Acts Reformed Baptist Church

01/05/2025

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

08/28/2024

The eternal household plan of God was for God’s household to be made up of Jews and Gentiles. Although veiled in the Old Testament this mystery has been revealed through Christ who is the One to which the eternal household planned has been summed up. Gentiles by God’s grace alone are no longer strangers, but fellow citizens of the household of God on which the foundation is the prophets and the apostles. However, the most important piece of this building that is being fitted together into a holy temple is the Cornerstone which is Christ. Gentiles, who were once restricted at the temple by the barrier of the dividing wall are now by God’s grace are being fitted together and growing into the holy temple in the Lord.

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

08/28/2024

The difference between those in Heaven and those in hell is grace! The response to His grace is praise to the glory of His grace. The more we see have undeserving we are, the more we will understand how amazing is His grace!

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

06/14/2024

No one can have spiritual understanding of God without the sovereign hand of God sending the Holy Spirit to give understanding and knowledge concerning the truth of God. Having knowledge of God both salvifically and in sanctification is an act of God’s grace!

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

06/14/2024

Paul continues to pray that the saints of have a greater knowledge of Christ as this leads to greater assurance and hope of their inheritance. Another aspect of the knowledge of God is to understand the greatness of His power toward those who believe. The power, strength, and might of God are on full display toward those who are His in regeneration. The same power that raised Christ from the dead is the same power that was needed to raise the spiritually dead heart of all His elect to life. God raised Christ from the dead and seated Him in the Heavenly places which is what happens in salvation. It took the same omnipotent power (and nothing less) that raised Jesus to raise our unregenerate dead heart to life in regeneration. How dare we ever think that faith ever precedes regeneration as we never have that power in and of ourselves. Christ has been exalted to the right hand of God the Father which is the seat of authority via the ascension.

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

06/14/2024

The eternal household plan of God is summed up in Christ in whom we believe, have our hope, are in union with, and are
eternally secure!

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

05/23/2024

05/12/2024

All who have believed have believed as a result of the supernatural working of the Holy Spirit in regeneration. Christ breathed on His disciples to signify that He and the Father are whom the Spirit is sent from, and they will soon receive the Spirit that is promised. God breathed into Adam, and he became a living soul. The breathing of the Holy Spirit into the lives of His elect by the hand of God the Father and God the Son brings eternal life as He is a life-giving Spirit. It is by the Holy Spirit one who has never seen Christ can believe in Him and love Him and are blessed. The Holy Spirit inspired the Word of God and illuminates the Bible to His elect. It is through the pages of Scripture that God speaks to His people and that the gospel is revealed. The purpose of the gospel according to John is clearly defined. The things written in this book were written so that one may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing one may have eternal life.

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

05/12/2024

It was impossible for Him not to be resurrected and it is equally impossible for His elect to not be raised spiritually and on the Last Day physically. His resurrection is our living hope! He is not here, He is risen!

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church

05/05/2024

Someone who had died on a cross would not have been buried in a rich man’s tomb but would rather have had a relative come and take their body, have their lifeless body eaten by birds, or thrown into the garbage heap to burn and be eaten by worms. When Jesus declared “it is finished” He meant that all that the Father had sent Him to accomplish was complete. It also meant that His humiliation was finished, and it was now time for His exaltation to begin which would begin in His burial. The spices and the anointing of His body would not be needed as His body would not see decay (Acts 2:22-36). His body was placed in the tomb, but it was impossible for death to hold Him (Acts 2:24). As He had promised His disciples earlier:” A little while, and you will no longer see Me; an again a little while, and you will see me (John 16:16).

Shawn Owens | Acts Reformed Baptist Church