Due to CBC’s participation in the Delaware County Fair this week, we will not be meeting live. Instead, we’ll be restreaming a previous study. This study walks through how we work through the Quiz Box in our booth and addresses some common misconceptions about the gospel. We hope you’ll take the opportunity to join us and revisit these important truths together.

This sermon provides a practical, tool-based methodology for evaluating Bible translations, specifically comparing the Amplified Bible Classic Edition and the modern Amplified Bible against the King James Version. We walk through a verse-by-verse comparison, demonstrating that the Amplified Bible contains meaningful doctrinal alterations, not merely updates to archaic language as proponents of modern versions often claim. Using online tools such as Blue Letter Bible and thebible.org, we show how any believer can conduct this analysis independently. This sermon emphasizes that all modern translations share common problems because they derive from the same underlying critical Greek text. Think critically, handle Scripture carefully, and recognize that Satan's primary warfare in the current age is doctrinal in nature rather than through visible supernatural manifestations.

What does it truly mean to be justified, regenerated, reconciled, and sanctified? These are not just theological terms -- they are the reality of every believer's life in Christ.

This sermon continues a study of key terms ending in "-tion," focusing on four doctrines central to salvation: justification, regeneration, reconciliation, and sanctification. Drawing from Webster's 1828 Dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary, and extensive Scripture references, we walk through each term systematically, showing how they are defined by their biblical usage and context. Justification is shown to be God's act of counting the sinner as forgiven and righteous, made possible through grace, faith, and Christ's shed blood. Regeneration is examined as spiritual rebirth, connected to the reality that sin produces death and that the believer must be forgiven of all sins — past, present, and future — to be genuinely made alive. Reconciliation is presented as God's offer of peace to His enemies, made available through the death of Christ, and atonement is shown to be essentially synonymous with reconciliation. Sanctification is defined as being set apart for a sacred purpose, with a distinction drawn between the positional sanctification every believer receives at salvation and the experiential sanctification that reflects personal choices in daily life.

A scriptural analysis distinguishing five significant suppers in the Scriptures. This sermon examines five distinct suppers found in Scripture, distinguishing their significance, timing, and participants. Beginning in Revelation 19, where two different suppers appear in the same chapter, we work through each supper systematically to show that they are not interchangeable events. The five suppers span from the historical Last Supper before the cross, to the ongoing memorial of the Lord's Supper, to the future events of the Supper of the Great God and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and finally to the Parable of the Great Supper. Together, these five suppers form a broad biblical narrative covering redemption, memorial, judgment, eternal joy, and the tragedy of unbelief.

Covenant and testament are not interchangeable—both come from the Greek word diatheke, but they function as two distinct legal instruments with different parties, different activation requirements, and different beneficiaries. This study traces both timelines side by side: the covenant as a contract requiring mutual agreement, and the testament as a last will requiring the death of the testator, revealing why Paul identifies himself as a minister of the new testament—not the new covenant—and what that distinction means for the Body of Christ.

When and how did Satan discover the mystery of the Body of Christ? This Bible Q&A traces Paul's epistles in chronological order to identify the earliest and latest points Satan could have learned it.

Key points:

Ephesians 3:9-10 indicates the principalities and powers learn of the mystery by observing the church. Colossians 2:13-15 frames this as a public humiliation Satan hid from his subordinates. Acts 19:13-15 and 26:12-18 show Satan took special notice of Paul after Damascus, though Acts 9:7 and 22:9 confirm that revelation was for Paul alone. 1 Thessalonians 2:18 and 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 show Satan actively opposing Paul once he grasped the stakes. Working backward from 1 Corinthians 2:7-8 through 2 Thessalonians 2:7, Romans 16:25, and Galatians 3:27-28, the evidence points to Paul already preaching the mystery in Acts 16, likely receiving it at Sinai in Acts 9 (Galatians 1:15-17, Colossians 1:25-27). Acts 13-14, Paul's first missionary journey, shows the mystery of Romans 11:25 already unfolding.

Conclusion: Satan learned the mystery by observing Paul's ministry, at the latest by the first missionary journey, but hid it from the other fallen angels since it was his own humiliation.

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