Background information about passage:
Jews have 1 week to celebrate Passover in April - remembering the blood of the lamb on the door post = Jesus Christ. This continues throughout the Old Testament, the slaughtering of lambs to foretell and p…
Because we do not have any real faith/belief in God, God uses this "life" to show His people that He exists. The purpose of this life on earth is to get to know Him. God uses this life for us to acknowledge …
Part Two - “House on the rock and house on sand” (Matthew 7:13-29) 2013-05-29 15:44 PART TWO - “House on the rock and house on sand” (Matthew 7:13-29)
Summary of last week:
• Both the house on the rock and the house on sand look the same on the outside. That is, just by looking at people’s actions it is hard to tell whether they are true believers, or those that J…
Today’s parable is again, a very familiar parable to all of us. Many people simply understand this parable as simply talking about the difference between “faith with deeds/works and faith without deeds/works”. They interpre…
Summary of last week
• We saw how the teachers of the law, Pharisees and disciples of John the Baptist were criticising Jesus and his disciples for eating and drinking with sinners and tax collectors, on a day …
Let’s first have a look at all the people that are included in today’s episode.
There’s Matthew the tax collector, other tax collectors and sinners. There’s also Jesus and his disciples who are eating with…
Introduction
Today’s passage is very often misunderstood to be simply – “if you don’t produce fruits that God is pleased about then we will be perished by God, so God’s people must produce good fruits”. But we know by now that the bib…
1. Homosexuality is a manifestation of sin
2. But we "are" all sin
3. Our sin manifests itself in many different ways, but at the core, we "are" all sin and we all deserve death - because the wa…
• Up until the 16th century, homosexuality was punishable by death
• It was treated as a mental disease and a horrendous sin for so long
• These days though, socially and scientifically (psychologically), since the 1970'…