Apostolic Orthodox Church, International

09/08/2024

Commentary on The Gospel According to John, 3:17-21.

In this episode of "The Bible, Verse by Verse" Bp Hayes comments on John 3:17-21. The Light of the world, and the darkness on man.Please "Like," "Subscribe,"...

08/19/2024

08/11/2024

Bishop Jerry Hayes Answers Edward Delcor on the Godhead.

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08/04/2024

I Am But A Pilgrim (Post #3)

In this essay, I speak only for myself and the discoveries —I would like to say ”that I have found along the way”, but in reality, I will speak concerning the discoveries — that found me.

I was born into a Christian culture whose church craft included an altar call at the end of every sermon. I cannot remember missing not one call to the altar. Those repeated walks down the aisle to the prayer bench of that country church was the beginning of my personal life’s journey. Again, even then it was He who found me, not I that found Him. He was not lost—I was.

I seem to have been born knowing that I needed, more correctly: wanted God in my life in a very real way. I have often pondered: From where did this “want of God” come? Finally, in a winter revival meeting at my home church in 1963 I was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit.

From the moment of Holy Spirit infilling, a burden of the Word of God lay heavy upon my heart. I shared this with my pastor. The next Sunday, Pastor O. T. Cottrell came to my Sunday school class room and announced, “I am placing Jerry in my Bible class from this time forward”. I, then, walked behind my pastor out of the junior class into an association with the Pentecostal ministry. From that day I was my pastor’s shadow, accompanying him to conferences and minister’s meetings, etc.; I was his adjutant. The congregation ordained me as a junior deacon at age 16; then at age 18 I was ordained into the ministry by the laying on of the hands of over 20 pastors.

At age 18 I left my secluded rural community and embarked upon the journey of a full-time evangelist. The churches opened up to the style of preaching that God had blessed me with. The UPCI, ALJC, and PAW all welcomed me into their pulpits.

In those early days it was customary for the visiting minister to live with the pastor and his family during the duration of the meeting. Consequently, the Lord gave me access to the most spiritual and intellectual minds in the Pentecostal movement at the time. Most every night after the service the conversation between myself and the pastor (often the church elders were included) would go on deep into the morning hours. This was an education that no college or seminary classroom could possibly provide.

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We are travelers, you and I. Our journey will never end where it began. It is what we discover along that journey about ourselves and our G...

08/01/2024

Calling All Lovers of Church History!

In this 9th episode of "A Walk From Pentecost to Nicea" Bishop Hayes discusses Clement of Alexandria, Egypt. Clement taught that Eve was made from the s***m ...

07/28/2024

Calling All Lovers of Church History!

In this 8th episode of "A Walk From Pentecost to Nicea" Bishop Hayes discusses Praxeas and Noetus and their antagonist in the persons of Terullian and Hippol...

07/03/2024

I Am But A Pilgrim, (Post #2)

As a traveler on the path of restoration I see those who have gone before me as having been trail blazers; I benefit from the path they have marked. But, often times the well worn path has revealed the tip of treasures that have been overlooked, gone un-noticed, by those who have gone before. Often I have stumped my toe on some priceless truth that has gone un-recognized by those who have gone before. At other times I have actually tripped over some gloriously astonishing artifact of the church’s past that has been discarded and now is protruding from the surface of the path begging to be unearthed and put back into service. My peers have not always appreciated my spiritual archaeological propensity to recover and restore apostolic articles of faith that Christianity has lost through the annals of history, and that have been hidden by the sands of time.

What follows is the briefest possible account of my journey and the treasures upon which I tripped. I had no choice but to exhume them from their burial ground and hold them up for my brothers and sisters to behold and contemplate.

Before I write another word there is another point I must make crystal clear: Outside of the Word of God (the Holy Bible) there are no new doctrinal revelations, only illuminations. I have never searched for that that is new; only the old arrested my attention and called me to itself. Thus, what I will write in the following lines are not new revelations, only illuminations of the ancient truths of the Church.

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06/28/2024

I Am But A Pilgrim (Post #1)

By most accounts I am (at the time of this writing) in the winter of my life. Throughout my journey I have had great appreciation for those who have walked the path before me; plus, I am also thoughtful of those who will come up the trail behind me, and of my responsibility to them. I say this because, truth be told, Pentecostalism is a restoration movement. We are attempting to restore the Church to its pure condition of the 1st century. Since the Church is the Body of Christ we may consider the Pentecostal revival of the last century as the renewal of Christ’s church. Permit me to be clear on this point: The true church has never left the world since its beginning on the Day of Pentecost in Jerusalem AD 30. That being said, there has been a great falling away from the apostolic experience and doctrine by the majority of Christianity, and the presence of Christ’s true church has been minuscule and its influence has been minor. However, since the tremendous outpouring of the the Holy Spirit (the latter rain of the Spirit) at the beginning of the 20th century, the body of Christ has been undergoing stages of growth. From the Azuza Street revival (turn of the 20th century) to today (first quarter of the 21st century) the Pentecostal movement has grown from infancy to a more mature entity. At the beginning of this renewal most voices that are today considered the pioneers of modern Pentecostalism came from Methodist and Baptist traditions. Consequently, then, much baggage was brought into Pentecostalism from those two paradigms. Now, 100 plus years later, we are still dealing with much of that baggage. Throughout the last century of growth there has been more truth unearth than we begin with: deeper illumination has brought the Lord's church into a higher stage of growth. We have now reached a point where we may advance from an adolescent stage into a church that is more reflective of our Apostolic roots.

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We are travelers, you and I. Our journey will never end where it began. It is what we discover along that journey about ourselves and our G...

06/18/2024

From where do human souls come?

This is ALL pure Speculation. There r no scriptures that tells us plainly where our soul came from. I'm sure that it came from God. Again there r NO scriptures that even remotely supports any of the views so its ALL PURE SPECULATION. Read ur bible, read what is there and stop inserting what u THINK....