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April 27, 2025, Sunday morning

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Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you.”  (John 7:53 – 8:11)

Don’t let the familiarity of this story make you think it’s not important. It is heavy laden with truths about God in the New Covenant. They brought before Him a woman who was caught in the very act of committing adultery. She was caught sinning, breaking God’s holy law. The Law of Moses, which is the law of God, is very clear: “The men of her city shall stone her to death with stones.” (Deut.20:10) By the way, the man was to be stoned also; but they never brought the guilty man to Jesus. Didn’t need to because they were only concerned with one thing – “testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him.” (Jn.8:6) They were laser focused on getting rid of Him and no better way to do that than find Him in opposition to the Law of Moses. They had the perfect case. If He just forgave her and let her go He would be throwing aside the Law of Moses. If He was the first to throw a stone, how could He justify His teachings on forgiveness, mercy and grace? They had Him between a rock and a hard place. No way out… they thought.

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Easter Sunday morning sermon. 

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Jesus raised more questions than He answered. Questions swirled around Him like bees around a hive. He spoke in parables and this raised many questions. He spoke in metaphors and this raised even more. He said things like, “Unless you eat My flesh and drink My blood, you have no life in you.” Huh? “It took 46 years to build this temple and you said if it was destroyed You could raise it up in three days?” Aside from the things He said, He was a mysterious person who did unusual things… on the wrong day! Questions to Him were countless. Questions concerning Him were just as numerous. The people talked among themselves trying to figure out who He was, where He had come from and where He was going. There were speculations galore.

In this passage we have questions and answers. Most of the questions were unanswered and the answers were speculations. “Truly this is the Prophet.” Moses had predicted a prophet like unto himself would one day appear. They reasoned that this Prophet would be the Lord Himself (Deut.18:15-16). “Others said, ‘This is the Christ.’” But they were confused because they thought He was from Galilee and no prophet had been predicted to come out of Galilee. They didn’t know He was actually born in Bethlehem, in fulfillment of prophecy.

“So there was a division among the people because of Him.” The first thing God did in the first creation was divide the night from the day, so God is good at dividing. Jesus always brings divisions. He said, “I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.” (Mt.10:35-36) Do not be surprised if that happens in your own life among your family and friends. In fact, you can pretty well expect it. Just don’t be discouraged by it.

The powers that be sent officers to arrest Jesus and when they came back without Him they asked, “Why have you not brought Him?” They responded, because “No man ever spoke like this man!” They were right. “And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.” (Mt.7:28-29) He never said, “Thus says the Lord,” only, “I say to you…”

What He said then astounded people and has continued to do so for the last 2,000 years. Let’s look at some of the things He said. Read these out loud for they were spoken.

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Sunday evening April 13, 2025. Speaker: Holli Simpson

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4/13/2025 Sunday Morning "The Day the Church was Born: The Day of Pentecost" Jn. 14:20

In Colossians chapter one we have a long list of amazing unique things said about Jesus Christ. “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, He is the image of the invisible God. By Him, through Him, and for Him all things were created. In the middle of all this the inspired apostle writes, “And He is the head of the body, the church.” (1:18) What an amazing statement in the context of other such statements. The church is not a metaphor; it is actually and literally the body of Christ: “bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh.” (Eph.5:30)

Never underestimate the importance of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not that important to the world of unbelievers and that is our fault. But nothing is more important to God, and nothing should be more important to the Christian. The church is the best friend your family has, the best friend you have if you want to grow to be more Christlike and make it to heaven when you die.

“Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,” says what the Lord thinks of His beloved bride, the church (Eph.5:25; Acts 20:28 says, “the church, which He purchased with His own blood). We want to think like Christ thinks. Wisdom does that. We want to love like Christ, love who He loves: “Love one another as I have loved you.”

Every couple celebrates their births and so should we. We remember and celebrate what happened in Acts 2. The birth of the church will be celebrated forever for the church will never die. Jesus said, “I will build My church, and the gates of death (Hades) will not prevail against her.” (Mt.16:18). The church is the only people who will live with God in the New Jerusalem. If He thought it was that important, so should we.

What is the church? This needs to be made clear because there is a lot of confusion about this. It is the Body of Christ, the House of God, the Temple (dwelling place) of the Holy Spirit. Paul wrote, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” (1Cor.3:16) The you in that verse is in the plural because he’s writing to the church at Corinth: “to the church of God which is at Corinth.” The church is the local church. Individual Christians are living stones placed individually into this temple by the Holy Spirit (1Pet.2:5; 1Cor.12:13). The church is a local body of people. It is not a building made with man’s hands. It is built by Christ (Mt.16:18; Acts 2:47) and His fellow-workers, which is us (1Cor.3:9). He uses us to build the greatest, most glorious, long-lasting building that will ever be built!

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025. 

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Sunday Evening, April 6th, 2025. Speaker: Kim Trujillo

We want to apologize for the sound quality recently. During the recent storms, our sound board was struck by lightning. We’re currently in the process of setting up a new system, and we appreciate your patience as we work to get everything back to normal. Thanks for sticking with us! 

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ACTS II

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And multitudes heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.  (Acts 8:5-8)

I have previously in ACTS I gone into great detail to show that Jesus began to do and teach in the Gospels and in the rest of the New Testament He continued to do and teach: do in Acts and teach in the epistles. I want to now show some of those things the believers did. Keep in mind that it is believers who continued and are to continue the acts of Jesus, not just the apostles. That’s why the extra-dispensational teaching that says these things died with the apostles is, on its very face, a serious error.

I want God to ACT. I want God to DO something… in my life, in your life, in every service, and even daily. Well, what sort of things would God do if He did do something? According to Jesus, silly little things like save you from your sins, save you from yourself, from this present evil world, and from hell. He will never harm you; He will only do you good. He does things like heal the sick, deliver us from addictions and demon oppression, give us eternal purpose and life, equip us to help others, and give us His love, His joy, and His peace. And oh yes… the forgiveness of all our sins.

I want God to speak to us, because His voice comes with power to change things for the better. All God’s acts are voice-activated and since Genesis chapter one He has used the voice of humans to do His work. So, “Speak, Lord. Save, Lord. Heal, Lord. Help, Lord. Do it now. And we will give you all the praise, in Jesus’ name.”

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“As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” When He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”    (John 20:21-22)

A good subtitle would be “What It Means to Be a Christian.” You may think you already know what it means, but when you compare what you know to the teachings of Christ and the church in Acts, you may find that you are a long way off and there’s a vast difference between what you think a Chrisian is and what a Christian is, according to the Bible, and only the Bible can tell us what a real Christian is. To some it simply means you “Accept Jesus as your Savior and you go to heaven when you die.” But there’s more to it than that.

A family drove about 16 hours to spend a couple of weeks with us. When the couple and their two daughters left, about halfway there the man pulled over to a rest stop without saying a word, got out of the car and went walking around about a stone’s throw away, and started crying out loud to God. After about two hours of this the lady called me to ask that I pray for him because she had no idea what was going on. I did pray and then a few minutes later she called me and said, “He got back in the car, wiped the tears from his eyes, smiled at me and said, “I just got saved. I just gave my life to Christ.”

Later he called me to explain. He said that in all his years growing up his family never missed church. He thought this is the Christian life. But he said they laid our Bibles down when they went in the house and never picked them back up till they headed out the door to church. And he said they never talked about the Lord all week. His father had been a deacon for over 20 years. Then when he spent two weeks with our family, he said he saw what real Christians were and got under conviction that he wasn’t saved at all, and so he had to pull over and work this out with God. He did. I think many people and families in our churches are like him and his family. They think they know what a Christian is, but really have no idea what it means to be a Christian.

Many Christians don’t know who they are “in Christ,” what God has called and commanded them to do, or anything about the power needed to accomplish the God-given task He has given to every Christian. They live ignorant, purposeless, and powerless lives on this earth. They don’t know who they are or why they’re here. I have good news for you. I intend to answer those questions for you in this chapter of our study of Acts two.  

This is yet another prequel to Acts chapter two. A very important one. It’s about something that happened that prepared the disciples for what took place on that first Pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit. This is a preparation for all who will ever experience the fullness of the Holy Spirit. This is not mentioned in Acts chapter one, but it is mentioned in our text where Jesus was preparing the disciples for this momentous event in history and in our lives. Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”

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