Zion Primitive Baptist Church

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025)

As we continue in Chapter Ten of Nehemiah, we find the phrase “house of our God” appearing nine times in these verses, referring to the Temple that had been restored in Zerubbabel’s day. In the prophecy of Haggai, we learn about the rebuilding of that Temple, and how God promised that it would be more glorious even than Solomon’s Temple because the Lord Jesus Christ would walk in this new Temple! In this chapter, we have already seen that the Jews under Nehemiah committed to submit themselves to the Law and to separate themselves from the world. As we continue in this chapter, we see that they also swore to support the work of the Kingdom with their lives and their material things. Join us as we learn about their dedication to the work of the Kingdom of God.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025)

As we saw yesterday, the Jews who returned from the Captivity had recommitted themselves to the Law of God, and promised to separate themselves from the world. God has always required separation from the world, and He still requires it today! There were two areas in particular where these Jews needed to be separate from the world: in their marriages, and in their observance of the Sabbath. Join us today as we continue to look at this principle of “separation,” and how it applied to them in that day and to us in our day.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025)

Today we return to our exposition of the Book of Nehemiah, which teaches us about God’s rebuilding program. After a short review of where we are at this point, we go back today to the tenth chapter, where Nehemiah and the Jews who returned from the Captivity are putting into place the things they promised when they “sealed” their faithfulness to the Law in Chapter Nine. We have already seen that they reaffirmed their submission to God and to His Law, and today we see that they vowed to separate themselves from the world. Join us today as we continue our study in the Book of Nehemiah.

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by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on September 21, 2025)

As we began to learn yesterday, this world is not our home. In our text, we learn that even Jesus had no place to lay His head. As we move through the second half of this sermon, we find that we ourselves are not at home in this world, but that we are pilgrims on our way to our REAL home! Join us today as we continue to see how this world is NOT our home, but that we are simply passing through it on our way to our heavenly home.

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by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on September 21, 2025)

In the wake of all the troubles we see in this world, we are reminded that this world is not our home! With the Charlie Kirk shooting, and other tragedies and persecutions in this world, we find ourselves asking, “How can this be fixed?” If we are looking for answers “under the sun,” then the answer is, “We can’t!” But when we look to Jesus for answers, we realize that the Resurrection is the answer to it all. It fixes EVERYTHING! Join us today for the first half of this sermon about where our true home is.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 2, 2025)

The preaching of the gospel is the greatest privilege we have as regenerated children of God. It is primarily through preaching the gospel that those of God’s little lost sheep, who have already been born again, finally hear and embrace the good news of Christ’s finished work. But there is a problem we must consider: what about all those who hear the gospel but don’t obey it? While the answer given in the world is that they all die and go to hell, thankfully the Bible answer is that God will save His children regardless of their faithfulness! But there are still consequences for continuing to reject the gospel message. Join us today as we begin to see how important it is for us to believe the gospel, and some of the problems that arise for us when we reject it.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 2, 2025)

Having examined in some detail the two types of zeal described in the first half of Romans 10, the one being a sincere but misplaced zeal and the other being an informed and proper zeal, we turn now to the normal way by which a regenerated child of God comes to embrace the gospel message: by hearing the preaching of the gospel. In today’s portion of the sermon, we deal with the purpose of preaching the gospel message. We are reminded that “whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved,” but that this salvation is not an eternal salvation. Rather, it is a salvation – or deliverance – that occurs in time. The purpose of preaching is not to bring life and immortality to the child of God, but rather to bring that life and immortality – that has already been imparted through the new birth – to light. Join us today as we look at the purpose of the preaching of the gospel, and how true evangelism should be paramount in the work of the church.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 26, 2025)

As we began to see yesterday, Romans 10 begins by speaking of a people that have “zeal of God.” We have already learned that this was a zeal given to them by God, and thus we can conclude that they are regenerated children of God. But their zeal was misplaced – they were going about to establish their own righteousness, and had not obeyed the gospel message that required them to submit themselves to the righteousness of Christ. Today, we conclude this sermon by examining the properly-placed zeal of the Apostle Paul, who had a deep desire for the gospel salvation of his Jewish countrymen. Please join us today as we examine Paul’s evangelistic zeal, and see how it ought to inform and guide our own zeal.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 26, 2025)

As you know, we are currently engaged in an exposition of the Book of Romans. Today’s sermon is a follow-up to our exploration of the tenth chapter, where we learned about some Jews who were in need of “salvation” – but not eternal salvation, rather they needed “gospel salvation.” You see, they had a “zeal of God” – that is, a zeal imparted to them by God in the new birth – but it was an ignorant and misplaced zeal. Their zeal was “not according to knowledge.” On the other hand, Paul had a great zeal for these people, and a great desire that they should come to embrace the message of the gospel. This was a proper zeal, and as we will see, this zeal ought to inform and guide our own. Join us today as we begin to learn more about Paul’s evangelistic zeal in Romans 10.

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by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 26, 2025)

As we began to see yesterday, Paul teaches in Romans 10 that there are some people who are regenerated yet have not embraced the gospel message. These Jews were going about to establish their own righteousness, and we saw yesterday that they were trying to keep the Law in order to go to heaven. As we left off the message last time, we were beginning to explore the two types of righteousness described in this chapter. There is the “righteousness which is of the Law,” and the “righteousness which is of faith.” This concept builds logically and naturally upon the idea of “justification by faith” that Paul has already taught us in the Book of Romans. Join us today as continue learning what these Jews needed to be “saved” from, and which type of righteousness we need to embrace in order to avail ourselves of this gospel salvation.

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