SERMON BY SHAUN BRYANT – DON’T CHANGE WHAT GOD SAYS (REVELATION 22: 18-19)

    

¹⁸ For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: ¹⁹ And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. – Revelation 22:18-19 (KJV)

¹⁸ I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, ¹⁹ and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. – Revelation 22:18-19 (ESV)

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180729am - Don't Change What God Says - Revelation 22:18-19

Jul 30, 2018

Grace Church

Satan attacks the integrity of God's Word gcmodesto.org

VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saCyM5LgrkM&t=28s

     

   

  

⁵ Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

⁶ Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

- Proverbs 30:5-6 (KJV)

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INTERNET SOURCE: https://gcmodesto.org/about-us/who-we-are/

OTHER LINKS:

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2017/12/year-end-prayer-2017.html

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/01/revelation-19-return-of-jesus-christ.html

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https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-prayer-for-new-year.html

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2018/02/two-prayers-about-end-times.html

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2018/12/prayer-for-end-times.html

CHINESE CHRISTIANS ARE MEMORIZING SCRIPTURES

 

Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats. - Jim Elliot

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https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/01/missionary-jim-elliot-on-living-with.html

Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.

– Psalm 119:105 (NKJV)

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Chinese Christians jailed for faith memorize Bible because guards ‘can’t take what’s hidden in your heart’

By Caleb Parke | Fox News

An American pastor who went to China to train faith leaders experiencing Christian persecution quickly realized he had more to learn from them.

Wayne Cordeiro, pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii, shared about a recent trip to China with 22 Christian leaders in the communist country, 18 of whom had been imprisoned. He said they told him they smuggled Bible passages on small pieces of paper for others to memorize. Their meeting was underground.

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"If we get caught what will happen to me?" the pastor asked the Chinese Christians who took a 13-hour train ride to attend the leadership meeting, held in a 700-square-foot hotel room with no air conditioning.

"Well, you will get deported in 24 hours, and we will go to prison for three years," they responded.

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The 22 Chinese Christian leaders from the Hunan Province, the mountainous area in southern China, oversaw 22 million people in total in the country with 1.3 billion people.

In the beginning, short on Bibles, the Hawaii megachurch pastor asked them to turn to 2 Peter and he realized one of the women handed her Bible to another leader but she managed to recite the entire book.

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During a break he asked her about it. She said they have a lot of time in prison.

"Don't they confiscate the Bible?" Cordeiro asked.

They smuggle in pieces of paper with portions of Scripture on them.

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“That’s why we memorize it as fast as we can because even though they can take the paper away, they can’t take what’s hidden in your heart,” she shared with him.

At the conclusion of the three-day study, Cordeiro asked them how he could pray for them.

One man responded that he wanted to be free to worship: “Could you pray that one day we could just be like you?”

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But the Hawaii pastor said he would not do that.

“I will not pray that you become like us, but I will pray that we become just like you,” he responded.

Christine Caine, a Christian activist and evangelist, shared a similar story at "Heaven Come" conference in Los Angeles in May.

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Caine was invited to a gathering with 500 leaders of the Chinese underground church who asked her to teach them how to lead young people, worried they were losing them to Western values.

"'We don't understand anything about leadership, we don't understand about Western leadership methods. Could you help us? All we know how to do to is pray, all we know how to do is believe God. That's how we had revival in China when we're not allowed to carry the Word of God. The only leadership training we give our people is, we teach them how to witness to their executioner on their way to their execution.'"

She froze and then asked them to lay hands on her and pray for her.

"I thought, 'what am I doing here?" she said. "I literally said, 'I'm not sure if I'm a Christian.' You're asking me? No, you can all lay hands on me. You can all lay hands on me and give me the kind of faith that says, 'I'm going to witness to my executioner on the way to my execution...I want the kind of faith that causes Jesus to marvel."

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/chinese-christians-imprisoned-for-faith-memorize-bible-guards-cant-take-whats-hidden-in-your-heart

 

MARTIN LUTHER ON READING THE GOSPEL EVERYDAY

    

“We need to hear the Gospel every day because we forget it every day.” – Martin Luther

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QUOTE: “We need to hear the Gospel every day because we forget it every day.”

AUTHOR: Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, former monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Late Medieval Catholic Church. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He proposed an academic discussion of the power and usefulness of indulgences in his Ninety-Five Theses of 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the Pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the Emperor.

Luther taught that salvation and subsequently eternal life is not earned by good deeds but is received only as a free gift of God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer from sin. His theology challenged the authority and office of the Pope by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge from God and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood. Those who identify with these, and all of Luther's wider teachings, are called Lutherans even though Luther insisted on Christian or Evangelical as the only acceptable names for individuals who professed Christ.

His translation of the Bible into the vernacular (instead of Latin) made it more accessible, which had a tremendous impact on the church and German culture. It fostered the development of a standard version of the German language, added several principles to the art of translation, and influenced the writing of an English translation, the Tyndale Bible. His hymns influenced the development of singing in churches. His marriage to Katharina von Bora set a model for the practice of clerical marriage, allowing Protestant clergy to marry.

 

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https://www.apuritansmind.com/creeds-and-confessions/the-apostles-creed/

OTHER LINKS:

https://www.apuritansmind.com/creeds-and-confessions/the-apostles-creed/

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2019/10/sermon-by-michael-horton-parables-of.html 

CHRIST THE KING PRAYER

 

¹¹ And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

¹² His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

¹³ And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

¹⁴ And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

¹⁵ And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

¹⁶ And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords. – Revelation 19:11-16 (KJV)

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O Lord our God, You alone are the Most Holy King and Ruler of all nations.
We pray to You, Lord, in the great expectation of receiving from You,
O Divine King, mercy, peace, justice and all good things.
Protect, O Lord our King, our families and the land of our birth.
Guard us we pray Most Faithful One.
Protect us from our enemies and from Your Just Judgment
Forgive us, O Sovereign King, our sins against you.
Jesus, You are a King of Mercy.
We have deserved Your Just Judgment
Have mercy on us, Lord, and forgive us.
We trust in Your Great Mercy.
O most awe-inspiring King, we bow before You and pray;
May Your Reign, Your Kingdom, be recognized on earth.
Amen.

https://indefenseofthecross.com/prayers/prayers-to-jesus/

 

 

The Lord has established His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules over all. – Psalm 103 vs 19 (NKJV)

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The Lord is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land. – Psalm 10:16 (ESV)

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Dear Jesus,

What a King you are! Your power and majesty are above anything this world has to offer. 

I want you to be my King. I submit to your rule and Kingdom.

Teach me to worship and honor you as you deserve to be.

I want to be ready for your return. Take all sin out of my life and cleanse me.

I am yours now, and your responsibility. Make me ready, my King.

Come Lord Jesus, come. Amen.

[The Jesus Book by Michael Koulianos]

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9 verse 6 (KJV)

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¹⁶ And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:

 God was manifested in the flesh,

Justified in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the Gentiles,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory.

- 1 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV)