to do? Our commission, Preach the gospel to every creature and occupy until He comes again.

An Essay for week #14 Sun, Apr 7, 13

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Msg# 1252 Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing

 

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Msg# 1252 Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

 

In the Bible wisdom clarified that every man born was given the travail of understanding with wisdom everything that happened under heaven. That task looms large through this Christmas season where our God and Creator is allowing catastrophes to exaggerate and punctuate the extreme callus of man's depravity. It should not frustrate the Bible believer when calamity draws these clear lines of distinction between our Biblical world view and the Darwinian world view; indeed it should embolden. They conclude that guns are the problem. The frustration rises as we realize how asinine such a conclusion is, and the error arises when we head off on a campaign to advance the 2nd amendment when we need to step back, see the bigger picture and realize anew that “People Need The Lord!” Majority democratic vote has brought us to killing babies in the womb, sodomites adopting children, legal pot smoking on America's corners, advancing socialism, repressing capitalism and the destroyed fiber of our constitution. Our 2nd amendment will soon go away by the popular vote of a Darwinian world. A Christian's articulation need not expose this insanity; it needs to give witness to the only solution “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; … And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.” Wisdom says “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.” Be kingly this Christmas; search it out, and then preach it out. Merry Christmas.

 

An Essay from week # 52, Sunday, December 23, 2012

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Msg# 1253 Auld Lang Syne

 

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Msg# 1253 Auld Lang Syne

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Scottish poet Robert Burns asks, “Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?” then answers “For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.” That's 'Old long ago', for those with no Scottish flare. There are some things of long ago that are better forgotten but old acquaintance should be remembered. The 'pint cup' that is lifted in Robert Burn's old drinking song should never touch a Christians lips, but the idea's invoked by the poet are applicable and surely better captured by Paul in his letter to Christians at Philippi. Therein God captures Christ, the believer’s life, rejoicing in suffering, (1:1-30); Christ, the believer’s pattern, rejoicing in lowly service, (2:1-30); Christ, the believer’s object, rejoicing despite imperfections, (3:1-21); and Christ, the believer’s strength, rejoicing over anxiety, (4:1-23). In this epistle notice there are 3 things that can, if you let them, embitter our memories of 2012 or rob our joy from 2013. People can be joy robbers, but Paul encourages us instead to rejoice in sufferings and in service. Christ said even our enemies should invoke our compassion and ministry. Remember, old things are passed away and all things are become new so that we may be 'ministers of reconciliation'. Circumstances can be joy robbers, but we are reminded that imperfections and trials should produce trust. The trial of your faith should produce praise, honor and glory. Lastly worry can rob your joy, but we see that Christ, the believer’s strength, is to produce rejoicing over anxiety. “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. … I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Happy New Year.

 

An Essay from week # 53, Sunday, December 30, 2012

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Msg #1310 Stewardship of Every Breath

 

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Msg #1310 Stewardship of Every Breath

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Three principled lessons from Jesus' stewardship parables are that servants have resources and responsibilities, that there is a day of reckoning coming and that no man knows the day nor hour of that day. His parable recorded in Matthew 25 is of keen interest for two reasons. It is emphasized that different servants are assigned different amount of resources. To one of “his own servants” he gives five talents, to another two and to another one. It indicates that the talents are given according to every mans “several ability.” As a lad I was taught in my Regular Baptist Church that this parable was about me using my trumpet playing 'talent' for the Lord. Use it or loose it, being emphasized as its theme. When I read the parable on my own I was absolutely appalled to find that the servant that did not use his talent for the Lord was cast into outer darkness where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth! Wow! My Sunday School teachers were teaching me that if I didn't play my trumpet in our worship service, “there would be hell to pay!” This is obviously NOT what Jesus was teaching in this parable. The “hell to pay” teaching of Jesus must here coincide with his gospel message that “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Rom10:13) Ergo the single talent given to this unprofitable servant can be nothing more than the breath of life and the light of Christ which “lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” (John1:9) “For God trieth the hearts and reins of every man.” (Psalm7:9, Jer11:20, 17:10) and he that believeth on Christ is not condemned but he that believeth not is condemned already. (John3:18) Got breath? You better use it for your Lord.

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