The Woman Caught in Adultery
In our chronological walk through the gospels, most recently Jesus had returned with His disciples from Caesarea Philippi, back to their home base in Galilee. He has spent time pouring into His disciples: establishing in their minds His role as the Messiah, introducing to them the word “church,” teaching them about conflict resolution and forgiveness.
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The Faithfulness Of God
Unmeasured Forgiveness
Conflict Resolution the Jesus Way
Jesus and His Legacy
“Jesus and His Legacy”
Matthew 26
“Like Children”
I’m still not over what Jesus did in the passage that we looked at last week, in providing the temple tax from a fish that Peter caught on a hook. I hope that passage has been fresh on your minds too this week. In every unsettling circumstance, may we remember God’s great oversight and knowledge of our past, present, and future; and may we trust him to bring the coin to the fish to our fishing hook in just the right timing.
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The Miraculous Tax Provision
I do believe; help my unbelief
The Transfiguration
Over the past few weeks we have seen a transition in Jesus’s ministry. We have studied the first two years of His life and actions alongside His followers, and now we are seeing Him focus His attention more specifically to His 12 disciples in order to prepare and equip them in their knowledge of Him as the Messiah. In front of the gates of Hell, Peter proclaimed Jesus as the Messiah, but then attempted to argue with Jesus as Jesus presented to them the fact that He would be killed in Jerusalem. Jesus took that as an opportunity to emphasize the value of losing one’s life for His sake- to deny oneself and follow Him- in order to find true life in the coming eternal Kingdom.
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To Save One’s Life
It was such a powerful conversation between Jesus and Peter that we looked at last week. Peter declared Jesus to be the Son of God and the Christ. (Christ meaning the Messiah) And then Jesus made a powerful declaration Himself, saying that He would build His church, and the gates of Hades would not overpower it.
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The Messianic Declaration
This morning, as we continue our chronological walk through the life of Christ, we enter into a new season of His ministry. It appears that Jesus’s Galilean ministry has for the most part, ended. The focus of His great works and proclamation of His Kingdom to the people of that region and the surrounding regions is shifting as Jesus starts to focus more on discipling His disciples- pouring into them, equipping and training them as His representatives.
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The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees
The Lord’s Supper
It’s a joy to be a part of a church family that celebrates Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection not only on Easter Sunday, but really every Sunday as we gather together proclaiming Jesus through word and song. But Easter Sunday feels particularly special, it’s kind of like the Super Bowl- the one football game that carries more joy, intensity, and excitement than the other games. I pray that you might just experience a little Super Bowl Sunday excitement today as we celebrate our Lord Jesus through the partaking of the Lord’s Supper.
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A Peculiar Miracle in a Foreign Land
Before we paused last week and analyzed the Allah of the Quran against the God of the Bible, we had just witnessed Jesus commend the faith of the Syrophoenician woman. Her faith showed she understood that there was more than enough of Jesus, the Bread of Life, to feed not only the Jewish nation, but all the nations of the entire world.
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Is the Allah of the Quran the same as the God of the Bible?
The Faith of the Syrophoenician Woman
There’s been a couple times over the past several weeks where we have seen that Jesus and the disciples needed to catch up on some rest. They first attempted to get some rest by crossing the Galilee over to a remote area, and that’s when the storm came and Jesus calmed it. Then they landed the boat and were immediately greeted by the demon possessed man, but were soon asked to leave by the people of that region.
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Hearing from God
Hearing from God
Pharisaical Cleansing
Last week we looked at Jesus’s odd statement that you must eat of Him and drink of His blood in order to have eternal life. Taken literally- physically- this was a really morbid and gross thing to say, a statement that many took offense to and thus followed Him no longer. However, Jesus’s closest 12 disciples didn’t leave Him; they knew in their hearts that Jesus had the words of eternal life.
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The Bread of Life
In answer to the people’s question of “What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?”, Jesus answered “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” (John 6:28-29) Last week I presented that this indeed can take some work to achieve- not necessarily work to believe in Jesus’s existence or miracles, but work as in a daily surrender to King Jesus, believing in His sufficiency and authority in every moment of every day.
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