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December 2020 & Januray 2021 Vol 15 1-2

THE GREATEST
GIFT,
ETERNAL LIFE.
(From Death to Life!)

What does Christmas mean to you? When I was a young child I couldn’t
wait to see what gifts I would receive. It wasn’t like today, because there was very
little money in the 40’s, but the gifts were precious to us children. Then when I
got married and had children, it was all about what we could do for them.
How many gifts can you remember from the past? They came and went
and we forgot all about them. But there is one gift that I have received in my
life that I can never forget or take lightly. That is the gift of Eternal Life that I
received from the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s what Christmas is all about. Not our
giving, but the gift of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Baby Jesus, conceived by the Holy Ghost, and birthed from the womb of
woman, came to give His life for you and me. That little baby changed the world!
He would grow up, as we did, and live and die without sin. He was a pure and ac-
ceptable sacrifice for the sins of mankind. No man killed Him. ( John 10:17-18)
He laid down His life so we could have Eternal Life, and was resurrected by the
Father, because He was without sin. We, who have accepted the gift of Eternal
Life, have much to give thanks for this Christmas.
This gift comes to us by GRACE. We cannot buy it or work for it. We
cannot obtain it without Jesus, by grace, offering it to us. Who does He offer it to?
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: (1 John 5:1) The
person who is willing to be birthed into God’s family, is the one, who by faith,
believes in the person and the work of Jesus Christ. Christ willingly gives that
person Eternal Life.
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14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Rom 5:15-19
15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one
many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one
man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one
to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which re-
ceive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one,
Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemna-
tion; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto
justification of life.
19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience
of one shall many be made righteous.
Let’s take a closer look at these verses. Adam offended us by plunging us
into death. We had no choice in the matter. One person caused all men to die. It
was through Adam’s disobedience that we were made sinners. Now Christ comes
and completes a life without sin, which is acceptable to the Father, and He offers
it to us free of charge. This is a gift that you must choose to receive. He does
not force it on any person. Verse 18 says this free gift came upon all men, but
so many refuse to receive it. What about you? Have you, by faith, believed and
received this gift that the Lord Jesus Christ offers you? What about the family
with whom you will celebrate Christmas. Do they know the Lord? Have they
received His gift of life? Leading them to the Lord would be the greatest thing
you could do for them.
If you have received this gift of life, have you ever sought to know why
He would do this for you?
Gal 1:3-5
3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this
present evil world, according to the will of God and our
Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Are you intangible with the world? What a shame. You were saved and
given the power to overcome your flesh. He came and gave His life so we would
not be in bondage to this world. We were redeemed so we could walk in the Spirit
and not the flesh. Have you taken time to renew your mind and walk in the Spirit
or do you continue to walk in the flesh. Your salvation was given to you so you
could walk righteously and not destructively in the flesh. We want the blessing
of righteousness but we don’t want to give up our fleshly ways. It doesn’t work
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that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Father became convinced that God was kind, and that he would see his children
again in heaven.
This thought calmed his heart, but it was to bring Father into open conflict with
what was then the Christian world.
Later he was on a ship going to meet his wife. The captain of the ship came to
him and told him they were passing the place where his children went down. To Father
this was like passing through the “valley of the shadow of death.” but his faith came
through triumphant and strong. On the high seas, near the place where his children per-
ished. he wrote the hymn that was to give comfort to so many?
When peace like a river attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea-billows roll,
Whatever my lot, Tho hast taught me to say;
“It is well, it is well with my soul.”
Tho’ Satan should buffet, tho’ trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
My sin - oh, the bliss of that glorious thought!
My sin - not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross and I bear it no more;
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh, my soul!
And, Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend -
“Even so - It is well with my soul.”
For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.
That he could write such words, at such a time, was made possible by the fierce-
ness of his struggle and the completeness of the victory.
Hymns that are the fruit of anguish victoriously overcome are bound to bring
blessing.
I wish I could share more of this wonderful book. Maybe in a later paper.
Take courage from this family. I don’t know what you have gone through this
year but I know the God we serve and He will do for us what He did for this fam-
ily if we will trust Him.
The children of God are humble, valuable, loved, courageous, forgiv-
ing, and strong!
 IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL
Some years ago I was visiting with a friend who said she had a book
written by Bertha Spafford Vester, daughter to Horatio Spafford the man who
wrote the song, “It Is Well With My Soul.” This friend had taken a trip to Israel
and had met Mrs. Vester, who signed her book for my friend. By this time Mrs.
Bertha had died and the book was very valuable. The friend was very gracious
and allowed me to borrow the book. After reading it, I knew I had to find one for
myself. I got one of the last 25 books that they had. I wish every Christian could
read this book. Most of us have heard the story about the ship sinking and all of
Mrs. Spafford’s children were lost at sea, but we never hear the rest of the story.
Mrs. Spafford would have died also, but after being unconcience, she woke up
floting on a board from the ship. A few years later, after the sinking of the ship,
the Spaffords had a son and a daughter. The son died at a young age and the
daughter grew up to write the book, “Our Jerusalem.” There is so much more to
the story. This 2020 has been a rough year for many of us and it feels like it will
never end, but when you learn what the Spaffords went through, it encourages
your heart.
The reason Mrs. Spafford was on the ship with her children was because
they had just gone through the great Chicago fire. Mr. Spafford lost all his busi-
ness in the fire and Mrs. Spafford was exhausted from caring for people hurt in
the fire. The doctor said Mrs. Spafford needed a trip over seas so she could rest
and recover. Mr. Spafford was to go with the family, but at the last minute had to
attend to business. He was to take a later ship.
If that was not enough to rattle them, their church family broke their
hearts. This is what their daughter wrote in the book.
“In Chicago, Father searched his life for explanations. Until now it had flowed
gently as a river. Spiritual peace and worldly security had sustained his early years, his
family life, and his home. Then had come one terrible event upon another. The Chicago
fires with it’s losses, the failure of his real estate venture, now the loss of his children, all
had come in two years. The important thing was not to lose faith. He must wrestle until
he could say all was well. Added to his grief was spiritual conflict.
The Puritan foundation of the Protestant churches had carried into the United
States many of the harsh Old Testament tenets. It was universally accepted by all Chris-
tians then, that sickness or sorrow was the result of sin. One was the just retribution of
the other.
What had Father done, what had his young wife done, that they should be so
afflicted? He felt that eyes were looking askance at him, wondering.
All around him people were asking the unvoiced question. What guilt had
brought this sweeping tragedy to Anna and Horation Spafford?
Search the Bible teachings as he might, Father could not reconcile this harsh
Puritan tent with his concept of Christian teaching. He had to have a deeper faith in the
goodness of God. Father remembered Christ’s answer to the disciples when they asked
whose sin it was, the parents’ or the man’s that caused him to be born blind; Jesus an-
swered it was neither the man’s nor his parents’ sin that had caused the blindness, but
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that way. God gives us all we need to escape this world. Again, the choice is
ours.
When you were baptized, it was a picture of dying to self and being res-
urrected with Christ. It was the beginning of a new life. To return to the flesh
is called transgression. When we die to self, the flesh no longer belongs to us.
Christ bought us with His blood and the flesh no longer belongs to us. How fool-
ish we are to think we can find life in the old flesh.
How do you know if you are walking in the flesh or the Spirit? When
you are walking in obedience to God, you are walking in the Spirit. When you
are walking in disobedience to God, you are walking in the flesh. The walk of
the Spirit is the NARROW way. There are not large crowds on this road, but it is
where you will find life.
This baby that we will be celebrating this Christmas is the One who grew
up, lived without sin, died to pay for our sins, rose again on the third day and has
ascended into heaven to be our propitiation. This same Jesus offers us the free
gift of Eternal Life. Have you received that gift? If you have, are you telling
others about it so they can have Eternal Life.
This year, as we celebrate Christmas with our loved ones and share our
love with them, let’s not forget the reason and the person who made life possible
for us to stand before God without sin. Lift Him up to those around us.
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men unto me.
KJV
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F MONTHLY REPORT
E This has been a year of great change for many of us. Not a year we will
M soon forget. The last three weeks my son, my daughter-in-law and I have been
locked down with the Covid 19 virus. We are all clear now and free to be in pub-
A lic. God was very merciful to us. A few days after we got sick Bro. Larry Connor
L and Mrs. Judy got the virus. I was talking to her in the ICU almost every day
E and we both thought she would be home the next week, One day later she passed
away. It was such a shock. We have served the Lord together since the middle
By
90’s. She did most of the assembling together of the Tid Bits of Wisdom. Bro.
INSPIRATIONS Gloria Brewster Larry plans to keep the printing going but he needs your prayers. Connie Cimino
has been in the hospital from a fall and a major surgery for over 10 weeks and
has some time to go. Our complete work has been hit. We have made a decision
to move The Wonderful Word’s office to the Tid Bits of Wisdom’s office. Mrs.
THE HANDMAId OF Connie will still be Mrs. Wonderful Word as always. I will do the paper work,
but she still holds her position.
THE LORD I have received some of the sweetest letters from widows. They cannot
(Be it unto me according know how it has warmed my heart to read about God’s provisions for their lives.
to thy word, Luke 1:38) I feel a burden rising in my heart for a work that would be there for these women.
Widows surely could make a difference to the work of Christ if we set our hearts
to it.
I’m sure you have your story about this year also. We must put this year
behind us and be ready to serve the Lord until His returns. We are a divided
We have all heard of Mary, the mother of Jesus. She is not to be wor- nation. The war we are in is spiritual. It could be as bad as the civil war was.
shiped, but she is to be admired. As a woman, can you image what it would be Remember, the Light shines brightest in darkness. Don’t despair; be prepared to
like to have been chosen to birth the son of God? Only one woman would have prove what you say you believe. There may be a cost to it in the days to come!
that opportunity. Wow! What a privilege Mary was given, but she could have Thank you faithful supporters. If any would like to join us, we would be
refused if she had wanted to. We were created in the image of God and given so grateful. Our cost may greatly increase because of changes. God bless you!
choice. We can eat of the fruit of tree of evil, or we can eat of the fruit of the tree
of life. I can choose what I want to do, and God chooses what He will do about.
His will and His purposes will be done. He is sovereign, He has the last word!
We choose and God either blesses our choice are curses our choice. We chose All gifts made to Tid Bits of Wisdom go directly into Tid Bits
our fate by the way we respond to God. If you go to hell, you will have chosen of Wisdom. The paper will be 15 years old this December
to go to hell. God is not willing that any should perish, but if that’s what you and many who started with us have died or become unable
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Mary’s response to the angel was, “Behold the ‘handmaid’ of the Lord”. ask God if He wants you to join us with a monthly support.
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only one person was offered to birth the Son of God, God is looking for people
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THE COLD WITHIN
Six humans trapped in happenstance
In dark and bitter cold,
Each one possessed a stick of wood.
Or so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logs
The first woman held hers back,
For of the faces around the fire,
She noticed one was black. (Prejudice)
The next man, looking across the way
Saw not one of his church,
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch. (Prideful)
The third one sat in tattered clothes
He gave his coat a hitch,
Why should his log be put to use,
To warm the idle rich? (Stingy)
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store,
And how to keep what he had earned,
From the lazy, shiftless poor. (Judgmental)
The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chanced to spite the white. (Vengeance)
The last man of this forlorn group
Did naught except for gain,
Giving only to those who gave,
Was how he played the game. (Selfishness)
The logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin,
They didn’t die from the cold without,
They died from the cold within.
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2 Chron 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew
himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.......
Is the Lord looking at you today? This word perfect means completely
surrendered to Him. He is searching for these people daily to use their lives to
show forth His might. What would He say about you if He looked upon your life
today? Could He trust you with an important work. You might say, “but I’m a no-
body.” So was Mary. The Angel said to Mary, “Thou that art highly favoured,
the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among (not above) women.” Do
you live a life that is highly favoured in the eyes of the Lord? Mary was not
a perfect person. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Mary
was just like you and me. What made Mary acceptable to the Lord was the con-
dition of her heart. The Lord is looking for obedient, submitted hearts. I don’t
know about you, but I hope to find favor in the eyes of the Lord. I want to live to
please Him. I want to be a subservient (totally submitted) servant in the work of
God.
Some woman birthed Peter. Some woman birthed John. Some woman
birthed Elijah. We don’t know how God will use our children. The Lord can use
our lives for many things. Has He asked a hard thing of you? Did you willingly
accept it? Just think how hard it was to be the mother of Jesus. They accused
her of having sex before marriage. Some looked at her as a loose woman. God
trusted her to endure these things. I think about raising a perfect child, never
doing anything wrong. When Mary had other children, how did they feel living
with perfection when they were sinners? That would have been hard! Could we
remain humble if it was known that our child could heal the sick and raise the
dead? Would we go around bragging? I don’t think Mary did. Then we come to
the cross. She was watching her son go through torture and dying on a cross. It
must have felt like all her work was in vain, but she trusted God to resurrect Him
as He had promised. God chose Mary because He could trust her to remain faith-
ful through all this. We don’t find Mary complaining or murmuring to the Lord.
What has God ask of you? Can He trust you? If tomorrow He set His
eyes upon you, are you ready to be used of God?
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are over the
righteous, and his ears are open unto their
prayers: but the face of the Lord is against
them that do evil.
 READ THROUGH YOUR BIBLE IN
ONE YEAR.
Have you ever read every word in your Bible? If not, how do
you know for sure what it says? Can you show in the Bible what you say
you believe? Do you believe once saved always saved? Can you prove it
in the Scriptures? Do you believe that whosoever will may be saved? Can
you find where that is in the Scriptures?
I had the privilege of being raised in a godly home, where I was
taught the Scriptures, but I had many questions about things and I didn’t
want to take someone else’s word for it. I wanted to know what my Bible
said about it. I was saved almost 5 years before I sat down and began
reading my Bible. I have been spared many destructions because of what
I have learned from the Scriptures. After 55 years of reading through my
Bible every year I feel like I know the God I serve. He is not a stranger to
me. To know Him is to truly love Him.
What if you take the challenge to read through your Bible in one
year and you don’t make it all the way? Well, you will have read more
than you would have had you not taken the challenge. Step out of your
comfort zone and go a little further with your faith. If you fail, try again.
Every year I read through my Bible I take a word and follow it all
the way through. One year the word was cry. I looked for every word that
talked about crying. Words like tear (tears), weeping, crying and mourn-
ing. Then I would look to see who was crying and why they were crying.
Then I would look and see how God responded to their tears.
When you go to read your Bible, have a purpose. What is it you
want to learn? What are you looking for? Whatever you are looking for
you will find something. Seek and ye shall find!
Prov 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a
matter.
Eccl 1:13
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are
done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised
therewith.
John 5:39-40
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they-
which testify of me.
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
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Prov 27:17
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man
sharpeneth the countenance of
his friend.
JUDY CONNOR
How can I describe my dear friend and sister in Christ? I
am sure as Judy entered heaven the Lord said, “Well done, thou good and faith-
ful servant.” ( Matt 25:21) Judy had the gift of serving and loved fellowshipping
with God’s people more than anything else. She would invite you to eat with her
so she could fellowship with you. You have never eaten good Texas Toast un-
less you have tasted Judy’s. She baked all the cakes for our fellowships, and she
thought you had to have a cup of coffee to have good fellowship. Outside of fel-
lowship she loved singing. She had a good voice and loved singing about Jesus.
Judy came into my life just at the time the Lord called me to teach wom-
en’s Bible classes. She was to me what Timothy was to Paul. She was my great-
est encourager and she loved to talk Scripture and learn something new about
God’s Word. She loved printing people’s lessons, tracts, books and whatever
they wrote in order to get God’s Word out to the people. Larry shared her with
all of us. The ladies came regularly to work in the print shop. Judy would cook
lunch; they would eat, then rest awhile and then go back to work. Tid Bit’s of
Wisdom would have had a difficult time getting done had it not been for Bro.
Larry, Mrs. Judy and the ladies.
Judy loved her children and grieved that they were so far away. She
missed not getting to be with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her
brother was also a long way off. She loved her family. As s, me with seven chil-
dren and she with two children, we would spend much time in prayer for all of
them. We shared our burdens and our blessings over the years.
I often think of this verse. Mark 6:4, “But Jesus said unto them, A proph-
et is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in
his own house.” Those who are close to you often take your life for granted.
You are not something special to them, you are just one of them. But those you
minister to outside of your life just remember you as the one who cared for them
and that you reached out to help them. We will all be surprised when we get to
heaven and realize the greatness of those we knew on earth. Judy never required
honor and fame. Her greatest work was behind the scenes. Now that she is with
the Lord, we are all sharing how great she was to us.
Prov 18:24, “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and
there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” She was a friend that stuck
with you at all times.
We will miss you, Judy, but we will not forget you!!!!
Your sister in Christ - Gloria Brewster