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Msg #1719 Not by Law, Works, or Penance

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Galatians is the first epistle written to the Gentiles. The Gospel of Christ is to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, and so is the New Testament. The first of the Gospel records, Matthew is aimed to the Jews, the first of the epistles, James, is aimed to the Jews. The second epistle written was Galatians, and it deals with the line between Judaism and Christianity, i.e. law vs. grace. “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, … for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified” (Gal 2:16). Ecumenical bibles make this faith “in” Christ, but God's word says it is the faith “of” Christ that saves. Salvation is through faith, that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2). It is not our faith, nor our will. “Not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:13) Judaism, like all religions, had risen to the ultimate “we can do it our self” attitude. Their righteousness, attained by keeping the law, was man made righteousness, rebuked as hypocritical by Jesus Christ our Lord. “For by the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified.” Defiled religions weigh the works of man, or the penance of man. True repentance requires that one see his helpless estate and call on, trust in, and believe in Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God. “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?” False teachers, false priests, and mislead clergy, are still bewitching. Miraculously, “God sent forth his Son to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal 4:4-5).

An Essay for week #19 May 7, 2017

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Msg #1720 Independent Baptist Needed

What The Bible Says

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This week I accepted a degree from a theological seminary whose university worships pragmatism. I am grateful that they have acknowledged my seven years of ceaseless studies. I am grateful that in years gone by they held a position on the fundamentals of the faith, the inerrancy of the Scriptures, and the purity of King James Bible. Their keynote speaker Dr. Elmer Towns and his wife Jackie, spent over three hours mocking Baptist distinctives and deriding these three positions as my heart broke. Dr. Towns will be a great financial help to them, just like Syria was a great military help to Judah's King Asa in 2Chronicles 16:7-9. The world of the Independent Baptist shrinks as the Hybel-Warren-Syrian kingdoms grow, install rock bands, lower standards, mock my King James Bible, and advance their interpretive-dance-drama. Lord help us.

This week, 1600 miles from home, my granddaughter's friends admitted an uncensored worship of fantasy's Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, but no knowledge whatsoever of Christ, the Coming King of kings. If grandchildren are to put more stock in Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Universe than in David Benioff's “Game of Thrones,” or Peter Jackson's “Lord of the Rings,” it will take Independent Baptist's going door to door and talking about the True King, interpretive dance won't cut it. Will you walk by someones grandchild this week and NOT tell them about the King of Glory? Lord help us. Lord help the Independent Baptists who go door-to-door with your Gospel, and herald your holy plea on the street corner. People need the Lord. If you would this week, when you knock on a door or hand out a Gospel track, pray for our 1600 mile heart-string to Texas. God can do anything, God can reach anywhere.

An Essay for week #20 May 14, 2017

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Msg #1721 What Independent Baptists Preach

What The Bible Says

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Consider that Jesus likened the kingdom of heaven to ten virgins that took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom, but consider first that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. The very first Gospel record is to the Jews and presents Jesus as the Christ, the king that will sit on the throne of David and rule the world from Zion, the City of David. The parallels for the kingdom of heaven that are depicted in the Gospel According to Matthew are not about Christ's Church, nor it's soon coming rapture. Matthew is to the Jews and all about the King being put in place in his kingdom on earth. The parallel about the ten virgins is no exception to this rule. No Protestant clergy or theologian can give a proper commentary on these ten virgins because they hold that a catholic, universal church has taken over all promises made to the Jews; they see no dispensational divides whatsoever, and are covenant theologians at best. To see the depth of the parallel of the five foolish virgins with insufficient oil, and five wise virgins prepared to meet the coming bridegroom, one needs to rightly divide the Word of Truth with a dispensational discernment. Independent Baptists are not Protestant, not Calvinists, and not Denominational and do that very well. Certainly the application is clear, the soon coming Kingdom of Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people, but in a day when lukewarm Christianity abounds you should connect to the truth taught in an Independent Fundamental Baptist Church following the Old Paths. The Laodicean rock bands draw crowds and entertain the flesh, but they have no “Gold tried in the fire.”

An Essay for week #21 May 21, 2017

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Msg #1717 A Precious Type of Christ

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The Holy Bible, from Genesis to maps, is about our Lord Jesus Christ, but there is a name recorded more than his in its pages. That name comes second to his in the New Testament's beginning and second to his in its ending. God chose a shepherd boy, “a man after God's own heart”, and anointed him to be King of Israel. Jesus, the Only Begotten Son of God, is God's Anointed One (Hebrew – Messiah, Greek – Christ). In believing that, the Apostle John affirms, “you may have life through his name” (John20:31). So David is the Bible's most recorded “type” of Christ. King Saul's great beginning, ongoing struggle to destroy David, and keeping him from the kingdom typifies Satan's struggle against Christ. God giving David the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost for his possession is exactly what David records as upcoming for Christ in his second Psalm. Even David being deposed and driven from Jerusalem, and later reinstated as king is a depiction of our present distress. Bible believers know that Christ will soon come back to Jerusalem as King of kings, and Lord of lords. As much as David typifies Christ, he typifies man. His adultery and first degree murder cap the truth that “There is none righteous, no not one… For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:10.23). With deep insight David wrote “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit…. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise” (Psalm 34:18, 51:17). The life of David is worth another look. One can learn of Christ; one can learn of his own vile nature.

An Essay for week #17 Apr 23, 2017

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Msg #1718 A Disturbing Type of Man

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

While David as a type of Christ is invigorating, David as a type for man is disheartening. When Nathan, the prophet of God, portrayed a man's thoughtless, selfish, injustice “David's anger was greatly kindled against the man” (2 Samuel 12:5). Someone else's sin comes into instant focus. “As the LORD liveth the man shall surely die. And he shall restore the lamb four-fold… because he had no pity.” God's anger against David's sin was no less. The death penalty was passed to David's child of adultery, and the four-fold price was paid as God said, “Behold I will rise up evil against thee out of thine own house.” Evil in our own house is an awful price for ones selfish sin. In the next chapter David's daughter, Tamar was raped by her half brother, her rapist, Amnon was murdered by David's son Absalom, and Absalom was exiled and banished from his father. “And David mourned for his son every day.” After this three-fold payment  in one chapter David is tricked into bringing his exiled son home. David's enemies could never topple his kingdom, but Absalom did. “Aba” – Hebrew for “father” and “shalome” – Hebrew for “peace” combine in the name of “Absalom” who brought his father not peace but war, because of sin. “Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight?… by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme.” God hates man's sin, because sin will take you farther than you want to go, sin will keep you longer than you want to stay, and sin will cost you more than you want to pay. Sin has dire consequence.  Learn some valuable lessons from David, teach them to our children.

An Essay for week #18 Apr 30, 2017

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Msg #1715 A Picture of A Passover Lamb

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

“Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, … And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening” (Exodus 12:3,6). God knows how to operate a calendar. God knows how to paint a picture. God knows how to depict His Passover Lamb. Fifteen-hundred years after God's paint dried his King, his Only Begotten Son, offered himself as the King of Israel on the tenth day of the ancient Bible month of Abib. God in heaven knew, and his Anointed Son on earth knew, that he was instead going to be The Passover Lamb. They knew that in four short days, on the fourteenth day of this holy month, the Lamb that taketh away the sin of the world, would be nailed to an old rugged cross. For fifteen-hundred years Hebrews had separated a Passover lamb on the tenth day and slit that little lambs throat on the fourteenth day of the month. God knows how to paint the picture; the Pope in Rome would smudge up God's picture with a “Good Friday;” the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury would smear it with “Maundy Money Thursdays.” It is apostasy. If Moses was kept from the promised land because he put one little fingerprint smear on God's holy picture, what will these apostate churches answer? Disregard the “clergy;” focus on the week before us. Focus on God's Passover Lamb. The lens you use to examine God's Lamb cannot be an ecumenical copyright bible accepted by the apostate churches. In English, it will only be an Authorized King James Bible. Make no apologies. Watch the Lamb.

An Essay for week #15 Apr 9, 2017

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Msg #1716 Resurrection Morning

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

In 1840, in Paris France, Louis Gaussen, a French theologian published his book “Theopmeustia” (Inspiration). It thoroughly defended against the onslaught of attacks that skeptics, scoffers, scorners and scholars were leveling against the infallible, inerrant, verbally inspired Word of God. In his first revision he added eleven pages that rebuke and refute the scoffers who supposed eleven contradictions in the Bible's four resurrection accounts. (p218-228). Dr. Gaussen says that the eleven wild speculations appeared to be ill-founded and too often solved already to be in his first edition. Nevertheless, the scoffers perpetuated the list and, “We have thought proper to make a replay” (p220). The skeptics, scoffers, scorners, and scholars did not change their course or tactic in one-hundred-and sixty years, and the believer need not change the defense. The details of the resurrection accounts are all exactly true because the details of God's Holy Bible are all exactly inspired. Inspiration, inerrancy, and infallibility must be received by faith, and is only viable for those who first have the faith and indwelling of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the Truth. Now all the scoffers have their own copyright version of what they think God meant to say. (There are still a few gender-neutral and sodomite-friendly versions vying for copyrights but the vile pollution has already been accomplished.) The resurrection of the Only Begotten Son of God, the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ, is a fundamental doctrine of true Christianity. It is appalling today how many “churches” align themselves with the scorners. Blessed is the man that sitteth not in the pews of the scornful. I don't trust their copyright bibles either. Every Lord's day, every Sunday, every first day of the week, as it dawns in the morning, believers worship and acknowledge Christ's resurrection. We have for nineteen-hundred years.

An Essay for week #16 Apr 16, 2017

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Msg #1725 The Good Samaritan

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Jesus' story of the Good Samaritan more eloquently answers the unscrupulous lawyer's first question than his second. The eloquent answering of, “Who is my neighbor?” is so renowned that it made “Good Samaritan” a cliché, but look more carefully at that lawyer's first question, “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?” (Luke 10:25). This lawyer was tempting Christ, with his question, and likely emphasized the “I” as if he were a special case, and the “do” as if there were some kind of work in the answer. Jesus, knowing “there is none righteous, no not one” (Rom 3), knowing that “all we like sheep have gone astray” (Isa 53), knowing that “by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified” (Gal 2:16), and knowing “the law was a schoolmaster, to bring us to Christ” (3:24), told the haughty lawyer, “Go ahead, keep the law.” A mature believer can look into the depth of Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan and see that no human priest can give out eternal life. They might just have a Roman dress and backward collar, or be a legitimate Aaronic Priest, but there is no salvation from a priest, he passed by on the other side. So to the Levite, with the keeping of all the Levitical law, and ministering daily in the temple, had no power to save. But when there came a despised and rejected one, who reached out with compassion and touched the half-dead pilgrim, salvation came from his hand. To inherit eternal life, you need to be touched by the Good Samaritan, the Lord Jesus Christ, who said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14). Priests and works won't cut it. Praise His Holy Name.

An Essay for week #25 Jun 18, 2017

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Msg #1745 So-Great-Salvation and its Villains

What The Bible Says

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The account of Naaman being healed of his leprosy is a superb portrait of what Hebrews 2:3 calls “so great salvation,” but 2Kings 5 also reveals salvation's villain. In 5:3-12 one first has to admire the persistent 3^rd person testimony of a child, the blundering kings who know nothing about how God works, and the man-of-God who only sends a messenger, and confounds all of Naaman's preconceived notions. After Naaman's cleansing don't miss the seven results of authentic salvation recorded in 5:15-19: 1) He returned with his whole company to the man-of-God, 2) A “Now I know” salvation, 3) Overwhelming gratitude, 4) Silver and gold are nothing more than “burden of earth,” 5) A “No other God” mentality, 6) A consciousness of sin, and a need of pardon, and 7) A “Go in peace” joy of salvation. But notice, oh man of God, the seven traits of the villain of this account. In 5:20-25 for Gehazi 1) Gold is not as dirt, 2) long time service is obscured by greed, 3) he pursues after new-converts, 4) he lies about the man-of-God, what he did, what he said, and what he wants, 5) Gehazi is trusted by the new convert, 6) he sneaks around and hides things, and 7) he lies to the man-of-God. Wow, what a portrait. It reminds us that the faithful man of God will indeed be challenged in this old world. Don't miss Elisha's compassion on the villain as he confronts him, rebukes him, and leaves all punishment to the hand of God. Seven years later chapter 8 reveals that the villain struck pay-dirt for a new job, is still talking about the man-of-God, still bumping into people changed by the man-of-God, and is, coincidentally, providentially used to bring God's blessing on them. God is good.

An Essay for week #45 Nov 5, 2017

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Msg #1726 The Fate of the Rich Man

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Robert Ingersoll, credited as the founder of atheism is America, listened to his father, a Presbyterian Pastor, preach, “The rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment… in the flame…” (Luke 16). A faithful witness for John Calvin, his father taught him that God, before the foundation of the earth, choose this rich man to go to hell, and there was nothing the rich man could do about it. To these false teachings of Calvinism Robert Ingersoll wrote in 1878, “If that is the God of the Bible, I want nothing to do with him.” Calvinism brought a similar response from Charles Taze Russell, Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Glover Eddy, and Ellen White, all of whom founded cults opposing Calvinism, but also violating the simple truths of God's Word. That is pretty sobering, but Jesus' account of Lazarus and the rich man is very sobering. The rich man did not have another life. He did not have another chance. He did not have another witness to his family. Our life is like a vapor that appears for a little while, than vanishes away. Eternity is looming in your not to distant future and hell is real. The Bible says more about hell than it does about heaven. In life the rich man had options. “Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10). “Whosoever believeth in (the only begotten Son of God) shall not perish” (John 3). There are 164 “whosoevers” in the Bible, ninety-three are in the New Testament. All of us have the power and responsibility of choosing who we are going to believe, and there is a judgment day coming. Choose you this day whom you will serve. Trust Christ.

An Essay for week #26 Jun 25, 2017

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