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Talked about a lot of topics again, from Harari's "AI can write a true Bible" to an atheist saying Augustine inserted the Trinity at the Council of Nicea to transgender insanity and finishing up with developments at the Southern Baptist Convention.

Augustine's early unconverted life was steeped in Neoplatonistic Fatalism which he later injected into his theological writings. John Calvin adopted these same views teaching the unconditional, unilateral, predetermined election of the saved and the lost before they were born, negating a free will to choose salvation.

Saved on March 14th, 1949, Peter S. Ruckman went onto to serve the Lord for 64 years through preaching and teaching the word of God, writing books and Bible commentaries, and then releasing the Ruckman Reference King James Study Bible towards the end of his life. Peter Ruckman, for the past 25 years, has been my Bible teacher as well, and on the 100th anniversary of his birth, I would like to share a few things that will help you as they did me. "Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." Joshua 1:9 (KJB) Last night in downtown Saint Augustine, I took the NTEB Street Preaching Team out to preach for our annual Nights Of Lights, and we were able to hand out thousands of gospel tracts, and witness Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world. Here in the 21st century, I am not only a street preacher, but a Bible teacher and preacher standing on the authority of the preserved word of God as found in the King James Holy Bible. This is due, in large part, to the influence that the teachings of Peter Ruckman has had on me, and today I would like to share 7 things that he gave me about the Bible that will change your life if you let it. Now, don't kid me man, go kid your grandma.

Augustine of Hippo was a theologian and philosopher whose writings majorly influenced the development of Western philosophy and Christianity, and is one of the most important Church Fathers of the Patristic Period. Augustine was a Berber who rose to prominence as the bishop of Hippo Regius in Roman North Africa. His many works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.

There are seven reasons, but I'll introduce that starting in verse 6, because the apostle Paul was confronted with something of nearly as great a magnitude as the Roman Church is. And you can see how he spoke out very strongly.  In fact, this book of the, his epistle to the Galatians, is the most strong, denouncing, almost imprecatory of all of Paul's writings.  Nowhere else, does he so strongly wield the sword of the spirit against specific individuals as when they tampered with the simplicity of the gospel.

Should you stay in a difficult marriage? What does the Bible say? Rev. Matthew Stanghelle helps us find purpose and hope in hard marriages from 1 Peter 3.

Today on the program we extended our sympathies to RZIM and the family of Ravi Zacharias. We likewise extended our congratulations to Kofi Abu-Boahen and his wife on the birth of his son Gareth Kwabena. Then we moved back to James 2:14, specifically, and looked closely at the question, "Can that faith save him?" in light of the "free grace" viewpoint. Then we took at look at a seven year old Q&Ahttps://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/is-molinism-as-depressing-as-calvinism from William Lane Craig on the topic of Molinism before investing the last portion of the program in more "Augustine Actual" texts from Ken Wilson's dissertation, including, right toward the end, an examination of Philippians 1:29 and its testimony to faith being part of the work of God in the believer.

I want us to think together this morning about the authority of the Holy Scripture, the authority for which the Bible ought to be believed. The Bible ought to be believed because it is God's book. It is not the production of a man, or many men. These 66 books written over thousands of years period of time, by many human authors, were not the production of men apart from God, for as we see here in these verses, "prophecy never came by the will of man, (in other words it did not originate with men determining to write the Scriptures on their own) but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit".

An Overview of Church History: The first era ends with the death of the Apostles. We started out with what we would call the Catholic Church. We are not talking about Pope's or Rome, but the Church that Jesus Christ started. I am talking about the Church built on the Apostles and the Prophets. You would know this as the Apostles then those post-Apostolic men, Timothy all the way through to St. Augustine. After that about 13 centuries we have the Reformation— That was the time of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and in England John Knox. After the Reformation a few hundred years went by and we had what we might call the era of evangelicalism or world missions. This era, the fourth era of the Church the Evangelical / World Missions you would know as the time of Wesley, Moody, Billy Graham. Then we have a new phenomenon today, which really is rapidly growing all over the world, the Charismatic era with the emphasis on the gifts. That is all of Church history. I will draw in a few more lines but that is everything. I am talking about the truth. We went from the Church that Jesus Christ started. A lot happened in 13 centuries then we had the dawning of the Reformation which actually started with Wycliffe in England with his work on the English translation of the Bible, Huss in Bohemia and CZECHOSLOVAKIA doing his Reformation speaking. It seeped into Martin Luther who was deeply influenced by Huss and Wycliffe"s work. Martin Luther deeply influenced and opened up so that a young Frenchman named John Calvin did his voluminous writing. Then of course it spread to the British Isles and John Knox. That's the Reformation. The Reformation dominated Christendom with a lot going on till the