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Jesus after preaching to the people in Simon Peter’s boat. Tells Simon to go out a little and cast his net. Simon and his partners had worked all night without catching anything. Simon informs Jesus of this, but tells Jesus he will do so anyway. I do not think Simon did so in faith, but out of respect for Jesus. As a result of him doing as Jesus said, they caught more fish than two boats could hol...

Jesus leaves Judea due to the arrest of John the Baptist. He begins His Galilean Ministry by relocating to Capernaum and traveling through Galilee preaching, teaching and doing signs and wonders. Early in that ministry He returns to His home town of Nazareth. There, as is His custom, attends synagogue on the Sabbath. He reads the prophet, Isaiah Chapter 61 and declares that they are witnesses to t...

333 FBCWest | The Resurrevtion and the Life by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California

Jesus returns to Jerusalem for a holy day feast and heals a man who had been disabled for 38 years on the Sabbath. He is accused by the religious authority of breaking the Sabbath by healing the man. Jesus’ response is that God the Father works on the Sabbath and He does what He see His Father doing. This enrages them even more in that He is making himself equal with God. Jesus again rebukes them...

A desperate father, because his son is dying, goes to Jesus, in faith, believing Jesus can heal him if He goes to his son. Jesus’ initial response is that people only want to see signs and wonders. The father stays persistent and implores Jesus to go to his son anyway. Jesus then answers him and say the child is healed. The father now has a choice: one to continue to implore Jesus to do it the way...

330 FBCWest | A Conversation with a Samaritan Woman

329 FBCWest by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California

The miracle at the wedding at Cana speaks more of who Jesus is than just His first miracle. Jesus turns water into wine. Jesus does not transform water, He changes its elements to wine. Jesus’ power is not just that he moves one form to another. He does not transform water into ice or steam, but transmutes the elements from water into another substance. He is not limited to the elements at hand, b...

The miracle at the wedding at Cana speaks more of who Jesus is than just His first miracle. Jesus turns water into wine. Jesus does not transform water, He changes its elements to wine. Jesus’ power is not just that he moves one form to another. He does not transform water into ice or steam, but transmutes the elements from water into another substance. He is not limited to the elements at hand, b...

Two of John the Baptist’s disciples hear John’s testimony that Jesus is “the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” and follow Jesus. One of them, Andrew, after spending the day with Jesus, brings his brother Simon to Jesus, telling his brother they found the Messiah. Then Jesus sees and calls to Phillip, a Jew with a Greek name, to follow Him. Phillip also, in response to following Jes...

We all experience temptations to do the wrong thing or make the wrong decision. Jesus also was tempted. The Bible says that Jesus was tempted in all things and yet “without sin”. There are many things we can learn from Jesus’ temptations. How to deal with them. Jesus often used Scripture to combat temptation. We also learn that even after successfully dealing with Satan, that Satan will come again...

Usually when we think of baptism we think of a sinner coming to God. However, with this view we are surprised that Jesus comes to John the Baptizer to be baptized. John does not want to baptize Jesus, because he knows Jesus is greater than he. However, Jesus convinces him to baptize Him, so that “righteousness” might be fulfilled. Upon Jesus baptism, the Holy Spirit descends upon and remains on Hi...

Up until this point in the gospels, we have learned of the circumstances of the conception, birth and dedication of the Messiah. The gospels have emphasized the response of that birth by angels, shepherds, and an old man and woman, which was praise and glorifying God. Matthew records the only words and actions by the Messiah as a child and before He started His public ministry on earth. Therefore,...

322 FBCWest by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California

Mary, who is pregnant with the Messiah and Joseph live in Nazareth. The Messiah is to be born in Bethlehem. So God makes sure they arrive in Bethlehem by having Augustus Caesar require everyone to go to their ancestral home to register for the census. While in Bethlehem Mary delivers her baby. God’s plan is accomplished whether His people know the plan or not. Then an angel announces to some sheph...

Mary, a virgin, is told by the Angel Gabriel, who is sent by God, that she would bear a son who will be called “the Son of God”. Mary was a thoughtful person. She “ponders” the type of greeting she receives from Gabriel. When told that she would bear a son, she asks a reasonable question, how, since she is and will continue to be until the birth of the “Son of God” a virgin. Gabriel explains how....

First Baptist Church of Westminster During Biblical times people believed, wrongly, that if you were rich God favored you. Also having children was a sign of God’s blessing. However, being poor or unable to bear children was a sign that God abandoned you or you were a sinner. However, an angel comes to a righteous man whose wife was barren while he is tending the Altar of Incense, which was a symb...

316 FBCWest | The Resurrection of the Dead by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California

He gives us through the word of the Lord Prophecy of things that will happen in the future as far as his future. Daniel is going to tell has told us about the various kingdoms coming in his future. There will be pain and there will be suffering, deceived, worship things that aren't good, worship this end time Messiah, and people will take his mark so that they might buy and sell and their lives’....

The world is going to do with the world's going to do. It's going to seek its own power going to seek its own glory. Especially those who take a stand against God. It doesn't mean that God is not in control. It doesn't mean that God is not sovereign in this matter. When you're persecuted. Even Jesus has counted all joy when they persecuted. You are blessed. And yet the scripture seem to see those...

On the side of one who says well when I tell God what to do God does it. The Santa Claus God or give him my list of things that he supposed to do for me. Then answer me pronto. Or you one who says. I am simply a servant of the most high God. He can tell me what to do, and I will do that, and even when he tells me what to do and I do that. So maybe what we need is to continue the fight and part of...

311 FBCWest | Daniel Seeks God Through Prayer by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California

310 FBCWest | Daniel’s Second Vision by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California

309 FBCWest by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California

308 FBCWest by First Baptist Church of Westminster, California