Zion Primitive Baptist Church

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 19, 2025) In the previous sermon from chapter eleven of the Book of Nehemiah, we saw that the Jews in Nehemiah’s day had committed themselves to God. Today, we see from chapter 12 that they also committed their praise to God! We read in verse 43 that...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 12, 2025) As we saw yesterday, the Jews in Nehemiah’s day committed themselves to serve God. Some of them moved into the City of Jerusalem, and others populated the surrounding area. This kind of service to the Kingdom is pleasing to the Lord, as we learn from...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 12, 2025) As we move on into the Book of Nehemiah, we have arrived at the point where the Jews under Nehemiah make some commitments to follow through in their obedience to God. In today’s sermon, we learn about how they committed themselves to God. Some of...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025) As we began to see last time, the Jews of Nehemiah’s day not only submitted themselves to the Law and separated themselves from the world, they also committed themselves to support the work of the Temple. We learned that God doesn’t NEED our earthly support,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025) As we continue in Chapter Ten of Nehemiah, we find the phrase “house of our God” appearing nine times in these verses, referring to the Temple that had been restored in Zerubbabel’s day. In the prophecy of Haggai, we learn about the rebuilding of that...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025) As we saw yesterday, the Jews who returned from the Captivity had recommitted themselves to the Law of God, and promised to separate themselves from the world. God has always required separation from the world, and He still requires it today! There were two areas...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025) Today we return to our exposition of the Book of Nehemiah, which teaches us about God’s rebuilding program. After a short review of where we are at this point, we go back today to the tenth chapter, where Nehemiah and the Jews who returned from...

by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on September 21, 2025) As we began to learn yesterday, this world is not our home. In our text, we learn that even Jesus had no place to lay His head. As we move through the second half of this sermon, we find that we ourselves are not at...

by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on September 21, 2025) In the wake of all the troubles we see in this world, we are reminded that this world is not our home! With the Charlie Kirk shooting, and other tragedies and persecutions in this world, we find ourselves asking, “How can this be fixed?” If...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 2, 2025) The preaching of the gospel is the greatest privilege we have as regenerated children of God. It is primarily through preaching the gospel that those of God’s little lost sheep, who have already been born again, finally hear and embrace the good news of Christ’s...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on November 2, 2025) Having examined in some detail the two types of zeal described in the first half of Romans 10, the one being a sincere but misplaced zeal and the other being an informed and proper zeal, we turn now to the normal way by which a...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 26, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, Romans 10 begins by speaking of a people that have “zeal of God.” We have already learned that this was a zeal given to them by God, and thus we can conclude that they are regenerated children of God....

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 26, 2025) As you know, we are currently engaged in an exposition of the Book of Romans. Today’s sermon is a follow-up to our exploration of the tenth chapter, where we learned about some Jews who were in need of “salvation” – but not eternal salvation, rather...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 26, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, Paul teaches in Romans 10 that there are some people who are regenerated yet have not embraced the gospel message. These Jews were going about to establish their own righteousness, and we saw yesterday that they were trying to...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 26, 2025) As we move into the tenth chapter of Romans, Paul sets forth his zeal for his Jewish brethren to be “saved.” But the question we must always ask when we see the term “saved” is, “Saved from what?” Paul makes it clear in this passage,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 19, 2025) In yesterday’s sermon, we began to examine the second objection to the doctrine of election set forth by Paul in Romans 9. This objection – which I call the “absoluter objection” – argues that, since “God made me this way” (i.e., God has basically predestinated...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 19, 2025) As we continue dealing with the objections to the doctrine of election set forth in Romans 9, we come to the second objection that is commonly raised. I call this objection the “Absoluter Objection,” because it goes something like this: “God, you made me a...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 12, 2025) In our study of the first objection to the doctrine of election, we come to a couple of verses that some propose to be a problem for those of us who believe in God’s sovereign grace. In Romans 9:17-18, Paul writes this about Pharaoh: “Even...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 12, 2025) Whenever the doctrine of election is discussed, some objections inevitably arise. Here in Romans 9, Paul anticipates a couple of these objections. We will deal with the first objection today, which is usually phrased somewhat like this: God just wouldn’t be right, or fair, if...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025) In today’s sermon, we are actually combining a portion of a sermon preached on September 28, 2025, with a portion of a sermon preached on May 19, 2019. The reason for this is so that we can get a more complete exposition of what Primitive...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025) As we saw last time, the basis of God’s electing grace does not lie in the work or will of man. So what is the basis of election? In today’s sermon, we learn that God’s electing grace is rooted in His sovereign purpose, and is...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 28, 2025) As we continue examining the doctrine of election as set forth in Romans 9, we come to the basis for God’s electing grace. Why did He choose His people? What was the basis for His choice? Before we look at these questions, we must understand...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025) As we continue in our exposition of the Book of Romans, we have reached the point where we deal with what the doctrine of election actually teaches. We learn that God chose His people in Christ before the foundation of the world, and that His...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 14, 2025) In today’s sermon from our exposition of the Book of Romans, we begin discussing in earnest the doctrine of election. First of all, we deal with some “false explanations” of the doctrine. There are many such misunderstandings taught in the religious world. But we begin...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on September 7, 2025) In our exposition of the Book of Romans, we have come to a passage that some consider difficult. But when Paul makes the statement in Romans 9:13 that “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated,” he was under the inspiration of the Holy...