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Donnie Bell

The Apostles Creed

Acts 15:1-11
Donnie Bell April, 16 2023 Video & Audio
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In his sermon "The Apostles Creed," Don Bell addresses the central Reformed doctrine of salvation by grace alone through faith alone, as articulated in Acts 15:1-11. He argues against the belief in salvation through works or adherence to the Mosaic Law, emphasizing that salvation is a gift received through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, not dependent on human effort. Bell cites Peter's declaration in Acts 15:11, asserting, "we believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved," to illustrate the apostles' affirmation of grace over law. He underscores the necessity of grace in the believer’s life, highlighting themes of total depravity, sovereign grace, and the assurance of salvation—doctrines that are foundational to Reformed theology, with significant implications for the church today by reinforcing the necessity of faith rooted solely in Christ's finished work.

Key Quotes

“They refuse to bow or take the yoke of salvation by law, by circumcision, by works, by any other means.”

“We believe, we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they.”

“Salvation is by grace and grace alone. And grace is through the Lord Jesus Christ, given by the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“When you try to get folks to go back under the law... you're tempting God Almighty.”

Sermon Transcript

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Acts 15, Acts chapter 15. Let me read the first 11 verses
and then hopefully, by God's grace, bring something from these
verses. A certain man, certain men, which
came down from Judea, taught the brethren and said, except
you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be
saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas
had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that
Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to
Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. And being brought on their way
by the church, they passed through Pharnacia and Samaria, declaring
the conversion of the Gentiles. And they caused great joy unto
all the brethren. And when they were come to Jerusalem,
they were received of the church and of the apostles and elders,
and they declared all things that God had done with them.
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees, which
believed, saying that it was needful to circumcise them and
command them to keep the law of Moses. And the apostles and
elders came together for to consider of this matter. And when there
had been much disputing, Arguing, arguing, arguing. Peter rose
up and said unto them, men and brethren, you know how that a
good while ago, God made choice among us that the Gentiles, by
my mouth, should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And
God which knoweth the hearts, bear them witness, giving the
Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us, and put no difference between
us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Now therefore,
why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples,
which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we
believe, through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall
be saved, even as they." The title of my message this morning
is The Apostles' Creed. I guess you could call this the
first Bible conference that ever took place, because they gathered
together, everybody that was anybody. James, the brother of
John, had already been killed. He'd already been slain. So this
James here was James, son of Alpheus. But they all got together
to have an argument, have a debate, and figure out which message
is the right message to be saved by, how God saves a sinner. And
there were some men there that didn't understand what Christ
had accomplished by His death and His resurrection. But here's
God's apostles, Paul, Peter, Barnabas, and James. And this
gathering of the apostles and all these men were doing what
men have been doing since Cain and Abel. Since Cain and Abel. Is man going to be saved by his
works? Or is he going to be saved by Christ? Is he going to be
saved by what he thinks, what he does, and what he feels? In
his opinions, is he going to be saved by the blood and righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ? How is a sinner saved? How does
God save a rebel? How does God save a sinner? And
that's what he says there in verse 6, "...and the apostles
and elders came together to consider this matter." Circumcision? Moses? Or Christ? That was the whole issue right
here. And God, some of them said, how did you know? They commanded. They came down from Judea and
they commanded. They didn't ask. They didn't
plead. They commanded. These men cannot
be saved except they be circumcised after the manner of Moses. By
law, by law. And another group come there
and says, you know, in verse 5, that it was needful to circumcise
them, and then turn around and command them to keep the law
of Moses. Well, Peter, Paul, and Barnabas, they were true,
true soldiers of the cross. They refused to bow or take the
yoke of salvation by law, by circumcision, by works, by any
other means. And Peter declared emphatically
in verse 11, we believe, we believe, that through the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they. They said
emphatically, without any apologies, salvation is by grace and grace
alone. And grace is through the Lord
Jesus Christ, given by the Lord Jesus Christ. And they dare not
tell anybody any other way. Peter says this there in verse
10, Now therefore, why do you tempt God? That's what he's saying. When you try to get folks to
go back under the law, to go back under circumcision, to be
saved by works, to go back under the law in any way, any way,
He says, you're tipped in God Almighty. Cause there was a yoke
put on us, we wasn't able to bear it. Our fathers wasn't able
to bear it, we're not able to bear it. I've never met anybody
able to bear it yet. And I tell you what, so here's
the apostles confession of faith. Verse 11, we believe. We believe. That's the first thing, is we
believe. You know, you need to say, now
this is our opinion. It's our opinion. I know that
you don't agree with it and you can go your way and I'll go mine.
You can be saved your way and I'll be saved mine. No, no, it's
not our opinion. It's not my feelings about it.
It's not my thoughts about it. Oh my, we all, he never said
we'll all end up in the same place. But no, no, they said
we believe. We believe. And that's the whole
crux of the matter. It's not, we believe, we believe,
we apostles believe. And I'll tell you what, faith,
oh, they said this, that through the grace, through the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, they didn't believe in going through
any kind of a ritual, any kind of a ritual. You know, when was
Easter? Was it a couple weeks ago? One
week ago? Two weeks ago? Whatever it was, I know folks that go to churches
and they would have Easter Bunny come in, a man dressed up as
an Easter Bunny and sit in his lap. You believe anybody believes
in the grace of God that would do such a thing? But that's what's going on in
this world today. They didn't believe in having
a ritual. And a ritual, I'm telling you, was anything that you got
to go through in order to be saved. If it means coming to
the front, if it means holding a candle, if it means having
some priest to pray for you, if it means anything that you
have to do, if you have to, you know, anything. And you know,
Peter, they said that Peter was the first pope. I wonder what
his reaction would be to that if he was here today. What his
reaction would be. First Pope, here's something. Let me tell you something about
this Pope business. The Pope is supposed to be the head over
all the church, the Catholic Church. I mean, if he says something,
it becomes law. Well, the one they got now, he
got sick and had to go in a hospital. Now, you tell me how anybody
that can be over a church and his word, his law, ends up sick
and in the hospital. If he's God's vicar on this earth,
why in the world is he getting sick? And then people want him
to bless them. That's rituals, that's idolatry. And oh my, you know what they
say, sacraments. You ever heard what a sacrament
is? A sacrament is if you take bread, that you get grace through
it. And you take a little cup of wine, you drink that, and
you get grace through it. Grace, he said, we shall be saved
through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace does not
come in any other way than through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. By Christ alone, in Him alone
is where grace comes from. Oh, it's not in meat, not in
drink. There's an old saying, I don't
smoke and I don't chew and I don't run with them who do. And oh, not circumcision, not
ritual, not divers, washings, carnal ordinances, or fleshly
ordinances. Eat not, drink not, touch not,
handle not. And all of it's going to perish
with the using. And I'll tell you something else
they said, not only did they say we believe, but they rejected
self-righteousness. I mean, they rejected it right
out. Oh no, they said, we believe that a man's got to be circumcised.
He's got to keep the law of Moses. Now that's not, you know, if
you're going to go to law, and I know you've heard this countless,
countless times over the years, over the decades, that if you're
going to be saved by law, ritual, in any way at all, it's got to
be perpetual from the day you're born to the day you die. The
minute, the minute, the moment you break one commandment, you're
under the curse. The minute, the minute you don't
pay tithes of all you possess, you're under the curse. Now when
you're talking about paying tithes, if you got, that don't just mean
your money. If you're a farmer and you got
100 cattle, you're supposed to give 10 of your cattle. If you
got 100 bales of hay, you gotta give 10 bales of hay. And who
to? The preacher. That's what they
done, that's how they kept the priesthood. I don't need 10 bales
of hay, so I don't, that's why we don't preach tithing. And
I certainly don't need 10 cows, but oh, this is what I'm telling
you. And you know, there's nobody here but us. Let me take a minute.
You know, I don't understand. Whenever
I hear the word reformed and a reformed church, this is the
first thing that goes through my mind when it's what we're
talking about, rejecting self-righteous. is that they go to Calvary, they
go to the cross, they go to Christ to be saved, to be washed from
their sins, and then immediately they go right back to the law.
And I'll give you an illustration, a couple of them. There was a
fellow who used to come, he'd come to cross for him and his
family, would come and stay three weeks every year, and they would
be in every one of our services, and he was a Presbyterian. Well,
I got to preaching one time from Galatians, you know, and how
that if Christ died, we don't frustrate the grace of God. If
Christ just came by, lo, then Christ is dead in vain. And I
preached in such a way that he said to me, come up and said
to me, him and his wife both, he said, you're an antinomian.
I said, what is that? He said, you're without law.
I said, yep, you got that right. Yes, I'm without law. And I said,
I'm not going under the law. And nobody in this congregation
is going under the law. And nobody's going to get in
this pulpit that's going to put anybody in there under bondage.
I quit telling people years ago where they can go and what they
can do and what they can say and where they live and what
they have. I quit that years ago. Do's and
don'ts won't save you. Only Christ can save a man. Well,
needless to say, they never come back again. Another fellow wanted
to come to our services. He called me on Saturday night
and said, What time's your meeting tomorrow? And I told him, he
said, well, let me ask you how you discipline the church. I
said, what do you mean? He said, what do you do with
people that lie and commit adultery and steal? And he went through
a whole litany of stuff. And I said, listen, man. I said,
you know what? When I was unconverted, I knew
every bit of that was wrong. And that didn't keep me from
doing it. That's what I'm trying to tell you. That's why these
fellows said, we reject self-righteousness. We're not going to have nothing
to do with it. You go on to Moses if you want to. That's what James
said. He said, let's tell these Gentiles
this is what's going on. Moses is preached every Sabbath
day. If you want Moses, you go over
there and hear him. If you want grace, you go hear
somebody preaching the grace of God in Christ. And oh my,
I tell you people say worship according to your conscience.
You better never trust your conscience for anything. Because your conscience,
it lied to us all the days of our lives until God saved us.
And that's why he said he purified their hearts by faith. And all
I say is walk according to your light. If you walk according
to the light that these fellas said, you know, command them
to keep the law of Moses. You see, we're saved by a gift.
We're saved by grace, not wages. Keep Acts 15. I want you to look
over with me in Romans 4. Look with me in Romans 4. You
know, God pays men their wages. You know, if they want to work
for wages, God will pay them. God will pay them. He'll pay
them off. If you want to work for wages,
He'll pay you. Yeah, He'll pay you. Yes, He
will. Oh, perish the thought of human
pride. Let God alone be magnified. Look
what He says here now in Romans 4-4. Now to him that worketh
is the reward, not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Now you want
what? You reckon God will pay you off?
You reckon God would be in debt to you, have to pay you? But
now listen to this, but to him that worketh not, worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifies the ungodly. One of the men said
this morning, Lord, give him the gospel for a bunch of sinners
like us. His faith is counted for righteousness,
even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto
whom God imputeth righteousness without works. Oh my, in my hand
no price I bring. Oh, I tell you something else
they didn't believe. They rejected self-righteousness,
and they didn't believe in salvation by man's free will. No, no, they
didn't believe in man's will. They didn't believe in man's
free will whatsoever. They preached grace. Sovereign
grace. Free grace. Look what he says
down here back over in our text. Look what he says here in verse
7. And when there had been much
disputing, Peter rose up and said, of them men and brethren,
you know how that God, a good while ago, made choice among
us. Who made the choice? God did. Who made the choice? God did. When are the Gentiles going to
hear the gospel? When God made the choice, who's going to hear
the gospel? Whom God chose, made the choice. Who did he make to
hear, preach the gospel to? Whom God made the choice. Oh
my, for by grace are you saved. Not of works lest any man should
boast. Oh my, he said, and they come
to hear the word of the gospel. The word of the gospel. You know
the scriptures tells us, that there was a day that we heard
the gospel of our salvation. The gospel of our salvation.
And I remember well when I didn't believe the gospel. I remember
well when I didn't understand the gospel. I remember very well
when I didn't know the gospel. But bless God, one day God crossed
my path with somebody preaching the gospel of the free grace
of God in Christ. He tore down every playhouse
I ever had, every wrong thought I had about God, every wrong
thought I had about myself, and I come to found out that God
gave us grace in Christ Jesus, you know when? Before the world
ever began. And I said, oh my, not by the
will of man, God made the choice, God made the choice. And you
read it tonight, just this morning. He said, by his own will. By
God's will begat he us with what? The word. What kind of word? The word of truth. The word of
truth. Every good and perfect gift cometh
down from the Father of light, and there ain't no variableness,
no shadow of turning about him. And I tell you, I was listening,
you know, a young preacher the other day, And boy, you're talking
about preaching. Oh my goodness, I've listened
to him several times and he's just dead on them, dead on. But
the scriptures tells us in Acts 13, 48, he said, as many as were
ordained to eternal life. What'd they do? Believe. He said,
we believe. Well, as many as were ordained
to eternal life, they believed. They believed. And he says, not
of him that willeth, it's not of him that runneth, but it's
of God that shows mercy. Now let's look at this. So first
of all, they believed. They believed. They believed
the salvation is by grace. Now look what else they said.
And there in verse 11. But we believe that through the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved. You look at this closely and
it reveals what a blessed truth. We shall be saved. Why would
it say we shall be saved? If you don't need saving, why
do you need to be saved? And it reveals to us that these
men believed that a man was absolutely ruined by sin. That he was desperately
wicked, born desperately wicked, come from his mother's womb speaking
lies. And why do we believe we need
to be saved? Because we're sinners. A sinner
don't need salvation. You know, if somebody's not a
sinner, don't need salvation. They believed in the three R's.
Three R's. Ruined. Ruined. Ruined in your
mind. Ruined in your will. Ruined in
your affections. Ruined in your mouth. Ruined
by your feet. Ruined by everything, your emotions. Everything about you. Your thoughts
are ruined. Your will is ruined. Your mind
is ruined. Your heart is ruined. Your feet's
ruined. Your tongue's ruined. Everything
about us is ruined. And I'll tell you what, we can't
undo that. We're just born ruined. People
say, well, he's gonna be lost. Listen, folks were born lost,
and that's why we need the gospel, why we preach the gospel. You
know, I don't understand this idea that people have an age
of accountability. There's no such animal as that.
And not only were we ruined, but bless God Almighty, that
we have redemption. That's the second R. That by
the blood of Christ, Christ come into this world, and He Himself
took our sins upon His own body on the tree. He was wounded for
our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity.
And the Lord took all our sins, all our sins, and laid them on
Him. And what happened when He laid
Him on them? Our Lord Jesus Christ went to
that cross, and because God could not look on Him with nothing
but strict justice and wrath, said, I'll kill you because you've
got sin on you. I'll kill you, not because of
your sin, but because you've bared all your people's sin.
And God Himself plunged in the sword of justice in his heart,
pulled it out, wiped the blood off of it. And our Lord Jesus
went to the grave, stayed down there, and then he rose again.
And he rose again, bless his holy name. So now, Now there
is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins,
and sinners splurge beneath that flood. What happens? They lose
all, all their guilty strains. All of them. Not part of them,
all of them. Thank God for the blood. Oh my. Oh, we need the blood. Without
the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sins. Oh, my. He said, you know, the reason
Abel was saved, and Cain wasn't, and that's exactly what they're
debating here. Abel took a lamb. Abel took blood. Abel went and
approached God by a substitute, by something in his place, in
his stead, And Cain come with the works of his hands. Listen,
look at my green beans. You ever seen the like of green
beans in your life? Look at that. I got ears of corn,
you know this. I got ears of corn that long.
I mean, it was something. You can imagine. But oh my. But then God looked at Abel and
said, oh my. Oh my. And I'm so thankful. that the blood of Christ cleanses
from all sin. You know how many sins I've got?
None. None. None. God himself said, I won't remember
them against them ever again. And then, oh my, what good is
it going to be ruined? What good is the death of Christ
going to do us and the blood of Christ going to do us unless
we're born again, unless we're regenerated? Huh? And the death
of Christ and the blood of Christ guarantees, guarantees that the
one for whom he died, they're gonna be regenerated. They're
gonna have the new birth. That's what I just quoted to
you. As many as were ordained to eternal life, what happened
to them? They believed. They believed. Oh my. That's what's so wonderful about
preaching. You know, if it was up to me,
if it was up to me for somebody to be converted, there'd never
be a soul saved in this world. If it's up to man, then everybody
better be saved. But it's up to God. It's up to
Christ. It's in the power of God. And
that's why these men saved, we believe. And then they believed
in the doctrine of grace, the glorious grace, through the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace, oh, just a charming sound. Oh my. And you know what grace
does? It comes to where you are. It
comes to where you are. It invades you. It comes and
overcomes you. It defeats you. It converts you. It breaks your will. It comes and makes you so grateful
that God came and defeated you, and invaded you, and come and
done something for you, and you sit there. Grace absolutely is
a power and a force that when God manifests it, you can't resist
it. I'm telling you, you can't resist
it. I'm talking about God's grace now. Oh my, this is what a sinner
needs, grace. And it's always, always joined
to the Lord Jesus Christ. I've done quoted it already,
but it says there in 2 Timothy 1.9. God who hath saved us. God who
hath saved us. God who hath called us with a
holy calling. not according to our works, but
according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us
in Christ Jesus before the world began. Grace and peace, all to
the praise of his glory. Look over in 2 Corinthians chapter
8 with me. Keep the axe down. I want to
show you something over here if I can. Verse 9, St. Corinthians 8, verse
9. Oh, grace and peace to the praise
of the glory of God. Talking about grace through our
Lord Jesus Christ. For you know, you know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ. How do you know it? He was rich. He was rich. How wealthy is our
Lord Jesus Christ? The earth in its fullness belongs
to him. But to all my, yet for your sakes,
our sakes, he became poor. That through his poverty, he
turns around and makes us rich. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name give glory. for thy mercy and thy truth's
sake. And then here's another thing that these fellows believe. They believe in the substitutionary
death of Christ. We shall be saved through the
grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That Christ took their place,
they understand, they understood. that the only way I could be
saved is to be saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. Psalm and Peter
experienced grace. He experienced it. Once you experience
grace, you'll experience it for the rest of your life. You'll
need it. Once you get grace, you'll always be saying, oh God,
grace, grace, give me more grace. Our Lord come and asked his disciples
one time, who do men say that I the Son of Man am? Well, some
say you're Elijah, some say you're Jeremiah, because you know, you're
a man of sorrows. Another says, you know, that
you're one of the other prophets. Now, Lord Jesus asked him, said,
who do you say that I am? Oh, Simon Peter said, oh, Lord,
we believe, we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God. Our Lord said to Simon, flesh
and blood didn't have anything to do with that. He said, my
father, which is in heaven, he did that. He did that. And oh my. And then our Lord
Jesus Christ, when he was fixed to go to the cross, Peter said,
I won't deny you. Oh, I'll die. I'll go to prison.
I'll even die with you. And he went and denied the Lord
three times. Did God quit him? Did God leave him alone? Did
God forget him? No, no, no. Grace came and got
him again. He went back fishing one time,
took all the saddles with him. The Lord Jesus went where he
was, went where he was, and said, children, you caught anything?
You know what? Just like us, we always got to
say nothing. Nothing, we ain't caught nothing. Oh my. That's why, you know,
that's why Paul says he went and pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace. And then
they believed in the final perseverance of the saints. They said, we
shall be saved, even as they were, even as the Gentiles were.
Oh my. They believed in the final perseverance
that they were going to be saved. They are going to be saved. I
don't know if any of y'all ever read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,
but there was a woman, a little woman in there, a young lady
in there called Miss Muchafraid. She is Miss Muchafraid. She is
afraid of everything. And there was an old man named
Mr. Doughty, and he walked with crutches
almost all of his life. And then they got ready to, Christian
and faithful met him one time, and they started talking to him.
And he talked to old Mr. Downing and Mrs. Mustafray and
asked him, said, would you swap your faith for someone else's? He said, oh, no, no, no, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't at all. So he said, well, what are you
afraid of then? And old Mr. Downing, he threw his crutches
away. Threw his crutches away. You see, we don't have an uncertain
salvation. Being confident of this very
thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, he shall
perform it under the day of Jesus Christ. And I heard Tim James
say one time, said, we got a double-fisted salvation. He said, our Lord
said, I give unto them eternal life, and nobody shall pluck
them out of my hand. And no one will be able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand, which is greater than all. So
we're in the Father's hands, we're in the Son's hand. That's
a pretty good salvation, ain't it? Double-fisted. Christ and God. Double-fisted
salvation. And then here's a religious confession
of faith. It says there in verse one, chapter
15, They came down from Judea, taught the brethren, taught the
brethren. Except you be like us, except
you be like us, you can't be saved. You can't be saved. Oh my, the public is in harlot. Our Lord Jesus Christ said before,
they go in before you. They taught something different,
different than what the apostles taught. And this is what they
said. Now this is a Jew talking now. All these men are Jews. They're
Jews by nature. Raised Jews. Raised under the
law. Raised under all those riches
and circumcisions and all those 630 laws that they had, the Pharisees
had. And they said, we shall be saved
even as they. As God saved them Gentiles. As
God saved them. These undefiled, these defiled,
these corrupt, these people who did not know God, did not know
God from ago. He said, God come and I brought
the gospel to them, they believed it, and God saved them. And we're
going to be saved the same way God saved them. If we're saved,
they're going to be saved that way. Even as they. And then he
says there in verse 5, watch, look at this here. But there
rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed,
saying that it was needful to circumcise them and command them. They talked about them, them. Well, what about you? How are
you going to be saved? You're going to be saved even
as they are. What about you? You've got to be saved even as
the worst. If you're saved, you've got to be saved just like everybody
else is saved. There's no other way. And our
Lord Jesus Christ, He saved a thief, even while He was on the cross.
And the first word our Lord Jesus said from the cross, you know
what He said? He looked out at that mob, that multitude gathered
around Him, and He said, Father, forgive them. Forgive them. They know not what they do. And
I believe that every one our Lord Jesus Christ prayed for,
Father forgive them, I believe every one of them was forgiven.
And I believe most of them were converted on the day of Pentecost.
That those folks who did not believe, Christ prayed for them
and they were saved. And just like our Lord Jesus
Christ, here's a man no works, he is a thief, murderer, he is
an awful man. In fact, he was so awful that
they crucified him beside Christ. And yet our Lord Jesus saved
that man, left the other in his sin. And all men came from the
same place, from Adam. And if you've been a good son,
you've been a good husband, you've been a good father, you've been
a good grandfather, been good great-grandfather, if you've
been a good worker, thank God for it. But don't never trust
anything that you've ever thought, said, or done. for your salvation
or acceptance with God. Don't ever think it. Don't ever
do it. What's your confession of faith?
Well, we shall be saved. How? Through the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ. What else can a sinner do? What
else can a sinner do? What else can he do? What else
are we going to claim? Where else are we going to go?
Our badness ain't going to keep us from Christ. Our goodness
ain't going to commit us to Christ. Our poorness, our ignorance,
and all those things makes no difference at all. Salvation
is by the free grace of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. No idols. Nothing. Oh, gotta be saved like
they do. And one old hymn writer said
it like this, who's pardoned for transgressions past, admires
not how black their cast. And oh, my soul, with wonder
of you, for sins to come, here's pardon too. Here's pardon too. All my sins, I'm going to be
saved, but I'm going to be saved by grace through the Lord Jesus
Christ. No other way. Our Father, in the blessed name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for being with us today.
Thank you for your precious word. Oh Lord, thank you for your grace.
Thank you for the blood of Christ. Thank you that your power, that
there's power in your blood, that there's power in your grace.
There's salvation in you, in you alone. There's no other name,
no other name, no other name. under heaven, given among all
the men on this earth, whereby we must be saved, other than
the Lord Jesus Christ. And Lord Jesus, I wanted to be
saved yesterday. I want your salvation today. And if you let me live tomorrow,
I want your salvation tomorrow. I want you and all that goes
with you. I don't want to look to myself
for nothing. Absolutely nothing. Oh God, we
need you. Every hour, every day, every
moment. Oh Lord, we need you. And oh
Lord, create a greater need in us for you. Create a greater
love in us for you. Create a greater faith, a stronger
faith. But Lord, whatever else you do,
leave us not to ourselves. God bless this dear Body of believers
here, meet every need of every home, every heart. Be with those
that are so frail and so sick. They can't come because of that.
Lord, provide them someone. Provide them someone to be their
pastor. Someone that'll love them and
care for them and feed them and take care of them. and help them
through their trials, help them with their worries and fears
and doubts and anxieties and through their sicknesses and
trials and afflictions. Give them somebody after your
own heart who asks these things in Christ's name. Amen. Thank you all. Appreciate you
very much.
Donnie Bell
About Donnie Bell
Donnie Bell is the current pastor of Lantana Grace Church in Crossville, TN.
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