bibletoyou

OK folks, I remember telling you that we planned to keep on serving, even if we had to crawl over the finish line.  Well, some days are beginning to feel like that, with old bodies, broken bones with ensuing surgery, bad colds, a kitchen floor that was badly damaged and is all torn up, an office that was moving to a new location but got put on hold halfway through, a slight auto accident from storm downed trees, taxes that came due, etc.  That all hit within a short time!

Let me tell you something encouraging though.  While packing the ministry room and getting things ready for the move, we emptied all the boxes of  returned envelopes that were saved from students of BTY over the years.  We did not count them, but they would have just about filled two black garbage bags.  We used three so they could be carried more easily and disposed of.  That is not meant as a bragging effort at all.  Some of the folks who use BTY lessons could triple that!  It is meant to send a message of encouragement.  You can use BTY lessons to reach and teach your friends, loved ones, co-workers, shut-ins, or even inmates.

Even though we are old, broken up a bit, and sick, this weeks’ lessons will be picked up and  worked with to return them to the students.  Each one will have in it, the corrected lesson, the new lesson, a Bits of Home Chat, two gospel tracts, 2-3 devotional pages, personal letters as needed, and certificates if applicable.  Any Bible request will be fulfilled with a KJV Bible purchased from The Bible and Literature Foundation which is  a good Bible at a very reasonable price.  It is an especially good Bible for inmates, as they must be soft backed Bibles.

OK, we aren’t crawling over the finish line yet, but you probably have a fairly good idea that we aren’t spring chickens either!  In fact, there isn’t much spring in us at all these days!  Well, maybe some worn out spring, like a 75 or 80 year old Tigger!!!  So, let us encourage you to keep serving, keep witnessing of the wondrous way of salvation through Jesus Christ, the Redeemer and coming King!  Keep teaching His Word; keep on, keeping on!

“Pastor”, is that your title, your station in life?  How are you doing in your work?  First of all, did you first meet  the qualifications written from God that regulate men who may pastor?   I Timothy 3:2 says that a bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, and apt to teach.  Titus 1:7 declares that a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, and not given to filthy lucre.

I Timothy 3:1 says “This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.”  So what’s so good about being a bishop, an overseer?  Well, a bishop, also called a pastor has the responsibility of caring for the spiritual well being of a part of the body of Christ.  He is engaged in preparing a people who are a part of the bride of Christ.  As you labor in love for the saints in Christ, you also get to share something specifically Christlike.  Jesus is called  the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls in I Peter 2:25.  So, how are you doing?  Are you Christlike?  Do you emulate Christ as you serve the Lord, caring for his  people?

Our  lessons called New Life Series has much to say about true godly living.  As a pastor, you should be walking in holiness, loving the saints for Christ’s sake, and being a living example of your Lord.  Perhaps both you and your people might benefit by studying this series of lessons from “Bible To You”.  We especially recommend “Grieve Not The Holy Spirit Of God”.   Perhaps in a short time you can be happier and more effective in your ministry than you have been in the past.  Your people may become a lovelier people before God.  If that happens, then, to God be the Glory!

Years ago, we placed some sign-up cards for “Bible To You” lessons in a restaurant, in a Pennsylvania hunting and camping area.  A man named Matt, from another part of our state, picked one up during a camping trip, and contacted us about the lessons.  He proceeded to do the lessons faithfully.

In time, we learned that Matt and his pastor were interested in the lessons as a follow-up program for the inmates in several prisons where Matt taught the Word of God each week.  The two men were actually investigating the trustworthiness of “Bible To You” lessons.  When they were sure that “BTY” could be trusted, they asked for master copies.  We sent them the master copies.  Next is a record of Brother Matt’s work, using the “BTY” lessons since then.

Matt wrote,  We sent out first lesson out on 12/20/02 and since then:20,770 people have received the first lesson.  8,146 have done at least the first lesson.  A total of 88,039 lessons have been sent out.  Sent to 1,823 cities.  Sent lessons to all 50 states, Africa, Canada, and Mexico.  Sent into621 different prisons.  4,942 certificates sent out.  1,320 called upon Jesus for salvation from doing the lessons.

We marvel at what this man has done through the years, using “Bible To You” lessons!  we call that long-term, sacrificial service!  How about it, folks, are you willing to try to do a work for the Lord Jesus Christ?

Plug in and use “Bible To You” lessons any way that you can. They are a tool which has been developed through the guidance of the Lord, and put together using the King James Bible.  If you want to learn more about God’s Word, use them for your self.  Once you get into them, perhaps you will be able to share the lessons with someone else.

You may not be called of the Lord to accomplish what Matt has, but you will never know what can be accomplished through you, until you step out by faith.

If you would like to have a free thumb drive of the lessons, please contact us directly and request that one be sent to you.

We are a always pleased when God allows us to minister to another person, whether to show them the way of salvation, or to teach them the way they should walk after salvation. God added two precious folks to our outreach.  They are a husband and wife deaf couple who live for  the Lord.  We asked JL how she came to know Jesus since she was already saved before she signed up for lessons.  The following is her own precious testimony, word for word.

My husband tried witness (to) me about salvation. I was (,I) thought. I was baptized and speak in tongues former United Pentecostal Church. We went to his church in Georgia and Pastor gave us post card about Bill Rice Ranch in Tennessee . We went to Bill Rice Ranch. Two Deaf Preachers    Holy Spirit touch me   My heart open (knock)  I was cried (crying) and went to altar   I did confess (my sins) and I want (wanted) to accept Jesus   (He) came into my heart   I’m saved!  I don’t want to go hell! I want to go Heaven! ….I believe in him, yes!  Can’t wait to meet Jesus in Heaven     Rapture (caught up) or I will die  meet him there (Heaven)

We are ever grateful to God for allowing us to serve Him in ministering to others.  This dear family is a special example of just how important it is for people like us and others to be ready to teach, willing to reach out with God’s Word!

In a day when not many children have a clear understanding that there is a God, a wonderful God, a creator, a Saviour, we must reach and teach the Bible to as many as we can!  In our site, you will find many lessons for children.  Some of the most power packed lessons for children would be on the Children’s lesson page under the “Junior” heading.

The lessons are developed for children who are 10 to 12 year olds, although some who are younger may be able to grasp them.  They teach the same biblical concepts as in the adult lessons, but they are designed with language that juniors can understand.  They also have graphics that cause them to stay with the pages and hopefully remember more from them!

These lessons were prayed over and labored over, making them into an excellent choice for leading this age group into an eye opening experience as well as a clear spiritual guide!  If a lesson seems to be too long for one session, you can use it for two classes.  If you are mailing them out, simply mail the portion you feel that the child will be able to do, along with a note that there is more to come. Add the rest in the next mailing.

If you find the Junior lessons to be a blessing, or if you have a question, please email us. Our email is bibletoyou@windstream.net. And for all that is accomplished, we say “To God be the Glory, great things He hath done!

You may ask why we use the King James Bible for all of our lessons in English.  There are specific reasons for that.  One reason is for uniformity, so that all lessons and answers fit correctly together. That only makes sense!

Another reason is because the Word of God, as we have it in the King James Bible, is preserved as seen in Psalms 12:6.  “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.  Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”

The King James is a word for word translation of the original Greek and Hebrew texts, not a version, but an exact copy of God’s words.  All versions have come from faulty manuscripts and are compiled by men such as Wescott and Horte, who were intellectuals of their day, but who also practiced spiritual evil.

To learn more on this, please study our lessons called God’s Word Preserved, which are listed under the adult lessons in English. They reveal the texts, the translators and the techniques used  in the King James development versus those used in all other English versions.

Let us hold fast to truth, and share that truth without fainting, and to God be the glory!

In the Old Testament we read where God gave His people bread from Heaven, miraculously saving them from physical death while journeying in the wilderness. Nehemiah 9:15 says “And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.”

In the New Testament, God gave the Bread of Heaven! John 6:33 highlights Jesus as that Bread. “For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.”   In John 6:51 Jesus proclaims himself to be that Bread, the Spiritual Bread which is all we need to satisfy our need for salvation of our soul.  Jesus said  “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

John 6:58 makes clear that the God of Heaven miraculously fed a nation of people in the wilderness for 40 years, and that same God later sent His own Son; “This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”

Brother and sister in Christ, rejoice in that Bread which came down from Heaven.  As we traversed this spiritual wilderness,  God miraculously saved you from dying an eternal death in Hell and the lake of fire!

Bible To You is still alive and being blessed by God.  We are also receiving blessings that leave us with nothing to do but praise Him, our Lord, an ever present help.  With the new radioactive medicine used recently in treating Carl, all spots of cancer in his spine and lymph nodes are gone!  Carl’s PSA count has finally dropped to a .3. This is amazing!  Kays pain level is much lower and she is able to care for our home, cooking, and Bible To You fairly well, which was the desire of her heart.

Another blessing is that a lady accepted the Lord as her Savior while doing lesson one, a few weeks ago.  Many of our students have been sending notes of thanks for the lessons.  Some are growing in the Lord, which is obvious by their letters back to us.  For instance, one person wrote this when she returned her lesson on Bible versions: “Wow what an eye opening lesson.”, and she also said “God gives us gifts sometimes we don’t even realize. I’ve realized God gave me you as a gift, studying and learning from your lessons…”

Another person wrote: I just want to thank you guys for allowing Christ to work through you, and to be able to bless me.  Everything that’s being sent to me from Bible To You is a blessing, helpful, and inspirational.  It not only helps me to get closer to God, but it helps me to become free from my sins, also to become a better person.”

Yes, we still have difficulties and trials to work through, but we have been given more time to serve the Lord.  We continue working with Bible To You. We are truly blessed by God.  We trust that you also are experiencing blessings as you worship and serve the Lord.

While having devotions in the book of Exodus today, I began to wonder how big the Red Sea was that God separated for his children? So I looked up its’ size and found it to be  approximately 1,400 miles long, with a surface area of roughly 169,100 square miles. Its maximum width is about 220.6 miles and it reaches a maximum depth of 9,970 feet at the central Suakin Trough.

Then I thought, “There were two seas mentioned in the Bible that God overpowered for his children.”  Later in the day I was relating these thoughts to two others, wishing to encourage them in our days of many trials and tribulations. One of them reminded us that God also divided the Jordan River for both Elijah and Elisha.

Now we were really finding ourselves rather humbled for allowing the trials of life to get us down, but also lifted up as the conversation continued.  Two of us almost declared at the same time that the ground was even dry for the people to walk on!  It would normally have been saturated to a great depth, leaving it impossible to walk over, but it was dry!

Many times we feel tossed about on the sea of life, whether by financial difficulties, physical trials, personal problems, or any other storms of life. Life can present deep seas and wide rivers, but let us encourage you to trust in the God of all power.  He is the God who cares for his children, the God who hears and answers prayer, the God who made the world and the entire universe, the God who overpowers deep seas and wide rivers, even providing dry ground!