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Introduction: Jesus once said the following… “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. Today we are going to see Jesus interact with the Pharisees and Scribes. These were two groups of religious leaders that were known for obeying legalistic guidelines to the T. Yet, they neglected the commands…

Intro Week Three of Four Week One Looked to Amos and the fact that our faith is not to be a performance God doesn’t care about the performance or the check list if our hearts aren’t in the right place Week two Jeremiah’s testimony to the court prophets They just kept telling people what they wanted to…

Good News For The Religiously Tired Deconstruction, Discontent, and Deconversion These are hot topics right now within the American Church. One of the opening sermons of this series delt with these topics. There are many podcasts, YouTube videos, articles, and TikTok's that approach the subject. Some…

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PRAYER A - Oh God of Abraham you are true and in you there is no error. When you speak it will be done. When you act no one can stand in your way. You are faithful to your people even when they are faithless. C - God we are so often faithless, we claim your name and yet often live in opposition to your…

Intro 37 While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table. 38 The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner. 39 And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you…

Intro; This morning we saw where Jesus came to fulfill the Law and not to destroy it. The Law [ Word of God ] is the foundation of the believer’s character and function, the standard of righteousness and of truth. It is the reflection of God’s nature. Law : The law referred to four different writings…

Pharisees (Φαρισαῖος, Pharisaios ). Members of a Jewish party that exercised strict piety according to Mosaic law. The Pharisees were a sect within early Judaism, becoming active around 150 bc and enduring as a distinct party until being subsumed into the Rabbinic movement around ad 135. Introduction…

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, Explain catfishing… the process of luring someone into a relationship by means of a fictional, unreal online persona… It is pretending to be someone or something other than a person really is. Misrepresenting…

Often we pay attention to cleaning the outward appearance of a car to look nice, but how often do we clean inside the engine so that it runs smoothly? Is the same thing true in our spiritual lives to maintain a healthy soul?

Introduction When the media talks about religious people, for the most part we are all lumped together as “people of faith.” and... increasingly, that is used to distinguish us from “people of science.” (( absurd distinction - a proper view of God only enhances one’s interest in actual science because…

Introduction Today we’re going to examine a simple object lesson that Jesus gives us as He leaves Bethany heading back to Jerusalem one day. This lesson was most certainly directed toward the Jews as a nation, but is not isolated to them entirely . As what Jesus did unto the Jews, He most certainly can…

There are many nice things about San Diego, and one of them is the Wild Animal Park, which is part of the San Diego Zoo. The Wild Animal Park is a ride on a tram that takes you through hundreds of acres of back-country to see some spectacular animals in a natural setting. Tanya and I had a wonderful…

Wash Hands We consider cleanliness to be a good thing, hand washing especially since covid we all believe is a good thing to do. This wasn’t a washing to wash the dirt or germs off. That was the word nipto. The word used here was babtizo. Where we get the word baptize from. Baptizo is a ceremonial washing.…

Confrontation I want to start by reading a few scriptures from the Gospels. John the Baptist to the religious leaders 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruit in keeping…

Welcome Good morning and welcome to First Community Church, where we worship in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time. Thank you for your faithfulness and for all you do for the Kingdom of God. The times we are living in, changes on a daily and sometimes even hourly basis. Peter write the Word of…

Traditions and Commandments Oh brother, today we are going to jump feet first into a mess and I’m going to hope I can hold my head above the surface. We are going further into “traditions” and how they can actually pull us AWAY from God. Now, let’s just jump into the conversation. Why do we hold on so…

We didn’t quite finish Mark chapter 6 last week. So, we’ll quickly wrap that chapter up as it lays a wonderful foundation for us as we open up chapter 7. Turn to and read Mark 6:53-56 . Pray. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought…

The third commandment is about more than blasphemy; it is a commitment to always seek the one true God as he reveals himself in scripture.

Introduction: What we believe about the Bible is key to our faith. It is key to understanding the gospel that the Bible reveals to us. How authoritative is it? What does it say about God and about us? Do we trust it? These are all questions we need to explore. Today, I want to ask you another question,…

Subject: Overcoming the Fear of Rejection We’re going to look at the one that’s in your mind that causes you to make yourself crazy, which is fearing the disapproval of other people, fearing the rejection of other people, fearing too much what other people think about your life. When you do that, when…

This morning we looked at the “Authority of Jesus”, even though the religious leaders would not submit to it. As I closed the message I shared with you that the patience of God has it’s limits, and that time has come for the religious leaders. Tonight we are going to look at a parable Jesus gives to…

We have access to more teaching, writing, and preaching on God than we have ever had. How do we know who to follow? Find out in this message from Matthew 7:15-23.

The balance of ones eternal destiny is placed in a dangerous state when one sees and hears the Word of God, the Truth and turns a deaf ear to it and rejects it all because it does not fit their ideal or the objectives they hold dear. Jesus soon would stand before Pilate as Jesus shares of His Kingdom…