A Bible Believing Church

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Oh yes, my bros. And my sis., by "conventional standards", we are poor witnesses in defense of the Bible, indeed. Is there no wonder that the children of the 21st century are finding it so hard to trust in the Bible as the righteous guide to lead them through this life?

Our Scripture, today, says that those that heard Peter preaching were cut to their hearts. And then 3,000 souls repented and were baptized that same day.

And as the Church devoted them-selves to the Apostles teaching, to fellowship one with another, to the breaking of bread and to prayer and to the giving of their possessions to the ministry of God, God stepped in and blessed them by adding to their numbers daily.

But God did not stop there, for the Bible says that God empowered their Apostles to perform many wonders and miraculous signs.

My bros. & my sis., I stopped by here today, to let you know that…although there is much that the Bible reports that has happened before our time and in our absence that make us poor first-hand witnesses, …I’m still a Bible believer!

I’m a Bible believer because there are “some” things that we do know that make us good spiritual witnesses for God’s Holy Word even before this adulterous generation.

There are events that have happened in our personal lives that we have been witnesses of, that the world can’t take away from us! God has done some things for you and He’s some things for me just like He did for the early Church that believed when Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost.

That’s why I’ve got complete confidence today, in all that the Bible says. For the world does not know like the Church folks know….

And we church folks can testify to the fact that there was a time when we were lost in sin, but Jesus met us on our Damascus road….

We may not have been there when the Bible was first written….but we were there…

…when the Holy Spirit washed away our sins and saved our souls….

…when the Lord picked us up from the miry clay and set our feet on a rock to stay…

…when the Lord heard our prayers and met us in a sickroom situation,…

…when the Lord became our lawyer in the courtroom and pleaded our case,…

…when the Lord met us at the bill collectors office and paid our debts...

…when the Lord met our needs, put food on our tables, clothes on our backs, healed our bodies, got our children out of jail…

We all can remember…

…when the Lord protected us from dangers seen and unseen..

…when the Lord calmed our fears and spoke peace to our weary souls

…when the Lord lifted our burdens, ….washed the tears from our weeping eyes,…

….and in the dangers of the mid-night hour, God sent His angels to stand guard over us!

…all day and all night, His angels keep watching over me!

We know for ourselves, what the Lord has been doing for us this year!