Portland One:16 Bible Church

The Apostle Paul opens his letter to the Corinthian church and to all saints with a rich word of encouraging affirmation.

The knowledge of the one true God is central to salvation and the Christian life. You cannot place your faith savingly or sanctifyingly in a God you do not know. God has revealed Himself in creation, conscience, and through the Special Revelation of His inspired, inerrant, preserved Word...the 66 books of the Bible...Genesis through Revelation...that we might know Him, love Him, and make Him known!

I was going to open my message with excerpts from Charles Spurgeon's message, The Christian's Great Business, but ended up largely preaching his compelling message on every Christian's Great Commission responsibility. It was true when the inspired Word of God was written. It was true when Spurgeon preached it September 7th, 1873. It's true for all believers today! May God be pleased to Make the Great Commission Great Again in His Church and thus in the earth!

This is Christ's mission for His Church. Is it your pastor's mission? The Great Commission is not a suggestion or an option. It is our King's standing command for His Church. Every pastor is under the command of Christ to MAKE THE GREAT COMMISSION GREAT AGAIN, going therefore proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and training the sheep of the Lord's fold, training the soldiers of our King's Gospel army to do the same. What is the result of Great Commission neglect, apathy, and rebellion? Sinners are perishing, every abominable evil is advancing, the unborn are slaughtered, Islam is the fastest growing religion, God hating Marxism is on the march, and Christianity's influence is fading ALL BECAUSE the vast majority of pastors have made The Great Commission a sidenote at best and shameful folly at worst. For the love of Christ, for the love of saints, for the love of sinners, and for the love of the nations of this world...we must MAKE THE GREAT COMMISSION GREAT AGAIN! To hear, "Well done good and faithful servant!"...we must MAKE THE GREAT COMMISSION GREAT AGAIN!

Learning Christian thanksgiving from Psalm 107.

Has God left us in the dark on how we should design our households and raise our children? Certainly not. In His divine wisdom and Fatherly love, He has given us clear commands and instruction for the blessing of mankind, the individual family, fathers, mothers, and the children He has entrusted to us. May God bless His Word to your hearts, minds, and homes.

The day is coming when all Israel will bend the knee to the Good Shepherd, the King of kings, the King of the Jews! This is the plain teaching of Scripture. This isn't Zionist or Dispensationalist propaganda. John Calvin, Matthew Henry, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, J.C. Ryle, and a great cloud of Bible believing, prophecy believing, Biblical Covenant believing saints have faithfully declared this certain truth...the truth that Zechariah 12-13 makes abundantly clear. God will fulfill His prophecies and uphold His covenant with Israel as a nation. Jews and Gentiles will be united under the blood of the Lamb! "I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, They are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is our God.'" -Zech. 13:9

When the fullness of the gentiles have come in ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED! The Messiah, Jesus Christ, is coming again. The Day of the Lord is coming! All prophecy will be fulfilled! All Biblical Covenants will be kept! The King of kings and Lord of lords will will crush His enemies, Jew and gentile alike. Christ will conquer the world and rule in Zion. All Israel will be saved and a great many gentiles too! Israel's entire population is less than 10 million souls. There are less than 16 million Jews on the entire planet. Israel and the Jews are NOT attempting to conquer the world. Israel and the Jews are NOT secretly ruling America! That is absurd anti-Israel, anti-Jew propaganda. Israel and the Jews are NOT the pernicious parasitic evil on the planet responsible for every evil (porn, homosexuality, child trafficking, etc.). Israel and the Jews are NOT responsible for the evil of Islamic jihad. Those are absurd, often repeated, anti-Israel, anti-Jew lies. When your favorite "reformed" podcaster, YouTube guru, or preacher is aligned more with Adolf Hitler and Hamas regarding Israel and the Jews than Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul, and the Great Commission…you need to find a new favorite. When your Covenant theology cancels God's Biblical New Covenant promises and perverts them you need to cancel your anti-Covenant Theology and embrace Biblical Covenant Theology. This isn't what is now popularly called "evil Zionism," it's just what the Bible clearly says. Don't dismiss me as an "evil Dispensationalist." I'm a Bible believing Christian who really wanted to be in the cool Covenant Theology club, but couldn't bring myself to cancel God's Biblical Covenants. Here I stand.

Spiritual nourishment for the weary Christian soul.

A word on Roman Catholic anti-Christ heresy, evangelizing Roman Catholics, Doug Wilson's Romish anti-Gospel heresy, and his CREC denomination's ongoing anti-Christ ecumenical counter-reformation! Follow the link below to hear the message.

Are you struggling, dear mother? Here's hope! Are you strong, dear mother? Here's encouragement to hold fast and press on! Are you broken, dear mother? Here's a life ring!

Paedobaptism is contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Paedobaptism is contrary to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. Paedobaptism is not in the Bible. Paedobaptism is either dangerous error or damning heresy (depending on the individual) and needs to be exposed as such for love of Christ, His Church, and a multitude of perishing paedobaptists who are trusting in sacramental sprinkling and Jesus in the same soul damning way the Judaizers of Galatia were trusting in circumcision and Jesus (See Gal. 1:6-10 & 5:1-6). Baptism is the immersion of Holy Spirit regenerated and indwelt repentant Gospel believing confessors of Jesus Christ as Lord in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! Sprinkling unregenerate, unconscious, unrepentant, unbelieving, unconfessing babies and then pronouncing them covenant bound Christians is not baptism. The Bible knows nothing of this. The antichrist heretical Roman Catholic Church knows it well and has been glad to lend it to a great many professing "reformed" Christians who have failed to apply Sola Scriptura and Semper Reformanda to their doctrine and practice of baptism. Just as love demands that we call our Roman Catholic neighbors to repent of their heretical baptism and believe the Gospel...love demands that we call many of our Protestants neighbors to repent of their heretical baptism and believe the Gospel. May God be pleased to purify, protect, and reform His Church.