The Acts Church Hour

The eternal household plan of God was for God’s household to be made up of Jews and Gentiles. Although veiled in the Old Testament this mystery has been revealed through Christ who is the One to which the eternal household planned has been summed up. Gentiles by God’s grace alone are no longer strangers, but fellow citizens of the household of God on which the foundation is the prophets and the ap...

The difference between those in Heaven and those in hell is grace! The response to His grace is praise to the glory of His grace. The more we see have undeserving we are, the more we will understand how amazing is His grace!

Paul continues to pray that the saints of have a greater knowledge of Christ as this leads to greater assurance and hope of their inheritance. Another aspect of the knowledge of God is to understand the greatness of His power toward those who believe. The power, strength, and might of God are on full display toward those who are His in regeneration. The same power that raised Christ from the dead...

No one can have spiritual understanding of God without the sovereign hand of God sending the Holy Spirit to give understanding and knowledge concerning the truth of God. Having knowledge of God both salvifically and in sanctification is an act of God's grace! The knowledge of God can be distinguished into two categories: Salvific knowledge of Him via regeneration and increasing knowledge of Hi...

The eternal household plan of God is summed up in Christ in whom we believe, have our hope, are in union with, and are eternally secure!

All things are from Him, through Him, and to Him including the salvation of His elect. If God had looked down the corridor of time to see who of His fallen creatures whose hearts were made of stone, who was hostile to God, who were enslaved to sin and the devil, and were dead in sin would choose Him, He would see no one! No unregenerate heart could ever choose Christ. Therefore, before the foundat...

God's eternal plan and will to redeem His people was fully realized in the incarnation of the Logos and His redemptive work. In Christ all the elect have obtained and inheritance which is eternal life dwelling with God forever through our union with Christ in sonship.

The elect of God (the sheep) are those who Christ, the Good Shepherd has laid His life down for and has redeemed through His blood on the cross. This also speaks on limited atonement/particular redemption. He redeemed His people according to the riches of His grace.

The result of God the Father choosing and predestining the elect on the basis of the kind intention of His will and not based on the grounds or our merits, works, and choice is that it brings about praise of the glory of His grace. He receives all the glory in His election. This grace is given freely as God is free in offering grace, salvation, and mercy to whoever He desires. This grace is freely...

Gideon and the defeat he had against the Midianites is a foreshadow of the victory that Christ will have on the Last Day when He defeats His enemies, brings judgment, and consummates His kingdom. Gideon had victory over the enemy after blowing a trumpet, breaking pitchers that had torches inside, letting the light from torches shine, and shouting "the sword for the Lord and for Gideon."...

Although Peter had failed Jesus and was broken, he would be restored and would be instructed to shepherd and feed Christ’s sheep out of love for Christ. He is now restored and will strengthen the brethren because Christ had prayed for him (Luke 22:31-32). Peter was told of his future martyrdom which would be on a cross and still he picked up his cross and followed Christ. This is the call of every...

Although Peter had failed Jesus and was broken, he would be restored and would be instructed to shepherd and feed Christ’s sheep out of love for Christ. He is now restored and will strengthen the brethren because Christ had prayed for him (Luke 22:31-32). Peter was told of his future martyrdom which would be on a cross and still he picked up his cross and followed Christ. This is the call of every...

All who have believed have believed as a result of the supernatural working of the Holy Spirit in regeneration. Christ breathed on His disciples to signify that He and the Father are whom the Spirit is sent from, and they will soon receive the Spirit that is promised. God breathed into Adam, and he became a living soul. The breathing of the Holy Spirit into the lives of His elect by the hand of Go...

The world thought they had victory over Jesus and His followers as they watched Him die and His dead body was laid in a tomb. However, in three days Christ would be raised victoriously. It was in His resurrection that the Father had validated Him in His life and His sacrificial death. The resurrection declares that the sacrifice of Christ was accepted by the Father. His death and resurrection are...

Someone who had died on a cross would not have been buried in a rich man’s tomb but would rather have had a relative come and take their body, have their lifeless body eaten by birds, or thrown into the garbage heap to burn and be eaten by worms. When Jesus declared “it is finished” He meant that all that the Father had sent Him to accomplish was complete. It also meant that His humiliation was fi...

Jesus is the Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7) and the Last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45). His legs were not broken on the cross as He is the true Passover Lamb and His blood applied is what allows rescues from death. His side was pierced on the cross as Christ, the Last Adam would suffer wounds to bring to Him His bride. As Jesus arose (resurrection) from His deep sleep (death), He will forever bear...

Many are looking for a red heifer to be sacrificed in a rebuilt temple but let all the looking for a red heifer cease immediately. The red heifer was a shadow pointing to Christ who entered into the greater and more perfect temple to offer Himself as a sacrifice that would cleanse from defilement and death brought about by our sin. To say there will be rebuilt temple while returning to animal sacr...

When the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons (Gal 4:4-5). He lived a perfect life, He fulfilled all righteousness, and has now drunk the cup of wrath from the Father to be the atonement and propitiation for His sheep. He accomplished all He was sent t...

Christ was sinless and innocent and not deserving of death on the cross. He was there on that cross not because of His sin or guilt, but rather because of the sin of His elect. Christ died a substitutionary death for His sheep on the cross and was numbered among the transgressors as He was hanging in between two criminals on the day of His crucifixion. The two criminals heard the same words from C...