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.”
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
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!
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
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?
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.
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:33-34
Seek the King
Remember who you were
Remember what God has done
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?
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?
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:16-18
Fasting, and other strange things.
Acts 13:1-4
Inward
Outward
Message: The Gospel according to Matthew
Text: Matthew 6:9-13
The Lord’s Prayer
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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.
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.
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