• She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. -Matthew 1:21
    #MerryChristmas #JesusChrist #Christ #PrinceOfPeace #AChildIsBorn #Noël #Christmas2025 #Christmas
    She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. -Matthew 1:21 #MerryChristmas #JesusChrist #Christ #PrinceOfPeace #AChildIsBorn #Noël #Christmas2025 #Christmas
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  • Video Sermon #kjv #kingjamesabible #bible #scripture #scriptures #biblestudy Pastor Bryan Denlinger - Using #ArtificialIntelligence #AI is a SIN! (Amen Preacher!) Pastor Bryan says I am very disturbed to see many #Christians (some even in #ministry!) using artificial intelligence. There are 3 reasons why it is a #sin. 1. #Idolatry 2. Job Destruction 3. #Prophecy. In this video I am going to show the scriptures to explain why Christians should be shunning the use of a.i., and in fact why it is harmful even for lost people to be using. https://youtu.be/bMCVgsnYU9M?si=i2Y9hL-DUYTEK5CD
    Video Sermon #kjv #kingjamesabible #bible #scripture #scriptures #biblestudy Pastor Bryan Denlinger - Using #ArtificialIntelligence #AI is a SIN! (Amen Preacher!) Pastor Bryan says 👉I am very disturbed to see many #Christians (some even in #ministry!) using artificial intelligence. There are 3 reasons why it is a #sin. 1. #Idolatry 2. Job Destruction 3. #Prophecy. In this video I am going to show the scriptures to explain why Christians should be shunning the use of a.i., and in fact why it is harmful even for lost people to be using. https://youtu.be/bMCVgsnYU9M?si=i2Y9hL-DUYTEK5CD
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  • Oh my! What a Blessing!


    H-E-B Grocers' Computers Fail, So They Take an Opportunity to Spread Unexpected Christmas Cheer
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    Oh my! What a Blessing! H-E-B Grocers' Computers Fail, So They Take an Opportunity to Spread Unexpected Christmas Cheer https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/12/24/christmas-cheer-h-e-b-computers-go-down-and-they-bag-the-customers-purchases-and-let-them-go-n2197459
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    H-E-B Grocers' Computers Fail, So They Take an Opportunity to Spread Unexpected Christmas Cheer
    H-E-B spreads unexpected Christmas cheer by giving away groceries during a computer outage.
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  • Brethren, consider all that Christ gave up for you. He, being in the very form of God, being in heaven with God, humbled Himself, lowered Himself, to be clothed in flesh, taking human form, and leaving behind His glory.

    We often think simply of Him coming. John’s words echo in our ears that “He became flesh and dwelt among us,” but we forget all that He left behind to do so. As Paul wrote, “for your sake He became poor” (2 Cor. 8:9).

    Think about that. He traded His heavenly throne for a crown of thorns, and eternal glory for death on a cross. Why? So “that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). And that we are, we are rich with life because He gives it to us abundantly (Jn. 10:10).

    Therefore, let us have this attitude which was in Christ, one of humility, of self-sacrifice, of considering others more important than ourselves (Phil. 2:3-8). Let us be obedient and humble ourselves before God (1 Pet. 5:6), emulating Jesus, following the example He set (1 Pet. 2:21), that as God highly exalted Christ (Phil. 2:9), He may one day exalt us as well (1 Pet. 5:6).

    ——————
    Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

    Morning, December 24

    "For your sakes he became poor." 2 Corinthians 8:9

    The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but "though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor." As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding with the head as between the members), it is impossible that our Divine Lord could have had fellowship with us unless He had imparted to us of His own abounding wealth, and had become poor to make us rich. Had He remained upon His throne of glory, and had we continued in the ruins of the fall without receiving His salvation, communion would have been impossible on both sides. Our position by the fall, apart from the covenant of grace, made it as impossible for fallen man to communicate with God as it is for Belial to be in concord with Christ. In order, therefore, that communion might be compassed, it was necessary that the rich kinsman should bestow his estate upon his poor relatives, that the righteous Saviour should give to His sinning brethren of His own perfection, and that we, the poor and guilty, should receive of His fulness grace for grace; that thus in giving and receiving, the One might descend from the heights, and the other ascend from the depths, and so be able to embrace each other in true and hearty fellowship. Poverty must be enriched by Him in whom are infinite treasures before it can venture to commune; and guilt must lose itself in imputed and imparted righteousness ere the soul can walk in fellowship with purity. Jesus must clothe His people in His own garments, or He cannot admit them into His palace of glory; and He must wash them in His own blood, or else they will be too defiled for the embrace of His fellowship.

    O believer, herein is love! For your sake the Lord Jesus "became poor" that He might lift you up into communion with Himself.
    Brethren, consider all that Christ gave up for you. He, being in the very form of God, being in heaven with God, humbled Himself, lowered Himself, to be clothed in flesh, taking human form, and leaving behind His glory. We often think simply of Him coming. John’s words echo in our ears that “He became flesh and dwelt among us,” but we forget all that He left behind to do so. As Paul wrote, “for your sake He became poor” (2 Cor. 8:9). Think about that. He traded His heavenly throne for a crown of thorns, and eternal glory for death on a cross. Why? So “that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). And that we are, we are rich with life because He gives it to us abundantly (Jn. 10:10). Therefore, let us have this attitude which was in Christ, one of humility, of self-sacrifice, of considering others more important than ourselves (Phil. 2:3-8). Let us be obedient and humble ourselves before God (1 Pet. 5:6), emulating Jesus, following the example He set (1 Pet. 2:21), that as God highly exalted Christ (Phil. 2:9), He may one day exalt us as well (1 Pet. 5:6). —————— Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions Morning, December 24 "For your sakes he became poor." 2 Corinthians 8:9 The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but "though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor." As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding with the head as between the members), it is impossible that our Divine Lord could have had fellowship with us unless He had imparted to us of His own abounding wealth, and had become poor to make us rich. Had He remained upon His throne of glory, and had we continued in the ruins of the fall without receiving His salvation, communion would have been impossible on both sides. Our position by the fall, apart from the covenant of grace, made it as impossible for fallen man to communicate with God as it is for Belial to be in concord with Christ. In order, therefore, that communion might be compassed, it was necessary that the rich kinsman should bestow his estate upon his poor relatives, that the righteous Saviour should give to His sinning brethren of His own perfection, and that we, the poor and guilty, should receive of His fulness grace for grace; that thus in giving and receiving, the One might descend from the heights, and the other ascend from the depths, and so be able to embrace each other in true and hearty fellowship. Poverty must be enriched by Him in whom are infinite treasures before it can venture to commune; and guilt must lose itself in imputed and imparted righteousness ere the soul can walk in fellowship with purity. Jesus must clothe His people in His own garments, or He cannot admit them into His palace of glory; and He must wash them in His own blood, or else they will be too defiled for the embrace of His fellowship. O believer, herein is love! For your sake the Lord Jesus "became poor" that He might lift you up into communion with Himself.
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  • https://www.oann.com/business/medicare-enrollees-to-pay-50-less-for-some-drugs-in-2025-report-says/
    https://www.oann.com/business/medicare-enrollees-to-pay-50-less-for-some-drugs-in-2025-report-says/
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    Medicare enrollees to pay 50% less for some drugs in 2025, report says
    Americans enrolled in Medicare will pay about 50% less out of pocket in 2026 for some drugs including Eliquis and Januvia.
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  • #Dairy Consumption Linked to Lower #Dementia Risk https://www.foxnews.com/health/dairy-consumption-linked-lower-dementia-risk-surprising-new-study
    #Dairy Consumption Linked to Lower #Dementia Risk https://www.foxnews.com/health/dairy-consumption-linked-lower-dementia-risk-surprising-new-study
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    Dairy consumption linked to lower dementia risk in surprising new study
    Surprising Swedish study of 27,670 adults finds high-fat cheese and cream linked to lower dementia risk over 25 years of detailed follow-up research.
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  • Isaiah
    Chapter 27

    1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

    2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

    3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

    4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

    5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

    6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

    7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

    8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

    9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

    10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

    11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

    12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

    13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
    Isaiah Chapter 27 1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine. 3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. 4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. 5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me. 6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. 7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
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  • Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.
    ~John Wesley
    #TuesdayTidbit
    Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies. ~John Wesley #TuesdayTidbit
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  • My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness.
    ~Charles Spurgeon
    #TuesdayTidbit
    My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. ~Charles Spurgeon #TuesdayTidbit
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  • John 1:28-29
    These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. On the next day, he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
    #TuesdayTidbit
    John 1:28-29 These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. On the next day, he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! #TuesdayTidbit
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  • Psalm 47:6-7
    Sing praises to God, sing praises;
    Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
    For God is the King of all the earth;
    Sing praises with a skillful psalm.
    #TuesdayTidbit
    Psalm 47:6-7 Sing praises to God, sing praises; Sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with a skillful psalm. #TuesdayTidbit
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  • Video - Pastor Bryan Denlinger - Why #Russia Is Winning, And #America Is Losing - https://youtu.be/ez0Afkh4MHM?si=_VipfUc1qBowk5zv
    Video - Pastor Bryan Denlinger - Why #Russia Is Winning, And #America Is Losing - https://youtu.be/ez0Afkh4MHM?si=_VipfUc1qBowk5zv
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  • #Russia
    #Russian general assassinated in #Moscow
    A car bomb has killed a senior General Staff member, officials have confirmed https://www.rt.com/russia/629859-russian-general-assassinated-in-moscow/
    #Russia #Russian general assassinated in #Moscow A car bomb has killed a senior General Staff member, officials have confirmed https://www.rt.com/russia/629859-russian-general-assassinated-in-moscow/
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    Russian general assassinated in Moscow
    A Russian general has been assassinated in a car bomb attack in Moscow, the Investigative Committee has confirmed
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  • https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-blast-republicans-for-trying-to-put-hardworking-genital-mutilators-out-of-business?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
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    Democrats Blast Republicans For Trying To Put Hardworking Genital Mutilators Out Of Business
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Congress prepared to vote on legislation that would prevent gender transitioning treatment from being given to minors, Democrats blasted Republicans for trying to put hardworking genital mutilators out of business.
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  • Dr. Ardis LIVE: Exposing the Medical Cartel. MAGA Division. B2T Show, Dec 15 2025
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    Dr. Ardis LIVE: Exposing the Medical Cartel. MAGA Division. B2T Show, Dec 15 2025 https://rumble.com/v732cla-dr.-ardis-exposing-the-medical-cartel.-maga-division.-b2t-show-dec-15-2025.html?mref=1htl22&mrefc=4
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  • The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.
    ~Dwight L. Moody
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    The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin. ~Dwight L. Moody #MondayMeditation
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  • You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
    ~Jonathan Edwards
    #MondayMeditation
    You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure. ~Jonathan Edwards #MondayMeditation
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  • We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.
    ~RC Sproul
    #MondayMeditation
    We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners. ~RC Sproul #MondayMeditation
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  • Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa.
    ~John MacArthur
    #MondayMeditation
    Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. ~John MacArthur #MondayMeditation
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  • Much ado about nothing...

    https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/12/20/doj-releasing-even-more-tranches-of-jeffrey-epstein-files-n2197331
    Much ado about nothing... https://redstate.com/beccalower/2025/12/20/doj-releasing-even-more-tranches-of-jeffrey-epstein-files-n2197331
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    DOJ Releases 2 More Tranches of Jeffrey Epstein Files, Including Sickening Details on Teenage Victims
    DOJ releases more Epstein files revealing details on teenage victims and high-profile connections.
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  • #RINO #MittRomney Calls for #Tax Hikes, Raising Retirement Age https://michaelsavage.com/nolte-rino-romney-calls-for-tax-hikes-raising-retirement-age/
    #RINO #MittRomney Calls for #Tax Hikes, Raising Retirement Age https://michaelsavage.com/nolte-rino-romney-calls-for-tax-hikes-raising-retirement-age/
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  • https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/2002938251666170274
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  • What happens when former industry heads are allowed to head up a regulatory agency?

    We get regulations that put corporations ahead of the people!
    Corporations First instead of Americans First!

    "Last week, in a highly unusual move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) embraced that approach in announcing that it is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. Working on that effort were two of those former industry insiders, who are now top EPA officials."

    https://thefreethoughtproject.com/health/epa-wants-to-nearly-double-safe-limits-of-formaldehyde-despite-known-links-to-cancer
    What happens when former industry heads are allowed to head up a regulatory agency? We get regulations that put corporations ahead of the people! Corporations First instead of Americans First! "Last week, in a highly unusual move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) embraced that approach in announcing that it is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. Working on that effort were two of those former industry insiders, who are now top EPA officials." https://thefreethoughtproject.com/health/epa-wants-to-nearly-double-safe-limits-of-formaldehyde-despite-known-links-to-cancer
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  • Christian, there are some who believe salvation is a tenuous proposition, and that there are ways in which, once obtained, it may be lost. Do not be shaken by such belief, as it aligns neither with God’s character nor His word.

    Jesus stated as much when He exclaimed of His own, “I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand” (Jn. 10:27-29).

    Paul with assurance of his security in Christ proclaimed, “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil. 1:6). It is God who begins the work in us, and it is God who completes it. How then can it fail?

    Jesus is able to save “forever” those who come to God through Him (Heb. 7:25). He is able to make you stand in God’s presence blameless (Jude 1:24). You were sealed with His Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:13, 4:30) who is a pledge of our salvation. Who can come between us and Christ? Who is able to evict His Spirit from our hearts?

    Take comfort my brethren, and be joyful! Your salvation is not dependent upon you and your effort, but on God who is the giver of this great gift. God did not save you to because of your effort, but because of His mercy (Tit. 3:5), how then shall we lose it? For our salvation “does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy” (Rom. 9:16).

    Therefore, let us rejoice, and each of us remember of God, as said King David, “He has made an everlasting covenant with me” (2 Sam. 23:5).

    ——————
    Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

    Morning, December 21

    "Yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant." 2 Samuel 23:5

    This covenant is divine in its origin. "HE hath made with me an everlasting covenant." Oh that great word HE! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that God who spake the world into existence by a word; He, stooping from His majesty, takes hold of thy hand and makes a covenant with thee. Is it not a deed, the stupendous condescension of which might ravish our hearts for ever if we could really understand it? "HE hath made with me a covenant." A king has not made a covenant with me- that were somewhat; but the Prince of the kings of the earth, Shaddai, the Lord All-sufficient, the Jehovah of ages, the everlasting Elohim, "He hath made with me an everlasting covenant." But notice, it is particular in its application. "Yet hath He made with ME an everlasting covenant." Here lies the sweetness of it to each believer. It is nought for me that He made peace for the world; I want to know whether He made peace for me! It is little that He hath made a covenant, I want to know whether He has made a covenant with me. Blessed is the assurance that He hath made a covenant with me! If God the Holy Ghost gives me assurance of this, then His salvation is mine, His heart is mine, He Himself is mine- He is my God.

    This covenant is everlasting in its duration. An everlasting covenant means a covenant which had no beginning, and which shall never, never end. How sweet amidst all the uncertainties of life, to know that "the foundation of the Lord standeth sure," and to have God's own promise, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Like dying David, I will sing of this, even though my house be not so with God as my heart desireth.
    Christian, there are some who believe salvation is a tenuous proposition, and that there are ways in which, once obtained, it may be lost. Do not be shaken by such belief, as it aligns neither with God’s character nor His word. Jesus stated as much when He exclaimed of His own, “I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand” (Jn. 10:27-29). Paul with assurance of his security in Christ proclaimed, “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Phil. 1:6). It is God who begins the work in us, and it is God who completes it. How then can it fail? Jesus is able to save “forever” those who come to God through Him (Heb. 7:25). He is able to make you stand in God’s presence blameless (Jude 1:24). You were sealed with His Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22; Eph. 1:13, 4:30) who is a pledge of our salvation. Who can come between us and Christ? Who is able to evict His Spirit from our hearts? Take comfort my brethren, and be joyful! Your salvation is not dependent upon you and your effort, but on God who is the giver of this great gift. God did not save you to because of your effort, but because of His mercy (Tit. 3:5), how then shall we lose it? For our salvation “does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy” (Rom. 9:16). Therefore, let us rejoice, and each of us remember of God, as said King David, “He has made an everlasting covenant with me” (2 Sam. 23:5). —————— Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions Morning, December 21 "Yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant." 2 Samuel 23:5 This covenant is divine in its origin. "HE hath made with me an everlasting covenant." Oh that great word HE! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that God who spake the world into existence by a word; He, stooping from His majesty, takes hold of thy hand and makes a covenant with thee. Is it not a deed, the stupendous condescension of which might ravish our hearts for ever if we could really understand it? "HE hath made with me a covenant." A king has not made a covenant with me- that were somewhat; but the Prince of the kings of the earth, Shaddai, the Lord All-sufficient, the Jehovah of ages, the everlasting Elohim, "He hath made with me an everlasting covenant." But notice, it is particular in its application. "Yet hath He made with ME an everlasting covenant." Here lies the sweetness of it to each believer. It is nought for me that He made peace for the world; I want to know whether He made peace for me! It is little that He hath made a covenant, I want to know whether He has made a covenant with me. Blessed is the assurance that He hath made a covenant with me! If God the Holy Ghost gives me assurance of this, then His salvation is mine, His heart is mine, He Himself is mine- He is my God. This covenant is everlasting in its duration. An everlasting covenant means a covenant which had no beginning, and which shall never, never end. How sweet amidst all the uncertainties of life, to know that "the foundation of the Lord standeth sure," and to have God's own promise, "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips." Like dying David, I will sing of this, even though my house be not so with God as my heart desireth.
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