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The Miracles Of Our Lord A mini-series in Matthew 8 and 9

Jesus' Messiahship Qualifications We come this morning to two chapters that focus on some of the miracles that the Lord Jesus did.  Matthew is purposeful in his writing his gospel; he intends to show us how the Lord Jesus fulfils the prophecies about the miracles he would do to authenticate His claims to be the Messiah! In establishing Jesus' messiahship Matthew demonstrated His legal qualification through His genealogy, His prophetic qualification through the fulfillment of prophecy by His birth and infancy, His divine qualification by the Father's own attestation at His baptism, His spiritual qualification by His perfect resistance to Satan's temptations, and His moral and theological qualification through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.   Matt 7:28,29 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,29 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.  ...
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Your Judge Can Be Your Saviour

MATTHEW 7:12-23     THE DIFFERENCE IS KNOWING GOD Jeremiah 31:31-36   Matthew 13:24-43 This week we have had NSW State Government Ministers fail "The Pub test"  The pub test? There is a greater test than the court of ublic opinion. It is the court of God the Most High Judge.   Pub Test? Court Test? No!  The Day of Judgment test! Many will say to Me in that day." He used no other words–"in that day"–that terrible day–that Last Great Day–that day for which all other days were made–that day by which all other days must be measured and judged. What is the chief objective of your life? Will you think as much of it "in that day" as you do now?  "In that day," when the glare of this world's lamps shall have died out and the glitter of its pomp shall forever have passed into the eternal darkness, how will your pleasures look then? Sometimes the day of Judgment comes early for folks.   I remember sitting in a hos...
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How God Wants You To Seek first the kingdom of God

Call to worship Psalm 143:1-12 Law grace reading James 4:1-17 Bible reading:  Matthew 7: 6-12     Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. 7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 12 "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.   Benediction  Ephesians 3:20, 21  Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than a...
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LIFE’S GREATEST QUESTION What is to be the focus of my life?

LIFE'S GREATEST QUESTION      What is to be the focus of my life? Materialism Seems More Real Than Faith 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Will Having MORE THINGS make me MORE HAPPY ? "Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. . . As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?" Ecc. 5:10,11 Will Having MORE THINGS make me MORE SECURE ? "The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it an unscalable wall." Prov. 18:11 "Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint....
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