Online Discernmentalist Mafia Products

OK, The success of the ODMafia got me thinking. Why not merchandise it? LOL!

Now you can get your Spurgeon Coffee mug and show off you love for the Spurg.

Proceeds go to iggyROCKS!

We do more than play music. We also have adopted a pastor in Mauritus. Help us send books and other helpful items to Pastor Jean Claude.

Hopefully we will be able to expand more and help others.

Be blessed,
iggy

Coming soon, the Luther’s Stein

Online Discernmentalist Mafia Products

OK, The success of the ODMafia got me thinking. Why not merchandise it? LOL!

Now you can get your Spurgeon Coffee mug and show off you love for the Spurg.

Proceeds go to iggyROCKS!

We do more than play music. We also have adopted a pastor in Mauritus. Help us send books and other helpful items to Pastor Jean Claude.

Hopefully we will be able to expand more and help others.

Be blessed,
iggy

Coming soon, the Luther’s Stein

Gospel of Jesus Christ or Gospel of Spurgeon?

Now, before anyone thinks this is a “I hate Spurgeon!” rant it is not. I do not “hate” Spurgeon. In fact I enjoy some of his sermons and writing, though I disagree with some also. Spurgeon was just a man.

I found one of these the other day. It is a 1 billion dollar bill and it poses the question on the back:

“The billion dollar question: Will you go to Heaven? Here’s a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart.” Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on Judgment Day? If you have done those things God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Bible warns that if you are guilty you will end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He sent His Son to suffer and die on the cross for you. Jesus took your punishment upon Himself -“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then He rose from the dead and defeated death. Please, repent (turn from sin) today and trust in Jesus, and God will grant you everlasting life. Then read your Bible daily and obey it. “

Now, this is the question and Jesus is the answer, why is Spurgeon on the dollar and not Jesus? Also, Jesus overcame sin and death… God sent His Son to redeem an already condemned world. In the message I really do not have much disagreement. Yet, to see Spurgeon’s image when it was Jesus on the Cross and who rose from the dead is a bit… well… strange. The other question is why was this in a newspaper rack in front of a casino… and how effective is this method?

Any thoughts?

iggy

Gospel of Jesus Christ or Gospel of Spurgeon?

Now, before anyone thinks this is a “I hate Spurgeon!” rant it is not. I do not “hate” Spurgeon. In fact I enjoy some of his sermons and writing, though I disagree with some also. Spurgeon was just a man.

I found one of these the other day. It is a 1 billion dollar bill and it poses the question on the back:

“The billion dollar question: Will you go to Heaven? Here’s a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart.” Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on Judgment Day? If you have done those things God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Bible warns that if you are guilty you will end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He sent His Son to suffer and die on the cross for you. Jesus took your punishment upon Himself -“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then He rose from the dead and defeated death. Please, repent (turn from sin) today and trust in Jesus, and God will grant you everlasting life. Then read your Bible daily and obey it. “

Now, this is the question and Jesus is the answer, why is Spurgeon on the dollar and not Jesus? Also, Jesus overcame sin and death… God sent His Son to redeem an already condemned world. In the message I really do not have much disagreement. Yet, to see Spurgeon’s image when it was Jesus on the Cross and who rose from the dead is a bit… well… strange. The other question is why was this in a newspaper rack in front of a casino… and how effective is this method?

Any thoughts?

iggy

Do we live by "Christianity" or by Jesus.

I have to wonder at some of critics that are out there.

I have seen these things.

1. A person write against Erwin McManus’ “the Barbarian Way” as he took the side of the civilized religionist… proudly!
2. A person add to statements so that they fit their critic…
3. People who lift up foul mouthed reformers like Martin Luther then attack Mark Driscoll. (Martin Luther like to use colorful scatological language.)
4. People who when challenged for their teaching as being biblical quote Spurgeon to prove it is!
5. People who condemn me for “playing down heaven and hell” and that the Gospel is all about “me”… I have to laugh as it is them who say “I got saved so I will not go to Hell and I get to go to Heaven”… I state that God came through Jesus to preach the Kingdom of God and that I am privileged to be called and enter into His Kingdom. Heaven is a by product of the big picture God is doing… and so is my salvation… so I am wondering… were is this all about me. Yet, it seems that many do accuse myself and others, then turn around and preach a “me-driven” gospel themselves! The focus of Christianity is not me, but Jesus Christ.

Now, here is the big difference that I see and it is summed up it this quote by Chris P.

“I believe that Mike’s point is that the majority of those claiming christianity, which is a religion btw, are not necessarily true saints.”

Notice that “Christianity is a religion to Chris and if you look at the other examples that seems to be the consensus of this group! It is not a relationship with God through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son Jesus and then being filled with the Holy Spirit! Nope, it is a religion that is civilized and controllable and that can be understood by mere human reasoning.

They worship a controlled God of their own vain imaginations!

Then they accuse others of being me-based, when their whole religion is the same as the Pharisees who thought they could get God to move by their strict obedience to the Law.

God is sovereign and in no way impressed with man’s religion. He is impressed only with His Son and those who depend totally on Jesus for salvation.

Be Blessed,
iggy

Do we live by "Christianity" or by Jesus.

I have to wonder at some of critics that are out there.

I have seen these things.

1. A person write against Erwin McManus’ “the Barbarian Way” as he took the side of the civilized religionist… proudly!
2. A person add to statements so that they fit their critic…
3. People who lift up foul mouthed reformers like Martin Luther then attack Mark Driscoll. (Martin Luther like to use colorful scatological language.)
4. People who when challenged for their teaching as being biblical quote Spurgeon to prove it is!
5. People who condemn me for “playing down heaven and hell” and that the Gospel is all about “me”… I have to laugh as it is them who say “I got saved so I will not go to Hell and I get to go to Heaven”… I state that God came through Jesus to preach the Kingdom of God and that I am privileged to be called and enter into His Kingdom. Heaven is a by product of the big picture God is doing… and so is my salvation… so I am wondering… were is this all about me. Yet, it seems that many do accuse myself and others, then turn around and preach a “me-driven” gospel themselves! The focus of Christianity is not me, but Jesus Christ.

Now, here is the big difference that I see and it is summed up it this quote by Chris P.

“I believe that Mike’s point is that the majority of those claiming christianity, which is a religion btw, are not necessarily true saints.”

Notice that “Christianity is a religion to Chris and if you look at the other examples that seems to be the consensus of this group! It is not a relationship with God through the death, burial and resurrection of His Son Jesus and then being filled with the Holy Spirit! Nope, it is a religion that is civilized and controllable and that can be understood by mere human reasoning.

They worship a controlled God of their own vain imaginations!

Then they accuse others of being me-based, when their whole religion is the same as the Pharisees who thought they could get God to move by their strict obedience to the Law.

God is sovereign and in no way impressed with man’s religion. He is impressed only with His Son and those who depend totally on Jesus for salvation.

Be Blessed,
iggy

I am told I hate, I warn in Love…

The Religionist sees the warnings of his folly as hate, yet it is love that drives a man to face those who oppose him so that God will be glorified in the Religionists turning…

Tozer wrote of a warning in the Pursiut of God to the relgionist to not see that resting on ones justification and thinking that union with God is the end of all things. “We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him” Yet, to find God or to be found by God, is not the end of our relationship with God. We need to still press in to His Heart. Or as Tozer also states, “To have found God and still to pursue Him is the Soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too easily satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart”.

The Religionist thinks in his “rationalist mind” that once he has found Jesus he then has no need and can learn doctrines which then replace Jesus… This is subtle and dangerous… for doctrines are useless to a man if a man depends on them for salvation… For it is Christ Jesus Who is the foundation of anything built by a believer which must be built on. A Religionist will fight for his doctrine over the very Grace and Mercy of God… even forsaking the Ministry of Reconciliation to appease his own desires to justify himself before other men… for he does not fear God. If he did he would turn in great wonder and lament in his own works and rejoice in the Coming of his salvation.

The Religionist only hears his own thunder… it echos and he likes that he can hear himself… He loves it more when others join in his thunder as this feeds his ego.

The Religionst proudly calls himself a Religionist… as he should and pride is second nature to him. He cares little for the feelings of others. He cares only that he hears “Amen’s” to his voice… even if in his heart he fears he may be wrong! Yet, pride blinds him from guenuine love… and if he rebukes you… it is like an abusive father who beats his children in his anger.

A religionist does have one good thing. He drives the True Believer from his church… and his “truth”. He drives him farther away into the very arms of our Savior… In that the rebuke will only one day be laid at the feet of the Religionist… not as a prize but as retribution for causing harm to one of His Little Ones…

Again, if a Religionist read this he sees himself, yet will only go and justify himself and deceived weak willed women to his persuasive arguments…

Before a Religionist accuses me and states i am a hypocrite… I might remind him that the rebuke I give is the rebuke that every great Christian preacher has stated before. To stand against this rebuke is to stand against Spurgeon, Tozer, Paul and Jesus Himself.

Blessings,

iggy

I am told I hate, I warn in Love…

The Religionist sees the warnings of his folly as hate, yet it is love that drives a man to face those who oppose him so that God will be glorified in the Religionists turning…

Tozer wrote of a warning in the Pursiut of God to the relgionist to not see that resting on ones justification and thinking that union with God is the end of all things. “We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him, we need no more seek Him” Yet, to find God or to be found by God, is not the end of our relationship with God. We need to still press in to His Heart. Or as Tozer also states, “To have found God and still to pursue Him is the Soul’s paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too easily satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart”.

The Religionist thinks in his “rationalist mind” that once he has found Jesus he then has no need and can learn doctrines which then replace Jesus… This is subtle and dangerous… for doctrines are useless to a man if a man depends on them for salvation… For it is Christ Jesus Who is the foundation of anything built by a believer which must be built on. A Religionist will fight for his doctrine over the very Grace and Mercy of God… even forsaking the Ministry of Reconciliation to appease his own desires to justify himself before other men… for he does not fear God. If he did he would turn in great wonder and lament in his own works and rejoice in the Coming of his salvation.

The Religionist only hears his own thunder… it echos and he likes that he can hear himself… He loves it more when others join in his thunder as this feeds his ego.

The Religionst proudly calls himself a Religionist… as he should and pride is second nature to him. He cares little for the feelings of others. He cares only that he hears “Amen’s” to his voice… even if in his heart he fears he may be wrong! Yet, pride blinds him from guenuine love… and if he rebukes you… it is like an abusive father who beats his children in his anger.

A religionist does have one good thing. He drives the True Believer from his church… and his “truth”. He drives him farther away into the very arms of our Savior… In that the rebuke will only one day be laid at the feet of the Religionist… not as a prize but as retribution for causing harm to one of His Little Ones…

Again, if a Religionist read this he sees himself, yet will only go and justify himself and deceived weak willed women to his persuasive arguments…

Before a Religionist accuses me and states i am a hypocrite… I might remind him that the rebuke I give is the rebuke that every great Christian preacher has stated before. To stand against this rebuke is to stand against Spurgeon, Tozer, Paul and Jesus Himself.

Blessings,

iggy

Great Quotes: Spurgeon on Religionists

We are sure that the gospel we have preached is not after men, because men do not take to it. It is opposed even to this day. If anything is hated bitterly, it is the out-and-out gospel of the grace of God, especially if that hateful word “SOVEREIGNTY” is mentioned with it.

Dare to say “He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he will have compassion on whom he will have compassion” [Romans 9:15], and furious critics will revile you without stint.
The modern religionist not only hates the doctrine of sovereign grace, but he raves & rages at the mention of it. He would sooner hear you blaspheme than preach election by the Father, atonement by the Son, or regeneration by the Spirit. If you want to see a man worked up till the Satanic is clearly uppermost, let some of the new divines hear you preach a free-grace sermon. ~ “Sovereign Grace” Hated by the Modern Religionist!~ by C. H. SPURGEON

There are others in this world to whom Christ is something, but not much. They are anxious to save themselves, but since they must confess some imperfections they use the merits of Christ as a sort of makeweight for their slight deficiencies. Their robe is almost long enough, and by adding a little fringe of the Redeemer’s grace it becomes all they can wish. To say prayers, to go to church, to take the sacrament to observe Good Friday, these are the main reliances of many a religionist, and then if the coach sticks a little in a deeper rut than usual they call in the help of the Lord Jesus, and hope that he will put his shoulder to the wheel. They commonly say, “Well, we must do our best, then Christ will be our Savior, and God is very merciful.” They allow the blessed and all-sufficient work and sacrifice of the Savior to fill up their failures; and imagine that they are extremely humble in allowing so much as that. Jesus is to them a stopgap, and nothing more. I know not whether the condition of such people is one whit more desirable than that of those to whom Jesus is nothing at all, for this is a vile contempt and despising of Christ indeed, to think that he came to help you to save yourselves, to dream that he is a part Savior, and will divide the world; and honor of salvation with the sinner. Those who yoke the sinner and the Savior together as each doing a part rob Christ of all his glory; and this is robbery indeed, to pilfer from the bleeding Lamb of God the due reward of his agonies. “He trod the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with him.” In the work of salvation Jesus stands alone. Salvation is of the Lord. It Christ is not all to you he is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Savior of men. If he be something he must be everything, and if he be not everything he is nothing to you. ~ Christ Is All by C. H. SPURGEON

Great Quotes: Spurgeon on Religionists

We are sure that the gospel we have preached is not after men, because men do not take to it. It is opposed even to this day. If anything is hated bitterly, it is the out-and-out gospel of the grace of God, especially if that hateful word “SOVEREIGNTY” is mentioned with it.

Dare to say “He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he will have compassion on whom he will have compassion” [Romans 9:15], and furious critics will revile you without stint.
The modern religionist not only hates the doctrine of sovereign grace, but he raves & rages at the mention of it. He would sooner hear you blaspheme than preach election by the Father, atonement by the Son, or regeneration by the Spirit. If you want to see a man worked up till the Satanic is clearly uppermost, let some of the new divines hear you preach a free-grace sermon. ~ “Sovereign Grace” Hated by the Modern Religionist!~ by C. H. SPURGEON

There are others in this world to whom Christ is something, but not much. They are anxious to save themselves, but since they must confess some imperfections they use the merits of Christ as a sort of makeweight for their slight deficiencies. Their robe is almost long enough, and by adding a little fringe of the Redeemer’s grace it becomes all they can wish. To say prayers, to go to church, to take the sacrament to observe Good Friday, these are the main reliances of many a religionist, and then if the coach sticks a little in a deeper rut than usual they call in the help of the Lord Jesus, and hope that he will put his shoulder to the wheel. They commonly say, “Well, we must do our best, then Christ will be our Savior, and God is very merciful.” They allow the blessed and all-sufficient work and sacrifice of the Savior to fill up their failures; and imagine that they are extremely humble in allowing so much as that. Jesus is to them a stopgap, and nothing more. I know not whether the condition of such people is one whit more desirable than that of those to whom Jesus is nothing at all, for this is a vile contempt and despising of Christ indeed, to think that he came to help you to save yourselves, to dream that he is a part Savior, and will divide the world; and honor of salvation with the sinner. Those who yoke the sinner and the Savior together as each doing a part rob Christ of all his glory; and this is robbery indeed, to pilfer from the bleeding Lamb of God the due reward of his agonies. “He trod the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with him.” In the work of salvation Jesus stands alone. Salvation is of the Lord. It Christ is not all to you he is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Savior of men. If he be something he must be everything, and if he be not everything he is nothing to you. ~ Christ Is All by C. H. SPURGEON