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Message: One Week Till EasterText: Luke 22:39-46Salvation is free and very expensivePalm SundayJesus drives the money changers from the templeThe Greatest CommandmentPassover leads to Last SupperJesus prays for His disciples (you)Garden of GethsemaneJesus is arrested and triedJesus is crucified as payment for our sinJoseph & Nicodemus lay His body in a tombEaster is coming!Prayer struggle believing that the intensity of our desires is the same as God's will.John 6:63Prayer struggle for souls.Acts 26:18
Message: Two Weeks Till EasterText: Mark 14:3-11Extravagant WorshipMark 10:32-34Rich young rulerZacchaeusBartimaeusMary of BethanyWatchingWastingWaiting
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 12:46-50Loving JesusRomans 5:81 John 4:19Philippians 2:13Romans 5:5Luke 11:13
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 12:43-45Filled with the Holy SpiritReplacing the bad with the good. The bad always wants to come back.Ephesians 5:18John 16:13-14Matthew 16:24Filled is Following
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 12:38-42There was JesusJesus in the people around you.Matthew 25.Jesus in you.2 Corinthians 12.God's testing is His training.
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 12:38-42There was JesusJesus in the people around you.Matthew 25.Jesus in you.2 Corinthians 12.God's testing is His training.
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 12:33-37Hide & Seek1 Samuel 13:14God is after someone whose heart will be after His.Philippians 3:121 Samuel 16:6-71 Samuel 17:28Killing a giant with a slingshot seems impossible to those who have never done it.
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 12:31-32ForgivenJohn 16:7-11The 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 3:23Romans 6:231 John 1:91 Peter 1:18-19Hebrews 10:29Condemning Conscience:Hebrews 6:11 John 1:9Your spirit will train your body.
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 12:31-32Forgive MeJohn 16:7-11The 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 3:23Romans 6:231 John 1:91 Peter 1:18-19Hebrews 10:29Condemning Conscience:Hebrews 6:1Your spirit will train your body.1 John 1:9
Message: The Gospel according to MatthewText: Matthew 12:22-30, 33With MeNeutral, 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.
Message: The Gospel according to MatthewText: Matthew 12:15-21All NationsAll nations, peculiar, aliens, outcasts, estranged, prejudiced against, wrong side of the wall, Gentiles…John 14:2
Message: The Gospel according to MatthewText: Matthew 12:1-14You are HisGrain, 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.”
Message: The Gospel according to MatthewText: Matthew 11:28-30Jesus in youJesus 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 yourselfTiming, pace, weightComplete faith in the total sovereignty of Jesus
Message: The Gospel according to MatthewText: Matthew 11:28-30Come: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.
Message: Messiah is Coming—You will meet JesusText: 1 Corinthians 13:12Philippians 2:9-111 Thessalonians 4:13-172 Corinthians 5:6-10Revelation 20:11-15Eagerly, not dreadfully or fearfullyOpen hands, not clenched fists“The thing about life is that it ends.”
Message: Messiah is Coming—Joseph & Mary meet JesusText: Luke 2:1-11Savior, Christ, LordIsaiah 59:2Romans 5:1, 8-10
Message: Messiah is Coming—A Samaritan woman meets Jesus at Jacob's wellText: John 4:4-26Her husbands—peopleHer water—thingsJohn 6:63A 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."
Message: Messiah is Coming--Paul meets Jesus on the Damascus RoadText: Acts 9:1-18The Compelling: “I Am Jesus…”Philippians 3:7-14The Gain: “I Am Jesus…”
Message: Communion-All, not some.Text: 1 John 1:5-9
Message: Who You Are In ChristRev Jim SchrempText: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Message: Finding God's direction for your lifeIsaiah 55:8-9Colossians 1:15-171. God is always providing direction, it's up to us to look for, listento, and follow it.Proverbs 3:5-62. There will be distractions, roadblocks and detours.James 1:2-43. He is always leading us toward the same place1 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
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 11:20-27Patient LeadershipJudgment according to opportunityA.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 4:172 Timothy 2:24-26
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 10:21-31Don't fear…trust“Fear Him, you saints, and you will then have nothing else to fear.”“Whatever I…tell…you…”
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 10:9-20The Work:Don't worryVs 9-10Don't worry about moneyVs 11-16Don'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 17-20Don't worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 10:9-20The Work:Don't worryVs 9-10Don't worry about moneyVs 11-16Don'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 17-20Don't worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 10:1-8The Work:GivingOne 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 salvationJoshua 24:4
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 9:35-10:1Love in ActionSometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.Look out!Compassion is more than pity, it is love in action.Luke 10:33Jesus saw everyone as sheep…having no shepherd.We are currently meeting: Sunday school 10:00am; Sanctuary worship 11:00am; The Chosen-life of Jesus series 5:00pm Sunday nights; Ladies Discerning the Voice of God 9:00am Mondays; Small group Bible for all ages Wednesdays 6:30…Invite who is not here!
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 9:32-34Give & Take1 Peter 5:8-9John 10:9-101 Peter 5:6-7James 4:6-7Psalm 51:12, “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit.”
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 9:27-31Action Faith Asking Faith
Message: DeliveranceText: Exodus 12:21-27, 13:3-10I 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 MatthewText: Matthew 9:18-26Eternal LifeWhere is heaven?Luke 7:14John 11:43-44Compassion for who?Luke 7:13All are alive to Jesus.John 11:11-14, 25-26Luke 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 MatthewText: Matthew 9:18-22Approaching JesusThe 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 MatthewText: Matthew 9:14-17The Old and The NewG 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 40:1-3Romans 10:9
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 9:9-13Why 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…”
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: Matthew 9:1-8First Thing FirstWhat are the priorities in this story?For the people it is the physical.For Jesus it is the spiritual.Isaiah 59:2Does 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 1:9Matthew 9:8
Message: The Gospel According to MatthewText: 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 6:12Paul 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 MatthewText: Matthew 8:23-27The new impossibleLeper, 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 MatthewText: Matthew 8:18-22Three FollowersThe 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 MatthewText: Matthew 8:14-17Evil exalts itselfAccelerated demon activity.Revelation 12:12Anything that is exalted above God is satanic.Genesis 3:4-52 Corinthians 10:3-51 John 3:8
Message: Father's DayText: Genesis 18:16-19(Genesis 12:1-3, 13:14-17)GenerousIt 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!”
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
Message: God's Love (Mother's Day) Text: John 3:16 Romans 5:8 “…nothing else matters.”
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.
Message: Come and GoText: Matthew 28:5-20 Come:Matthew 11:28 John 6:44 Philippians 2:13 Go:Matthew 28:5-20Acts 1:8
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
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.”
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.”
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