Sermons on Matthew
Rightly Dividing Series Part 3

Sermons on Matthew

Love Part 3
God's love for us

Now consider the absolute, selfless, unconditional, sacrificial love that Jesus portrayed when he went to the cross. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since…

Love Part 2
Love one another

Where does perfect love come from? Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 1 John 4 :7-8 NKJV Observations: And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in Him. 1 John 4…

Love Part 1
Love God

If we are created in the image of God, and God is Love, then we are created to love. The Devil comes to distort that which God intended for His glory, which in turn has the following outcome: 1But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents,…

Purpose: What on earth am I here for?
Our Purpose

1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.3…

Press On
Straining Towards the Goal

Straining Toward the Goal 12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward…

Easter Service

The Crucifixion of Christ and the Two thieves Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16 For surely it is not angels he helps,…