Category: Matthew
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What a Waste?
Matthew 26:6-8 “Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, ‘Why this waste?’” “One person’s trash is…
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Sheep or Goat?
Matthew 25:40 “And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’” Jesus spoke often about the future to his disciples. In Matthew 25, He gives the account of “the sheep and the goats,” metaphors for…
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The Secret Things of God
Matthew 13:11 “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven.” God has many secrets. In the first place, He knows everything there is to know and we don’t. He is aware of an infinite amount of information of which we have no knowledge. The Bible says His ways are…
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True or False? You Can’t Take It with You.
Matthew 22:1-14 “And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come . . .And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all…
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Salt of the Earth
Matthew 5:13-14 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” Here in Matthew 5 Jesus uses the metaphor of the properties of salt to demonstrate how believers…
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A Spiritual Test
Matthew 5:23-24 “So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.” Are you mad at anyone? Is there anyone that you have negative…
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The Only Way Up
Mark 9:35 “And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, ‘If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.’” Matthew 23:12 “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” One of the prevailing themes of the Scriptures is that…
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Who Do You Say That He Is?
Matthew 16:13-17 “Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ He said to them, ‘But who do you say that…
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The Forgiver of Sins
Luke 23:34 “And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Matthew 26:73-75 “After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, ‘Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.’ Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, ‘I do not know the man.’ And…
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The Forgivers
Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” The Bible is clear that no one is saved by works, i.e., no one will ever gain God’s favor by the good things they do. …
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