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Aug 04, 2019

Fasting or Feasting

Passage: Matthew 9:14-17

Speaker: Chip Reed

Series: The Parables of Jesus

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: holiness, new, legalism, grace, law, messiah, old

Jesus shatters people’s expectations of the Messiah. Most of the religious people of his day expected a Conquering King...one who would rescue the Jews from the Romans, one who would “kick butt and take names.” Instead, Jesus came to rescue them from spiritual darkness, show grace and mercy, and die as a sacrifice for sin. He is the Suffering Servant. This parable addresses those errant expectations. Jesus tells them that they need to realign their understanding because he is about to “blow their minds!”

ORDER of Worship

PRELUDE: Sideways - New Wine

CALL TO WORSHIP: Romans 12:1-2a & Isaiah 6:3

READING: 2 Corinthians 5:17,21 

MUSIC:

  • Holy, Holy, Holy
  • Overwhelmed
  • Jesus I Come (Out of my Bondage)
  • Lead On O King Eternal

MISSIONAL LIVING: The Yancey’s -Costa Rica

MESSAGE:  Fasting or Feasting

CENTRAL TEXT: Matthew 9:14-17

14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

ILLUSTRATION: Dogma - Buddy Christ

RESPONSE: John 15:4-5,9,11

BENEDICTION: Romans 15:13

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES:

  • John 10:10
  • Zech. 9:9-10
  • Zech. 14:2-4
  • Rev. 21:5
  • Zech. 14
  • Dan. 7:13-14 (Son of Man) 
  • Matt. 24:30
  • Rev. 19:11
  • Rev. 20:1-6
  • Titus 2:13

MEDIA:

8.04.19 Album

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

  1. How would you describe Jesus to someone else?
  2. What shapes your understanding of The Messiah?
  3. How relevant would you honestly say the second coming of Jesus is to your everyday life?
  4. Give examples of how your theology (view of God) determines your actions?
  5. Identify something in your life that do not accurately match up to what you say you believe. 
  6. By faith in the finished work of Christ, the Spirit indwells our hearts; compelling us to new life and real change. Knowing God is now IN us, how might that lead to gospel choices and actions? Holding back? Taking risk? Loving boldly? 

QUOTES:

  • “We’ve made him in our image, so our faith’s idolatry.” - Michael Card
  • “Only if your God can outrage you and make you struggle will you know that you worship the real God and not a figment of your imagination” - Timothy J. Keller
  • “We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.” - Paul David Tripp
  • “It’s impossible to have a clean heart without gospel transformation. God must come to us and make us new. Our hearts are made new by the Holy Spirit the moment we believe; they’re renewed as we pursue the Spirit day after day. We need the gospel every moment of our lives.” - Jeff Vanderstelt

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