1. SOMEDAY YOU WILL STAND BEFORE GOD!
2. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote "Onward Christian Soldiers" originally as a marching song for a Christian children's parade! He was a pioneer in the collection of English folk songs, a composer of 2 books of hymns, and wrote a 15 - volume set entitled "Lives of the Saints." - The catalog of the British museum lists more titles by him than any other writer of his era! He wrote a total of 93 books.
3. The majority of people in the western hemisphere have names based on biblical ones!
4. The popular phrase “Whosoever Will May Come” is not found in the Bible!
5. John was put into a caldron of boiling oil, but escaped in a miraculous manner, and was afterwards banished to Patmos.
6.ANGELS Do Not Have Wings! The Cherubim and the Seraphim are Never Called Angels!
7.The Bible contains NO COMMAND to ORDAIN or to be ordained! Ordination is a matter between a church and one of its members.
The Christmas Hymn “O Come, All Ye Faithful” Has No Rhyme at all! And was originally written in latin and know as “Adeste Fideles”.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon never attended college nor was he ever ordained! Yet he founded a college and is known as one of the greatest preachers in history!
Peter: Tradition says he was crucified at Rome with his head downward.
“All That The Father Gives Me SHALL COME TO ME.” – Jesus (John 6:37)
The Bible has been to the moon!
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Vance Havner Quotes:
“It is not unchristian to oppose heresy. It is unchristian not to oppose it.”
“According to the modern policy of sweetness and light, our Lord should never have denounced the Pharisees. Paul would never have differed with Peter at Antioch. Page after page of the New Testament would never have been written, nor would Martin Luther have ever disturbed the status quo of Romanism.”
“Don’t be a fifth-amendment Christian!”
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NOTE: What the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 10:26: “But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. “ The great Shepard did not say…”You are not my sheep because you do not believe!” – which is a very different thing!
Philip: was hanged up against a pillar at Heiropolis in Phrygia.
Abraham Lincoln was born on the Lord’s Day was the son of a carpenter and was martyred on Good Friday!
The Bible is not a do-it-yourself salvation kit!
We are not saved for believing but by believing!
The best-selling Christian history book of all time is Foxe’s Book of Martyrs!
Simon the Zealot: Tradition says he also was crucified.
“Character is what a man is in the dark.” D.L. Moody
It is easier to build temples than to be temples.
Matthew: Slain with a sword at a distant city of Ethiopia
Judas Iscariot: Betrayed Jesus and afterward hanged himself.
“Pride is the mother of division” – D. L. Moody
There is a best selling Christian book that was never completely read by anyone except the author! It is entitled “Cruden’s Concordance of the Bible.”
Thaddaeus: was shot to death with arrows.
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Scientific Allusions in the Bible
Blood circulation – Leviticus 17:11
Rock erosion – Job 14:18 and 19
Shape of the Earth – Isaiah 40:22; Psalm 103:12
Rotation of earth – Job 38:12,14
Precision of Orbits – Jeremiah 31:35, 36
Relation of electricity to rain – Jeremiah 10:13
Gravitation – Job 26:7; 3:6
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Thomas was run through the body with a lance at Cormandel in the East Indies.
Not a leaf moves on the trees unless the Lord himself doth please.
“If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg, so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.” – D. L. Moody
Predestination is much easier to understand than the doctrine of the trinity! The real problem is that the natural man does not like it!
Our deeply entrenched mind-sets must give way to what God says about the matter.
You should never tone down a biblical doctrine because it offends people!
“Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you realize you offended the Pharisees by what you just said?" Jesus replied, "Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be rooted up, so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch." -(Matthew 15:12-13,TLT)
Christian – Have you committed cosmic treason? Read Romans 6!
A young artist named Vincent Van Gogh preached Spurgeon’s Sermons in Londons ghettos!
The first black missionary to the Indians was John Marrant of New York, ordained May 15th 1785. As a Methodist minister in London, England. Among those converted under his ministry were the king of the Cherokees and his daughter.
The first weekly religious newspaper in the U.S. and in the world was “The Religious Remembrancer,” it is still being published under the name “The Christian observer.”
The pretzel derived its criss-cross shape from the folded arms of children in prayer! The medieval Italian monk who created the pretzel (160 A.D.) used his confection to reward children for memorizing prayers!
John Knox, the great reformer of Scotland is buried in an unmarked grave!
James the son of Alphaeus was beaten to death with fuller’s club.
The one thing in the Christian life which cannot be carried to excess is found in 1 Thessalonians 3:12… "May the LORD cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all men….”
Martin Luther asked – “If Christ wore a crown of thorns, why should his follower expect only a crown of roses?”
The word Hallelujah is common to all languages and is never translated!
Not once, in all of Scripture, are we told that God only wanted to make salvation possible! (see: Matthew 1:21; Luke 9:10; Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 5:25-27; 1 Timothy 1:15; Titus 2:14.)
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited us and accomplished redemption for his people.” (Luke 1:68)
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