Toongabbie Baptist Church

We are challenged by the question: how do we, in a city where it's all about personal rights, filled with thinking that 'I deserve this', and where it's all about our individual freedom, how do we live in that as followers of Jesus? We hear that we lay down our rights so that other people may gain life in Jesus Christ. We are challenged by four application points. Personally, to listen well and be...

"We need to live as people who are driven not by fears and taboos and superstitions, nor by the pressures of the culture around us and the desire to conform and fit in, but instead by the gospel of the crucified Jesus. We need to live as people who love God above all else and who are known by God, as people who know that our whole lives are to be lived, as Paul puts it in verse six, through and fo...

Matthew 7:1-12 (1) “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. (2) For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (3) “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (4) How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there...

Matthew 6:16-18 (16) “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. (17) But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, (18) so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees...

Matthew 6:16-18 (16) “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. (17) But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, (18) so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees...

Matthew 6:25-34 (25) “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? (26) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? (27) Can any one of you by worry...

Matthew 6:1-4 (1) “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. (2) “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. (3) But when you giv...

Matthew 6:5-15 (5) “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. (6) But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. (7) And w...

Matthew 7:13–23 (13) “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. (14) But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (15) “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. (16) By their fruit you will recognize them....

Matthew 7:24-28 (24) “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. (25) The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. (26) But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a...

Matthew 5:38-48 (38) “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ (39) But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. (40) And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. (41) If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. (42) Give to the one who asks y...

Matthew 5:31-37 (31) “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ (32) But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. (33) “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the...

Matthew 5:21-30 (21) “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ (22) But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire o...

Matthew 5:13-20 (13) “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. (14) “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. (15) Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to...

Matthew 5:1-12 (1) Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, (2) and he began to teach them. He said: (3) “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (4) Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (5) Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. (6) Blessed are those who hunger and thirst f...

John 11:1-27 (1) Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (2) (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) (3) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.” (4) When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No,...

John 10:1-21 (1) “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. (2) The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. (3) The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. (4) When he has brought out all his own, he...

1 Samuel 30:1-6 (1) David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, (2) and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way. (3) When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and the...

1 Samuel 30:1-6 (1) David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, (2) and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way. (3) When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and the...

1 Samuel 28:1-16 (1) In those days the Philistines gathered their forces to fight against Israel. Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men will accompany me in the army.” (2) David said, “Then you will see for yourself what your servant can do.” Achish replied, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.” (3) Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him an...

1 Samuel 24:1-15 (1) After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.” (2) So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats. (3) He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the...

1 Samuel 21:10-15 (10) That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. (11) But the servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Isn’t he the one they sing about in their dances: “‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?” (12) David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. (13) So he pretended to b...

1 Samuel 19:8-20:4 (8) Once more war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. He struck them with such force that they fled before him. (9) But an evil spirit from the Lord came on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. While David was playing the lyre, (10) Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into...

1 Samuel 17:26-50 (26) David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?” (27) They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.” (28) When Eliab, David’s oldest b...

1 Samuel 15:10-29 (10) Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel: (11) “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night. (12) Early in the morning Samuel got up and went to meet Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel. There he has set up a monument in his own hono...