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
Generous
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…
Will you?
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
Let your light shine!
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!”
Two Houses
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 7:24-29
Two Houses
Similarities: All houses face storms; Everyone is building; Building any house is lot of work; Both hear what Jesus said.
One builds on what Jesus said and who He is, one does not.
Why are you: Doing it; Saying it; Singing it; Thinking it; Wanting it; Praying it; Needing it?...
Who or What are you: Depending on; Trusting in; Trying to impress; Nervous about; Real honest with; Intimidated by?...
Admit
Repent
Create change
God's Love
Message: God’s Love (Mother’s Day)
Text: John 3:16
Romans 5:8
“…nothing else matters.”
Temptation
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
Merge Sunday 2024
Merge Sunday 2024
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?