The Spirit Gives Life
Message: The Spirit gives life
Text: John 6:63
The Truth:
Genesis 1:1-2
Genesis 1:27
Genesis 2:7
John 20:22
Romans 8:5-6
Galatians 5:16-17
Romans 1:25
Pray about the truth:
Psalm 51:10-12
Psalm 23:3
Put Jesus First
Message: Put Jesus First
Text: Matthew 6:33
Over your worries
Over your needs
Seek Him:
Some do
Some don’t
Some-times
William Law, “If you haven’t chosen the kingdom of God first, it will make no difference in the end what you have chosen instead.”
More Righteous than a Pharisee
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:17-20
Are you more righteous than a pharisee?
There is:
Righteousness of the hands.
Righteousness of the heart.
Righteousness of doing.
Righteousness of being.
Luke 18:9-14
Christianity is one beggar showing another beggar where to find bread.
Matthew 14:30-31
Salt and Light
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:13-16 (Msg)
Shake the salt and shine the light
You:
This is disciple’s work, there is no one else to do it.
Are:
You are not really ministering until you are ministering of yourself. You are not really giving until you are giving of yourself. You cannot separate yourself from your ministry…you are the ministry.
The:
There is no other salt, there is no other light. There is no other hope but Jesus.
John 14:6
Make a Difference
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:10-12
Persecuted
Make a difference
If you are always the same as everyone around you, how can you make a difference?
Righteousness/holiness makes the unrighteous uncomfortable.
Your light exposes the darkness. In seeing you they see themselves.
For the serious disciple, Jesus is always preparing you for something, as you go from test to test.
Opposition produces: purifying, direction, focus, maturing (the opposite of petty)
With every little bit of difference you are making, comes the opportunity to make more difference.
Peacemaker
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:9
Peacemaker
“Satan kindles the flames of contention then stands there and warms himself by the fire.”
Peace for you:
2 Corinthians 5:18
The affect the Holy Spirit in you has on others around you.
Peace for me:
1 Timothy 2:5
Romans 5:1
Colossians 1:20
Pure in Heart
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:8
Pure in heart
A pure heart is more about the attitude than the action. Motive.
A good translation for pure is whole. A whole heart or an undivided heart.
1 Samuel 16:7
Psalm 51:10
Mercy
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:7
Mercy
Mercy is helping someone who may or may not deserve it. Or, withholding judgment from someone who may or may not deserve it.
This Christian life is about the journey, not just the destination.
Hunger and Thirst
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:6
Hunger and Thirst
Living out the righteousness we have received from Jesus.
Grace-the power to save from sin
Ephesians 2:8
Grace-The power to defeat sin
Romans 6:14
Titus 2:11-12
Everything begins with a thought
2 Corinthians 10:5
Romans 8:5
This righteousness will be painful for you (hunger & thirst) and for some others around you.
Meek
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:5
Meek
Meekness is choosing humility.
It is not acting as you could, but as you should.
Matthew 26:53
There is a greater good that you can’t see.
Psalm 116:15
Do This
Message: The Lord’s Supper
Text: Luke 22:14-20
Do This
Christmas is the birth of Jesus
Easter is the resurrection of Jesus
The Lord’s Supper is the death (sacrifice) of Jesus
1 Peter 1:18-19
Message: The Philippian Jailer
Text: Acts 16:25-34
Romans 3:23
Romans 6:23
Romans 10:9-10
Do you believe in Jesus?
John 1:12
The Philippian jailer’s belief made a difference in other people’s lives.
Loss
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:4 (The Message)
Loss
Mourning is grieving the loss of something or someone who has been taken from you somehow.
All mourning is painful, or it’s not really mourning. That is why Jesus offers comfort.
Job 1:21
You can refuse Jesus but you cannot lose Jesus.
Spent
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 5:3
Spent
Spirit-
Poor-
John 15:5
You are not needed, you are wanted.
Matthew 11:28-29
The poorness of your spirit and the greatness of His Spirit.
Uphill
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 4:23-5:1
Uphill
Teaching-instructing the mind, order, how to.
Romans 7:18
Preaching the gospel-reaching the heart and soul. An announcement, a proclamation, not a discussion.
Preaching calls for a response, a decision.
Healing the body and soul-peace, contentment, joy, hope.
Hopefully you will not experience demon possession but every serious Christian will likely contend with demon oppression.
Uphill-Everything that is good is uphill.
Matthew 4:23-25
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 4:23-25
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.”
Teaching-instructing the mind, order, how to.
Romans 7:18
Preaching the gospel-reaching the heart and soul. An announcement, a proclamation, not a discussion.
Preaching calls for a response, a decision.
Healing the body and soul-peace, contentment, joy, hope.
Hopefully you will not experience demon possession but every serious Christian will likely contend with demon oppression.
Martin Luther, “When I go to my study and shut the door and open my Bible, the devil meets me there.”
Fishing (2)
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 4:18-22
Applications:
1) This is a new level of discipleship
2) Those who weren’t called…yet, or to this ministry
Acts 1:21-22, John 21:22
3) From something to something
4) So, they had to choose. Salvation is free, discipleship/ministry costs us something.
5) People over projects.
Fishing
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 4:18-22
Applications:
1) This is a new level of discipleship
2) Those who weren’t called…yet, or to this ministry
Acts 1:21-22, John 21:22
3) From something to something
4) So, they had to choose. Salvation is free, discipleship/ministry costs us something.
5) People over projects.
Repentance
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 4:12-17
Repentance is a change of mind which leads to a change of direction.
Romans 2:4
“A mind changed against its will is of the same opinion still.”
Repentance must be chosen, it must be wanted.