The Shepherd's Fold Apostolic Church

We will be having a special Christmas Eve Service starting at 7:00 pm Sunday, December 24, 2017  Come and join us for a time of worship and celebration of the Lord Jesus Christ's birth!

Matthew 9:9-13 Matthew was a tax collector. Back then tax collectors were considered thieves because they usually took a portion for themselves. In verse 10 of this reference it says: "Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples."  He sat with these sinners.  They were interested in what Jesus had to say. The Pharisees of course taunted Him, wondering why He was sitting with tax collectors and sinners.  Jesus remarked: "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.....I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."  In other words, if you already consider yourself righteous, you are denying the access that Christ has granted.  Jesus called everyone but not everyone came.  He made access to all, but not all took the opportunity.  Here the tax collectors and the sinners took advantage of that access. Sometimes in

From Sister Suzanne Parsons' Sunday Message- 12/3/2017 John 12:21: "Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus.'" These men wanted to see Jesus.  That was their priority, their plan. We also must lay aside some things and go seek for God. We need to know that He is alive. We need to know that He is alive inside of us! Matthew 13:14, 15: "And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them." Sometimes we don't want to "hear" but with the Spirit our ears and eyes are open. We NOW have eyes to see and ears to he