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Announcements
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Revelation Bible study Thursday 2/10 @ 6pm, hope to see you there!
After next week’s service, we will have our annual business meeting after church.
Communion
Good morning and welcome to First Community Church where we worship God in Spirit and in Truth, one verse at a time, one book at a time.
Today is communion Sunday church and everyone is welcome to partake with us, provided you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
Here at FCC, we take communion serious and our hope is that it would never become a meaningless ritual, but rather a time to remember what our Lord did upon the cross and also a time to look forward to his soon return.
How we do community here is simple.
I will pray for us corporately and then during my prayer I will pause, so we can allow the Lord to search our hearts so we take communion in a worthy manner.
I will then close us in prayer.
The cup and bread are right here and as the holy Spirit leads, please come to the table and take the elements back to your seat and we will take together as the body of Christ.
Prayer
Gracious Heavenly Father, thank you for all the gifts, graces, and blessings that you have so richly bestowed upon each and everyone of us.
We praise you that your mercies are new every morning and your compassions fail not and that you will keep us in perfect peace when our minds are stayed upon You.
Lord, today we are coming to the table to partake of the the cup and bread that is a symbol of your broken body and your poured out blood that was shed for the world.
It is our hearts here at FCC, that each time we partake of communion we remember the cross and the implications of it.
Please Father, reveal yourself to us in a new way each time we partake.
Now Lord we pause to allow you to search our hearts to see if there be any wicked way in us that could cause us to take of this supper in an unworthy manner.
PAUSE
Thank you for hearing our prayers and our prayer is that our time together will be a sweet smelling aroma unto Thee and that we would know more deeply the love that was shed upon the cross for us and for the world!
In Jesus Name, we love you!
Amen
Prayer
Lord, we praise you for your goodness and grace!
Thank you for the finished work upon the cross and the grace that you extend every moment of every day.
Now as we open your Word, we ask that you would give us living water that will nourish our souls and nourish others.
Please fill us with a double portion of your Spirit and deal with the issues of our hearts today.
For those suffering or enslaved, we ask for freedom, healing, and hope.
Meet us now in a way that we know you are with us and grow us in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
In Jesus Name we love you!
Amen
Read Matthew 3:1-6
Review
Last week we finished up Chapter 2 of Matthew and learned many things, but I want to remind us of just a few:
We learned that the King was born in Bethlehem and that his birth began to stir up Herod and his team .
We learned that the chief priests and the scribes knew where Jesus was when Herod asked and the Magi went to worship him.
In this we learned that this is exactly what dead religion will do for you.
It will paralyze you and cause you not to walk 5 miles to meet and worship the King of the Jews.
Meaningless religion will cause you to fall into a deep sleep that could even cause you to lose your salvation.
Many religious people have never bent the knee to the Lordship of Jesus Christ in the first place.
We learned that anger in the heart of a man produces resentment which is unforgiveness.
If this is left not dealt with, it will reap havoc in our lives.
In Chapter 2, we learned that Herod’s anger produced murder.
God desires us to forgive and allow Him to comfort us through others.
The King is not a baby no more, but a Young Child in this text somewhere under 2.
In those days, what days are we in?
Well it is important for us to understand that between chapter 2 and chapter 3 about 28-30 years have elapsed here in Matthew.
This means that John and Jesus are around the age of 30 and the biblical text confirms that Jesus ministry started when he was 30.
So John the Baptist shows up after 400 years of Divine silence, there has not been a the voice of a prophet for a long long time church and here comes John.
I think it is crucial for us to remember a few biblical texts before we dig deep in to these few verses:
John the Baptist showed up and when he did he confounded the religious leaders, but why?
Who was this great man and why did he come?
You know that great people come in all shapes and sizes in God’s kingdom, but in the world you must look a certain way, act a certain way, have education or credentials if you may, and even dress a certain way.
But not in God’s kingdom because he uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.
It has been 400 years church, since a prophet spoke for God, it was a time of silence from God’s prophetic voice and then guess what?
God sends JB and his message is simple: REPENT!!!
John is great name right?
It means that Yaweh or Jehovah is gracious and man isn’ this the truth!
So who was John?
Why was he sent?
Why was he so great?
Look at whaat Jesus said about John church:
John the baptist was greater than Moses, than David, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob and Joseph.
He was greater that Elijah and Elisha, greater than Daniel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.
He was even greater that the great kings of Israel church, like Hezekiah, Uzziah, and Josiah.
He was greater than all the greats in the Bible and Jesus said, there is not one greater, no not one!
Obviously we know that greatest on of all, Is Jesus, but next to Jesus is John.
Jesus said that John was great and let us not forget that John was ridiculed, rejected, put in prison and finally beheaded because of his message.
Let’s take a look at this man named John:
Read Luke 1:5-
So John’s parents Zach and Elizabeth were old and barren and the Lord showed up and told Zach that they would have a child at their ripe old age.
Can you imagine?
So John was born into the priestly family of the Levites.
So he was not on a priest, but a prophet.
Jesus was a priest, prophet, and King!
Note this text:
We see here an indication that he may have taken the Nazarite vow of Numbers 6, but scholars seem unsure of this.
He was filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mothers womb church, this means that this baby was sanctified by God for a purpose.
When this text says he shall neither drink wine or strong drink this means that he did not touch wine any level.
The Jews mixed one part wine to six parts water to kill the bacteria in the water or the contamination, while strong drink in this text would mean straight wine.
How about you?
Have you taken the Nazarite vow?
Notice that the text has greatness attached to not drinking.
Great people in God’s kingdom do not risk drinking for the sake of tarnishing their witness.
And church this was no small task because the Jewish culture was full of wine, in fact, the first miracle Jesus did was turning water into wine.
Let’s get back to talking about John!!!
Notice that he will turn many of the children of Israel to their God>>>
The angel said to Zacharias that John will go before him in the spirit and the power of Elijah
Where does this come from?
I want to take a look at a text in Malachi:
Luke used this text to refer to John church, therefore, this text is talking about another Elijah, than the one you read about in the OT.
John the Baptist was a type of Elijah at the first advent of Jesus Christ.
John the Baptist (JB) was an Elijah like person that preached repent or perish.
Much of the time in the OT, when the prophet preached the preached messages of turn or burn church and here in the text we are in we see John preaching the same thing.
John was not trained up in the Jewish Rabbinic schools of the day, he did not go to Bible college or seminary church, but he went to school in the wilderness with the Lord himself.
And there are many here today, if not all of us that have learned a great many things in our wilderness wanderings or when the Lord sends us into the wilderness to learn and grow.
So the last scriptures of the OT here in Malachi tells us of this great man who will show up, before Jesus comes to Judge the earth.
Church, Jesus came as a suffering Servant, but return as a Conquering King!
Are you ready?
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