Sermon Text: Psalm 45:1-7

Psalm 45[a]

1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme

Worksheet for Psalm 16

1. The Psalms while they tell of an author’s personal experience also connect to the human experience of ourselves and the human experience of?

2. When the book of Psalms written over the span of a 1000 years, was put into its final form, the last editors added what to some of the Psalms? And why?

3. What does the word miktam in Psalm 16 convey to us the reader? And why did they use miktam?

4. What is a major American pastime, that makes even more money than the traditional American pastime?

5. Psalm 16 appreciates the failure of our being able to do what, in the critical moments of our life?

6. What concept, makes verse 4 especially odd and cryptic when read on the lips of David?

7. When David reflected on his life, what was he able to say? Even though he had many sorrows and this looming danger.

8. Who is the only cryptic possibility David is referencing in the second half of verse 10?

9. What’s the only attribute of God repeated 3 times in a row in the bible in order to highlight it?

10. What stands out in Peter’s first sermon at Pentecost? And what apostle later will echo Peter?

11. When, in biblical history, was the mystery of Psalm 16 finally solved?

Sermon Guide – Matthew 5:1-16 – Shining Light on Being Salty

If verses 5:1-12 list the ingredients of the Christian life, verses 13-16 show Jesus as what?

List some examples pastor uses throughout the sermon on how the ancients felt about salt.

What was different about the salt Israel would get from the dead sea, and the salt we have?

In how Jesus calls people salt, does he mean only true believers are salt? Or another group?

List some of the various medicinal qualities about salt, mentioned in the sermon.

When it comes to being salt in the world, what does Pastor encourage you to think of being salt as (handing out what, in order to create something)?

Who, though saved, was an example of not properly being salt within a home and community?

When Jesus says a town on a hill cannot be hidden, what did he have in mind?

While the darkness of atheism, is the fastest growing ‘religion’ why is there still great reason to hope when sharing the gospel in such a setting (using the sermons symbolism)?

Sermon Outline Guide for Matthew 5:1-12

Which other word is beatitude very close to in the Greek?

As we continue to look at the beatitudes as ingredients they still seem to be what kind of ingredients?

What does the peacemaker assume the Christian life well lived will have, that is normally seen as bad?

What are the two kinds of false peacemaking Pastor talks about.

Are we ALWAYS called to make peace without qualification?

Pastor after he talked about Romans 6:23 describes the first step of all peacemaking, what is it?

In the worst peacemaking situations, what is still required of us?

There are three kinds of peace the Christian grows in… What are the three kinds of peace?

What does Pastor find helpful to remember 70, 80, 90, 100 years from now, in making peace today?

With the last two beatitudes, why does Pastor argue that they end up becoming the same thing?

Is it biblical to intentionally go out of our way to be persecuted?

What are some of the descriptions given to Steven facing persecution in scripture?

Who is later the benefactor of witnessing Steven’s persecution?

What communities suffering did both Hollywood and Sociologists failed to understand.

Sermon Worksheet – Matthew 5:1-8What’s a struggle we often fail to appreciate as modern American’s in the 4th beatitude?

When someone is truly hungry, what becomes their singular aim and desire?

Likewise what kind of hunger does Jesus want His blessed followers to be hungry for?

Pastor mentioned some bad hungers? According to scripture, who had some?

What are some of the things that we can gauge our hunger for righteousness upon in our day to day life?

Who in the Old Testament serves as a helpful reminder for why we should love mercy not just for ourselves?

What parable helps warn us, the danger of being religious but not merciful?

Does pastor believe to have mercy always means we can never divorce ourselves from others in this life?

The last beatitude for today (pure of heart) is it external or internally known?

As a naive youth Augustine used to pray what? Later on in greater maturity He changed His prayer how?

Sermon Guide Matthew 5:1-5

Who were some of the people mentioned of recent history influenced by the Sermon of the Mount?

Pastor does consider the beatitudes law or wisdom?

Does Pastor consider them harder to keep, or easier to keep than the 10 commandments?

Who was an example of the blessed citizen according to the American/worldly standards?

What qualities are found in a blessed citizen by the Kingdom of Heaven’s standards?

Pastor calls the Beatitudes the perfect what for the ideal Christian? (The word starts with an R)

What’s the important 3-word phrase in the first beatitude, John and Jesus already have said before?

What two parables does Pastor mention to help explain the poor in spirit and what it means?

So, the first ingredient of a blessed person is someone who sees themselves as what before God?

What are some of the ways poor beggars mourn differently than the world?

Who is the Old Testament illustration Pastor uses for someone who learns to be meek?

What’s the scripture passage where we find out this individual had become the world’s most meek?

When we’re struggling to be meek/humble with someone what’s a helpful thing to remember? 

Of the Beatitudes today, what’s the one Jesus attributes to Himself in asking us to come unto Him?

What are some of the things that Jesus gave up in order to display the Beatitudes upon this earth?

What did Jesus have to ‘put on’, in order to show to us that our God is the fullness of the Beatitudes?

Sermon Guide for Matthew 4:12-5:2

Last week we finished with comparing Jesus and Moses, yet what two similarities are found in todays text?

Why was John the Baptist arrested at the start of our text?

What’s another reason (beyond John being arrested) that has Jesus leave Nazareth? (Found in Luke’s gospel)

What did the term gentile mean during the time of Jesus?

In moving to Capernaum, Zebulun, & Naphtali, a place linked to the gentiles, was Jesus giving up on the Jews?

What American region does Pastor compare this area to? What are both places considered (starts with a g)?

What else does Pastor point out this area was sort of like? (Something a cheerleader would use)

How did people fish at this time? And what similarities does it have with how the disciples will evangelize?

Does Matthew imply the response by the disciples was immediate or one made after some consideration?

What two significant things are the disciples shown leaving in the Matthew text?

In verses 24-26 what are some of the places that have now heard Jesus’ message?

What kind of people, along with the disciples, does Jesus also use in order to further expand His Kingdom?

What could the followers of Moses not do on that mountain, that the followers of Jesus could do on His?

What did Moses have to wait to receive on the mountain, that Jesus did not have to wait for?

Jesus’ growing following makes clear that this Kingdom of Heaven has different values than the Kingdom of?

Sermon Guide to Matthew 3:16-4:11

What event does Pastor mention is found in every Gospel?

In Matthew’s gospel, what does Jesus begin His public ministry with in and end it with?

Who are the two competing voices found in the presence of Jesus in this text?

After Jesus has already fasted for over 40 days Satan is unleashed on Him and Pastor links this first temptation to what previous biblical figure?

Does this text seem to suggest that baptism makes it more or less likely that trails will find you in this life?

What does Christian mean? And was it originally a name of honor or an insult?

Is the first temptation an obvious sin? It was crafted in order to try and get Jesus to doubt what?

Why would the second temptation of jumping off the temple have been tempting to Jesus?

God’s word had promised the Messiah would never break a bone, while God’s grace promises us the saved that grace can forgive all sin, what temptation can this lead to at times according to Paul in Romans 6:1?

The final temptation the Devil tries to offer Jesus a shortcut to Lordship that wouldn’t include a what?

What are two kinds of ways we can tempted to try and live in this world without the cross?

When we look at Matthew’s gospel thus far, it seems to have followed the plotline of what other book?

While the text at first seemed fairly straight forward, when we begin to notice the stories depth, it helps display what about scripture?

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