Unity Baptist Church

Israel is God’s chosen people but it was never just about Israel. What about today? Does the modern nation-state of Israel still have favored nation status with God?

We will spend some time discussing who the three men are that visit Abraham in Genesis 18 but exactly who they are is not the point. The LORD visited Abraham and Sarah and brought news. God is near.

*I mentioned in the sermon that I would drop some information on the origin of Jehovah.

We recently saw how God was near Adam and Eve after the Garden, Noah during the flood and the people of Israel when they were in Egypt. Today we fall back to Genesis 12 and meet Abram. If recent sermons have been a little short on application, we will make up for that today.

Sin and the curse changed things for the first couple. But things might not be as bad as they seem. Adam and Eve were removed from the Garden of Eden but no one is so far removed that God cannot see, hear, and be heard. Here are three examples from the Old Testament from which we can draw application.

Having studied the earthly ministry of Jesus as God with us, and the arrival of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, we are now going back to the beginning to study the ways God has always been near his people. This sermon is from Genesis chapters 1 and 2… you can’t go further back than that.

We read the Day of Pentecost portion of Acts 2 last week and a few select statements from Peter’s sermon. This week we are looking at the quotations from David that led Peter to call him a prophet, namely that he wrote about the resurrection of the Christ.

A little bit of history and vocabulary then an examination of Acts 2. At no point did I say “God is Near” but we are the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. You can’t be nearer than inside.

A lot happens in the first chapter of Acts. Jesus reminds his followers they will receive the Holy Spirit and also that they will receive power, then be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the Earth. He then ascends into heaven and angels announce that he will return the same way. And that’s just the first 11 verses!

Sunday was Mother’s Day. We are going to look at some words of Jesus, talk about the language of analogy and share the Gospel; it’s a special day but we are going to do what we do every Sunday at Unity Baptist.

Post-resurrection appearances: Let’s recap. There were the women in the garden (at the tomb), there were the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, and John 21 will be the third time he appeared to a group of the Apostles together.