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7th Day Adventist ~ True or False Religion

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by D.Baker in 7th Day Adventist false teaching, Audio files, Critical Issues Commentary, Cults, video's

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The past few days I have been having a discussion with a 7th Day Adventist on Facebook.  I thought I would share with you some of the links I have come across as well as have a place to file them for future reference for myself.  There is a tendency to try to sidestep and dance around, on their part, the facts that they add attending church on Saturday as a condition to salvation as well as a belief that works are part of their salvation.   I am going to include a a few podcasts here from cicministry.org with Bob Dewaay and Dick Kuffel where they go line by line explaining Hebrews 4 and sabbath rest to give a correct understanding of what the sabbath is to born again Christians because it is in no way shape or form intended to mean that we are required to attend church on Saturday.

CIC Ministries discussion on Hebrews 4 (very good explanation of what keeping the sabbath really is)

The Danger of Failing to Enter God’s Rest Part 1 Hebrews 4:1-7

The Danger of Failing to Enter God’s Rest Part 2 Hebrews 4:7-13

Here is a video from Youtube where Dr.Walter Martin discusses SDA with a representative from the SDA church on the John Ankerberg show.

Here is another part of the John Ankerberg show with Walter Martin

Interesting Video about Ellen G.White and the Shut Door- SDA exposed

Article on Adventist leaders lying to Walter Martin to keep from being classified as a cult:

Did Adventist Leaders Lie to Walter Martin?

Here is a link to some of the wild claims made by Ellen White.

Ellen White Claims

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Trust In Jesus

01 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by D.Baker in Scripture, video's

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Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him

2 Samuel 22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

Psalm 9:10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

 

Religion and It’s Victims ~ John MacArthur

05 Monday Mar 2012

Posted by D.Baker in John MacArthur, video's

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Excellent sermon here by John MacArthur that I watched on Sola Sisters blog this morning.  If you have never checked out Sola Sisters blog click on the link, it’s a great blog!

It Is Well With My Soul

05 Monday Mar 2012

Posted by D.Baker in D.Baker's Articles, Hymn's, video's

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I love the old Hymn “It Is Well With My Soul” by Horatio Spafford.  This is one of my favorite hymns to sing at church and it has been a great encouragement to me in hard times.  It’s a reminder to me to praise God through all of life’s circumstances and be thankful at all times.

 I liked this hymn so much that I decided to name a needlework sampler, that I have been creating the past year, after this hymn.  This sampler is sort of a reflection if you will of the past year of my life, it kind of happened that way by accident.  I had no idea that when I chose to stitch into my sampler the saying, “Through the Storm Your Do Not Walk Alone”, and Psalm 107:29 “He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still”, that I would actually be going through some of the largest storms of my life since last March.  So a few weeks ago I decided to add that first verse of  “It is well”  to my sampler.  It’s close to the bottom with a little ship and waves.

I was inspired and encouraged by this hymn not only for the words of the hymn, but also the story behind the hymn of what Horatio and his wife endured.  It is an amazing testimony to the power of God, the strength that he gives us to be able to endure storms and trials of all kinds and still be able to praise him through it all.  I have never endured anything so tragic as the Spaffords did, but the same God who sustained them and carried them through sustains you and I through the storms of our lives. 

Please take a moment to read about the Spaffords and listen to the beautiful hymn Horatio wrote in the midst of this tragic storm in his life.


Here is Horatio Spaffords story:
In the late 1860s life was good for Horatio G. Spafford and his wife Anna. They were living in a north side suburb of Chicago with their five children, Annie, Maggie, Bessie, Tanetta and Horatio, Jr. He had a successful law practice in Chicago. The doors of the Spaffords’ home were always open as a place for activists to meet during the reform movements of the time. Horatio G. Spafford was quite active in the abolitionist movement. Frances E. Willard, president of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union as well as evangelical leaders like Dwight L. Moody were often guests in their home. Spafford was a Presbyterian church elder and a dedicated Christian.
Until now Horatio and Anna Spafford had led a charmed life. They had everything going their way. However, in 1870 their faith was tested by tragedy. Their four year old son, Horatio, Jr., died of scarlet fever. The Spaffords were devastated. In October of 1871 when the Great Chicago Fire broke out Horatio faced another test of his faith. A few months before the Great Chicago Fire, Spafford being a wealthy man, had invested much of his wealth in real estate by the shore of Lake Michigan. Not only did the Great Chicago Fire destroy most of Chicago but most of Spafford’s holdings were destroyed. 250 people died in the Great Chicago Fire and 90,000 were left homeless.

The Spaffords did not despair. Their home had been spared and they had their family. God had been good. Even though their finances were mostly depleted, Anna and Horatio used what resources they had left to feed the hungry, help the homeless, care for the sick and injured and comfort their grief stricken neighbors. The Great Chicago Fire was a great American tragedy; the Spaffords used it to show the love of the Christ to those in need.

In 1873 Anna Spafford’s health was failing and hoping to put behind the tragic loss of their son and the fire and to benefit Anna’s health, the Spaffords planned a trip to Europe. They would sail on the French steamer Ville du Havre to Europe with their four daughters. Spafford not only wanted to visit Europe but he wanted to assist Evangelists Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey in a revival they were conducting in England.

Moody and Sankey had met at a convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association in Indianapolis in 1870. After hearing Sankey sing, Moody at once invited him to come to Chicago and assist him in his evangelist work there. Ira D. Sankey considered Moody’s invitation and after much thought and prayer, decided to accept. Six months later he joined Moody in Chicago.

Dwight L. Moody and Ira Sankey were in the middle of a revival meeting when the Great Chicago Fire broke out in 1871. Moody and Sankey barely escaped Chicago with their lives. It is said that Sankey was on a row boat a long distance out in Lake Michigan where he watched as Chicago burned. With most of Chicago having been destroyed, Moody and Sankey decided to accept an invitation to visit England. In 1873 Moody and Sankey started a work in England. Moody and Sankey made such a profound impression in England their names became household words all over Europe.

The Spaffords planed to leave in November on their voyage to Europe. As sometimes happens, God had other plans for Horatio G. Spafford. The day they were to sail for Europe Spafford had a business emergency and could not leave. Not wanting to disappoint his wife Anna and their daughters he sent them on ahead and planned to follow on another ship in a few days. Accompanying Anna Spafford were her French governess, Emma Lorriaux, several friends and several ministers.

On November 22, 1873 the steamer Ville du Havre was struck by a British iron sailing ship, the Lockhearn. The steamer Ville du Havre, with Anna Spafford and her daughters aboard, sank within twelve minutes in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Only 81 of the 307 passengers and crew members survived this tragic shipwreck.

Even though the Lockhearn was in danger of sinking the unconscious Anna Spafford was picked up from floating debris by the crew of the Lockhearn. An American cargo sailing vessel, the Trimountain, arrived in time to save the survivors of the Ville du Havre and the Lockhearn. Anna Spafford was taken to Cardiff, Wales where she telegraphed her husband Horatio. Anna’s cable was brief and heartbreaking, “Saved alone. What shall I do…” Horatio and Anna’s four daughters had drowned. As soon as he received Anna’s telegram, Horatio left Chicago without delay to bring his wife home. Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean the captain of the ship called Horatio to the bridge. He informed Horatio that “A careful reckoning has been made and I believe we are now passing the place where the Ville du Havre was wrecked. The water is three miles deep.” That night, alone in his cabin Horatio G. Spafford penned the words to his famous hymn, “It Is Well With My Soul.” Horatio’s faith in God never faltered. He later wrote Anna’s half-sister, “On Thursday last we passed over the spot where she went down, in mid-ocean, the waters three miles deep. But I do not think of our dear ones there. They are safe, folded, the dear lambs.”

The following account is taken from the Christian History Institute.

“Anna Spafford later spoke of being sucked violently downward. Baby Tanetta was torn from her arms by a collision with some heavy debris, with a blow so violent that Anna’s arm was severely bruised. She flailed at the water trying to catch her baby. Anna caught Tanetta’s gown for just a moment before another smashing blow tore the little girl out of her arms forever. Reaching out again, all she could find was a man’s leg in corduroy trousers. Anna, barely conscious, was then swirled about in a whirlpool before surfacing near the Loch Earn. She instinctively clung on to a small plank and the next thing she recalled was the splash of an oar as she lay at the bottom of a small boat. Bruised and sick, her long hair was matted with salt and her dressing gown shredded. But the pain in her body was nothing compared to the pain in her heart as she realized that her four daughters had been lost in the disaster. A young male passenger, afloat on a piece of wood, came upon Maggie and Annie, the two oldest Spafford children. At his direction, each girl grasped one of his side pockets as he tried to find a board large enough to support all three of them. After about 30 or 40 minutes in the water, he found a piece of wreckage and struggled to help the two young girls climb atop the board. But as he watched, their weary arms weakened, and he saw their eyes close. Their lifeless forms floated away from his own fatigue-paralyzed arms. No clues ever surfaced about the fate of little Bessie.”

After Anna was rescued, Pastor Nathaniel Weiss, one of the ministers traveling with Anna and Horatio’s group remembered hearing Anna say, “God gave me four daughters. Now they have been taken from me. Someday I will understand why.” Anna was utterly devastated. Many of the survivors watched Anna closely, fearing she may try to take her life. In her grief and despair, Anna heard a soft voice speaking to her, “You were saved for a purpose!” It was then Anna remembered something a friend had once said, “It’s easy to be grateful and good when you have so much, but take care that you are not a fair-weather friend to God.”

Following their reunion in Europe, Horatio and Anna returned to Chicago to begin their lives again. God blessed Anna and Horatio with three children. They had a son in 1876, again called “Horatio.” Not so much for his father but for their lost son. In 1878 their daughter Bertha was born. Tragically, when little Horatio reached the age of 4 just as his brother before him, he died from scarlet fever. In 1880 Anna and Horatio had another daughter they called Grace. After the loss of little Horatio, the Spaffords decided to leave their home in America and settle in Jerusalem. In September of 1881 the Spaffords and a few of their friends left America for Israel.
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Leaning On The Everlasting Arms of Jesus

11 Friday Nov 2011

Posted by D.Baker in Encouragement, Hymn's, video's

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Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.

O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Refrain

Words: Eli­sha A. Hoff­man, in The Glad Evan­gel for Re­viv­al, Camp, and Evan­gel­is­tic Meet­ings (Dal­ton, Georg­ia: A. J. Sho­wal­ter & Com­pa­ny, 1887).

Music: An­tho­ny J. Sho­wal­ter (MI­DI, score). Sho­wal­ter wrote this tune and words to the re­frain after hear­ing from two friends whose wives had died, and asked Hoff­man to write the re­main­ing lyr­ics.

Roger Oakland and the Emerging Deception

09 Wednesday Mar 2011

Posted by D.Baker in Emergent Church, video's

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Great little video excerpt from Roger Oakland, this is just part of a video series but I am sure you can find the rest of it on youtube.

Church of Christ; Cult or Just Heretical?

28 Friday Jan 2011

Posted by D.Baker in Cults, Deception, video's

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Unto US a Child is Born!

25 Saturday Dec 2010

Posted by D.Baker in Hymn's, Jesus Christ, video's

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Mary Did You Know?

24 Friday Dec 2010

Posted by D.Baker in video's

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Does 2 Peter 3:9 Make God Schizophrenic?

05 Sunday Dec 2010

Posted by D.Baker in Scripture, The hard questions, video's

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