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.
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.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:1-8
The Work:
Giving
One positive: You can only give what you have been given.
First negative: You should only give what you have been given.
“I don’t always know when the Holy Spirit is, but I sure know when He aint.”
Second negative: Jesus turns water into wine, Sauls into Pauls, your negatives into positives.
Slavery into salvation
Joshua 24:4
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:35-10:1
Love in Action
Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.
Look out!
Compassion is more than pity, it is love in action.
Luke 10:33
Jesus saw everyone as sheep…having no shepherd.
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Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:32-34
Give & Take
1 Peter 5:8-9
John 10:9-10
1 Peter 5:6-7
James 4:6-7
Psalm 51:12, “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit.”
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:27-31
Action Faith
Asking Faith
Message: Deliverance
Text: Exodus 12:21-27, 13:3-10
I am through complaining about the present because I remember my deliverance in the past.
I am through worrying about the future because I remember my deliverance in the past.
I will not go backward, but keep going forward in faith.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:18-26
Eternal Life
Where is heaven?
Luke 7:14
John 11:43-44
Compassion for who?
Luke 7:13
All are alive to Jesus.
John 11:11-14, 25-26
Luke 20:38 (NIV)
You have an eternity with Jesus waiting for you.
You have a short time left here.
1 John 5:12-13
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:18-22
Approaching Jesus
The touch-two ways.
Standing, bowing, kneeling, crawling.
He asks for his daughter. She asks for herself.
He can talk about it. She can’t.
Immediate need. Long term need.
I ask for my daughter’s life back. I ask for my life back.
Incredible faith. More desperation than faith.
“Faith stretched thin is thick enough.”
Pride is an enemy of faith. Need is a great destroyer of pride.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:14-17
The Old and The New
G Campbell Morgan, “This is Christ’s defense of the right of His people to be joyful; and that right to be joyful is the fact that He is with them. If that be true, then we have the right to be joyful always.”
As you go forward with Jesus there will always be someone or something pulling you backward and downward.
Psalm 40:1-3
Romans 10:9
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:9-13
Why Them?
The self-righteous, “Why are you eating with sinners?”
Self-righteous people don’t eat with sinners, we’re too good for them.
The sinners may rub off on you.
We’re uncomfortable with those who aren’t our kind.
Jesus, “Why aren’t you eating with sinners?”
I left the glory of heaven to ransom all people, not some people.
You may rub off on the sinners.
The cross was a very uncomfortable place.
So, why aren’t you eating with sinners?
Vs 9
“…he arose…”
Truly Free
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:1-8
First Thing First
What are the priorities in this story?
For the people it is the physical.
For Jesus it is the spiritual.
Isaiah 59:2
Does it seem that God is not responding, and even ignoring, what you believe is your need right now?
Nothing is more important to God than you, and solving the sin issue that separates you from Him.
1 John 1:9
Matthew 9:8
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:28-34
“Go.”
Observations:
Demons know Jesus when they see him, before He says a word. Up to this point in Matthew, only devils call Jesus, “Son of God.”
You may have doubts about Jesus? Demons never do.
Demons know something about how much time they have left. Revelation 12:12.
Demons like to inhabit and/or work thru someone. Ephesians 6:12
Paul Levertoff, “All down the ages the world has been refusing Jesus because it prefers its pigs.”
Everyone else avoids these demon possessed men, Jesus sails toward them.
If there’s not some satanic oppression, some spiritual challenge or temptation-you’re not doing something right.
Without a spiritual fight of some kind, your life will be spiritually irrelevant-you will make no eternal difference.
Do demons know you? Acts 19:15
“Go.” Matthew 8:32, 28:19
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:23-27
The new impossible
Leper, centurion’s servant, Peter’s mother in law, many others-healed. Demons cast out.
The disciples cry out to Jesus for help then are shocked when He does.
Have you reserved an area that you still see as impossible for God?
It matters to Jesus that you believe He can. Why?
Vs 25
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:18-22
Three Followers
The Crowd:
Jesus left the crowd. He is not interested in entertaining or impressing a crowd or being impressed by a crowd.
Serious people step out of the crowd when they see Jesus is serious.
The Scribe:
This is a very accomplished person who is not used to the uncomfortable, the inconvenient and the unknown.
The Disciple:
Legitimate problems to overcome. Actual issues to deal with and real choices to make.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:14-17
Evil exalts itself
Accelerated demon activity.
Revelation 12:12
Anything that is exalted above God is satanic.
Genesis 3:4-5
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
1 John 3:8
Message: Father’s Day
Text: Genesis 18:16-19
(Genesis 12:1-3, 13:14-17)
Generous
It is what you give to someone else, then what they give to someone else, then what they give to someone else…
What keeps us from being generous?
We think what we have is ours.
We think if we give it away we will have less.
Generous with: possessions; yourself; grace…
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 8:1-13
Will You?
Similarities: Both believed Jesus can, recognizing His authority; Both asked; Both were desperate, unable to help themselves or others; Both were outcasts from Jewish society.
Differences: The leper was asking for himself, the centurion for someone else; Jesus touched the leper, but spoke for the centurion/servant.
Desperation changes your prayer life.
When Jesus says no.
2 Corinthians 12:8-9
Message: Communion
Text: 1 Corinthians 11:17-19, 27-28, 33
Romans 15:1
Matthew 5:14-16
Let your light shine!
I don’t care to believe it.
It’s hard to believe it.
David Hume, the Scottish philosopher and skeptic, was once challenged as he was seen going to hear George Whitefield preach:
“I thought you do not believe in the gospel?”
Hume replied, “I don’t, but he does!”