Do This

Matt Fisher ·

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?

Clear Eyes

Matt Fisher ·

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.

Believe God

Matt Fisher ·

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?

Choose

Matt Fisher ·

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?

Giving & Praying

Matt Fisher ·

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.

The Impossible Part 4

Matt Fisher ·

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.  

The 100th Sheep

Matt Fisher ·

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.

The Impossible Part 3

Matt Fisher ·

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

The Impossible Part 2

Matt Fisher ·

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

The Impossible Part 1

Matt Fisher ·

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

Put Jesus First

Matt Fisher ·

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

Matt Fisher ·

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