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Matthew 18:10-14 | Transcription: This is the Word of God. Matthew chapter eighteen, verse ten. See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven the angels always see the face of my father who is in heaven. What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, doesn't he leave the ninety nine up on the mountains to go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it truly, I say to you, he rejoices over

Matthew 18:7-9 | Transcription: Matthew chapter eighteen. Let me read our texts verses seven through nine. This is the Word of God. Jesus says, woe to the world for temptations to sin. For it's necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes. And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It's better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire. If yo

Matthew 18:1-6 | Transcription: This morning, though Matthew eighteen, verse one. At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? Calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one such child in my name recei

Matthew 17:24-27 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen, verse twenty four. When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two drachma tax went up to Peter and said, does your teacher not pay the tax? And Peter said, yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, what do you think, Simon? From who do kings of the earth take toll or tax from their sons or from others? And when he said from others, Jesus said to him, then the sons are free. However, not

Matthew 17:14-23 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen is where we are this morning, verses fourteen through twenty three. I'm going to read it and then pray and dive into God's Word together. Matthew seventeen, verse fourteen. And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him, kneeling before him being Jesus, and said, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic, and he suffers terribly. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water. I brought him to your dis

Matthew 17:4-8 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen, verse one. After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good that we're here. If you wish, I'll make three tents here, one for you and one f

Matthew 17:9-13 | Transcription: Matthew seventeen, verse one. After six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good that we're here. If you wish, I'll make three tents here, one for you and o

Matthew 17:1-8 |Transcription: In John seventeen, verse five, Jesus prays what's called his high priestly prayer, and he prays to the father, and he asks the father. This. He prays, father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. When Jesus prays that he's praying that God would, when Jesus returns to heaven, that God would glorify Jesus by receiving him back in the way in which he was before he came to earth. There's a re

Matthew 16:27-28 |Transcription: Tonight, by the way. Five fifteen we'll be looking at that phrase in the Nicene Creed that the Son of God is light of light. That is a biblical expression from revelation that he is the light of the the lamb. The light of God will illuminate, uh, heaven. And so we'll look at where that expression comes from, what it means that when we say that Jesus is the light of God, that's tonight at five fifteen this morning, we finished Matthew sixteen.

Matthew 16:24-26 |Transcription: It was one hundred years before Jesus died when Rome put down the famous slave revolt led by Spartacus. After that rebellion was crushed, Roman general Crassus captured six thousand of the surviving slaves as a warning to the rest of the empire. He lined the road from Capua to Rome with crosses, six thousand of them, and crucified every one of the captured slaves. Travelers walking on that road would have seen thousands of men hanging in agony

Matthew 16:21-23 |Transcription: Matthew sixteen, verse twenty one. From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem. That he must suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, far be it from you, Lord. This should never happen to you. But Jesus turned and said to Peter, get behind me, Satan. You're a hindrance to me, for you a

Matthew 16:18-20 |Transcription: Matthew sixteen. I'll begin reading in verse sixteen, Simon Peter replied, you are the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus answered him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter. And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you

Matthew 16:13-17 |Transcription: Matthew, chapter 16, I'm going to read verses 13 through 18 this morning. I didn't quite get through all of it first hour, but, and I'm even further behind now, but we'll see. When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea, Philippi, and verse 13 there, he asked his disciples, who do people say that the Son of man is? They said, some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, others Jeremiah, or even one of the prophets, Jesus said to them, but w

Matthew 16:5-12 |Transcription: A few months ago, an outbreak of what appeared to be blindness hit dozens of apparently random people. As the CDC investigated, they discovered that many of these people, if not all of them, were backpackers. And as they went further into making connections between them, they discovered that all of them had vacationed in Laos and had stayed at the same hostel over a period of several months and had, more particularly, drank the same kind of alc

Matthew 16:1-4 |Transcription: Matthew chapter 16 verses one through four. And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and detest him, Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. Jesus answered them, when it is evening, you say, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red. In the morning, it'll be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening. You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous ge

Matthew 15:32-29 |Transcription: Matthew chapter 16 verses one through four. And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and detest him, Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. Jesus answered them, when it is evening, you say, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red. In the morning, it'll be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening. You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous

Matthew 15:21-31 |Transcription: Matthew 15 verse 21. And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came and was crying, have mercy on me, oh lord, son of David, My daughter is severely oppressed by a demon. But Jesus did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, send her away, for she's crying out after us. He answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of

Matthew 15:10-20 |Transcription: Matthew 15 verse 10. Jesus called the disciples, or called the people to him, and said to them, hear and understand. It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of a mouth. That's what defiles someone. The disciples came and said to him, do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard you say that? Jesus answered, every plants that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alon

Matthew 14:34-15:9 |Transcription: Matthew 14 verse 34. After they had crossed over, they being the 12 disciples and Jesus, they came to land at Gisenaret. And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick, and implored him that he might only touch the fringe of his garment, and as many who touched it were made well. Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, why do your disciples bre

Matthew 14:22-33 |Transcription: This morning, Matthew 14 verses 22 through 33 is our scripture. Let me read it for us, and then we'll go into the word of God together. Immediately He, meaning Jesus, made the disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds. And after He had dismissed the crowds, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone. But the boat by this time was a long way from the