The Little Flock

The Little Flock By believing the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, salvation is yours. Dr. Harold B. Billy Ray. V.

Little Flock, is a group of the children of Adam, that have realized their utter uselessness in saving themselves, and have turned to the Gospel of God for salvation. This is a page in honor of several people who have touched my life, first: Mother, who was always there for me growing up, and a cheerleader for her baby boy. Sightler, mentor and friend, whom I love in Christ greatly, a man of God a

nd loved sinners. Watchman Nee, from whom my theology was gleaned as a 14-year boy, picked up a book in a bookstore, "The Glory of His Life," and it stuck :) that was 45 years ago, I had a shelf of his books in my dorm in Bible College, remember they called me a "deeper life" and it wasn't complimentary, but from brother Nee, the rest of my library formed, Jesse Penn Lewis, Darby, Pember, Govett, Lee, many others, this page is dedicated to those who love His Words, Spirit-Life-book, In Christ. I am so thankful for those who take the time out of their day to visit my page: "Little Flock,," I am a divorced bachelor, and reared my children alone, (without sounding pathetic of seeking sympathy); life has been hard for my family. I do now understand how mothers feel when deserted and left to do everything by themselves, but Christ is the center of my life at a point in my life, being reared by a single mother, life has been hard for as long as I can remember, and by hard I mean two is better than one, for when one falls down, there is none there to help you get up. I love the Words of God as I do my necessary food, and I can honestly say this with no ulterior motives. My children are now grown into adults, and I made such bad decisions in retrospect, but there is not a just and perfect man upon this earth, battled addiction with pain medicines from the time I was injured in the coal mines, but through counseling and help from my siblings have managed to make it this far. I was at one time a pastor of a church in Hilmer County, West Virginia, but resigned because of family problems and issues that could not be worked out even after counseling was sought and used. But after twenty-three years of being a bachelor now, and prayerful consideration, I believe that I was disillusioned as to this calling because writing has always been my desire and love, so with what years that I have left, I am praying to this end, that God will allow me to write more books, as I have been doing so for the past two years, and their completion is near. So thank you for reading my words and I pray they are of some spiritual benefit for your soul, whether you are single, married, gay, transgender, whatever you choose to call yourself, I know God loves you, for He sent His Son to die for you, and your life means something because of that one thing. The Creator of this universe takes notice of you every day, and has the hairs of your head numbered, He knows when a sparrow falls to the ground, and He is concerned about your life,
I am a Bible believer and I identify with no one group of people, though the Baptists were those who trained me, some allegiance is toward them for sure, as I believe they have the correct idea of the local Church, and how a body of believers should be cared for, Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, but I am a Fundamentalist, meaning I believe the Bible to be infallible, preserved, inherent, sand without error, I believe the Gospel of God is man's only hope, for only the gospel has the power to give you a new heart, and a new mind, new spirit, new perspectives, for only the gospel has the power to implants these into you, and we are changed from the inside out, not the outside in, this is my creed, the KJV 1611, A. Bible, which has no copyright, and is written on a fifth to sixth-grade level, and if I was God, that is how I would have done it, so everyone could understand, but also, the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, they are spiritually discerned, and except you are born again you cnnot even understand the bible, and the gospel is that power which implants another divine nature inside of your spirit, Christianity is nt fixing the Adam race but is replacing the Adam race with the last Adam, who became the Second Man, upon His reurrection from among the dead. The big picture is God has another race of people on this earth, and they are those in Christ Jesus, baptized in His body by the Holy Ghost, on the Cross, where He became the ultimate sacrifice for His people, for except God had placed a remnant in His Son on the cross, we would have all been as S***m and Gomorrah, that new race of people was crucified in Christ Jesus on the cross, and they entered the tomb in Christ Jesus, and on the third day, he arose from among the dead with that remnant in Him and the message of the Gospel of God for His Church, and that is their mission to get as many to believe this gospel as they can before he comes back to this earth and sets up His kingdom of righteousness, so Adam is done for (so to speak) and the new Genesis began upon His resurrection, with another race of people, which male and female do not even play a part in Him, ffor we are neither jew nor greek, bond or free, male or female in Christ Jesus, so BLM, and transgenders I have no problem with, for in Christ we are sexless beings, and during this kingdom He is coming back to set up, will be rule by Him, from the throne of David in the city of Jerusalem, and in this kingdom there will be neither male nor famale, black, white, red, yellowm brow, as race and cultural distinctions will no longer separate us from one another, we will be one person in Christ Jesus the Second Man.

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The gospel is assuredly the power of God to salvation to every one that believes it, and it is the gospel I am called upon to believe in order to salvation, as many passages of Scripture distinctly teach. Faith is the grand principle which connects the soul with God; it lays hold of His revelation, and believes it, because it is His. It is well to see this. "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness." And then he adds, for our comfort and consolation, "It was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." So, also, in John 3:33: "He that has received His testimony has set to his seal that God is true." Many other passages might be quoted to show the place which faith occupies in Christianity. It is the principle on which we are justified in contrast with the principle of works. As we read in Romans 1:17, "The righteousness of God is revealed, on the principle of faith (ek pisteo), to faith." Under the law, righteousness was required from man; but in the gospel it is revealed by God. Under the law, righteousness was on the ground or principle of works; in the gospel, it is on the opposite ground or principle of faith. You cannot meditate too profoundly on this great cardinal truth. But not only do we get righteousness by faith, we also live by faith. (Comp. Hab. 2:4; Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11; Heb. 10:38) "The just shall live by faith." This takes in the whole of the divine life in all its details. It is a great mistake to limit the life of faith to mere dependence upon God for temporal things. True, it is most blessed to be cast upon God for everything — to hang on Him like a child, in all our need, from day to day. We would not pen a single line to derogate from the value of such an attitude. But there is a way of speaking of a life of faith which limits it to mere trust in God for food and raiment, and to this we seriously object. It is not correct, and its moral influence is decidedly pernicious. There is no other way for any Christian to live but by faith.

Do not imagine for a moment, dear friend, that we deem your question either "stupid or strange." Quite the opposite. We are only too glad to be allowed to minister in any little way to exercised souls. May the Lord relieve you of every burden, and stay your heart upon His own eternal grace and truth!

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"The north wind drives away rain; so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue."

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BACKBITING.

"Mary." You do not tell us where you live, but we fear the evil to which you call our attention is not confined to your locality, or to the special class to which you refer, namely, "unmarried females." The sin of "backbiting" prevails everywhere, and amongst all classes, to an appalling extent. It is an abominable, yea, a diabolical evil. It has been truly said, "The backbiter injures three persons, namely, himself, his hearer, and the subject of his tale." If I have any fault to find with a person, he himself ought to be the very first to hear of it. How little is this attended to! We meet a person with a smile and a shake of the hand, and no sooner have we parted company with him, than we commence to disparage him in some way or another. "I am determined," said an old saint, "never to speak of a mans virtues to his face, or of his faults behind his back." Noble determination! But alas! alas! how little is it acted upon! We generally reverse the order; we flatter people to their face, and blacken them behind their back. The Lord deliver us from this sinful and shameful practice! It is most assuredly of the devil. We want to be more faithful in speaking to people — more gracious in speaking of them. If we see anything wrong in a person, let us go directly to him and speak plainly; and if we have nothing good to say of him, let us graciously draw the curtain of silence around him. This would save a world of mischief; it would prevent untold sorrow and heart-burning. "Speak not evil one of another, brethren." This is a seasonable word, and yet, alas! how few act upon it. There seems such a want of common honesty, such an absence of even manly frankness, such meanness and cowardliness in saying behind a man's back what we would not dare to say to his face. Christians should flee from all this. It is most contemptible. No doubt "unmarried females" are more exposed to this evil, than those whose hands are well filled with domestic work. We gather this from the pungent words of the apostle, in 1 Timothy 5:13: "Withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house: and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not." It may be said that this passage applies to "the younger widows;" but then the spirit of it applies wherever the evil exists. It is a good thing to be fully employed; it saves one from a great deal of evil, and from backbiting amongst the rest; against which we solemnly warn the reader. The devil is a backbiter — the chief of backbiters, and all who indulge in the practice are doing his work. We would recommend you, dear friend, and all our readers, to adopt Solomon's remedy in all cases of backbiting. He says, "The north wind drives away rain; so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue." Never listen to a backbiter, for if you do you are a partaker of his evil. Let us remember that the way of the Lord is to speak faithfully to us, but graciously of us. Let us seek to imitate this, and not be found doing Satan's work. The words of a talebearer are a deadly wound going into the innermost parts of the belly, he has been gut shot.

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"A. D." You ask, "what is the difference between self-judgment and the judgment of our ways?" There is a very material difference. If self were habitually judged in the presence of God, we should not require to judge our ways.

Self-judgment is the expression of victory through the power of the Holy Ghost. The demand for judgment upon our ways proves that we have been defeated through the power of the flesh. We judge ourselves in the power of communion; we judge our ways, ofttimes, in anguish of soul. Take an example. A person has a very irritable, peevish temper; but he is enabled, by the grace of God, so to judge and subdue it, in secret, that it does not manifest itself to the view of others. Hence, those who come in contact with him in daily life, may consider him to be a man of a very placid temper. They know not his struggles in secret. "There his fervent spirit labours, there he gains fresh conquests o'er himself, compared with which the laurels which a Caesar wore were weeds." On the other hand, if he does not judge himself and subdue his temper in secret, it will surely exhibit itself to others, and then he will have to judge his ways in sorrow and humiliation. Instead of conquering his temper, he is conquered by it. This makes a material difference, dear friend, does it not? We look upon self-judgment as the judgment of the root, whereas the judgment of our ways is the judgment of the fruit. We consider self-judgment an invaluable and indispensable exercise; were it more faithfully and habitually practised, our walk would be a different thing altogether. There is a fearful amount of laxity and unsubduedness amongst us, which, if not checked by the energy of the Holy Ghost, must produce the most disastrous results.

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THE FIRST AND SECOND MAN.

"M. J." 1 Corinthians 15:24-28 refers to the millennial reign of Christ, during which He will subjugate everything under the rule of righteousness. At the close of the millennium the Lord Jesus Christ will give up the kingdom to God, after having brought all into complete subjection. The first man received all in order, and plunged it into ruin; the second Man received all in confusion, and will reduce it to perfect order. Every steward that has been entrusted with any office in this world has been turned out of his stewardship — witness Adam, Israel, and the professing Church. Not so the second Man: He will give back His stewardship into the hands of Him from whom He received it. Blessed be His name, He stands in contrast with all beside.

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THE DIVISIONS IN THE REVELATION.

"A Constant and Grateful Reader." Rev. 13:7 refers to saints that shall be on the earth after the Church has been taken up to be with the Lord. The threefold division of the book of Revelation will help you much. "The things which thou hast seen." (Rev. 1) "The things that are." (Rev. 2, 3) "The things that shall be." (Rev. 4-22) Rev. 4 and Rev. 5 show you the Church on high before the seals are open. We are in "The things that are," that is the period of the Church's history as a responsible vessel on the earth. Hence, for men to ransack history, in order to trace the seals, trumpets, and vials, is most unintelligent labour. If the Church is on earth, then we are in "The things that are," and not a single seal has yet been opened. But we merely give you the judgment which we have been led to form from many years study of the word of God. May He keep us so near to Himself continually, that we may have His thoughts about everything — past, present, and future.

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Psalms 71:21
Thou shalt increase my greatness - Thou wilt restore me to my throne and kingdom; and it shall be done in such a way that all shall see it was the hand of God; and I shall have the more honor on the account.

Comfort me on every side - I shall have friends in all quarters; and the tribes on all sides will support me.

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Psalms 71:20
Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles - Multiplied straits and difficulties. And thou hast only showed them.

Hadst thou permitted them to have fallen upon me with all their own energy and natural consequences, they would have destroyed me. As it was, I was nearly buried under them.

Shalt quicken me again - Shalt revive me - put new life in me. This has been applied to the passion of our Lord, and his resurrection; for it is added, Thou: -

Shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth - Death shall not prey upon my body; thy Holy One can see no corruption. As applicable to David, it might mean his being almost overwhelmed with afflictions; and his deliverance was like a life from the dead.

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Psalms 71:17
Thou hast taught me from my youth - I have had thee for my continual instructor: and thou didst begin to teach me thy fear and love from my tenderest infancy. Those are well taught whom God instructs; and when he teaches, there is no delay in learning.

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Psalms 71:17-18 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and hitherto have I proclaimed thy marvellous works: Now also, when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not, until I have proclaimed thine arm unto this generation, thy might to every one that is to come.

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Psalms 71:15-16 My mouth shall declare thy righteousness, and thy salvation all the day: for I know not the numbers thereof. With the help of the Lord Jehovah, I will go; I will recall thy righteousness alone.

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