Posts Tagged ‘Following Jesus: Matthew’

Today, we  take a look at the wonderful promise Jesus gave to us at the end of the book of Matthew. Listen to learn how the risen Jesus has ALL authority, wants disciples from ALL nations, wants us to obey ALL His commands, and will be with us ALL our days. Pastor Matt preaching on…

“Go and Make Disciples” Following Jesus – The Gospel of Matthew LEFC Message for Worship at Home April 19, 2020 :: Matthew 28:16-20 The transcript is on Pastor Matt’s blog.

We’ve been following Jesus through the Gospel of Matthew, and for the last several months, have been following Jesus through that last crucial holy week of His passion. It is Good Friday, and the Lord Jesus has just died on the cross. No longer is it going to get worse. From here on, it just gets better.

We’ve been following Jesus through the Gospel of Matthew, and for the last several months, have been following Jesus through that last crucial holy week of His passion. And we’ve reached the last day of that last week. Now we’ve reached the last hours. It just gets worse.

We’ve followed Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew from before His birth no to the day of His death. We are smack dab in the middle of the worst day in human history. the worst day in Jesus’ life, because it is the day of His death. And it just gets worse.

We’ve followed Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew from before His birth no to the day of His death. We have been concentrating on the events of that last week, and that last night, and now this last day.

For the last several weeks in our ongoing series through the Gospel of Matthew, we have following Jesus through the crucial events of the last hours before His crucifixion. We have seen His Passover meal, watched as he prayed in the garden, and gasped with horror as our Lord was betrayed with a kiss, arrested, drug off to the high priest, and subjected to a sick joke of an unjust trial. Now our Lord will be disowned and condemned.

We are following Jesus through the events of that crucial last week, and now last day, just hours really, before His crucifixion. We have slowed down to carefully consider everything that Matthew tells us about Jesus during these crucial last hours.

We continue our slow walk through the crucial events of Passion Week. Jesus has just finished praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and Judas has arrived.

Jesus was Hypocritically Betrayed with a Kiss, Unjustly Arrested Without Resistance, and Painfully Deserted to Fulfill God’s Word.

We have reached not just that crucial last week that we often call “Holy Week” or “Passion Week,” but we’ve also reached that last crucial day. That last 24 hours before the crucifixion of our Lord. Jesus is emphasizing the immediacy of the events soon to come.  What does this mean for us? We need to Recognize Our Weakness and Marvel at Jesus’ Strength.

For over two years now, we’ve been following Jesus through the Gospel of Matthew, and we’ve now followed Him right up into that crucial, holy, last week. Today, we enter into that critical final 24 hours leading up to the crucifixion.