Acts 15: 12: Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. 13: And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14: Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. 15: And to this agree the words of the prophets; 15: as it is written, 16: After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up: 17: That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

The one thing that made the believing Jew and the believing Gentiles differ from the Pharisees (who had that old spirit of legalism) was the new spirit created within them by the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit wherein they believed Christ to be their perfect acceptance with God. That new spirit was created in them through the hearing of the gospel of Christ and him crucified.

And how was this "old leaven of oppression" exposed and the brethren brought to rejoice in Christ alone? The same way that the spirit of grace was created in them in the first place, by the Holy Spirit, through the declaration of what the Lord Jesus Christ hath done.

And it was the Lord Jesus Christ working in their midst which caused these saints to handle this matter by simply preaching the glorious liberty of Christ our All.

The gospel is the key to obedience. The gospel declares, not what sinners must do for God, but what God has and is doing for sinners.

SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH Of Princeton, New Jersey

LOCATION & TELEPHONE
Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd floor
150 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, NJ, 08553
Pastor's Telephone: 615-513-4464

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Sunday 10 AM Bible Class
11 AM Morning Worship
Thursday 7:00 PM Mid-week Service
(The first Sunday of each month, morning worship begins at 10am followed by observing the Lord's Table. Afterwards we have lunch together.)