Last week we finished up Matthew chapter 10. We talked about taking God seriously. Jesus made this incredible statement to His disciples because they were about to face all sorts of people problems. He said essentially: don’t fear these people that can just at the most kill your body, instead fear the almighty God Who […]
Two weeks ago, was the first time that we saw all twelve of the disciples together, and Jesus was telling them that He was going to send them out into the community, to minister to people, like He was doing. They were to go and preach the Kingdom and help people. And just to clarify,
Last week we saw for the first time all twelve of Jesus’ disciples together. Matthew took the time to record every one of their names into this Gospel. When we looked at this last week, we talked about the ordinary nature of these men. These weren’t super humans or super saints that Jesus called. These
The short version of what we talked about last week, was us seeing and recognizing Jesus’ outlook on other people. As Jesus stopped at the end of Matthew 9 and looked across the masses, looked across all of the people that He could see, and saw many people that didn’t even know Him, and yet
Last week we had the opportunity to hear Matthew’s account of the moment when Jesus came to his work and called Matthew to follow Him. Scripture says that when Matthew heard that call, that he got up, he left everything, and he followed Jesus. There’s already an incredible challenge in that for us, to see
