One Week Till Easter

Matt Fisher ·

Message: One Week Till Easter

Text: Luke 22:39-46

Salvation is free and very expensive

Palm Sunday

Jesus drives the money changers from the temple

The Greatest Commandment

Passover leads to Last Supper

Jesus prays for His disciples (you)

Garden of Gethsemane

Jesus is arrested and tried

Jesus is crucified as payment for our sin

Joseph & Nicodemus lay His body in a tomb

Easter is coming!

Prayer struggle believing that the intensity of our desires is the same as God’s will.

John 6:63

Prayer struggle for souls.

Acts 26:18

There was Jesus

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:38-42

There was Jesus

Jesus in the people around you.

Matthew 25.

Jesus in you.

2 Corinthians 12.

God’s testing is His training.

There Was Jesus

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:38-42

There was Jesus

Jesus in the people around you.

Matthew 25.

Jesus in you.

2 Corinthians 12.

God’s testing is His training.

Hide & Seek

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:33-37

Hide & Seek

1 Samuel 13:14

God is after someone whose heart will be after His.

Philippians 3:12

1 Samuel 16:6-7

1 Samuel 17:28

Killing a giant with a slingshot seems impossible to those who have never done it.

Forgiven

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:31-32

Forgiven

John 16:7-11

The 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 3:23

Romans 6:23

1 John 1:9

1 Peter 1:18-19

Hebrews 10:29

Condemning Conscience:

Hebrews 6:1

1 John 1:9

Your spirit will train your body.

Forgive Me

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:31-32

Forgive Me

John 16:7-11

The 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 3:23

Romans 6:23

1 John 1:9

1 Peter 1:18-19

Hebrews 10:29

Condemning Conscience:

Hebrews 6:1

Your spirit will train your body.

1 John 1:9

With Me

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:22-30, 33

With Me

Neutral, 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.

All Nations

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:15-21

All Nations

All nations, peculiar, aliens, outcasts, estranged, prejudiced against, wrong side of the wall, Gentiles…

John 14:2

You are His

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:1-14

You are His

Grain, 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.”

Jesus in You

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus in you

Jesus 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 yourself

Timing, pace, weight

Complete faith in the total sovereignty of Jesus

Come to Me

Matt Fisher ·

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 11:28-30

Come:

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.


Messiah is Coming 4

Matt Fisher ·

Message: Messiah is Coming—

You will meet Jesus

Text: 1 Corinthians 13:12

Philippians 2:9-11

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

2 Corinthians 5:6-10

Revelation 20:11-15

Eagerly, not dreadfully or fearfully

Open hands, not clenched fists

“The thing about life is that it ends.”

Messiah is Coming 2

Matt Fisher ·

Message: Messiah is Coming—

A Samaritan woman meets Jesus at Jacob’s well

Text: John 4:4-26

Her husbands—people

Her water—things

John 6:63

A 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."