Sermons About Matthew
Family: Friends or Enemies?
My earliest memory is in black and white. I am standing with my brother Tim beside my mother and father who are seated on the cushioned bench of a passenger car.
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Symphony of Prayer
Prayer is a powerful tool and a necessity to the Christian walk. Listen as Pastor David talks about how a daily prayer habit is vital to your relationship with God and how life changing it really is.
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Figuring God Out...
Many in the world think they have “figured God out” – they know all about Him. He is mean, uncaring, distant, sadistic, judgmental, a “cosmic kill-joy,” etc. Yet as we have seen over the past two weeks, God is gracious and sovereign. These two aspects set Christianity apart from other world religions. Yet many in the world do not know the extent of God’s love for them. Therefore we (Christians) need to create a problem for those who think they have God all figured out – we need to show them God is personal.
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Who are the Merciful (Matthew 5:7)
We are continuing our study in what is the Lord Jesus’ most extensive and detailed explanation of what it means to be in the kingdom of God. This is not an instruction manuel on how to enter the kingdom, but a description of those who are already in the Kingdom; a description of all true believers, what it means to be a genuine Christian. I have noted repeatedly, and will continue to do so, that being a Christian is not about what you do, but is a matter of who you are. God is utterly unconcerned about externals in themselves, but is intensely concerned about the condition of your heart. The Certainty of your Christian profession is not about what you do, but what defines you in your inner man, your character, your view of God, sin, Christ, self, others, and the world. This morning we will continue to examine what the inner man of a genuine Christian looks like, by looking at verse 7 of Matthew 5, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.”
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Self-Denial or Self-Affirmation?
I picture my lovely wife sitting beside me on the couch, her hands busy with some task, her hair falling around her shoulders. I picture my children and grandchildren, each so delightful. And Jesus says, “You cannot love them more than you love me.”
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True Spiritual Hunger (Matthew 5:6)
The crowds Jesus was addressing were generally very religiously committed; their very cultural and national identity was defined by their religion. Among them, also, were the extremely committed and in many areas doctrinally sound Pharisees. But what they all have in common is a sense of security and self-sufficiency in their religion. But Jesus is cutting through all of that and addressing the one thing that really matters: the inner realities of the heart. This morning we come to “blessed are those who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness.”
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