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We have been looking at the regrettable decisions people made when they encountered Jesus. Imagine if you had the opportunity to hear Jesus teach. What would you think? Imagine if you had the chance to see Jesus perform a miracle. What would you have done? But I want you to imagine a slightly different opportunity. Imagine if you had been called by Jesus to follow him and had been following him for about three years. Imagine if you were one of the twelve disciples, the inner circle of followers that Jesus had called to be with him. Not only did you see what Jesus did publicly, but you also participated in the private discussions that happened during those three years. But then imagine if you catastrophically failed Jesus. What if you sinned so badly that you thought you could no longer be a disciple? For our final lesson in this series we are going to focus on one of the disciples named Judas. Please open your copies of God’s word to Matthew 26-27 and we are going to spend our time looking at the regrettable decision Judas made…

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The prophecy of Jeremiah has been a book of failure. As we come to the end of our study of Jeremiah we are taking a moment to look back at the failure of the people of Judah. They have traded the Lord for things that are not gods (Jeremiah 2:10-11). They have exchanged the fountain of living waters for broken cisterns that cannot hold water (Jeremiah 2:12-13). They have refused to listen to the Lord through the prophet Jeremiah through all the Babylon invasions. The book has been a shocking explanation of how the people stubbornly refused to listen to the Lord. One of the worst examples of this was the king of Judah cutting the word of the Lord, column by column, and throwing it into the fire (Jeremiah 36). While the book has frequently described the sins and the failures of the people, there have been glimmers of future hope. The Righteous Branch was promised to come, bringing justice and ruling in righteousness (cf. Jeremiah 23:5; 33:15). A new covenant is coming in which God’s law will be written on the people’s hearts and God will forgive their sins (cf. Jeremiah 31:31-34). So how will the prophecy of Jeremiah end? We are going see God’s final message through Jeremiah to the people as well as an account of what happened to the final kings of Judah. As we read Jeremiah 50-52 we are going to see God’s future hope that his people will be graciously freed. Open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 50-52 and we are going to read five pictures of future hope for God’s people. As we read, be thinking about how this hope was speaking to the future people of God being graciously freed, including God’s people today…

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We have spending our time looking at the regrettable decisions people made when they encountered Jesus. Imagine that you had the opportunity to speak to Jesus. Imagine if you had the opportunity to see one of Jesus’ miracles. Imagine if you could ask Jesus one question. In Mark 10 we are going to read about another person taking the opportunity to ask Jesus a question. We considered a failed opportunity to ask Jesus a question when the man asked Jesus to tell his brother to divide the inheritance with him. But now another man has a chance to ask Jesus a question…

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We have been looking at different encounters that people had with Jesus. In today’s lesson we are going to look at a group of people who started following Jesus. As we look at this group, I want us to think about this question. Is there a wrong way to follow Jesus? Is it possible to follow Jesus in a wrong way? This is what the Gospel of John wants us to look at in John 6. Please take your copies of God’s word and turn to John 6. John 6 begins with Jesus on the other side of the Sea of Galilee and a large crowd is following him because they saw the signs he was performing (cf. John 6:1-2). You will then notice that this section records the miraculous feeding of the 5000. Please observe the response of the people in John 6:14-15. The people proclaim that Jesus is truly the Prophet who has come into the world and they are ready to make him king. Jesus withdraws from the crowd and his disciples get into a boat and cross the Sea of Galilee. This is when Jesus walks on the water and they reach the other side of the sea. This brings us to the moment that is before us in John 6:22…

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As you open your copies of God’s word to Jeremiah 46, I want us to notice how this section of the book of Jeremiah begins. It simply reads, “The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations” (Jeremiah 46:1). The majority of the book of Jeremiah has been God’s gracious call to his people to listen to him through Jeremiah’s teaching. But there is something that people of God and the world should never forget. God is not a God who only rules over his own people. God rules over the earth. God rules over the nations. God rules over the earth’s leaders. We can sometimes come to the prophetic messages that are directed to the various nations in history’s past and want to skim or skip over what God proclaims. But God is giving the world an important reminder when we come to scriptures like these. The Lord rules over the whole earth and is actively involved in what happens in the world…

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We are looking at the regrettable decisions people made when they encountered Jesus. Last week we noticed the person who interrupted Jesus’ sermon with his concern about receiving his portion of the inheritance. We are going to look at another encounter with Jesus. Open your copies of God’s word to Luke 4 and we are going to consider Jesus’ encounter in the town of Nazareth. You will notice that Jesus has begun his ministry and he goes to the synagogue in the town where he grew up (Luke 4:16). We know that Jesus is about 30 years old when he starts his earthly ministry (Luke 3:23). So Jesus has grown up in the town of Nazareth and the people in the town would know who Jesus is. Further, you will also notice that Jesus goes to the synagogue on the Sabbath which was his custom. For the whole of his life, every Sabbath Jesus has gone to the synagogue. Think about the people that you would know if you were going to the same church for 30 years and how familiar you would be with those people. The synagogue was a place for worship, teaching, and learning. It is worth noting as we begin that Jesus did not look down on the idea of going to the synagogue. If we would say that there was someone who did not need to go to the synagogue for worship, teaching, and learning, it would be Jesus. But Jesus went to the synagogue, as it was is custom, even as he began his earthly ministry. There are many aspects to a synagogue service. One of those aspects was a reading from the Law and the Prophets. Jesus takes this opportunity to read from the scriptures. Jesus unrolls the scroll and finds a place in Isaiah that we know as Isaiah 61 and reads from it. Jesus reads from the scripture that speaks about the arrival of the Christ who will proclaim the good news of the Lord’s favor. But after reading this prophetic scripture, what Jesus says next would have been stunning. Look at Luke 4:20-21…

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We are starting a new series for our new year called, Should’ve, Could’ve, Would’ve: Regrettable Decisions When Encountering Jesus. What we are going to study in this series are different people who were given the opportunity to speak to Jesus and consider their encounter and what we can learn from that discussion. Each week what I want us to do is put ourselves in the shoes of these people who have this amazing moment to walk up to the Savior and talk to him. Imagine if Jesus were to visit the town you were living in and you had the chance to see him. What would you say and what would you do? The encounter with Jesus that I want us to start with for this series is found in Luke 12:13-21…

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