The story of Jesus “triumphal entry” into Jerusalem at the beginning of the final week of His earthly ministry is very familiar. It is tragic to consider that many of those who shouted “Hosanna – blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD” would be the same ones who called vehemently for His crucifixion before the week was out. Jesus’ cleansing of the temple upon His arrival greatly displeased the Jewish leaders whose positions of power and wealth He had challenged by it.
In this chapter, we read Jesus’ parable of the vineyard workers who were displeased when they compared their wages with those of other workers who had come to work later. Afterward, Jesus rebuked John and James when they asked Him that they might sit at his right and left in His coming Kingdom.
Jesus encountered a rich young man who seemed to be genuinely seeking the way to eternal life. Yet when Jesus called upon him to forsake his earthly riches, he was unable to let go of them in order to follow Jesus and thereby gain entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. We must follow Jesus wholeheartedly seeking the eternal rewards He had promised for those who faithfully follow Him rather than the temporary blessings of this earthly life.
Jesus teaches on Marriage(Divorce) and Celibacy
Childlike faith, Warnings against sin, The lost sheep, Church discipline, and Forgiveness
Tonight’s topics include Jesus’ casting out of a demon, predicting His death once again, and a fish with a coin in its mouth.
Our Matthew study takes us through a discussion on the transfiguration.
Tonight, we look at Peter’s confession of Jesus as the Christ, the first time Jesus predicts His coming death and resurrection, and Jesus’ powerful teaching about denying self.
We continue our verse-by-verse study through Matthew with Peter’s profession of faith in Jesus as the Messiah/Christ at Caesarea Philippi
Some of the Sadducees and Pharisees demanded a sign from Jesus to demonstrate the He is the Hebrew Messiah, but He refused to give them a sign and departed from them. Later He warned His disciples to beware the “leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. They thought that He was speaking about the leaven of earthly bread, but He chastised them saying to remember His provision of bread in the feeding of the 5,000 and later the 4,000. Then they realized that He wasn’t speaking of actual leaven, but the spiritual leaven that is symbolic of the sinful false teaching of Israel’s religious leaders. Of course, the same warning is applicable to the false teaching in the Church today.
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