Sermon Topic: Church

The Well-Ordered Church

Date: February 7th, 1982  |  Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:40  |  Topics: Church, Ecclesiology, Order, Spiritual Gifts, Worship

Let all things be done decently and in order.


The Ordinances of the Church

Date: February 14th, 1982  |  Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20  |  Topics: Church, Commandment, Fellowship, Ordinances

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.


The Baptism That Jesus Commands

Date: March 21st, 1982  |  Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20  |  Topics: Baptism, Church, Ecclesiology, Obedience

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.


The Baptism That Jesus Commands

Date: March 21st, 1982  |  Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20  |  Topics: Baptism, Church, Ecclesiology

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.


The Infallible Forty Days

Date: April 11th, 1982  |  Scripture: Acts 1:1-5  |  Topics: Authority, Church, Deacon, Ecclesiology, Elder, Pastor

The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from JerusaContinue Reading


The Ordained Officers of the Church

Date: April 18th, 1982  |  Scripture: 1 Timothy 3:1-13  |  Topics: Authority, Church, Deacon, Ecclesiology, Elder, Pastor

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of GodContinue Reading


The Ordained Officers of the Church

Date: April 18th, 1982  |  Scripture: 1 Timothy 3:1-13  |  Topics: Authority, Church, Deacon, Ecclesiology, Elder, Pastor

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of GodContinue Reading


The Difference Between the Church and the Kingdom

Date: April 25th, 1982  |  Scripture: Matthew 13:11  |  Topics: Church, Difference, Kingdom, Mystery, Parables

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.


The Difference Between the Kingdom and the Church

Date: April 25th, 1982  |  Scripture: Matthew 13:11  |  Topics: Church, Difference, Kingdom, Mystery, Parables

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.


The Final State of the Church

Date: May 16th, 1982  |  Scripture: 1 Timothy 4:1  |  Topics: Apostasy, Church, Ecclesiology, Indifference

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;