EarnestlyContending.com

Welcome to EarnestlyContending.com

Beloved,

when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation,

it was needful for me to write unto you,

and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith

which was once delivered unto the saints. Jude 1:3

Our Purpose

This website groups together several Independent, Fundamental, Bible Believing, King James only, Baptist websites with the purpose of bringing honour and glory to the only one deserving: our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him. Colossians 3:17 And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. Colossians 1:18

The two ways we seek to achieve this are:

1. By bringing the good news of salvation to the lost (that is those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and do not know for sure that if they were to die today, they would go to Heaven).

And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15

2. By freely making available studies, poems and stories, and more, for Christians to be strengthened and drawn closer to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matthew 28:18-20

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Gardiner was the last to die. One by one he and his companions had been weakened through starvation, cold, and disease until they could no longer stand. In vain Gardiner watched and prayed for the supply ship from England until his eyes, too, were dimmed in death. The last entry in his diary reads, ” Great and marvellous are the lovingkindnesses of my gracious God unto me. He has preserved me hitherto, and for four days, although without bodily food, without any feeling of hunger or thirst.” Forty-six days later a British navy ship dropped anchor and sent a boat ashore, only to find the bodies of three of his companions lying unburied on the shore. A storm drove them away before they could search for Gardiner and Maidment. It was to be another three months before they were discovered near their wrecked boat at Banner Cove. The supply ship did not arrive until some months later.

The place? Tierra Del Fuego (the land of fire) at the very tip of South America, named by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520. Tierra Del Fuego is broken into hundred of islands, and is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. It is swept all year by freezing gales, rain, sleet, and snow. Magellan never saw Picton Island where the missionaries starved to death. He sailed through a passage far to the north. Francis Drake missed it in 1578 as well, sailing through the Strait and then south toward Antarctica. In 1770 Captain Cook saw it when he named an island only a stone’s throw to the south, but it was Robert Fitz Roy who knew it best. Picton Island lies in the mouth of the channel named after Fitz Roy’s ship, the Beagle. (On his second voyage in 1834 he carried a young naturalist with him, named Charles Darwin.) Here on the shores of Beagle Channel seven men died, attempting to carry the gospel to the Fuegians. Altogether, fifteen missionaries gave their lives before the first Fuegian came to Christ.

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The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee,
and the books, but especially the parchments.
2 Timothy 4:13

Of all the gifts I receive I like books the best. It’s a simple fact of life, books make the best gifts. Chocolates? Soon eaten and forgotten. Tools? They rust. Money? Too quickly spent. Shirts wear out or get stained and socks tend to go walkabout and lose their mates. Ties? Got a thousand. Books are best.

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John Bunyan’s name is familiar to most Christians. Some months ago I came across one of his short books, ‘The Acceptable Sacrifice’. It was originally a sermon based on Psalm 51:17, “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise”. It was his last book.

My heart was deeply moved by this book. Not only is the content impressive, weighty and convincing, but Bunyan’s grasp and use of Scripture is amazing. The book is absolutely compelling simply because of his knowledge of the Word of God. This was no contemporary sermon consisting of a joke, three points and a poem; this is a cobalt bomb in hardcover and the reader stands at ground zero.

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Occasionally I hear it said, “Somebody ought to write a book…”. We tend to use that phrase when we come across a subject it seems no one has ever addressed. I can suggest a few titles for the brave author who would undertake such a task. Somebody ought to write a book called “Untouched Texts in Scripture”. Another good title would be “Unsung Heroes of the Bible”. Or maybe “Unpopular Truths From Heaven”. But my favourite would be “Topics I Never Heard Preached Among Fundamental Baptists”. And the first chapter of this book should be called “Grace Displaced”.

We Baptists can sing all the verses to Amazing Grace blindfolded, and we know Ephesians 2:8,9 (but not verse 10) frontways, backways and sideways and quote it at least twice in any sermon. There might just possibly be a fundamentalist somewhere in God’s creation that has read a book about grace. But that’s just about the limit to our knowledge about God’s grace.

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NEWS FLASH

Theological dinosaur fossils discovered in Canberra Seminary

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IS IT RIGHT:
To Judge, To Expose Error, & To Call Names?

By Pastor E.L. Bynum.
Tabernacle Baptist Church, Lubbock, Texas. USA
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The Lord’s Deputy stands in the night, face covered by the darkness. At the ready the Lord’s Deputy stands, prepared to defend the weak, help the helpless, and protect the innocent. He knows the risk and understands the dangers around him. He knows he may have to pay the ultimate price, the ultimate sacrifice, he knows he may have to give his life.

The Lord’s Deputy is not afraid. His heart is prepared; he is wearing his armor. The Armor is special, different from any other kind of armor ever fashioned. It is stronger than any bulletproof vest, harder than any helmet, more powerful than any weapon.

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I have always been a part of the most spiritual Independent Baptist churches in America. God has been so good to me. Some may think that this is a very proud statement. You may ask why do you think that the churches that you have attended are so spiritual. Let me explain.

We all consider that being spiritual is submitting to the leading of the Holy Spirit. We all know that the Holy Spirit enables us to do his work in the church. He also imparts to us the ability to perform special tasks in the church that no one else can do as well as we can. What a blessing to have a part in the Lord’s ministry.

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From the book CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS
by Dr. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley

THE BIBLE IS the Grand Charter of Christianity. To undermine, discredit and reject the Bible is to undermine, discredit and reject Christianity. Christianity is rooted and grounded upon the Bible and if the foundations be destroyed what will Christians do?

The popular assertion of present-day shallow thinkers that their Christianity rejects the Old Testament but accepts the New is, to say the least, unrealistic, for the New Testament is based on the Old. Both are inseparably united and of necessity when one is rejected the other also must be refused. What the seed is to the plant so is the Old to the New. How can the plant be received and the seed which produced it rejected?

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Most of us who devoutly believe and defend the King James Bible are well aware of how “stupid” “ignorant” “backward” “cultic” “unloving” and “narrow minded” we are IN YOUR EYES.

You do not need to tell us again, we heard you the first time and have been hearing you for hundreds of years. The trouble is that we are a loyal and faithful lot finding it difficult to change our stand and beliefs. Even with all of your books, magazines, articles, and posts, you have not given us any evidence, either material or Spiritual, to show that you offer us anything better than what we already have. In fact there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that you could even offer us anything as good as we have!

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