Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 1:18-20
Joseph & Mary-the Holy Spirit in someone else’s life
Virgin birth-Jesus is fully man and fully God
What Joseph has been worrying about for days/weeks/months, God reveals in one night in one dream.
Joseph is not asked to believe Mary, but to believe God.
Mary was told what will happen.
Joseph is told what is happening, the Holy Spirit is already working.
“Do not worry…this is of the Holy Spirit.”
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 1:1-17
(Vs 1-2, 5-6, 16-17 Galatians 4:4)
At the right time
Rahab the sinner
Ruth the outsider
Mary the saint
Message: A little farther in 2023
Text: Matthew 26:36-39 (KJV)
Christmas Day Service
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:25
Grace for all
Grace is Jesus doing for you what you can’t do.
John 3:16
Hebrews 2:9
2 Peter 3:9
John 1:17
Ephesians 2:8-9
John 1:12
Acts 2:17, 21
Acts 10:14
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:22-24
All of us
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
Jeremiah 38:
You are Jeremiah’s friends
You are Jeremiah
Message: Communion
Text: Hebrews 9:1-15
Relationship instead of Religion
Religious acts, traditions: there is nothing wrong with it, but not enough to it.
Relationship:
~No one loves you like Jesus does, unconditionally.
~No one understands you like Jesus does.
~No one accepts you like Jesus does.
~Jesus never gives up on you.
The unbeliever wants this to be true, the believer knows this is true.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:20-21
Equipped to work
Ephesians 2:10
Genesis 2:15
Acts 9:6
Philippians 2:13
Timing
Galatians 4:4
Country preacher, “I don’t always know when the Holy Spirit is, but I sure know when He aint.”
Spiritually aware
Acts 17:22-23
Message: Perspective + Priority = Purpose
Text: Mark 2:1-12
What is perspective?
What is your priority?
We can have ______ and enjoy life!
Focusing on forgiveness
Henry Ford, “Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:18-19
Pray for us…
Philippians 1:19
Romans 15:30
Colossians 4:3
James 5:16
1 Thessalonians 5:25
“Generosity is giving more than you have. Pride is taking less than you need.”
I need God’s help.
I need your help to get God’s help.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:17
Accountable
Project or People?
People are not a means to an end. They are the end.
Accountable. Under authority
Luke 7:8
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:15-16
Sacrifice
Sacrificial Speaking
Sacrificial giving
Job 13:15
Habakkuk 3:17-19
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:10-14
Let us go forth to Him
Colossians 1:16
Psalm 139:13-18
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:8-9
One verse messages
Vs 8
Change indicates something can be better or worse. Can be more or less.
Genesis 1:1
Romans 8:29
Romans 12:2
Vs 9
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:5-7
One verse messages
Vs 5-6
Covetousness – More
Contentment – Enough
C.H. Spurgeon, “It is not possible to satisfy the greedy.”
____________ is not my source.
Jesus is my source.
Vs 7
Spiritual Leadership: Remember
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 13:1-4
One verse messages
Vs 1
“Let the family continue to care for one another.”
Vs 2
Vs 3
Vs 4
Ephesians 5:25, 33
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 12:18-29
God is great, God is good
Acts 17:23-31
Lord of heaven and earth:
Stephen Hawking, “We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.”
Lord of each one of us:
As of August 2022, there are 7.97 billion of us.
Desperate to save each of us:
John 3:16
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 12:12-17
Be Careful
When you are tired/discouraged/depressed:
~Be careful how you let it affect and change you.
~Pursue peace & purity. Look out, look up, don’t look in (too much)
Matthew 11:28-29
The problem: this race is tiring you out.
The answer: get back in the race-the right way.
Message: The Letter to the Hebrews
Text: Hebrews 12:5-11
Disciplined Training
Discipline: To punish. To Instruct, to train
~Philippians 4:11-12
Learned contentment
~Philippians 1:23-24
Heaven and earth
~Philippians 4:4-7
Peace you can’t explain
Growth always comes thru difficult times, not our easy times.
Message: Desperation leads to Jesus
Text: Luke 8:40-55
Your desperation:
“Millions of people are happy without Jesus.”
Desperation of others:
Matthew 25:34-40
How do you get close to Jesus?