Question of the Week: Can We Look to Nature to Reveal Truth About God?

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Is Nature the 67th Book of the Bible? "Nature" is everything around us, and God gave it to humanity so that we could look into the universe around us and see His glory. But when the Bible mentions nature and the Word together, we find that only one of them is permanent and foundational for knowing and fulfilling His will. Nature—this universe—will pass away and be rolled up like a scroll (Isaiah 34:4), but God's Word will endure. Those who promote nature as a missing aspect of God's revelation (the so-called "67th book of the Bible") need to understand two crucial fallacies with this idea.   Get Answers →   Get Equipped God's Design for Life Complete Set Shop Now 〉

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John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

And if you should call my name in Heaven, I think ten billion angels would cry out, "There's nothing against him. It is all clear." Thank God, it is all paid! If anyone should bring the question up again in Heaven, I have Somebody there, I have a Lawyer there at the court, I have a Friend there, and He is my Intercessor, He is my High Priest- Jesus Christ, my Substitute. Jesus will show you those hands with the wounds, and that will be proof enough! Jesus is the Eternal Witness that all my sins are paid for, as well as all the sins of everybody else. That is justification. "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures." God let Him suffer in our place, and that God counted as my payment. Thank God, all is paid! God said, "Since I am honest, I can't have this paid for twice. Since I am honest I can't require John Rice to go to Hell, for Jesus suffered the tortures of Hell. If John Rice will take the substitution, then we can count that settled. And so it is. - John R. Rice

Jesus was a "Hell-fire preacher." To Him, Hell was a fact, a horrible fact, but a necessary one. With holy indignation, He preached against sin and with solemn warning He urged men to flee from the wrath to come. Bible preachers, preachers who follow the Lord Jesus Christ, must preach about Hell. - John R. Rice

It is the business of the devil to make men believe that there is no Hell, or that Hell is the grave, or that Hell is only figurative, not a literal place, or that men in Hell will be burned up at once without much pain, or that they will have another chance to be saved, or that after all, God is too good to send folks to Hell; then the devil accomplishes his purpose, gets men to continue in sin, and so go to Hell. It is the devil's business to minimize or deny the Bible teaching on Hell. - John R. Rice

A man who believes the Bible and seeks to please God must preach Hell. - John R. Rice

Those who encourage men to reject Christ sometimes say that Hell is only the grave. How foolish that is when you hear the rich man cry out in Hell, "I am tormented in this flame"! He was not simply in the grave! He wanted his brothers to repent "lest they come to this place of torment." Repenting would not have kept his brothers from the grave; it would keep them from Hell. - John R. Rice

The Scriptures about Hell are so definite that any man who says Hell is the grave is either an ignoramus or a deliberate deceiver. - John R. Rice 

Infidels love to say that they, weak sinful men, would not send their children to a place like Hell, and that if God loves His children He would not condemn them to go to Hell. I answer back that unsaved sinners are not the children of God. No one is a child of God until he has been born again. Others are the children of wrath. Jesus said to the Pharisees in John 8:44, "Ye are of your father the devil." God's children never go to Hell, but the children of the devil do. - John R. Rice

Quotes of the Week

Sometimes people say, "You believe in the Rapture? You believe in an 'escapism' religion". They are absolutely right. We will "escape" from this evil world and it will be the "will of God." I am looking forward to escaping this evil world and doing it in the will of the Most High God - praise His name. - Jimmy DeYoung

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions. - Calvin Coolidge

The question is, "Is it right?" - Robert E. Lee

God and one make a majority. - Frederick Douglass

There is a living God. He has spoken in His Word. He means just what He says, and will do all that He had promised. - Hudson Taylor

God helps us in our troubles, if you worry you are on your own. - unknown

To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and to discover that the prisoner was YOU! - unknown

FINDING THE TRUTH

Zechariah 7

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. THE QUESTION ASKED [v. 1-7]

1. Search for Answers [v. 1-3]

2. Search your Heart [v. 4-6, Rm. 14:1-6]

3. Search the Word [v. 7, Acts 17:11]

II. THE QUICK ANSWER [v. 8-12a]

1. True Revelation [v. 8]

2. True Religion [v. 9-10, James 1:22-27]

3. True Rebellion [v. 11-12a]

III. THE QUALITY ANSWER [v. 12b-14]

1. They Incurred God’s Wrath [v. 12b]

2. They Increased God’s Response [v. 13, Ps. 66:18]

3. They Invoked God’s Reaction [v. 14]

WHERE IS HAPPINESS?

Not in Unbelief

Voltaire was an infidel of the most pronounced type; he wrote - "I wish I had never been born."

Not in Pleasure

Lord Byron lived a life of pleasure and wrote - "The worm, the canker, and the grief are mine alone."

Not in Money

Jay Gould, the American millionaire, had plenty of money. When dying, he said - "I suppose I am the

most miserable man on earth."

Not in Position and Fame

Lord Beaconsfield enjoyed more than his share of both, and wrote - "Youth is a mistake; manhood a struggle; old age, a regret."

Not in Military Glory

Alexander the Great conquered the known world in his day. Then, he wept in his tent and said -

"There are no more worlds to conquer."

Where, then, is Happiness found?

The answer is CHRIST ALONE

"My soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in His salvation" - Psalm 35:9

Jesus said - "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" -Matt. 16:26

adapted from the PCC Update [Summer 2006]

HEAR O ISRAEL!

Deuteronomy 6

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. THE WORD [v. 1-3]

1. The Precepts [v. 1]

2. The Purpose [v. 2]

3. The Promise [v. 3]

II. THE WAY OF BLESSING [v. 4-9]

1. The Singularity of Unity [v. 4, Gn. 2:24] the Triune God. one=echad.

“In the Hebrew language a noun is singular, dual, or plural. When it is plural, but no number is given, one can assume it to be three.” – J. V. McGee

2. The Singleness of Devotion [v. 5] the True Faith.

3. The Soundness of Diligence [v. 6-9] the Tremendous Walk.

III. THE WALK OF FAITH [v. 10-25]

1. The Danger of Forgetting [v. 10-12]

2. The Doctrine of Fidelity [v. 13-19] v. 13 was quoted by Christ in Mt. 4:10

3. The Distinctive of Follow-through [v. 20-25]

PSALM 66:18

                                      The Power of a Single Verse

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. THE PROBLEM – Iniquity Regarding

1. The Problem is Personal – Rm. 3:9-23

2. The Problem is Pervading

3. The Problem is Perverse

II. THE PLACE – Internally Residing

1. The Heart is Wicked [Jer. 17:9] The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

2. The Heart is Wanton [James 5:5] “seeking luxury” Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

3. The Heart is Willful [Isaiah 14:13, Jeremiah 18:12] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

III. THE PRODUCT – Intense Response

1. Divine Decision – “The Lord will”

2. Divine Determination “The Lord will NOT”

3. Divine Deafness – “The Lord will not hear me”

IV. THE PREVENTION – “IF”, note the context in verses 9-20

Question of the Week- Why We Should Not Accept Millions of Years as the Age of the Earth?

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Don't Accept Millions of Years Many Christians say that the age of the earth is an unimportant and divisive side issue that hinders the proclamation of the gospel. But is that really the case? We want to introduce you to some of the reasons we think that Christians cannot accept millions of years without doing great damage to the church and her witness in the world. We hope these help you see that from biblical proof to scientific evidence, it's clear the Bible gives us the true history of creation.   Get Answers →   Get Equipped Ken Ham's Foundations Shop Now 〉

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John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Bob Ingersoll said in his book on -Some Mistakes of Moses-, "Atonement! The wrong man died!" Yes, that's right, the wrong man died- except He was the right man, if God's love provides Him. He is the right man, if a sinner is ever to be forgiven. So Jesus died in our place. Yes, love does supply for others. - John R. Rice

Now is Christ a fit substitute? Yes. When I played college football, if a man was to be a substitute, he had to be enrolled in school, he had to make good grades, and he had to be eligible otherwise. Jesus said, "I will be eligible." But Jesus, you will have to be born of a human mother, you will have to live in the surroundings of poverty and temptation. "All right," Jesus said. So Jesus gave Himself. God Himself thus came to be in the body of the fetus in the mother's womb, and the Virgin Mary bore Jesus. He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. He lived in our environment, He goes to our college, He is eligible for the team; so put Jesus in to substitute now! I couldn't make it if He did not substitute for me. - John R. Rice

A substitute? Is He eligible? Yes. If Jesus is going to bear my sins, He can't have any sins of His own. He must be the blameless and sinless One. He has to have righteousness. Jesus is the only Person ever born of woman who was blameless. Oh, there was nothing against Him. And so, Jesus is eligible and blameless. - John R. Rice

He gladly offers Himself. It wouldn't be right for God to seize somebody and make him suffer in my stead when he didn't love me, and didn't want to. But Jesus offered Himself and the Father gave His Son. Jesus is offered, and so the debt must be paid. What do I mean? Someone must suffer the torments of the damned. Somebody must suffer like I ought to suffer. Somebody must die like a sinner dies. So Jesus during those long years in Heaven looked forward to being the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. He has always suffered for sinners. But on the cross His infinite righteousness and capacity for suffering was infinite. So Jesus suffered, tasting death for the sins of the whole world. - John R. Rice

Now nobody can blame God and say that God lets sin get by. No, Jesus paid it all. I believe that is what Jesus had in His heart when on the cross He cried out, "It is finished! It is done! It is paid for!" I think Jesus said, "That is it!" The Father said, "That is all right. That settles it." And while Jesus was on the cross He had to be like me. After prayer for others, He couldn't call God, "Father." Rather, He said, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He said that, not for Himself but to make sure of the teachings that you and I must know. God turned His face away from Jesus. - John R. Rice

Now then, I can be counted righteous. It is all paid. Up in Heaven the Lord says, "I'm going into the record department now with all the chief accountants." "What are you going to do, Jesus?" "I am going to change the record. I am going to take that record of all the old sins of John Rice and I am going to put my name down there, and then I am going to mark it 'PAID," with blood." And it is all paid. So, if up in Heaven you should go searching and ask the computers to help you out, you would find, thank God, blessed is the man to whom the Lord doth not impute iniquity! God does not charge anything against him. - John R. Rice

How foolish to charge God with wrongdoing because men go to Hell. Hell is the result of men's sins. Men go to Hell because they ought to, not because God hates them. - John R. Rice