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APRIL 2013 VOL. 7 NO. 4
Tid Bits
of 
 Wisdom
From the Wonderful Word Publishers
O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING?O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?
1 Cor 15:55-57 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
 Thank You, Lord Jesus, for Your victory over death and the grave! With-out You, that sting of sin and the judgment of the law, would prevent us from ever tasting eternal life. I am so grateful that the Lord Jesus Christ lived without sin so He could come out of that grave on the third day. As He stood before the Father that day, the Father once again said, “This is My Son, in Whom I am well  pleased.” Jesus made a way for us to approach our Heavenly Father and to be  born into the Kingdom of God! How dare we neglect so GREAT SALVATION!
 
If you have been born, you will also die or be taken out in the rapture! You don’t ask to be born, but it’s up to you as to how prepared you are to die. Christ made a way to Life and it’s free to anyone who receives it. This life is short. In Heaven, there is no time table, but on earth we are running on a clock. Paul says we are running a “race.” No one knows when that clock will stop. The old heart goes bump, bump, bump, instead of tick, tick, tock. One day that old heart will remain silent and when it does, where will you be? Gloria’s daddy taught her and her sister that until you are prepared to die, you are not ready to live! How true that is. Until you come to Christ, you are
wasting your life. The Bible says that in the esh we cannot please God, and we
cannot live through the Spirit of Christ until we have received Him as our Lord and Savior. Until you are settled about who your God is, you do not have a foun-dation and are like the wind driven to and fro. If God is God, and I believe He is, then He has the answers to life, and life will be found in Him and nowhere else. I remember the relief I experienced when I yielded to Christ and received His offer of salvation. I could relax and let Him be God, and all I needed to do was to fol-low Him, learn His Word and head His voice.
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EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST,EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE.THE PAST KEEPS THE SAINT HUMBLE.THE FUTURE KEEPS THE SINNERS HOPEFUL.MOST EVERY TIME I GET IN HOT WATER, GOD USES IT TO CLEAN ME UP.
THE BIBLE’S PEDIGREE
The Bible is, we plainly see;Then it must have a pedigree.It either is a Book divine,Or men to make it did combine.Suppose the latter; then they mustEither be wicked men or just:Take either case, and you will seeA proof of its divinity.If wicked men composed this Book, Surely their senses they forsook;For they the righteous man de-fendAnd curse the bad from end to end.If righteous, then they change their name,For they the authorship disclaimAnd often say, “Thus saith the Lord,”And testify, “It is His Word.”If it be not, they tell a lieAnd all their righteousness deny.---Author unknown(Taken from “The Poetry of Preaching, by Dr. Clyde H. Box)
 
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O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING?O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?
1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
 Because of this wonderful thing the Lord Jesus Christ has done for us, there are some things that we should do for Him.
 
BE STEADFAST!
 Be settled! Know what you believe. If I asked you if you believe that you cannot lose your salvation, what would you say? Can you  prove what you would say. If you cannot prove it, you will not be settled con-cerning it. Baptists are just about the only denomination that believes in Eternal Security. Yet, many times we will say that if you commit murder you can’t go to Heaven. Is that true? Is our going to Heaven depending on our works, or the work of Christ. We can’t have it both ways. Salvation is determined by what we do with the Lord Jesus Christ, not our works. Murder is wrong and God hates our
taking the life of someone else, but our rst judgment is, “What did you do with
Jesus?” Then, we are rewarded according to our works. If someone taught you what you believe, but you have never studied Scripture to know what you believe, then you will not be steadfast. You are not settled until you have seen it in the Word of God. We owe it to Christ to become steadfast and knowledgeable about everything we say we believe. You had better get started, because this is a work of a lifetime! 
BE UNMOVEABLE!
 We cannot allow men’s opinions to move us from the declared Word of God. I think of Jeroboam, the king of Israel, who made Is-rael to sin. When the kingdom split, Rehoboam had the house of God in his land and Jeroboam was afraid everyone would return to Rehoboam in order to worship God in His house. So, Jeroboam built calves and altars and made priest out of  just anyone who wanted to be a priest. He still said he was worshipping the God of Israel, but he was just doing it “HIS WAY” and not “GOD’S WAY”. We must not move from God’s way to impress man or to follow man. We must be unmove-able when it comes to God’s ordinances and statutes. Our churches are so divided today about how to worship. Be sure your worship lines up with God’s Word! 
ALWAYS ABOUNDING
 in the work of the Lord! That means to super abound in quantity or quality, to be in excess or to excel. If you are going to go overboard with anything, let it be in the work of the Lord. Don’t be half hearted in your service to Christ. He put His all into what He did for us and we need to  put our all into what we do for Him. I promise you one thing for sure. If you will
submit your life to Christ and allow Him to use you anyway He sees t, you will
never be lonely or bored. Gloria and I have stood amazed at the things Christ has  brought into our lives and the things He has asked us to do. We have lived a most interesting life since Christ became our life. Why should we make such an investment in the work of the Lord? Be-cause, “OUR LABOUR IS NOT IN VAIN”. God does not let our work go un-noticed or unrewarded! Did you hear me? He NEVER lets our work be in vain. I hear some people from time to time say, “I don’t do this for reward. I don’t expect anything thing back. I’m not worthy enough to expect anything! That sounds really humble, but that’s  just not true. If we didn’t expect some-thing, we wouldn’t do it! We are not rewarded for who we are, we are re-warded by who Christ is. He does not expect us to serve Him for nothing. The only hope I have of having anything is what Christ gives me. Everything else
will burn in the re. Christ rewards us
with things we cannot obtain through
our esh.
 It is not easy to become stead-fast. It requires diligent work of seek-ing God and His Word. It takes great strength of character to become un-moveable, and Satan is working over-time attempting to get us to move a little to the right or a little to the left. It takes commitment to be abounding in the work of the Lord. Why would we do it? BECAUSE our labor is not in vain! Don’t forget that. Serve oth-ers the way you want God to serve you. He rewards us according to our ways. He turns our way back upon us, there-fore what we do and how we do it is very important to our lives.
Acts 2:22-24 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and won-ders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determi-nate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands
have crucied and slain:
 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Rom 5:18Therefore as by the offence of one (Adam) judgment came upon
 all men
 to condemnation; even so by the righteous-ness of one (Lord Jesus Christ) the free gift came upon
all men
unto justication
of life.
---Editor
 
3QUOTES ABOUT PREACHERS AND PRAYER 
 Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give your self to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer. 
----Robert Murray McCheyne
 The preacher’s sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself.
 His most difcult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. The training of the twelve was the great, difcult, and enduring work of Christ.  Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint.
 It is
not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men  great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in delity, great for God -- men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it.
These can mold a generation for God.
 
 Preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer the preach-er creates death, and not life. The preacher who is feeble in prayer is feeble in life-giving forces. The preacher who has retired prayer as a conspicuous and largely prevailing element in his own character has shorn his preaching of its distinctive life-giving power.
Stop! Pause!
Consider! Where are we ?
What are
we doing? Preaching to kill? Praying to kill? Praying to God! the great God, the Maker of all worlds, the Judge of all men! What reverence! What simplicity! What sincerity! What truth in the inward parts is demanded! How real we must
be!
 How hearty! Prayer to God the noblest exercise, the loftiest effort of man, the
most real thing!
Shall we not discard forever accursed preaching that kills and  prayer that kills, and do the real thing, the mightiest thing -- prayerful praying, life-creating preaching, bring the mightiest force to bear on heaven and earth and draw on God’s exhaustless and open treasure for the need and beggary of man?
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer- lies at the root of all personal godliness. A competent knowledge of the language where a missionary lives, a mild and winning temper, a heart given up to God in closet religion - these, these
are the attainments which, more than all knowledge, or all other gifts, will t us to
 become the instruments of God in the great work of human redemption. 
---Carey’s Brotherhood, Serampore
 
There are two extreme tendencies in the ministry.
The one is to shut itself
out from intercourse with the people. The monk, the hermit were illustrations of this; they shut themselves out from men to be more with God. They failed, of
course.
Our being with God is of use only as we expend its priceless benets on
men.
This age, neither with preacher nor with people, is much intent on God. Our hankering is not that way. We shut ourselves to our study, we become stu-dents, bookworms, Bible worms, sermon makers, noted for literature, thought, and sermons; but the people and God, where are they? Out of heart, out of mind.  Preachers who are great thinkers, great students must be the greatest of prayers, or else they will be the greatest of backsliders, heartless professions, rationalistic,
less than the least of preachers in God’s estimate.
 The other tendency is to thoroughly popularize the ministry.
 He is no lon
- ger God’s man, but a man of affairs,
of the people.
 If he can move the people, create an interest, a sensation in favor of religion, an interest in Church work- he is satised.
 His personal relation to
God is no factor in his work. Prayer
has little or no place in his plans. The
disaster and ruin of such a ministry cannot be computed by earthly arith-
metic.
What the preacher is in prayer to God, for himself, for his people, so is his power for real good to men, so is his true fruitfulness, his true delity to God, to man, for time, for eternity.
Prayer is the rst thing, the
second thing, and the third thing neces-sary to a minister. Pray, then, my dear  brother; pray, pray, pray. ---Edward Payson
God’s true preachers have been distinguished by one great fea-
ture:
they were men of prayer.
 Differ 
-ing often in many things, they have al-ways had a common center. They may have started from different points, and traveled by different roads, but they converged to one point: they were one in prayer. God to them was the center of attraction, and prayer was the path
that led to God.
For nothing reaches the heart  but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience. -
William Penn.
 In the morning I was more en-gaged in preparing the head than the heart. This has been frequently my er-ror, and I have always felt the evil of it, especially in prayer. Reform it, then, O Lord! Enlarge my heart, and I shall  preach.
 - Robert Murray McCheyne The quotes in italics are from E. M. Bounds. A book was printed in 1952, entitled “Preacher and Prayer.” The book was given to us from Bro. Mel (Uncle Mel) Rutter’s library. When Uncle Mel passed away, Mrs. Dottie Rutter gave us many of his books. If you are a preacher or teacher of God’s Word
I think if you could nd this book it,
would be a real blessing to you.

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