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Blessed be the name of the Lord

For He is our Rock
He is the Lord

Jesus reigns on high in all the earth

The universe
Is in the hands of the Lord

–Danny Daniels, “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord”–

² Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. ³ For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. ⁴ They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. ⁵ But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
–2 Timothy 4:2-5 (NIV)–

Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men.
–2 Corinthians 5:11 (KJV)–

The office of a bishop.
–1 Timothy 3:1 (KJV)–

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Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1985).

Gary Gilley, This Little Church Went to Market (Evangelical Press, 2005).

John MacArthur, Ashamed of the Gospel, 3rd ed (Crossway, 2018).

McClymond, The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Oxford, 2012), p. 437ff.

Paul Zahl, “The Bishop-Led Church,” Perspectives on Church Government (B&H, 2004).

Gilbert Tennent, “The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry.”

All the gods of the Gentiles are devils:
but the Lord made the heavens.
–Psalm 96:5 (Douay-Rheims Bible)–

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Dr. Terry Mortenson, The Great Turning Point (Master Books, 2004).

Dr. Henry Morris, The Scientific Case for Creation (Master Books, 1984).

Answers in Genesis, “Young-Earth Creationist View Summarized and Defended.” The genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 give us the years from Adam to Abraham, who virtually all scholars agree lived about 2000 BC. This sets the date of creation at approximately 6,000 years ago. Some young-earth creationists say the creation may be 10,000–12,000 years old, but the arguments for gaps of any length of time in the Genesis 5 and 11 genealogies are not compelling to this writer and many others. Although there are some biblical genealogies that do have names omitted (e.g., Matthew 1:1–17 or Mark 10:47), Freeman, Jones, and Pierce present strong arguments for accepting these Genesis genealogies as tight chronologies with no gaps. For eighteen centuries the almost universal belief of the Church was that the creation began 4,000–5,000 years before Christ. So, young-earth creationism is historic Christian orthodoxy. It was also Jewish orthodoxy at least up to the end of the first century of church history. In light of this fact, it seems inconsistent with the truth-loving nature of God revealed in Scripture to think that for about 3,000 years God let faithful Jews and Christians (especially the writers of Scripture) believe that Genesis teaches a literal six-day creation about 6,000 years ago but that in the early nineteenth century He used godless men (scientists who rejected the Bible as God’s inerrant Word) to correct the Church’s understanding of Genesis.

Yukichi Fukuzawa, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 41-42. In India there is also a classic handed down called the Code of Manu. This classic was handed down two billion years ago, tradition says…In reality that book’s origins go back no more than three thousand years…it all would come down to IDIOTIC MAKE-BELIEVE…The world passed through billions and billions of years in the twinkling of an eye of the Creator; the two billion years of which they speak is a mere split fraction of that second.

Bhaktivedanta Vedabase, “Billion Years.”

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in Constitution
There is no bloody revolution

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Our so-called leaders speak
With words, they try to jail ya
They subjugate the meek
But it’s the rhetoric of failya

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world
We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

Where does the answer lie?
Living from day to day
If it’s somethin’ we can’t buy
There must be another way

We are spirits in the material world
Are spirits in the material world

–The Police, “Spirits In The Material World”–

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The men of Sodom were wicked
and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
–Genesis 13:13 (KJV)–

Blessed is the man that walketh not
in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
–Psalm 1:1 (KJV)–

Ye adulterers and adulteresses,
know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
–James 4:4 (KJV)–

Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 
for that righteous man dwelling among them,
in seeing and hearing,
VEXED (Gk. basanizo PAINFULLY TWISTED,
TORTURED, AND PERVERTED)
his righteous soul
from day to day with their unlawful deeds.
–2 Peter 2:7-8 (KJV)–

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Jeff Farnham, The Octopus of Humanism (Sword of the Lord, 2009).

Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, Handbook of Today’s Religions, 4.3.

Dr. John R. Rice, Evolution or the Bible–Which? (Sword of the Lord, 1963).

—. The Unequal Yoke (Sword of the Lord, 1946).

Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword of the Lord, 1978).

Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman (Sprinkle Publications, 1989).

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
–Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (KJV)–

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Dr. Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints (Zondervan, 1986), chs. 2, 4.

Grant Sabatier, Financial Freedom (Avery, 2019).

William Mathews, Getting On In the World (S. C. Griggs, 1879).

Richard Steele, The Religious Tradesman (Sprinkle Publications, 1989).

Richard Baxter, Chapters from A Christian Directory (G. Bell & Sons, 1925).

Robert Allen, Multiple Streams of Income (Nightingale-Conant, 2014).

Entrepreneur (Entrepreneur Media, 2024).

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Dr. Larry Martin, ed. Azusa Street Library, 12 vols (Christian Life Books, 1999-2014).

Dr. Otto J. Klink, Why I Am Not an Evolutionist (Gospel Publishing House, 1931).

Ernest S. Williams, Systematic Theology, 3 vols (Gospel Publishing House, 1953).

P. C. Nelson, Bible Doctrines (Gospel Publishing House, 1948).

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1934).

John Sherrill, They Speak with Other Tongues (Chosen Books, 2018).

Cecil Robeck, The Azusa Street Mission and Revival (Thomas Nelson, 2017).

Vinson Synan, The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition (Eerdmans, 1997).