Sol pt 24-Fox Hunting For Christ-Kevin Williams

What are the foxes we are to hunt down in Song of Solomon 2:15?

How should Christians warn others of false teaches/churches/denominations/sects?
Should the Christian name names?

Also: How is Christ finished work on the cross tranfered to the believer? How do you get the benefit of what Christ has done?

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Sol 2:15 - Song of Sol pt 24-Fox Hunting For Christ-Kevin Williams -49 min

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The celestial city is full in my view - Edward 'praying' Payson

"Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." Psalm 122:2

'Praying' Payson, when approaching the end of life:
"The celestial city is full in my view. Its glories beam upon me, its breezes fan me, its odors are wafted to me, its sounds strike upon my ears, and its spirit is breathed into my heart. Nothing separates me from it but the river of death, which now appears but as an insignificant rill, that may be crossed at a single step, whenever God shall give permission. The Sun of Righteousness has been gradually drawing nearer and nearer, appearing larger and brighter as he approached, and now he fills the whole hemisphere - pouring forth a flood of glory, in which I seem to float like an insect in the beams of the sun; exulting, yet almost trembling, while I gaze on this excessive brightness, and wondering with unutterable wonder why God should deign thus to shine upon a sinful worm." ~Edward Payson, 1783- 1827. Works, i. 407.

"Praying Payson Of Portland" - Leonard Ravenhill (1 min)

Don't Play the Church Game, A Missionary's Plea By Trevor Johnson

Trevor Johnson is a missionary in a remote tribal group in Indonesia. I pray this testimony will encourage you and challenge you.

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Prov 2-Seek Christ & His Ways Above All Else-Kevin Williams

In our Fri night Bible Study we continue to go through the book of Proverbs. Here we look at chapter 2, and the awesome warning of seeking Christ and His ways above all else.
-To seek to know the will of God in His Word and do it
-Surrendering our will to His
-Crying out to God in prayer to help us understand and do His Word.

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Prov 2 - Prov 2-Seek Christ & His Ways Above All Else-Kevin Williams -59 min

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IT IS FINISHED - Bob Jennings

14 min video excerpt: (Full sermon mp3 below)

"We've got a race to run but we run it with a trophy in our hand. We've got a fight to fight but we fight it from a position of victory. We've got a work to do, but we work from a position of rest because of the finished work of Christ. We're in! We're accepted! The other day I was talking to one young man, he was here in our meeting and I said "Are you a Christian?" He said "No I'm not but I'm working on it" and I said, "Well I know what you mean but, you know you ought to do just the opposite: Quit your working and just run up the white flag of absolute unconditional surrender and trust the finished work of Christ " ~Bob Jennings.
A precious 25 min sermon:
IT IS FINISHED - Bob Jennings mp3.

Bob jennings is an elder at: Highway M Chapel, Sedalia, MO. see: www.hwymchapel.org

Secret Prayer Excerpt & full sermon

The excerpt video to last Sunday's sermon has now been updated:
4 min excerpt (FULL SERMON below)

The affectionate love of God for the believer and how He loves to hear the believer pray to Him and commune with Him in secret. Do not neglect this essential grace God has given us.

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Sol 2:14 - Sol pt 23-God Loves To Hear The Voice Of The Believer In The Secret Place-Kevin Williams -56 min

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Are You Fasting for Christ? - Tim Conway

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Are You Fasting for Christ? by Tim Conway (MP3 audio)
Tim talks about fasting and what it is and how we should fast. He goes over. Luke 5:36
Matthew 9:16

Are You Telling Them Of Jesus?

"how shall they hear without a preacher?" Rom 10:14ff

"The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." Matthew 9:37-38

"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Mark 16:15

"Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage" Matt 22:9

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10

"whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked." 1 John 2:6

Answering a student’s question, ‘Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?’ Charles Spurgeon answered, ‘It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.”

"Do you want arguments for soul winning? Look up to Heaven, and ask yourself how sinners can ever reach those harps of gold and learn their everlasting song, unless they have someone to tell them of Jesus, who is mighty to save. But the best argument of all is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honour Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment." ~C H Spurgeon

I Can’t Let Go (Give Up and Fall in the Arms of Christ) by Horatius Bonar

NOTE: I just want to clarify that when he says: "I can't believe in Christ", it doesn't mean as in that Christ and the Gospel is true, but as in believe Christ unto salvation.

“I can’t believe in Christ,” is the complaint we often hear from the inquiring. What does it mean? Are those who make it in earnest? Have they considered what they say?

The vessel was pretty high out of the water, and there was no ladder, either of rope or iron, at his side for the poor lad to descend by, so as to reach the boat which lay below.

He saw the swell of the sea, as it heaved the boat up and down; he observed too, the distance between himself and his deliverers below; and his heart failed him. What if he should miss the boat, and drop into the sea, instead of the stretched-out arms beneath? He clung to the rope with all his might, and made as though he would go back into the vessel. But the shouts came up again, “Let go the rope!” He dared not go back, and he was afraid to let himself drop. So he clung to the rope as if it were his only safety. Again the shouts were heard, “Let go!” His answer was, “I can’t let go.”

At last, as the danger increased, the loud but kindly voices from below overcame his fear and distrust. He did “let go”; and without an effort dropped into the strong arms which were waiting to receive him. He was safe; and as he realized his safety, he could not help smiling at his own folly in refusing to let go, and in saying, as his reason for not letting go, that he could not. “I can’t believe in Christ,” is the complaint we often hear from the inquiring. What does it mean? Are those who make it in earnest? Have they considered what they say? Are they not exactly like the poor lad hanging over the steamer’s side and crying “I can’t let go?” If he had had confidence in the boat below and in the men below, would he have remained in this strange position and uttering this strange cry? Had he not more confidence in the rope to which he clung than in the boat which lay ready to receive him? He saw there was danger, or he would not have grasped the rope; but he had the feeling that there was less danger in clinging to the rope than in dropping into the boat. So he continued to cling with all his might to that which could not save. If his safety had depended upon his grasping it, the cry, “I can’t hold any longer, my strength is gone,” would have been most natural and intelligible; but, when his safety depended upon his ceasing to cling to that which could not save, and simply drop into that which could save, the cry was foolish and untrue.

So it is with the complaint of the anxious to which we have referred. They do not see the open door of the ark, the stretched-out arms of the Deliverer. It is that Deliverer who cries to them, “Let go; I am waiting with open arms to receive you.” But they seem to think that He is commanding them to do some great thing, to put forth some prodigious exertion of their own strength; and so they reply to all His messages of grace, “I can’t, I can’t!” He sees them clinging to self with all their might; and He says, “Let go, let go;” but they reply, “We can’t!” is not this folly? Is it not a rejection of His finished work?

Suppose, when Jesus called to Zaccheus to come down from his sycamore, the publican had replied, “I can’t!” what would he have meant? Had the Lord bidden him climb the tree, he might have said, perhaps, “I can’t!” but when Christ says “Come down!” the excuse would have been absurd.
Suppose when the father, in receiving back the prodigal, had said, “Go into the house, and get the best robe and put it on and come to me,” there might have been some meaning in the son’s saying, “I can’t!” But when the father says to the servants, “Bring forth the best robe and put it on him,” such an excuse would have been absurd, and would only have betrayed the son’s unwillingness to receive the robe at all. For the father leaves nothing for the son to do; all he desires is that he should receive; and it is as if he had said, “Allow me to clothe you; allow me to put the best robe upon you.” He undertakes for everything; for the putting on the robe as well as for the robe itself.

That which many call the difficulty of believing is the essence of self-righteousness. Yes; it is this that lies at the root of, or rather is the root of, this difficulty. Men cling to self as the lad clung to the rope; they will not let it go; and they cry all the while that they can’t.
I admit the difficulty. It is a root of bitterness. But it is far deeper than many think. It is far worse and more serious than those who speak of it will admit. It is man’s determined self-righteousness that really constitutes the difficulty. He is unwilling to let this go; and he says “I can’t!” to cover over the guilt of the “I won’t!”

Deep down in man’s depraved being lies this awful evil, which only God can remove, this determination not to give up self. He deceives himself sadly in this matter, in order to cover his guilt and to pass the blame of his unbelief on God. He holds that he has some great thing to do: though God has declared a hundred times over that the great thing is done! He wants to do the great thing, and to get credit of doing it; and because God has declared that the great thing is done, “once for all,” never to be done again, he retires into himself, and tries to get up another great thing within himself, by the right doing of which he will please God and satisfy his own conscience. Acceptance of the great thing done is what God presses on him as altogether and absolutely sufficient for his salvation and his peace. But this he shrinks from. He thinks he must wait, and work, and struggle, and weep before he is in a fit state for accepting; and therefore it is that he replies to all the messages from the “ambassadors of peace,” “I can’t.” He won’t do that which God wishes him to do; he substitutes something else of his own, some process of preparation for acceptance: and because he finds he makes no progress in this work of “voluntary humility,” he says, “I can’t!”

God brings him face to face with the cross, saying, “Look and live!” But he thinks this too simple, and he turns away seeking for something to do! God sets the fountain before him, and says, “Wash.” He says, “I cannot,” and turns away to something else. God brings him the best robe, the righteousness of the Righteous One, and offers to put it on. But this is too simple. It leaves nothing for him to do —nothing but to be clothed by another’s hand in another’s raiment. And so, in pretended humility, he postpones the acceptance of the robe, under the plea that he cannot put it on! God brings him face to face with His free love, and says, “Take this and be at rest.” But as this still takes for granted that the great thing is done, in virtue of which this free love is to flow into the sinner, and that God now wants him simply to recognize this great work and its completeness, in order to his acceptance, he hesitates or turns wholly from the Divine proposal, refusing to let the love flow in, just because it is so absolutely free! He resembles the Syrian general whom Elisha told to wash in Jordan that his leprosy might be healed. “Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought he will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage” (2 Kings 5:11,12). And may we not address him in the words of the servants on that occasion: “If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?”

The simplicity of the gospel, however, does not lessen man’s depravity, nor supersede the necessity for the power of the Holy Ghost. It is in reference to this free gospel that man’s “evil heart of unbelief” has always exhibited itself most strongly. The gospel is simple, the way is simple, the cross is simple; but man’s heart is wholly set against these. He resists and refuses. He prefers some way of his own, and he casts the blame of his own evil upon God.

Hence the need for the Holy Spirit, by whose hand the Almighty works upon the human soul in ways so unseen and simple that, when the man has at length believed, he wonders how he could so long have stood aloof and resisted such a gospel. To disarm the enmity, to remove the hardness, to open the eye, and to renew the will, the Spirit operates. “The wind bloweth where it listeth,” and we cannot “tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

It is man’s deep depravity and total alienation from God that makes the power of the Almighty Spirit indispensable for his renewal. But it is of great importance that he should not be allowed to make use of that depravity as an excuse for not returning to God, or to abuse the doctrine of the Spirit’s work by making it a reason for cleaving to self, and refusing to believe the gospel; as if he were more willing to be wrought upon than the Spirit is to work, or as if he wanted to believe, but the Spirit would not help him.

It was man’s guilt that rendered the cross necessary; for if that guilt remained unremoved, all else would be vain. To be under condemnation would be to be shut out of the kingdom for ever. To have the Judge of all against him in the great day would be certain doom. The cross has come to lift off that guilt from us, and to lay it upon another; upon Him who is able to bear it all; upon Him who is mighty to save. That which should have come upon the sinner has come upon Him, that the sinner might go free. The Judge is satisfied with the work done on Calvary, and asks no more: and when the sinner is brought by the Holy Spirit to be satisfied with that which has satisfied the Judge, the chains that bound the burden to his shoulders snap, and the burden falls, to disappear for ever—buried in the grave of the Substitute, from which it cannot rise.

HT: ILLBEHONEST.com/blog

Chapel Bible Studies - Wilt Thou Be Made Whole & A Weak Saving Faith

Two more of our Tuesday night Bible Study's at Chapel-En-Frith are now available for download.
(note the quality of these is not to the usual standard but is listenable).

John 5:1-16 - Chapel-En-Frith Bible Study-Wilt Thou Be Made Whole? Will You Have Christ Save You?-Kevin Williams -61 min

John 4:43-54 - Chapel-En-Frith Bible Study-A Man Of Little Faith Believers A Strong Christ - 64 min

We now have a Tuesday night Bible study at a house in Chapel En Frith (in between Buxton & Stockport), 7pm currently going through the Gospel of John.

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For previous studies see: Tue Night Bible Study at Chapel En Frith (in between Buxton & Stockport) 7pm - AUDIO RECORDINGS

Children's Catechism pt 3- What is the Chief End of Man? Paul Washer

Be Angry and Do Not Sin -Tim Conway

Be Angry and Do Not Sin -Tim Conway.

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Sol pt 23-God Loves To Hear The Voice Of The Believer In The Secret Place -Kevin Williams

4 min excerpt (FULL SERMON below)

The affectionate love of God for the believer and how He loves to hear the believer pray to Him and commune with Him in secret. Do not neglect this essential grace God has given us.

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Sol 2:14 - Sol pt 23-God Loves To Hear The Voice Of The Believer In The Secret Place-Kevin Williams -56 min

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I Was a Slave of Drugs and Hated God, Yet He Saved Me

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Gabriel gives his testimony of being saved out of the hatred anger that consumed his wicked heart. There was no way Gabriel was ever going to break the power of the drugs and addictions that reigned on his life without looking to Jesus Christ alone for hope. Many people are slaves of drugs and get morality and change outwardly but only Christ can change a man inwardly. 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Prov 1-Unconditional Surrender To Wisdom -Kevin Williams

Many today reduce Proverbs to a Christless morality study. But like the rest of the Bible, Christ and His Gospel are the central meaning of this book. As the Geneva Bible says: "The wonderful love of God toward His children is declared in this book."
Here we begin a Christ centred study of Proverbs. In chapter 1:
-A plea for YOU to open your heart and be willing to receive Christ and His instruction. Don't hold back. Christ is everything. Surrender ALL your ways to Him.
-If you surrender all to Christ, He will make Himself known to you.
-The warnings of holding back. Those in Hell will seek Christ early but NOT find Him.
-Receive this gift of God and His instruction, wear Him, treasure Him.

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Prov 1 - Prov 1-Unconditional Surrender To Wisdom-Kevin Williams -69 min

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An Email Reply To a Wounded Soul

A brother wrote to me that he was troubled over doing something he did a few weeks ago with a wrong motive. I share my reply in hope that may will be helpful to others:

Hi ****, the old man needs to be put to death daily, it's not a one time act. The evidence that someone truly repented in the first place is that they continue to repent and believe. Just as God constantly shows us new idols creeping in or even sins we haven't seen before, we are to continue to put those to death. The evidence we are led by the spirit and are therefore saved is that Rom 8:13 says "if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live", this is an ongoing process. The flesh is always there but by Gods grace we're putting to death those sinful deeds and desires. Only on Tuesday night God showed me, one after another, times in the past where I'd done things with the wrong motive out of fear of man or to gain approval for myself (and these from long ago). I felt disgusting, I said "Lord this is wounding my pride" [note: this is not meant in the sense of that I asked the Lord to stop revealing these things because of pride, I was grateful for them, but I felt broken and pride being wounded as He was showing them to me] He said that's another thing that I'm showing you and has got to go. You see I didn't realise I had that pride. But I didn't delay a moment and ran like the man slayer to my only hope and city of Refuge, confessed to God and asked for forgiveness knowing He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us because He sought me and He bought me with His redeeming blood . And I saw such love and patience of God, bearing with me in it all and even in those times God still blessed it and used it both for the good of my own soul and for others. "As a thick cloud I have blotted out thy transgressions so return unto Me for I have redeemed thee". It's all of His grace, of His perfect work. Rest is not found by trusting and looking to our performance, only pride and anxiety is found by fixing our eyes there. Rest and peace with God comes from keeping our eyes upon the wound in His side and the holes in His hands and feet, by hearing His cry "It is finished". Imagine standing before Him now and seeing those wounds and saying to Him "You must do more to prove that you love me". He is ready to forgive and is crying out to you to come to Him now. [That includes you too dear reader]

Is Someone Born a Homosexual? (3 min) -David Upton

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WATCH 30 min VIDEO HERE: Jesus Christ Saved Me from 27 Years of Homosexuality - Testimony of David Upton
David testifies to being saved from a homosexual lifestyle that consumed his life for 27 years. David was involved deep into the lifestyle and only by God's Grace was He set free and made new in Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:9 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Is your strength in a man of God or in God? -James Jennings

1 Samuel 14:52 - “when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.” - Saul was gaining victory off of the blessings the Lord had bestowed upon others. In the same way many will attach themselves to the preaching of Paul Washer, and they will seem as though they are on the narrow road, but when the war gets heated will they perform the deeds of the Lord(1Sam15:3) and slay all their idols? They will even go “on the mission on which the Lord sends them”(1Sam 15:20), but they will “fear the people and obey their voice”(1 Sam 15:24) instead of the voice of God. And in the end Saul “took his own sword and fell upon it.”(1 Sam 31:4). “David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.” (1 Sam 30:6b) Was Saul doing such? He was strengthening himself in David who was strengthening himself in the Lord. Is your strength in a man of God or in God? Is it in your radical church or in your all consuming fire of a living God? It is not enough to be caught in the consuming fire of God that burns off of another, but you must be caught in the very center of it yourself.

Live, Think Eternally-James Jennnings (10 min exhortation)

"I grew up in the church, I was totally deceived. Three years before I was even saved, I put up a testimony on the Internet and I was lost and three years later God saved me. It's just amazing how easy it was, I could say I hated sin all day, but Romans 8:13 says "if by the Spirit you put to death", not 'if by the Spirit you hate sin', but if you put it to death you'll live, if you don't you'll die." ~James Jennings

An excellent 10 min exhortation to live with a clear conscience before God (don't play games): HT: HwyMChapel.
Live, Think Eternally-James Jennings (mp3)

Many Come To Church With Their Pigs and Leave Them Outside For A Minute - Why Does Jesus Receive Sinners -Josue Contreras

"The sheep left the wandering... he was on the shoulders of the shepherd, the coin left the darkness he was in darkness no more and the son left the rotton life in the pig sty. You cannot come to Christ without leaving something. You cannot bring your pigs around Jesus... You must be willing to give it all up... many times many religious people they come to church and they come with their pigs and they leave them outside for a minute... they say "praise God that was a good sermon" and they go with their pigs back home... I was talking to my barber he said, "man, my preacher is a good preacher, he steps on my toes all the time", I asked him "Is it working" he said "yeah, well, I feel pretty bad." That's NOTHING! Feeling bad about your sin doesn't save you... So even though you leave your pigs for a minute while you're at church, what do you do after you get home, or are in school or the workplace? Are they with you? This man left them behind! You must leave something!" ~Josue Contreras

An excellent message on the lost sheep, coin and son: HT: HwyMChapel.
Why Does Jesus Receive Sinners-Josue Contreras (mp3)

Jesus Christ Saved Me from 27 Years of Homosexuality - Testimony of David Upton

David testifies to being saved from a homosexual lifestyle that consumed his life for 27 years. David was involved deep into the lifestyle and only by God's Grace was He set free and made new in Christ.

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1 Corinthians 6:9 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

SEE ALSO: FREEDOM FROM PORNOGRAPHY & MASTURBATION.

I'll Be Honest
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Jesus Rose From the Grave, And You Can't Even Get Out Of Bed- Keith Green -Asleep in the light

O the importance of praying for the souls of lost. Seeking Him early and finding Him. May we make His Name known.


See also: (MUST HEAR)Get Up At 5AM & PRAY For The Power Of The Living God - Paul Washer

Saving Faith verses Faith That does Not Save-Kevin Williams

In the Bible there are two types of faith in Christ; one that always saves and one that never saves.
Both groups profess to believe Jesus, but only one are truly saved.
What are the marks of true and false faith?
Which one have you got?
If you are an ungodly sinner then lay hold of Christ and be saved!

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John 2:23-3:3+var -Saving Faith verses Faith That does Not Save-Kevin Williams - 75 min

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Gal 5:1+var - Bible Study Statement of Faith pt 23-Liberty of Conscience-Kevin Williams

Christ alone is to be Lord of the conscience and we should not be trying to make people bow down to us in fear of us. But being fully convinced in everything we do by Scripture.

Continuing our Friday night Bible Study in which we are looking at our statement of faith (for the notes to this Bible Study click on blue link), which contains excellent doctrine. Part 23-Liberty of Conscience.

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Gal 5:1+var - Bible Study Statement of Faith pt 23-Liberty of Conscience-Kevin Williams -75 min

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Tue Night Bible Study at Chapel En Frith (in between Buxton & Stockport) 7pm - AUDIO RECORDINGS

We now have a Tuesday night Bible study at a house in Chapel En Frith (in between Buxton & Stockport), 7pm currently going through the Gospel of John.

Please call 07963396636 or email for details.

Here are some audio recordings of recent studies:

John 5:1-16 - Chapel-En-Frith Bible Study-Wilt Thou Be Made Whole? Will You Have Christ Save You?-Kevin Williams -61 min

John 4:43-54 - Chapel-En-Frith Bible Study-A Man Of Little Faith Believers A Strong Christ - 64 min

John 4:27-42 - Chapel-En-Frith Bible Study-Always Be Sowing & Expect A Plentiful Harvest-Kevin Williams - 57 min

John 4:1-26 - Chapel-En-Frith Bible Study-Salvation At The Well-Kevin Williams - 59 min

John 3:16-36 - Chapel-En-Frith Bible Study-Believe On The Son of God-Kevin Williams -72 min

This Day Is Crucial. Every moment for Him! ~Paul Washer twitter quotes

Some edifying exhortations from Paul Washer's twitter.

"Remember: This day is crucial. Live it as though you will not get another opportunity to serve Christ in this life. Every moment for Him!"

"I enjoy a greater identification with the primitive church when we are gathered together in the small home fellowships. It is a blessing."

"We are the personification of weakness in every way. He is the epitome of strength. How can we not cast ourselves upon Him in hope for help."

"Separate time to be alone with God. Make prayer the first item of daily business. Determine to meet with God; to win the battle kneeling."

"Why will you run and labor and sweat and fret? There is greater benefit from striving in prayer than from striving in the flesh."

"I know this to be true by Word and experience. The return on our prayers is far greater than the investment made. Heaven will reveal it."

"There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace."

"Heaven seemed closer then earth this morning. Or let me say it this way: God has given grace to a worm. Joy unspeakable and full of glory!"

"Live on your knees. Anything that can be accomplished without prayer is not worth pursuing."

"After a long week, it is difficult to get back into the trenches. The work abounds along with the duty. Yet God is an ever-present help. Perseverance is required in the doing of any worthy goal. This is especially true in regard to the eternal. Many begin well, but few endure.However, we must never think of perseverance as product of human will or strength, it is a virtue born of grace through faith and prayer."

"A Christ-like character is our greatest shield against sin when we are tried by difficult circumstances. In the midst of trials, we rarely rise above our true character. In fact, our true character is revealed by trial."

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Christ's Love for the Believer - Kevin Williams (19 min video excerpt) in San Antonio

Come to and delight in Him who loves you. HE WILL SAVE.
The amazing love of Christ & Gospel in the Song of Solomon and Genesis 2

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See also: Song of Solomon Sermon Series- Kevin Williams (Our Current Series)
Note: The sermon mentioned in the clip at Kirksville is here: It's All About Christ - Kevin Williams (Preached at Lake Road Chapel)

Stop Lying and Worrying About Your Reputation -Tim Conway

Do you find yourself constructing sentences in your mind, before you say things, to cause yourself to appear to be someone that your not? My friend this is no small matter, this lying. May we put off the old man and live in the newness of life! Christ is all!

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Biblical Assurance-Are You Real Before God When You're Alone or Just in Front of Others? -Kevin Williams

Many deceive themselves and gain false assurance of salvation, (even when they hear a Biblical test) by only examining the times when they are around other Christians. But if you're only following/looking to Christ/being led by the Spirit when you are around other Christians, but when you are alone you are being led by the flesh, then that is hypocrisy, putting on a mask and just trying to play the part of a new creature when around others, without being real. What you are before God when you are alone, reveals much truth about the state of your soul.

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Rom 8:14-16 - Biblical Assurance-Are You Real Before God When You're Alone or Just in Front of Others?-Kevin Williams - 61 min



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How to Become an Apostate? - Don Currin (4 min)

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See also: No Repentance For Apostates -Don't Turn Back-Tim Conway (Should I be scared of Hebrews Chapters 6 and 10? 16 min)
&: The Way of Cain Explained -Matt Haney

Bible Study-Statement of Faith pt 22-The Great Commission -Kevin Williams

Every Christians role in evangelsim and missions.

Continuing our Friday night Bible Study in which we are looking at our statement of faith (for the notes to this Bible Study click on blue link), which contains excellent doctrine. Part 22-The Great Commission.

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Matt 28:18-20+var - Bible Study-Statement of Faith pt 22-The Great Commission-Kevin Williams - 50 min

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Has the Love of God Done a Work in Your Heart? - Don Currin's Testimony (6 min)

Don Currin gives his testimony of the Grace of God saving His soul. Don used to be a baptist preacher and was preaching, but lost.

16 False Hopes That Will Send Many People To Hell -Kevin Williams (improved video quality)

The Bible says that of those professing Christ there are many more false converts than true. Here we look at 16 false religious hopes that people are trusting in that will take many to Hell. Are you trusting in any of these?

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Matt 7:13-20+var - 16 False Hopes That Will Send Many People To Hell-Kevin Williams-(mp3) -68 min



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Flee from the Wrath of God (9 min Video, I'll Be Honest) -Don Currin

Take heed to what you hear:

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Be Honest: “I have paranoid schizophrenia… I know I am undone before and without God.”

(This is a “Be Honest” email response to a person who sent a submission in, I am re-posting the response here in the blog in hopes of it helping others who are going through similar struggles.) -James Jennings

HT: I'llBeHonest

Anonymous,

You wrote: “My struggle is my illness , I have paranoid schizophrenia and it haunts me to think it is there , I am well medicated and can function in this world but it feels as though I am doomed . I repent a lot and pray regularly for the salvation of my soul … I know I am undone before and without God …”

We see in Mark 5 about a man with an unclean spirit. It says in verse 4 “No one had the strength to subdue him.” – My friend consider this, please, I beg and plead with you too. No medicine, no doctor will ever truly subdue you. No one pill or medicine has the strength to do such. Let us also consider verse 3 it said “And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.” You know what the keyword there is? “anymore” this means at one point they could, but now they can’t. That should terrify you, because right now you may be bound somewhat by the medicine but one day it will no longer work. One day people will say of you “We used to be able to subdue Philip with these pills but they no longer work anymore!” Sin is no small game, it will continue to eat away at you and bring you into greater darkness. The true issue is a heart issue and a heart transplant is required, you must be born-again. (John 3:3, 2 Cor 5:17, Eze 36:25-27)

You said “I repent a lot and pray regularly.” The problem is not that you need to “repent more” or “pray more” the issue is you need to come unto Christ for rest (Matthew 11:28) and you need to believe in Jesus (John 3:36). You are trying to save yourself by your own works, your repentance and praying, won’t save you only the work of Christ will. It says that the man with a demon would cry out night and day (v5), now I don’t know what he was crying out exactly, but my point is this: You can do a lot of crying out and it will profit you nothing.
What happened to the man to set him free? Verse 6 says “And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.” – You must do likewise, you must run and fall down before Jesus Christ as your only hope. It says in verse 15 that the man was then “sitting there, clothed and in his right mind.” The most important clothes that he now had on was the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 50:10 – Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

After the spirit was cast out of him the man told Jesus he wanted to go with Him. Jesus said “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” v19. How much the “Lord has done,” you see it is not about what you do but what God does and it is about God’s Glory. Isaiah 47:3 says – “whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.” Does it glorify God to go around telling others how much some medicine has done for you? Or how much self-effort you have exerted to try to stop doing things that you shouldn’t? No it does not, it exalts self, and more importantly the medicine cannot do for you what you need it to do, it will never work, only Christ can do the true work and then rightly so will God receive glory.

The question before you right now is this, will you ran and fall down before Jesus? Will you take refuge in Him alone and not your own works and performance? Salvation is all of Grace, we simply do not deserve such. God sent His only son into the world to live the perfect life that no one else ever could and then Christ died under the wrath of God on the Cross as a sacrifice for the sin of those who believe…those who believe, not those who “try to work their way to being presentable” but instead to totally trust Christ to supply the righteousness to their account so that they will be presentable by faith.

My friend, if you come to Christ you can be like the man in verse 19… going and telling everyone of what the Lord has done for Him. How he had mercy on you, but you must trust in Christ alone all other ground is completely sinking sand.

James

Come to Christ Now, He Will Tend Your Wounds ~James Jennings

HT: I'll Be Honest.

This is a response to a ‘Be Honest’ submission. I am re-posting some of the responses in hopes that they may help others who are going through the same struggles or have the same questions.

Anonymous,
This is of utmost importance my friend, your eternal soul is at stake here, please consider these truths that are given below with the utmost importance.

Realize this, the Lord says to come(Matt 11:28), not to clean yourself up, but to cry out now, this very minute for Christ to save you from yourself, not wait and think on it but as Isaiah 55:6 says seek the Lord while He may be found, because He may not be found an hour from now(Matt 24:44), your a step from life and death(1 Sam 20:3).

Think on this example below. If a man gets shot with a shotgun and is bleeding to death he will not go to the doctors office and wait outside of the door and try to fix himself before he comes in, he will run in as he is and the doctor will see him as he is. You must do the same, your pride, your selfishness is damning you and your bleeding to death. You must not try to put a false band-aid on it that will never work, but you must run into the doctor’s office empty handed now, as you are. Don’t wait and sit around and think about it but come now as disgruntled and messed up as you are. It does not matter what the other patients around you may think what matters is that your dying and there is a doctor, Jesus Christ, who is willing to receive you despite the absolute mess you are finding yourself in.

Again, salvation is found in Christ, not in us cleaning ourselves up so that we may be in Christ, but coming to Christ that He may heal us up.

Mark 2:17 – And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

James

Photos of Hollingworth Lake

Here are some pictures I took today at Hollingworth Lake near Littleborough and Rochdale, not far from where we live.
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16 False Hopes That Will Send Many People To Hell -Kevin Williams

The Bible says that of those professing Christ there are many more false converts than true. Here we look at 16 false religious hopes that people are trusting in that will take many to Hell. Are you trusting in any of these?

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Matt 7:13-20+var - 16 False Hopes That Will Send Many People To Hell-Kevin Williams-(mp3) -68 min



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Bible Study-Statement of Faith pt 21-The Lord's Day-Kevin Williams

What's the difference between the Sabbath and the Lord'sDay?
Why Sunday worship is important and commanded
Financial giving/offerings, should Pastors be supported?
What should a Sunday meeting looking like

Continuing our Friday night Bible Study in which we are looking at our statement of faith (for the notes to this Bible Study click on blue link), which contains excellent doctrine. Part 21-The Lord's Day.

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Acts 20:7+var - Bible Study-Statement of Faith pt 21-The Lord's Day-Kevin Williams -40 min

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