First General Baptist

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:31-32

Forgive Me

John 16:7-11

The unpardonable sin is the sin you see no need of pardon for.

This is not what God cannot do, this is what you will not do. It is not a sin He cannot forgive, it is a sin you will not confess.

Careless Conscience:

Romans 3:23

Romans 6:23

1 John 1:9

1 Peter 1:18-19

Hebrews 10:29

Condemning Conscience:

Hebrews 6:1

Your spirit will train your body.

1 John 1:9

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:22-30, 33

With Me

Neutral, halfway, nominal, all in or all out.

Bruce Willis, "People go to the movies to watch people giving it everything they've got."

Whether fruit on a tree is good or bad is obvious to everyone who sees it.

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:15-21

All Nations

All nations, peculiar, aliens, outcasts, estranged, prejudiced against, wrong side of the wall, Gentiles…

John 14:2

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 12:1-14

You are His

Grain, Sabbath (day of the week) bread, synagogue (church house) sheep…

Rules, traditions, ways of life, nations, empires, cultures…

 You are more important to Jesus than any-thing.

Real love is not love because it is deserved, it is just love.

“Love complicates the life of God the way it complicates every life.”

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 11:28-30

Jesus in you

Jesus said for you to come to Him, not the other way around.

You put on Jesus’ yoke, He doesn’t put on your yoke.

Getting over yourself

Timing, pace, weight

Complete faith in the total sovereignty of Jesus

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 11:28-30

Come:

Why didn’t Jesus say He would come to you?

Why does He say that you have to come to Him?

To Me:

Not to anyone else, or anything else.

Message: Messiah is Coming—

You will meet Jesus

Text: 1 Corinthians 13:12

Philippians 2:9-11

1 Thessalonians 4:13-17

2 Corinthians 5:6-10

Revelation 20:11-15

Eagerly, not dreadfully or fearfully

Open hands, not clenched fists

“The thing about life is that it ends.”

Message: Messiah is Coming—

Joseph & Mary meet Jesus

Text: Luke 2:1-11

Savior, Christ, Lord

Isaiah 59:2

Romans 5:1, 8-10

Message: Messiah is Coming—

A Samaritan woman meets Jesus at Jacob’s well

Text: John 4:4-26

Her husbands—people

Her water—things

John 6:63

A life of if only…

When did simply worshiping Jesus become not enough for you?

Ray Ortlund, "If I have You (Jesus) I have everything worth having, whatever else I may lack. If I do not have You, I have nothing worth having, whatever else I may possess."

C.S. Lewis, "God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Message: Messiah is Coming--

Paul meets Jesus on the Damascus Road

Text: Acts 9:1-18

The Compelling: “I Am Jesus…”

Philippians 3:7-14

The Gain: “I Am Jesus…”