Matthew 12v24-42 The Day Of Judgement

In this section of Matthew’s Gospel our Lord brings before us a very important lesson. He reminds us of a coming day of judgement. He says ‘I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak’ [v36] and that both the people of Nineveh and the Queen [...]

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Matthew 12v1-23 – The Sabbath Day

There is much debate among Christians as to whether or not we should still keep the Sabbath day. This isn’t the place or the time to go into all the arguments for either side. I believe we should. If we understand what the Sabbath day was all about then we really would want to keep [...]

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Matthew 11 – How privileged but how blind

Here we read of the Lord Jesus denouncing certain cities. He is denouncing them because they had witnessed certain things which other cities hadn’t and yet they remained mainly full of unbelief. For example, Capernaum was the place where Jesus lived during His earthly ministry [4v13]. Various miracles were performed there [see chapter 5 for [...]

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Matthew 10v21-42 – keep going to the end

There is a lot in this passage for us to think and meditate upon. There are many serious things for us to consider, as well as many encouragements for us to enjoy. I want us to consider what the Lord said in v22 – ‘but the one who endures to the end will be saved’. [...]

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Matthew 10v1-20 What do you want to be remembered for?

I recently took a funeral of a dear lady who had served the Lord for many years. After the service in the funeral home we went up to the graveyard for the burial. Walking over to where the burial was to take place I was able to look at some of the gravestones nearby. Many [...]

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Extra: Matthew 9v37-38 Labourers for the harvest

Jesus said ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest’

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Matthew 9v18-38 – The right kind of faith.

There is one thing that seems to jump out of the page in our reading today and that is the faith of some of the people who are mentioned here. The faith of the ruler is seen in the fact that he believed Jesus could raise his daughter from the dead. Now you don’t just [...]

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Matthew 9v1-17 Who knows our thought?

Prior to the flood we read ‘GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually’ [Genesis 6:5]. It should not surprise us that God knows our thoughts as He is our Maker and is all-knowing. The Psalmist says [...]

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Matthew 8v18-34 – Sin or Christ? That is the choice.

I was struck by the contrast between these people we read of at the end of our passage today and Moses. Two men were demon possessed and Jesus cast the demons into a herd of pigs. The pigs ran down a steep hill and into the sea and drowned. The herdsmen ran into the town [...]

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Matthew 8v1-17 – I am willing; I am not worthy

There were two comments that stood out to me in our reading today. In the first incident when Jesus healed the leper, the leper said to Jesus ‘Lord, if you will, you can make me clean’ to which Jesus said ‘I am willing’ [v2-3 NIV]. Here was a man in great need. He had an [...]

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