![]() This commentary on the Revelation is from a series of Sunday School lessons taught at the Northside Baptist Church. God used him in the lives of many people. Everything he taught, he taught by example. It was by his example and by his teaching that I learned one of the most fundamental and most important things that a large number of Christians never learn, and that is this: he taught me to trust in God. It was from this man of God that I learned the great doctrine of the word of God. We had very few disagreements and I trusted him completely. We trusted each other with our most intimate personal problems. We traveled together, worked together, played golf together, laughed together and cried together. I would have to say that he was my closest friend. Outside of his family I knew him as well and probably better, than most people. In 1994 he had to retire as pastor due to his deteriorating health.ĭuring the twenty years that he was my pastor and until his death he made a tremendous impression upon me. In succeeding years he had to have another By-pass surgery and several other surgeries. He had a major heart attack in 1978 and open-heart surgery. This was the location of the church when Brother Smith's health started to decline. In 1978 Gerald led the church to buy seven acres of land on Swigert Avenue in the Northern edge of Lexington where a beautiful building was constructed. It was in this location in 1974 that I found Christ under the preaching of Brother Smith. Under his leadership the church went from a basement on Price Avenue to a new building in that location. He pastored the Northside Baptist Church for thirty years. In 1964 was called to the Northside Baptist Church on Price Avenue in Lexington, Kentucky. He was called to Ephesus Baptist Church in Lincoln County, Kentucky and was the pastor there for eleven years. Gerald went to Lexington Baptist College while working in construction and eventually he had his own business. He sold his farm and equipment and, with his wife Shirlee and two young children, five year-old Sherman, and Linda four, moved to Lexington. He heard about a school starting in Lexington, Kentucky by the Late Clearance Walker, under the authority of the Ashland Avenue Baptist Church. ![]() It was not very long until he felt the Lord was calling him to preach the gospel. Gerald went one night out of curiosity, and the first time he heard the gospel he was saved. Many times I have heard him tell his testimony, how that his cousin had been saved and called to preach and was holding a series of meetings in a little one-room school house. A descendant of homesteaders, he was the son of a farmer and was following in the family vocation when God intervened. He served in the US Navy in World War II. Gerald Scott Smith was born Decemin Vine Creek, Kansas. ![]() Although I disagree with a very few verses of interpretation, it is a very good exposition of the book. He deals with the scripture in a plain way and does not go beyond what the scriptures say. This commentary of Revelation by Brother Gerald S. ![]() I don't know of any two men that agree on the Book of Revelation entirely. A series of Sunday School Lessons taught at the Northside Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky in 1976.
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