What is important? Jesus sharing God's love
Matthew's Gospel / 3
What do you consider is most important? What things do you want to safeguard and protect? For the Pharisees, tradition and purity were of highest importance. For John’s disciples, working to earn God’s love through fasting was important. But Jesus demonstrates a far more important thing - to share God’s love. Jesus countered the Pharisees’ love for tradition with compassion and love for ’tax collectors and sinners’. And Jesus taught John’s disciples that mercy and forgiveness is more important than works.
So what about us? What do we consider as important? How does that differ from what God says is important? Are you willing to change your focus and follow God in what is important?
Matthew 9:1-8 Mark 2:1-12 Matthew 7:28-29
Preacher: Alex Camp
Series: Matthew's Gospel
Date: April 28, 2024