Teaching Missions: Growing in God’s Grace

God commands us to remember and respond to those believers undergoing persecution

The resurrection of Jesus according to Matthew with great commission

We must deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him

Peter identifies Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God. We must deny ourselves and follow Him

Jesus warned the disciples to avoid the false teachings of the Pharisees (hypocrisy) and Sadducees (unbelief)

Jesus healed the daughter of a Canaanite woman after she no longer prayed to him as the Son of David but as Lord and showed great faith

Jesus said that a man is not defiled by what he eats but by what he says when his heart is unclean

The Pharisees complained that Jesus' disciples did not hold the ceremonial law of washing hands, but Jesus poiinted out that the Pharisees actually changed Gpd's laws by their traditions.

Jesus walks on the sea of Galilea to the boat struggling in the storm. Peter walks briefly and begins to sink when he doubts. 

Jesus fed a crown of 5000 men plus women and children with 5 loaves and 2 fishes

John the Baptist told Herod that his marriage to his brother's wife was adultery. On his birthday, Herodius' daughter danced & the king promised to give her what she wished. She asked for John the Baptist's head on a platter, and John was executed. 

The Jews from Narareth were astonished at Jesus' teaching and miraccles but were upset at his prominence. He did only a few miracles because of his unbelief

A picture of the last times is a net dragged through the sea (the gentiles). The good are kept; the worthless are discarded by the angels into hell

After the parable of the treasure in the field, which refers to Israel being put aside for the moment, Jesus relates the parable of the goodly pearl, describing the church age started by Jesus' crucifixion. 

Liberty of conscience gives us accountability before God for our deeds, but also access to God and we become available to him for the advancement of the gospel

A man finds a treasure in the field, hides it again, and using all his money buys the field. Meaning: Jesus has already bought the field, which is the world, by creation and redemption. He will return again as King of Kings and set up his kingdom on earth.

After sowing good seed, an enemy. Satan, sowed false wheat (tares) in the midst of the good wheat. They would wait until the harvest and the harvesters would separate them and burn them. Meaning: in the future, Jesus will return, the angels will separate out the unsaved and throw them into hell and the saved will shine forth. 

A woman placed leaven in 3 measures of flour to leaven an entire loaf. So false teaching spreads secretly throughout the entire group of "Christians."

Jesus teaches the parable of the sower and 4 types of soil with various yields.

The kingdom of heaven is like the unnatural growth of the mustard plant trying to be a tree

Jesus begins using parables, explains a bit of why to the disciples and gives the parable of the sower

When Jesus' mother and brothers came to speak with him, he showed the crowd that his disciples were his family, those who were doing the Father's will, and that is true for us as well.

Jesus describes an evil spirit, after being removed from a person, wanting to return to "his house." If it is empty, he gets 7 worse spirits to join him. We need to actively seek Christ after freedom from evil spirits

Jonah and the men of Nineveh will witness against the Pharisees and so will the Queen of Sheba