First Baptist Church, Milton, LA

Living Among Not God’s People - 1 Peter 2:11-12

1 Peter 2:11 begins a new section in 1 Peter. In the first two verses of this section, Peter is setting up the general principle for how to live a God-glorifying, Christ-exalting, Gospel-light shining life as we live among those who are not God’s people. The specifics will come in the following verses when we see how to relate to the government, and our employers, and our spouses, and how we’re to respond to suffering on account of our faith. We’ll get to all that. But first, there is this general principle that should govern our conduct among unbelievers, which is simply this: the testimony of your life better match the testimony of your mouth.

Prayer in the Hand and Plan of God - Acts 4:23-31

This week, our sermon was brought to us by Greg Thomas. Greg preached from Acts 4:23-31 and showed us how God's sovereignty gives us confidence in our prayer. We hope you'll listen and be encouraged in your own prayer life as we come into 2023. 

God With Us - Christmas Sunday 2022

In Matthew 1:23, Matthew writes that the events of the birth of Christ happened the way they did to fulfill the prophecy that the Messiah would be born of a virgin and would be called Immanuel, which means "God with us." In this sermon, Pastor Matt shows us how all of the longing of the Old Testament for the Messiah were fulfilled in the Christmas manger. He also shows us how God's presence with us is both a right now and a future reality, as Christ sends His Spirit to indwell us now and how Christ will one day return in person to fully and finally restore God's Garden presence with us. 

The Birth of A King - Luke 2:1-20

In this sermon, we walk through Luke's narrative of the birth of Christ. Much of what I say today will be familiar to you. Some may be new to you, but much won’t. And that’s alright. Sometimes we just need to hear the old story. Sometimes we need to be reminded to believe in the incarnation of the Son. God became man. And that is huge. The King is born, but He’s born in the most unexpected way. 

The New People of God - 1 Peter 2:7-10

Today's passage, 1 Peter 2:7-10, brings to a close the first major section of 1 Peter.  In this opening section, Peter has been seeking to ground these elect exiles’ identity in who they are in Christ and what he’s done for them, and then show them their responsibilities towards God and towards each other as God’s people, especially in the face of oppression and suffering on account of their faith.  
In these last verses of this first section, Peter again reminds us of our identity - our corporate identity - and he does so by setting up, in verses 7-8, the fact there are two kinds of people in the world. Our world loves to divide in a myriad of ways. And yet God’s Word tells us that people are ultimately divided in only two ways -  those who stand on the Word and those who stumble over it. 

Chosen and Precious - 1 Peter 2:4-8

In our text for today, 1 Peter 2:4-8, we see that the New Testament church is the glorious fulfillment of the Old Covenant temple. Christ is the chosen and precious cornerstone of the Church and we are the living stones which make up the Church. Further, each believer is called to priestly duties within that temple-church. In carrying out these duties and purposes, the Church radiates the light of the glory of Christ into the world. 
 

Love the Church Body (Pt. 2) - 1 Peter 1:22-2:3

This is the second sermon on 1 Peter 1:22-2:3. In these sermons, we see that those who have been saved by faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ are commanded to have a sincere love for one another - a love which grows as they grow in Christ.
In this sermon, our focus is on 1 Peter 2:1-3, which tells us how we are to live out this difficult command, namely by putting away certain unloving and unlovely sins and by growing up in our faith through the Word of God. 

Love the Church Body (Part 1) - 1 Peter 1:22-2:3

In 1 Peter 1:22, the focus shifts from our vertical relationship with God to our horizontal relationships with one another. In fact, what we see is that our relationship with God has tremendous effects on our relationships with one another. In verses 22-23, Peter makes this clear by the way he weaves the two relationships together. We are now God’s people, and God’s people relate to each other in certain ways.  
In this sermon, we look at the command to love one another, how the Gospel enables us to love one another, and how this command is at odds with two of our culture's values/mantras about love. 

Christ Eternal - 1 Peter 1:20-21

Our text, 1 Peter 1:20-21, brings up the doctrine of the eternal nature of Jesus Christ.  In this sermon, our goal is to understand and believe the eternal nature of Jesus Christ and then see what it means in the flow of Peter's thought in 1 Peter 1. There are big theological truths covered in this sermon, each of which serve to bolster our hope in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Live in Fear - 1 Peter 1:17-19

Christians are people who set their hope on the grace that is to come (1 Peter 1:13) AND who conduct themselves with fear because of the judgment of their deeds that is to come (1 Peter 1:17).
 
How do we make sense of these seemingly contradictory truths?
 
Listen in to this sermon on 1 Peter 1:17-19 as we seek to answer that question!