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Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Demons In Certain Regions
Friday, January 31, 2025
Half A Christian?
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Text: Matthew 5:16; Acts 1:8
Spurgeon (1) wrote, " I think I may say to every person whom I am addressing,-If you are yourself saved, the work is but half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ. You are as yet but half formed in the image of your Lord. You have not attained to the full development of the Christ-life in you unless you have commenced in some feeble way to tell others of the grace of God; and I trust that you will find no rest to the sole of your foot till you have been the means of leading many to that blessed Saviour who is your confidence and your hope?
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Let us ask Him to give us grace to go a-fishing, and so to cast our nets that we may take a great multitude of fishes. Oh, that the Holy Ghost may raise up from among us some master-fishers, who shall sail their boats in many a sea, and surround great shoals of fish!"
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1. Spurgeon, Charles " Instruction In Soul Winning "
William James Roop
Brother Roop teaches the Bible
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Power Of A Testimony
Friday, January 24, 2025
You Can Be Forgiven
Carey was raised in an atheist humanist household. Her father was a university lecturer with a passionate commitment to the left side of politics. Throughout her upbringing he railed against oppression, capitalism and was a key figure in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam years. He also railed against God and the church, finding it impossible to believe in a God when the world was full of so much suffering.
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But that left Gabrielle tremendously burdened. In her book In My Father’s House she writes, "One of the hardest aspects of growing up as the daughter of a humanist was the worry of having to live up to incredibly high intellectual and moral standards. And worse, what happened when it was discovered that you hadn’t? Would you be given a second chance? Could you confess your weaknesses? Would you ever be forgiven? What would my father say if he found out that I was just another brainless, mind-moulded, media-manipulated failure to humanity?"
It was this burden of guilt Gabrielle found lifted when she converted to Christian faith. "Perhaps what I liked most about Catholicism" she writes, "or at the least the Catholicism the abbot had introduced to me, was knowing I could be wrong, knowing I could behave badly, awfully in fact, and that I would still be loved. That all I needed to do was own up and I’d be forgiven...At least with a Catholic God and father you could fail without feeling that it was the end of all hope. And that was such a relief."
Source: Scott Higgins, based on Carey’s In My Father’s House (Pan McMillan, 1992)
William James Roop
Brother Roop teaches the Bible
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Put First Things First
Friday, January 17, 2025
Woman In Suitcase
Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Here is the importance about holiness.
Text: Leviticus 20:26; 1 Peter 1:15-16.
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Woman In Suitcase
In January of 1985, a large suitcase, unmarked and unclaimed, was discovered at the customs office at Los Angeles International Airport. When U.S. customs agents opened the suitcase, they found the curled-up body of an unidentified young woman. She had been dead for a few days, according to the county coroner.
As the investigation continued, it was learned that the woman was the wife of a young Iranian living in the U.S. Unable to get a visa to get into the U.S. and join her husband, she took matters into her own hands and attempted to smuggle herself into America via an airplane's cargo bay.
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While her plan seemed to be simple though risky, officials were hard pressed to understand how such an attempt could ever succeed. Even if she survived the journey in the cargo bay, she would remain an illegal alien. In the same manner, some people believe they'll enter the kingdom of God on their own since they've been reasonably good citizens or church attenders. But entry plans of our own design prove not only foolish but fatal.
William James Roop
Brother Roop teaches the Bible
Friday, January 10, 2025
Be A Witness
Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Here is a fun story about witnessing to others about Jesus Christ, from an unknown source.
Text: Mark 16:17-20; Acts 1:8.
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A few years back I coached my son’s Little League Team. We spent many hours practicing. We practiced and practiced and learned the fundamentals; how to hit, how to bunt, how to throw, how to pitch and catch. We learned all of the secret coaching signs.
We honed our skills day after day in the summer sun. We could have practiced all summer but it would have been meaningless. I may have had a great team; Little League World Series contenders maybe, but unless we quit practicing and went out and met the opposition, I would never know. The team would never accomplish anything until they played a game.
The act of playing the game after careful preparation is what the world is all about. Practicing and learning go for nothing if we don’t go out and use our skills. There comes a moment in time when we need to leave the safety of our pews and go out and meet the opposition and win them over.
William James Roop
Brother Roop teaches the Bible