Church notes - February 2025

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2nd
Acts 2:42 - 47
Vision Sunday
The Great Commission
Matthew 28:18 - 20
The Greatest Commandment
Matthew 22:27, 28

Response
Actions

Actions speak louder than words.


9th
Matthew 6:9 - 13

Mark 6:30 - 44
It is a small world
God wants us to be joyful.

Be faith filled and see opportunities to share

John 1:16 - 18

Gr. Splagchnizomai

Not quite onomatopoeia

Compassion - hence - to feel deep emotion
A deeply felt response to the suffering of others.
Five miracles came from Jesus feeling this emotion.

It is OK to rest.

Pharisees called the people 'People of the dirt'
Jesus saw them as sheep without a shepherd.

What we need most - to sit under the teaching of Jesus

2 Timothy 3:16, 17

vs 35
The disciples were focused on what they didn't have.

vs 37 - 40

The people sitting in groups on green grass.
Like green pastures
Psalm 23

vs 41 - 44


16th
Communion
Isaiah 53
Psalm 91

Sermon
Matthew 21:1 - 11
King Jesus

Luke 9:51

Flint - stone that breaks off with a sharp edge.
Jesus was going about His Ministry with a single-minded determination.
He had an unwavering committment.

Jesus riding on a donkey's colt - He was showing that He was coming as a king of peace.

The people putting their cloaks on the road
Like a red carpet
A way of paying honor to Jesus.
Psalm 118

Hosanna - calling for help and expressing happiness at the same time.
A way of acknowledging Jesus as Savior and asking Him to save.

1. The whole city was stirred.
2. This is Jesus - the one commissioned by God.

A sense of awe settling over the city like a fog in a valley. They understood that it was something that God was doing.

The crowd recognised the fullness of King Jesus 2000 years ago.
Do we do so today?


23rd
Matthew 21:12 - 27
Jesus Declares His Authority

Authority
The power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.
'He had absolute authority over his subordinates.'

Jesus had entered Jerusalem as a statement.

Isaiah 53:1 - 7

2 Samuel 5:6 - 10
David conquering Jerusalem, using a water tunnel.

vs 12 - 13

It's not what you think
Rather the meaning of the temple had been corrupted by:
Them making it
A brigand's lair.
- the center of resistance to Roman authority.

Instead
vs 14, 15
Jesus healing the blind and lame. (Contrast, David keeping them out of Jerusalem after his conquest.)

Our pride is tied up in being right.
Jesus was confronting the pride of the Pharisees and Saducees.

Jesus was:
- Looking for fruit
-- In the Temple
-- On the fig tree

The Fig Tree
A metaphor
- for the Pharisees and Saducees lacking fruit.

The mountain
- The Temple was built on a mountain
- There is something better.

Think on the Messiah King and His authority.

Where does He need to find fruit?
- In us

What would it look like to...
... stop treating Jesus as simply a role model and start serving Him as our sovereign King?
To deny ourselves, take up our cross, and make serving Jesus our highest priority?
Then
We wouldn't be content with just blending into the world around us. We would like as loyal subjects of a heavenly kingdom, giving our lives in service to Christ our King.

Colossians 1:10