Message: The 100th Sheep
Text: Luke 15:1-7
Reach them or complain about them, but you can’t do both.
Bernard of Clairveaux:
1) Loving ourselves for our own sake.
2) Loving God for our own sake.
3) Loving God for God's sake.
4) Loving ourselves for God's sake.
For Jesus’ sake
Who is the next person for you to reach?
The next one.
Message: God so loved
Text: John 3:16
There are degrees of love…for everyone.
Caution, handle with care.
God loves you more than you love Him.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:21-48
The Impossible
*Murder
*Adultery
*Divorce
*Oaths
*Retaliation
*Love
N.T. Wright, “Extra words, especially strong ones, call into question the speaker’s basic truthfulness. If you need to add them, maybe we can’t trust you at all.”
George Sala, "It is difficult not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Pause before you speak, so you can mean what you say.
Before you speak, ask yourself is it:
Truthful?
Helpful?
Inspiring?
Necessary?
Kind?
James 4:13-16
Curves
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:21-48
The Impossible
*Murder
*Adultery
*Divorce
*Oaths
*Retaliation
*Love
Vs 27-30
Adultery-the root of adultery is lust. The root of lust is getting.
Vs 31-32
Divorce
Message: Communion
Text: 1 Corinthians 11:27-34
Vs 33-34
Wait for each other.
Vs 27-32
Examine yourself.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:21-48
The Impossible
Exodus 14:16, Luke 1:31, Acts 27:24
*Murder
*Adultery
*Divorce
*Oaths
*Retaliation
*Love
Murder (Anger)
Vs 21-22
Adultery (Lust)
Vs 27-30
Divorce
Vs 31-32
Message: The Spirit gives life
Text: John 6:63
The Truth:
Genesis 1:1-2
Genesis 1:27
Genesis 2:7
John 20:22
Romans 8:5-6
Galatians 5:16-17
Romans 1:25
Pray about the truth:
Psalm 51:10-12
Psalm 23:3
Message: Put Jesus First
Text: Matthew 6:33
Over your worries
Over your needs
Seek Him:
Some do
Some don’t
Some-times
William Law, “If you haven’t chosen the kingdom of God first, it will make no difference in the end what you have chosen instead.”
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:17-20
Are you more righteous than a pharisee?
There is:
Righteousness of the hands.
Righteousness of the heart.
Righteousness of doing.
Righteousness of being.
Luke 18:9-14
Christianity is one beggar showing another beggar where to find bread.
Matthew 14:30-31
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:13-16 (Msg)
Shake the salt and shine the light
You:
This is disciple’s work, there is no one else to do it.
Are:
You are not really ministering until you are ministering of yourself. You are not really giving until you are giving of yourself. You cannot separate yourself from your ministry…you are the ministry.
The:
There is no other salt, there is no other light. There is no other hope but Jesus.
John 14:6
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:10-12
Persecuted
Make a difference
If you are always the same as everyone around you, how can you make a difference?
Righteousness/holiness makes the unrighteous uncomfortable.
Your light exposes the darkness. In seeing you they see themselves.
For the serious disciple, Jesus is always preparing you for something, as you go from test to test.
Opposition produces: purifying, direction, focus, maturing (the opposite of petty)
With every little bit of difference you are making, comes the opportunity to make more difference.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:9
Peacemaker
“Satan kindles the flames of contention then stands there and warms himself by the fire.”
Peace for you:
2 Corinthians 5:18
The affect the Holy Spirit in you has on others around you.
Peace for me:
1 Timothy 2:5
Romans 5:1
Colossians 1:20
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:8
Pure in heart
A pure heart is more about the attitude than the action. Motive.
A good translation for pure is whole. A whole heart or an undivided heart.
1 Samuel 16:7
Psalm 51:10
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:7
Mercy
Mercy is helping someone who may or may not deserve it. Or, withholding judgment from someone who may or may not deserve it.
This Christian life is about the journey, not just the destination.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:6
Hunger and Thirst
Living out the righteousness we have received from Jesus.
Grace-the power to save from sin
Ephesians 2:8
Grace-The power to defeat sin
Romans 6:14
Titus 2:11-12
Everything begins with a thought
2 Corinthians 10:5
Romans 8:5
This righteousness will be painful for you (hunger & thirst) and for some others around you.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:5
Meek
Meekness is choosing humility.
It is not acting as you could, but as you should.
Matthew 26:53
There is a greater good that you can’t see.
Psalm 116:15
Message: The Lord’s Supper
Text: Luke 22:14-20
Do This
Christmas is the birth of Jesus
Easter is the resurrection of Jesus
The Lord’s Supper is the death (sacrifice) of Jesus
1 Peter 1:18-19
Message: The Philippian Jailer
Text: Acts 16:25-34
Romans 3:23
Romans 6:23
Romans 10:9-10
Do you believe in Jesus?
John 1:12
The Philippian jailer’s belief made a difference in other people’s lives.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:4 (The Message)
Loss
Mourning is grieving the loss of something or someone who has been taken from you somehow.
All mourning is painful, or it’s not really mourning. That is why Jesus offers comfort.
Job 1:21
You can refuse Jesus but you cannot lose Jesus.