First General Baptist

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 9:27-31

Action Faith

Asking Faith

Message: Deliverance

Text: Exodus 12:21-27, 13:3-10

I am through complaining about the present because I remember my deliverance in the past.

I am through worrying about the future because I remember my deliverance in the past.

I will not go backward, but keep going forward in faith.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 9:18-26

Eternal Life

Where is heaven?

Luke 7:14

John 11:43-44

Compassion for who?

Luke 7:13

All are alive to Jesus.

John 11:11-14, 25-26

Luke 20:38 (NIV)

You have an eternity with Jesus waiting for you.

You have a short time left here.

1 John 5:12-13

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 9:18-22

Approaching Jesus

The touch-two ways.

Standing, bowing, kneeling, crawling.

He asks for his daughter. She asks for herself.

He can talk about it. She can’t.

Immediate need. Long term need.

I ask for my daughter’s life back. I ask for my life back.

Incredible faith. More desperation than faith.

“Faith stretched thin is thick enough.”

Pride is an enemy of faith. Need is a great destroyer of pride.

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 9:14-17

The Old and The New

G Campbell Morgan, “This is Christ’s defense of the right of His people to be joyful; and that right to be joyful is the fact that He is with them. If that be true, then we have the right to be joyful always.”

As you go forward with Jesus there will always be someone or something pulling you backward and downward.

Psalm 40:1-3

Romans 10:9

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 9:9-13

Why Them?

The self-righteous, “Why are you eating with sinners?”

• Self-righteous people don’t eat with sinners, we’re too good for them.

• The sinners may rub off on you.

• We’re uncomfortable with those who aren’t our kind.

Jesus, “Why aren’t you eating with sinners?”

• I left the glory of heaven to ransom all people, not some people.

• You may rub off on the sinners.

• The cross was a very uncomfortable place.

So, why aren’t you eating with sinners?

Vs 9

“…he arose…”

Truly Free

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 9:1-8

First Thing First

What are the priorities in this story?

For the people it is the physical.

For Jesus it is the spiritual.

Isaiah 59:2

Does it seem that God is not responding, and even ignoring, what you believe is your need right now?

Nothing is more important to God than you, and solving the sin issue that separates you from Him.

1 John 1:9

Matthew 9:8

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 8:28-34

“Go.”

Observations:

Demons know Jesus when they see him, before He says a word. Up to this point in Matthew, only devils call Jesus, “Son of God.”

You may have doubts about Jesus? Demons never do.

Demons know something about how much time they have left. Revelation 12:12.

Demons like to inhabit and/or work thru someone. Ephesians 6:12

Paul Levertoff, “All down the ages the world has been refusing Jesus because it prefers its pigs.”

Everyone else avoids these demon possessed men, Jesus sails toward them.

If there’s not some satanic oppression, some spiritual challenge or temptation-you’re not doing something right.

Without a spiritual fight of some kind, your life will be spiritually irrelevant-you will make no eternal difference.

Do demons know you? Acts 19:15

“Go.” Matthew 8:32, 28:19

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 8:23-27

The new impossible

Leper, centurion’s servant, Peter’s mother in law, many others-healed. Demons cast out.

The disciples cry out to Jesus for help then are shocked when He does.

Have you reserved an area that you still see as impossible for God?

It matters to Jesus that you believe He can. Why?

Vs 25