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Sunday, October 19th Evening service with Russell Bailey

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What kind of church are you looking to be a part of? This is important, for your relationship with God, for your family, and perhaps even for the whole world. Usually just like the one you came from. That’s natural because it’s what you’re used to and what you’re used to is comfortable for you. But comfort should not be the criteria that determines the church you need to be in. I want to suggest another criteria – the church in Acts chapter two, the one God gave us to be the model of what a church should be.

You’re probably not going to find a perfect church, one that fully measures up to the church. in Acts 2. But the closer the better. And it has nothing to do with the kind of building the church meets in, or the style of music, or ethnic group. (It should be a church where all ethnic people are welcomed and loved.) It’s really what goes on there and what kind of spiritual people are there.

In Acts 2 we have The Model Church, after which all churches should be modeled. Note three things:

1. The Promised Sign of Pentecost (Fulness of the Spirit, which speaks of spiritual gifts), v.1-13

2. The Powerful Sermon of Peter (Preached the Bible and the Gospel) v.14-40  

3. The Phenomenal Salvation of People, v.41-47

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“Evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

 (2Timothy 3:13)

1. Realize how prevalent, prolific and powerful deception is. It is powerful because it is sneaky. Those who are deceived don’t know they are deceived. If they knew, they would no longer be deceived. Beginning with Eve, many are the children of Eve. Warnings about deception abound in the Bible. “But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.” (2Tim.3:13) These warnings are especially relevant in these Last Days of perilous times. Realize the power of deception is incredible.

2. Stay true to the gospel of Jesus Christ. “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” (Ga.1:6-8) There are many nonessentials in the Bible and these things we can have some liberty, but there is no warrant to having a different gospel. Make sure you know this. What is the gospel? It is made crystal clear to us in 1 Corinthians 15:1-5. Read it. Memorize it. It is this gospel by which sinners are saved.

3. Stay with the simplicity of Christ. “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2Cor.11:3) This is broader than the gospel. The gospel is the heart and the rest of the word is the rest of the body of revealed truth. Never forget, it’s all about Jesus. The Bible is all about Jesus. Salvation, including justification, sanctification and glorification is all about Jesus. He’s the author and finisher of our faith. In Him lives all the fulness of the Godhead and we are complete in Him. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. He is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

4. Learn and teach doctrine. Get beyond mere stories and instructions in the Bible. Though true, these are mere illustrations of Bible teachings and all instructions come out of doctrine. First doctrine, then duty. Deceivers are unbalanced; they neglect whole balanced teachings of the Bible. Doctrine is all the Bible teaches about any subject: God, Christ, salvation, prayer, the law, everything in the Bible. If you don’t know doctrine, you make yourself very susceptible to deception. If you’re interested in saving yourself and your church, 1Tim.4:16 deserves a serious look.

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(Acts 2:38)

Repentance happens when we are “cut to the heart” over our sin against Christ. The old-timers called it as “conviction of sin.” It makes no difference how many times you hear the gospel; what matters is that it cuts your heart so that out of that wound comes a complete change of mind and behavior.

Notice the order. We get nothing by the grace of God before we repent. The order is “Repent and believe the gospel.” (Mk.1:15) After repenting we can receive the gifts of God because repentance changes everything in our relationship with God; it makes us His children. All the gifts of God are good because they are gifts of grace (Jas.1:17). Repentance is the biggest no-brainer in the universe. Every gift of grace comes after we repent. Refuse to repent and receive judgment from God. You don’t want anything to do with His judgment.

Peter mentions just two gifts the repentant person receives: Forgiveness and the Holy Spirit. Repent and receive forgiveness of all your sins. Don’t repent and you will stand guilty before a holy and just God, and end up in hell forever. Repent and you get God Himself in your life in a very powerful and gracious way.

After we repent, then we are to receive two baptisms: one in water and one with the Spirit. According to Jesus in Luke 24:47 and Peter in Acts 3:19 we receive the forgiveness of our sins “in view of” our repentance, not our water baptism. The antecedent for remission in Acts 2:38 is repentance, not baptism. You need to know that your sins are forgiven. I mean really know it. The Prodigal Son left the hog pen of his sin and went home. As his father was giving him gifts of the ring, the suit, the shoes, and kissing him all over his face, that son knew his sins against heaven and his father had been forgiven. Now they could throw a party and celebrate.

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The Context: To understand a passage it always helps to know the context of that passage. In John 9 Jesus is embroiled in a controversy with the religious leaders of His day. He healed a man born blind and the Pharisees threw a fit because Jesus broke one of their rules; He did it on the Sabbath (9:14). They ended up throwing the formerly blind man out of the temple. “Jesus heard they had cast him out; and when Jesus found him…” (9:35)  It is against the backdrop of dealing with these false shepherds who were in fact thieves and robbers that Jesus took the time to teach on the fact that there are false shepherds and there are true shepherds; Himself being The Good Shepherd. These thieves and robbers I am calling stealers because that’s what they do. They steal the sheep from the Good Shepherd. Israel was the sheep God had delivered from Egyptian bondage and had kept them for hundreds of years. All because they were His sheep. He loved these sheep.

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Sunday Evening message from Elder, Dewey Williams. October 5, 2025

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Sunday morning, October 5, 2025. 

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Wednesday, Oct 1, 2025.     I have had formal education to learn several languages: English, French, Spanish, Nepalese, Greek, and Hebrew. I can’t speak any of them very well. My most fluent language is tongues and that’s because I didn’t have to learn tongues; they just flow out by the Spirit. But with all other languages we must learn how to speak them. Each of them takes a long time and is very difficult. This is true also of speaking the Language of the New Covenant, the language of grace and truth.

What we say is important, and if we speak God’s words what we say is also very powerful. All God’s works are voice-activated and He uses our words to activate them. With the Bible we learn to think God’s thoughts and speak God’s words. When we do, things begin to change.

This language comes in three categories of Biblical speech. It begins with “This is the word of God: I am what it says I am, I have what it says I have, and I can do what it says I can do.” This all comes from being “in Christ,” a phrase the Bible uses many times to tell us what we are, what we have, and what we can do.

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Sunday evening 9/28/2025

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