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The Call to Enter the Kingdom, Part 1: The Narrow Way

Would you please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7 as we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount. Today we come to the final section, the final division of this sermon, beginning here in verse 13 of Matthew chapter 7. The Lord Jesus starts to apply and conclude the message that He has been sharing with His disciples. We have seen the Lord Jesus contrast already in this great sermon, two kinds of righteousness, two kinds of religion: The righteousness of the Pharisees as opposed to the righteousness of God’s law, and the righteousness which the Lord Jesus expected of His disciples. The religion of the Pharisees contrasted with the religion which the Lord Jesus expected His disciples to follow. Then, we have seen in Matthew 6, verses 19-34, the Lord Jesus set…

The Call to Enter the Kingdom, Part 2: False Prophets

If you would turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 7. We will continue our study in the Sermon the Mount. The concluding section of this great sermon last begins in 7:13-14, where we found there an urgent exhortation for all of us to enter into the kingdom. Jesus didn’t simply want people to stand around and admire the beautiful vision of the Christian life that He had sketched for them in this sermon. He didn’t want them to say, “What an exalted teacher Jesus is. He is a better teacher than any of the Pharisees that I have ever heard preach.” He didn’t want them to stand on the sidelines. He wanted them to participate in the life and in the blessings of the kingdom. And so He sends out an urgent call to enter into the kingdom. And today, we are going…

175 and Counting: Built on the Rock

The Lord's Day Morning February 19, 2012 “175 and Counting: Built on the Rock” Matthew 7:21-29 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 7 as we begin a series on Biblical themes called, “175 and Counting.” I want us to look especially at Jesus’ word in Matthew 7:24, but if you have your Bibles in hand already, turn back to the reading that Billy did for the morning Scripture reading, and if you’ll look at this phrase in 1 John chapter 4, this phrase could sum up the whole sermon this morning: “As He is, so also are we in this world.” John is talking about bearing the moral likeness of our loving God and heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ in this world in the way we live, in our character, in…

The Call to Enter the Kingdom, Part 3: The Two Ways…

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 7. Today, we come to the conclusion of this great Sermon on the Mount. Since Matthew 7:13, Christ has been calling on all who will hear Him to enter into the kingdom. Don’t simply stand and admire the teaching of the kingdom. Don’t simply stand and say that the teaching of the kingdom is exalted and moral and visionary and glorious, but enter into the kingdom, embrace the kingdom, walk in the way of the…

The Miracles of the Kingdom, Part 1: Jesus Heals and…

Having spoken the words of life in the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord Jesus now demonstrates His power by the performance of miracles, signs which attest to who He is, signs which prove the truth of His teaching, signs which prove the claims that He is, indeed, the Christ. And so, by words and deeds, He is shown the Messiah. The passage which we’re going to look at today in Matthew 8:1-17, divides into three parts, and you can see it set apart geographically. If you look at v. 1, you’ll…

The Miracles of the Kingdom, Part 2: Jesus Controls the…

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter eight. The Lord Jesus' Sermon on the Mount is recorded in Matthew chapters 5 to 7. The words of life are set forth there. In Matthew chapters 8 and 9, as we have already begun our study of them, we see the Lord Jesus performing miracles, attesting signs, signs that set forth the truth of his claims and reinforce the emphasis on who he is and so by words and deeds, the Lord Jesus is shown to be the messiah,…

The Miracles of the Kingdom, Part 3: Jesus Casts out…

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 8. The Lord Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is recorded from chapter 5 to chapter 7, giving us the words of life and the way of life. Chapters 8 and 9 of Matthew, miracles, mighty attesting signs of the Lord Jesus Christ, are performed so that the word of life is set side by side with the powerful deeds of Christ, thus attesting to the fact that He is indeed the very Son of God, the Messiah, the Christ, sent from…

The Miracles of the Kingdom, Part 4: Jesus Cures the…

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 9. In our past studies, we have commented that in Matthew 5 through 7, we have the words of life from our Lord. In Matthew 8 and 9, we have deeds of power by our Lord that we may see by His words and deeds that He is indeed the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God. In our previous study of Matthew chapter 8, we saw the Lord's power displayed in 3 ways. In the first 17 verses of Matthew 8, we…

The Miracles of the Kingdom, Part 5: Jesus Came for…

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 9. We've said, as we have been studying Matthew 8 and 9, that in Matthew 6 through 7, the Lord Jesus sets forth His doctrine of the Christian life. He gives us a compendium on His teaching, on how believers are to live kingdom life in a fallen world. In Matthew 8 and 9, His deeds of power are set side by side with His teaching on the Christian life. And so together, by His words and…