Don Elmore Sermons

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September 21, 2025

Scripture Reading:  Revelation 18:4

This is the first of two sermons that will tell the brief story of my church life when I was not a preacher. It covers about the first 40 years of my existence here on earth and tells of my search for the truth of what the Bible teaches.

What church should a person go to? Who is a Christian, is a question that is seldom answered. It is implied by their “no answer” that everyone, or almost everyone, on the list below is a Christian. But how could all the following denominations, with large memberships, be Christian when they hold opposite theological opinions to other Christian churches? Here are the approximate numbers of all the members of the largest and different Christian denominations in the world:

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September 7, 2025

Scripture Reading: Titus 1:14:

“Not giving heed to Jewish fables [or myths of Judaism], and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 

The apostle Paul’s letter to Titus, who was one of his co-workers during part of a couple of his missionary journeys, gives to his fellow helper a stern warning. He gave him instructions to not give any credence to … it wasn’t any Oriental fables or Negro fables or Greek fables … but only to Jewish fables. I wonder why that was. Was Paul anti-Semitic?

Ken Ham, of Answers in Genesis, wrote an article that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper in 2017. The article was entitled "There is Only One Race -- The Human Race."  This  sermon will examine Ken's article.

Third Missionary Journey, Part Two:  Journey to Rome

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August 10, 2025

Scripture Reading:  Matthew 28:1-7

Our nation will soon have “anti-Semitic” laws that will declare that anyone who says anything against the Jews will go to prison. Well, they will have to ban the Bible, because it is very “anti-Jewish.” The first five books of the New Testament (Covenant) reveal multiple attempts by the Jewish authorities to have both Jesus and his chosen vessel, Paul, murdered, like in this verse (see part seven of this series).

Answers in Genesis started about 30 years ago in one small part of a strip mall in Florence, Kentucky. It was there that they sold their merchandise and started their outreach to churches. They opened their Creation Museum to the public in 2006 at a cost of $27 million, and the Noah’s Ark Exhibit opened in 2017 at a cost of over $100 million. The Museum opened with no debt because they built the Museum as they received the money. But for the Ark, AiG borrowed 62 million dollars on bonds from their “supporters”, i.e., the city of Williamstown, who AiG will pay back with interest, with 75% of their property tax going to this cost, over the next 15 – 30 years.

Next on their agenda, in 2026, is the indoor model of Jerusalem during Jesus’ time and then they will build the Tower of Babel. I will quote what they say on their website about this exhibit of three-part model of Jerusalem:

“They will follow Jesus’ ministry in Jerusalem and learn about archaeological finds confirming the Bible’s history.”

But Jesus’ ministry wasn’t in Jerusalem, but rather to the north in Galilee. There was a lot of activity at the end of his ministry in Jerusalem, but that was not where His ministry occurred. The disciples were informed to go where they were from and meet Him in Galilee and it wasn't in the entire world as Judaized dispensationalist churches would have you believe.

SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Part Four)

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July 6, 2025

Scripture Reading Acts 17:16:  

Paul was by himself in Athens. He would be by himself for about three to four weeks. His spirit was stirred when he saw how the city was so idolatrous.

Paul had previously been chased out of Thessalonica by the Jews who then followed him to Berea to duplicate the same thing. They were hunting for Paul and were waiting at the place where he was staying. When his brethren found out what was happening, to keep the Jews from finding and violently hurting or killing him, they put him on a ship and quickly got him out of town. Paul’s supporters didn’t have enough money to pay for all his fellow missionaries to travel by ship (my opinion), so the rest of them had to travel by land. The ship that Paul was on took him 275 miles to Athens.

SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Part Three)

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June 8, 2025

Scripture Reading:  Acts 17:26

According to an old and a new gallop poll which asked the following question, “Do you approve or disapprove of marriage between Black people and White people”, the results have changed drastically in the 63 years they have asked this question.

In 1958: 4% of Americans approved of interracial marriages between Blacks and Whites, while 94% disapproved.

In 2021: 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriages between Blacks and Whites, while 4% disapproved.

What happened in the last 63 years?

SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Part one)

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April 13, 2025

Scripture Reading: 2 Timothy 3:15-16:

What were the “holy scriptures” that Timothy learned from his mother, Eunice, along with his grandmother, Lois, that made him wise unto salvation (2 Timothy 1:5)? It was probably the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It was written by seventy-two Judeans who translated it at the request of the Egyptian Pharaoh for the library at Alexander in Egypt, several centuries BC.

Timothy grew up in Asia Minor at a time when the New Testament era was in its infancy – there was no such thing as New Testament books yet. It wasn’t compiled until 367 A.D., when Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt gave a list of books that form the modern twenty-seven books of the New Testament.

First Missionary Journey

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March 9, 2025

Galatians 3:27, 28:

Where did the Kenites, Canaanites, and Edomites dwell? The Kenites (Cain’s offspring) originally were in what is known as India (land of Nod) today. They spread over the land nearby and many of them intermarried with the Canaanites, who began in the “promised land of Israel." In fact, it was called the Land of Canaan before Israel went there. The Canaanites, through the Hittites, alsohad, an Empire in what is now the modern country of Turkey and other lands that surrounded the nation of Israel, like Lebanon and Syria.

First Missionary Journey

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February 23, 2025

Scripture Reading: Galatians 3:28:  “

Saul was in his youth a member of the Jews’ religion  (Judaism) and “…persecuted the church of God and wasted it” (Galatians 1:13). But when it pleased God to reveal His Son to Paul, that he might preach among the lost tribes of the former divorced House of Israel, Paul, to prepare for this task, spent three years in Damascus and Arabia. From there he thwarted an attempt to murder him by the Jews in Damascus, and went to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him for fifteen days (Galatians 1:18) until he escaped another plot by the Jews to murder him. He then went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia for about five years. (Galatians 1:21). Saul later was found by Barnabas in Tarsus and was brought to the church in Antioch, Syria, where they both taught for over a year. It was to Antioch in Syria that a host of Christian Judeans in Jerusalem and nearby areas fled after the death of Stephen.

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February 2, 2025

Scripture Reading: Galatians 3:28  

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”

This is one of the verses in Scripture that is used the most to destroy the continuity of the Old Testament with the New Testament. It is used by many to say that there are different kinds of people addressed in each of the two Testaments:

• The Old Testament: the Jews. In Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College, December 2024, page 2, “We read in the Old Testament of God’s special covenant with the Jews, who are repeatedly described as a ‘chosen people.’”

What book in the Bible, chapter, and verse?

• The New Testament: Everyone in the world, including the non-Jews, who are called the Gentiles, or Greeks. In the Hillsdale College’s previous article, page six, it says that in Christianity, “salvation was open to every human being.”

Again, what book in the Bible, chapter, and verse?

The purpose of this sermon is to show that it is the literal descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that are the people of both Testaments. I should add that it is not “Testaments” but should be “Covenants.” Israel is the only people of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31 and Hebrews 8:8).

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January 5, 2025

Scripture Reading: Genesis 10:5

There are several Protestant denominations that state that the King James Version of the Bible is practically infallible with no or hardly any mistakes. They also indicate that this is the only Bible version that should be used.

While we certainly do not oppose the use of the King James Version and believe that it’s an average translation of Scripture, we do not believe that it’s the only inspired version of Scripture. It’s important to note that all English translations have errors and mistakes and eventually have words that became archaic after over 400 years or less of it originally being published.