Sermons

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG_466D5EFg Worshipping God His Way As one can tell by the reading of the Scripture, we are not moving forward in our study of Acts today but looking back to what has been previously covered in this historical narrative depicting a thriving church worshipping the Living God in Spirit and in truth. There are a …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3YA2Z4WGOI A Mystery Revealed This is a big text, with a simple point. There is certainly a lot that occurs within this narrative, but there is one clear purpose to it, and we want to discern that purpose. That is my way of saying that we are obviously not going to uncover every facet of …

Continue reading "Impartial God, Part I (Acts 10:1-48) | Jared Betts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHUdtevN7AI&t=1200s Luke’s Purpose for Acts For us to really appreciate this text, it is important for us to remind ourselves of Luke’s reason for writing this meticulous historical narrative of the church. It is a narrative written by a man whom the most renowned scholars have considered to be “a historian of the first rank.” …

Continue reading "The Validity of Christ’s Vitality (Acts 9:32-43) | Jared Betts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOX2-ImtkEI The Demonstration of God’s Power In our text today we see the power of God on full display, and if I were to ask you to describe for me what it is, what would your answer be? There are probably some here that would draw our attention to Jesus’ ability to orchestrate the meeting …

Continue reading "Transforming Grace (Acts 9:10-31) | Jared Betts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmHAnHzhB2U Embracing the Beauty of our Text By the end of this study, I hope we are all able to see that there are many beautiful things before us in this text as Luke recounts for us the conversion of a young man of Tarsus, named Saul, who was on the road to Damascus with …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gms1N9kWbeE Christ’s Commission to His Church Within our portion of Scripture this morning we see Jesus Christ’s commission to His church being carried out. As nearly all of us are aware, the commission is for Christians to go into all the world “and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father …

Continue reading "True Evangelism, True Conversion (Acts 8:26-40) | Jared Betts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5qyAGhLzw Seeing the Beauty in this Verse This is one of those verses where it is very easy for us to quickly pass over without giving much consideration to its implications and, therefore, miss the beauty of it entirely. What often happens is that we swiftly move on to Philip’s interaction with the Ethiopian Eunuch …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1Ql7keWsk Celebration of His Love and Life He is risen! He is risen indeed! As Isaiah’s prophecy foretold, His days were prolonged! My prayer today is that the living God would we adored for who He is and what He has done in His Son, Jesus Christ, for all those who have turned from themselves …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efEk3gSPlYs&t=1517s The Gospel Enters Samaria Within our previous text, we saw how hell sought to overpower the church. After the stoning of Stephen, great persecution arose against the church at the hands of Saul who was ravaging Christ’s bride in an attempt to annihilate her from the face of the earth.[1] He had made it …

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