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
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 3
Message: Messiah is Coming—
Joseph & Mary meet Jesus
Text: Luke 2:1-11
Savior, Christ, Lord
Isaiah 59:2
Romans 5:1, 8-10
Messiah is Coming 2
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."
Messiah is Coming 1
Message: Messiah is Coming--
Paul meets Jesus on the Damascus Road
Text: Acts 9:1-18
The Compelling: “I Am Jesus…”
Philippians 3:7-14
The Gain: “I Am Jesus…”
Communion-All, not some.
Message: Communion-All, not some.
Text: 1 John 1:5-9
Who You Are In Christ
Message: Who You Are In Christ
Rev Jim Schremp
Text: 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Finding God's direction for your life
Message: Finding God's direction for your life
Isaiah 55:8-9
Colossians 1:15-17
1. God is always providing direction, it's up to us to look for, listen
to, and follow it.
Proverbs 3:5-6
2. There will be distractions, roadblocks and detours.
James 1:2-4
3. He is always leading us toward the same place
1 Thessalonians 5: 12-18
“As God is exalted to his rightful place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.” AW Tozer
Patient Leadership
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 11:20-27
Patient Leadership
Judgment according to opportunity
A.W. Tozer, "Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how much I have done but by how much I could have done."
C.S. Lewis, "For in it (judgment, Mt 25) the goats are condemned entirely for their sins of omission; as if to make us fairly sure that the heaviest charge against each of us turns not upon things he has done but on those he never did…"
James 4:17
2 Timothy 2:24-26
Don't fear...trust.
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:21-31
Don’t fear…trust
“Fear Him, you saints, and you will then have nothing else to fear.”
“Whatever I…tell…you…”
The Work: Don't Worry 2
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:9-20
The Work:
Don’t worry
Vs 9-10
Don’t worry about money
Vs 11-16
Don’t worry, there will be people to help you, and people who will not heed you.
R.T. France, “They were to look for someone able and willing to accommodate them, and this would normally be someone open to their message, though not necessarily already committed to their cause.”
Vs 17-20
Don’t worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.
The Work: Don't Worry
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:9-20
The Work:
Don’t worry
Vs 9-10
Don’t worry about money
Vs 11-16
Don’t worry, there will be people to help you, and people who will not heed you.
R.T. France, “They were to look for someone able and willing to accommodate them, and this would normally be someone open to their message, though not necessarily already committed to their cause.”
Vs 17-20
Don’t worry about push back. Keep pushing outward.
The Work: Giving
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 10:1-8
The Work:
Giving
One positive: You can only give what you have been given.
First negative: You should only give what you have been given.
“I don’t always know when the Holy Spirit is, but I sure know when He aint.”
Second negative: Jesus turns water into wine, Sauls into Pauls, your negatives into positives.
Slavery into salvation
Joshua 24:4
Love in Action
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:35-10:1
Love in Action
Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.
Look out!
Compassion is more than pity, it is love in action.
Luke 10:33
Jesus saw everyone as sheep…having no shepherd.
We are currently meeting: Sunday school 10:00am; Sanctuary worship 11:00am; The Chosen-life of Jesus series 5:00pm Sunday nights; Ladies Discerning the Voice of God 9:00am Mondays; Small group Bible for all ages Wednesdays 6:30…Invite who is not here!
Give & Take
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:32-34
Give & Take
1 Peter 5:8-9
John 10:9-10
1 Peter 5:6-7
James 4:6-7
Psalm 51:12, “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit.”
Asking Faith
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:27-31
Action Faith
Asking Faith
Deliverance
Message: Deliverance
Text: Exodus 12:21-27, 13:3-10
I am through complaining about the present because I remember my deliverance in the past.
I am through worrying about the future because I remember my deliverance in the past.
I will not go backward, but keep going forward in faith.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Eternal Life
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:18-26
Eternal Life
Where is heaven?
Luke 7:14
John 11:43-44
Compassion for who?
Luke 7:13
All are alive to Jesus.
John 11:11-14, 25-26
Luke 20:38 (NIV)
You have an eternity with Jesus waiting for you.
You have a short time left here.
1 John 5:12-13
Approaching Jesus
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:18-22
Approaching Jesus
The touch-two ways.
Standing, bowing, kneeling, crawling.
He asks for his daughter. She asks for herself.
He can talk about it. She can’t.
Immediate need. Long term need.
I ask for my daughter’s life back. I ask for my life back.
Incredible faith. More desperation than faith.
“Faith stretched thin is thick enough.”
Pride is an enemy of faith. Need is a great destroyer of pride.
The Old and The New
Message: The Gospel According to Matthew
Text: Matthew 9:14-17
The Old and The New
G Campbell Morgan, “This is Christ’s defense of the right of His people to be joyful; and that right to be joyful is the fact that He is with them. If that be true, then we have the right to be joyful always.”
As you go forward with Jesus there will always be someone or something pulling you backward and downward.
Psalm 40:1-3
Romans 10:9