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You are cordially invited to attend the Church of The Lord Jesus Christ, of the Apostolic Faith, of Paulsboro, where you will hear the whole truth of God's eternal word, preached in its fullness, by our Father in the Gospel, The Late Bishop S. C. Johnson, by the way of transcription, and Elder C. D Campbell, in person. Our teaching is based upon Holiness and the Apostle's Doctrine, and can always be found in the Bible.
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Services
BISHOP S.C. JOHNSON, FORMER APOSTLE
ELDER C.D. CAMPBELL, PASTOR & GENERAL OVERSEER
Order of Service
Sunday Morning 11:00 A.M.
Sunday Evening 7:30 P.M
Tuesday Night 7:30 P.M
Thursday Night 7:30 P.M
Method Of Baptism
John preached repentance, Jesus proclaimed it, and before his ascension, he commanded that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, beginning at Jerusalem (Luke 24: 47). Peter fulfilled this command on the day of Pentecost. See Acts 2:38.
Broadcasts
1. WTMR - Monday Night
800 on the AM dial,Philadelphia, PA Area. 9:00 to 10:00 PM. (EST)
.2. WFBR - Sunday Evening-Baltimore , MD Areas-1590 on the AM Dial, 5:00 to 6PM (EST)
3. WINB - Tuesday Noonday
Shortwave 13570 on the Dial.
Reaching the Globe 1:00 to 2:00 PM. EST or on WWW.WINB.com at the same time .
Bishop S. C. Johnson - LENT
LENT
Among the many errors which crept in after the Apostles died was Lent
and its false connection with the sufferings and crucifixion of Christ. It
is supposed to represent the forty days of fasting of Christ in the
wilderness. However, the people do not fast as Christ did but they only
give up one or several things which they like, or sometimes do not like.
If they really wanted to commemorate the death and suffering of Christ
they would fast the entire forty days. Christ nowhere in the Bible tells us
to commemorate the forty days of fasting as an annual church festival.
In earlier times it was only adhered to by the Catholic Church and those
churches that were closely connected to it in religious form. However,
the celebration has reached such popularity until now even some of
those who claim Pentecostal ties announce their holy week services.
Lent could not even begin to compare with those forty terrible days
which God spent proving that He could live without yielding to
temptation, because in most cases those who keep it, when tempted hard
enough, will quickly get what they want. But we find, Jesus, when the
devil came to tempt Him again and again, He would rebuke him. We
find on one occasion when He had become hungered, the devil came to
Him and showed Him the stones, which were in Jerusalem and closely
resembled bread. The devil boldly told him “If thou be the Son of God,
command that these stones be made bread.” Matthew 4:3.
Jesus answered him saying “It is written, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Matthew 4:4.
The devil showed the Lord the kingdoms of the world and the glory of
them, but He would not lower His testimony to the children of men for
worldly goods and a morel of food.
The Bible does not at all endorse Lent, it is only a tradition devised out
of carnal intentions of men. It has no place in the Church of God.
Lent was established at the council of the Catholic Church at Nicaea,
325 A.D. but was not well instituted until the middle of the fourth
century. It was near this time that the birth of Jesus was celebrated on
December 25, first in Rome, and before the end of the centrury, it was
celebrated in the East also.
The actual meaning of the word Lent, comes from the Latin lengthen,
lencten, meaning spring. It denotes the spring period of fasting in
preparation for Easter; in the Western Catholic Church, a penitential
period extending from Ash Wednesday to Easter. Some writers associate
it to the middle ages.
PALM SUNDAY
Toward the end of this vain worship is a week known as Holy Week,
which lasts from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday.
Palm Sunday is usually distinguished by the wearing of palm. They say
this is derived from the time when Jesus entered into Jerusalem, the
people spread their garments in the way and others cut down branches of
the trees and strewed them in the way. They went before Him and
followed Him crying, “Hosanna; Blessed is He that cometh in the name
of the Lord:” Mark 11:8-9.
To show how quickly people can be persuaded to change their minds,
some of these people were with the mob, who a few days later cried out,
“Crucify Him, crucify Him!” Yet the people are so deceived as to
commemorate something done by murderers of Christ by pinning on
palms.
But the Spirit tells us not the outward man but the hidden man of the
heart. To those who were baptized in Jesus' name and have the Holy
Ghost, palm is not necessary for us to cry Hosanna to the Lord. But the
Holy Ghost which is in our souls is crying a constant Hosanna, not only
on one Sunday of the year.
GOOD FRIDAY
One of the earliest references to Friday's being a holiday is found in the
Mithraism cult, an off shoot of Zoroastrianism. In Persia, during the
sixth century, this day was called Black Friday and the story goes that
Mithras slew a bull one Friday. Subsequently, the bull laid in a tomb for
three days and supposedly arose on the third day.
The Mithras cult believed that from the blood of this bull sprang forth all
life. It was this same pagan cult that was very powerful in Rome before
and after the rise of the Catholic organization. The influence of Friday
was so strongly felt until the Catholic Church associated it with the
death and resurrection of Christ.
So then, five days after this day they call Palm Sunday, comes a day
which the people refer to as "Good Friday."
However, the Bible tells us everything the Lord made was very good and
Paul, speaking in Colossians, blasts out against keeping of holy days.
The world ignored these scriptures and claims the Friday before Easter
to be a holy day because they believe Christ was crucified on that day.
They say Christ was hung on the cross from 12:00 Noon to 3:00 P.M.
and was taken down, buried and arose the third day which they call
Easter Sunday.
Have you ever stopped to count the days from Friday to Sunday? Let us
count: A part of Friday, one day; Friday night, one night; Saturday, two
days; Saturday night, two nights. Now, even if we counted Sunday
morning as a day, it would still only be three days and two nights.
But, we hear Jesus speaking from Matthew 12:40, “For as Jonas was
three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man
be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
This means then that Christ had to be crucified on Thursday to have
been in the earth three days and three nights.
It is no use of the world trying to get around it, there is absolutely no
other way for Him to have been in the grave three days and nights unless
He was placed in the grave on a Thursday.
The thing that confuses the people, is the Scripture says the day on
which Jesus was crucified was the preparation for the sabbath because it
was the day before the sabbath. Nevertheless, we must remember Paul
speaks of sabbath days. There was the seventh day sabbath and there
were other days of rest, observed under the Law, which did not occur on
the seventh day and they were called high sabbaths. It was for one of
these such days that the Jews were preparing.
EASTER
The Bible nowhere states that the day Christ arose was Easter. Have you
ever considered that Easter comes at a different time each year? Then
how could He be crucified on one date one year and on another date
another year? That does not make good sense!
Herod planned to bring Peter before the council after Easter, but it does
not say that Jesus arose this day. Herod and the Jews were not interested
in the commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus. The very reason the
people wanted to kill Peter and the Apostles was that they were
preaching the power of the resurrection. It was through the crucifixion
and the resurrection of Jesus that the power of hell and sin was broken.
Jesus died a natural body but arose a spiritual body and told the Apostles
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Mark 16:15.
The name Easter is traced back to the old German word, Eastre, (plural)
Eastron, from the name of the old Teutonic “goddess of spring,” who
was called - Eastra. NOTE THIS CAREFULLY: Easter is the first
Sunday after the first full moon that falls on or the next after the vernal
equinox (March 21 in the Gregorian calendar); if the full moon happens
on Sunday, Easter is celebrated one week later.
We do not find the actual festival or Easter associated with the
resurrection of Christ until the year 300 A.D. It was then looked upon as
a joyous festival and sermons were preached on it.
So then, Easter was simply a spring festival to the goddess, Easter which
came around the time of the Jewish Passover and was later incorporated
in the backslidden church.
Dear reader, be not deceived and carried away by the customs of this
world, for the people's customs are vain. The Pope, himself, cannot
prove Lent and all it stands for to be sanctioned by the scriptures, nor
can anyone else.
Jesus Christ wants us to be baptized in His name and to receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues according to Acts 2:38. He
wants us to be holy and serve Him, not only on certain days and seasons
of the year, but to live holy every day of our lives. Read Luke 1:73-75.
ALL ARE INVITED TO
THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH, OF PAULSBORO
736 Beacon Ave
Paulsboro, NJ 08066
ORDER OF SERVICES
Tuesday 7:30 PM
Thursday 7:30 PM
Sunday 11:00 AM and 7:30 PM
Come and hear the whole truth
CHRISTMAS
Christmas
December 1st and lasts until the New Year celebrations are ended. This
is known as the Christmas or holiday spirit.
THE CHRISTMAS TREE IS A HEATHEN CUSTOM (JEREMIAH
10:1-9)
"Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it
with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they
must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for
they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as
there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is
great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee
doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations,
and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. But they are
altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. Silver
spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the
work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple
is their clothing; they are all the work of cunning men."
Didn't Jeremiah foresee the people of today in his prophetic mind?
How they will hammer the tree to the stand so it will not fall; they will
deck it and stand back and admire it and then will call their neighbors to
help them admire it. The Bible calls those who participate in this type of
decoration, "heathens." So, if you hang up any Christmas decorations
whatsoever, I will have to call you what the Bible calls you-a heathen.
God, speaking here through the prophet is telling His people to learn not
the way of the heathen.
By Bishop S.C. Johnson ( Open brochure for the entire message).
THE SPIRIT OF GOD
Apostolic Faith
21 Burning Subjects WHO IS THIS THAT DEFIES AND CHALLENGES THE WHOLE RELIGIOUS WORLD ON THESE SUBJECTS? Written By: Bishop S. C. Johnson Founder and Apostle 1958 Revised Edition HOLINESS
Some say no one can live holy in this world. Jesus said: "He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said ..." (John 7:38). The Scripture says, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:" (Hebrews 12:14) The Scripture says in Ephesians 1:4: " ... He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:" Some will ask "How can anyone live holy when they were born in sin?" Jesus said men must get the birth of the Spirit. "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." (John 3:5) This birth of the Spirit enables one to live holy here in this world. When one is born of the Spirit, his nature is changed and his affections are set on things above and not on the things on earth. (Colossians 3:2) Without the new birth which consists of water and Spirit, no one is born again, and can live a life for God. Jesus said you must be born again. You must get the New Birth. Without it, your worship is in vain. You can preach, pray, sing, testify, and dance, but without the new birth, it is all in vain. Read Matthew 15:8, 9. "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." That is why I say to everyone, if you don't want it like the Bible outlines it, stay home and don't go to any of the false churches under the sun because it is all in vain. Don't pay dues to go to hell; go free. You will have to pay enough when you get there. Every pope, president, evangelist, pastor, teacher and whosoever he or she may be, must be born again. The new birth consists of the water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38) and the baptism of the Holy Ghost, speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. (Acts 2:4) Let me tell you in plain words, whosoever does not have it like this is lost and on their way to an everlasting lake of fire. Some try to condemn the signs that Jesus said would follow the believers saying you do not have to speak in tongues. This is another trick of the devil to offset the truth and cause men and women to be lost. They say you have the Holy Ghost without speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. There is no Scripture that will support such teaching. We must take what the Bible says: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;" (Mark 16:17) These are the words of Jesus. Every believer will speak with new tongues according to Mark 16:17 and Acts 10:46. Whosoever he or she may be that says they have the Holy Ghost and never spoke in tongues, I will have to say to them, "...Let God be true, but every man a liar;" (Romans 3:4) If you are a believer, then according to the words of Jesus, you will speak in another language when the Holy Ghost is come upon you, just as others did when it came upon them.
PRAISE BREAK songs include:
Closer Lord to Thee Thank You Lord
I Won't Complain
Lift Him Up I Trust In God
Elder C.D. Campbell's YouTube Message:
Baptism
Pride of Life
Broadcast Sermon :
" No Son of God In Heaven, now"
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