VOICEVOICE OFOF TRUTHTRUTH RADIORADIO MISSIONMISSIONSS “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 VOL. 59, NO. 2 April - June 2021 Dear Friend: Much has taken place since we sent out our last magazine. First, though a very few of us suffered from the effects of the COVID-19 virus, none of our congrega- tion, mission places, or listeners have passed away because of the virus. Most of our people have been vaccinated by now and are comfortable in attending church services. A few have been reluctant to take the shot, and that is their right to do so. Then, in April, we were blessed by being able to celebrate our biannual A Peculiar People week of nightly Revival Services fol- lowed by our Fellowship Sunday. The (Part 1) Lord gave us a beautiful day and a Daniel Smart great number of our folks attended. In addition, we baptized three newly saved souls. I always appreciate the “Who gave Himself for us, that He baptizing service. When I was a child, might redeem us from all iniquity, and my mother attended a small purify unto Himself a peculiar people, Pentecostal church and they baptized zealous of good works.” – Titus 2:14. in the river. Oh, what a time singing those old songs and all that took place, Substance of a Sermon by Daniel Smart, I enjoyed watching it. 1856, a strict baptist minister. Published Often times, Bro. Bobby Yeater, in “The Gospel Standard”, March, 1945, who puts the magazine together, under the heading: “Practical Godliness.” inserts a letter by Pastor Shelton enti- Reprinted in the “Old Faith Contender”, tled, “Letter to Awakened Sinners.” I August 15, 1951, Vol. 29, No. 16, Pilgrim encourage everyone, saint and sinner, Publications, Elon College, NC. saved or lost to read this gracious let- ter. I would say that it is a blessing to Introduction by W. J. Berry, Editor, me and I look forward to reading it. “Old Faith Contender”: Pastor Shelton had a heart for lost This sermon by the Strict Baptist individuals like none other person Minister, Daniel Smart in 1856, is a that I ever read after. I cherish all the most excellent description of what material; the tapes, CDs and written constitutes practical godliness and in material that we have here. We have what sense God’s people are “a pecu- a listing of all his printed booklets. liar people!” The further one gets into They are sent free and postpaid. We this sermon the more it is realized that print and reprint the booklets and the religion of Jesus Christ does not send them out by the thousands each consist of mere lip-service, nor of let- year. Let me know if you are interest- ter doctrine, however sound, but that (Continued on Page 28) (Continued on Page 2) 2 VOICE OF TRUTH A Peculiar People (USPS 013-450) (Continued from Page 1) Published quarterly by First Baptist Church of Algiers it must be a living, vital reality in our PO Box 1810, Walker, LA 70785 every-day life, or else it is mockery EDITOR IN CHIEF and worse than nothing. Daniel ALBERT PENDARVIS Smart would not have an ounce of any brand of the works system; neither would he have any mere profession of grace doctrine that did not show forth the fruits thereof. The substance of this sermon is to show that the true grace of God is effectual in the life of a believer, and that “faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” There Printing office: 9559 Florida Blvd, can be no point or value in our pro- Walker, LA 70785. fessing to believe in grace doctrine and not bringing forth the fruits of Subscription price: $3.00 per year. that doctrine. That is to be like the fig PERIODICALS postage paid at tree which indeed had many leaves Walker, LA, and at additional mail- but no fruit. ing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address od’s great grace to great sin- changes to VOICE OF TRUTH, Radio ners has been my theme, Missions, PO Box 1810, Walker, LA G and shall be until I die. But 70785. great grace will have great effects E-Mail: [email protected] upon the spirit, life, and conduct of those who have the grace of God in Website: www.radiomissions.org truth. It will lead to obedience. It will Phone: (225) 664-8658 lead us with Mary, to love much hav- The Voice of Truth is a publication of ing much forgiven. It will lead to ten- Radio Missions and First Baptist derness and fear of sinning against Church of Algiers dedicated to the that God whom we love “because He preaching of the Gospel of the Lord first loved us.” It will lead to filial fear Jesus Christ for the salvation of sin- and humility. It will make a man dif- ners and the edification of believers. fer in spirit, life, and conduct from It is sponsored by the offerings of the rest of mankind. Do we know any- those who love the truth of God’s thing of the saving, humbling, sancti- Word and lost souls. fying effects of grace? Most people’s religion is of a very selfish character: all they want of Jesus Christ is to escape hell [that is the motive of the SUBSCRIPTION works- system – Ed.] not that they have any love to the Lord Jesus, not Name (Please Print) that they hate sin and abhor self, out of love to Jesus Christ; but wishing to Address serve their lusts and pleasures in this world, and then creep into heaven City State Zip rather than get damned – expecting to I enclose $ for years subscription ($3.00 per year) be saved by Christ, but “to be holy, (Make check payable to: Radio Missions) (Continued on Page 8) 3 colporteur, noun col·por·teur | \ käl-pȯr-tәr \ Definition : a peddler of religious books Did you know? In 19th-century America, the word colporteur (a French borrowing meaning “peddler”) came to be used especially of door-to-door peddlers of religious books and tracts, and it has carried that specific sense into the 21st century. What about you? Since 1950, we have been printing and distributing Pastor Shelton's (the founding pastor of First Baptist Church of Algiers) sermons in booklet form free of charge. We currently have hun- dreds of titles available for free distribution simply for the asking. Become a colporteur and we will send them to you to distribute in your area. Many have been placed in truck stops, doctor's offices, airports, hospitals, bus stations, prisons, jails, nursing homes and directly into the hands of needy souls, both in the United States and overseas. Will you help spread the Gospel? 4 BIBLE PROPHECY EXPLAINED AND EXPOUNDED Bible Prophecy and Perilous Times SERIES H-0, NO. 5 A. R. Copeland n Second Timothy 3, the COVETOUSNESS IS A TRAIT OF apostle Paul predicted “per- THE NATURAL MAN. Paul calls this I ilous times shall come,” then depravity, which makes all men born he goes on to say through Verses 2 to 7 by nature “the children of wrath” – that which every believer should read, (Eph. 2:1-3); with the worldwide edu- because he describes organized reli- cational program by evolutionism and gion without Christ, individuals with- naturalism we see the mind in further out life or love, and mass humanity degeneracy and animal activities. blinded by the ungodliness that has “Covetous” means a love for money, permeated all phases of life and insti- material possessions, and a seeking, tution with men and women “ever in the name of each individual seeker, learning, and never able to come to for that which will build himself up as the knowledge of the truth.” The a result of his own selfishness. We are whole thing could be summed up in experiencing a crime wave the like of one word “Blasphemy.” And if that is which the world has never seen, and not enough, Verses 8 to 14 show that unfortunately, we see an increase all such “resist the truth, men of cor- annually in this crime wave, deceit rupt minds, reprobate concerning the employed, embezzlement of banks faith.” But the apostle makes plain and other funds, the widespread prac- that at a certain time “they shall pro- tice of fraud, murder, robberies and ceed no further; for their folly shall be theft. All of this is motivated by cov- manifest unto all men, as theirs also etousness, which is the same spirit was.” In Verse 11, the apostle speaks that motivates pornographers to print, of the “persecutions” and “afflictions” and sell, inflammatory materials which came upon him “at Antioch, at about sex, which is a stimulant to Iconium, at Lystra, what persecutions crime that results in tragedy, the exact I endured; but out of them all the Lord opposite of Christianity. We hear con- delivered me.” People who fight the stantly through the news media, the Lord and seek to drive a God-called press, radio and TV of the increase of pastor from his pulpit, Paul describes dope peddlers, and the determination in Verses 12-13: “Yea, and all that will to destroy minds and wreck our youth live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer today. Such selfish, materialistic, evo- persecution.” There will be no slack lutionary philosophy has spawned of this in the last days, “But evil men greedy souls in a society of greed and and seducers shall become worse and gain, ready to sell its soul for a mess of worse, deceiving and being deceived.” “pottage.” Believers are to continue according to LEADING TRAIT OF MANKIND the scripture of truth which the apos- TODAY IS PRIDE.