On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a sermon based on Matthew 18:15-35. This message was part 4 in the “Relating to _____” series and focused on “Relating to those who wronged you.” Below you will find the sermon audio from this message to listen to or share with others.
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On Sunday, January 27, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a sermon based on Matthew 18:15-35. This message was part 4 in the “Relating to _____” series and focused on “Relating to those who wronged you.” Below are a set of questions related to the message for personal reflection or group discussion:
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Last week at Wildwood we saw Jesus challenge His followers to demonstrate the Father’s heart for believers who have lost their way by pursuing them in love and seeking restoration (Matthew 18:10-14). But what happens when the one who has lost their way has “wronged us” in some way? How are we supposed to respond?
This is a very important question. Thankfully, Jesus has not left it up to our imagination, but has provided direction for us inside of His Word. In Matthew 18:15-35, we see Jesus describing for us how we are to relate to those who have wronged us.
Join us at Wildwood Community Church this Sunday, January 27 in our 9:45 or 11:00 service as we look at these verses in our next installment in the “Relating to______” series. See you then!
On Sunday, January 20, 2019, at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a sermon based on Matthew 18:10-14. This message was part 3 of the “Relating to” series and focused on “Relating to the Lost.” Below you will find the sermon audio from this message available to listen to or share.
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On Sunday, January 20, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a message based on Matthew 18:10-14. This message was part 3 in the “Relating to” series and focused on “Relating to the lost.” Below are a series of questions related to this message for personal reflection or group discussion.
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When was the last time you lost something of value?
When things THIS valuable go missing, what do you do? You begin to search, right?
What do you do? You spring to action, because there is something valuable to you that is missing, and NEEDS to be found! The way we feel about these “lost” things is a helpful reminder of a tremendous spiritual point.
Spiritually speaking, billions of people who are created in the image of God are “lost.” Choosing to go their own way, their lives have fallen, they are not waiting for the Lord, and have instead choose to go their own way. As a result, the Scripture lets us know that they are headed for eternal judgment. However, God sees them as immensely valuable. Therefore, He went looking for them. Jesus came to seek out the lost. Like a shepherd looking for his lost sheep, Jesus came looking for lost people.
This point is taught by Jesus on a number of occasions with slightly different emphasis. For instance, in Luke 15, Jesus teaches this message to emphasize God’s pursuit of the “unsaved.” In Matthew 18, however, we see Jesus teaching this point connected to the “saved.” In other words, what happens if a Christ follower begins to wander away . . . what is Jesus’ attitude towards him/her? Well, He comes after us, with the same passion He pursues the non-believer.
This Sunday at Wildwood, we will continue our “Relating to” series by looking at how Jesus’ perspective on the “lost” impacts His followers. Join us at 9:45 or 11:00 in our worship services as we celebrate the Lord’s Supper and worship together as we look at Matthew 18:10-14 together, See you Sunday!
On Sunday, January 6, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church I preached a message based on Matthew 18:1-6 and 19:13-15. This message was part 1 in the “Relating to” series and looked at how we are “Relating to Children.” Below is audio from this sermon to listen to or share.
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On Sunday, January 6, 2019 at Wildwood Community Church, I preached a message based on Matthew 18:1-6 and 19:13-15. This message was the first in the “Relating to _____” series, and talked about how the follower of Christ can relate to children. Below you will find a series of questions related to the message for personal reflection or group discussion.
Sermon Questions:
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Statistics indicate that nearly 80% of all Christians in America first trusted in Jesus before their 21st birthday.
How does that statistic make you feel? Encouraged? Discouraged? Indifferent?
I’ll tell you how it makes me feel — motivated. Motivated to be involved in being for the next generation following Jesus together to the glory of God.
God is not obligated to save anyone, so we certainly would not want statistics to serve as demands on what God HAS to do, or restricting our expectations of what God CAN do. God has to do nothing, and He can do all things.
However, it is fascinating to see this statistic and even to feel some of its relevance in our experience at Wildwood Community Church where the majority of our baptismal candidates have been people under the age of 21. However, all these minors remind us of something MAJOR . . . something that Jesus said to His first followers in Matthew 18:1-6 and 19:13-15. Children are an example of what it looks like to come to Him, and we should not hinder them in any way from doing so.
This Sunday at Wildwood Community Church, we will be launching a new sermon series called “Relating to __________.” Over the next 8 weeks we will be walking through Matthew 18-20, seeing how Jesus instructs His followers to relate to a variety of topics including marriage, temptation, those who wronged you, leadership, and more. This week, we will kick off our study by looking at what Jesus says about children in Matthew 18 and 19. We hope you will make plans to join us in our 9:45 or 11:00 services this Sunday. Join us . . . and bring your friends as we lift up the name of Jesus together, and look into His Word as we seek to follow Him together in 2019. See you Sunday!
