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Scripture: Matthew 27:45-54 & Matthew 28:1-10 I. On Good Friday Jesus died as your substitute to bring you forgiveness. A. We read in Mathew. 27:45 that on Good Friday there was darkness over the land for 3 hours. This darkness was a sign of God’s judgment. This darkness was the fulfillment of the prophecy in Amos 8:9-10: “And on that day,” declares the Lord God,…
Scripture: Luke 19-24 A Perfect Relation “The whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, ‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” (Luke 19:37-38) “God created man in his own image, in the…
Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35 I. God won’t forgive the unforgiving because we’ve been forgiven for more than we’ll ever forgive. A. Jesus’ discussion of forgiveness in Matthew 18 is prompted by a question from Peter about how often to forgive. Jesus commands unlimited forgiveness (vs. 22). Jesus commands the opposite of what a man named Lamech said about himself in Genesis 4:24: “If…
Scripture: Matthew 26:26-29 I. Communion pictures an old forgiveness. A. Jesus celebrated the last supper with His disciples during the most important Jewish holiday of the year: Passover (Matthew 26:17). When the disciples participated in the last supper, they remembered an old forgiveness from God. They remembered how God had forgiven the sins of Israel on Passover night…
Scripture: Matthew 10:16-42 I. The divisiveness of Jesus leads to opposition from the world. A. “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master” (vs. 24) The world will treat you as a follower of Jesus in the same way they treated Jesus. And Jesus was crucified! “I am sending you out as…
Scripture: Matthew 9:35-10:15 I. Compassion is Jesus’s basic response to human need. A. Jesus was very busy (vs. 35). But He had compassion on all the people (vs. 36). By acting as a compassionate shepherd, Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Ezekiel 34:23-24: “And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them:…
Scripture: Matthew 9:18-34 Jesus Has Authority over Hopelessness “There was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.” (Mark 5:25-26) “Take heart daughter; your faith has made you well.…
Scripture: Matthew 9:1-17 I. Jesus came to forgive sin and change sinners. A. This was Jesus’ mission. Jesus says something totally unexpected in vs. 2: “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” Yes, the man needed healing. But sin is always our greatest problem, and therefore forgiveness is always our greatest need. The scribes thought Jesus was…
Scripture: Matthew 8:18-34 I. The real Jesus makes demands that are personal and costly. A. In vs. 18-22 we meet two men who said they wanted to be Jesus’ disciples. A scribe, a teacher of the law, is quick to make a promise to Jesus in vs. 19: “I will follow you wherever you go.” The real Jesus…
Scripture: Matthew 8:1-17 I. Jesus has the authority to heal and transform. A. Jesus shows He has authority over both sickness and sin by healing a leper (vs. 3). All sickness is caused, directly or indirectly, by sin. In Matthew 1:21 the angel told Joseph about Mary’s child: “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for…