by Elder Chris McCool (preached 3/13/22) In today’s message, we continue looking at the doctrine of election as taught in the Scripture and believed by Zion Primitive Baptist Church, as evidenced by Article Three of her Articles of Faith. Download Audio File
by Elder Chris McCool (preached 3/13/22) In this message, Elder McCool continues his teaching about misconceptions regarding what Primitive Baptists believe about the doctrine of election. Having already dealt for the most part with the heresy of absolutism, Bro. Chris also deals with the misunderstanding of Scripture that leads some theologians to believe in a…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 3/13/22) Article Three of the Articles of Faith of Zion Primitive Baptist Church reads in part as follows: “WE BELIEVE IN THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION, PREDESTINATION, AND . . .THAT GOD CHOSE HIS PEOPLE IN CHRIST BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN.” This has been the belief of Zion church since…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/20/22) Today we finish looking at the fact that God divinely preserved His inspired word through the King James Version of the Bible. We have seen clearly the vast superiority of the manuscripts and methodology used by the KJV translators. Today, we finish looking at the motives of the…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/27/22) Over the past several messages, we have been looking at the fact that God has divinely preserved His inspired word. We have begun to look at the evidence supporting the King James translation as the preserved word of God in English. Today, we turn to the methodology used…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/20/22) In today’s message, we continue looking at the evidence for the KJV as God’s preserved word in English. We are looking at the manuscripts that the KJV is based upon versus the manuscripts that all other modern translations use. We have already seen, and will continue to see,…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/20/22) In today’s message, we continue looking at the fact that God divinely preserved His inspired word. In the last couple of messages, we dealt with the question of divine preservation in general terms, but today we turn to the more specific question of which English translation is the…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/20/22) This sermon is the second half of the first message preached about the divine preservation of the word of God. Last time, we saw that the Bible itself affirms the fact that God would preserve the very words of Scripture. When we left off, we were just beginning…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2-20-22) In the past two messages, we learned that God inspired the writers to pen the words of Scripture. Today, we turn to the issue of whether that inspired Scripture has been divinely preserved for us today. Two questions are relevant: (1) Can we rely on what we have…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/13/22) In this message, we continue our thoughts about the inspiration of Holy Scripture. Last time we saw that the Bible clearly teaches that its words are inspired. We looked at several verses that reinforce this concept, and then we began to see that context is so important! Today,…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/13/22) Article Two of the Articles of Faith of Zion Primitive Baptist Church reads as follows: WE BELIEVE THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ARE THE WORD OF GOD AND ONLY RULE OF FAITH AND PRACTICE. The charter members of our church, founded in 1847, believed…
by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached 2/6/22) In this message, we finish looking at the Trinity, a theological truth that permeates the word of God. Pastor McCool shows us the Biblical foundation of the truth that God is a Triune God, and explains why that truth matters to us today. Download Audio File
