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Msg #1129 Now What?

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Some perspective can be added to America's plight by examining Scriptures. First a fictitious debt ceiling that must be breached so we can continue to 'give-give- and give' to our nonworking populous reminds me of Proverbs 30:15 “The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give.” Once a democracy figures out it can vote itself higher entitlements 'the hand writing is on the wall.' America is becoming an eerie foreshadow of Revelation18 “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” The Muslim hordes sweeping into nations to practice 'freedom of religion' do not have a religion but a theo-political, legal, economic, militant, governing system charged to overthrow governments and control nations. While our president calls it a 'great religion distorted by some extremists' America will not even realize she is courting Babylon, “that great city which made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” So to America's god of pluralism unites with Roman Catholicism to teach our children that we evolved here from primitive life from a primeval sea and mystery Babylon presses on toward Revelation17. What is a Christian to do? March on Washington? Descend on Albany? Have a TEA party? No. A true Christian is to do just what they were commissioned by the Lord Jesus Christ to do. Although the philosophers of Alexandria tore it out of their debase manuscripts, used in all modernist Bibles, the 400 year old King James Bible still says in Mark 16 “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”

An Essay for week #29 Sun, Jul 24, 11

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Msg #1128 Judgment and Peace for Israel
What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

God surely judges sin”And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and
the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I
have made them.” After the flood God required that man govern himself and
curb his own sinful ways “At the hand of every man's brother will I require
the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man.” But the sinfulness of man still went
unchecked until “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their
sin is very grievous; … Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.” Four Hundred years later,
after the iniquity of the Amorites was full, God brings Israel back into
Canaan land “unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and
the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.”
God wanted Israel to utterly destroy the sinful Canaanites and possess their
whole land. Muslims and news anchors call then 'Palestinians' but they are
Canaanites left in the Promised Land that God WILL give to Israel just like
He promised. Obama calls Israel the 'occupiers' and wants them in archaic
borders! When Jehovah God is pitted against our President how do you suppose
that will end? Pray for the peace of Israel.

An Essay for week #28 Sun, Jul 17, 11

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Dear Editors and friends,

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Pastor Ed Rice,  Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Dresden NY 14441

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Msg #1125 Especially Fathers

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“I write unto you fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. … I have written unto your fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning.” When the Apostle John writes with the hand of God he records his purpose in writing; his Gospel so “that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name”; This Epistle “that your joy may be full”; This chapter “these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.” Here, he writes especially to fathers, saved, born-again ones who have a Father's Only Begotten Son as their redeemer, have a reconciled relationship with their heavenly Father, and who have a rejuvenated knowledge of Him. To know God as our heavenly Father is to know what a genuine father is. And to be a father, albeit always lacking in the perfection that he has called us to, gives one an insight into our relationship with Him that no other person can fully attain. Here then is the insight that the Apostle calls out for fathers. Herein is the difference that makes a father's redeemed relationship differ from the child or the young man that is called out separately here by John. Fathers know the weight of responsibilities, the necessity of being wholly dependable, the awe of being esteemed by their children, the joy of being relied on, and the hurt of being rejected by your own creation. Fathers have the taste of a unique relationship that can focus a knowledge of our heavenly Father like no other experience. I write unto you fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. You have got to love this author. I do.

An Essay for week #25 Sun, Jun 26, 11

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Msg #1127 After 235 Years Can God Bless America

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” (Ps33:12) Whenever we hear “God bless America” we should consider that He has. This verse calls for a blessing on the nation that he hath chosen, Israel, of whom the Bible says “And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;… For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.” (Deut4:37, 7:6) No matter what Catholic, Protestant or Reformed theology teaches, the Bible says over and over that God will never forsake the promises he made to the nation of Israel, He will restore them to Canaan land and rule and reign over all the nations of the world for a thousand years from the throne of David set up in Zion. But this verse also calls for a blessing on the nation whose God is the LORD. That was, once, the United States of America, and God has blessed America as he said he would. Will God bless America, or be as He was to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. (Hosea5:12) At its destruction Sodom and Gomorrah had sunk into sin for 455 years; “And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; …” We have only been a nation 235 years, yet exalt sodomy with 'conservative?' republican legislation from Albany NY. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD! US?

An Essay for week #27 Sun, Jul 10, 11

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Pastor Ed Rice,  Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Dresden NY 14441

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Msg #1123 We Are Grafted In

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Samuel, the last named member in God's Hall of Fame of Faith, was grafted into the Levitical priesthood which had sunk to its lowest rung of moral depravity. The Bible says of this Ephrathite that he called upon the Lord, and he answered him. Have I? This grafted in non-Levitical prophet and priest “Did according to that which is in God's heart and in God's mind!” Do I? This grafted in non-Aaronic Aaronic priest was established in a sure house built by God. You see Eli, his predecessor, did not raise his children right! Do I? The Bible says of Samuel “He will walk before mine anointed forever and the old Levitical priests office shall crouch before him for a piece of silver and morsel of bread.” Indeed they still exalt Samuel as the true Prophet and Priest of God. Gentiles were grafted in when His chosen people, Israel, ebbed so low as to reject His Messiah! And God says of us “Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:” Do I? God goes on, “Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy; but now have obtained mercy.” In God's new covenant individuals are not 'called', Gentiles are the called; an important distinction for a Bible believer. We Gentiles are indeed “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.” Whosoevers become part of the elect through faith in Christ. Don't get all haughty. Samuel sure didn't.

An Essay for week #23 Sun, Jun 12, 11

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Please freely print this weeks Penny Pulpit Column in your papers, bulletins, emails, bloggs and twitters .  Thank you for this consideration.
Pastor Ed Rice,  Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Dresden NY 14441

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Msg #1124 Baptist Are Not Reformers
What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

    When adversaries came to the children of the captivity rebuilding the temple they said unto them, “Let us build with you for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.” But the chief of the fathers of Israel said unto them “Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God.” Likewise when Sanballat sent to Nehemiah saying “Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono.” Nehemiah sent messages unto them “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down.” When the reformers approach with their reformed theology and say God choose who would be saved before the foundation of the world, remember they have no part with Baptist's preaching the Gospel. When they say those that did not get elect to go to heaven are destined to hell without hope and without God's mercy recall that they preach a different gospel than we do. Have nothing to do with them. When they refuse the millennial reign of Christ, denying the 1000 years of Revelation20, and the 7 year tribulation calling it all allegorical, they are false teachers. Don't go to the plain of Ono with them. Calvinist are indeed false teachers. No part of Calvinism fits with a Baptist Bible Believer, true Baptist have no part with John Calvin nor John Piper; we are not protestants nor reformed. As reformed theology re-conforms to 'Church Father' notions, Alexandrian Bibles and the Holy Catholic Church they move back to their mother, the mother of harlots. Don't be sucked in, they “have nothing to do with us, to build an house unto our God.”

An Essay for week #24 Sun, Jun 19, 11

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Please freely print this weeks Penny Pulpit Column in your papers, bulletins, emails, bloggs and twitters .  Thank you for this consideration.
Pastor Ed Rice,  Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Dresden NY 14441

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Msg #1119 Proverbs 31

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

   The close of Solomon's Proverbs is a description of a virtuous woman. It is the most often visited Scripture on Mother's Day but it has direct application to every believer as we are described as the virtuous bride of Christ without spot or wrinkle. ”The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her,… she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.” It goes on to describe the most industrious, diligent, integrity filled, compassionate, talented woman imaginable. It is indeed idyllic. One must blush to compare ones self, ones mate or ones mom to this ideal, but the wisest man in the world received this description from his mom, and then records it here as inerrant, infallible Holy Scripture. It will surely highlight mom's noteworthy accolades on Mother's Day, but it can also highlight the shortfalls of any wife or mom,… or any Christian. Remember that this is not the sole application of such a powerful characterization. It describes what a believer is to be to his Lord. A mom, a wife and a believer cannot be all these things until the Holy Spirit of God indwells them and empowers them to be such. Then, “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” New, and filled with integrity and ambition to the point of being the most industrious, diligent, integrity filled, compassionate, talented Christian imaginable. That is no small calling, and to fulfill it one must needs say with the Apostle Paul “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Undertake great things for your Lord this week, and for those mom's who have endeavor for the ideal of Proverbs 31, Happy Mothers Day indeed.

An Essay for week #19 Sun, May 15, 11

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Please freely print this weeks Penny Pulpit Column in your papers,
bulletins, emails, bloggs and twitters .  Thank you for this consideration.
Pastor Ed Rice,  Good Samaritan Baptist Church, Dresden NY 14441

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Christians, Please Use the FORWARD below.

Msg #1121 The REAL 2nd Coming of Christ
What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

On Sunday May 22nd 2011 we worshiped the resurrected and soon returning Lord
Jesus Christ. Those who take the old Roman Catholic allegorical
interpretations of Holy Scriptures, rather than their more honest literal
rendering, will forever make ludicrous predictions about the end times and
the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Bible the literal
rendering of the Second Coming of Christ entails his receipt of the Kingdom
from his Father, wherein He will rule and reign with his saints from the
literal Throne of David set in God's literal Holy Hill of Zion. Allegorical
interpretation says that there is no Millennial Reign of Christ, only a
Vicar of Christ bringing in a Kingdom Age ruled from the seven hills of
Rome. That's their interpretation. The literal rendering for the Second
Coming of Christ entails a literal seven year period of tribulation with
7seals of preparation, 7trumpets of warnings, and finally 7vials of the
wrath of God poured out on this world, before there is a great battle called
in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. Allegorical interpretations started with
philosophers of Alexandria Egypt, (where all modernist Bibles have their
roots) say the tribulation period is already started and is somehow been
ongoing for these past 1900 years? That's their interpretation. The literal
rendering for the Second Coming of Christ entails Jesus coming FOR his
saints, to resurrect them and meet them in the air, where they are 'caught
up together' out of this world “for God hath not appointed us to wrath,” AND
His coming WITH his saints to a battle called Armageddon after that wrath is
poured out. Allegorical interpreters say that is a new teaching and their
Church Fathers from Alexandria never believed such a thing. Well Dhaaa! Stay
literal, reject the reformed false teachers.

An Essay for week #21 Sun, May 29, 11

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