The Heidelberg Catechism - The Foundations Of Our Faith

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.  ...

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...