Bearing Precious Seed

The Dead Sea Scrolls were, until recently, our oldest copies of Biblical Text. But in 1979, Villanova professor, Judith Hadley, was assisting archaeologist, Gabriel Barkay, in excavating a site in Jerusalem’s Hinnom Valley. In a burial cave, she saw something resembling the metal cap of a pencil. It was a sensational find, a tiny solver scroll of great antiquity. Another was found nearby. These tiny amulets, dating to the Hebrew monarchy seven centuries before Christ, were so small and fragile they took several years to painstakingly clean and open. When scientists finally unrolled them, they found the world’s oldest extant copy of a Biblical text, the words of Numbers 6:24-26: “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.” While amulets date from the seventh century B.C., the original words are far older, coming 1,400 years before Christ. As the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, the Lord commanded the priests to bless the people with this three-fold blessing. These ancient lyrics have been set to music many times, but never more beautifully than by Peter Christian Lutkin in his classing tune BENEDICTION. During the Fanny Crosby/Ira Sankey era of gospel music, when so much was written for easy congregational singing, Lutkin wrote more elaborate melodies with a classical flare. Lutkin was born in Wisconsin in 1888, and devoted his life to church music, studying the masters in Europe, excelling on the origin, and founding the School of Music at Northwestern Illinois. He helped start the American Guild of Organists. He died in 1931 and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. In his ‘Noted from My Bible’, D.L. Moody said about the priestly blessing of Numbers 6: “Here is a benediction that can give all the time without being impoverished. Every heart may utter it, every letter may conclude with it, every day may begin with it, every night may be sanctified it. here is blessing-keeping-shining-the uplifting upon our poor life of all heaven’s glad morning. It is the Lord Himself who (gives us) this bar of music from heaven’s infinite anthem.” The resources used for the podcast include, but not limited to; “How Great Thou Art” written by Robert J. Morgan and Hymnary.org

Charles Wesley was born just before before Christmas in 1707. He was premature and neither cried nor opened his eyes. His mother, Susanna, kept him tightly wrapped in wool until his actual due date, whereupon he opened his eyes and cried. At age eight, he was taken to London to attend Westminster Schoo. At thirteen, he became a King’s Scholar at Westminster, and upon graduating, Charles enrolled at Oxford. He was nineteen and full of life. He later said, “My first year of college I lost in diversions.” During his second year at Oxford, he grew serious about spiritual things. Neither he nor his brother, John, had yet received Christ as Savior, but they began seeking to live the Christian life so methodically they were dubbed “Methodists” by fellow students. Their studies completed, the brothers volunteered to go to Georgia, a new colony in America for those in Britain’s debtors’ prisons, founded by Colonel James Oglethorpe. But as a missionary, Charles was an utter failure. He was demanding and autocratic, and he insisted on baptizing infants, not by sprinkling, but by immersing them three times in succession. One angry woman fired a gun at him. Charles left America ill and depressed. Some time later, John also returned in low spirits. Finding themselves in spiritual crisis, the brothers began attending meetings led by the Moravian Christian, Peter Boehler. Finally, on Sunday, May 21, 1738 Charles, 31, wrote, “I now found myself at peace with God, and rejoiced in hope of loving Christ. I saw that by faith I stood.” John came to Christ about the same time, saying, “I felt my heart strangely warmed.” On Tuesday, May 23, Charles wrote in his journal, “I began a hymn upon my conversion.” We aren’t certain which hymn he meant, but many historians think it was “And Can It Be,” because of the vivid testimony of verse 4. There is a verse often left out of the singing that goes as such: “‘Tis myst’ry all! Th’Imortal dies: who can explore his strange design? In vain the firstborn seraph tries to sound the depth of love divine. ‘It’s mercy all! Let earth adore, let angel minds inquire no more.” The resources used for the podcast include, but not limited to; “How Great Thou Art” written by Robert J. Morgan and Hymnary.org

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep saints in a sad, doubting, questioning and uncomfortable condition. Though Satan can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturned, no means unattempted, to rob them of their comfort and peace-to make their life a burden and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning.

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep saints in a sad, doubting, questioning and uncomfortable condition. Though Satan can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturned, no means unattempted, to rob them of their comfort and peace-to make their life a burden and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning.

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep saints in a sad, doubting, questioning and uncomfortable condition. Though Satan can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturned, no means unattempted, to rob them of their comfort and peace-to make their life a burden and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning.

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep saints in a sad, doubting, questioning and uncomfortable condition. Though Satan can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturned, no means unattempted, to rob them of their comfort and peace-to make their life a burden and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning.

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep saints in a sad, doubting, questioning and uncomfortable condition. Though Satan can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturned, no means unattempted, to rob them of their comfort and peace-to make their life a burden and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning.

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep saints in a sad, doubting, questioning and uncomfortable condition. Though Satan can never rob a believer of his crown, yet such is his malice and envy, that he will leave no stone unturned, no means unattempted, to rob them of their comfort and peace-to make their life a burden and a hell unto them, to cause them to spend their days in sorrow and mourning, in sighing and complaining, in doubting and questioning.

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep souls from holy duties, to hinder souls in holy services, and to keep them off from religious performances. Zechariah 3:1 “And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.”

Satan has an agenda out for you and I. As we take a look at the book, ‘Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices’ by Thomas Brooks, let us closely examine what means and devices Satan is using to gain control of our lives and what you and I can do to have success over Satan, sin, and the flesh. Join us on this episode of the Bearing Precious Seed Podcast where we dive into Satan’s devices to keep souls from holy duties, to hinder souls in holy services, and to keep them off from religious performances. Zechariah 3:1 “And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.”