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Continuing our series in Mathews Gospel

We left off last time with Jesus seeking to awaken peoples faith in him, as he performed healing miracles.We are continuing our series in Matthews Gospel Where Jesus proclaims the Good news of the kingdom of God.

That is, that Gods messiah has come, and with it the dawn of a new era.

We are continuing our series in Matthews Gospel Where Jesus proclaims the Good news of the kingdom of God.

That is, that Gods messiah has come, and with it the dawn of a new era.

Jesus In his teaching (The sermon on the mount)

Jesus in his deed of Power (Jesus in his deeds of Power)

Jesus desire to send out workers to assist him in his ministry of proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom.

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Introduction.

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What are your new year resolutions?

The Big Three!

I love the new year.

Always feels like a fresh start.

A chance to refocus the mind and reorient the mind around your goals.

Now maybe, like me, you are one of those people who makes a list of all the things you want to get done this year, Go to the gym, Get organised, invest more time in your hobbies and if your like me your list is probably similar to last years.

In your mind write your Big Three.

What are your new year resolutions?

Prioritise your Big Three!

Or Three things you would love to Happen.

Where did evangelism, God’s mission, sharing the Good news of Jesus, his life, death and resurrection and all that it entails feature in your list of priorities?

There was a time in history where the people of God had arrived back in the promised land having returned from exile through miraculous and extraordinary circumstances where God had rescued them from a pit, and with their lives back on track they were busy making plans, including home improvement projects, life improvement plans.

“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your panneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”

But all the while, they had forgot about the God who reached down and saved them, they had neglected to rebuild his temple, and where neglecting their election and calling to be a light to the nations, to show the nations the ways of Justice and mercy by walking humbly with their God.

Instead they prioritised their home improvement projects, work, life, eating, drinking and play whilst forgetting about Gods mission.

Big Idea.

In your resolutions this year.

- Prioritise the mission of God.

There is a harvest, more workers are needed to gather in that harvest.

People of God dedicated to the mission of God.

Why You should Care

Here is why God’s mission should be given priority in your life and in 2019: - Sometimes our goals are driven by responsibility for others and necessity.

More often than not they are driven by an endless pursuit of happiness and contentment found in a future promised land of comfort, wealth, position, health and success.

Consequently we give ourselves over to prioritising work, pleasure , physical fitness and a better life, whilst ignoring Gods mission, Now these things in themselves are not bad but God will never allow his children to be satisfied with lesser things apart from him.

True meaning and value and contentment is derived from God’s purpose for our lives.

Without God and his mission at the Center of your life all your pursuits will not bring about lasting contentment.

The western world has more and more stuff, and yet we we are more and more miserable than ever, because it is chasing after the wind and drinking from water that never satisfies.

“Give careful thought to your ways.

6 You have planted much, but harvested little.

You eat, but never have enough.

You drink, but never have your fill.

You put on clothes, but are not warm.

You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honoured,” says the Lord.

9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.

What you brought home, I blew away.

Why?” declares the Lord Almighty.

“Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house

If you want contentment, if you want meaning, if you want purpose, invest yourself in Jesus and his mission to the world.

Put him and his kingdom at the Center of all you do and like Paul you might be able to say I have learned to be content in all circumstance, In Riches and in poverty.

Context / Structure

As we look at ,

1) The Summery of Jesus mission

1) The Summery of Jesus mission

2) What drove him in his mission

3) The call to his disciples to pray about his mission.

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Grant R. Osborne, Matthew, vol. 1, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010), 364.Main.

Exposition

Main.

1) The Summary of Jesus mission (so far)

Notice Jesus was Teaching, proclaiming good news, and Healing.

You teach about God.

God is the creator, God is Just, God is Holy, God is love, God is Patient, Kind, I know this because..... Slow to anger.

God is compassionate, God is merciful, God is gracious, God is faithful, God is good.

God is to be feared, God is to be loved, God is a Judge, God is a father, God is a sheild, a fortress, a rock.

God is all powerful all knowing, all present.

Here what he did for me.

(How do you teach?

(apologetics).

You proclaim the good news of the Kingdom.

God has set a day when he will judge the world and the sins of Mankind, but God sent his son Jesus into the world to die for sinners that whoever believes in him, (His life death and resurrection) will never perish but live forever.

He now commands people everywhere who hear this good news to turn from their sin, be baptised and trust in Him, those who do so will receive the gift of Gods Holy spirit to assure and them guide them.

You heal every sickness and Disease.

(The apostles were special) Most of us will not have the supernatural gift of Healing.

By this I mean where the Spirit of God works healing through the laying on of hands or a word of power to command healing.

So in what sense can we heal “every” sickness and disease.

You have more power to bring about healing than you realise, there is more power to bring about healing through the sharing of the Gospel through word and deed than you realise.

Comforting Words about Jesus can heal a broken heart.

A warm Embrace in the name of Jesus can heal broken Spirit.

Good news and compassion acted out in kind deed can restore a broken hope and a broken faith.

Salvation - And Yes when a person accepts Jesus as their Lord and Saviour and receives the gift of eternal life their broken bodies will on day be physically resurrected and transformed.

Every sickness and disease will be healed, for on the cross he bore our sickness and disease.

Word and Works go together.

But when you proclaim the messsage of salvation and someone responds they

The Summery of Jesus Mission

Notice Jesus Words and Works.

Francis of Assisi - attributed Supposedly said.

(He didn’t) It is through hearing the word.

What about deaf people?

Perceiving is true hearing.

In your new years resolutions how are you going to Teach, proclaim and heal?

2) What drove him in his mission

2) What drove him in his mission

Freedom, Joy, Peace, laughter are not the words that roll of their tongue.

Compassion - It is compassion that drove Jesus and this is what ought out to drive us in sharing the good news about Jesus.

But what is it about the condition of the sheep that cause Jesus to have compassion?