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Musical Instruments in the Church, Part 1: Does God Care How We Worship? (John 4:24)

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 18, 2024) One of the first things visitors to a Primitive Baptist Church notice is that we do not employ musical instruments in our public worship services. Rather, we sing a Capella congregational hymns, using only our voices lifted up in song. Why do we worship in…

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Annual Meeting 2024: Taking Care of Your Ox, Part 1 (1 Cor. 9:1-14)

by Elder Neil Honea (preached on March 9, 2024) During our 2024 Annual Meeting, Elder Neil Honea preached a powerful sermon concerning the way in which the churches are to provide for their pastors and preacher. Preachers are compared in Scripture to “oxen,” and we are told to take care of their material and spiritual…

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Annual Meeting 2024: The Day of Small Things (Zech. 4:6-10)

by Bro. McNeil Honea (preached on March 9, 2024) In this message from our 2024 Annual Meeting, Bro. McNeil Honea tells us about a day of “small things.” In this passage, Zerubbabel is tasked with the duty of going back to the “insignificant” place called Jerusalem on an “insignificant” building project. Of course, we understand…

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Annual Meeting 2024: If They Shall Fall Away (Heb. 6:1-6)

by Bro. McNeil Honea (preached on March 8, 2024) In this message, which is the first sermon preached at our 2024 Annual Meeting, we find a sober warning about “falling away.” Bro. McNeil Honea, who is exercising a preaching gift under the authority of Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church in Echola, Alabama, reminds us that there…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 9: The Rise and Fall of Evil II (Rev. 11:1-14)

As we began to see in the first half of this message, there is a cycle throughout history of the rise and fall of evil. Revelation 17:8 prophesies this, and Chapter 11 illustrates it as well. The devil rises from time to time from the bottomless pit to torment God’s people, but then the Lord…

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Revelations Series – An Interlude, Part 8: The Rise and Fall of the Wicked I (Rev. 11:3-14)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on June 21, 2023) In today’s message, Elder Buddy Abernathy takes us first to Revelation 17:8, which gives a basic summary of the prophecy of the entirety of the Book of Revelation: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition:and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 7: The Measuring Rod of the Word of God (Rev. 11:1-2)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on June 7, 2023) As we continue in this interlude between the blowing of the sixth and seventh trumpets, we come to Chapter 11, where we read that John is given a “reed like unto a rod.” This reed is simply a measuring rod, which God tells John to use…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 6: The Little Book IV (Rev. 10:10-11)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on May 14, 2023) As we began to see yesterday, the “little book” in the hand of the angel (which is the word of God) is sweet to the taste, but bitter to the belly. Why is that? Elder Buddy Abernathy was beginning to show us why this must be…

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Revelation Series – An Interlude, Part 5: The Little Book III (Rev. 10:10-11)

by Elder Buddy Abernathy (preached on May 14, 2023) In the previous sermon, we began looking at the “little book” in the hand of the angel. This little book is the Bible, and the gospel message contained within it. In today’s message, we consider the statement that, when John “ate it up,” it was “sweet…