CHRIST
ETERNAL SENIOR MINISTRIES
THE
"WORD" MESSAGE CENTER
JUNE
6/7, 2026
{LX650-23}
DECLARATION
For
[we are not] ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of
God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and
also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
(Rom 1:16-17 KJV)
SABBATH
AND TORAH MESSAGES
"Parasha
Shelach Lecha"
(Send Forth)
Numbers
13:1-15:41, Johsua 2:1-24, Romans 4:1-25
Adonai
spoke to Moses saying, (2) “Send
some men on your behalf to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am
giving to Bnei-Yisrael. Each man you are to send will be a prince of
the tribe of his fathers, a man from each tribe.”
(Num
13:1-2 TLV)
THE
"WORD" MESSAGE FOLLOWS
SUBJECT:
GUEST:
Pastor Billy Sunday / "The Old Time Religion"
MESSAGE
SOURCE: From
the archives of www.newsforchristians.com
THE
"WORD" is transmitted
to the four corners
of the earth as authorized
in HOLY SCRIPTURE by the
COMMANDER IN CHIEF, LORD JESUS
THE CHRIST, AMEN. {IAW-Jos
5:14-15, Matt 28:18-20}
KJV
OPENING
PRAYER:
Almighty
Creator we are humbled to have the opportunity to reach back in time
and renew the Word through Your Servant Pastor Billy Sunday. We know
that Your Word never changes, has always been and will always be. It
is so comforting that our Lord, our God is truly immutable forever!
In the precious name above all names, Jesus the Christ, Amen.
MSG/DTG:
2026060607-lx650-23
Hello
Beloved! It is a joyful mission to be a part of that which is so
much bigger than all of creation put together;
We are as Living stones in the Church of Jesus, our savior, our King.
Praise You Lord!
The
Weekly Worship is now known as The "WORD" (still
covering the Sabbath and Torah citations) and on Sunday, time tested
historic, sermons and/or devotions authored by many well seasoned
Holy men and women. Some of these offerings are single page gifts
such as short Devotions. Daily Devotion selections can run several
pages, with Sermons rounding out our quest to provide the finest
examples of how God's chosen are empowered by the Holy Spirit through
Holy Scripture to deliver to you the Truth of God!
There
are thousands of sermons, messages and devotionals from so very many
Godly men and women, each adding and expressing their individual
synoptic views and their experienced relationship with
our true King, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah!
Our
Guest Sermon today is from the archives
of Pastor Billy Sunday, a powerful and quite
animated messenger of God.
This offering is lengthy, but the message is
worth every moment and every word uttered or received.
Sometimes it is beneficial to return to the basics in the
nourishment of our souls!
Billy
Sunday was a colorful and powerful preacher who preached to hundreds
of thousands at the turn of the 20th century. He got his start
in preaching by helping J. Wilbur Chapman in his revival campaigns.
Chapman schooled him in doctrine and homiletics.
In
1898, he set out on his own to preach. His crusades became regional
events, with thousands turning out to hear him. He became as well
known as any man in America, including the president. He had
been a baseball player before his conversion, and was known in his
early ministry as "the baseball evangelist."
His
preaching against "booze" was one of the main influences
for prohibition. He was a conservative and a fundamentalist.
Because he was direct in his style and often uncouth, he was accused
of being somewhat of a buffoon. Though he used homey illustrations
and backyard metaphors, his preaching was filled with the Bible.
Many
old line preachers despised his aggressiveness and his know-it-all
demeanor. It was easy to take shots at a man like Sunday, but
no one could gainsay the thousands who accepted Christ after his
preaching. {This background information provided by www.newsforchristians.com}
AND
NOW,
THE
"WORD"
The
Old-Time Religion
by
Billy Sunday (Nov 6, 1935)
Pastor
Billy begins:
"I
believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover. I believe
that the man who magnifies the word of God in his preaching is the
man whom God will honor. Why do such names stand out on the pages of
history as Wesley, Whitefield, Finney and Martin Luther? Because of
their fearless denunciation of all sin, and because they preach Jesus
Christ without fear or favor.
"But
somebody says a revival is abnormal. You lie! Do you mean to tell me
that the godless, card-playing conditions of the Church are normal? I
say they are not, but it is the abnormal state. It is the sin-eaten,
apathetic condition of the Church that is abnormal. It is the 'Dutch
lunch' and beer party, card parties and the like, that are abnormal.
I say that they lie when they say that a revival is an abnormal
condition in the Church.
"What
we need is the good old-time kind of revival that will cause you to
love your neighbors, and quit talking about them. A revival that will
make you pay your debts, and have family prayers. Get that kind and
then you will see that a revival means a very different condition
from what people believe it does.
"Christianity
means a lot more than church membership. Many an old skin-flint is
not fit for the balm of Gilead until you give him a fly blister and
get after him with a currycomb. There are too many Sunday-school
teachers who are godless card-players, beer, wine and champagne
drinkers. No wonder the kids are going to the devil. No wonder your
children grow up like cattle when you have no form of prayer in the
home."
THE
GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SUNDAY
What
does converted mean? It means completely changed. Converted is not
synonymous with reformed. Reforms are from without-conversion
from within. Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's
a willingness to do what he wants you to do. Unless you have made a
complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing
if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty
church records. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, in your heart
and confess him with your mouth and you will be saved. God is good.
The
plan of salvation is presented to you in two parts. Believe in your
heart and confess with your mouth. Many of you here probably do
Believe. Why don't you confess? Now own up. The truth is that
you have a yellow streak. Own up, business men, and business
women, and all of you others. Isn't it so? Haven't you got a little
saffron? Brave old Elijah ran like a scared deer when he heard old
Jezebel had said she would have his head, and he beat it. And he ran
to Beersheba and lay down under a juniper tree and cried to the Lord
to let him die. The Lord answered his prayer, but not in the way he
expected. If he had let him die he would have died with nothing but
the wind moaning through the trees as his funeral dirge. But the
Lord had something better for Elijah. He had a chariot of fire and it
swooped down and carried him into glory without his ever seeing
death.
So
he says he has something better for you--salvation if he can get you
to see it. You've kept your church membership locked up. You've
smiled at a smutty story. When God and the Church were scoffed at you
never peeped,and when asked to stand up here you've sneaked out the
back way and beat it. You're afraid and God despises a coward--a
mutt. You cannot be converted by thinking so and sitting still.
Maybe
you're a drunkard, an adulterer, a prostitute, a liar; won't admit
you are lost; are proud. Maybe you're even proud you're not proud,
and Jesus has a time of it.
Jesus
said: "Come to me," not to the Church; to me,
not to a creed; to me, not to a preacher; to me, not to
an evangelist; to me, not to a priest; to me, not to a
pope; "Come to me and I will give you rest." Faith
in Jesus Christ saves you, not faith in the Church.
You
can join church, pay your share of the preacher's salary, attend the
services, teach Sunday school, return thanks and do everything that
would apparently stamp you as a Christian--even pray--but you won't
ever be a Christian until you do what God tells you to do.
That's
the road, and that's the only one mapped out for you and for me. God
treats all alike. He doesn't furnish one plan for the banker and
another for the janitor who sweeps out the bank. He has the same plan
for one that he has for another. It's the law--you may not approve of
it, but that doesn't make any difference.
Salvation
a Personal Matter
The
first thing to remember about being saved is that salvation is a
personal matter. "Seek ye the Lord"--that means every one
must seek for himself. It won't do for the parent to seek for the
children; it won't do for the children to seek for the parent. If you
were sick all the medicine I might take wouldn't do you any good.
Salvation is a personal matter that no one else can do for you; you
must attend to it yourself. Some persons have
lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing--open
confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must
come to him in a certain way--that they must be stirred by emotion or
something like that.
Some
people have a deeper conviction of sin before they are converted than
after they are converted. With some it is the other way. Some know
when they are converted and others don't.
Some
people are emotional. Some are demonstrative. Some will cry easily.
Some are cold and can't be moved to emotion. A man jumped up in a
meeting and asked whether he could be saved when he hadn't shed a
tear in forty years. Even as he spoke he began to shed tears.
It's all a matter of how you're constituted. I am vehement, and I
serve God with the same vehemence that I served the devil when I went
down the line.
Some
of you say that in order to accept Jesus you must have different
surroundings. You think you could do it better in some other place.
You can be saved where you are as well as any place on earth. I say,
"My watch doesn't run. It needs new surroundings. I'll put it in
this other pocket, or I'll put it here, or here on these flowers."
It doesn't need new surroundings. It needs a new mainspring; and
that's what the sinner needs. You need a new heart, not a new
suit.
What
can I do to keep out of hell? "Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved." The Philippian
jailer was converted. He had put the disciples into the stocks when
they came to the prison, but after his conversion he stooped down and
washed the blood from their stripes.
Now,
leave God out of the proposition for a minute. Never mind about the
new birth--that's his business. Jesus Christ became a man, bone of
our bone, flesh of our flesh. He died on the cross for us, so that we
might escape the penalty pronounced on us. Now, never mind about
anything but our part in salvation. Here it is: "Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."
You
say, "Mr. Sunday, the Church is full of hypocrites." So's
hell. I say to you if you don't want to go to hell and live with that
whole bunch forever, come into the Church, where you won't have to
associate with them very long. There are no hypocrites in heaven.
You
say, "Mr. Sunday, I can be a Christian and go to heaven without
joining a church." Yes, and you can go to Europe without getting
on board a steamer. The swimming's good--but the sharks are laying
for fellows who take that route. I don't believe you. If a man is
truly saved he will hunt for a church right away. You say,
"It's so mysterious. I don't understand." You'll be
surprised to find out how little you know.
You
plant a seed in the ground--that's your part. You don't understand
how it grows. How God makes that seed grow is mysterious to you.
Some people think that they can't be converted unless they go down on
their knees in the straw at a camp-meeting, unless they pray all
hours of the night, and all nights of the week, while some old
brother storms heaven in prayer. Some think a man must lose sleep,
must come down the aisle with a haggard look, and he must froth at
the mouth and dance and shout. Some get it that way, and they don't
think that the work I do is genuine unless conversions are made in
the same way that they have got religion. I want you to see
what God put in black and white; that there can be a sound, thorough
conversion in an instant; that man can be converted as quietly as the
coming of day and never backslide. I do not find fault with the way
other people get religion. What I want and preach is the fact that a
man can be converted without any fuss.
If
a man wants to shout and clap his hands in joy over his wife's
conversion, or if a wife wants to cry when her husband is converted,
I am not going to turn the hose on them, or put them in a
strait-jacket. When a man turns to God truly in conversion,
I don't care what form his conversion takes. I wasn't converted
that way, but I do not rush around and say, with gall and
bitterness, that you are not saved because you did not get
religion the way I did. If we all got religion in the same way, the
devil might go to sleep with a regular Rip Van Winkle snooze
and still be on the job.
Look
at Nicodemus. You could never get a man with the temperament of
Nicodemus near a camp meeting, to kneel down in the straw, or to
shout and sing. He was a quiet, thoughtful, honest, sincere and
cautious man. He wanted to know the truth and he was willing to walk
in the light when he found it. Look at the man at the
pool of Bethesda. He was a big sinner and was in a lot of trouble
which his sins had made for him. He had been in that condition for a
long time. It didn't take him three minutes to say, "Yes,"
when the Lord spoke to him. See how quietly he was converted.
"And He Arose and Followed Him"!
Matthew
stood in the presence of Christ and he realized what it would be to
be without Christ, to be without hope, and it brought him to a quick
decision. "And he arose and followed him." How
long did that conversion take? How long did it take him to accept
Christ after he had made up his mind? And you tell me you can't make
an instant decision to please God? The decision of Matthew proves
that you can. While he was sitting at his desk he was not a disciple.
The instant he arose he was.
That
move changed his attitude toward God. Then he ceased to do evil and
commenced to do good. You can be converted just as quickly as Matthew
was. God says: "Let the wicked man forsake his
way. " The instant that is done, no matter if the man has
been a life-long sinner, he is safe. There is no need of struggling
for hours--or for days-do it now. Who are you struggling with? Not
God. God's mind was made up long before the foundations of the earth
were laid. The plan of salvation was made long before there was any
sin in the world. Electricity existed long before there was any car
wheel for it to drive. "Let the wicked man forsake his way."
When? Within a month, within a week, within a day, within an hour?
No! Now!
The
instant you yield, God's plan of salvation is thrown into gear. You
will be saved before you know it, like a child being born.
Rising and following Christ switched Matthew from the broad to the
narrow way. He must have counted the cost as he would have balanced
his cash book. He put one side against the other. The life he was
living led to all chance of gain.
On
the other side there was Jesus, and Jesus outweighs all else. He saw
the balance turn as the tide of a battle turns and then it ended with
his decision. The sinner died and the disciple was born.
I
believe that the reason the story of Matthew was written was to show
how a man could be converted quickly and quietly. It didn't take him
five or ten years to begin to do something--he got busy right away.
You don't believe in quick conversions? There have been a dozen
men of modern times who have been powers for God whose conversion was
as quiet as Matthew's. Charles G. Finney never went to a camp
meeting. He was out in the woods alone, praying, when he was
converted. Sam Jones, a mighty man of God, was converted at the
bedside of his dying father. Moody accepted Christ while waiting on a
customer in a boot and shoe store. Dr. Chapman was converted as a boy
in a Sunday school. All the other boys in the class had accepted
Christ, and only Wilbur remained. The teacher turned to him and said,
"And how about you, Wilbur?" He said, "I will,"
and he turned to Christ and has been one of his most powerful
evangelists for many years. Gypsy Smith was converted in his father's
tent. Torrey was an agnostic, and in comparing agnosticism,
infidelity and Christianity, he found the scale tipped toward Christ.
Luther was converted as he crawled up a flight of stairs in Rome.
Seemingly
the men who have moved the world for Christ have been converted in a
quiet manner. The way to judge a tree is by its fruit. Judge a tree
of quiet conversion in this way. Another
lesson. When conversion compels people to forsake their previous
calling, God gives them a better job. Luke said, "He left all."
Little
did he dream that his influence would be world-reaching and
eternity-covering. His position as tax-collector seemed like a big
job, but if was picking up pins compared to the job God gave him.
Some of you may be holding back for fear of being put out of your
job. If you do right God will see that you do not suffer. He has
given plenty of promises, and if you plant your feet on them you can
defy the poor-house. Trust in the Lord means that God will feed you.
Following Christ you may discover a gold mine of ability that you
never dreamed of possessing. There was a saloon-keeper, converted in
a meeting at New Castle, who won hundreds of people to Christ by his
testimony and his preaching.
You
do not need to be in the church before the voice comes to you; you
don't need to be reading the Bible; you don't need to be rich or poor
or learned. Wherever Christ comes follow. You may be converted while
engaged in your daily business. Men cannot put up a wall and keep
Jesus away. The still small voice will find you.
At
the Cross-roads
Right
where the two roads through life diverge God has put Calvary. There
he put up a cross, the stumbling block over which the love of God
said, "I'll touch the heart of man with the thought of father
and son." He thought that would win the world to him, but for
nineteen hundred years men have climbed the Mount of Calvary and
trampled into the earth the tenderest teachings of God. You are
on the devil's side. How are you going to cross over?
So you cross the line and God won't issue any extradition papers.
Some of you want to cross. If you believe, then say so, and step
across. I'll bet there are hundreds that are on the edge of the line
and many are standing straddling it. But that won't save you. You
believe in your heart--confess him with your mouth. With his heart
man believes and with his mouth he confesses. Then confess and
receive salvation full, free, perfect and external. God will not
grant any extradition papers.
Get
over the old line. A man isn't a soldier because he wears a uniform,
or carries a gun, or carries a canteen. He is a soldier when he makes
a definite enlistment. All of the others can be bought without
enlisting. When a man becomes a soldier he goes out on muster day and
takes an oath to defend his country. It's the oath that makes him a
soldier. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than
going to a garage makes you an automobile, but public definite
enlistment for Christ makes you a Christian. "Oh,"
a woman said to me out in Iowa, "Mr. Sunday, I don't think I
have to confess with my mouth." I said: "You're putting up
your thought against God's." M-o-u-t-h doesn't
spell intellect. It spells mouth and you must confess with your
mouth. The mouth is the biggest part about most people, anyhow.
What
must I do?
Philosophy
doesn't answer it. Infidelity doesn't answer it. First, "believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Believe on
the, Lord. Lord--that's his kingly name. That's the name he reigns
under. "Thou shalt call his name Jesus." It takes that kind
of a confession. Give me a Saviour with a sympathetic eye to watch me
so I shall not slander. Give me a Saviour with a strong arm to catch
me if I stumble. Give me a Saviour that will hear my slightest moan.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. Christ is his
resurrection name. He is sitting at the right hand of the Father
interceding for us. Because of his divinity he understands
God's side of it and because of his humanity he understands our side
of if. Who is better qualified to be the mediator? He's a
mediator. What is that? A lawyer is a mediator between the jury and
the defendant. A retail merchant is a mediator between the wholesale
dealer and the consumer. Therefore, Jesus Christ is the
Mediator between God and man. Believe on the Lord. He's ruling today.
Believe on the Lord Jesus. He died to save us. Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ. He's the Mediator.
Her
majesty, Queen Victoria, was traveling in Scotland when a storm came
up and she took refuge in a little hut of a Highlander. She stayed
there for an hour and when she went the good wife said to her
husband, "We'll tie a ribbon on that chair because her majesty
has sat on it and no one else will ever sit on it." A friend of
mine was there later and was going to sit in the chair when the man
cried: "Nae, nae, mon. Dinna sit there. Her majesty spent an
hour with us once and she sat on that chair and we tied a ribbon on
it and no one else will ever sit on it." They were honored that
her majesty had spent the hour with them. It brought unspeakable joy
to them. It's great that Jesus Christ will sit on the
throne of my heart, not for an hour, but here to sway his power
forever and ever.
"He
Died for Me"
In
the war there was a band of guerrillas--Quantrell's band--that had
been ordered to be shot on sight. They had burned a town in Iowa and
they had been caught. One long ditch was dug and they were lined up
in front of it and blindfolded and tied, and just as the firing squad
was ready to present arms a young man dashed through the bushes and
cried, "Stop!" He told the commander of the firing squad
that he was as guilty as any of the others, but he had escaped and
had come of his own free will, and pointed to one man in the line and
asked to take his place. "I'm single," he said, "while
he has a wife and babies." The commander of that firing squad
was an usher in one of the cities in which I held meetings, and he
told me how the young fellow was blindfolded and bound and the guns
rang out and he fell dead.
Time
went on and one day a man came upon another in a graveyard in
Missouri weeping and shaping the grave into form. The first man asked
who was buried there and the other said, "The best friend I ever
had." Then he told how he had not gone far away but had come
back and got the body of his friend after he had been shot and buried
it; so he knew he had the right body. And he had brought a withered
bouquet all the way from his home to put on the grave. He was poor
then and could not afford anything costly, but he had placed a slab
of wood on the pliable earth with these words on it: "He died
for me." Major Whittle stood by the grave some time later
and saw the same monument. If you go there now you will see something
different. The man became rich and today there is a marble monument
fifteen feet high and on it this inscription :
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF WILLY LEE
HE
TOOK MY PLACE IN THE LINE
HE
DIED FOR ME
Sacred
to the memory of Jesus Christ. He took our place on the cross and
gave his life that we might live, and go to heaven and reign with
him. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, confess him with
thy mouth, and thou shalt be saved and thy house." It is a
great salvation that can reach down into the quagmire of filth, pull
a young man out and send him out to hunt his mother and fill her days
with sunshine. It is a great salvation, for it saves from great sin.
The
way to salvation is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Vassar or
Wellesley. Environment and culture can't put you into heaven without
you accept Jesus Christ. It's great. I want to tell you that
the way to heaven is a blood-stained way. No man has ever reached it
without Jesus Christ and he never will.
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Pastor Billy Sunday went home to the Lord in 1939
CLOSING
COMMENT AND PRAYER
What a remarkable privilege it is to be a creation of the hands of
the Great Shepherd of the Sheep. As such, to be
blessed and benefit
from His eternal being, character, unending
love and almighty power
through salvation.
All of this through His grace, His gift, His promise possible only
through the "WORD",
His
blood, and
His name, JESUS the CHRIST
OUR LORD,
AMEN
DOXOLOGY
Praise
God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise
Him, all creatures here below;
Praise
Him above, Ye heaven-ly host;
Praise
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Amen
BENEDICTION:
Now
to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery
which has been kept secret for long ages past, (26) but now is
manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the
commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the
nations, leading to obedience of faith; (27) to the only wise God,
through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever. Amen.
Rom
16:25-27
Nasb
Christ
go with you now...until we meet again
Christ
go with you now...keep praying on till then
It
really doesn't matter what the weather...
Just
as long as we all are TOGETHER...
Christ
go with you now...Till we meet again!
THE
CALL
If
you have never invited Jesus to be your Lord and savior, or, if you
have in the past yet remain unsure of your salvation and forgiveness
of sin, Please pray with me now: Lord Jesus I need to fill a
hole in my life that follows me where ever I go. I am a long-time
Sinner and I now CONFESS and REPENT of all my sins
in Your Holy Name. I believe that You JESUS are the Lord,
that you were hung on a cross and died. I believe that you were
raised back to life then ascended into heaven and are
presently seated at the right hand of The
Father. Please come into me, Lord
Jesus, clean me, take me and make me, reach me, teach
me how to be Yours and let me serve from this day forward and
forever, I receive You right now!
Thank-You Jesus, AMEN
If
you sincerely prayed with me, your salvation has been assured. {Rom
10:9 KJV} -That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Waste
no time in finding like minded folks, to fellowship with, who have
also received the lord Jesus. Be introduced to a church that
PREACHES THE BIBLE. Email me. Let us help you begin a journey
that you will never tire of; the discovery of the Majesty, Beauty and
loving Power of Jesus the Christ. Welcome to the family! Until we
meet again, next week, PEACE be with you and yours in the Shepherd's
Love!
Chaplain
Gary and Linda Thompson, CESM
C.E.S.M.
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