The Ambassadors of the Kingdom, Part 1: Called and Ordained

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The Ambassadors of the Kingdom, Part 1: Called and…

In our text today, we see Him commission His disciples to go out into the villages and towns of the surrounding region and preach the message of the kingdom. So what we have in Matthew 10:1-4 is basically an ordination sermon, a message that the Lord Jesus Christ gives to His disciples as He commissions them to their first gospel task. They had been called to Him as disciples. Now they are being sent out after a period of testing and training. This is one of six long messages or discourses that Matthew records from the lips of our Lord. He gives it, of course, directly to His own disciples, to charge them as they go out. Let us hear then, the word of God, in Matthew 10 beginning in verses 1 through 4: Matthew 10:1-4 Our Lord and our God, we thank You for this word, it is Your…

The Justice of the Kingdom, Part 3: Ask God

Would you please turn with me in you Bibles, to Matthew chapter 7. We come to another passage concerning prayer in verses 7-11, and this passage may seem to have little direct connection with the verses that we have just studied, but in fact, their relationship is obvious if you give it a little reflection. Christ has just been instructing His disciples on how they are to relate to others. How they are to not judge and how they are to judge. In verses 1-5, He has been telling them that they should not be hypercritical. They should not be harsh and quick to judge, they should certainly not judge in accordance with their own opinion, but in verse 6, He has made it clear that they must judge. For if they are not to be hypercritical, neither are they to be naïve. And so they…

True Religion, Part 3: Prayer and Forgiveness

Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 6 as we continue our study in the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. The last time we were together in this passage, we were looking at our Lord’s teaching, contrasting what He expected His disciples to do in prayer with that which the Pharisees were practicing. This week, we will begin to look at the prayer itself, the prayer in which the Lord instructed His disciples, and more importantly the principles on which this prayer was based. And I don’t simply mean rules or forms. I mean as Gernall meant, that principle of new life in us which is necessary for us to be able to pray as Christ calls us to pray. That is spiritually. Let’s attend then to the word of the living God beginning in Matthew 6, verse 9. “Pray,…

True Religion, Part 2: Praying

If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Matthew chapter 6, as we continue our study of this great Gospel of Matthew and of the Sermon on the Mount. Last time we were together in this passage, we looked at the first four verses of Matthew chapter 6 and saw the Lord’s teaching on Christian giving. You remember that as we studied chapter 5, the first section of the Sermon on the Mount, we said that Jesus particularly in verses 17-48 of chapter 5, was that it pains to show the error in…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:9-15The Incomparable Christ #3 Please turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Colossians, chapter 1. We continue our study in Paul's great Epistle to the Colossians. We will read beginning in verse 9 through verse 15, although we will concentrate on verses 9 through 14. Hear now the Word of God: (Colossians 1:9-15) And thus ends this reading of God's holy word, may He add his blessing to it. Let's look to him in prayer: Our Lord, we cheerfully acknowledge that this is…

The Incomparable Christ – Exposition of…

Colossians 1:3-8The Incomparable Christ Please turn with me in your Bibles to Colossians, chapter 1, we will continue the study we began last week. You remember we said as we looked at the first two verses that in this great letter, the Apostle Paul is battling a false teaching. A heresy amongst the church at Colossae. This false teaching does not reject Christ outright, it claims to introduce these Christians to something in addition to what they had heard from Epaphras originally. It claims to…

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