The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 8
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Pastor points out the Old Testament’s words, “Thus says the LORD,” and compares them to the words of Jesus in the New Testament that say, “But I tell you.” What does this tell us about who Jesus is? Pastor explores the “But I tell yous” as found in Matthew chapter 5 and we learn what Jesus calls us to. That call is to a changed heart, which can only happen when we come to faith in Jesus. God’s call is personal! He wants to change each one of us by the shed blood of Jesus, the Son of God.
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 7
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In Week 7, we hear more of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Jesus calls us salt and light. What does He mean when He uses these words to describe how we are to be? As historians have looked at world history, more and more of them are coming to the realization Christianity changed everything. Jesus has had a greater impact on the human condition than anyone in all of history. What Jesus produces in people, changes them!
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Dig Deeper - Week 11: Two Pictures of the Messiah
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We will look at the two pictures of the Messiah found in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). 2 Pictures of Messiah Reigning King Humble Substitute This double picture is what led some of the great Hebrew rabbis to suggest there might be two Messiahs that would come at different times and in different manners. And that then became the dominant tradition: Messiah will raise the dead Messiah will be victorious Messiah will reign in Jerusalem Messiah will bring peace If we look at the New Testament the early followers of Jesus believed this same thing about the Messiah....
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 6
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We finish Matthew 4 on following Jesus, and begin the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 that opens with the Beatitudes.
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 5
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Week 5 of our Matthew study digs into chapter 4 on the Temptation of Jesus, His three temptations and the reality of an unseen spiritual world.
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Questions - Week 23: How Are Minds Opened Today?
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This message focuses on the question: “How are minds opened today?”, which is part of our ongoing series: “What’s the answer?” Pastor explores how people’s lives are changed and what changes their attitudes about God, about Jesus, the resurrection, and about the power of God’s Word. Pastor takes us through Luke 24:36-47, an encounter with Jesus that His disciples have with Him after His resurrection. Jesus tells them: “This is what I told you while I was still with you; Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets...
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Daniel: When Kingdoms Collide (1) - Daniel's God
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The Book of Daniel is the story of the collision of two kingdoms, a spiritual war that is still being fought in the heavens and on the earth. In the end, the Kingdom of God wins!
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 4
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Week 4 of our Matthew study is all about John the Baptist and his message of repentance, a message that can be difficult for the religious to accept.
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 3
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In our study of Matthew this week we look at chapters 2 and 3, with an emphasis on deliverance through Jesus the Messiah and the fulfillment of the New Covenant through Him as well.
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The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 2
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This week our study of Matthew takes us into chapter 2 and the story of Jesus’ birth focusing on the Magi, their interaction with Herod, and their interesting gifts to Jesus.
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Pastor opens class with a life history of Daniel. In today’s story, Daniel is an old man, probably in his eighties. Realizing that Jeremiah’s prophetic word is nearing completion, Daniel comes to the Lord in intercessory and confessional prayer, pouring out his heart to God, pleading for mercy for the people and then he receives an angelic visitation.
The angel Gabriel comes to tell Daniel about the Messiah. The angels tells Daniel: “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.” Jewish and Christian commentators have said the 70 sevens refer to 70 weeks of years, 70 times 7 years, or 490 years. This word that Gabriel is speaking says that full atonement for Israel sins through the Messiah will be made during the time after the second temple is built.
The first temple was destroyed during Daniel’s lifetime. From Jeremiah, Daniel understood that the temple would be rebuilt and the angel is telling that during the time of that second temple, Israel’s sins will be atoned for, God will pay the debt for His people. (This is through the coming Messiah who will come to earth in the timing revealed to Daniel).
Gabriel talks about the 62 sevens in verse 25 and pastor shares that this timing does bring us to the time of Jesus on earth. In verse 26 Gabriel shares that the Messiah, the anointed One will be killed and the second temple destroyed. (Yet it is through the death of the Messiah that our sins are paid for in full! Then He rises victorious over sin, death and the devil)
Pastor draws us into considering the truth around the second temple which according to Haggai would be more glorious than the first. What would make the second temple more glorious than the first? The answer: God Himself in the person.of Jesus the Messiah!
God predicted all through the Hebrew Scriptures that the Messiah would come, that the Messiah would pay for the sins of all of God’s people, that the Messiah would die and that judgement would come upon the temple and Jerusalem and this is what history testifies to.
The Messiah provides reconciliation with the Father and He is returning! The Bible is not simply Bible stories. The Bible is divine truth, calling all people to repentance, to faith in the Lord Jesus, to life with the Living God, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to understand that God is in control not only of the past but he’s in control of today and our future. And the very scripture that predicted the coming of Jesus, His death and the destruction of the temple, are the same scriptures that predict He will return!
God has laid out His scripture al along as a clear roadmap of what He intends to do. And He does everything He promises! He’s calling us today saying, “Don’t ignore this! There is nothing in all the world more important that knowing Me through faith in My Son, Jesus, the Messiah.”
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