The Bible - The Inbreaking of God's Kingdom

First Southern Baptist Church

244 sermons • June 2019-December 2024

Sermons

The Theme of Scripture

Genesis - God's Dominion on Earth through His Promised Seed

Exodus - I AM's Mighty Deliverance of His People, Part I

Exodus - I AM's Mighty Deliverance of His People, Part II

Exodus Part III, A Covenant with the King

Exodus Part IV - A Covenant with the King

Leviticus - Holiness to the LORD

Numbers - Blessing in the Wilderness

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God Part 1

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God, Part II

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God, Part III

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God, Part IV

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God, Part V

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God, Part VI - The Dream and the Nightmare

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God, Part VII - Choose Life!

Deuteronomy - Heartfelt Love of the One God, Part VIII - Tying up Loose Ends

Joshua - The Gift of Land, Part I

Joshua - The Gift of Land, Part II - The Exception that Proves the Ruler

Joshua - The Gift of Land, Part III - Hero or Coward?

Joshua - The Gift of Land, Part IV - Landmarks of Witness

Judges - How We Need a King, Part I

Judges - How We Need a King! Part II - Three Alright Judges

Judges - How We Need a King! Part III - One Not-So-Good Judge

Judges - How We Need a King! Part IV - One Bad Judge

Judges - How We Need a King! Part VI - There was No King in Israel...

Ruth - The Kingdom's Missing Ingredient

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part I

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part II - How to Win a Fight

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part III - Getting What You Wish For

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part IV - A King Worth Regretting

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part V - New King, New Strength

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part VI - Blinding Clarity

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part VII - True Strength's Tragedy and Triumph

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part VIII - Three Tests for the King in the Wilderness

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part VIII - Three Tests for the King in the Wilderness, continued

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part IX - Fall Down, Get Back Up

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part X - How to become King without Lifting a Finger

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part XI - Establishing the King's House

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part XII - Establishing the King's House, Continued

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part XIII - The Shortcoming of David

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part XIV - The Sword Shall Never Depart from Your House

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part XV - Civil War, or A Painful Opportunity for Repentance

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part XVI - Putting (Some of) the Pieces Back Together

Samuel - The Strength behind God's Kingdom, Part XVII - An Ode to True Strength in Weakness

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part I - A New Hope

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part II - Building a Legacy

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part III - Roots of All Evil

Kings - The Dance Between God and His Kings, Part IV - God's Word or God's Man?

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part V - Sins of the Fathers

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part VI - The Still, Small Voice

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part VII - Grace before a Fall

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part VIII - Three Strikes For or Against

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part IX - How to Learn from History

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part X - Swept up by Circumstances

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part XI - The Still Small Voice Revisited

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part XIII - The Storm Arrives

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part XIV - I Will Ever Love and Trust Him

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part XV - The Worst Meets the Best

Kings - The Dance between God and His Kings, Part XVI - Humiliation before Exaltation

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part I - Fixing Jerusalem's Purpose

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part II - Humiliation and Exaltation

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part III - How to Face a Crisis

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part IV - What about the Bad Guys?

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part V - The Little Apocalypse

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part VI - On Whom Will You Rely?

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part VII - I Will Ever Love and Trust Him (Isaiah's Version)

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part VIII - The Comfort of God's Servant

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part IX - Inviting the Blind to See

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part X - Inviting the Captives Home

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part XI - The Triumph of the Stricken

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part XII - Righteousness

Isaiah - Transforming Zion, Part XIII - Creation Made Right

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part I - An Unwanted Calling

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part II - Condemned but Forgivable Adultery

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part III - Where Is the Wise Man?

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up Part IV - Why Me?

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part V - (Not) Too Late

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part VI - Pots and Providence

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part IX - Field of Dreams

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part X - Don't Look Back?

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part XI - Rags to Riches

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part XII - What Are You Seeking?

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part XIII - His Dominion Knows No End

Jeremiah - Tearing Down and Building Up, Part XIV - Torn Down and Built Up

Lamentations - The Great Love of Our Destroyer, Part I

Lamentations - The Great Love of Our Destroyer, Part II - Despair through Rose-Colored Glasses

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part I - The Wheel in the Sky Keeps Turning

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part II - Visual Learning

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part III - God Leaves Home

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part IV - Then You Will Know

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part V - Love and Justice

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part VI - The Death of the Wicked

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part VII - Judgment Approaching

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part XIII - Weeping over Women

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part IX - God's Kingdom and the Nations

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part X - Nations Rise, Nations Fall

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part XI - Mountains Range

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part XII - Mountain's Role

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part XIII - A New Place to Call Home

Ezekiel - A New Beginning from the Spirit, Part XIV - New Healing from God's Home

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part I - Exiles in a Foreign Land

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part II - Four Kingdoms of Man and One of God

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part III - Standing Firm through Fire

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part IV - Reign of a Beast

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part V - Reign of a Man

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part VI - Standing Firm through Beasts

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part VII - God's Kingdom Realized through Man

Daniel - God's Rule over Prideful Man, Part IX - Seeking God's Face

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part X - For Your Sake, O Lord

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part XI - Seventy Weeks

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part XII - Finding Strength

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part XIII - Antichrists

Daniel - God's Kingdom over Prideful Man, Part XIV - The Answer to Suffering

Hosea - Come Home, Israel! Part I - One Way Love Affair

Hosea - Come Home, Israel! Part II - Don't Bring Me Down

Hosea - Come Home, Israel! Part IV - Yet They Have Not Returned

Hosea - Come Home, Israel! Part V - Does Anybody Really Know?

Hosea - Come Home, Israel! Part VI - Break up Your Fallow Ground

Hosea - Come Home, Israel! Part VII - Carry on, Wayward Son?

Joel - Call upon the Lord, Part I - How to Respond to Judgment

Joel - Call upon the Lord, Part II - God's Response to Repentance

Amos - The Lord Roars against Injustice, Part I - For Three, Four, and One More

Amos - The Lord Roars against Injustice, Part II - Remix of a Classic

Amos - The Lord Roars against Injustice, Part III - The Crescendo and the Cadence

Amos - The Lord Roars against Injustice, Part IV - Seek the Lord and Live

Amos - The Lord Roars against Injustice, Part V - Woe to Those at Ease

Amos - The Lord Roars against Injustice, Part VI - I Am No Prophet, You Are No King

Amos - The Lord Roars against Injustice, Part VII - God of the Earth

Obadiah - Which Mountain Wil Stand? - Easter in Obadiah

Jonah - Salvation Belongs to the Lord, Part I - Gratitude

Jonah - Salvation Belongs to the Lord, Part II - Resentment

Nahum - The Flipside of Jonah, Part I

Nahum - The Flipside of Jonah, Part II

Micah - Who Is Like God? Part I - I Will Bear God's Anger

Micah - Who Is Like God? Part II - Corruption and ... Salvation?

Joshua 10:12-27 - Echoes of Conquest in the Crucifixion

Micah - Who Is Like God? Part III - The Purpose of the Lord

Micah - Who Is Like God? Part IV - What Does the Lord Require?

Habakkuk - The Righteous Shall Live by Faith, Part I - Living in an Unjust World

Habakkuk - The Righteous Will Live by Faith, Part II - Faith in a Greater Army

Zephaniah, Part I - God against the Nations

Zephaniah, Part II - God for the Nations

Haggai - To Build or Not to Build, Part I - Consider Your Ways!

Haggai - To Build or Not to Build, Part II - Consider from This Day

Zechariah - Renewing Zion, Part I - Of Fathers and Prophets

Zechariah - Zion's Renewal, Part II - The Lord Has Chosen Jerusalem

Zechariah - Zion's Renewal, Part III - The Triumph of the Lord's Anointed

Zechariah - Restoring Zion, Part IV - To Fast, or Feast?

Zechariah - Renewing Zion, Part V - The Warrior and the Humble King

Zechariah - Restoring Zion, Part VI - The Good Shepherd

Zechariah - Restoring Zion, Part VII - What Do Two Pierced Sons Have to Do with the Gospel?

Micah - Why Serve God? Part I

Micah - Why Serve God? Part II - Finding the Way

Malachi - Why Serve God? Part III - Dedicated

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part I

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part II - A Chosen Race, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part III - The Rise of David

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part V - Some Melodious Sonnet

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part VI - When God Prevents and When God Blesses

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part VII - Passing the Baton

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part VIII - Solomon's Greatest Hit

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part IX - Solomon Releases His Greatest Hit

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part X - The Afterlife of Solomon's Greatest Hit

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XI - Strength Can Be a Weakness

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XII - The King's Speech

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XIII - Live and Don't Learn

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XIV - Replacing What Was Taken

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XV - How to Ruin a Good Thing

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XVI - The Mother of All Evil

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XVII - How Important Is Holiness?

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XVIII - Power to Help and Bring Down

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XIX - Like Father, Not Like Son

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XX - Folly and Mercy

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XXI - Deep Cleansing

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XXII - Reform Must Start Somewhere

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XXIII - All That Was in His Heart

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XXIV - Grace Greater Than Our Sin

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XXV - Lost and Found

Chronicles - New Hope after Exile, Part XXVI - The Temple Falls (and Prelude to New Hope)

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part I

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part II - Faith That Works

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part III - The Hand of God

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part IV - It Seemed Good to God and to Us

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part V - Patterns of Courage

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part VI - But We Prayed to Our God

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part VII - Renewing the Covenant

Ezra-Nehemiah - Return of the Jerusalemites, Part VIII - Renewing the People

Esther - The Unnamed Mover, Part I - The Powerful and the Paupers

Esther - The Unnamed Mover, Part II - For Such a Time as This

Esther - The Unnamed Mover, Part III - Reversals

Job - Evil (Un)leashed, Part I

Job - Evil (Un)leashed, Part II - Suffering Now, Glory Later

Job - Evil (Un)leashed, Part III - Something Is Wrong(?)

Job - Evil (Un)leashed, Part IV - An Argument Only God Can Solve

Job - Evil (Un)leashed, Part V - The Secret Things Belong to the Lord

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part I

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part II - Blessedness and What Stands in Its Way

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part III - My Worth and My Unworthiness

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part IV - What Is and What Is Not

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part VI - Forsaken, Not Forgotten

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part VII - My Shepherd Host

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part VIII - The Believer's Response to Fear

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part IX - You Who Hope in the Lord

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XI - Will He Rise Again?

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XII - Why Are You in Despair, O My Soul?

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XIII - For Your Sake We Are Killed

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XIV - My King and My God

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XVI - God Will Redeem My Soul

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XVII - Be Gracious to Me

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XVIII - You Enrich the Earth

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XIX - Why Should the Nations Be Glad?

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XX - Zeal for Your House Has Consumed Me

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXI - The Ideal King

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXII - Has His Lovingkindness Ceased?

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXIII - I Am the Vine

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXIV - The Incomparable King

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXV - Teach Us to Number Our Days

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXVI - How to Make Sure Nothing Bad Happens to You

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXVII - Rest for Today

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXVIII - Not Just Another Religion

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXIX - They Will Be Changed, You Will Not

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXX - As Far as East from West

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXI - Thanks for Putting up with Me

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXII - The LORD Says to My Lord

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXIII - A Foretaste of Resurrection

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXIV - In Praise of God's Word

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXV - God Will Keep You

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXVI - Restore Our Captivity

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXVII - The Lord's Gift of Children

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXVIII - Sing Me a Song

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XXXIX - The Omnipotent and I

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XL - The Desire for Justice

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XLII - The First Hallelujah

Psalms - Songs of the King, Part XLII - Praise Him without Restraint

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part I

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part III - Something to Love, Something to Loathe

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part IV - Wisdom's Rewards

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part V - The Gift That Keeps Giving

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part VI - Wife or Mistress?

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part VII - The Adulteress

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part VIII - Wisdom's Call

Proverbs - The Beginning of Wisdom, Part IX - Collecting Wisdom