Biblical Discipleship Ministries

2212 Chisholm Trail, Rockwall, TX 75032

972-771-0568

But this thing commanded I them, saying, obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. . . .

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

Jeremiah 7:23-24, 26-27.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.                                                                                               Hosea 4:6

Wherefore I will yet plead [contend] with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead [contend].                                                                                            Jeremiah 2:9

Tragic Ignorance

“Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not” (Hosea 7:9).

One of the saddest dramas in human experience is the sight of a proud and confident leader who does not realize that his once-vaunted powers have deserted him and he now appears merely weak and foolish. Mighty Samson, with his locks shorn, was a sad example of such tragic ignorance. “And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him” (Judges 16:20), so the Philistines put out his eyes and bound him with chains. So it was with the once-mighty people of Israel in the days of their deep apostasy. Hosea described their distressing condition in the graphic words of our text.

Many years later, God’s chosen people exhibited an even more tragic state of pompous ignorance. Their Messiah had come to them, and they didn’t know Him, even crucifying Him. God’s judgment couldn’t be delayed. “[They] shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation” (Luke 19:44).

But perhaps the most tragic case is the church in Laodicea. This church represents all those outwardly prosperous evangelical churches that attempt to take a neutral stance on the basic conflicts of the last days. The one who is “the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God” (Revelation 3:14) will pronounce the awful judgment. “So then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (vv. 16-17). How urgently the people of God need to guard against the tragedy of arrogant ignorance! Dr. Henry M. Morris, Days of Praise, August 19, 2009. www.icr.org

Jeremiah 2:9 (above) has one interpretation—God dealing with the Jewish people, but there may be an application to USA. The generation of the ‘60’s, the Hippy generation, departed from the Lord by kicking Him out of our schools and country via the courts. We are now in the generation of the Hippy’s grandchildren [the “children’s children”]. Could God be saying to our country “You refused Me in your youth (1960’s), USA, so I will now get your attention—I will bring down my judgment on the generation of your grandchildren and perhaps that will finally gain your attention!

Thirty-eight years ago when we moved to Dallas, we remember Francis Schaffer making the comment that “really all the Evangelical Christians in America want is their personal peace and affluence” and a “leave me alone tunnel  vision” attitude.  From what we observe of these last 30 plus years, he seems to be correct in his assessment.  Praise God there are godly remnant families scattered here and there that are NOT this way.

At bedtime we routinely read together as a family a devotional, and the one above was the one for August 19^th.  The term “tragic” seemed to resonate with us all. It is the perfect description of where our country is right now, having chosen “other gods” and the people, for the most part, specifically and obviously not serving God as did our early forefathers .  We feel this is an important message for all of us and we pray that our prayer would be that of Philippians 3:10 that we would “know HIM and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death.”

It has been quite a last couple of months for us with the girls finally home from college, the home school conventions and other travel, and numerous medical appointments. We need lots of prayer for the busy next two months—pray for open hearts of the people and health and safety for us.

Dear email Friends, during our nearly three week trip we do not foresee the ability to check our email Inbox. While we love hearing from each of you and enjoy reading the notes when we return from a long trip, the extensive number of spam and junk mails we receive each day and cannot regulate when we are gone, now “bump off/squeeze out” the important emails we get from friends and ministry-related contacts. Could you please suspend emails to us between Monday, August 24th and Friday, September 10^th? Thank you very much and please remember to put us back on your contacts list after this time. J

September/October 2009

Aug 25^th   Arrive Heathrow. Transfer to Latimer Place. Stay overnight.

Aug 26-27: Littleport Evangelical Church, Littleport, UK, The Barnds: Worldview, Animal complexity

Aug 27^th   Drive to Bristol. Overnight Croyde with Brightons

Aug 28^th   Leave for Heatree

Aug 29^th-Sept 1^st  Truth4Youth Conference: Topics for Families, Ladies, Young Girls

Sept 1^st  Barnstaple, Tavistock Christian Fellowship:  Creation Truths  (Pastor Kay)

Sept 3^rd  Leave Heatree.  Return to Croyde:  7 pm  Jobe speaks at Whiddon Valley Evangelical Church.

Sept 4^th   Fly to Germany

5-6^th         Ministry for Rhein Valley Independent Baptist Church, Weisbaden, Germany

“Creation or Evolution: What is the Issue?” (0611-204-8291)

8^th:           Bibelgemeinde (Bible Church) Ulm/Neu-Ulm: Worldview and Economics: 07345/7666

9^th:           Ansbach Baptist Church, Pastor Doug Cook: “Creation or Evolution: What is the Issue?”

(865) 686-8904

10^th:        Fly Germany to London to Dallas

13^th         Rockwall Bible Church,  Jobe teaching: Truth and Discernment

17^th:        Richardson Home School Group, Richardson, TX: Sheila Clay:  10:30 “What is Truth and How                       
Do We Defend It?”   Second session: 11:30am-12:15pm- “Creation/Evolution: What is the Issue?”

20^th:        Stepping Stones Church, McKinney, TX, 972.542.2802: Incredible Creatures, Issues in Creation

24^th:        Leave for Pennsylvania

27-30^th:  Mount Zion Baptist Church, Denver, PA, Creation Conference:  717-336-5553

29^th:        Home School Group, Denver, PA area:  Worldview and Creation Issues, Animals of Creation

30^th:        Ephrata Mennonite School, Ephrata, PA, Creation/Evolution Controversy: Creatures of Creation

Oct 1 :    Lancaster, PA, 7pm: The Institute for Scientific and Biblical Research: Creation update: new DVD

3^th:          Mifflinburg, PA, Mifflinburg Bible Church: Ladies’ Talk 9:30 AM, Jenna Dee: “Tone in the Home”

4^th:          Mifflinburg Bible Church: SS/Church 9:30 AM, “Creation and the Authority of Scripture”

4^th           Corapolis, PA, Evening Service, (unconfirmed)

5^th:          See Pennsylvania Martin family

9^th:          Leave for Atlanta

11^th-14^th: Providence Church, Duluth, GA, Sunday and Wednesday:  “The Veracity of Genesis and Issue of Origins”: 770-497-1309

12-14^th:   Possible Christian School Ministry in the Atlanta area

18^th:        Lamar Baptist Church, Beaumont, TX, 409-899-3367: “Creation/Evolution: The Real Issue”

24-25^th:  Trinidad Bible Church + Prison Ministry, Trinidad, CO, “Apologetics and the Veracity of the Word”

27^th:        Buena Vista, CO, Prison Ministry: Creation, Worldview, What is Truth?

(Schedule is incomplete, pray for the pending events)

www.Biblicaldiscipleship.org                       www.evolutionofacreationist.com        drjobe@bdmin.org

10^th: Return to London from Germany and on to USA

4^th: Fly to Germany for five days of ministry (specifics unconfirmed, missionaries Chuck and Linda Truitt)

2^nd: Jobe speak to the staff at Heatree conference center.

29-Sept 1^st: Truth4Youth conference at Heatree conference center in Devon, Jobe to the group, Jenna Dee to  women, and Taryn and Mirren to the young ladies.

Aug: 24-Sept 10^th ministry in England (Youth4Truth England) and Germany (Military bases and churches)