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** Matthew 12:43-45 ** **Scripture:** Matthew 12:43-45 **Main Idea:** You can’t just empty your life of bad things and expect it to stay that way. Transformation comes not just by removing sin, but by filling your life with what matters most—Christ’s presence and purpose. --- ### **Introduction:** -…

V. Various Repentance (2:1-3:10) God did alot of really neat miracles throughout this book up to this point (caused a violent storm, had lot fall on Jonah, calmed the sea, commanded a fish to swallow Jonah and transport him safely to land), but the greatest of all these miracles has come and is coming.…

At the beginning of this series I made reference to Jesus speaking of Jonah as if Jonah is a real person, as a manner to dismiss the idea that Jonah is just a person of myth or legend. Jesus speaks of Jonah as historical figure, as he does Nineveh, and he does the Queen of the South. Bartering with God…

The Purpose Fascination - Discovery - Identity - Authenticity One day, Napoleon was speaking of the Divinity of Christ; when General Bertrand said:— “I can not conceive, sire, how a great man like you can believe that the Supreme Being ever exhibited himself to men under a human form, with a body, a…

Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. And he said: “I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, And He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,…

Introduction: How many of you like magic tricks? I remember as a child I got a book of magic tricks. Most of them were some form of card trick and the key to it was to get really good with slight of hand. I was nothing like the magicians that we see on TV or in the shows people go to see. Some of you…

They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. As soon as he got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him. God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the citizens of Shechem. They treated Abimelech deceitfully, so that the crime against…

Scripture Reading: I Corinthians 15:1-11 Let me once again welcome all of you who are here in person and those joining us online. I am Cal and I am the pastor of Hope Bible Fellowship. We’re glad you have chosen to join us this morning. It’s a great morning because the tomb is empty and Jesus is alive!…

Torah Portion: Leviticus 16:1-34 Haftarah: Jonah 1:1-4:11 - Micah 7:18-19 Isaiah 57:14-58:14 Review Three Weeks Picture of the Three Weeks of Sorrow/ 3 Rebukes “Nachamu Nachamu Comforted but Zion said alone Third consolation: anaya Soarah 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.…

Text Dr. Chute - “Brian, whenever God has called for me to go somewhere and I have listened and gone in faith, I have never regretted it.” From Georgia to Alabama to Michigan to California. He told me this when I was a senior in college and considering the merits of moving from California to Kentucky…

Scene 1. When you set yourself up as superior to everyone else, you are very likely to get things horribly wrong. Let’s look at some examples. Stalin, who was he? What is he infamous for? Chairman Mou, who was he? What was he infamous for? Hitler, who was he? What was he infamous for? Pol Pot, who was…

Jesus’ exemplary attitude toward Scripture should encourage believers to lean all their confidence on the trustworthiness of God’s words in every circumstance, just like Jesus did. Jesus’ Assumptions About God’s Old Testament Words Jesus held a high view of God’s words in the OT. People who are not willing…

Are you the one? INTRODUCE SELF, SET TIMER, INTRODUCE SERIES INTRODUCTION -We’re Working through our series on the Book of Matthew Called Kingdom. -(Recap Chapters 1-10) -All the ways to follow along: Bible App, ACC app, Handouts, (If someone wants one of those let me know, I can still get them printed…

Following up with this mornings sermon, we will start tonight with the scribes and Pharisees asking for a sign from Jesus. While we might all be skeptical of someone who walked into our church and started to teach a different doctrine and heal people, going contrary to what we had all been taught from…

Have you had an opportunity to look outside lately? We are beginning to see signs of spring. Trees beginning to bud out, flowers starting to bloom, birds beginning to return, spring peepers beginning to croak, it foretells of a time of renewal. All of the earth is beginning to be resurrected. The word…

Religious Blasphemy 22 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw. 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, “Can this be the Son of David?” 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince…

After Christ and the disciples had contended with the Pharisees after plucking and eating grain on the Sabbath, Jesus went on. Notice, he did not allow all the “things” to get in the way of ministry. He kept pressing forward taking the Gospel Message to a lost and dying world, preaching, teaching, and…

1 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” 3 He said to them, “Have you not…

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do)?

Have you ever wanted to write a book? Me neither. Writing books is really hard. Reading books takes a while, I imagine writing one takes a little longer. Now, what’s funny is we’re a church of about 100 people, and we have several authors in our midst! Gene Poppino has helped write a book. Hannah Russell…

Intro: One of the things we need to understand about the past generation of Jewish people during the time of Christ and even after his life was that Angels were a big deal. Angels assisted in giving the law to Moses and there where angels who would speak to Godly saints. So, I want us to keep all of…

Introduction Meaning of Keeping someone at arm’s length To avoid being very close to or friendly with someone or something May have good reason Toxic friends Former partners Toxic relatives In the case of your relationship with God it’s Maintaining a standard for God that does not interfere with the…

Verse 17 There have been many attempts over the years to guess as to what type of fish this was, and that attempt is also the reason that so many scholars want to dismiss this as an allegory, but as we saw last week this was not allegory since Jesus Himself quoted this event in reference to His own time…

As we begin our study through the OT books of the Major and Minor prophets it is important to note that we have already looked at a few prophets when we studied through the historical books of 1&2 Samuel as well as 1&2 Kings, such as Elijah and Elisha. Tonight we will begin our journey through the books…

The Just Live by Faith CONTEXT OT sacrifices could not provide permanent cleansing (10:1-4) So God found the solution in the sacrifice of Christ (10:5-10) Christ's perfect sacrifice achieved eternal perfection for all who believe (10:11-18) SO DRAW NEAR & HOLD FAST (10:19-39) THOUGHT-FLOW (10:19-39)…