Christ and the Law, Part 4 Matthew 5:20 …Code: 2212 Let’s have prayer together as we begin our study tonight. Father, we thank You for fellowship that You have provided in Christ. We thank You for how rich and rewarding, how satisfying and energizing, how thrilling and hopeful it is to know You and to […]
Christ and the Law, Part 1 Matthew 5:17 …Matthew 5:17-20, Our Lord says, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy them but to fulfill them. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will […]
Jesus and the Jewish Law “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” (Matthew 5:17) It is quite often said thatJesus had little appreciation for Judaism’s oral laws. But a great many Jewish people recognizedJesus […]
Day 11 The kind of claims Jesus made did not make him very popular with the religious elite. But Jesus knew his purpose, and he spent much of his time with ordinary people who had ordinary human needs. One such person was a woman he met in the region of Samaria. Women were second-class citizens […]
Story of jesus Day 14 Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons. These are the twelve he […]
Day 10 Jesus began to reveal who he was, and he was like no other person anyone had known. Although he was fully human, he was also fully God. With his 12 disciples as interns, Jesus began his itinerant ministry of teaching and healing. Soon he traveled to the city of Jerusalem to […]
The story of Jesus Day 20 Jesus commissioned his closest followers, the 12 disciples, to spread out and tell people that the kingdom of God had come. He also gave them spiritual authority to heal people from sickness and demonic oppression. This first band of preachers was sent out with almost no […]