Zion Primitive Baptist Church Podcast

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on March 30, 2025) Paul begins the seventh chapter of Romans by reminding us that, as children of God, we are dead to the Law but married to Christ. In doing so, he is dealing with the constant struggle that regenerated disciples have between the two ditches of legalism...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on March 23, 2025) Yesterday we began a review of the first six chapters of Romans, reminding ourselves of what Paul has taught leading up to the seventh chapter. We looked at the righteousness of God versus the sinfulness of man as set forth by the Apostle from the...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on In today’s sermon, we engage in a review of where we are to this point in the exposition of Romans. We have covered the first six chapters, and are about to launch into the seventh chapter and the lead up to the climactic teachings of Romans Eight and...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 19, 2025) When we paused the message last time, we were learning that, not only is there a difference between “wages” and a “gift,” but there is also a vast difference between a “gift” and an “offer.” Nowhere in Scripture do we read about salvation being “offered”...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 19, 2025) As we conclude Chapter 6 of Romans, we find a very important verse: “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Beloved friends, there is a difference between “wages” and a “gift”! Join us today as we begin looking at this concept, and we also begin to see that...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 12, 2025) In our daily struggle of discipleship, one of the most important things that will help us is to remember to thank God for freeing us from the bondage of sin. It is so important to remember that the new birth has changed us! Regeneration doesn’t...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 12, 2025) As we continue examining Romans 6, we are now looking at the principle of Christian “self control.” This implicates our discipleship – i.e., our Christian walk. As children of God, in light of the glorious grace of God, we should see our discipleship differently! Join...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 8, 2024) When we paused the message yesterday, we were learning that our self image should be different after we are born again. In our Christian self image, we should no longer see sin in the same way; rather than acceptable, we should see it as reprehensible....

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 8, 2024) As we delve back into the Book of Romans, we come to Chapter 6. This chapter begins with a discussion of how we should see ourselves as newly-reborn Christians – i.e., our Christian self image. The first thing we learn is that we should see...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on May 18, 2025) In the sermon today, we ask the question, “Has the devil ever been your father?” The answer we most often find in the religious world is that there was a time when the devil was indeed our father, but through the exercise of our wills...

by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on April 13, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, it is a common affliction to feel overwhelmed. David speaks plainly about the problem in Psalm 69. Elder John Morgan Owens has begun taking us through this Psalm and dealing with this issue. Join us today as we continue...

by Elder John Morgan Owen (preached on April 13, 2025) Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Do the troubles and stresses of life leave you feeling like you’re barely treading water, and your little vessel is about to be swamped? If so, you are in good company! David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel, had the same...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on May 11, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, the phrase “believeth in Him” does not set conditions on our eternal salvation; rather, it deals with our assurance here and now. Those who believe have great assurance that they are part of that “world” that God loved, and...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on May 11, 2025) As we bring our in-depth study of John 3:16 to a close, we turn our focus to the phrase “believeth in Him.” It is important to understand that belief is a present condition, not a future action. In fact, this entire verse is about assurance...

By Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on May 4, 2025) As we continue looking at John 3:16, we are examining the main words in this verse to determine what they mean. As it is often said, before you try to understand what a verse means you need to know what the verse says – the...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on May 4, 2025) As we continue in our exposition of John 3:16, we come to the word “whosoever.” Once again, the religious world generally misinterprets the significance of this word. Most of the time we hear that “whosoever” means that a dead alien sinner has the ability to...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on April 27, 2025) When we paused the message yesterday, we were examining what the word “world” really means. The religious world generally teaches that, everywhere you see the word “world” in Scripture, it means every person who ever has or ever will live. However, we were learning that...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on April 27, 2025) As we have seen in this series on “Rightly Dividing John 3:16,” the words matter! We’ve looked at the word “for,” which points us to Jesus’ declaration regarding the brass serpent in the wilderness. We’ve also looked at the word “loved,” which taught us that...

by Elder Chris McCool (preached on April 20, 2025) We began yesterday in a series entitled “Rightly Dividing John 3:16.” Many in the religious world mistake this verse as a regenerational verse, as opposed to an experiential verse. We have started our examination of John 3:16 by looking at the first word of the verse:...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on April 20, 2025) There is much confusion in the religious world about the meaning of John 3:16. Most denominational Christians believe it is a verse that sets forth conditions for a dead alien sinner to meet in order to become a child of God. In this series, however,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on March 16, 2025) The work of the Kingdom of God is not something to be taken lightly! As we have been learning for the past couple of days, there is a certain urgency to the Kingdom. Jesus Himself spoke of that urgency as He surveyed the crowds and...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on March 16, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, there is a certain urgency to the work of the Kingdom of God! In Acts 2:42, we learn what that work is: continuing steadfastly in the Apostles’ doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer. Join us today as we...

by Elder Chris McCool, pastor (preached on March 16, 2025) As Christ looked across the crowd that had gathered before Him, He was moved with compassion and exclaimed, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.”...

by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on December 8, 2024) As we began to see yesterday, there are many valleys in life. Elder John Morgan Owens is taking us through the valleys of life, and we are learning what we find in these valleys. But always, in every valley of life, we find God is...

by Elder John Morgan Owens (preached on December 8, 2024) In this sermon by Elder John Morgan Owens, we look at what we find when in the valleys of life. In our earthly walk, we sometimes experience “mountaintops”; but more often we find ourselves down in the valleys. Join us as we begin to see...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on March 2, 2025) As we began to see yesterday, God has sweet and precious thoughts toward His elect children. How amazing it is that a God so great would look upon a people so low! Join us as we conclude the sermon today about God’s thoughts toward His...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on March 2, 2025) Have you ever considered how amazing it is that the great God of this universe, who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, nonetheless has precious thoughts toward His children? God sits high in the heavens, yet He stoops to look low among His elect people. Join...

by Elder Phillip Dukes (preached on March 30, 2025) In the first half of this powerful message from Elder Phillip Dukes, we began to see that there are some things in this world that change, and some that don’t. We paused the message at the point where we learned that the wicked will never change,...

by Elder Phillip Dukes (preached on March 30, 2025) On the fifth Sunday night in March, 2025, we were blessed to have Elder Phillip Dukes with us as our visiting minister. Bro. Phillip preached to us about things that change in the world, and things that do not change. He also pointed us to the...

by Elder Tom Corley (preached on March 23, 2025) In this message by Elder Tom Corley, we learn some sweet truths about Christ’s love from Peter’s actions while Jesus was here on earth. Jesus was always with Peter, pulling him out of the waves and calming the storms that he faced, feeding him when he...

by Elder Luke Hagler (preached on March 9, 2025) In this final sermon from our 2025 Annual Meeting, Elder Luke Hagler brings a message about the “super power” of charity. Charity is the most powerful thing that we have in our lives as Christians, and we ought to pursue it above all else! Join us...

by Elder Tim McCool (preached on March 8, 2025) In this short but powerful sermon from our 2025 Annual Meeting, Elder Tim McCool takes us to the scene where Jesus schools Nicodemus about the absolute necessity of His own death on the cross. He reminds Nicodemus about the brass serpent that was lifted up by...

by Elder Joe Nettles (preached on March 8, 2025) In this sermon from our 2025 Annual Meeting, Elder Joe Nettles preaches from Romans 11, about the judicial blinding that occurred when Jesus came but was rejected by His people the Jews. What does this mean? How does it affect us? And how should we act...

by Elder Tim McCool (preached on March 8, 2025) In Romans, we read that the Lord’s judgments are “unsearchable.” All faithful students of the Bible have heard this description of God, but what does this term really mean? Join us today as we learn more about the unsearchable nature of God. Download Audio File

by Elder Josh Winslett (preached on March 8, 2025) In this sermon from our 2025 Annual Meeting, Elder Josh Winslett shares some rich truths from chapter three of John. He first establishes that the new birth is an absolute prerequisite to understanding the hope we have in Christ, and then encourages us (as Jesus did)...

by Elder Neil Honea (preached on March 8, 2025) In this sermon from our 2025 Annual Meeting, Elder Neil Honea takes his text from John 18:38, where Pilate asks the question, “What is truth?” He reminds us that the search for truth is not a search for “what?” but a search for “Who?” Jesus is...

by Elder Tim McCool (preached on March 7, 2025) At our 2025 Annual Meeting, we were blessed to have my brother, Elder Tim McCool, as the invited minister. On Friday night, he preached a powerful sermon about “how to save your life.” There are four places in the gospels where Jesus told people that, in...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 16, 2025) As we close out chapter five of Nehemiah today, we finish up our consideration of the problem of selfishness among God’s people. Nehemiah did not tolerate this sin, but he confronted it directly. But not only did he call it out, he also modeled his...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 12, 2025) As we continue looking at the problem of selfishness among God’s people, we see the great example that Nehemiah set before them in his own life. His life was a life of self-sacrifice, even though he held great privilege within the kingdom of Persia. Nonetheless,...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 9, 2025) In our study of Nehemiah, we are currently in the fifth chapter where we find that selfishness has become manifest among the workers in Jerusalem. The rich were exploiting the poor for gain, thereby going directly contrary to the Law of Moses. Nehemiah did not...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 9, 2025) Last time, we saw that selfishness had arisen among the workers on the walls of Jerusalem. Some of the Jews were taking advantage of their brethren, giving rise to internal dissension. It is clear that internal problems often outweigh external opposition when it comes to...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on February 2, 2025) As they continued rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Nehemiah and his fellow laborers faced not only outward opposition, but also inward opposition. Today, we begin looking at one of the most difficult issues that arose: the selfishness of the Jews who were exploiting their own...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 19, 2025) As we continue our study in Nehemiah chapter 4, we see how Nehemiah and his colleagues built the walls while battling the enemies. They had a sword in one hand, and a trowel in the other! Join us as we continue learning how to re-build...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 12, 2025) In Nehemiah 4:18, we find that “the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.” In the face of opposition to the work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Nehemiah and his workers had to set a watch while they...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on January 12, 2025) As Nehemiah and his colleagues rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, they found themselves opposed at every turn by the enemies of the Kingdom of God. Because of this, we read in chapter four, verse 17, that “every one with one of his hands wrought in...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 29, 2024) (NOTE: Although we have already posted this sermon separately, we felt it appropriate to repost it here in order to keep the order of our Exposition of Nehemiah logically flowing.) As we began to see yesterday, “rubbish” is not a problem that is relegated to...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 29, 2025) (NOTE: Although we have already posted this sermon separately, we felt it appropriate to repost it here in order to keep the order of our Exposition of Nehemiah logically flowing.) In our study of the Book of Nehemiah, we have been looking at the efforts...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 18, 2024) As we began to see yesterday, discouragement is one of the most effective tools of the Enemy in the lives of those who are laboring in the Kingdom of God. There can be many reasons for discouragement, and we need to be aware of these...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 18, 2024) Have you ever been discouraged? Discouragement is one of the most effective weapons the Enemy has in his arsenal. There are many reasons for discouragement, especially as we labor in the Kingdom of God. Join us today as we begin to look at these reasons...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 4, 2024) As we began to see yesterday, external opposition often leads to internal problems. In this case, the opposition of the enemies of the Kingdom began to dishearten the Jews, so that they experienced discouragement and fear. This type of internal struggle can often be more...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on December 4, 2024) As we continue looking at the opposition to the work of the Kingdom of God, we find that discouragement and fear are two very formidable obstacles. These opponents to the work of the Kingdom arise from within, and often cause more problems than any external...