July 1, 2025–the second half
Well, the Big Day has arrived, past, and executed flawlessly! Of course, I’m referring to our 3 children’s year long plan of putting together a 65th Anniversary party for my wife and I which occurred last Saturday, June 28, 2025. Our actual wedding date was earlier in the week on Tuesday. So that night, we went to a most exclusive restaurant on top of one of our nearby mountains (Monteagle, TN) and had a sumptuous dinner. Then, home to anticipate the upcoming party time!
The event was a great party! We were so filled with surprise at the higher than anticipated attendance, the fun we all had fellowshipping together; 30 or so relatives, about 50 or so bible study and grace believers from churches, and more than expected townspeople and several visitors from pretty far away—what a wonderful group of friends and loved ones! We came home so filled with that kind of love, mmm.
But the highlight of the afternoon was in the program which involved the two of us being seated in front of all 3 of our children speaking individually about us and presenting to each of us mock-academy awards. The said so many wondrous things about us to all those people that now we might have to really try to live up to that! How we gonna do that?? Truly, we felt not just honored by them, but challenged a bit, we will notice ourselves a little more to each other, towards the 3 of them, and others, especially toward our grandchildren, then others which may be in our paths. We accept that challenge, but with some trepidation, yet calmed by our dependence on the word of God for guidance. We are so very thankful and blessed. (I know our blessings as stated in Eph.1:3 are heavenly blessings, not necessarily noticeable here on earth, but we cannot escape the feeling of being blessed overwhelmingly.)
Now on to other things. The continuing Wednesday evening online bible study which you can find on FaceBook simply by my name — Jerry Lockhart, or on Youtube channel, Brother Jerry Lockhart, is about to start another segment. The first took most of the first 6 months of the year, the next will take a while, also. One hour (almost) each week to define the purpose and the practice of “rightly dividing the word of truth” as we are instructed to do by Paul, the apostle of the Gentiles (the world we live in) in 2 Tim.2:15 in order to “shun” the incorrect habits of religions which refuse the simple truths of the Word. For the record, I believe the entire King James Bible contains the words which God has inspired authors and translators to preserve as His words for us today. English speaking people have carried these words into hundreds of foreign land and translated them from KJB to native tongues. Did the Lord know they would do this? Of course. Was He able to see to it they would be understandable to those peoples and lands? Yes. The King James Bible is the word of God.
Every version which has come out since 1881 has either changed words, has missing words, or whole missing verses, or all 3 of those error-ridden things because those doing the translating wanted to be able to copyright their efforts (which they all did) and to do so, those three erroneous workings have to be in the narrative. If you doubt what I’m saying, do yourself a favor, lay as many versions as you can beside the KJB, start in Matthew 1 and compare the words and verses. Be honest with yourself and with the Lord and He will show you the truth.
At any rate, that’s what the bible class is doing for the upcoming months and what we always use to show God’s spoken and written will for all mankind. His will starts “God our Saviour, Who would have all men be saved and to come unto the knowledge of His will”—1 Tim.2: 3,4. As you probably know the salvation part is very simple: “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved”—Acts16:31. Because the good news says, “…how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, was buried, and was raised again the third day, according to the Scriptures.”—1 Cor.15: 3,4.
Have a continued good day and week and Independence Day celebration!
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