Run, devil Run

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Run, devil Run

*Tares are types of weeds that look like wheat. The devil has planted evil people who look and act like Godly people.

*Notice that at the end of days, the tares are taken out first, then the wheat. The evil people are taken out first, then the Godly.

*The enemy is a trespasser…he does not own the field and has no right to be there.

Abraham Kuyper, "There is not one square inch of the entire creation about which Jesus Christ does not cry out, "This is mine! This belongs to me!"

Jesus owns the field and the seed:

Psalm 24:1

Ezekiel 34:31 (NLT)

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Romans 14:8

Take Notice

Message: Mother’s Day—Take Notice

Text: 2 Timothy 1:1-14

Salvation is free. Discipleship is expensive and may cost you everything.

God has not given…God has given…

I want to make a serious difference.

I want to train my family to make a serious difference.

Soil

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 13:1-8, 18-23

Soil

Wayside, hard path-Naïve

Stony places-Emotional

Thorns-Busy

Recognize it

Confess it

Ask Jesus to help you

Seeing, Hearing, Understanding

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 13:1-17

Seeing, Hearing, Understanding

The journey out of yourself

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.”

2 Kings 6

*Elisha was not impatient with his friend who could not see what Elisha saw.

*Elisha did not try to teach his friend how to see angels.

*Elisha prayed for his friend. Only God can open spiritual eyes.

Philippians 3:8, 10

Go & Tell

Message: Go & Tell

Text: Matthew 28:1-10, 18-20

 

“The thing about life is that it ends.”

 

Death changes everything. The resurrection of Jesus changes death.

 

Mark 16:20

One Week Till Easter

Message: One Week Till Easter

Text: Luke 22:39-46

Salvation is free and very expensive

Palm Sunday

Jesus drives the money changers from the temple

The Greatest Commandment

Passover leads to Last Supper

Jesus prays for His disciples (you)

Garden of Gethsemane

Jesus is arrested and tried

Jesus is crucified as payment for our sin

Joseph & Nicodemus lay His body in a tomb

Easter is coming!

Prayer struggle believing that the intensity of our desires is the same as God’s will.

John 6:63

Prayer struggle for souls.

Acts 26:18

There was Jesus

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:38-42

There was Jesus

Jesus in the people around you.

Matthew 25.

Jesus in you.

2 Corinthians 12.

God’s testing is His training.

There Was Jesus

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:38-42

There was Jesus

Jesus in the people around you.

Matthew 25.

Jesus in you.

2 Corinthians 12.

God’s testing is His training.

Hide & Seek

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:33-37

Hide & Seek

1 Samuel 13:14

God is after someone whose heart will be after His.

Philippians 3:12

1 Samuel 16:6-7

1 Samuel 17:28

Killing a giant with a slingshot seems impossible to those who have never done it.

Forgiven

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:31-32

Forgiven

John 16:7-11

The unpardonable sin is the sin you see no need of pardon for.

This is not what God cannot do, this is what you will not do. It is not a sin He cannot forgive, it is a sin you will not confess.

Careless Conscience:

Romans 3:23

Romans 6:23

1 John 1:9

1 Peter 1:18-19

Hebrews 10:29

Condemning Conscience:

Hebrews 6:1

1 John 1:9

Your spirit will train your body.

Forgive Me

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:31-32

Forgive Me

John 16:7-11

The unpardonable sin is the sin you see no need of pardon for.

This is not what God cannot do, this is what you will not do. It is not a sin He cannot forgive, it is a sin you will not confess.

Careless Conscience:

Romans 3:23

Romans 6:23

1 John 1:9

1 Peter 1:18-19

Hebrews 10:29

Condemning Conscience:

Hebrews 6:1

Your spirit will train your body.

1 John 1:9

With Me

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:22-30, 33

With Me

Neutral, halfway, nominal, all in or all out.

Bruce Willis, "People go to the movies to watch people giving it everything they've got."

Whether fruit on a tree is good or bad is obvious to everyone who sees it.

All Nations

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:15-21

All Nations

All nations, peculiar, aliens, outcasts, estranged, prejudiced against, wrong side of the wall, Gentiles…

John 14:2

You are His

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:1-14

You are His

Grain, Sabbath (day of the week) bread, synagogue (church house) sheep…

Rules, traditions, ways of life, nations, empires, cultures…

 You are more important to Jesus than any-thing.

Real love is not love because it is deserved, it is just love.

“Love complicates the life of God the way it complicates every life.”

Jesus in You

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus in you

Jesus said for you to come to Him, not the other way around.

You put on Jesus’ yoke, He doesn’t put on your yoke.

Getting over yourself

Timing, pace, weight

Complete faith in the total sovereignty of Jesus