Joppa Baptist Church

Are we in love with Christ or are we in love with ourselves? This sermon explores three aspects of being in the love of God.

Acts 1:1-8, "In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;  for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now." So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Romans 8:1, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."

When Christians say Amen, they are saying a Hebrew word that means, "Let it be so." Amen is an expression of worship for the will and glory of God. 

Jonah 4:10-11,  "And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

"I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued my faithfulness to you." Jeremiah 31:3 

Jonah preaches and Nineveh repents. Will you? 

The earth will shake and kingdoms fall, but the Kingdom of Heaven will not be moved.

Jonah cries out to the Lord from his lowest point, the belly of a fish. Even lower, Jonah knows that God is angry with him. In his crying out, Jonah finds mercy, forgiveness, and salvation.

Sermon on Haggai chapter one.