Gospel Saving Church

Overview - Their Hearts Were Poisoned Towards Jesus. Acts 14:1-7. In our message today we find Paul and Barnabas in a new city, the city of Iconium. And the reason they are there is unfortunately because they were persecuted out of the last city they were in, Antioch of Pisidia, by some of the evil hearted Jewish leaders. And, even though they had the great disappointment of being persecuted out o...

Overview - They Shook Off The Dust From Their Feet Against Them. Acts 13:49-52. In my message today we take a look at an interaction between the disciples, both new and old, and some Jews in a certain region of Pisidia. Paul, Barnabas, and some new converts are spreading the Word of God throughout all the region, and some important Jews don't take kindly to it. What exactly do these important Jews...

Overview - The Schizophrenic God Of John Calvin. Acts 13:44-48. In our message today, we look at some seemingly crazy controversial verses. In one verse, Paul speaks to the Jews that he’s talking to and speaks to them of conditional salvation. Their salvation or condemnation depended on the fact that they rejected Jesus Christ, by their free will. In another verse Luke records that the gentiles, t...

Overview - The Righteous Trojan Horses. Acts 13:13-43. So, in our section of scripture today, we read that Paul and Barnabas go into one of the Jewish synagogues in Antioch in Pisidia, seemingly for a Sabbath day service and a reading of the law of Moses, but when the reading was done, the rulers of the synagogue send to them and ask them if there is anything they want to say. So the rulers of the...

Overview – God’s Timing. Acts 13:4-12. In our sermon today we study Saul and Barnabas’ very first evangelical journey, that God had called them and sent them on, while they served Christ in the Christian church in Antioch. God sends them out of the country of Syria, where Antioch is, across a part of the Mediterranean Sea, over to the island of Cyprus and then they begin to preach Jesus Christ and...

Overview - Godly Assumptions And Fasting Matters To God. Acts 12:25 to Acts 13:1-3. We looked at two Godly ideas found in today’s studied verses, hence the title. 1st. Godly assumptions – In the Word of God there is much that He does not tell us, also much that He does not tell us plainly, and even much that He may not say in one section, but that He will add in another section or in other section...

Sorry for the delay on this message, it took me some time to compile it as it was a special message speaking to the members of our church, meant to encourage us in the way that God wants us to go. Gospel Saving Church has had a super rough last 5 years, and we have struggled with the concept of continuing because of the difficulties we have faced. But all along, God has given us amazing signs, won...

Overview - Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay, Says The Lord. Acts 12:21-24. In our message today we study a section of scripture in which we see an angel of God, so God really, strike king Herod because he accepts the adoration of the people calling him a god. So yes and absolutely yes, God strikes king Herod down for accepting the adoration that was due to God and God alone, but, was his acceptance...

Overview - Herod's War On The Church. Acts 12:1-19. In our message today, we examine another wave of persecution against Christ Jesus’ church, a wave of persecution or war, this time not brought against them by the Jews, but by the Romans. It’s actually the Roman king Herod, a lesser or smaller king to Emperor Caesar, that he put in charge of the Judean area in Israel. And he is inspired to harass...

Overview - Relief To The Brethren. Acts 11:27-30. Our message today comprised of a few different ideas. 1) The specific offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, etc. that God gave to His servants in the Bible, and that Christ gave to His 12 apostles. Does God still give these offices to people today? 2) The love that the outcast Hellenists show for those in the churches in Judea, including those t...

Overview – Are You A Christian? Acts 11:26. In our message today we only study one verse, and mainly only one sentence of that verse. But in this one sentence of this one verse, there is a whole bunch of goodness and a whole lot of information. Are you a Christian, is a sermon full of Biblical truth and information pertaining to the Title, and many of God’s mercies for those who are considered cas...

Overview - The Rays Of Sunshine. Acts 11:19-26. Our study today leads us to focus on some unlikely Jewish disciples of Christ, whom God sends to the city of Antioch to do something very special. They decide in love, to reach out to a certain group of people (Jewish by birth) but that the Jewish people had cast off, and treated very similar to Gentiles, and they preach Jesus Christ to them. What is...

Overview - Is Water Baptism Necessary For Salvation. Acts 11:1-18. In our message today we look thoroughly at the very popular idea today that water baptism is necessary for someone to truly be saved. It is a very popular idea, but is it Biblically true. So because this topic came up strongly in our text we were studying today, we don’t turn to our own opinions to find the answer, we turn to the B...

Overview – In Truth I Perceive That God Shows No Partiality. Acts 10:29-48. In our sermon today, we cover many different ideas, for there are many different ideas found in the text we study over today. Below is a list of just some of them: 1) God’s preparing the heart of His kid to be able to do a certain kind of work for Him. 2) Can a person attain eternal life apart from Jesus Christ? 3) Was the...

269 - What Good Work Can Anyone Do In Order To Get To Heaven by Ed Spagnoli

Overview - God Has Shown Me That I Should Not Call Anyone Unclean. Acts 10:9-33. God gives Peter, and us that are followers of Jesus Christ today, a great lesson in the concept of love. In the ancient days of the Jews, from long before Jesus Christ lived on this earth in the flesh, until even far into the days of Peter and the apostles in the beginning of the first century church age, the Jews hel...

Overview - The Reward Of His Great Faith And Reverent Fear Of God. Acts 10:1-8. In our message today we examined the precious faith of a certain man named Cornelius. Cornelius was a Roman centurion, which meant that he was a commander in charge of a certain number of soldiers for the Roman government and their army. And this Cornelius, although he was a Roman, and Romans typically held to polythei...

Overview – Great Faith. Acts 9:36-43. We examine the account in this section of scripture where Tabitha or Dorcus, a very faithful and obedient disciple of Jesus Christ dies, and the other faithful disciples of Christ that are with her in Joppa, clean her up and lay her upstairs in a bed, but then call on Peter to come and pray for her, because they had great faith in God, and wanted her to live....

Overview - In Jesus Christ's Name, We Will... Acts 9:32-35. In our message today we read about how Peter was visiting all the churches in the countryside to minister the Word of God, and he comes across a disabled man, Aeneas, in Lydda, modern day city of Lod in Israel, whom was bedridden for 8 years. He sees him, the Lord moved on his heart and he takes Jesus Christ at His Word, in the Gospel of...

Get your unleavened bread and your grape juice out, and either sit down, stand up, or get on your knees, but whatever you do, come and honor the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords with us today, and take communion with GSC. For, Jesus Christ said Himself, that we should do this often in remembrance of Him and what He did for us, Luke 22:19, because it reminds us of the sacrifice that He gave of H...

Overview - Let Go, And Give It To God. Acts 9:26-31. In our message today, we read of the converted Saul, soon to be the apostle Paul, going to Jerusalem after he was persecuted in Damascus. And the first thing he decides to do, when in Jerusalem, is go to the disciples. Saul had every right to leave the Christian faith after the persecution he faced in Damascus, but he didn’t, he got right back o...

Overview - Proving That This Jesus Is The Christ. Acts 9:21-25. In our message today we looked at a very interesting exchange between the brand new apostle Saul, soon to be the very famous Paul, and some Jews in Damascus where he was living for a time, after he had been born-again. Saul confounded the Jews, proving that the Jesus, which had just revealed Himself to Saul on the road into Damascus,...

Overview - God’s Makeover of Saul. Acts 9:10-20. Last week we looked at the conversion of Saul, the Christian persecutor. And this week we continue to look at his conversion, and the great makeover that God was doing in him. God sends a man of His, Ananias, to allow Saul to regain his sight and fill him with His Holy Spirit, so that Saul could have the power of God, in order to serve Him, the way...

Overview - “It is hard for you to kick against the goads”. Acts 9-1-9. In our message today we take a look at an encounter that Jesus Christ has with Saul, who is an evil religious leader who is out to destroy the followers of Jesus Christ, or “The Way” as Christianity was called in those days. Saul encounters Jesus on the road to Damascus, actually right before he and some travel companions are a...

Overview - The GREAT SEEKER. Acts 8:26-40. In Gods message today, we follow the recording of Luke that decides to stop recording what the apostles are doing and focus on what God is doing with table serving disciple Philip. Philip gets called away from the work that God was doing in the village of the newly saved in Samaria, to go out to a desert road to catch up with one man, an Ethiopian man who...