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Thank you Pastor Wayne for another sermon relevant to these last days. Click on link above and select “Dare to be a Daniel”. We also recommend that you read the extra notes, so pertinent to the Bible and current world events, included below these first notes. Jan Markell, Olive Tree Ministries, has some very insightful comments, as do several others. Pastor Wayne has an outstanding ability to connect Faith to Life. Do not miss this opportunity.

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

Pastor Wayne writes:

The Marxists philosophy of education says: “Give me your children for four years, and the seeds I plant will never be uprooted.” (Lenin) 

Sadly, that is the philosophy of education to which our children are being exposed today. Part of President Obama’s plan to fundamentally transform America was to indoctrinate our children into a worldview that is totally contrary to the biblical principles upon which America was founded. He has succeeded. 

However, a society cannot survive very long when its children and grandchildren are taught to hate the very things that made it successful. As Abraham Lincoln said years ago: “The philosophy of the classroom in this generation will be the philosophy of politics, government, and life in the next generation.”

The title of this sermon is: “Dare to be a Daniel,” a challenge to our students to remain faithful to God in the very challenging days ahead.

Thank YOU for forwarding these sermon study guides to others. 

Wayne J. and Linda J. Edwards
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PASTOR WAYNE’S FURTHER HANDOUTS FOR SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2021

I have a layout below that makes for easy reading, hope you agree!

(Before you say you don’t feel like going to church on Sunday!)

Can you imagine never meeting another Christian?

WND guest Columnist Rita El-Mounayer

Right now, thousands of Christians across the Middle East – my native region – and North Africa are

completely cut off from other believers. Many have never been to church, don’t own a Bible and have

never even met another follower of Jesus. Can you imagine that? And now these believers face even

greater isolation because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

As CEO of Christian satellite television broadcaster SAT-7, I visited the North African country of

Morocco where I found small clusters of believers gathered around television sets, watching our

shows with local presenters speaking Arabic. They were riveted to the screen, hanging on every

word, with pen and paper in hand to take notes and jot down the words of the worship songs.

This was an emotional moment for me as I humbly witnessed how these broadcasts are truly a

lifeline for isolated believers in Morocco, and thousands more like them across this entire region,

home to less than 1% of the world’s Christians. Believers in the Western world are privileged to be

able to attend different churches and choose what time and place they go to worship. And while

many professing Christians in the U.S. and U.K. are leaving the church, believers in the Middle East

and North Africa are willing to sacrifice everything – even their own lives – to have fellowship with

other Christians whenever possible.

In Algeria, a nation where Christians often face hostility, I asked our local presenter: “Are you sure

you want to show your face to millions of people?” She replied: “Rita, what are you afraid of?

Suffering is a crown we wear every single day … don’t take it away from us. Yes, we’re ready to

show our faces.” Another time, when I was worried about their safety, one of our presenters looked at

me with a calm smile on his face: “Rita, don’t worry. … God is good all the time.”

Bolstered by such courage, our presenters press on because of the many isolated believers who have

no one else to encourage them. “It’s not easy to be a Christian in a country where everyone is a (non[1]

Christian) by default,” says SAT-7 presenter Samia in Algeria, where churches have been closed by

the government during the pandemic and believers fear they might never re-open. “Many believers

here feel lost,” she says. Their only connection now is through our live programs in Arabic and one[1]

on-one counseling via phone and social media chat.

One Algerian pastor puts it like this: “They’ve sealed our church doors, but they cannot seal the doors

of our hearts.” In Iran, where churches are banned and Christians meet in secret, confessing Jesus

publicly could be a death sentence. Yet one Iranian viewer prayed on air: “What would we do if we

did not have Jesus Christ?!” Young people in Iran are so open to Jesus right now. They’re asking,

“What is this message of the Gospel? And who is this Jesus?” Let’s hold our isolated brothers and

sisters in prayer – and fellowship with other believers in our own churches with a new spirit of

gratitude.

What on Earth is Going On?

by Jan Markell

July, 2021

Even the secular, unbelieving world is stunned at all that is happening in our collapsing world. Most

have no explanation for it. Some offer weak explanations that to the tuned-in and spiritually astute

are laughable. Even once-sound pulpits remain silent and perplexed. Political commentators suggest

that if we just elect their candidate, all will be rosy again someday soon. Their faith is in their

political party. Leftists promise that if we fix climate change and spread the wealth around, we will

achieve peace on earth. Outfits like the World Economic Forum suggest some day, if we follow their

formula, we will own nothing and be happy! How can society be happy under Godless Communism?

Here are my conclusions as to why we’re where we are in history. I am sure the list is much longer

than this but here goes:

 Our times are perilous because God is trying to wake up and warn a sinful world. People don’t·

listen when life is smooth-sailing.

 The Bible is fulfilling itself. It predicts perilous times (II Timothy 3); a Laodicea end-time·

church; a Romans 1 society at the end, characterized by depravity. Evil and violence will

escalate. The “birth pangs” will become intense and will be hard to watch and read about. We get

worn out seeing floods, fires, droughts, and hurricanes. But the Bible says these things must

happen.

 God is warning because He always warns before He judges and the world is facing judgment. It·

is being judged now but far worse is coming during the Tribulation. This is just a warm-up.

 There are terrible consequences when we don’t do things God’s way. Society will fail. The·

church will head into apostasy. But prideful mankind always thinks their way is best and

wreckage results.

 God is specifically sending a message to His church. He is trying to shake us up, so that we will·

wake up and ultimately look up.

America and the world are now caught up in end-time strong delusion. That has serious

consequences. Delusion does not permit people to think rationally and to act reasonably. It does not

allow people to vote sensibly. The consequences are staggering. Many think that politics will be the

savior, or a particular political party. They just want to “make America great again” but minus God’s

oversight. God is letting us know that only “one nation under God” will ever function properly and

no nation can be great and Godless.

America showed God the door fifty years ago. That has consequences. His blessing and protection

may have left when we opened that door! God is allowing some pre-Tribulation birth pains on the

entire world. But what we see happening today is minor compared to what is coming. The Church

will be absent during that Tribulation time, so in the meantime, may we have a greater burden to save

people from the wrath to come. The consequences for a world that rejects Jesus Christ are

unthinkable. America and other Western powers have to fade as world influencers so that global

government can rise up and rule the world. As these nations diminish, keep in mind that this is

orchestrated by God for his end-time purposes.

Lastly, I think there is chaos on earth because Satan knows his time is short and he has ramped up his

activity. The closing days of the Church Age are a challenge for all mankind. Seize the moment. (Regarding the failure of public education) Remember when our grandparents, great[1]

grandparents, and such stated that they only had an 8th grade education? This is the eighth[1]

grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. It was taken from the original document on

file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, and reprinted by the

Salina Journal. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

Grammar (Time Limit – one hour)

Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.

Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no Modifications.

Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.

What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of lie, play and run.

Define Case, Illustrate each Case.

What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.

Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the

rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time Limit – 1.25 hours)

Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.

A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?

If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?

District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven

months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?

Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.

Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.

What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at 20 per metre?

Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.

What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?

Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time Limit – 45 minutes)

Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.

Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.

Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.

Show the territorial growth of the United States.

Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.

Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.

Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?

Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.

Orthography (Time Limit – one hour)

What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?

What are elementary sounds? How classified?

What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters,

linguals?

Give four substitutes for caret ‘u.’

Give two rules for spelling words with final ‘e.’ Name two exceptions under each rule.

Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.

Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non,

inter, mono, sup. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the

sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.

Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze,

raise, rays.

Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and

by syllabication.

Geography (Time Limit – one hour)

What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?

How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?

Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?

Describe the mountains of North America.

Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena,

Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.

Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.

Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each.

Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?

Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.

Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.

Also notice that the exam took six hours to complete.

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Apostasy in the Church: The Trail of Treachery

By Jim Fletcher

In his remarkable book, The New Evangelicalism, Paul Smith relates a fascinating story that lets us

in on the beginnings of what Spurgeon in England called the Downgrade, the falling away from the

faith by church leaders, primarily. At a meeting of anti-Christians in New York City in 1905, an

agenda was hatched: “On September 12, 1905, approximately one hundred people met in a loft over

Peck’s Restaurant at 140 Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. The purpose of the meeting was to

carefully calculate the overthrow of the Christian worldview and replace it with the ideas of a then

rather unknown writer by the name of Karl Marx. They formed an organization called the

Intercollegiate Socialist Society.”

Among the attendees were the authors Upton Sinclair and Jack London, and famed attorney Clarence

Darrow. And remember, Darrow played a diabolical role 20 years later during the Scopes Monkey

Trial in Tennessee; there, evolution took the upper hand over biblical creation, in the minds of many.

It was a watershed moment. The Intercollegiate Socialist Society thus began infiltrating our

educational institutions with anti-American and anti-Christian ideas. It followed the same path

outright Soviet spies did, and the effects were devastating. Christian theology was attacked

mercilessly. Many don’t realize that it wasn’t just mainline churches that were affected. They

certainly were, but they had always maintained a degree of liberalism, as spiritual children of

Unitarians during the Colonial period.

Years later, theologian Karl Barth addressed a gathering at the University of Chicago. Among those

in attendance was future Fuller Seminary President Richard Mouw. Barth was asked about errors in

the Bible and he agreed that there were mistakes in the Bible. This was a pivotal moment, as future

seminary heads were influenced by this heretical thought. I’m trying to give you a picture for why we find ourselves in the present position in the Church,

and in wider American society. (Incidentally, Mouw began a softening of Israel support decades

ago; now the seminary routinely sends students to Israel/” Palestine,” where they hear the PLO line).

Eventually, this decades-long softening of theology and doctrine handed the baton to the

Church Growth Movement of the 1970s and 1980s. It is here in his book that Smith makes a very

insightful comment: “The new evangelical seminary trains men and women to take a traditional

church and mold it into a postmodern accommodating mindset that will reach a postmodern culture.”

This is primarily why we are in the place we are in today. Liberal theology of yesteryear,

mythologizing the Bible as the German Higher Critics had done in Europe a century before, marries a

postmodern “seeker friendly” American church. It is a recipe for religious disaster. It shipwrecks the

faith of many, as it is a “theology of despair” to quote Bob DeWaay.

To sum up, there are many reasons for the rampant biblical illiteracy in this country. From the

weekly clown show at Steven Furtick’s Elevation Church, to the mystical paganism of Brian

McLaren, to the excesses of the Word Faith Movement, we see one foundational commonality: a low

view of Scripture. Paul warned it would be a hallmark of the last days. Spurgeon lived right in the

middle of its aggressive attacks on the modern Church. It is why we are dealing with the mess of

lukewarm churches and churches that in effect operate as entertainment centers.

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On the Power of Prayer

James Wiltshire – HBC Live Stream Viewer in England

When Paul tackles the relationship between the Church and the state, he looks at the question not on

the basis of atrocities committed, miscarriages of justice or bad law (he expects these) but on the

subject of prayer and the Church’s duty to pray for the government. Is Paul ducking the issue of

‘speaking out’?

Prayer, properly understood, isn’t just words: it is a whole language. When we use language in our

own tongue, we aren’t simply stringing words together. We’re using a symbolic code that conveys

deep meaning. The Prodigal Son finally pronounced words at the end he would never have felt able

to bring himself to use when he was at the height of his rebellion. ‘I will arise (renounce my present

lifestyle) and will go to my father (the one whom I have held in contempt) and will say unto him

(cast myself upon his mercy).’

It is this deep world of meaning that Paul enjoins the reader of 1 Timothy to engage in. In other

words, Paul is telling us to direct godly prayer at this level to God who has the power to ‘alter the

mind of kings. Believers like Samuel, Daniel, Nehemiah and others who stood between the

Authority on earth and God all knew the power of prayer. Such prayer needs time and a deep

understanding of both God and the world. It requires one’s mental and spiritual faculties to be

stretched to the uttermost in an attempt to understand how God sees a particular matter. Only then,

can the believer pray the mind of God.

To merely ‘speak out’ may be to rail emotionally; to pray the ‘effectual fervent prayer of a righteous

man’ is to both understand not only the situation but also to express the mind of God in a manner that

He will hear. Prayer for Authority isn’t ticking the government’s boxes. Far from it. It is taking the

government to account to God Himself for Him to judge. And ‘shall not the Judge of all the earth do,

right?’ This is Paul’s message to the Ephesian Church. And it’s his message to us today. ========================================================================

A personal note from James

Dear Wayne, I think that the Biden-Administration agenda will understandably alarm conservative

Americans, so I can understand that feelings will run high. Like you, I would counsel those who are

understandably concerned to pray – in the knowledge that God alone can change the heart of the

King. It’s difficult for us to predict how God brings His will about.

Take Brexit. Despite the best efforts of the EU, the BBC, the newspapers etc we got Brexit. And the

consternation here was palpable. The BBC was rocked visibly – not just at the result but at its own

failure to determine the result. Our contribution? Prayer. That was the church’s remit. Not the

politics. And the result will be life-changing in Britain’s history. Hope this example helps.

James

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Part Two on the Power of Prayer

James Wiltshire – HBC Live Stream Viewer in England

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice

Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

Both for themselves and those who call them friend.

Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.”

Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur

Today we stand on answers to prayers made in the past. Shall we fail to similarly protect the future?

At a recent meeting in London, two speakers spoke of powers that are striving to shape Britain in

their own image. The first was the BBC. The speaker had had a long association with the BBC. Led

by an essentially left-leaning Oxbridge elite, it has assumed the right not to inform opinion but to

form it. Formidable as this authority is, it was visibly shaken by the Brexit vote against which it had

campaigned so ardently for years. Was prayer the instrument that unseated the BBC, the papers, the

politicians and the multitude of voices fermented fear of the dire consequences of a Britain aside

from Europe?

The second speaker addressed the all-too familiar topic of Gender Ideology that appears to be

breaking through the Ardennes of the Western mind like an armed juggernaut. Its mantra: to defeat

the family and to do it by blitzkrieg. If the Ardennes of the Western mind is the residual godliness

from a by-gone age, this movement threatens to destroy it by cutting a narrow swathe through its

forest of traditional laws until it breaks out into the plains of ease, changing Biblical thinking forever.

But will it succeed?

The speaker referred to a pushback. Might we believe that the silent majority who, on the whole

abhor today’s trends, will rise up to say ‘Enough!’ It could happen. It did in 1940 and only today we

heard that an amendment tabled in support of extreme abortion was defeated. Was this politics or

was this prayer? In Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’, the heroic man, aware of his failing powers, can, when his

sense of cause is strong, summon his might. “We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, one equal temper of heroic hearts,