Sermon Notes

Because Jesus is God with Us who saves us from our sins, the only fitting response is humble, trusting obedience to God. SCENE 1:  Joseph decides to quietly divorce Mary ( vv.18-19). SCENE 2:  An angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream (vv. 20-23). SCENE 3:...

Because the sovereign God has faithfully directed all of history to bring Jesus into the world to save us from our sins, we can confidently trust Jesus as the Christ. God’s sovereign grace leads to Christ, and our faith rests in Christ. 1. God’s sovereign plan:...

Since God loved us as His enemies, in Christ, we must love and pray for our enemies, so His love is seen in us. 1. Jesus exposes our narrow, enemy-hating love. 2. Jesus commands us, as children of the Father, to love and pray for our enemies. 3. Jesus shows that...

Since Jesus is the truth and fulfills all truth, his disciples should walk in the truth and faithfully speak the truth, letting their “yes be yes and their no be no.” 1. Jesus exposes the sin of manipulating truth. 2. Jesus reveals why our words matter to God. 3....

“Divorce is a subject which touches people’s emotions at a deep level. There is almost no unhappiness so poignant as the unhappiness of an unhappy marriage. And almost no tragedy so great as the degeneration of what God meant for love and fulfillment into a...

1. The Seriousness of Heart Sin (vv. 27–28) 2. The Necessity of Radical Repentance (vv. 29–30) 3. The Hope of Gospel Transformation

  I. Loving your wife is the fruit of walking in the Spirit (Eph 5:18-21). “The entire passage flows from the command in v.18 to be filled with the Spirit. Paul’s command to submit to husbands is addressed to Spirit-filled wives, and the command to love wives as...

Disciples of Jesus must live at peace with others and seek to reconcile broken relationships as quickly as we can. 1. Jesus instructs us to pay attention to our hearts before they produce evil angry actions. 2. Jesus instructs us to be reconciled with others before we...

“When the Bible teaches that men and women fulfill different roles in relation to each other, charging man with a unique leadership role, it bases this differentiation not on temporary cultural norms but on permanent facts of creation. This is seen in 1 Corinthians...

Jesus came to fulfill all the Law and the Prophets. Our righteousness must exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees to enter the kingdom of heaven. “To the average man on the street, the Jews of Jesus’ day, this was absolutely shocking! The scribes and Pharisees made...