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
Come to Me
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 11:28-30
Come:
Why didn’t Jesus say He would come to you?
Why does He say that you have to come to Him?
To Me:
Not to anyone else, or anything else.
Messiah is Coming 4
Message: Messiah is Coming—
You will meet Jesus
Text: 1 Corinthians 13:12
Philippians 2:9-11
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
2 Corinthians 5:6-10
Revelation 20:11-15
Eagerly, not dreadfully or fearfully
Open hands, not clenched fists
“The thing about life is that it ends.”
Messiah is Coming 3
Message: Messiah is Coming—
Joseph & Mary meet Jesus
Text: Luke 2:1-11
Savior, Christ, Lord
Isaiah 59:2
Romans 5:1, 8-10
Messiah is Coming 2
Message: Messiah is Coming—
A Samaritan woman meets Jesus at Jacob’s well
Text: John 4:4-26
Her husbands—people
Her water—things
John 6:63
A life of if only…
When did simply worshiping Jesus become not enough for you?
Ray Ortlund, "If I have You (Jesus) I have everything worth having, whatever else I may lack. If I do not have You, I have nothing worth having, whatever else I may possess."
C.S. Lewis, "God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
Messiah is Coming 1
Message: Messiah is Coming--
Paul meets Jesus on the Damascus Road
Text: Acts 9:1-18
The Compelling: “I Am Jesus…”
Philippians 3:7-14
The Gain: “I Am Jesus…”
Communion-All, not some.
Message: Communion-All, not some.
Text: 1 John 1:5-9
Who You Are In Christ
Message: Who You Are In Christ
Rev Jim Schremp
Text: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Finding God's direction for your life
Message: Finding God's direction for your life
Isaiah 55:8-9
Colossians 1:15-17
1. God is always providing direction, it's up to us to look for, listen
to, and follow it.
Proverbs 3:5-6
2. There will be distractions, roadblocks and detours.
James 1:2-4
3. He is always leading us toward the same place
1 Thessalonians 5: 12-18
“As God is exalted to his rightful place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.” AW Tozer
Patient Leadership
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 11:20-27
Patient Leadership
Judgment according to opportunity
A.W. Tozer, "Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how much I have done but by how much I could have done."
C.S. Lewis, "For in it (judgment, Mt 25) the goats are condemned entirely for their sins of omission; as if to make us fairly sure that the heaviest charge against each of us turns not upon things he has done but on those he never did…"
James 4:17
2 Timothy 2:24-26
Don't fear...trust.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:21-31
Don’t fear…trust
“Fear Him, you saints, and you will then have nothing else to fear.”
“Whatever I…tell…you…”
The Work: Don't Worry 2
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:9-20
The Work:
Don’t worry
Vs 9-10
Don’t worry about money
Vs 11-16
Don’t worry, there will be people to help you, and people who will not heed you.
R.T. France, “They were to look for someone able and willing to accommodate them, and this would normally be someone open to their message, though not necessarily already committed to their cause.”
Vs 17-20
Don’t worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.
The Work: Don't Worry
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:9-20
The Work:
Don’t worry
Vs 9-10
Don’t worry about money
Vs 11-16
Don’t worry, there will be people to help you, and people who will not heed you.
R.T. France, “They were to look for someone able and willing to accommodate them, and this would normally be someone open to their message, though not necessarily already committed to their cause.”
Vs 17-20
Don’t worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.