First General Baptist

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew  

Text: Matthew 7:15-20  

Two Trees  

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

Life and Message

Patience. Fruit only comes one season per year, wait for it.

The inward can be hidden until people begin to do something, to produce something, then it can be seen.

Beware of pretending. Imitating a Spirit filled, fruitful life.

To produce good fruit a tree must give of itself. Selfishness and self-centeredness are key to being unfruitful.

Oswald Chambers, “Pious pretense is a desperately sincere effort to be right when we know we are not.”

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew  

Text: Matthew 7:13-14  

Two Gates  

2 gates  

2 paths  

2 destinations  

2 crowds  

John 10:9  

1 Timothy 2:5  

It is not hard to find Jesus, it is hard to lose ourselves.  

Christian in Pilgrim’s Progress, “I remember what my mother told me: that going to hell is like walking down a gentle slope and that going to heaven is like climbing a ladder. I think I will keep climbing.”

Message: He is going before you

Text: Matthew 28:5-10

Luke 2:11-12 The angels and the shepherds

John 4:4 The woman at the well

Matthew 28:5-10 The women at the tomb

John 21:4, 9 The apostle Peter

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew

Text: Matthew 7:12

Do

Others have taught what may seem close to what Jesus taught, can you see the difference?

Socrates, “What stirs your anger when done to you by others, that do not to others.”

Confucius, “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

2 Timothy 1:7

Matthew 28:19

You go first!

Message: The Gospel According to Matthew  

Text: Matthew 7:7-11  

Humility  

Ask:  

You do not have what you need and/or you do not know the answer.  

Seek:  

You do not see the way, you do not know how.  

Knock:  

You cannot open the door, Someone must open it for you.  

Psalm 139:7-12  

Acts 17:27

Merge Sunday 2024

Message: Do This  

Text: Acts 9:3-6, 1 Corinthians 11:24-26  

Have you received Jesus as your savior?  

Adrian Rogers, "If Christ didn't die on a cross, wasn't buried in a tomb, and doesn't live today, nothing matters.  If Christ did die a horrible death on a cross, was buried in a borrowed tomb, and did rise again on the third day, nothing else matters."  

Do you know what Jesus wants you to do?  

Search the Word.  

Search in prayer.  

What are you drawn to?

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 7:1-6

Clear Eyes

To judge is to realize the difference.

To be judgmental is to believe you are superior because of the difference.

Oswald Chamber, “Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering idea that you are a superior person…a critical spectator…I never met a person I could despair of after realizing all that lies in me apart from the grace of God.”

To be able to judge works both ways. Which is more obvious, the speck or the plank?

Let us all have clear eyes.

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 6:33-34

Seek the King

Remember who you were

Remember what God has done

Message: The Gospel according to Matthew

Text: Matthew 6:25-32

Believe God

Do you see the difference in believing in God and believing God?

James 2:19

Psalm 14:1

Hebrews 11:6

God can love more or less, do you believe He loves you more?