Welcome to SuccessfulSavior.org, the ministry of Harmony Primitive Baptist Church in Donaldson, Arkansas. This is Elder Dan Salmons preaching in our regular Sunday morning service. I want us to take the life of Mary and just make some observations just by looking at what we see in the scriptures. One of the problems that Christian groups have in our time is they get too much information about their Christianity from secondary sources. They spend a lot of time listening to what early church fathers said or maybe previous groups of Christians, what they've written about things or what their Christian tradition says about things. And I have many times from this pulpit tried to emphasize the importance of primary documents when it comes to any practice you're in. I've often observed that Americans wax on and on about what America is and all this stuff and remain completely ignorant of things like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Well, if you really want to know what America is about, you ought to go to the primary documents and read them and consider what they say rather than just soaking in a lot of what you've observed about America in American culture and then trying to distill that nonsense into some concept of what the country is, right? So, to the extent that you are removed from the primary documents of any institution, you are at the behest of those who would tell you what that institution is about. You see what I'm saying? If you're just listening to secondary sources, and that's all you ever heard, you haven't looked at the primary source, you might think America is a whole host of things based on what people have told you. and be totally ignorant of what it fundamentally is from a documented standpoint. And it works the same way in Christianity, and a lot of Christians are ignorant of many things simply because they've said, I'm going to have my religion, my Christian religion is going to be a lean-to, against some very charismatic personality, or some institution, or some non-biblical document that has codified what they think the Christian faith is. I'm gonna lean my religion up against some kind of secondary or tertiary source, and that's where I get my Christianity. But behind all of that, there's a fundamental document. There's the importance of the word of God, which we believe is divinely inspired, inerrant, and preserved for us. Everybody's busy. If we're as busy as we all claim to be, why would we spend so much time looking at secondary and tertiary sources that are prone to error and written by men and obviously fallible in many respects? Why wouldn't we take our time to put our eyes directly on the primary document of the Christian faith? So when we consider Mary today, what I want us to do is I want us to look at what the Bible says about her, and let's build our doctrine of Mary, if you will, from looking at what the Bible says about her, rather than what many people have said about her over the last 2,000 years. Now, Mary is an interesting character. There's a fair amount written about Mary in the Bible. If you'll take the time to consider what is said there, there's many lessons there that will teach you things about Mary that I think are very encouraging and also very contrary to what is popularly taught about Mary in Christian society today. There's kind of two errors that you can get into when dealing with Mary, really in dealing with any character in the Bible, but Mary particularly so. You can make the error of making too much of Mary. She was the mother of Jesus Christ, and as a result of that, we're going to now exalt her to a position that is above her station as described in the Bible, right? That is a big error that exists in Christianity among a lot of people, making way too much of Mary. And by the way, to make that much of Mary, you kind of have to rob something from Jesus to get there, you see what I'm saying? You have to take some things that Christ was here to do, like the role of intercessor, and kind of, well, we've got to take that off Jesus' plate and put it more on Mary's plate, right? So there's a trade-off in over-exalting Mary. So you can make too much of Mary. I wonder if it's not also possible, and I think it is, that you can make too little of Mary. Like, I think people who are in a Baptist or perhaps a Protestant tradition who are in some respects trying to distinguish themselves from Roman Catholicism, for example, they're almost like, well, we don't want to approach the Mary thing for fear that we might make too much of her. Well, you don't want to make that mistake either because she's a character in the Bible and there's some things said of her. that I think will be beneficial to you. So what we want to do, how do you dial that in, right? You got a rough on the left side and a rough on the right side. How do we hit this thing right down the middle of the fairway, right? How do we get a good lie on this topic we're going to tee up here? And I'm gonna suggest to you the way you do it is you go straight to the primary document and you look at what it says and draw the lesson out of that. I think that's reasonable and I doubt it's controversial. So what we're gonna do is look at Luke chapter one and see what it tells us about Mary. Verse 26, and in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. The first thing this affirms is something that has been under attack a lot in Christianity over the last, really, 150 years or so, was pretty much received by most groups before that, which is that Mary was a virgin. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. And that is very plainly stated here in this text. That affirms something I've said many times, that there's aspects of the Christian faith that rely upon a belief in the supernatural. We believe there is a God in heaven who is Lord and sovereign ruler over the things of nature. He's not confined by the laws of nature, by the laws of science or any of these sorts of things that you hear that people throw up in objection to the idea of a virgin birth or resurrection from the dead, or creation ex nihilo, or any of those kinds of ideas. We believe that God is not constrained by that. He is the author of nature. He can break its rules. He can change his rules. He is supernatural, and he can do things like this, and that's not an impediment. As a Christian, you just kind of have to stand boldly in that reality. I find that too many in Christianity today are kind of playing footsies with the notion of science, falsely so-called. Well, you know, it's not very sophisticated to talk about a virgin birth, you know. Surely we've become sophisticated enough now to where we realize that's not really scientifically possible. Now seriously, there's a lot of Christians, you may be one of them, I'm not saying you are, but you may be one of them that when you're in a different setting than this, and you find people starting to rain contempt on it, you kinda wanna backpedal from the idea that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, or that he rose from the dead. Exactly. The devil's the author of confusion, and the reality is, you just gotta stand boldly in this truth. The Bible tells us of supernatural events that were instigated and done by a supernatural God, and all of the events of human history cannot be explained by the motions of nature. There's something more in this world than just matter, energy, space, and time, right? There's a broader world and it involves the supernatural. There's a spiritual world. And the Bible tells us about it. I'm trying to embolden God's people to stand fast in this truth because it really bothers me when I see people backpedaling from it. I remember, Brother Murray, you told me a story years ago about being in a Sunday school class and they were studying the Red Sea. This has really stuck with me over the years. Studying the Red Sea and there was a lot of discussion in this Sunday school class about trying to come up with all the scientific explanations for how certain winds that came out of the Mediterranean could blow the waters in such a way. Well, first of all, that is totally ludicrous if you just look at what the text says about it. If there's a wind blowing sufficient to cause the sea to rise up on both sides, you're not gonna be able to walk through the middle of it, right? I mean, it's just absolutely ridiculous. It can't be reconciled, and yet Christian people will bend over backwards trying, and what are they doing? They're doing this kind of indifference to making people who don't believe in God and rely upon pure naturalism and science, like they're going to get more street cred with those people by telling them that they have some science. Look, it was a miracle. And I remember Murray's reaction to it. He was listening to all this stuff. He was recounting this to me. He said, do we believe there's a God or not? I mean, you all claim to believe that God created the world out of nothing, but now you've got a big problem with imparting some water in a sea, which is just this nothing in the course of the whole universe He's created. It's absolutely ludicrous to think that you've got to bend over backwards in deference to some scientific sophistication we have. The simple answer is this, and I'm encouraging you to stand in it. God does supernatural things because He's supernatural. And there's more to this world than just matter, energy, space and time. There is a supernatural realm. There's a spiritual realm. And God has the sovereign rule over all of it. Ergo, Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. And when you come across people who are going to spend a lot of time saying, well, if you get into the word here, that might not mean virgin. It might just mean young lady. Well, tell me this, the Bible talks about there's going to be a sign, a virgin shall bring forth a child. Now, if the sign is a young lady shall bring forth a child, how on earth are you going to know which young lady it is? My observation is that young ladies are bringing forth children all the time, all over the place. So it doesn't make sense in any way, and God's people need to just get comfortable with the reality of saying, we don't believe that we're just time and slime. We didn't come from apes. We believe God created the world. We believe that Christ was born of a virgin and He rose again from the grave. And that's just what it is. And if they rain contempt on you for it, just let it wash over you, right? And know that, you know what? If they hate me, they hated Jesus Christ before me. Whatever contempt they pour on you, try to tar and feather you with science falsely so-called, whatever that is, just say, well, it's not that the Lord didn't tell me about this. This is precisely what the Lord said was going to happen. And I have that. They're hatin' me, it's because they hated Jesus Christ beforehand, so we're learnin' somethin' about Mary already. And it's very contrary to what the world wants to tell you about Mary. She was a virgin. We'll find out more about that here in a minute. What else do we find? Verse 28, the angel came unto her and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. Now look, if Mary had some kind of an exalted, perfect understanding of things, was this highly, highly next order sort of spiritual being that had this special connection with God, why would she be troubled by this? Why would she have this interaction with a messenger from God, and it's kind of upsetting to her? It's because Mary is no different than us in the sense that she's a fallen person, She's got her foibles and imperfections, and when she encounters some sort of revelation from God, it's going to be troubling to her to some degree. We kind of want to think that whatever God tells us, you know, it's always going to just make us feel better. But if you go through the Bible, you're going to find time and again that people are having things revealed to them by God and it's upsetting to them. Now look, God does and can comfort us at times. There's times when we come to something in the Bible and you say, I read that, it was very comforting and it settled and gave me peace. The Gospel gives us peace. Those things are true. But it's also true that we remain sinners until our dying day, and to the extent that we're involved in it and practice it, we've got some friction going on between our lives and our practice and what the Word of God tells us, and that's going to be troubling to you at times. And Mary was troubled by it, and that makes her more like you, not less like you. You see what I'm saying? She's not someone you should be praying to. She's someone who should be praying just as we are. We'll find that she did later on, but just know this. She was troubled at his saying. She was troubled by what was going on. She's in the midst of a spiritual revelation here, a good thing by any measure. But she found it troubling. And you're going to find in your life some things that God reveals to you, whether through His Word, or through an impression, or through circumstances, or through providence, they're going to end up being troubling to you. That doesn't mean that they're not for your good. But everything that is for your good doesn't strike you right off the bat as, oh, this is just going to be wonderful. You know, we understand that in lots of ways. I've talked about if you're going to try to get yourself in shape, you're going to have to make yourself uncomfortable to some degree. If you're going to go do some exercise, lift some weights or whatever, that whole thing is about making yourself uncomfortable and troubled, if you will, in the near term because you realize there's something better beyond that. that's waiting for you. And in your spiritual life, it often works precisely the same way. You're going to be put into a situation that's troubling. You're going to have something come upon you that is maybe unsettling, but it's ultimately for your good. But the thing I want us to glean out of this is that Mary was troubled even as you've been troubled by encounters with God from time to time. Right? Verse 30, And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. Well, that is ultimately kind of a gospel salutation there, right? I mean, the only way any of us can find favor with God is that God has already shown mercy upon us. There's nothing to be found in us by our own nature that could acquire God's favor. So while this is clearly talking about in this current context, don't be afraid, you found God's favor, and let me tell you what this message is. It's got a broader meaning than that as well. If you're someone who hears messages from God, and even if you're troubled by them, You should have the same thought in your own mind, and that is fear not, because you've found favor with God. You've got the ears to hear. Those are the people Jesus Christ was preaching to. He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear. You see that? If you're hearing something spiritual and it's having some kind of an effect on you, you can know this. You've found favor with God. You should fear not. Don't get wrapped around the axle on being afraid over this thing. Rather, double down on listening to what God has to say, because you know it's going to be for your benefit. It's going to be for the ultimate good here. Now we have what's called the seven shalls. of Luke. And I want to look particularly at the last three of them, but we'll read them here quickly. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son. Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and he shall be called the son of the highest. And the Lord shall give unto him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end. Now, many people don't have much trouble with the first of those. She conceived in her womb. She was a virgin and conceived in her womb. We'll find that affirmed here again. This point is important and I think it's why the Bible affirms it so often. Most people don't have a problem with the idea that she conceived, though they may debate the mechanism whereby she conceived. that she had a son and that she called him Jesus, and that he was great. I mean, at a minimum, we've organized our calendar around the date of his birth. He's great in that sense, even if you deny all the other manifold ways that he was great. So the first four people generally are kind of okay with, but I wanna see what we can glean out of the last three. The fifth one, and the Lord shall give unto him the throne of his father David. Jesus Christ never sat on the throne of the nation of Israel. You follow me? This is a shall of the Bible. And what are you going to do with that? You're going to have to do something with this, and we're going to look at this some more. What's the next one? The sixth one is, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever. Well, that's interesting. Sounded to me like he got crucified when he was in his early thirties, That was kind of the end of his story in terms of his natural life prior to the resurrection. So, where's that going on? "...and of his kingdom there shall be no end." Well, his ministry came to an end on the earth in terms of his physical presence here during his natural life. So, these are shalls of the Bible. We've often been referred to as hard shalls. These things are true. And they can't be true in the very straightforward, hyper-literal sense. You know, a lot of Jewish people, when Jesus was put on the earth, they thought he's going to be the next political ruler. He's literally going to be like King David, right? And he said, my kingdom is not of this earth. He's talking about the kingdom of God. And you're seeing here this overlap in this text between the things that happened in the Old Testament, like the nation of Israel, the patriarchs like Jacob, the kingdom of David, all those things were historical things that happened, but they were allusions to the spiritual truth of the kingdom of God. And he's talking about a spiritual fulfillment in these things that has to do with God being the king of his kingdom and of his people. and having an eternal rulership over them. And that's what's being talked about here. So Mary was the beneficiary of great and precious promises of God. Some of these go back to things that were said by the prophet Isaiah. In Isaiah 9, 6, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end. Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. Those things never happened in a literal, physical, political sense during the life of Jesus Christ. He never sat on the throne of David in that sense. By the way, if you're living in those times and you didn't have the New Testament, you were in the ministry of Christ, you're seeing this Savior, and you're seeing this one you believe is the Messiah, you can go back to Isaiah and you can start to see why they had this false impression that, well, maybe he's gonna be the next king, and he's gonna be our political leader. He's gonna deliver us like David. Don't be too hard on those people. They were at least aware of the text, even if they were misapplying it. But you could see why they had that take on things, and yet what we see through the eyes of the New Testament is that this is talking about the spiritual kingdom of God. When it's talking about the throne of David, it's talking about the kingdom of God here, of which David's kingdom was a picture, an illusion, a type of the real spiritual truth that was sitting underneath it. So these things did come true, and Mary was the recipient of these great and precious promises, even as we are. But look at this, as we continue reading on. Then Mary said unto the angel, how shall this be, seeing I know not a man? She's affirming again that she's a virgin. She's affirming that she understands the birds and the bees, if you will. She knows how natural children come about, and she's saying, that's how it works. I know how it works, and I haven't been involved in any of that, so how is this possible, right? Once again, this narrative doesn't make any sense if you try to replace virgin with young girl. A young girl shall conceive and have a child. Well, how can this be? See what I'm saying? Young girls don't do that. No, virgins don't do that. That's her point, right? Her point is, I haven't been with a man. And so, we have to affirm this truth. You don't gain anything by backing away from it other than the own downgrading of your faith because you've eliminated something that you find objectionable that is clearly declared in the Word of God. You need to just believe it and stand in it and receive whatever contempt is poured upon you as a result. What's the answer then? By the way, Mary's questioning some things. Right? Her connection with God is not so vast that she just immediately receives and understands and is never troubled by the messages that God sends before. She's troubled by them. She questions them. She questions them with the motions of her natural mind about how things come to pass. She's just like us in this respect. She has the same issues and the same troubles, same foibles, if you will. And the angel answered and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. It's a miracle. How's it gonna be? It's like, how is that Red Sea parted? Well, there's going to come a wind. It happens in certain seasons, you know, once every hundred years there's a certain wind that comes along and it parts the Red Sea. It's not a naturalistic explanation for this. Well, let me explain this in some very sophisticated scientific way. No. How's it going to happen? God's going to make it happen. Because He has sovereign dominion over life and death. Look, He brought forth Adam out of the dust. How on earth can you believe as a Christian that God pulled Adam out of the dirt and He can't make a virgin conceive? This is crazy. Of course He can. It's not a problem and it's something we just need to embrace. and be happy about. It's a miracle. But look at what's said here. And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. It's like, not only are you going to have a miraculous conception, your cousin who was barren is going to miraculously have a baby. Her womb was totally dead, and we're bringing forth that. That's a theme that's in the Bible over and over again. But then it says, verse 37, for with God, nothing shall be impossible. That's really the answer. God is going to do it. Now, if you've got a problem with that, you've got a problem with God. Your God is too small. Well, I just don't like the idea that you use God to plug in things that you can't explain. God is the answer to many things you can't explain. Get comfortable with it. It's the truth. You know, the truth of the matter is, and this is something about the prideful heart of men, we think we can explain a lot more than we can. If you think about just the corpus of knowledge that exists within humanity, you know very little of it. Very little! I'm an English speaker that's been educated and I have a college degree and I've tried to read some things over the course of my life. What I know about what's been written just in the English language is a tiny little fraction of the human knowledge that has been compiled in the English language. It never ceases to amaze me how many videos there are on YouTube of somebody just making something. Some mundane thing that you don't even think of. You go to the store and you buy it, and you don't even think about some guy over in China is making this thing. And it starts out with just some pieces of metal, and they run it through a bunch of machines and do this, that, and the other thing. And at the end of it, they've created this thing, and you don't even think about it. You don't know anything about how all those machines were set up, how that was designed, how the, you don't know anything about it. And literally, we're all wearing clothes and driving cars and working with phones and televisions and we have houses. We know very little about how any of that actually comes together and is done. We should be, rather than so bowled over by our brilliance, oh, I think I'm pretty knowledgeable about stuff. we should really be impressed with how little we know about anything. And never is that more true than when we start to question the idea of what God can do. I just don't think God can do that. He created the world out of nothing. Most Christians will tell you, I believe God created the world, but I just don't know about this virgin birth. Really? I don't know. Doesn't make any sense to me. She questioned things that she heard, and you know, she got the explanation, and the explanation is nothing's impossible with God. And that's the explanation that we receive on many of the things that come up in the Christian religion. It's a miracle. But look at her attitude upon the occasion of her instruction here in verse 38, Now here's something she's heard that's troubling. It's contrary to what she understands about the way the birds and the bees work. She doesn't really understand how that's going to be possible. And rather than say, well, I understand how this works and you have not adequately explained it to me. She says, well, you have adequately explained it to me. You told me God's going to do it. And so, be it unto me according to thy word. You know what that is? That's how Jesus taught his disciples to pray. Thy will be done. This messenger is telling her what God's going to do, and she's saying, thy will be done. I don't have to understand the functional mechanics of how that's actually going to come to pass, right? We don't have to get down into the cytoplasm and division of cells and how the DNA is going to, you don't have to know any of that. You know why? Because you don't know much about it anyway. It's funny people who want to try to come up with these explanations. Most of those people don't know anything about anything. They don't know anything about the weather and all these patterns. They'll tell you what somebody else told them about all that stuff. You couldn't fill a thimble with what they know about any of that. And they're willing to accept that testimony over and above the proclamation of a miraculous, supernatural God who has sovereign dominion over this world. There it is. She was okay with it when he said, look, you know how it's gonna happen? It's gonna be a miracle. Because that's who God is. God can do it. How about that? God can do it. Thy will be done. And the angel departed from her. Now, it goes down here, I'm gonna skip over this a little bit. That's another good example. Thy will be done, we can get that from Mary. But I wanna talk a little bit about what we find in verse 39. And Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste into a city of Judah, and entered into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she spake out with a loud voice and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord shall come to me? She had a natural family here that were also part of a spiritual family. And that's something that if you have people in your natural family who are also children of God, there's a special blessing that attends that sort of fellowship that you're able to have with those people. Those people may not all completely understand and believe all the exact same things that you have, but there's some measure of spiritual kinship that you have with people who can say things like, I'm a sinner, and I need a Savior. They may not understand what Jesus Christ accomplished, but they hear something about Jesus dying for sins, and they say, I'm a sinner, and that sounds exceedingly wonderful to me. You can have some measure of fellowship with those people. And she had fellowship within her own family. And look at what Elizabeth says, and whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord shall come to me? She knows something about what's going on here. I'm sure it was shared, their experiences. And they had similar experiences with messengers from God and whatnot. And it goes on to say, and blessed is she that believeth, for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. And Mary said, my soul doth magnify the Lord. In this moment of spiritual fellowship, she rises up with the Magnificat, and maybe we'll look at that next Sunday in some more detail, but I'll close here. My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. Why does Mary need a Savior? Mary needs a Savior because she's a sinner. She is a human female. She is a virgin. She brought forth a child and this child was God, her savior. You see that? Mary needed salvation just like anybody else did. Jesus Christ was the only one ever born, a woman who was sinless and could be a savior. But if you take this angle on Mary and try to make her out to be someone who was so perfect that she was sinless, she found God's favor because she was sinless, then you got trouble when you hit verse 47 here, because she recognizes that she needs a Savior just like everyone else. So there's other observations from Mary, and maybe we'll take those up next Sunday, but today at least we affirm this. She was a virgin. A virgin brought forth a child. That's a miracle. It's not a problem for God. She was troubled when she encountered revelations from God, just as you're troubled sometimes. The trouble comes from not being able to reconcile it with how we think about stuff. We don't know much of anything, as I mentioned before. We think we know a lot, but if we really step back and look at what we know, we would probably value the revelation we have from God a whole lot more. See, sometimes we think, well, God tells us a little bit, but I know all this stuff over here. No, the reality is you don't know much of anything, and God knows everything. And so God's revelation, needs to be exalted and higher than the little things that we know, even if we're troubled by what God tells us. She was the recipient of seven shalls, and we see that at least the last three of them deal with spiritual application in building the kingdom of God. Those are the exaltation of who Christ would be and what his office work would be and the salvation he would bring about. She questioned it. She's like, I don't really understand this. Well, you know what? I don't understand it either. But I believe it's true and I believe God is capable, right? So that's an example she sets for us. She's okay with it. We should be okay with it. Should be okay with the idea that God works miracles. It's okay. By the way, if no aspect of your Christianity has God working miracles in it, I'm just gonna tell you this today. You are not a Christian. It is not what the Bible teaches. You may have taken the word Christian and applied it to your beliefs so that you gain some measure of affirmation from the Christians who surround you. I want to have the shame of not being a Christian taken off of me because I'm going to say I'm a Christian. However, I don't believe in any of the miracles. I think I'm an ape. I think the Big Bang created the universe. I don't believe Jesus was born of a virgin. I don't believe he rose from the dead. That Red Sea thing is a bunch of nonsense. There was never a worldwide flood. I mean, what are you even doing? It's very important that we become comfortable with embracing the supernatural reality of the presence of God who's able to do these things. She was willing to say, you know what, in spite of the fact that I don't understand this, God has said it, and I'm willing to say, thy will be done and not my will be done. God, I need you to explain it some more to me. He said you're going to do that miracle, but I need you to explain it to me so that I can approve each step of the process. Make sure it's in keeping with this enormous corpus of knowledge that I have." Ridiculous. She realized enough about herself to realize, okay, you're the boss, right? I'm just a worm. I'm a lowly creature down here. I'm a sinful creature who needs a Savior. And you're God. So I'm good with that. So that's another lesson we can learn. She was part of a spiritual family, and that's a blessing that many of us have had. And she needed a Savior, just as God's people needed a Savior. And Jesus Christ is that Savior, and we'll learn more about Him in the coming days. I pray that's a blessing to you. I extend an open door to the church. Any who'd like to join by letter or baptism. Thank you for listening to SuccessfulSavior.org, the ministry of Harmony Primitive Baptist Church. This has been Elder Dan Sammons preaching in one of our regular meetings. Come and join us as we worship God in the simplicity of Christ every Sunday morning at 416 North Hall Street in Donaldson, Arkansas. At Harmony, we don't have many things you'll find in the popular churches of our day, but we do have a successful Savior. We invite you to come and see.