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Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee Hebrews 9:25—10:24
“Either your sin is on you, or it is on Christ.” That’s the powerful truth we’ll hear from our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, as our study of the New Testament book of Hebrews continues. Explore the purpose of the Mosaic Law in ancient Israel, and learn why it’s no longer necessary today.
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee...Dr. J. Vernon McGee
We Are Made To Worship
We approach a holy God today on the basis of a crucified Savior. And He alone can let us worship. And that’s the reason that you find that Paul in Ephesians says to them: “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Holy Spirit.” And then what’s the first thing that he talks about? Well, worship. “Speaking to yourself in psalms and hymns, making melody in your heart.” Well, my friend, the greatest thrill in the world for a child of God is to be filled by the Spirit of God and to have the Spirit of God take the things of Christ and make them real to us. It brings joy to our heart.
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/thru-the-bible-minute-with-mcgee/
Daily Promises
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. (John 10:27-28)
If we are truly believers in Christ, then we will also be followers of Him. Because we believe in and follow Jesus, we will live eternally in heaven with Him. Once we have been saved, no one can take away our salvation!
God has been good!
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. -- Colossians 4:2
While the journey may not have been easy, God has been good.
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/god-has-been-good
Today's Wins
1 James Howard Kunstler - No, The Truth Is Not Just Another Story...."The Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency." — Tom Luongo
https://www.kunstler.com/p/no-the-truth-is-not-just-another
2 Supreme Court May Have the Opportunity to Overturn Yet Another Legal Attack on Trump
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/12/30/supreme-court-appeals-trump-legal-battles/
3 Reagan Was Right About the Panama Canal . . . and So Is Trump
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/30/reagan-was-right-panama-canal-so-is-trump/
4 Constitutional carry for all Americans?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/constitutional_carry_for_all_americans.html
5 Supreme Court May Have the Opportunity to Overturn Yet Another Legal Attack on Trump
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/12/30/supreme-court-appeals-trump-legal-battles/
6 J.K. Rowling Slams the Trans Agenda, ‘No Child Is Born in the Wrong Body’
https://headlineusa.com/j-k-rowling-slams-trans-agenda/
7 Communist lights out!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/communist_lights_out.html
8 Feel Good Story To End the Year: Florida Family Received a Miracle on Christmas Eve
9 Quote of the Day - All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Look What The Dog Dragged In
10 Political Moonshine - US Ripe for Another “Pandemic,” a Civil War and a World War During the Most Dangerous Time of Presidential Transition....23 days out from Donald Trump’s inauguration with a full slate of domestic and international operations functioning to sabotage DJT’s incoming administration.
https://politicalmoonshine.com/2024/12/28/67422/
11 Moon Of Alabama - Week In Review
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2024-314.html
12 Jimmy Carter: His image vs. the reality I experienced covering his 1976 campaign
13 Ask the Venezuelans how great an ex-president Jimmy Carter was
14 1,800-Year-Old Archaeologist Discovery Shows Just How Rapidly The Gospel Spread In The Roman Empire
15 2024 Year in Pictures...A look into the world through the lens of photography.
16 Photos of Extraordinary Texas Tornado Devastation Proves NWO Geoterrorists Using More Powerful Weather Weaponry
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=10570
17 Epoch Times 2024 Top 10 Best Movies of the Year
Dog Woo
18 Trying to Understand the Meaning of It All
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/trying_to_understand_the_meaning_of_it_all.html
19 Damascus, Drones, And Scandal: An End Of The Year No One Could Have Anticipated
20 The Media’s Deception of Parents
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-medias-deception-of-parents/
21 H-1B visas and career delusions
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/h_1b_visas_and_career_delusions.html
22 There’s something very wrong with the Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Tag Team
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=10332#more-10332
23 Wayne Allyn Root - Merry Christmas...Trump won! What a great Christmas gift! God saved America. God blessed America.But…Now Think What This Christmas Day Would Look and Feel Like If Kamala Had Won?
https://rootforamerica.com/what-this-christmas-day-would-look-and-feel-like-if-kamala-had-won/
24 Monday Poem...Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
25 Image courtesy of Richard Terrell at AfterMath.
https://images.americanthinker.com/qy/qy3hxuhjepty6avtt3e7_800.jpg
The Worst Of Babylon Bee
26 Biden Finally Claims Title Of Worst Living President
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-finally-claims-title-of-worst-living-president
27 9 Places More Positive And Uplifting Than Social Media
https://babylonbee.com/news/9-places-more-positive-and-uplifting-than-social-media
28 Local Man Fondly Recalls Christian Music Being Cool Those Three Days After 'Jesus Freak' Came Out
29 Unclear If Pianist Total Beginner Or Professional Jazz Player
https://babylonbee.com/news/unclear-if-pianist-total-beginner-or-professional-jazz-player
30 Morpheus Offers 40-Year-Old Man Ibuprofen Or Pepto-Bismol
https://babylonbee.com/news/morpheus-offers-40-year-old-man-ibuprofen-or-pepto-bismol
31 Inflatable Snowman Begins To Wonder What The Point Of Existence Even Is
https://babylonbee.com/news/inflatable-snowman-begins-to-wonder-what-the-point-of-existence-even-is
PowderRoomPolitics Presents Animal Antics - Playdates and Working Pets
1 I Don't Own A Cat?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPy5UfKJUqI
2 Vets And Pets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAFDXTiD4Ng
3 Too Cute Cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6WuSYiRfq4
4 Great Dane And Mini Horse Playdate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKdxRqSWNg
5 Animals That Brighten Our Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8HHHIBRbc
6 Rescued Pets Warm Hearts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijH3CRGldgU
7 Angry Kitty With Painful Past Rescued With Kittens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtsEsjrqVCE
8 Grandpas Are The Dog's Best Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA6ExInGh3c
9 Rescue Squirrel Won't Leave Lady Who Saved Him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NsgqCcVp1o
10 He's Not Lost, Just Visiting Santa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP_K9Q0cpb0
11 Who Needs A Guard Dog When You Have...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM2BHnaYgnw
Meow Mix With The Missouri Wildcat Taffy333
1 The 70th Week Of Daniel: An Astounding Glimpse Of The Future
https://harbingersdaily.com/the-70-weeks-of-daniel-an-astounding-glimpse-of-the-future/
2 Part One: The Architecture of Control
https://brownstone.org/articles/part-one-the-architecture-of-control/
3 Making friends with your past and future selves
4 The Battle for the Mind (Tim LaHaye, 1980); from Creationism to Christian Nationalism
5 For a Happier New Year, Focus on Your Loved Ones
...Goodnight Newshounds...
Head Up
Eyes Forward
Hold The Line Patriots
Keep Calm
And
Howl On
My favorite doggo!!!
...wags tail joyously.,,,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 31st — Morning Reading
"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink." — John 7:37
Patience had her perfect work in the Lord Jesus, and until the last day of the feast He pleaded with the Jews, even as on this last day of the year He pleads with us, and waits to be gracious to us. Admirable indeed is the longsuffering of the Saviour in bearing with some of us year after year, notwithstanding our provocations, rebellions, and resistance of His Holy Spirit. Wonder of wonders that we are still in the land of mercy!
Pity expressed herself most plainly, for Jesus cried, which implies not only the loudness of His voice, but the tenderness of His tones. He entreats us to be reconciled. "We pray you," says the Apostle, "as though God did beseech you by us." What earnest, pathetic terms are these! How deep must be the love which makes the Lord weep over sinners, and like a mother woo His children to His bosom! Surely at the call of such a cry our willing hearts will come.
Provision is made most plenteously; all is provided that man can need to quench his soul's thirst. To his conscience the atonement brings peace; to his understanding the gospel brings the richest instruction; to his heart the person of Jesus is the noblest object of affection; to the whole man the truth as it is in Jesus supplies the purest nutriment. Thirst is terrible, but Jesus can remove it. Though the soul were utterly famished, Jesus could restore it.
Proclamation is made most freely, that every thirsty one is welcome. No other distinction is made but that of thirst. Whether it be the thirst of avarice, ambition, pleasure, knowledge, or rest, he who suffers from it is invited. The thirst may be bad in itself, and be no sign of grace, but rather a mark of inordinate sin longing to be gratified with deeper draughts of lust; but it is not goodness in the creature which brings him the invitation, the Lord Jesus sends it freely, and without respect of persons.
Personality is declared most fully. The sinner must come to Jesus, not to works, ordinances, or doctrines, but to a personal Redeemer, who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree. The bleeding, dying, rising Saviour, is the only star of hope to a sinner. Oh for grace to come now and drink, ere the sun sets upon the year's last day!
No waiting or preparation is so much as hinted at. Drinking represents a reception for which no fitness is required. A fool, a thief, a harlot can drink; and so sinfulness of character is no bar to the invitation to believe in Jesus. We want no golden cup, no bejewelled chalice, in which to convey the water to the thirsty; the mouth of poverty is welcome to stoop down and quaff the flowing flood. Blistered, leprous, filthy lips may touch the stream of divine love; they cannot pollute it, but shall themselves be purified. Jesus is the fount of hope. Dear reader, hear the dear Redeemer's loving voice as He cries to each of us,
"If any man thirst,
let him come unto me
and drink."
So glad you're back! So refreshing!
...howls...
Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 30th — Evening Reading
"Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?" — 2 Samuel 2:26
If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end.
You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others go, not because your heart is right with God. This is your beginning. I will suppose that for the next twenty or thirty years you will be spared to go on as you do now, professing religion by an outward attendance upon the means of grace, but having no heart in the matter. Tread softly, for I must show you the deathbed of such a one as yourself. Let us gaze upon him gently. A clammy sweat is on his brow, and he wakes up crying, "O God, it is hard to die. Did you send for my minister?" "Yes, he is coming." The minister comes. "Sir, I fear that I am dying!" "Have you any hope?" "I cannot say that I have. I fear to stand before my God; oh! pray for me." The prayer is offered for him with sincere earnestness, and the way of salvation is for the ten-thousandth time put before him, but before he has grasped the rope, I see him sink. I may put my finger upon those cold eyelids, for they will never see anything here again. But where is the man, and where are the man's true eyes? It is written, "In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment." Ah! why did he not lift up his eyes before? Because he was so accustomed to hear the gospel that his soul slept under it. Alas! if you should lift up your eyes there, how bitter will be your wailings. Let the Saviour's own words reveal the woe: "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." There is a frightful meaning in those words. May you never have to spell it out by the red light of Jehovah's wrath!