Message: Temptation
Text: Genesis 1-2
Genesis:
2:8
2:15-17
A steward: to maintain and improve.
3:1-5
Tempted by what God has not given you.
3:1, 6
Alone time.
Come and Go
Message: Come and Go
Text: Matthew 28:5-20
Come:
Matthew 11:28
John 6:44
Philippians 2:13
Go:
Matthew 28:5-20
Acts 1:8
Two Declarations
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 7:21-23
Two Declarations
The issue is never the good things we have done, but the bad things we have done.
Genesis 3:4-6
Satanic deception is making the bad look good.
Romans 3:23
Romans 6:23
Romans 5:8
Romans 10:9
Two men went to the temple to pray…
Luke 18:10-14
Two Trees
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 7:15-20
Two Trees
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
Life and Message
Patience. Fruit only comes one season per year, wait for it.
The inward can be hidden until people begin to do something, to produce something, then it can be seen.
Beware of pretending. Imitating a Spirit filled, fruitful life.
To produce good fruit a tree must give of itself. Selfishness and self-centeredness are key to being unfruitful.
Oswald Chambers, “Pious pretense is a desperately sincere effort to be right when we know we are not.”
Two Gates
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 7:13-14
Two Gates
2 gates
2 paths
2 destinations
2 crowds
John 10:9
1 Timothy 2:5
It is not hard to find Jesus, it is hard to lose ourselves.
Christian in Pilgrim’s Progress, “I remember what my mother told me: that going to hell is like walking down a gentle slope and that going to heaven is like climbing a ladder. I think I will keep climbing.”
He is going before you.
Message: He is going before you
Text: Matthew 28:5-10
Luke 2:11-12 The angels and the shepherds
John 4:4 The woman at the well
Matthew 28:5-10 The women at the tomb
John 21:4, 9 The apostle Peter
Do
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 7:12
Do
Others have taught what may seem close to what Jesus taught, can you see the difference?
Socrates, “What stirs your anger when done to you by others, that do not to others.”
Confucius, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
2 Timothy 1:7
Matthew 28:19
You go first!
Humility
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 7:7-11
Humility
Ask:
You do not have what you need and/or you do not know the answer.
Seek:
You do not see the way, you do not know how.
Knock:
You cannot open the door, Someone must open it for you.
Psalm 139:7-12
Acts 17:27
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Do This
Message: Do This
Text: Acts 9:3-6, 1 Corinthians 11:24-26
Have you received Jesus as your savior?
Adrian Rogers, "If Christ didn't die on a cross, wasn't buried in a tomb, and doesn't live today, nothing matters. If Christ did die a horrible death on a cross, was buried in a borrowed tomb, and did rise again on the third day, nothing else matters."
Do you know what Jesus wants you to do?
Search the Word.
Search in prayer.
What are you drawn to?
Clear Eyes
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 7:1-6
Clear Eyes
To judge is to realize the difference.
To be judgmental is to believe you are superior because of the difference.
Oswald Chamber, “Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering idea that you are a superior person…a critical spectator…I never met a person I could despair of after realizing all that lies in me apart from the grace of God.”
To be able to judge works both ways. Which is more obvious, the speck or the plank?
Let us all have clear eyes.
Seek the King
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:33-34
Seek the King
Remember who you were
Remember what God has done
Believe God
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:25-32
Believe God
Do you see the difference in believing in God and believing God?
James 2:19
Psalm 14:1
Hebrews 11:6
God can love more or less, do you believe He loves you more?
Choose
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:19-24
Choose
Wealth or the lack of it, is neither good nor bad. It is what you make of it.
How do you know?
*When you have time to think, what do you think about most?
*Have I learned to be content, do I know when I have enough?
*Do I own things or do they own me?
*Am I selfish, afraid to give things away for fear I won’t have enough?
*Do I know why I keep trying to acquire more?
What controls you?
Fasting, and other strange things.
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:16-18
Fasting, and other strange things.
Acts 13:1-4
Inward
Outward
The Lord's Prayer
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:9-13
The Lord’s Prayer
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Giving & Praying
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:1-9
Giving & Praying
Giving:
You are only a steward.
We are tempted to not give because we are afraid we will have less.
Prayer:
Tell your Father what you need.
The Impossible Part 4
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:38-48
The Impossible
*Murder
*Adultery
*Divorce
*Oaths
*Retaliation
*Love
1) Live as you were created to be…like Jesus.
2) Love…makes us do the craziest things.
The 100th Sheep
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.
God So Loved
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.