2026 Sermons

Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore

January 18, 2026

Scripture Reading:  Luke 1:5

There are members of the Baptist Church today who claim that John the Baptist was the first member of the Baptist Church, but it is nothing but a joke. John the Baptist was a Levite. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of the descendants of Aaron, who was the grandson of Kohath, the son of Levi, and his father was the 8th course of the Priests, a descendant of Merari, who was the son of Levi. See chart on next page.

John the Baptist baptized Jesus when the Son of God was thirty years old in the Jordan River after He came from Galilee. Immediately after Jesus was baptized, a miracle took place: The heavens opened, the Holy Spirit descended like a dove, and a voice from heaven, the voice of God the Father, proclaimed Jesus as His Son. Jesus’ public ministry was now ready to begin.

“Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife ...”

By Walter Giddings

January 11, 2026

Reference Scripture:  Genesis 3:17

(Proverbs 30:20). In our previous Lesson, Eve’s Story, we drew, from Genesis chapter 4, the thrilling Story of Eve’s triumph over her greatest Enemy! Is it an even greater Foe than those of our own Household, and greater still than Satan and all his unholy Horde? And they are Formidable! Is our greatest Enemy our own Carnal Nature? Pastor Jerry of Christian Reform Fellowship consistently preached “our Flesh hates God!” This Story of Eve’s Triumph plays out for 130 years! The corresponding Triumph is Adam’s Love for his wife that kept him ready to Raise Up a Cover for her to run under! To begin the story [Genesis 4:1-2] we began in Proverbs 30:20 to compare the way of an adulterous woman with Eve’s behavior in the 1st 2 Verses. 

A Thanksgiving of the Lord’s Anointed

By Rev. Jim Jester

January 4, 2026

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 18:1

“To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said: ‘I will love You, O LORD, my strength.’” (NKJV)

The opening Scripture reading is the longest title in the Book of Psalms. In this title David tells us whom the psalm was written for with the words “to the Chief Musician.” Thus, we can deduce that God Himself is that Chief Musician; albeit, there are times when context reveals someone else as chief: “For in David’s lifetime—and in the lifetime of Asaph, choir master [or “chief” in some versions] of old—there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.” (Neh. 12:46, ISV) Everything in this title is directing our attention to God as the Chief of music. David tells us to consider himself “the servant of the LORD.” He tells us the occasion for writing the psalm — possibly not only the aftermath of Saul’s death (described in 1 Sam. 31; 2 Sam. 1), but also of the period leading to David’s enthronement (2 Sam. 2-5). He also tells us something about Saul, who out of undeserved kindness from David, is not explicitly counted among David’s enemies: “…from the hand of all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul.”