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Announcements
Are there any announcements?
We will be having another baptismal service on May 29 with a potluck immediately following to celebrate what the Lord has done!
If anyone is interested, we could use more cases of water for the water ministry at the front door.
Introduction
Good morning and welcome to FCC, where we worship God in Spirit and Truth, one verse at a time, one book at a time.
Today, is the day that we take communion together as a church family.
But please remember, that there is no biblical mandate that communion must be given by a pastor or a clergy member.
This means that you can take communion by yourself, or with someone else like a spouse or friend, or in a group.
But whomever we take it, may we take it in manner that is worthy of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Communion
Before Jesus went to Garden of Gethsemane and was betrayed, he celebrated the passover with his disciples.
The Passover feast was one of the main Jewish holidays and a celebration in remembrance of God’s deliverance of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.
In fact, the slaying of the Passover lamb and the applying of the blood to doorposts of the houses (Exodus 12:11-13) is a beautiful picture of Christ’s atoning work on the cross.
Those for whom He died are covered by His blood, protecting us from the angel of (spiritual) death.
Another important sacrifice involving lambs was the daily sacrifice at the temple in Jerusalem.
Every morning and evening, a lamb was sacrificed in the temple for the sins of the people (Exodus 29:38-42).
These daily sacrifices, like all others, were simply to point people towards the perfect sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
In fact, the time of Jesus’ death on the cross corresponds to the time the evening sacrifice was being made in the temple.
And this is why Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
Such a beautiful picture and fulfillment!
Here at FCC, everyone is welcome to come the table that has accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
I will pray in and during our time of prayer together, I will pause.
It is during this pause that the scripture teaches us that we should allow the Lord to examine our hearts.
It is in the examination that we take communion in a worthy manner.
So please, confess any sin or anything that is getting in between you and God.
Then after we are finished praying as the Holy Spirit leads, come forward to the table and take the elements back to your seat and we will take communion together as a family.
Prayer
Lord Heavenly Father, we come before You now as humbly as we can and confess that You alone are the living God.
You alone are worthy of all honour and praise, for You set aside Your heavenly glory and came into this world as a man, to redeem lost sinners from the curse.
We Thank You, that You willingly offered up Your body to be the sacrifice for our sin.
Thank You, that Your body was broken for us, and that Your precious blood was shed to pay the full price for all our sins, and not for me only but for all who would trust in Your name.
Lord, we bend our knee before You in humble submission, as we partake of the bread and cup this morning.
In Jesus Name, we love you!
Amen.
Prayer
Lord, thank you for your broken body and poured out blood and that you are the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world.
Lord each time we take communion, help us to know you more deeply and the implications of the Cross.
Help us like you to be a living sacrifice pouring our lives out for others.
As we open your Word this morning, we ask the you would reveal yourself to us and grant fresh insights that would transform our lives and enable us to share that gospel with others.
Help us Lord, to walk it out in such a way that one day you will say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
Please Father continue to minister hope, peace, comfort, and encouragement to Annie, Jacob, and all who knew Mikey.
Father help us all to remember that no man knows not only the day or hour of your return, but we also do not know that day or hour when you will call us home.
May we daily be prepared for both of these events!
Now as we dive into Matthew, please renew our minds through the washing of the water of your Word!
In Jesus Name, We Love You! Amen and Amen
Read Matthew 4:23-25
This is a short text this morning, but there is much exegete here.
We see right away Jesus’ three-fold public ministry appear that we we talk about this morning:
Teaching
Preaching
Healing
But before we look at this text, I think it is important to take a look back, since it has been a fe weeks since we have been in Matthew.
We had Easter
Then we had Baptismal Sunday, what a glorious time.
Review
Earlier in Matthew, we learned that Jesus was Baptized by John to fulfill all righteousness and then He was affirmed by the Father.
Jesus is then tempted 40 days and 40 nights by Satan through the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.
Then his ministry begins and he goes to the people that walked in darkness for so long, that the text says that they were sitting in darkness and said, “Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand!”
Then he called Simon Peter, Andrew his brother, and James and John who were brothers as well to be his disciples.
It is important for us to realize that Jesus said, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
This means that there is not course that we can take to help us with this.
Jesus just simply said follow me!!!
All four of these men gave up their careers, their boats, and family to follow Jesus.
However, I do not think that this is the norm for most of us.
But God desires that we would let go of those things that are holding us hostage.
When he calls us to follow him, he calls us to give up those things that get in the way of our relationship with him.
It could be anything.
Boat
Careers
Money
Real-estate
Relationships that are unhealthy
You fill in the blank
So he calls 4 ordinary men, who did not attend Bible college, seminary, or the Rabbinic Schools of the day, to turn the world upside down and they did.
God uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and his ways our not our ways church.
One of the things I noticed right away in studying this text was all the all’s, and you know what all means in the Greek, yes, it means all...
Jesus went about all of Galilee and we know that the name Galilee means circuit, therefore, Jesus was a circuit preacher of the Good News and he followed a circuit all around Galilee.
Went about (from the Greek word periagō) and it is written in the imperfect tense which indicates repeated and continuous action.
This means the Jesus was constantly moving around the circuit God had called him to.
The whole of Galilee was about 60 miles by 30 miles and there were villages all throughout.
Josephus wrote that there were about 3 million people sprinkled throughout this region that was dark.
Jesus went to dark place church, He was not a Savior that just stayed within the four walls of the synagogue or church, but went to those who knew needed a physician.
So, His strategy was to tour Galilee, teaching in the many synagogues.
The center of the religious life of each Jewish community was the synagogue, the most important institution in their life.
The synagogue not only was the primary place of worship but also of study, community fellowship, but of legal activity.
In fact, to this day, it is recognized that the development of the synagogue pattern through the Babylonian captivity was one of the finest educational systems in history.
Wherever there was a Jewish community there was a synagogue.
While the temple existed as the place where ritual sacrifices were made to God, the synagogue was the place of preaching and teaching.
Synagogues were the popular religious colleges of the day.
If anyone had ideas to share, the synagogue was the place to begin.
And the greatest tragedy for most Jews was to be dis-fellowshiped from the synagogue, to be un-synagogued.
And church that is what happened to Jews who became Christians.
Could you imagine, what it would be like to be thrown out of the epicenter of fellowship and education?
To be thrown out of everything you know?
SO ALL WHO WOULD BELIEVE UPON JESUS WOULD BE PUT OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE!
SO JESUS focused on the synagogues.
WHY?
Because is was at the center of all Jewish life and remember that:
Most synagogues were built on a hill, often on the highest point of a town.
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