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I know that I know not, so teach me.

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

“If you’re going to be a man, work hard, that’s manly. Manage your money. Stewardship of money. A very, very significant test of one's maturity. Chapter 3:9. Honor the Lord from your wealth and the first of your produce. So your barns will be filled with plenty and your vats will overflow with new wine. Honor the Lord with your money. Not only the money you give to the Lord, but the money that you use for your family.”

“Fear your God. Guard your mind. Obey your parents. Select your companions. Control your body. Enjoy your wife. Watch your words. Pursue your work. Manage your money. And serve your neighbor. That's how you live your life as a man. That's a father's task. That's what a father teaches his son. That all comes out of this section that fathers teach their sons. Fail to teach your son to fear God, and he'll learn to hate God. Fail to teach your son to guard his mind, and his mind will be corrupted.” — John MacArthur: 2012 Resolved Conference: Masculinity and the Church

[HeartCry Missionary @HeartCryMission]

"So the world pumps its sewer into your brain 16 hours a day, and you're going to stand against that because you're memorizing one verse a year?"

Find the full message from Paul Washer linked below — "A Transformed People: The Holiness of the Christian" — the second message from the new "Heavenly Citizenship" series.

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

We should not be disturbed at all if we don’t have everything this world or this life has to offer. We have all spiritual blessings, and we have an inheritance undefiled, unfading, laid up for us in heaven.

Election: Christ’s Honor and Our Blessing — John MacArthur // June 19, 2019

Spurgeon said, “I know nothing, nothing again that is more humbling than this doctrine of election. I have sometimes fallen down before it when endeavoring to understand it. But when I came near it, and the one thought possessed me, God has from the beginning chosen you unto salvation, I was staggered by the mighty thought and from the dizzy elevation came down my soul, broken, saying, ‘Lord, I am nothing. I am less than worthy. Why me? Why me?’” Pride-crushing truth produces thanksgiving at its highest level.

Secondly, it is the most God-exalting doctrine. It gives all the glory to God. It declares that choice, regeneration, calling, faith, repentance, reconciliation, adoption, sanctification and glorification are all the work of God, who, according to Psalm 110:3, made us willing in the day of His power, so that we all say, “Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us; but to Thy name give glory.” It is the most God-exalting doctrine. And so, it fuels our worship, doesn’t it.

Thirdly, it is the most joy-producing doctrine. It brings the ultimate supreme joy. There’s no hope of salvation apart from sovereign choice by God. Psalm 65:4 says, “Blessed is the man whom You choose and cause to approach You, that he may dwell in your courts.” What joy that God has set His love on us from eternity past and guaranteed it into eternity future. “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” This transcends all the petty disappointments of life. It is without question the most pride-crushing, God-exalting, joy-producing doctrine. It is the most privilege-granting doctrine. It grants us incomprehensible blessings, Ephesians 1:3, “Blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,” all spiritual blessings.

We should not be disturbed at all if we don’t have everything this world or this life has to offer. We have all spiritual blessings, and we have an inheritance undefiled, unfading, laid up for us in heaven. It is the most holiness prompting doctrine. It compels us to live holy. It is a holy calling. It is a holy calling.

Colossians chapter 3, verse 12, “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your heart. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.”

As those who are chosen of God, holy and beloved, “Wives, submit to your husbands. Husbands, love your wives. Children, obey your parents. Fathers, do not exasperate your children.” Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness. Devote yourselves to prayer.” Why? Because it’s a holy calling, it’s a holy calling.

Again, Spurgeon said, “Nothing under the gracious influence of the Holy Spirit can make a Christian more holy than the thought that he is chosen. Shall I sin” – says Spurgeon – “after God has chosen me? Shall I transgress after such love? Shall I go astray after so much lovingkindness and tender mercy? No, my God. Since You have chosen me, I will love You, I will live for You. I will give myself to You, to You forever, solemnly consent to do Your service.”

[Just Jen ℞ 🫡🇺🇸 @JustJenRX]

This is the scariest video I have EVER seen 😳

[John K. Amanchukwu Sr. @REVWUTRUTH]

23 STATES. AND I’M NOT DONE.

I’ve traveled across this country fighting to protect our children from Marxist ideology and political indoctrination.

Several more stops are already booked—and we’re adding more.

Our children deserve a SOUND BASIC EDUCATION—not ideological indoctrination.

This is bigger than politics. This is a fight for our children’s future.

Pray for me as I go forth.

We will NOT surrender our children. 🇺🇸

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

So the Father chooses in eternity past, the Father draws in time. The one who is drawn comes to Christ. Christ received that one who comes, never turning him away.

Election: Christ’s Honor and Our Blessing — John MacArthur // June 19, 2019

It’s not about us, it’s not that we were so loveable, because we were chosen before we even existed. We haven’t been chosen since we were born, we were chosen before anything existed. This is how the Son understands salvation.

Look at John chapter 6, John chapter 6. He knows what’s going on. He knows what the Father is doing. Verse 37 of John 6: “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me.” That is a defining statement. You’re not going to come to the Son as part of the bride unless the Father gives you to the Son. This is how God expresses His love. Every redeemed person is a love gift from the Father to the Son. “All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out, I will not reject,” not because we’re so valuable, but because there is in every soul given to the Son an expression of the Father’s eternal love. “All that the Father gives to Me will come to Me.”

Down in verse 44, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.” So the Father chooses in eternity past, the Father draws in time. The one who is drawn comes to Christ. Christ received that one who comes, never turning him away. And then verse 39, “This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose none, but raise him up on the last day.” The Father chooses, the Father draws; the Sons receives, the Son keeps, the raises to glory. That’s the plan of salvation.

Chosen for glory. We’re not chosen for partial salvation that might be lost or forfeited, we were chosen for glory; and that’s exactly what we saw in our text in 2 Thessalonians. We were chosen for glory. God has chosen you, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Every believer is God’s chosen one, given to the Son as an expression of the Father’s love.

Turn to the seventeenth chapter of John, and here we find the great illustration of our Lord’s intercessory ministry as our Great High Priest as He prays for believers, and He identifies believers repeatedly in a very familiar way. “Jesus spoke these things”; – verse 1 – “lifting up His eyes to heaven, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.” That is an unmistakable statement. All whom the Father has chosen He gives to the Son, and to them He gives eternal life.

Verse 6, I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world.” Verse 9, “I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine.” And verse 12, “While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition,” – reference to Judas – “ so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.” Never lost one, except the one who was a fraud in the first place. Over and over He says, “You have given Me. You have given Me.”

Go down to verse 24: “Father, I desire that they also whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am.” There in one statement is the purpose of our Lord’s high priestly intercessory ministry. He is praying all the Father’s love gifts into eternal glory. It doesn’t happen just because God said it happens, it happens because Christ sees that it happens; He makes it happen. “I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have give Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”

[Voddie Baucham Sermon Clips @VoddieClips]

I've never understood the prodigal son and big brother was actually about the Pharisees.

Now I can't unsee this.

Brilliant teaching from Voddie about how works righteousness has left us all blind.

#Bible #prodigal #pastor #Jesus #heart

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

“We’re having church!” — John MacArthur, Sunday August 17, 2020 at Grace Community Church

[Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey @RelatablewABS]

A 19-year-old conceived through a purchased egg reached out to the woman who is her biological mother, saying she had always felt "empty and disconnected" and wanted to get to know her.

The woman's response?

"Egg donation is a confidential business transaction... I got my check and went on with my life. Don't contact me again."

This story is a heartbreaking and sobering reminder that while adults may get what they want, it's often the children who bear the lifelong emotional cost.

[Dear Men's @Dearr_mens]

JOEL 2:26

[Wretched with Todd Friel @WretchedNetwork]

John MacArthur's Reminder Every Christian Needs

[Rorisang H. LES. @RorisangHLes]

👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

Yaaass! The Blue Angels over the pier on Pensacola Beach

[∀ ꓘ I Ⅎ ∀ @AfikaSoyamba]

I run a dubbing studio.

Every day we make Korean, Turkish, Hindi, Spanish and Portuguese content accessible to South African audiences through language.

Nobody asks why

Nobody says viewers should just learn Korean or Portuguese

Nobody complains when knowledge and entertainment are translated into English

I also write software in Python.

So when I see people building tools that allow coding concepts to be expressed in isiZulu, I understand exactly what they’re trying to do and get excited

Language is not just for conversation.

Language is a vehicle for knowledge.

If a language can carry stories, science, mathematics and law, it can carry programming concepts too.

The comments under @Father_Of_Geeks post are a reminder that the biggest barrier is not technology.

It’s whether we believe our own languages deserve a place in the future.

[Ken Ham @aigkenham]

Are eggs healthy? (And what does this have to do with biblical truth?)

Back in 2012, a study found that over half of Americans “have concluded that figuring out their income taxes is easier than knowing what they should and shouldn’t eat to be healthier.” Nearly 8 in 10 said the “ever-changing nutritional guidance makes it hard to know what to believe.” And eggs are the classic example of this.

Back in the 1960s–1990s, eggs were considered an unhealthy food, high in cholesterol and bad for heart health. Many people stopped eating them or switched to eating just the protein-rich whites. Later research showed that dietary cholesterol wasn’t the issue, and eggs were once again safe to eat.

Well, just recently, things got even better for “egg PR.” A new study found that eating eggs on a regular basis can reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease by up to 27% thanks to the vitamins, minerals, and good fats found in the egg, particularly the yolk. The science sure has changed in a few decades, hasn’t it?

Now I’m not here to give you dietary advice or comment on the health of eating eggs (or the robustness of the study, which was funded in part by the American Egg Board), but this study reminded me of the eternal truth of God’s Word. You see, “science” is always changing. Things that were “settled science” are often overturned by later research, a new study, different technology, or the discovery of a conflict of interests. This is true of observational science (like nutrition studies)—it’s even more true of historical science, which is an interpretation of the past (it seems every week there’s a new study changing everything we thought we knew about evolution! It continually evolves!).

Our faith should never be in man’s fallible interpretations about the world around us. Those interpretations are often wrong and are frequently overturned. Our faith should be in God’s infallible, eternal, unchanging Word. When Christians take the ideas of our day and add them into the Bible, reinterpreting God’s clear Word in light of man’s ideas, they are really saying that sinful, fallible human beings who often make mistakes are the authority, and God—the perfect, all-knowing, eternal God—is the one who needs correcting!

Man is not the authority; God is. As Christians, we must start with God’s Word as the authority in all areas.

“The grass withers, the flower fades,
  but the word of our God will stand forever” (Isaiah 40:8).

[The Master's Seminary @MastersSeminary]

"Prayer begins and ends not with the needs of man but with the glory of God (John 14:13). It should be concerned primarily with who God is, what He wants, and how He can be glorified.” —John MacArthur, "Alone With God"

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

A member of Reformation Church submitted this video to his employer’s “What PRIDE means to me” campaign. Corporate wanted public clips to signal support for LGBTQ. After his submission, the whole program vanished. Videos pulled. Prizes canceled. No reply.

That is Christian witness. Christ is King!

[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

“There’s a third use of the term “world,” and a third use refers to the spiritual realm that is in opposition to God and in rebellion against His kingdom. It is that third sense of “ world” that is being discussed here, so John says, “Do not love the world.” He says your love becomes sinful when it’s directed at that system that is anti-God, that system that is anti-kingdom.” — Voddie Baucham