Rev. Russ

Preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

I won't hide it. I won't water it down. I won't bend it to fit culture or bow to compromise.

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because it is the Power of God unto Salvation.

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
- Romans 1:16

Unpopular opinion? Maybe... But as my grandfather once said:

"A man with God is always in the majority."
- John Knox

#Unashamed #ChristIsKing #SoliDeoGloria

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

@USJewishDems Proverbs 16:18... It also goes before destruction... Just sayin'...

#SoliDeoGloria

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@IiiPaulus @JesusSavesUs777 Agreed!

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

"The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest."
- Jesus Christ (Matthew 9:37-38)

When we read the life of Jesus with our eyes open, it's hard to miss the shadow of Moses. This isn't accidental, a coincidence, or literary decoration. God was actually showing Israel something - Moses was raised up as a deliverer, but Jesus is the greater Deliverer.

See Moses escaped the murderous decree of a wicked ruler when Pharaoh sought to destroy the Hebrew children. Likewise, Jesus escaped the murderous decree of Herod when he sought to destroy the children of Bethlehem. Moses went up the mountain and came down with the law of God written on stone tablets. Likewise, Jesus went up the mountain and preached the law of God with divine authority, not merely explaining righteousness, but revealing the very heart of it.

Matthew doesn't present these things by accident. He lays out the teaching of Christ in five major sections, calling our minds back to the five books of Moses. Once this is understood, the message becomes clear - Moses was a servant in the house, but Christ is the Son over the house.

Despite what certain religions erroneously claim; Jesus isn't merely another prophet. He's the greater Moses, the True Mediator, and the promised Shepherd of Israel.

By time we get to Matthew 9, Jesus has gone through the cities and villages, teaching in the synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every manner of sickness and disease among the people. But when He looks upon the multitude, He doesn't see an inconvenience or a crowd to be managed - He sees sheep without a Shepherd; and that's a very sharp rebuke against the leaders of Israel.

The people weren't spiritually healthy. They were scattered, weary, and neglected. The shepherds who should've fed the flock had failed them entirely. Ezekiel already spoke against such shepherds saying they fed themselves while the sheep were left weak, sick, broken, and scattered.

But God also promised that He Himself would seek after His sheep - and that promised is fulfilled in Christ.

Jesus looks upon the people with compassion because He is the Good Shepherd. He doesn't abandon the flock. He gathers them, heals them, and teaches them - and in accordance with the Law and the Prophets - He lays down His life for them.

Then Jesus turns to His disciples and says to them, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." This is still true today. There's no shortage of people who need the truth. There's no shortage of broken souls, confused minds, wounded consciences, and scattered sheep. The shortage isn't in the harvest, but in faithful laborers.

But Christ doesn't tell us first to complain about the condition of the field, he tells us to pray.. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth laborers into His harvest." The field, the crop, the harvest all belongs to God - so the laborers must also be sent by God... That should humble us. No man appoints himself master of the field. No preacher owns the flock. No church owns the harvest. We are servants, laborers, under-shepherds at best - working beneath the Hand of the Chief Shepard.

So the call is quite simple: pray, then work.

Pray that God would raise up faithful men who preach Christ clearly, handle the Word honestly, and care for souls sincerely. Pray that He would send laborers who aren't chasing applause, money, titles, or religious power - but who truly love the Chief Shepherd and His sheep.

And then ask yourself the harder question... Am I willing to be one of them?

The harvest is still plentiful, the laborers are still few - and the Lord of the harvest is still sending faithful men into His field.

May we all be found faithful when He calls...

- Soli Deo Gloria

#SolaScriptura #SolaFide #SolaGratia #SolusChristus #SoliDeoGloria #ChristIsKing #ChristianLife #Christianity #Reformed #Christian #Bible #Faith #Presbyterian #Reformed #Protestant

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

@laralogan @laralogan Oh, we see.. I'm a Reformed Protestant Preacher. I've challenged this so-call pastor to a public debate on this exact prompt. I'm awaiting a response..

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

@BernieKram @Mimi91Grumpy @JesusSavesUs777 Got any videos of Trump being sketchy with young girls? lol

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

@BernieKram @Mimi91Grumpy @JesusSavesUs777 Biden really loved the little girls huh?

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

@BernieKram @Mimi91Grumpy @JesusSavesUs777 Is this what you voted for?

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

@BernieKram @Mimi91Grumpy @JesusSavesUs777 Yeah, yeah, yeah... I bet you fawned over Biden...

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

How rainbow pastors react when they see the Unapologetic Preacher...

#SoliDeoGloria

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@TRHLofficial Prove me wrong...

[Christian Tweets @JesusSavesUs777]

You CAN'T be a Christian and celebrate Pride Month.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

As the 11th great-grandson of Reverend John Knox and a Preacher of his line, I formally and publicly reject this woman's ordination and the Presbytery that ordained her.

In fact, I challenge @toddiepeters, and any of the so-called Presbyters that support her, to an official public debate on this very prompt...

"if Jesus was alive he would've probably said 'blessed are those who end their pregnancies.'"

If you think you have something Biblically sound, come try it by fire... And we'll see what's left standing...

- Soli Deo Gloria

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#MyXAnniversary

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@reformed_corner Facts! lol

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@reformed_corner God Bless brother! ✝️🫡

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."
- Matthew 10:34-36

Christ's words strike at the heart of one of life's deepest loves... Family. We long for peace at the table, unity in the household, and familial bonds unbroken by Faith. Yet Jesus declares that His coming won't always bring peace, but division, even in the family circle. This sounds almost unbearable, but our Lord doesn't hide the cost of discipleship. He tells us the truth plainly, so when the sword falls in our homes, we won't be undone by the surprise. And yet, hidden in these hard words lies an even greater comfort: Though the faith may estrange us from our earthly kin, it secures us a greater and everlasting family in Christ.

"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."
- Matthew 10:22

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
- 2 Timothy 3:12

Consider the scene when our Lord was told that His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. To those around Him, this was the most natural priority - family ties should command attention. But Jesus answered in a way that would have shocked His hearers...

"But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
- Matthew 12:48-50

He doesn't despise His earthly family, He would tenderly care for His mother even from the Cross - but He redefines family altogether. This redefinition is Covenantal in nature - under the Old Covenant, kinship and inheritance were traced through bloodlines, ancestry, and nations. Yet in the New Covenant, Christ reveals that the true heirs are those joined to Him by faith. The truest family is not formed by mere fleshly descent, but by union with Christ, and obedience to God as the evidence of that union. In this, He gathers to Himself a people from every tribe and tongue, fulfilling the promise to Abraham that all nations would be bless in his Seed, which is Christ.

"And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice."
- Genesis 22:18

"When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
- Matthew 8:10-12

"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;"
- Ephesians 2:19

"For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren"
- Hebrews 2:11

This truth is especially precious for believers who have felt the sting of rejection in their earthly families. To be mocked by siblings, to be cast out by parents, or to be disowned by kin for confessing Christ or living out the Christian Life - this is a sorrow that pierces the soul. Yet the Word of God assures us that none who belong to Christ are left orphans, for we are given the Spirit of Adoption. The Christian life is not lived as a tenant in God's house, always at risk of eviction, but as an adopted child, secured by the Will of the Father, by the blood of the Son, and power of the Holy Spirit.

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
- Romans 8:15

My cousin Rev. John Witherspoon, the Great Reformed pastor and statesman, once wrote, "Believe it, my brethren, nothing so much reconciles the heart to duty, nothing so kindles a holy indigitation against sin, as a believing view of the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This gives the Spirit of adoption, a child-like fear, and a child-like love. This fills the Christian with comfort, this inspires the Christian with zeal. To seek out comfort in a separate way, or in the first instance from our duties, is to make the comfort feeble and variable as the duties are defective; but to enliven our duties by the comforts of the Gospel is to follow the order of the covenant of grace, by which we at once promote the glory of God, and most effectually secure our own comfort and peace." Here Witherspoon reminds us that adoption flows not from our works but from the finished work of Christ, the true Lamb of God. The covenant of grace is ordered so that comfort springs from Christ first, and duty follows as its fruit. Thus, the Spirit of adoption is not a vague feeling, but the Spirit's own witness that in Christ we belong to the Father.

This is the privilege Christ speaks of: that the believer, though cast off by father or mother or kin, is taken in by the Lord Himself and strengthened to live in holiness and comfort as His child.

"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,"
- Ephesians 1:5

"To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons."
- Galatians 4:5

This adoption is not an isolated privilege, it binds us not only to God as Father but also to one another as brothers and sisters in Christ. The congregation of believers around you, however flawed, however weak, is your eternal family in Christ Jesus. When you are cut off from the earthly table, you are welcomes with open arms at the Lord's table. When your kin say, "You are no longer mine," the saints of God say, "You are ours forever." The communion of saints is no abstraction, it's the flesh-and-blood family of God, gathered around Word and Sacrament, bound together in the Spirit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up."
- Psalms 27:10

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
- Psalms 133:1

O Lord, our faithful Faither, we come before you with heavy hearts. Many of your children have been cast off by their earthly kin for the sake of Christ. Yet you have promised to never leave nor forsake them. Comfort them with the Spirit of Adoption. Bind them fast to Your Church, their everlasting family. Teach them to cry with boldness, "Abba, Father" and to rest in the comfort of your everlasting arms. And grant that we, as brethren in Christ, may love on another as true family, until that day when every tear is wiped away and all Your children are gathered at the marriage supper of the Lamb. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

- Soli Deo Gloria

#SolaScriptura #SolaFide #SolaGratia #SolusChristus #SoliDeoGloria #ChristIsKing #ChristianLife #Reformed #Christian #Bible #Faith #Presbyterian

[Rev. Russ @thePreacherRuss]

This kind of heresy goes unchecked in the Catholic Church, but the Reformers were labeled as "anathema"? Make it make sense....

[Protestia @Protestia]

This represents a good chunk of Roman Catholics, especially in America.