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Resurrection 23 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, Jesus has just answered the question about paying taxes to Caesar for the Pharisees and later on that day gets cornered by the Sadducees. Now all three groups had challenged Jesus’…

Introduction—Lord’s Great Marriage Feast : several things need to be noted about this parable. The Great Marriage Feast, deals with the Kingdom of Heaven . This is important. Although the parable tells how God dealt with Israel and turned from Israel, its major point is God’s dealings with His new people,…

Coming out of last week, Jesus was asked questions by the Sadducees about the law in relationship to the resurrection if someone had multiple husbands. They wanted to know whose wife she would be in heaven after the resurrection. What they were trying to do was get their point across that the resurrection…

Paying Taxes Now, we must remember that Jesus has spoken the third parable related to the wedding feast. In that parable Jesus is pretty blunt that “many are called”, but “few are chosen”. Does this mean God has already chosen those who will go to heaven? (Pre-destination?) Certainly not, what this eludes…

Wedding Clothes Now when the Pharisees 38 heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, 39 they assembled together. 40 And one of them, an expert in religious law, 41 asked him a question to test 42 him: “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 43 Jesus 44 said to him, “ ‘ Love 45 the Lord…

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

Giant Problems This will begin with a review: I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” So this struggle begins. Remember the serpent is actually a divine being, not a mere member of the animal…

In His Presence Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly…. God is not ashamed of the lowliness…

If you don’t know God’s Word you will come to wrong interpretations If you don’t know God’s Word you will be overcome with temptation If you don’t know God’s Word you won’t know Jesus

📷 275 verses that has some form of Love The Lord. 1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord . Testing Your Love for God In an engine-room it is impossible to look into the great boiler and see how much water it contains. But running up beside it is a tiny glass tube,…

Naomi and her family Naomi and her family had relocated to Moab because there had been a famine. Ruth’s husband, Naomi’s son, had died; in fact, all of Naomi’s sons had died. Naomi returned to her ancestral land with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth. Ruth had committed to love and care for the well-being…

The Name YHWH = Yahweh = The LORD, was considered too sacred to pronounce, so adonai = my lord was substituted in reading The Name Yahweh is best described to mean “present to act” Immanuel = God is with us, Yahweh is present, accessible to help when we call 23 “ Behold , the virgin shall be with child…

Don’t just read God’s word but absorb God’s Word Adversity Follows Stopped by a policeman for driving without a taillight, a driver became quite distressed. “Don’t take it so hard,” consoled the officer, “it’s a minor offense.” “That’s not the point,” replied the troubled driver. “What worries me is,…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Is Grace Unconditional? Do you love to eat? Have you had a great meal? 12 Then he turned to his host. “When you put on a luncheon or a banquet,” he said, “don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors. For they will invite you back, and that will be your only reward. 13 Instead,…

We are still in the week leading up to Jesus’ death and ressurection It’s probably Tuesday We are still in the temple courts Thats courts as in “courtyard” rather than trial court Jesus has just Had his authority challenged Taught 3 parables that all spoke against the religious and and secular leaders…

TEXT: LUKE 23:44-49 | JESUS CRUCIFIXION WEEK TIMELINE Introduction Explanation : As we prepare for this Sunday to celebrate the resurrection, we must first look back at the passion week of Jesus. Where did He go, what did He experience There is some important ground work to lay as we come to the day…

The Preparation for His Arrival vs. 1-7 Now all this was being done so that prophecy would be fulfilled. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: Behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of…

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven. 26 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth…

The cross is the most radical and revolutionary symbol the world has ever seen! Radical because it shows us that the answer is in God’s grace not our works. Revolutionary because if it’s meaning is embraced it changes everything about life. Our relationship to God, each other and the world around us…

1 Corinthians 13:1–7 (NASB95) 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love,…

Last week, we saw Jesus cursing the fig tree. For practical purposes, Jesus removed something that was not performing as expected and removed it from taking up space. He did so, not as a warning or as a threat, but as a teaching moment for the disciples to know the power and authority He and even His…

Series Intro Commitment: the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause , activity, etc. Our culture is one that does not see commitment as something of importance any more. Here are just a few statistics to prove my point. Signs of Reduced Commitments in Life (America 1990) 1. The divorce rate is…

Even when it feels like we are staring down the barrel of disappointment, God is still good and there is still good for us to cling to