Calvary Independent Baptist Church

We thank you for visiting with us today. We are a church that is Baptist in doctrine, in other words we take what we believe from the Bible, and we try to teach and preach only what the Bible declares. If you would like to learn more about us please ask or look up our church web-site: http://idahobaptist.com

The word “worry” is ... derived from the Old German word “wurgen,” which meant "to choke." Apparently the word came to mean "to choke the mind" – which is exactly what anxiety does to us. But God's Word promises that by letting our requests be made known to God through prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, we can escape this insidious mental strangulation.

Jesus is the great Teacher ... of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of Him. See the Master taking a towel and washing His disciples' feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See Him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst not be proud! – C. Spurgeon

This week: “And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of” (Genesis 28:15).

Next week: “In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me” (Psalm 56:11).

U.S. military planes flying ... into South Korea must carefully follow broadcast landing instructions to avoid crashing into the mountains. The trouble is, communist North Korea sometimes broadcasts bogus landing instructions to try to make the incoming planes crash. The only way U.S. pilots can tell the difference between the two is to validate each message according to a code book. In other words, they interpret each message "by the book." Is this how we interpret the mixed signals our hearts and minds feed us about the many temptations around us? Do we try to figure out all the angles, all the results, all the consequences? Or do we go to God's Word and play it "by the Book"? – J.D. Pentecost

We have learned how to ... lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it. You would have to live twice as long to live half as much as your grandfather did. – V. Havner

Gratitude is the loveliest ... flower that grows in the garden of man's soul; and when gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, he is well nigh gone. – B. Jones, Sr.

The Old Testament book of ... Micah prophesies of the coming Messiah from Bethlehem. The verse plainly says that the ruler in Israel one day (the Lord Jesus Christ) is "from everlasting" thus attributing to Him no origin. Micah 5:2 "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting!”

By definition, one who is from everlasting has no beginning. According to the verse, the Lord Jesus Christ is from everlasting; therefore, no beginning can be attributed to Him. The blasphemous NIV instead asserts that Jesus has an origin. Thus, the NIV creates doubt about the Lord's eternal pre-existence (before taking upon Himself a body). That is blasphemous! The Jesus I serve is God and has no beginning and thus no origin no matter how man perverts the words of God. (NIV) Micah 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times!”

The NIV claims that the Lord Jesus Christ, rather than being eternal, has a beginning. If He has an origin (or a beginning), He cannot be God! Do not fail to grasp this important truth. God has no beginning or starting point. If Jesus has origins, then He is a god just as the Jehovah's Witnesses claim! God the Son was present in Genesis 1:1 which states "In the beginning God..”' and the book of Genesis refers to the Son repeatedly as it states, "And God said..!' It is the Son of God who spoke everything into existence.

If the motive of the new versions is simply to update the language, then why do they pervert and undermine such precious truths? These modern version producers are either blind or satanically motivated or a combination of both. The Lord Jesus Christ has no beginning and will have no end! Otherwise, He would not be God and the Saviour of the world. – D.D. Stauffer (Ancient Baptist Journal)

Let us keep as sweet ... as honey and keep levelheaded and keep the up-look and walk on our knees and pray out of our hearts and give out of our pockets and shout in the teeth of the Devil and preach the Word, and victory is ours. – B. Robinson

Make the most of life before most of life is gone.

In the scriptural sense ... of the word, a creature is free when it can move in its native element, fulfilling the function for which it was created. A fish is free when it can move about in the water; but when we remove that fish from the water, it loses its freedom. Likewise, a bird is free when it can move in the air, because that is its native element, the sphere in which it was designed to function. And a person is free when he can move in his native element, the sphere for which he was created. That sphere, as God created it, is one of continual fellowship with God. But because of the Fall, mankind was expelled from its native element and consequently is no longer free. Fallen man is "free" only in the sense that a bird in a cage is free; a caged bird is free to move within that cage, but its life is defined and bounded by that cage. What a mockery it would be to take a free-flying bird out of the air, confine it in a cage, and then say to the bird, "You are free."

In the same way, the natural person is free to move about within the element of sin. But our lives are circumscribed by sin. Sin is the foundation under us, and the canopy over us. A person's total life apart from Jesus Christ is lived in the element of sin and in the sphere of sin. And since we are not free to live in our native element of fellowship with God, we cannot say we are free. We are not free until we can move within that area for which we were created—and that area is the area of pleasing God, because all things, including humankind, were created for God. "By Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him" (Colossians 1:16). – J.D. Pentecost

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