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We believe that the Bible is God's Word. It is accurate, authoritative, and applicable to our everyday lives. ( II Timothy 3:15-17)


We believe in one eternal God who is the Creator of all things. He exists in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is totally loving and completely holy. (I John 5:7; John 1:14; Luke 1:26-38)


We believe that sin has separated each of us from God and his purpose for our lives. (Romans 5:12-21)


We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, as both God and man, is the only one who can reconcile us to God. He lived a sinless and exemplary life. He died on the cross in our place and rose again; to prove His Victory and empower us for life. (Ephesians 2:8; Romans 10:8-10; Psalm 103:1-3)


We believe that in order to receive forgiveness and the "new birth" we must: repent of our sins, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and submit to His will for our lives.


We believe God intends for us to live holy and fruitful lives; therefore we need to be baptized in water and filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.


We believe in the Baptism in The Holy Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. Spiritual gifts such as tongues, miracles, gifts of healings, word of wisdom, prophecy and more are also available to believer and are given as the Holy Spirit determines. (Acts 2:4; 1 Corinthians 12:7-11;)


We believe that God has individually equipped us so that we can successfully achieve His purpose for our lives, which is to worship God, fulfill our role in the Church and serve the community in which we live. (I Timothy 6:11-13; Philippians 4:13; John; John 4:20-23; I Corinthians 12; Ephesians 2:10)


We believe that God wants to heal and transform us so that we can live healthy and prosperous lives, in order to help others more effectively. (3 John 2; Romans 12:1-2)


We believe that our eternal destination of either Heaven or Hell is determined by our response to the Lord Jesus Christ. (Revelations 19:20, 20:10-15; II Thessalonians 1:5-10)


We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back again, as He has promised. ( I Corinthians 15:51-52; I Thessalonians 4:16-17)


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Pastor Ray Barnett

Pastor Ray Barnett

Pastor Ray Barnett has served in the Amsterdam, NY area for 37 years. As the founding pastor of the Time For Truth Ministries, his desire is to see a true Biblical New Testament church in our modern days, founded on the love of the brethren, and has labored to that end through times of blessing and adversity.

Today's Devotion

Thursday October 2, 2025

INTERESTING FACTS : Thomas Jefferson, Draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation's first secretary of state (1789-94), second vice president (1797-1801), and, as the third president (1801-09), the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
 
The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.[1]
 
Daily Reading : MATTHEW 1 - 4
 
TEXT : Mat 4:1  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Mat 4:2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
 
Mat 4:3  And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Mat 4:5  Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
 
Mat 4:6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Mat 4:7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Mat 4:8  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; Mat 4:9  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Mat 4:10  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Mat 4:11  Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him
 
THEME : THE WORD OF GOD
 
Matthew
 
"Matthew, surnamed Levi, before his conversion was a publican, or tax-gatherer under the Romans at Capernaum. He is generally allowed to have written his Gospel before any other of the evangelists. The contents of this Gospel, and the evidence of ancient writers, show that it was written primarily for the use of the Jewish nation. The fulfilment of prophecy was regarded by the Jews as strong evidence, therefore this is especially dwelt upon by St. Matthew. Here are particularly selected such parts of our Saviour's history and discourses as were best suited to awaken the Jewish nation to a sense of their sins; to remove their erroneous expectations of an earthly kingdom; to abate their pride and self-conceit; to teach them the spiritual nature and extent of the gospel; and to prepare them for the admission of the Gentiles into the church." [Matthew Henry][2]
 
Key Thought: Number of Chapters: Key Verse: Christ seen as:
Savior of the Jews 28 Mat_27:37 King and Savior of the Jews.
Writer of the Book: Date: Conclusion of the Book:
Matthew A. D. 37 Jesus, the Messiah-King, was rejected and killed but His wounding was for our transgressions, and He was bruised for our iniquities. He is coming again to rule and judge.


[Summarized Bible][3]

TRUTH FOR TODAY : "'IT IS WRITTEN AGAIN' - YOU MUST RIGHTLY DIVIDE THE BIBLE."
 
The first time you encounter the Devil in the New Testament he is the same as he is in the Old Testament - the Tempter. Moreover, he tempts the LORD Jesus exactly as he did Adam, that is, he uses the Word of God. The difference is only a matter of formality. With Eve Satan says - "Yea, hath God said...?"[4] With Jesus he says - "It is written." The difference is, with Eve, the Devil used God's spoken Words, not yet recorded, or written. With Jesus, four thousand years later, he uses the Scriptures. Either way, the temptation and the method is the same. The Devil perverts the Word[s] of God to use them incorrectly and entice Man to sin.
 
It is equally interesting to note the first time you meet Jesus He is quoting the Scriptures. That is, He uses as His [chief] weapon against the Devil - the Written Word of God. With more writing to come [in the form of 27 Books of the New Testament], Jesus initiates His ministry as the Second Adam with quotations from the Holy Scriptures. Thus, you have a foundation to build your faith on - The Written Word of God - the Bible.
 
However, as the Devil employs the Scriptures against Jesus saying as Christ says - "it is written," we have an engaging modification in Jesus' original statement in that he answers Satan with - "it is written again." The word "again" makes all the difference in the world when it comes to teaching, preaching, or quoting the Bible. The Bible must "rightly divided."
 
2Ti 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
 
The phrase - "rightly dividing," has an intriguing root in the Greek language "orthotomeo." This Greek word means - "to make a straight cut," or "dissect correctly.""[5]  This is the great need of the hour - dissecting God's Word accurately, that the truth of any text of Scripture is understood properly. The method of the Devil from the beginning is to pervert the words of the Most High.[6]
 
If you have ever seen, heard of, or had a CAT scan, you had a Computerized Axial Tomograph [Tomography]. CAT is an acronym. What a CAT scan does [as all tomographic radiographs do] is "slice" the section of the body under scrutiny giving the physician a more accurate identification and location of the pathology. By slicing the section of the body, the radiologist can measure the exact location and size for instance, of a tumor. Therefore, the word tomography or tomograph has interest to you - the student of Scripture.
 
Chiefly, the teacher - preacher, or the pastor - teacher has the responsibility of feeding the flock of Christ the Word of God. This means, he must first be a student of the Bible. Today, we have such great sin in the Church and lack of Biblical order etc. because so many pastors have abandoned their first and principal duty - to be a teacher of the Word of God. In a survey conducted by Barna Group, Focus in the Family, Fuller Seminary, and Francis Schaeffer Institute, among the many distressing statistics about pastors, two of them stated - that "eighty percent of pastors surveyed spend less than fifteen minutes a day in prayer," and" seventy percent said the only time they spend studying the Word is when they are preparing their sermons." [7]
 
As you study the Bible, pray the LORD would grant you wisdom [especially when the Devil misquotes the Scriptures to you] that you may be knowledgeable enough to counter with - "it is written again." Also, pray for your pastor that he would be a man of the Word, studying to dissect the Scriptures correctly. This is the great need of our age.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  • [1] [Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Bergh, ed. (Washington: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1903), Vol. 10, p. 235.]
  • [2] Henry, Matthew. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible. Public Domian, [1662 - 1714].
  • [3] Brooks, Keith L. Summarized Bible - Complete Summary of the Bible. Public Domain, 1919.
  • [4] Gen_3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
  • [5] G3718 ὀρθοτομέω orthotomeō or-thot-om-eh'-o From a compound of G3717 and the base of G5114; to make a straight cut, that is, (figuratively) to dissect (expound) correctly (the divine message): - rightly divide. Strong, James, and S.T.D. LL.D. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance [of Hebrew and Greek Words]. Public Domain, 1890.
  • [6] Jer_23:36  And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
  • [7] Pastors today are faced with more work, more problems, and more stress than any other time in the history of the church. This is taking a frightening toll on the ministry, shown by the statistics below:
 
Pastors:
 
• Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout or contention in their churches.
 
• Four thousand new churches begin each year, but over seven thousand churches close.
 
• Fifty percent of pastors' marriages will end in divorce.
 
• Eighty percent of pastors and eighty-four percent of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
 
• Fifty percent of pastors are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way of making a living.
 
• Eighty percent of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first five years. Ninety percent of pastors said their seminary or Bible school training did only a fair to poor job preparing them for ministry.
 
• Eighty-five percent of pastors said their greatest problem is they are sick and tired of dealing with problem people, such as disgruntled elders, deacons, worship leaders, worship teams, board members, and associate pastors. Ninety percent said the hardest thing about ministry is dealing with uncooperative people.
 
• Seventy percent of pastors feel grossly underpaid.
 
• Ninety percent said the ministry was completely different than what they thought it would be before they entered the ministry.
 
• Seventy percent felt God called them to pastoral ministry before their ministry began, but after three years of ministry, only fifty percent still felt called.
 
Pastors' Wives:
 
• Eighty percent of pastors' spouses feel their spouse is overworked.
 
• Eighty percent of pastor' wives feel left out and unappreciated by the church members.
 
• Eighty percent of pastors' spouses wish their spouse would choose another profession.
 
• Eighty percent of pastors' wives feel pressured to do things and be something in the church that they are really not.
 
• The majority of pastor's wives surveyed said that the most destructive event that has occurred in their marriage and family was the day they entered the ministry.
 
Pastors' Marriages:
 
• Seventy percent of pastors constantly fight depression.
 
• Almost forty percent polled said they have had an extra-marital affair since beginning their ministry.
 
Pastors' Children:
 
• Eighty percent of adult children of pastors surveyed have had to seek professional help for depression.
 
Pastors' Relationship With the Lord:
 
• Seventy percent of pastors do not have a close friend, confidant, or mentor.
 
• Ninety-five percent of pastors do not regularly pray with their spouses.
 
• Eighty percent of pastors surveyed spend less than fifteen minutes a day in prayer.
 
• Seventy percent said the only time they spend studying the Word is when they are preparing their sermons.
 
© 2007 (research from 1989 to 2006) R. J. Krejcir Ph.D. Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development, http://www.intothyword.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=36562 , Accessed September 8, 2012

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