New Testament Church | church of Christ | Sermon

New Testament Church | church of Christ | Sermon

The New Testament Church

Jesus, while on His missionary journey, asked His disciples a question as recorded in Matthew 16:13, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?”  Several of the disciples present answered that question.  And then Jesus asked them a different question in verse 15, “But whom say ye that I am?”  Simon Peter spoke up and told Jesus exactly who he thought Him to be.  His answer is recorded in verse 16, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”   In the original language, The term “Christ” comes from the Greek word, “Christos” which means ‘anointed one’.  It has a Hebrew equivalent which is ‘mashiyach’, which in our language has come to mean ‘Messiah’.  So Peter’s answer to Jesus’s question was, “you are the anointed one, the Son of the living God”   

Reverence in Worship | church of Christ | Sermon

Reverence in Worship | church of Christ | Sermon



Read Psalm 89:7 again.  “God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, And to be held in reverence by all those around Him.”  NKJV  God is to be exalted above all else.  The natural question then is this:  Have you personally placed Him above everything?  Have you worshipped Him reverently? 

Book of Acts | Chapter 3 Verses 1-11 | church of Christ

Book of Acts | Chapter 3 Verses 1-11 | church of Christ

Book of Acts | Chapter 2 Verses 39-42 | church of Christ

Book of Acts | Chapter 2 Verses 39-42 | church of Christ

Who Is The Word? | church of Christ | Sermon

Who Is The Word? | church of Christ | Sermon

How do I avoid hell? (John 3:36) | church of Christ

How do I avoid hell? (John 3:36) | church of Christ



How do I avoid Hell?  The scriptures portray a very real and vivid of picture of what Hell is and what it is like.  Suffice it to say that Hell is a place we need to stay out of.  We need to avoid it.  It's real, it's awful, it's dark, it's hot, its scary, and it's eternal.  What does eternal mean?  We are mortals caught up in an existence where there is a beginning and an end to everything we see.  We live a few decades on this earth and then our earthly bodies grow old and die.  At some point in our earthly existence we will wake up one morning and have fewer days ahead of us than we have behind us.  In Hell there is no end.  There will never be a time in Hell where we can say that there are fewer days ahead of us than we have behind.  We sing a song called Amazing Grace which has a verse that speaks about the everlasting joys of of Heaven.  'When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun.  We've no less days to sing God's grace then we first begun.'  The same holds true of Hell with the exception that those who are there won't be singing about God's grace.  When they've been there ten thousand years, they have no less days to endure the torment of Hell than when they'd first begun. 

Where are the directions? | church of Christ

Where are the directions? | church of Christ