Bethel Baptist Church
by Dr. Robert Cosand
A Ministry of Bethel Baptist Church24600 Little Mack AvenueSaint Clair Shores, MI 48080Service TimesSunday9:30 am - Sunday School10:45 am - Morning Worship6:00 pm - Evening Praise ServiceWednesday6:45 pm - Youth Group6:45 pm - AWANA (During School Year)7:00 pm - Bible Study & PrayerMore Information about Bethel Baptist ChurchBethel Baptist Church [email protected] Robert Cosand
Episodes
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Matthew: Growing in Hospitality
Scripture Reading: Matthew 25: 31-46 Imagine setting a meal for strangers and finding them no ordinary strangers but in fact angels or even the Lord Himself! Hebrews 13:2 says that "some have unknowingly entertained angels." (Abraham & Lot, Genesis 18-19.) After Covid-19 did we ever regain the...
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Luke: The Glorious Authority of Christ
Scripture Reading: Luke 4:31-41 In Luke 4, Luke begins to relate the healing acts of Jesus. Such miracles make up a significant part of what Jesus did during His three-year ministry. The two stories found in our passage in Luke 4, depict the authority of Jesus. What we have in this passage is a...
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Luke: The Depth and Breadth of the Gospel
Scripture Reading: Luke 4:14-30 The account of Jesus teaching in the synagogue is the story of Jesus teaching people who had seen Him as a boy. In the synagogue in Nazareth, Jesus reads from a well-known prophecy about the coming of the Messiah, from Isaiah 61. He then proceeds to astonish the...
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Isaiah: Attitudes in Prayer
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 1:10-17 Without thinking about it, many people probably feel they can approach God in any manner they desire and He will respond to their prayer. It's almost the idea that God is so desperate, He will accept anyone who will give Him the slightest glance or the weakest…
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Luke: The Temptation of Christ
Scripture Reading: Luke 4:1-14 There are at least three fundamental lessons to be learned from the temptation of our Lord. The first is that these temptations reveal Jesus' divine holiness. His perfection, as God, is on full display. This is a great comfort to us to think that He triumphed where…
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Luke: The Baptism of Jesus
Scripture Reading: Luke 3:15-22 John the Baptist came with a single message: "Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand" (Mt 3:2). Those people who accepted this message and confessed their sins with sorrow, were baptized by him (Lk 3:3). With that message in mind, it is curious that Jesus would...
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Luke: The Nature Of True Repentance
Scripture Reading: Luke 3:1-14 John the baptizer came heralding the Messiah and he prepared the hearts of the people of Israel by calling them to repentance. They demonstrated their repentance by being baptized in the Jordan River. The announcement of the coming Messiah took place, not in the...
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Luke: My Father's House
Scripture Reading: Luke 2:39-52 This account, found only in Luke's gospel, recalls Jesus as a twelve-year-old boy. It is the only story we have of Christ between His infancy and the beginning of His public ministry. What is revealed in this account is the union of humanity and divinity in one...
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Psalm 19: Better Than Gold
Scripture Reading: Psalm 19:7-11 Our day is a day in which changes have profoundly affected the way life is viewed and the way it is lived. We have witnessed not only radical changes in communication and technology, but changes in values. A clear, unambiguous standard of what is right and wrong…
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Luke: Simeon and Anna
Scripture Reading: Luke 2:22-35 How refreshing it is to have the gospels deliver to us the accounts of the life of Christ in all His excellencies. Here, in Luke 2, we have another scene of the birth of our Savior. The whole meaning of Christ, in concise form, is found in the declarations of…
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Luke: A Savior Who Is Christ, The Lord
Scripture Reading: Luke 2:1-14 Perhaps the best-known biblical passage recording the birth of Christ is found in Luke 2. Matthew has some other details concerning His birth, but this account (indeed, this entire chapter) occurs only in Luke. Here we have Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem…
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Luke: Benedictus Dominus
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:67-80 Much like Mary's song of praise, upon hearing about the child she would bear, so Zechariah has a song of praise after his son is born. We might expect that Zechariah's expressions would center on his beloved son. He does mention the boy (Lk 1:76), but the focus of...
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Luke: Mary's Song - The Grace of God
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:46-55 Mary's exultation in God in this wonderful poem is both passionate and insightful. And we have the same God. Even though for her to bear the Messiah is a unique event, it is possible for us to know the same awe and joy that she experienced. For us to feel what Mary...
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Luke: Mary's Song - The Majesty of God
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:46-55 To a wide-eyed 5-year-old, the celebration of the birth of Christ means lights and toys and brightly-wrapped boxes under a living room tree. To a retailer it means increased sales and profits. To a busy housewife Christmas is a fatiguing schedule of shopping,...
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Luke: The Child Will Be Called The Son Of God
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:34-38 One of the foundational things to be said about Jesus is that He was/is the Son of God. The angel declared this wonder to Mary. "And the angel answered her, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child...
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Luke: The Virgin's Name Was Mary
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:26-38 Matthew and Luke both record that Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus, but only Luke writes about the conversation between the angel Gabriel and Mary. This account parallels, in many ways, the announcement of the birth of John the Baptist. Among other...
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Luke: Yahweh Remembers
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:5-25 In his recounting the life of Christ, Luke begins with the announcement, not of the birth of Christ, but of John the Baptist. John would be the prophesied herald of the Messiah. In the first two chapters of his gospel, Luke draws a connection between John and…
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Missionary Dale Kellar: The Son Lifted Up, the Dragon Cast Down, the Church Sent Out
Bethel Baptist Church is delighted to host visiting missionaries from Iceland Dale and Linnea Kellar.
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Luke: That You May Have Certainty
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:1-4 The Holy Spirit has chosen to give us four accounts of the life of Christ, and not just one account. Like four men standing around a great mountain, each writing what he sees, the gospel writers each wrote from a different viewpoint what he 'saw' when he looked at...
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Revelation: Behold, I Am Coming Quickly
Scripture Reading: Revelation 22:6-21 The epilogue of the book of Revelation highlights two final themes ... the authenticity of the book and the approaching wonder of the return of Christ. As Christ is called "faithful and true" in Revelation 3:14 and 19;11, so His words are "faithful and true"…
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Revelation: We Will See His Face
Scripture Reading: Revelation 22:1-15 John ends his glorious book by describing heaven to his readers. Here we have a final description of the population of heaven ... and the pleasure of heaven. The people who will enjoy the presence of God will be His servants who will reign with Him (Rev...
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Revelation: New Jerusalem
Scripture Reading: Revelation 21:9-27 Revelation 21 and 22 usher us into the eternal state of blessedness for those who belong to Christ and sorrow for those who have rejected Christ. The everlasting home for believers is the new heaven, new earth, and new Jerusalem. The eternal city is…
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Revelation: All Things New
Scripture Reading: Revelation 21:1-8 In this glorious section of Revelation, God draws back the curtain of heaven and bids us to behold the wonders and pleasures that await those who belong to Him. He says, "Behold, I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5). There are several ways in which God will...
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Revelation: The Judge Of All The Earth
Scripture Reading: Revelation 20:11-15 This passage describes a great judgment before God in a future day. This will be a judgment in which the dead are raised and judged "according to what they had done" (Rev 20:13). Scholars debate whether this "great white throne" judgment will be for...
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Revelation: The Justice of Hell
Scripture Reading: Revelation 20:7-15 In the middle ages, the Italian theologian and poet, Dante Alighieri, wrote his famous Inferno. In this lengthy poem he described the horrors of hell. The sign above the gateway to Dante's hell read: ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE. It is a fitting...
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Revelation: The Coming Kingdom of Christ
Scripture Reading: Revelation 20:1-10 In light of the multiplied and complicated problems of our world, it is clear that what the world needs is a king … someone to rule in divine wisdom and perfect justice and holy compassion. A king is exactly what God promised to David and through David, in…
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John: God's Plan and Promise
Scripture Reading: John 3:1-8, 16-21 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16) The most beloved and memorized verse in the Bible is John 3:16. In this wondrous sentence we have a summary of God's...
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Revelation: King of Kings
Revelation 19:11-21 Distinct from the religions of the world (Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism), Christianity rests on the identity of a person … Jesus. So, the question 'Who is Jesus?' is all important in the Christian faith. Many folks would allow that He was a good teacher (maybe the best ever) … a...
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Ephesians: Far Above All Rule
Scripture Reading: Ephesians 1:15-23 The point being made in Ephesians 1:20-23 is straightforward enough. Having risen from the dead, Jesus has been exalted as head over all things. Conquering death itself, He now rules as sovereign over all authorities, seated at the right hand of God the…
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Revelation: The Lamb and His Bride
Scripture Reading: Revelation 19:6-10 Revelation 19 contains a stirring image of the relationship between Christ and His people. The imagery is of a joyous wedding ceremony. "Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself...
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Revelation: God's Book of Life
Scripture Reading: Revelation 17:8 Revelation 17:8 refers to people "whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world." Philippians 4:3 refers to people "whose names are in the book of life." Though there are people whose names have never been written in…
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The Glory of God and the Work of His People
Bethel Baptist Church was honored to host Reverend Joel David, North America Baptist Vice President of International Missions, during this years NAB Detroit Area Missions Conference.
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Angels in Awe: The Glory of God in the Church
Scripture Reading: Acts 2:22-47, 1 Peter 1:12 As the church puts the glory of our risen Savior on display before a dying world and before the curiously marveling angelic realms, our crucified, risen Savior and gloriously coming King will be with us every step of the way. "It was revealed to them...
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Revelation: Fallen, Fallen is Babylon
Scripture Reading: Revelation 18, 19 The city of Babylon is considered by some historians and archaeologists to have been the greatest city in the ancient Near East. With its thick double walls and scores of fortified towers, people living 600 years before Christ must have thought it to be...
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Revelation: The Lamb Will Conquer
Scripture Reading: Revelation 17 Revelation 17,18 describe, at length, the global kingdom of the antichrist during the coming time of tribulation. We have already seen, in chapter 13, that there will be both a political leader and religious leader in this vast kingdom … the beast, and the false...
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Revelation: They Cursed God
Scripture Reading: Revelation 16:1-11 The Nature of the Human Heart Revelation 16 contains the third, and last, series of divine judgments on the population of the earth during the coming day of tribulation. It is a description of the seven bowl judgments. God is declared to be just because He…
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Revelation: The Song of the Lamb
Scripture Reading: Revelation 15:1-8 Before each of the series of divine judgments on the earth, during the tribulation time, John describes a heavenly scene. The vision of heaven in chapters 4,5 precedes the judgments of the seven seals. The heavenly scene in Revelation 8:2-5 precedes the...
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Revelation: The Perseverance of the Saints
Scripture Reading: Revelation 14:9-20 In the middle of a biblical text about the dreadful wrath of God is a passage designed to be a great encouragement to Christians. Following a passage declaring the God's wrath "poured full strength into the cup of his anger" (Rev 14:10), we read about the...
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Revelation: The Eternal Gospel
Scripture Reading: Revelation 13:11-18 A second beast appears in Revelation 13, "exercising all the authority of the first beast . . . and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast" (Rev 13:12). This beast is called the 'false prophet' in Revelation 16:13; 19:20; 20:10. This…
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Revelation: A Call For Endurance
Scripture Reading: Revelation 13:1-10 Much of the focus of Revelation is on what God will doing on the earth during the time of tribulation. The holy Judge will pour out His righteous justice on the inhabitants of the earth, in a series of horrendous, global judgments. In Revelation 12-14…
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Revelation: The Defeat of the Dragon
Scripture Reading; Revelation 12:1-12 To this point in the book of Revelation, much of the focus has been on what God will be doing on the earth during the time of tribulation. God will pour out His holy justice on the inhabitants of the earth, in a series of horrendous, global judgments. In...
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Revelation: And He Shall Reign Forever And Ever
Scripture Reading: Revelation 11:15-19 In the middle of the horrendous judgments that John is describing in Revelation, he gives his readers a glorious preview of what will take place after God's justice has been fully meted out on the inhabitants of the earth. It is a foretaste of the coming...
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Revelation: Prophets of God's Mercy
Scripture Reading: Revelation 11:1-14 This chapter in Revelation is one of the places in the book in which the interpretive principles of the commentator show through very clearly. Over a century ago, Henry Alford, a reputable New Testament scholar and commentator, wrote that Revelation 11 is...
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Micah: From The Days Of Eternity
Scripture Reading: Micah 5:1-5a There are many prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the coming of Jesus Christ in His first advent, beginning with a very early reference in Genesis 3:15. One of the wonderful predictions of the coming of Christ is found in Micah 5. Micah lived and wrote 700...
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Revelation: Take and Eat
Scripture Reading: Revelation 10:1-11 The context of this chapter is the interlude between the sounding of the sixth trumpet … in chapter 9 … and the sounding of the seventh trumpet … in the middle of chapter 11. As there was an interlude between the breaking and opening of the sixth and the...
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Revelation: They Still Did Not Repent
Scripture Reading: Revelation 9:13-21 This passage contains another description of the horrors brought to humanity during the coming time of tribulation. The sounding of the sixth trumpet will bring the death of a third of the earth's population (Rev 9:18). Like the fifth trumpet, this judgment...
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Ezekiel: The Father of Lies
Scripture Reading: Ezekiel 28:11-19 Origin and fall of Satan Ezekiel 28:11-19 Names and titles of Satan Satan ('adversary') - Job 1,2; 1 Chr 21:1 Devil ('slanderer') - Mt 4:5; 1 Pet 5:8 Beelzebul ('lord of flies') - Mt 12:27; Lk 11:15 Belial ('worthless') - 2 Cor 6:15 Serpent - Gen 3:1; Rev 12:9...
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Revelation: The Locusts From Hell
Scripture Reading: Revelation 9:1-12 The seventh seal on the great heavenly scroll introduces the seven trumpets of judgment. The seventh trumpet introduces the seven bowls of final judgment. The first four trumpets bring calamity on earthly elements … land, sea, rivers, and light. The fifth and...
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Revelation: Silence in Heaven
Scripture Reading: Revelation 8:1-13 The opening of the seventh seal on the heavenly scroll, leads to seven trumpets of increasing divine judgment on the people of the earth … which, in turn, lead to seven bowls of further divine fury of God's holy justice against earth's wicked rebels. With the...
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Revelation: Sealed By God
Scripture Reading: Revelation 7:1-8 In Revelation 7, we have an interlude between the sixth and seventh seals. The chapter has in mind two groups of Christians … 144,000 servants of God who are given His seal, and a "great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and...
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A Ministry of Bethel Baptist Church24600 Little Mack AvenueSaint Clair Shores, MI 48080Service TimesSunday9:30 am - Sunday School10:45 am - Morning Worship6:00 pm - Evening Praise ServiceWednesday6:45 pm - Youth Group6:45 pm - AWANA (During School Year)7:00 pm - Bible Study & PrayerMore Information about Bethel Baptist ChurchBethel Baptist Church [email protected] Robert Cosand
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