Read Matthew 17:1-13 So, just under a week after the previous conversation that Jesus was having with the disciples, we find ourselves at this interesting moment in history. Jesus took Peter, James, and John and they went up a high mountain in the area. There’s a bit of debate over which mountain that this was, that […]
Read Matthew 16:21-28 Let’s take a moment to remember what lead up to these verses. As we looked at last week Jesus had questioned His disciples on what other people thought of Him, but also what they themselves thought of Him. He asked His disciples, “Who do you say that I am?”. This was an incredibly
Last week we got to see this really cool talk that Jesus was giving about the Strong Man Satan being overpowered by the Stronger Man Jesus. How Jesus is rescuing His people out from Satan’s control and caring for them. A wonderful picture of our Savior, but this week Jesus turns the talk towards some
Last week we saw these Pharisees condemning Jesus’ disciples about picking some grain on the Sabbath Day. We talked about how they completely missed God’s heart and God’s purpose for the Law. They may have missed it, but we need to understand Who He is, and what He is about, so that we can share
Last week we looked at Jesus’ talk about judgement and rest. He told us that judgement is coming, but He followed that up and said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He said that He will give us rest for our very souls and
Last week we talked about misconceptions or misunderstandings about Jesus. We saw that people were having them even when Jesus was right there with them. And some of those misunderstandings at times are that Jesus is just a God of judgement and the old fire and brimstone message, but other times it’s that Jesus is
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
