Author: thesingerschapel

Our hope and prayer is that this week you have known the Lord in the ups and downs that may have come your way.  You know, He is our consolation and our celebration.  Events that happen in our life mean different things to different people.  A child who gets her drivers permit has a different set of emotions than her parents have.  “I’m growing up” and “She’s growing up” have very different effects in the heart depending on who is saying those words.  Let’s talk about that…

As we continue in Ezra chapter 3, we begin looking from verse 4 and forward.  The altar was set up in the previous verses and the burnt-offering sacrifices had begun once again.  Those fires had been snuffed out seven decades prior.  The ordained feasts of the Israelites were once again consecrated and observed.  Things were headed back in the right direction.  The work was underway to prepare to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.  Looking at verses 8 through 9 we can read that the proper priests were in their place.  Things were headed back in the right direction.  In verse 10 the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord.  They sang, played instruments and put on their ‘Sunday best’ and praised the Lord the way David did way back when.  Things were headed back in the right direction.

Then something curious happened.  In verse 11 and 12 we can see two very opposite reactions to this monumental shift in the history of the Hebrew people.  Among the nearly 50,000 strong who freely returned as one man from Babylonian captivity were descendants of original children of the captivity who had never stepped foot in their homeland until now.  They had no memory of the Solomon’s original temple in all its grandeur.  They had never smelled the smoke of sacrifice nor seen the blood of atonement as it flowed for the covering of their sins.  The old songs of David were new to them.  Celebration for this new thing in their lives was ecstatic.  They broke out in corporate praise and sang, ‘giving thanks unto the Lord: for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever’ (Psalm 136).  ‘And all the people shouted with a great shout because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.  They were filled to overflowing with JOY!

Verse 12 shows a different, more melancholy emotion from many of the priests, the white haired ancient men, who had seen the first house, began to weep with a loud voice.  That verse goes on to say that many shouted aloud for joy.  Such a sweeping combination of emotions and expressions.  All were very genuine and none were contrived or habitual.  No one urged them to stand and clap or raise their hands or do anything from a man-delivered instruction.  It was the raw sight of the physical manifestation of what God had done for them.  He had delivered them, forgiven them, showed favor to them, and the fruits of their willing decision to seize the opportunity to rebuild the house of God was laying in the form of a foundation before their eyes.

Those ancient men must have had thoughts that I can relate to, such as, I wish we had done everything we could have to prevented this temple from being destroyed in the first place.  We could have done things differently and none of these precious loved ones would have never had to live through the captivity.  And then, I am so thankful that I lived long enough to see this.  This gives us hope for this joyful generation.  I can identify, can you?

That inaugural service was not silent and solemn.  It was exuberant and emotional with a mix of Joy and Mourning.  It was all in order and it was okay either way.  It created a noise that could be heard far away.  If the modern American liberal version of what is perceived as church headed back in the direction of the truth of scripture, unscripted services, worldly separation, worship urged by the Holy Ghost, and a work that reaches all people in all places, can you imagine with me how far the noise of that would be heard…  It makes me mourn for all that this generation has missed but joyful at the possibility that they might be shown the way back again.

God Bless You,

BroAdamB

Our hope and prayer is that the fine month of February has found you in full stride in 2018.  For the Borden Family it is proving to be a month filled with working, travelling, singing, and preaching.  In fact, only the last Sunday has not been booked yet.  That is exciting!  In other exciting news…

We now have another driver in the house.  Abby turned 15 years old on the 7th and aced her drivers permit test.  To quote Karen Peck & New River, “Pray Now”.  I am looking forward to training a full time chauffer.

January saw the launch of the Riches From the Pages radio broadcast ministry on WECO (wecoradio.com) in Wartburg, Tennessee.  We had been praying about a radio ministry and had honestly kind of conceded that the most we might have is a podcast that would live on our website (evangelistadamborden.com).  The Lord surprised us with an open door that no man could shut.  Now you can listen in East Tennessee to WECO AM or online at wecoradio.com at 8:30am on Mondays to our preaching broadcast.  We are very humbled at this answer to prayer and would like to thank brother Dustin Bonham with WECO for this time slot to preach the Word of God to more people than ever.  Tune in Monday mornings on your computer or smart phone if you are not in the WECO area.

That brings us to a new opportunity.  Some of you might remember that we were the featured evangelist of the month on the Word Christian Broadcasting network in West Georgia for the month of December.  Well, after seeing the news that we were going to be on WECO weekly, brother Scott Thomas, who works with WCB and is pastor of Pine Ridge Baptist church in Dallas, Georgia, reached out about adding the Riches from the Pages broadcast to their stations and online stream.  We believe the Lord is working, don’t you?  We would ask that you would prayerfully consider supporting this new radio opportunity.  For $25 per week we can be on WBC in either Dallas, Douglasville or Newnan as well as the online stream one day per week.  Pray that the Lord would provide the funds to support this broadcast.  If He directs your heart or maybe your church Sunday School class, youth group or missions ministry would like to be the one to send the Gospel over the airwaves on WBC or on a station in your area, contact me and we can expand this part of our ministry. Go to the contact page to get in touch.

We will be headed to Newnan, Georgia this month on the 9th, 10th and 11th at Westside BC with the Old Time Preachers Quartet (see Links page) to sing and preach.  Then on the 17th and 18th we will be with Pastor Clark Herring and Grace Baptist in Eatonton, Georgia for their Couples Banquet and all day Sunday. As we mentioned before, February 25th is our only open Sunday for the month so pray that the Lord will send us somewhere to be a blessing.  Other open dates coming up are March 11th and 25th, April 1st, 22nd and 29th.  On May 20th we will be back at Pine Ridge BC in Dallas, Georgia for the morning services and Harvest Baptist Tabernacle in Jonesboro with pastor Joe Arthur that evening.  Pray that the Lord would send the calls for the remaining open dates.

PRAY:

• For souls to be saved not just in the altar but in the every day world around us
• Provision of dependable transportation for the thousands of miles we will travel in 2018 Preaching, Teaching & Reaching
• The Power of 2 Camps Mattress Pad fundraiser effort (the Lord has already provided a free donated storage container)
• The right Bible distribution ministry to partner with
• The expansion of the Riches From the Pages radio broadcast ministry and launch of the online podcast
• Publication of devotional books that are nearing completion

We leave you with this today.  The Holy Ghost has planted my study in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah in these days.  Until we get other orders from headquarters, our burden in 2018 is to preach a word that the Lord can use to Rebuild the broken Church, the home, and the walls of protection, and  “as one man”  Return to a hunger for the Word, an obedience to His Will,  and a Worship that the Lord desires.  God is illuminating the riches in these pages and we ask that you pray that His Word will go forth as we continue in our efforts of Preaching, Teaching, and Reaching. Pray for us and give us a call or email on the contact page.  God Bless you.

BroAdamB

 

Our hope and prayer  is that you have settled in your mind that you are going to go for Jesus, whatever and wherever that means.  Let’s talk about that as we look in Ezra chapters 1 through 3…

Today we are talking about the Will Go’s and the Won’t Go’s found in these Hebrews who had the option to leave captivity and go back to Jerusalem 

How many of the Who: (ch 2:64-70) 42,360 + Servants (7,337) + Singing Men & Women (200). [49,699].  All had either lived through the captivity or were descendants of those that had been taken. They were a Remnant. That’s a piece that has been torn or cut away from the complete fabric.  WARNING! Shouting moment.  The most beautiful quilts are made of remnants that are sewn together!  

Chapter 3 verse 1 says that the entire remnant “as one man” journeyed back to Jerusalem. The first order of the remnant that made the journey to Jerusalem was to build an altar and worship Jehovah God.   They were unified in Will: they wanted to do what God wanted; in Word: the Law of Moses, the scriptures; in Worship: true worship is Encouraged by the indwelt Holy Ghost, Embarrasses the flesh, and is the Entire Life of the worshipper, not a fleeting moment of a Sunday service.

Then there are those who we will identify as the Remainders. With the complete freedom and opportunity to walk away from captivity and the foreign land they were forced to live in, the Remainders would not go. We do recognize that at least some helped to fund the Journey and the work but would not go.  Queen Esther and uncle Mordecai remained for such a time as the Lord required, but without a solitary mention of God by name.

According to a math teacher friend of mine, the possible number of those who might have stayed behind could have been as high as 350,000 people. It is not out of bounds to conclude they had grown comfortable in captivity. They were content in carnality. They had no reference of what their original religion standards or scriptures. They had married themselves, literally, to their morally void masters.

This is my burden for the church of America today. Worldliness has crept in and taken the church hostage without firing a shot. The fear is that the captives have grown comfortable with the carnality worldly representation and would have no interest in returning to the original God ordained design.

My hope is that a Remnant might be willing to make the journey back. It is my burden. The question is are you a Will go or Won’t go?

God bless you!

BroAdamB

Our hope and prayer is that God has or will show you unbelievable heavenly things today.  I want to share something with you that you simply may find unbelievable.  Let’s talk about that.

I do not have a specific Bible study for you today but I desire to try to convey the unbelievable services we had this weekend at the Wahoo Winter Teen Meeting.  According to counts that were taken, on Friday night and Saturday morning there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 to 1,200 teenagers, pastors, youth pastors, church workers and families that gathered, seeking what God might do, might say, who God might save.  You might not believe it so we took a picture.  That crowd of decently, modestly dressed teenagers was holding up King James Bibles after singing songs from the Church Hymnal that they knew by heart.  Brother Ricky Gravely was mounting the pulpit to deliver the message of the weekend from Daniel 1, “What the Prince of this World Wants.”  

“The Prince of this World wants New Ground that doesn’t belong to him, Nice Gold that belongs to God, the Next Generation of the best and brightest.  He want them in Babylon.  He wants to bribe them, and brainwash them.”  Ricky Gravely

My top three quotable quotes from brother Ricky; “I don’t care how saved you are, you are not devil proof”  “As much as God has His hand on you, the devil has his eye on you” “Your circumstances may cause you to live in Babylon, but Babylon does not have to live in you for one single day.”

You would not believe how powerful that message was unless you were there.  You would not believe the waves of teens that flooded the altar during all parts of the services.  You would not believe the worship that filled that tabernacle.  You wouldn’t believe that the crowd was transfixed in listening to old time, Bible preachers.  You would not believe the choir singing great gospel songs from memory…

I have to stop for now, but I want you to know that no matter how hard the enemy is trying to derail churches into thinking they have to get as far away from old time religion, old time worship, modesty, standards, the King James Bible, old time preaching… it still works.  You still might not believe it, but I do.

God Bless You!!

BroAdamB

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Our hope and prayer today is that the Lord has used you for His purpose this week. In reality, we are just empty vessels until He fills us. I wanted to share something special with you. My dad, Lloyd Borden, is A Missions Director for the Lookout Mountain Baptist Association and he sends out a newsletter every month to let folks know of progress, plans and shares something from the pages of God’s word. I wanted to give you an idea of where I get my penchant for writing. Let’s see what brother Lloyd has to say…

Earthen Vessels

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us (2 Corinthians 4:7)”

This verse of scripture has long been a favorite of mine and I have tried over the years to give devotions from it, but have never been able to fully bring ot all the vast richness it contains. So please bear with me as I take a word by word approach to this precious verse.

1.  That’s us, Christians.  The Saved.  The Redeemed . Those who have had an experience of Grace.  Members of the family of God.  No one else.  Certainly not the lost world.

    HAVE.  We have.  We hold.  We possess.  It’s inside us.  We are engrained with.  It’s part of our being.  It’s contained.  We can’t lose it.  We’re eternally inseparable from it.

    THIS TREASURE.  Simply, it’s Christ in us, but it manifests its self in many ways to those around us.  It’s the anointing and presence of He, the Holy Spirit.  It’s light.  It’s peace.  It’s calmness in the midst of the storm.   It’s hope when no hope is in sight.  It’s love for the unlovable.  It’s concern for the hungry, the cold, and the fatherless.  It’s being a neighbor to a stranger who is ten thousand miles away.  It’s the gift of service. The gift of sharing the gospel.  It’s excellency. It’s power.  And it can’t be bought.  And it can’t be lost.  It’s an eternal gift.

    IN EARTHEN VESSELS.   When we were saved nothing about our mortal body changed.  It was dust and it still is.  You could say it was mud and it still is.  Nothing about us contributes to or is even vaguely in harmony with the goodness of God.  The TREASURE and the EARTHEN VESSELS don’t match.  It doesn’t make sense the two co-exist.  Why would anyone put anything so indefinitely good into something that is so bad?

    THAT THE EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER MAY BE OF GOD.  Those around us should surely know that the good that is in us, the treasure, had to come from God.  Our weakness, our sinfulness, our inability to raise our self from our lost state.  Producing the fruits of the Holy Spirit is far beyond our capabilities.  It has to be of Him.  The excellency, the power, the light, the joy.

    AND NOT OF US.  No…Never of us…just by His grace and mercy.

That’s my dad. I sure am thankful for him. He is just another vessel the Lord is using.

God bless you,

BroAdamB

 

Ezra 1:1 “…that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled…”

Our hope and prayer is that the word of the Lord is being fulfilled in and by your life.  Today we strike out on a study that has been laid upon me.  I feel impressed by the Holy Ghost to set up camp in Ezra and Nehemiah until I receive other orders from headquarters.  Let’s begin to talk about that…

Ezra is one of the post captivity books.  The 70 year captivity of the Hebrew people was under Assyrian and Chaldean captors.  The captivity was due to the Israelites forgetting God, forsaking God and following after the sinful patterns of their pagan acquaintances.  Wicked kings brought wicked practices, influenced citizens to compromise, and hastened the hand of God to deliver them to the control of the carnal nations that they copied so closely.

Ezra is the beginning of the open door of release of the 70 years of captivity.  The first task that was stirred into the heart of the pagan idol worshipping king, Cyrus, was to build, rather, rebuild the temple in the Holy city of Jerusalem in the promised land of Israel.  The temple had been destroyed, the homes burned, the walls were pulled down and burned and tens of thousands of the Hebrew people had been taken from the city of Jerusalem and the countryside of Judah over three campaigns.

Why?  Because the people of God had ignored God’s word, made themselves look like, act like, live like, and marry themselves tothe world around them.  And God did not like it, endorse it, condone it, and in fact, punished His beloved chosen people because of it.  I believe that the church of America has reached a state of critical mass that is so close to every image of the surrounding carnal world, with very few exceptions, that we might scarcely avoid a coming time of judgement upon the church in our country.  Let us pray that the Lord will stay His hand in hope of a repentance among His people.

My burden in these scriptures for 2018, according to the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God (Rom 12:2), is to call out for the need to Rebuild the Church, Restore the Homes, Rebuild the Walls, Re-emphasize the Word, Revitalize the spirit-filled Worship, and Return the Church to a state free from the imitation of the worldly influences of the day. Pray that the Lord will make His word come alive and burden us, correct us, conform us unto His image, and instruct us unto righteousness in these last days.

God bless us all as we seek His face,

BroAdamB

 

Our hope and prayer for you today is that you have you have been able to stand up under the testing and trials of this week.  God is making us better when He allows us to go through some things.  This applies to the temptation that we face as well.  God does not want us to fall to sinful temptation, but it is part of our human experience.  Let’s talk about that…

It is something that all people of all times and all places experience in one way or another.  It is as common as breathing, eating and sleeping and as certain as death and taxes.  Temptation is certainly a daily factor in our life but it does not have to be a daily failure.  In Paul’s first writings to the church at Corinth in chapter 10 verse 13 he writes words of admonition, warning, encouragement and instruction.

“Tempt”ation.  The root word has two biblical meanings.  One pertains to God’s tests and trials that he allows to build our faith, character and courage.  The other meaning goes to the process of our own flesh or the evil forces of the devil that attempt to draw us away into a sinful act which he desires to become a common practice which is designed to end in a habit with the intent of our life ending in calamity and shipwreck.  It means to be tricked, fooled, beguiled.  Wicked temptation can be helpful to point out weak areas of our life so we may recognize it, repent and rededicate.  Only by prayer and biblical preparation of the heart can we “bear it.”  Notice in our verse that Paul writes that temptation has “taken you.”  that makes us think of someone who has been captured, imprisoned, ensnared, or more vividly, taken hostage.  Let me encourage us all that according to Psalm 124 verse 7 the “snare has been broken”  by the Lord.  II Timothy 2 and 26 lets us know that we may recover ourselves out of the snare of the devil.

Paul also tells us in our text that temptation is “common” to all mankind.  Old testament, New Testament, Dark ages, ages of exploration of the planet, even today in 2018 temptation is something that every man, woman, boy and girl has to deal with no matter what.  The three main designations are given to us in I John 2:15-16.  They are the Lust of the flesh (our inner man), the Lust of the eyes (our outer influences), and the pride of life (our ego).  Be very sure that the devil knows your weaknesses and he capitalizes on them.  “BUT, God is Faithful!”  Yes, He Is!!  Just as faithful as He is to forgive (I Jn 1:9), to call (II Thes 5:24), to stablish (II Thes 3:3), to keep His promises (Heb 10:23) to be faithful and true to His word (Rev 21:5), God is faithful in our times of Temptation!

Think about how that in our most common times of unfaithfulness, when we fall to a temptation, God is still faithful.  His faithfulness is not to allow the devil to gain permission to tempt us above our spiritual ability to withstand and turn away.  In the same moment of temptation the Lord provides “a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”  Every prisoner sitting in a cell has at one time or another thought of a way to escape his imprisonment.  Good News!  God has left the keys to the cuffs, He left the cell door unlocked, He has broken down the prison walls (Acts 16).  What is your escape plan?

Five ways to create an escape plan.

• Scripture:  Psalm 119:11
• Songs:  Ephesians 5:19
• Safeguards:  Remove Access, Avenues and Accidental opportunities of Temptation. (Eph 4:27)
• Saints:  Have accountability for a weakness
• Scram:  I Corinthians 10:14, 2 Timothy 2:22 Get Out Of THERE!  Don’t Go THERE

Let us not go to sleep on the fact that temptation is around every corner in our life.  Have your plan in place so you can finish the race.

God Bless,

BroAdamB

P.S. This message will be in our audio preaching podcast very soon.

Happy New Year!  Please take a moment to read through our January Ministry newsletter.  We love and appreciate you and covet your prayers.

BroAdamB

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It’s that time again.  That time when time begins again.  A fresh start, a clean slate, with fresh horizons and a gunny sack full of hopes, goals and dreams.  With all the best of intentions there will sadly be stumbles, punts, fumbles and defeats if the Lord lets us live to see the next new year on the distant part of the calendar.  So, maybe we should consider adjusting our approach For The Year.  Let’s talk about that…

The Holy Ghost led me toward a latter Psalm this morning which I have claimed as my chapter For The Year.  Chapter 144 is as well rounded a passage of scripture for anyone who has a hearts desire tuned toward a life of service unto the cause of Christ.  My intention For The Year is laid out verse by verse along this wise.

Verse 1:  There is a Fight

• There is a Worthy Battle (I Timothy 1:18) 
• It is a Spiritual conflict made up of Big Battles – hands to war (James 4:1, II Cor 10:3) and Close Combat – fingers to fight (Eph 6:12)
• There are Worthless Battles to avoid (Prov 3:30, II Tim 2:25, Titus 3:9)

Verse 2: God is our Fortress

• It is Good to be IN
• Fortress:  The entirety of my life is encompassed within
• High Tower:  My Point of View is elevated, Place of Worship to exalt, Planted Flag to erase any doubt who my King is
• Deliverer: He gives warnings, strategy and rescue missions when needed

Verse 3:  God Knows Me

• I am in His thoughts
• My life counts to Him, I must make it count FOR Him

Verse 4 – 8, 10-11:  God has All Power

• The terrestrial world
• The human world
• The spiritual world

Verse 9:  I will SING!

• I will sing to Him when no one is listening
• I will sing for my own soul’s solace
• I will sing in the sanctuary
• I will sing my way from the under circumstances

Verse 12:  Our family is our greatest ministry

• We will pray for our future son-in-laws
• We will prepare, prune, and polish our daughters as a palace of the Lord

Verse 13- 14:  I will Trust God for the filling of my storehouse

• That my provision will reproduce unto abundance toward others
• By a labor that is relentless, reliant on His strength, that redeems the time

Verse 14:  NO COMPLAINING!  NO NEGATIVITY!  NO GIVING UP!

Verse 15:  My expected end will be Joy because He is The Lord My God

Happy New Year!

BroAdamB

We are here, once again standing in the threshold of a stable, peering into a manger where lies a baby, a son, a Savior which is Christ the Lord.  Out on the hillsides of Judaea an unnamed, unnumbered assembly of shepherds heard the words from the angel of the Lord, “I bring you good tidings of great JOY, which shall be to all people.” I add emphasis simply to acknowledge the key factor to the divine benefit of a soul that is saved by grace; JOY!!!  Let us look at Luke 2:10 in our King James Bible and gather up our red-backed Church Hymnal this Christmas Eve and turn to…

Page 408 “Joy to the World”

Joy is what had been missing in the world.  400 years of silence from the throne room of Heaven was broken with the sound of a child’s cries of deliverance into a cold world who would either believe or not.  The deliverance of Joy to this world was of such an importance that the angel of the Lord made the announcement Himself. [parenthetical thought:  If we study in our King James Bible, the instances that “the angel” is used versus “an angel”, we can see that “the angel” was always the person of the Son of God (Genesis 16, 22, Exodus 3, Numbers 22, Judges 6, I Kings 1, 19, Zechariah 1, Matthew 1, 2, Luke 1, 2).  So, that means that The Lord informed Mary and Joseph of His coming birth (Matthew 1, Luke 1).  That also means the first Christmas night The Lord was giving His own announcement to the shepherds while The Lord was lying in a manger.  I Love The God That Blows My Mind!]  The announcement was Joy!  The promise was Joy!  The prophetic fulfilment was Joy! The prospects  for the future were Joy! The good tidings to all people of the entire world for all generations was Joy!

Joy to the World!  The angel said it would be to all people.  It is available if accepted.  It can be the enrichment of the empty.   I believe according to the scriptures and testified within my own life, that Joy has been what I have possessed in the lowest moments when happiness was not an option.  Joy healed us through heartbreak.  Joy carried us through cancer.  Joy keeps us from cracking up.   Nehemiah told us “the joy of the Lord is your strength” (8:10).  Joy, great Joy that was birthed from a Bethlehem manger brings a smile when there is no sunshine.  To understand that I have a King when there is no honorable politician to be found gives Joy.  The whole of creation and heaven which is His throne, sings with unbridled Joy!  The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love are the fruit of this Joy amidst the sin cursed, thorn infested ground, as far as the curse is found. 

It was Joy that a virgin girl betrothed to a carpenter brought into this world.   His own joy (Hebrews 12:2) was what helped Jesus look past the curse of a cross to the moment He would sit at the right hand of the throne to ever make intercession for us.  What Joy can spring up in a heart that might be down when we take our time in His words to see how He loved us, loves us, thinks about us, cares about us, wants to talk with us and listen to our every plea.

Joy was the announcement! Joy is our abundance!  Joy can be our countenance in spite of circumstance.  Joy is our companion without comparison.  Joy can be our expression without logical explanation.  Joy should be our distinction to the difference between those who serve the Savior and the lost without hope.  Indeed, shepherds on the lonely forgotten hillsides of a back country, Joy is what He brings! Joy is who He IS!  JOY TO THE WORLD!

Merry Christmas!

BroAdamB and all the A-Team, Angel, Abigail & Adelyn