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Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms]    Working our way through John chapter nine, this blind man was healed by Jesus. He was questioned repeatedly about how he was healed and who had healed him. He knew virtually nothing about the miracle of how he was healed or who had healed him. He couldn’t tell them because he didn’t know. That’s why they kept asking him. He didn’t know who or where Jesus was. He admitted he didn’t know everything. It is a great advantage to confess what little you do know, but you should know some things and you should know and confess that you know them. If you can’t say it, you don’t know it. “One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.” (Jn.9:25) He told them a man called Jesus anointed him with mud made from His spit and told him to go wash it off, and then he was able to see for the first time in your life. We all need this foundation, the bottom line, the starting block from which all other knowledge of the Lord comes. “I am not the same since Jesus told me to repent and believe in Him. I did and I am not the same.” Besides that, in the beginning we don’t know much. But God can work with that. Later Jesus found the man and told him who He was and then he began to worship Him and no doubt began to follow Him (Jn.9:35-38). It’s very simple to come to Jesus. “I am a sinner and He is the Savior. I trust Him to save me.” But we fail to realize that this is just the beginning of the Christian life. Jesus said, “Come to Me, and take My yoke on you and learn from Me.” (Mt.11:28-30) We need to admit we don’t know everything there is to know about being a Christian and living the Christian life. Everything hinges on this admission that you don’t know everything. You can’t begin to rehabilitate till you admit you need rehabilitation. You can’t begin to be Christlike until you admit you need to be more like Jesus. Like Paul, you too have not arrived. Never stop learning, because  you never learn it all. Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] 8/24/2025 Sunday Evening Speaker: Leslie Bailey "The Riches of His Glorious Inheritance" Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] Sunday, August 24, 2025. Summary of Acts Chapter Two I. The Force, 1:8    This is for others. It’s rivers of living waters. What happened in Acts 2 was the fulfillment of the words spoken by Jesus just 40 days before in Acts 1:8, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be My witnesses…” The point of this force is effectiveness. Jesus did not begin His powerful ministry of word, and works to back up His words, until after He was endued with power by the Holy Spirit. That’s huge! He did all His teaching and miracles after He was baptized with the Spirit. Likewise, just before He went to heaven He told His disciples not to begin their witness until after they were filled with the force of the Holy Spirit. Before Paul ever did or said anything, he was filled with the Spirit (Acts 9:17). This is no small thing. We accomplish little without this experience in our own lives. Are you filled with the force? Jesus said, “Without Me you can do nothing.” Well, you can do a lot, but it will not amount to much, without what Paul wrote, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” The church needs this force backing our words. YOU need this force. Jesus did, the disciples did, and so do we. Make sure you have this experience. II. The Fullness, v.4    This is for you. Paul called it being “filled with all the fullness of God.” (Eph.3:19) Jesus was filled with the Spirit and so were the disciples; God commands us to be filled in Eph.5:18. This is necessary for our bearing the fruit of the Spirit; it is His fruit that will fill our hearts and lives. Are you filled with the Spirit? You must answer yes or you can’t be all that God wants you to be and the world needs you to be. III. The Phenomena, 2:5-13; 1:8; 2:43; Jn.12:14    This was speaking in tongues. It was a strange thing for the people in Jerusalem that day, and also to the disciples who were doing it, because they had not learned these languages! A phenomenon is a significant event, an exceptional and unusual occurrence, something not normal or natural. It attracts people and makes them ask, “What is this?” Then we get to explain to them what God has done and is doing. This will seem like foolishness to many. They were accused of being drunk. But this was not the effect of being filled with wine, it was the result of being filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph.5:18). Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] Joy is a precious commodity. It is the strength of the Christian. “The joy of the Lord is our strength.” And “The fruit of the Spirit is joy.” Then we have the famous verse that says, “In Your presence is fullness of joy and at Your right hand are pleasures forever more.” (Ps.16:11) If you are living in the presence of God you will have joy, no matter what. Joy is the nectar that supplies the honey in our lives. Its sweetness attracts. But we need to know there are enemies of our joy that are on the loose! Satan wants to kill your joy! This hater of men can’t stand people having joy, or enjoying righteous things. He is the father of all the other killjoys that can invade your life. And they come uninvited; they are intruders disguised as guests. They look like they’re shopping in your store, but they are shoplifters; they have come to steal your joy (Jn.10:10a). A man arrived home from the grocery store with his 8 year old son and discovered he had a candy bar that he hadn’t paid for. The dad was upset and immediately told him to get back into the car and then drove him to the … jewelry store. Joy is located in the jewelry store of your life. To have this taken is no candy bar theft; Satan is taking this jewel of your life. Joy is what makes life enJOYable. See Acts 13:52. Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] “Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.”  (1Corinthians 14:3) I want our church to be the church as it is in the Bible. Do you want that? You should, because it’s what God wants. We know that because the Bible is the Holy Word of God where He tells us what He likes and the way He wants things done in His house. My dad was the boss in his own house. Even after I grew up and moved out of his house, when I went to his house I knew what he liked and disliked. For example, I would never dishonor him by changing the tv station to something I wanted to see. I can hear him now, “Now son, I was watching that. I own this house and that tv, so don’t be changing the station away from something I’m watching. God wants done in His house what He wants done and He tells it to us in the Bible. We should want that too. You don’t go to someone’s house and tell the owner what you want to do and not do. Especially God’s. It doesn’t really matter what we want or like, does it? The aim of our lives is to please Him in everything and that certainly includes what we do in church. We have an audience of one and our sole goal is to please Him. That’s what we see in Acts 2 when Jesus instituted the church. What He did then and the way it was then is to continue until He returns. That is The Model Church we are to model our church after. One of the greatest and most life-changing truths I have ever received into my heart is this, that God invites me to join Him in the work of building His eternal family who will live with Him forever. Little ole me! And He will use me to speak His word and in so doing save the lost, heal the sick, and bless others immeasurably in a hundred different ways. And I get eternal rewards for working with Him in this. Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship