Gospel Saving Church

Overview – The Big Dash. Acts 20:1-6. In our message today we studied two main ideas. 1) Paul going to Macedonia to encourage them with many words, those in the Macedonian churches that he had help plant. 2) The big dash that is found in vs 4 of the NKJV translation of the Bible. The big dash – which separates one main thought from another. #1 Why would Paul travel all the way from Ephesus to Mace...

Overview – The Crazy Frenzied Ephesian Mob. Acts 19:21-41. In our message today, we read of one man’s plot, Demetrius the silversmith, to attack and kill one of God’s main men, Paul. Why did Demetrius try to get Paul attacked and killed? Paul was helping people to turn to the light of the One true God, Jesus Christ, and out of the darkness of the worship of the false goddess Diana. By what Paul wa...

Overview – The Pretenders Of The Faith. Acts Ch. 19:11-20. In our message today we read of some pretty amazing miracles that God was doing through the hands of the apostle Paul. God was moving in a mighty way in the city of Ephesus to bring people to Jesus Christ, and He was revealing Jesus Christ to them through Paul’s works of casting out demons, and sickness being healed in Jesus name. Now, as...

Overview – Godly Tactics. Acts 19:8-10. In our message today we read of Paul going into the local synagogue in Ephesus again. Once he’s in, he stays there for the space of 3 full months, reasoning and persuading with them of things of the kingdom of God. Yet, right after 3 full months, we read of the Jews getting angry and speaking evil of “The Way”, which was to speak against Jesus Christ. “The W...

Overview – Who Is The Creator Of The Universe? In our message today, we cover the very confusing idea of who the creator of the universe really is. This is one of the biggest debates in the entire world among different religious folk. Some people believe that the creator is the Allah of Islam. Some believe that Buddhism, Hinduism, or the eastern religions hold the key to the answer. Some, probably...

Overview - The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit. Acts 19:1-7. In our message today, we take an in depth look at some confusing statements that the Apostle Paul and some disciples in Ephesus, say to one another. The confusing statements that they speak to one another are in regards to the Holy Spirit of God, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit of God that He gives to mankind. The topic of the baptism of t...

Overview - Paul's Carbon Copy. Acts 18:24-28. In the section of scripture we study today, we uncover a very small, easily overlooked, yet humongous detail. The Apostle Paul leaves Aquilla and Priscilla in Ephesus, to go and chase the fulfillment of a vow in Jerusalem that he had made to God, and they come in contact with a very interesting character named Apollos. He is a Jewish man who comes to E...

Overview – Vows Are Dangerous! Acts 18:12-23. Paul, along with Aquila and Priscilla, sail to Syria, and so, back to his home church in Antioch. Before they do though, they make a couple of stops, one in Cenchrea, where he/Paul takes a vow, and the other in Ephesus to preach to some Jews in a synagogue. The Jews are unexpectedly receptive to Paul’s message of Jesus Christ, and they want him to stay...

In our message today, Timothy and Silas finally catch Paul in the city of Corinth. He had been waiting for them to come to him since he had been in Athens Greece. They meet up with him, and God immediately sends them to testify to the Jews, that Jesus was the Christ, or their promised Jewish Messiah. The Jews respond negatively to Paul, and blaspheme Jesus Christ. How does Paul respond? He tells t...

Overview - The Amazing, Tent Making, Apostle Paul. Acts 18:1-4. In our message today, we talk a whole lot about The Amazing, Tent Making, Apostle Paul, as if you didn’t already get that clue from the title. We spend a majority of the sermon talking about the fact that this amazing apostle, not only did more for the Christian world than any other Apostle/Christian EVER, but that he also made tents...

Overview - Making The Unknown God, Known. Acts 17:16-34. In my message today, I teach through Paul’s address to the Areopagus. We open our section of scripture today with Paul in Athens Grease. He’s in Athens because the brethren in Berea send him away to escape the Jews that had come there to attack, and possibility kill him. Paul is escorted to Athens alone, and once he’s there, he realizes that...

Overview – Be Like A Berean. Acts 17:10-15. Paul flees the city of Thessalonica, because of the Jews who wanted to kill him for his proving Jesus Christ to them, and he goes to the city of Berea. He doesn’t take any time off from preaching and goes right into the local synagogue to preach again to the Jews of this new city. The difference this time, with the Jew and Gentile followers in Berea from...

Overview - If Jesus Had Not Risen Then Nothing Matters. 1 Corinthians 15:1-20. Happy Resurrection day everyone!!! Praise God for this beautiful day that every true follower of Jesus Christ everywhere, can celebrate Jesus Christ and the fact that He rose from the dead to defeat mankind’s’ great enemy death, and grant us an amazing new life, after this very short life is over, in eternity forevermor...

Overview - Paul Proved Christ To Them From The Scriptures. Acts 17:1-9. Today we looked at a few amazing ideas that God uncovered for us in our text. 1) Paul reasoned with them from the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ and of the Gospel. 2) The prophesies that Paul gave them to reason with them of Jesus and the Gospel. 3) The ways in which Paul’s listeners responded to what he told them. 1) Re...

Overview: Apostasy - Everyone Did What Was Right In His Own Eyes. Judges 17:6. In our sermon today we look at a very overlooked verse out of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament of the Bible. In my message today I explain the Biblical, contextual, and exegetical meaning of the Judges 17:6 verse, and then I explain what the verse has to do with apostasy, and everyone doing what is right in their...

Overview - A String Of Super Supernatural Miracles. Acts 16:25-40. I open up our message today right in the middle of a whole account with Paul and Silas. An account where Paul and Silas had gone off to Macedonia to serve the Lord. While there, Paul does something really good in that he delivers one of the local slave girls from a demon that had possessed her. Well, her masters didn’t like that to...

Overview - Everyone Is Not Saved. Matt 7. In our message today I speak about a terrible problem we have in our country (America) with pastors, DJ’S, and teachers of the Lord Jesus Christ. That problem being, when they speak to their audiences they reference all they speak to as born-again Christians. This practice MUST stop. True born-again Christians speakers MUST not make all those that are in t...

Overview - The Undisputed KING. Acts 16:16-24. In our message today we examine an interaction between Paul and Silas and a demon possessed slave girl. The slave girl comes to Paul and his crew, as they are ministering to and for Jesus Christ in Macedonia, and the demon through her proclaims two very powerful and life changing things. What were they? She says in vs 17 ~ 1) “These men are the servan...

Overview – God’s Vision. Acts 16:6-15. The mission God had given Paul and his crew to go to Asia minor to encourage the churches he and Barnabas had planted being over, Paul finds out that God has a new vision and mission for him and his Christian crew. Do they quite get His vision at first? Not quite as they try to go to some cities in Asia and preach the Gospel, only to find that God shuts the d...

Overview - His Grand Rule Of Love. Acts 16:1-5. In our message today, Paul seems to play the hypocrite with with Timothy to make the Jews happy in the region they were going into. Paul takes Silas and goes on a journey back to the churches that he and Barnabas planted, and they run into a highly recommended man of God who was well spoken of by the other people of Christ, Timothy, and Paul wants to...

Overview - In The Church. Acts 15:36-41. In our message today we discovered the fact that Paul had a very powerful passion for the work of the Lord, In The Church, hence the title of the message. The well known fact about Paul is that he was a monster evangelist, BUT, and that is a HUGE BUT, not many people know that he was a powerful force, In The Church, and not just a group of people as the chu...

Overview – “It Is Finished”. Acts 15:1-35. In our message today we studied an attack of satan, on the church of God in the city of Antioch. The Christian soldiers in this church had been doing a lot of amazing work for God’s kingdom, preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ and bringing people to Christ, and as a result, the devil brings some of his little followers to this church, in the form of some...

Overview – For Loves Sake. Acts 14:21-28. In our message today, we take a look at a very crazy and dangerous thing that Paul and Barnabas do in the ministry for the Lord Jesus Christ. They get done ministering in the city of Derby, where many people are added to the Lord, and instead of staying there to disciple these new believers, they decide to go back through the last 3 cities they had already...

Overview - He Had Faith To Be Healed. Acts 14:8-20. In our message today we read of Paul in a new city preaching the Gospel, and as has happened many times, as he is preaching, a couple special events take place. 1st - a crippled man who has never taken a step, from the time he was born until this day Paul is preaching, is listening to Paul’s message about Jesus Christ, the Saviour and great heale...

284 - How Do You Know You Are Saved? by Ed Spagnoli