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Matthew 21:23-27 |Transcription: Matthew twenty one, verse twenty three begins this way When Jesus entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, by what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority? Jesus answered them, I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, I will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John. From where did it come from? He

Matthew 21:18-22 |Transcription: Matthew twenty one, verse eighteen. In the morning Jesus was returning to the city and he became hungry and seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it, but only leaves. And he said to it, May no fruit ever come from you again. And the fig tree withered at once. When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, how did the fig tree wither at once? And Jesus answered them, truly I say to you, if you have faith and do

Matthew 21:12-17 |Transcription: Matthew chapter twenty one, verse twelve. Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, it is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it into a den of robbers. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple. He healed them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the won

Matthew 21:1-11 |Transcription: Well this morning, Matthew twenty one, let me read the text for us this morning. Matthew twenty one. Hear the word of the Lord. When they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethpage to the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied in a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, the Lord. The Lord

Matthew 20:29-34 |Transcription: Matthew chapter twenty, verse twenty nine is where we'll begin. This is the Word of God. They went out of Jericho, and a great crowd followed him, being Jesus. And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David! The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent. But they cried out all the more, Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David! The cr

Matthew 20:24-28 |Transcription: Matthew chapter twenty this morning I'm going to read our scripture for us. Then we'll get into God's Word together. Matthew twenty, verse twenty four. We're picking up in the middle of the story that Ryan preached on last week. Of course, it's the mother, that of James and John, that asked for them to be seated better at a better seat in the kingdom of heaven. And since it was a Mother's Day request, and by God's providence, it fell on Mother

Matthew 20:20-23 |Transcription: Good morning Immanuel. Let me invite you to open your Bible as we now turn to the Word of God together to the Gospel of Matthew in chapter twenty. Our text for this morning is the Gospel of Matthew and chapter twenty. If you're using one of the Bibles in the seat back in front of you, this can be found on page eight hundred and twenty five. Eight twenty five Matthew in chapter twenty, and we'll be looking at verses twenty to twenty three. Pass

Matthew 20:17-19 | Transcription: Matthew chapter twenty, verse seventeen through nineteen. The Word of God says, As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, see, we're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him to the Gentiles, to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And he will be raised on the third day. This

Matthew 20:1-16 | Transcription: This weekend we held a conference on the theological doctrine called the Beatific Vision, which is a term that may not be familiar to many of you, but the beatific vision is the doctrine of our our eager hope and expectation that we will see the Lord, that in the next life we will have an encounter with God. That is, in a sense, visual terms. That job in the Old Testament, at the height of his trials, said, though his flesh be destroyed, he kn

Matthew 19:23-30 | Transcription: Matthew nineteen. I'll begin reading in verse twenty one. Jesus said to the rich young ruler, if you would be perfect, sell what you possess and give to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me. When the young man heard this, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. And Jesus said to his disciples, truly I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. Again, I tell you, it is

Matthew 19:17-22 | Transcription: But this morning, Matthew chapter nineteen. Verse sixteen behold, a young man came up to Jesus saying, teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life? Jesus said to him, why do you ask me about what is good? There's only one who is good. If you want to enter eternal life, keep the commandments. He said to him, which ones? And Jesus said, you shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal. You shall not bear false

Matthew 19:13-16 | Transcription: Matthew nineteen, verse thirteen. The children were brought to him, that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his hands on them and went away. This passage answers one key question how does a person enter the kingdom of God? They don't enter it by earning it. They don't enter

Matthew 19:10-12 | Transcription: There are a few moments in Jesus's ministry where his disciples hear him clearly, but completely miss the point of what he's saying. This is one of those moments. The disciples are talking with Jesus about marriage. They hear the Pharisees ask Jesus a question about marriage. They hear the answer that Jesus gives them completely correctly, clearly. And yet they arrive at the completely wrong conclusions. Jesus has been teaching that marriage

Matthew 19:7-9 | Transcription: Matthew nineteen, verse seven, eight and nine is where we'll be this morning. Matthew nineteen, verse seven, the Pharisees said to Jesus, why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce? And to send her away? Jesus said to the Pharisees, because of your hardness of heart, Moses allowed you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife except for sexual immorality and mar

Matthew 19:1-6 | Transcription: There is no doubt that marriage is under attack in our world, both from inside of the church and from outside of the church, from outside of the church. We live in a culture that treats marriage as a threat. Marriage, as far as our world is concerned, is incidental to gender. It is incidental. The number is incidental. It's an open question in our society. Can two, three or four people get married? It seems like every month there's some crazy s

Matthew 18:23-35 | Transcription: In nineteen sixty six, Michael Kahn, a clinical psychology student at Harvard University, did what has now become a very well-known and famous study. He posed as a medical student and offered college Harvard undergrad students twenty dollars to take their blood pressure as a medical student, twenty dollars back in nineteen sixty six was actual money back then. These people agreed. And while he was taking their blood pressure, posing as a medi

Matthew 18:21-22 | Transcription: Matthew eighteen, verses twenty one and twenty two Peter came to Jesus said to him, Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times. Jesus said to him, I don't say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. Somebody asked me last week what I'm preaching on at Emmanuel, somebody who's not from this church. And I said, I'm preaching on Matthew eighteen and they said, the church discipline part or

Matthew 18:18-20 | Transcription: You can open your Bibles. As I said to Matthew eighteen. Uh, but I'm going to begin tonight by reading a verse from first Corinthians thirteen. It's a verse that you you don't need to flip to, because I'm sure you likely know it, or at least you recognize it when I read it. Let me pray for us and then we'll begin. Lord, we do pray that you would be glorified and magnified in the life of our church. Tonight we pray that your Word would come al

Matthew 18:15-17 | Transcription: Matthew eighteen, verse fifteen if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And he refuses to listen, even to the church. Let him to be to you as a Genti

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