First Baptist Church, Milton, LA

The Minor Prophets: Zechariah

Zechariah is one of the most difficult of the Minor Prophets to read, interpret, and apply. It is full of prophetic language - there are visions, apocalypse, warnings of judgment, and an appearance by Satan. In spite of those things, Zechariah is the second most quoted prophet in the New Testament, and that's because it teaches us so much about the coming Messiah. Our hope in this message is that you understand Zechariah a little better, see its place in the story God is telling, and are encouraged in your efforts, and our efforts as a church, to advance Christ’s Kingdom. 

The Minor Prophets: Haggai

Haggai is a prophet to the returned exiles in Jerusalem. After starting off strong in the process of rebuilding the temple, they soon drifted off into misplaced priorities and faced discouragement from within themselves and from the people around them. God sends Haggai to call them out for their sin and encourage them in the kingdom work He has for them. The issues the people of Jerusalem were facing are common to us today. We would do well to listen to the prophet Haggai, just as the people did then. 

The Minor Prophets: Joel

The prophet Joel is best known for its locust plagues and its focus on the Day of the Lord. Joel uses this imagery to teach that God is a God is a God of great justice and great mercy. The question for us is whether or not we will receive justice or mercy from God. Joel gives us the answer, showing how we can receive God's mercy and how God can bring restoration to what our sin has destroyed. 

The Minor Prophets: Obadiah

Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament. Its 21 verses fit on two pages in my Bible. But this little book is both a powerful warning against the deceitfulness of pride and a powerful message of hope for the people of God. We hope you'll listen in and be both convicted and encouraged by God's Word! 

Amazed By God - Greg Thomas

Listen in as Greg Thomas fills in for Pastor Matt this morning. Drawing from Genesis 1, John 1, and other scriptures, Greg exhorts us to be amazed by God's power of creation, authority over creation, and purpose in creation. 

The Minor Prophets: Habakkuk

If you’ve ever been confused, or maybe a little confounded or even frustrated, at what God seems to be doing, or seems to NOT be doing, if you’ve ever been in circumstances that you just couldn’t make sense of and couldn’t see how God might work them all out, if you’ve been praying for something for what seems like forever and God just doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it, then Habakkuk is the book for you. Listen in as we discover how "the righteous shall live by faith" in the midst of difficult circumstances. 

The Minor Prophets: Zephaniah

Zephaniah has some of the most intense descriptions of God’s judgment in the Minor Prophets, possibly in all the Scriptures, BUT that intensity is matched in its message of hope - the Gospel message of mercy and forgiveness that is ours in King Jesus. Listen in as we seek to understand Zephaniah's prophecy of The Day of the Lord, consider the sins for which judgment is coming, and then see the beautiful picture of God's love for His people at the end of the book. 

The Minor Prophets: Nahum

The book of Nahum is a timely message for the church today. Listen in as we see how a message of destruction against Nineveh some 650 years before Christ shows us: 1) that the church can have great courage in the face of her enemies today, 2) that the church ought to rejoice at the downfall of evil, and 3) that the church worships and proclaims a God of great justice and mercy. 

The Minor Prophets: Micah

Micah’s two biggest concerns are also Jesus’ two greatest concerns - that we might love God with all that we have and all that we are, and that we might love our neighbor as ourself.  These aren’t new concerns. Amos mentions these things. Hosea mentions them. Now Micah. What does this tell us about people? We have the same sinful inclinations. It shows us a bit of our nature. The Bible is a mirror. It is a true, impartial mirror. It is a light that shines and reveals our true nature and the evil that is in our hearts that we would prefer to keep in the darkness. And the truth is we are all prideful, we are all prone to idolatry, and we are all prone to self-centeredness. 
It was for those sins that judgment was coming for Israel and Judah, which means we too will face judgment for those sins. This should cause us to ask how we might be right with God, what God might require of us in order to be right with Him.  

The Minor Prophets: Hosea

In this second sermon in our series through the Minor Prophets, we look at the book of Hosea. This message of Hosea is that God pursues an unholy, unfaithful, unworthy bride - and He makes her holy, faithful, and worthy. Not because of anything they did, but because of His mercy and His grace and His love. In other words, Hosea is a beautiful picture of the Gospel. In this sermon, we consider how Israel has forsaken the Lord through idolatry, how we might be guilty of similar sins, and how Christ alone is worthy of worship.