My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:2-4)
Greetings once again from the Breakers! I wish we had exciting news, but there is really not too much to report. As the old saying goes, “No news is good news!” And sometimes that’s exactly right.
I’ve been wearing myself thin these last hot and muggy summer months, and we are starting to catch up on a few things, and we do have a few praise reports we are glad to be able to include in this prayer letter.
CONTRACT SIGNED TO SELL OUR HOUSE
Thanks to all of you who had been praying for our house to sell. We’ve had a FSBO (For Sale By Owner) sign out front for several months, and while we had many calls on it, there were very few who could afford, or even get a loan for the place. All because of this “slow economy.” So many brethren have told us their sad stories about how long their houses had been up for/and are still for sale. It just seems it’s very hard to sell nowadays. But glory to God we signed a contract to sell the end of August. We didn’t get what we wanted for the place, (no one never does), in fact we are taking a big loss. But we feel so blessed to have that burden lifted. Please continue to pray that the closing goes off without a hitch.
Wouldn’t you know that the day we signed the contract was the day the A/C unit went out. (Seems like that always happens, doesn’t it? Just when something good is about to happen, something bad has to come along and spoil it!) The buyers signed the contract “as is” but we felt bad, so we made a point to pay to have the A/C indoor heating and cooling unit replaced. It cost us 1500 dollars out of pocket. Like the old saying goes, “It hurts to do the right thing.” But we felt we did just that in fixing it for the new buyers, who probably could not afford to fix it themselves. (They could barely afford to get a loan in this horrible economy).
BOOKS, BOOKSTORE, PRINTING, and PRINTING EQUIPMENT
Selling our house means we will no longer be able to keep the heavy duty printing equipment we have stored there. That’s okay, as we’ve been printing materials on our laser printers instead with great results. This means we have a multi-lith printer, a camera for the plates, a nice cutter, and more just collecting dust. So I thought in this prayer letter that I would ask anyone if they could use it in their church. It’s a great machine for printing tracts! If so, let us know, as we’d love to see that machine used by someone for the glory of God. We would use it ourselves, but it’s just too big. It’s more for printing in bulk, and we just aren’t to that stage in which we print that much. (I believe each plate can do 30,000 to 50,000 pages).
Speaking of printing tracts, we have a new one for you here. The question on the title says it all: “How sure are you that you are going to heaven?” And we’ve been busy printing these up, and getting them into the hands of those who will read them. If you like them and want some more, please let us know!
A while back someone told me about P.O.D. or Print on Demand, and my wife and I learned more about it lately, figuring out how to have our books printed this way and posted for sale on the internet. For years I’ve been printing them up and mailing them out myself, but this way a company does all the work, and it looks so nice and professional! If you want to buy the book, you purchase it through Amazon.com. They then package it and mail it, and then send us a check for the royalties (which are not much, believe me). But we are hoping to supplement our monthly support with this revenue.
If you are interested in checking out our bookstore, please go to www.rrb3.com and click on “BOOKSTORE.”
If you desire a lot of books to sell in your church bookstore, let me know, as I can get a lot cheaper price in bulk. Our prayer is that these books will go far and wide, as they contain a lot of good doctrinal material, as well as important information about the Spanish Bible Issue.
As most of you know, all of the support we get for the ministry goes to the ministry, so we are trying to see if we can help support the ministry and ourselves through printing and selling this way online. We also are experimenting with printing the Spanish New Testament, and so far we have sold a few Valera 1602 Purified Spanish New Testaments, (although the quality isn’t as good as we’d like. We are still learning). I hope in the future to make much more information available in both English and Spanish, as good Christian literature is important.
Speaking of the Spanish Bible (the Valera 1602 Purified) we heard good news. Mt. Pisgah press in Tennessee has decided it is the best Spanish Bible, and they are going to start printing it on their presses. We also are waiting for more whole Bibles to be printed in Shelbyville, Tennessee, as well. So please pray these might be printed soon. (Because we are all out and need more!)
THE STORM AND EVEN MORE PROBLEMS
As I write this, we are in Florida in the middle of a Tropical Storm named Lee. It has caused several leaks in the house we live in here, and has destroyed our bulkhead and eroded away some of the property. All of these are just more things we’ll have to fix. But we know there must be a reason for all this. So we continue pressing forward in serving the Lord as we try to get our house in order. I just hope we’ll be able to get ahead soon, as it seems like just about the time we get to where we want to be, then there are more problems to deal with. Someone once said it nicely, when they said, “Well, um, I think they just call that LIFE!”
TRANSLATING AND GETTING MATERIAL TO SPANISH SPEAKERS
At the request of others, I’ve been busy working on the computer translating my latest book (the one I mailed out to you in my last prayer letter about the Spanish Bible and those Courageous men Behind its Inception) into Spanish. This worked out well, as my home church in Mexico wanted to use the material in their Bible Institute, so that took me a few 12 to 14 hour days of translating.
I’ve also been flooded with many phone calls from Spanish-speakers who tell me that they are mad at me for having all my books in English and not in Spanish. (Actually, two are already in Spanish, but the rest still need to be translated). So it looks like I have a great job in front of me translating them for the Spanish-speaking people. (Hey, I’m supposed to be a Missionary Evangelist to the Spanish-Speaking People, so I really should have all my material in Spanish, right?)
PONDERING WHY THINGS HAPPEN THE WAY THEY DO
I used to always wonder why God would let my Dad pass away, and why we would end up here in the states. But now I’m seeing it’s in order to be able to do the work of getting all of our works into Spanish, and to get out more Spanish Bibles. For had we been in Honduras or on the road all the time, we would not have had time to do all of this. So God is working and slowly preparing us to eventually get to the point where we can indeed get back on the road again someday. But until then, we’ll keep doing the work of the Lord as we try to get our house sold, our books into English and Spanish available on the world wide web, and our printing machines up and running printing more tracts.
As always, thanks for your continued prayers and support. We need it! And we hope you know we pray for you all too!
In His service,
Robert, Laura, and Emma Lee Breaker
As always, I just can’t make my prayer letters short. And with the high cost of postage nowadays, it just doesn’t seem right to not send as much as I can for the same price of a regular letter. So, I’ve always got to add a little something extra. This time, I thought I’d add this. Here it is. I hope it makes you think
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Tim. 3:1)
This verse pretty much says it all. And I’m sure you’d agree we are definitely in the last days. This means constant peril shall come soon (if it’s not here already).
Recently, I’ve just finished reading a good book by Ann Coulter entitled, “Demonic” and it really brought home some hard truths for me. She did a great job in her book in showing the evil power of “mob rule” and how easy it is to deceive people into thinking a certain way and then inciting them to react in an angry manner. In a mob, there is no rule, only brute force, and the mob has no pity, practicing on others the most atrocious and barbarous acts imaginable.
In her book, she showed the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution, proving how one was well thought out with much reason and thinking, and sought independence for truth and justice, while the other was a sheer murderous circus, with no goal but to get rid of those in power and to take out one’s anger on them. Rape, murder, pillaging, plunder, desecration of the dead, were common place, and the mob grew more bold in their evil actions, as countless thousands were beheaded at the guillotine. It was, as the title of her book implies, truly Demonic.
The modern history of mankind and mob rule is much the same. It is man giving into his basest depravity and taking his anger, hatred, and unconstrained passions out on others. Hitler, Philpot, Stalin, Mao, and others who have gained power using mob rule have all done the same thing: they have carried out MASS MURDER, as they sought to make society what they wanted it to be. And they all have one thing in common: after they took over through mob rule, they all outlawed God and the Bible. (Can you say, “Demonic?”)
On this “happy note,” I can’t help but report that I’m starting to see this demonic mob mentality in America and around the world. Mobs are taking to the streets, and they are militant in their hatred towards Christians and Jews.
Several months ago, you’ll remember the Muslims in Egypt ousting their ruler, while chanting Anti-Jewish rhetoric, all while they gang raped a woman in the streets, during what they called their “day of rage.”
Not too long ago we also saw mass demonstrations in Greece, Spain, and then even in England too, where countless mobs of people looted store after store for no reason other than utter rebellion.
Now we are starting to see it in America as well, as the thugs are calling for a national day of rage in September of this year. Who’s behind all this? Well, as the title of her book implies, it must be demons, (or what the Bible calls seducing spirits). Certainly Satan is behind it all. And, he’s using socialism, communism, unions, colleges, community organizers, and modern day liberal thought to achieve his task of utter pandemonium, chaos, and suffering.
Instead of people today wanting to live for Jesus, they have become militant against Jesus. Instead of doing what’s right, they have pledged their lives to fight for and even die for: the whales, gay rights, women’s rights, animal rights, mother earth, abortion, etc. And they will never stop until they feel they have stamped out anyone and everyone who is against their satanic ideals. (This is how the mob works. They don’t stop until everyone they hate is dead.) Sadly, they don’t understand that everything they stand for is completely against God and the Bible.
So yes, perilous times shall come. In fact, I think they are already here. And it bothers me. Sometimes I fear the worst, but hope for the best. And as I ponder the evil to come, I sometimes want to just quit the ministry, and go get a cabin in the woods somewhere away from everyone and everything so when the looting, pillaging, plundering, rapings and murders begin here, I’ll be away from it. But then again, as I think it through, I believe it’s just that much more important to do more now to try to convert others to Christ.
But probably the saddest thing is that it’s just not the demon-possessed, demonically led liberals who are so angry with their mob style mentality. Today I find there are many Christians who have the same mob-like system of thinking, (i.e. mass condemnation and constant ridicule towards those they don’t agree with). And if you are one of those ostracized by them, then the whole group will devour you. Why is this? I believe it’s because the Church has gotten worldly and the world has gotten churchy, so it’s hard to tell one from the other today! This is why so many Christians are more interested in attacking than simply standing for the truth and faithfully preaching it to a lost and dying world. (Sadly, many today are not standing at all, rather back peddling).
Thinking on this and reading my Bible, I believe the Lord showed me something very important. I was reading through 2 Peter chapter one when it hit me with a ton of bricks. There we read:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
Here, the apostle Peter gives us seven things that if we do, we will never FALL, nor become UNFRUITFUL. As I looked at those seven things, I thought to myself, “How many of those do I really have? And how many of those do modern Christians really have?” You see those seven things are against the mob mentality. They are what distinguish a person as a true Christian. And they are so very close to the fruits of the Spirit which Paul gives us in Gal. 5:22 and 23.
But what really got me was in verse five where it says that we should “give all diligence” to these things. That is, we should diligently be active in trying to be: 1. Virtuous, 2. Knowledgeable, 3. Temperate, 4. Patient, 5. Godly, 6. Kind, and 7. Charitable.
It is just me, or has modern Christianity lost it’s calling? Many a modern “militant” Christian has none of these things, much less even one or two.
And look at verse ten, it tells us if we do these things, then we shall NEVER fall.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to backslide, or fall into sin. I want to live right and do right! So that’s why I’m devoting myself to try even more to be these seven things.
Lastly, notice that in verse nine we read of those who do lack these things, and the verse tells us that they are BLIND (Does this remind you of Laodicea in Revelation chapter three? It does me!), and they can’t SEE afar off (they can’t see the coming insurrection of demonic forces bend on their destruction).
So as I continue in this Christian life, looking up and hoping the Lord will come soon (the sooner the better), I want to be the opposite of the depraved, demonically possessed mobs. I want to be a true Christian. How about you? How many of these seven things are in you (vs 8), and if so, do they abound as the verse says? And are you diligently (verse 5 and 10) seeking those things? Our enemies are amassing and they are diligent in their endeavors, not intending to stop until they achieve their Satanic goal of a New World Order without God.
