Happy New Year At the beginning of a new year, it is natural to evaluate what happened over the last year. Have we accomplished what we had hoped? My Pastor asked, “What did you learn in 2019?” which naturally leads…
Tag: Matthew
You Will Receive Power When The Holy Spirit Has Come Upon You
The religious leaders of Israel thought they had put an end to Jesus. They sealed his tomb and placed guards around it, yet when it was time, Jesus rose, and an angel rolled away the stone. Jesus met with his…
You Also Were With Jesus
Peter had been with Jesus, in fact, Jesus commended him saying in Matthew 16:17 “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.” when in…
Tell Us If You Are The Christ
The fulfillment of God’s plan is near. Jesus has his last supper with his disciples and uses the “(todah), a sacrifice of bread and wine offered in thanksgiving to the Lord” to connect his body and blood with the covenant…
When the Son of Man Comes In His Glory
The disciples are concerned about Jesus establishing his kingdom, and ask in Matthew 24:3 “what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”. He answers in Matthew 24:36 “But concerning that day and hour…
What Will Be The Sign
As the disciples are walking through the temple courts with Jesus they are admiring the buildings. Jesus refocuses their attention by saying in Matthew 24:2 “not one stone will be left here on another stone that will not be thrown…
The Greatest Among You
In the world, men seek position, they seek to be acknowledged by others. But Jesus says the greatest in the kingdom of heaven are those that serve. Gods kingdom doesn’t work as the world does. Gods kingdom is different and…
This Came About From The Lord
Jesus overturns the tables of the money changers in the temple courts saying in Matthew 21:13 “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a cave of robbers!” then he goes…
Behold Your King Is Coming To You
On the road to Jerusalem, Jesus tells his disciples he will be crucified and will rise again. Two of them ask for a position with him and he corrects them all in Matthew 20:26 “It will not be like this…
From the Beginning It Was Not Like This
How close is our life experience to the way God created it to be? Men came to Jesus asking about divorce and Jesus responded in Matthew 19:8 “from the beginning it was not like this”. Why is divorce so prevalent?…
This Is My Beloved Son Listen to Him!
Jesus had begun in Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised…
You Are the Christ the Son of the Living God
Jesus came to bring a message, and it still resounds today. The message begins with a simple statement in Matthew 15:18 “But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the person”. We…
From Where Did This Man Get This Wisdom
Jesus was born like every other person on earth is. He grew and matured as everyone else so when he came to his home town teaching about the kingdom of God, they said in Matthew 13:54–55 “From where did this…
That They Would Turn and I Would Heal Them
Jesus came preaching in Matthew 4:17 “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven is near.” and crowds of people gathered to hear him but not everyone understood the message. His natural family, Mary, his mother, and his brothers were concerned for…