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Matthew 8:13-17
Jesus comes into Peter's house. Jesus touches Peter's mother-in-law. Jesus drives out evil spirits and heals the sick with a word. The Spirit of Jesus is defined by a movement to be planted as a Seed in the soil of our lives. His presence, His touch, His word meet us where we are, they unite with us and bear the Fruit of their Origin. As the Sower is, so too are those implanted by His Seed.
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Matthew 21:1-11
We fast forward to Palm Sunday for our lead-in to Easter and find Jesus entering Jerusalem as a King on a donkey. Lowly and meek and yet proclaiming a Judgement. The Spirit of Life is enthroned to reveal Life and cast out all else.
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Matthew 8:5-13
A Roman centurion, the picture of power in the ancient world, comes to Jesus seeking help. Pastor Matt highlights the Spirit of Jesus in this interaction that revolves around authority. Authority is order and meaning, without it there is nothing. The one who has their request answered is the one who humbles themselves before the Ultimate Authority who gives Life and Meaning to all things.
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Matthew 8:1-4
Jesus comes down from the mountain where He has just spoken some of His most famous words. More than beautiful words, His Spirit is a reality to be known, to be lived through. Brad reflects on God's faithfulness and His willingness to be for us Life itself. The Spirit of Christ says, "I am willing. Be clean!"
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Matthew 7:24-28
The Sermon on the Mount ends with people in awe. More than just at the beauty of Jesus' words, but at the gravity surrounding Him—the Authority He carries, the Life He is. His final Word rings out as a definitive Statement of Truth: Life is in Me.
If Life is in you, if you are built on The Rock, then you will know a Life that is unhindered and unassailable. Everything else is burning up to reveal the always remaining Truth.
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Matthew 7:13-23
The Truth excludes by Nature, but it is not exclusive. Pastor Matt draws on the Spirit of Jesus as He speaks of the Narrow Gate that leads to Life. For every statement of Truth, there can be an infinity of lies that are unrealities.
What does that mean for us? If the Truth is so restrictive, how can we find ourselves included in It? Hear the wonderful invitation of Christ in Jesus' words.
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Matthew 7:7-12
Jesus has another simple statement to us: "Ask, and it will be given to you." We continue allowing God's Word to speak to us as we explore a Nature given for us. A Nature that has confidence and full certainty that when it asks, it has already received (Mark 11:24).
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Join us as we celebrate Christmas, looking to the Light given for us from the beginning. "The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it."
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Matthew 7:1-5 – Jesus, the one who is without sin reveals the children of God definitively saying, "Do not judge". Matt beautifully unfolds Jesus' words on the nature of who God is as one who does not judge; that is the nature we need, not just a curbing of the impulse to judge. "You cannot think evil for another, and good for yourself."
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Matthew 6:25-34: Jesus reaches a high point in the revelation of His Father's Kingdom. It's startling that rather than talk about a far of place, He is pushing for all those hearing Him speak to recognise the Kingdom here and now. How can He tell us, "Do not worry," when all of history and our own experience testifies to a seemingly different reality? If we could just catch a glimpse through Jesus' eyes, we would see a Reality that reigns over all other seeming realities, right here and right now. Who will we believe?
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Matthew 6:22-24: The substance of all that is seen is unseen. All that is seen is held by the secret, the outer is held by the inner. Jesus' words drive us to a True Vision that knows the Reality of things to be behind what is seen. What is taken in through our senses leads us beyond itself to a knowing of something Eternal behind what is seen. It is not something different to what is seen, but is its true reality, its substance. Where the substance is known, the object can never be taken away. Do you have eyes to see what is True and always remains?
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This episode in our 'Sprit of Jesus' series serves as a little bit of a recap on what we've covered in Matthew 6 so far, as well as pushing further into Jesus' words revealing the Father: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal..."
In other words, anything that can be taken from you, will be taken from you because by definition, if something can be taken from you it is temporary. What is temporary does not last and will be taken away. What is Eternal can never be added to or taken away. Find your treasure, store up your treasure on what is Eternal and you will find that you have a Life that can never be taken away or diminished.
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Is fasting better than eating and drinking? Does restraint of the flesh make us better than those that follow the desires of the flesh? It's so easy for us to define a good based on a contrast with evil. To 'not chase after the desires of the flesh' can lead to the thought that the restraint is a laying hold of a good in itself. This is the trap the Pharisee finds himself in.
Matt unpacks Jesus' words which are leading us to so much more than restraint of desire or surrender to it. He is opening up the only way to the total freedom of Being.
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This week we look at the Lord's Prayer in the context of Matthew 6:5-15.
Jesus continues to cast aside any possibility of 'seeming' to be anything, or 'trying' to be anything. He casts his eyes upward to the Life of our Father to begin to understand what it means to be a Child of Heaven.
Jesus’ words emphasise a reality where we are to ‘be’ rather than seem. This strikes right at the heart of Gospel… it’s more than a command or something we're to try to do, but an invitation to rest in the very ‘be-ing’ of God — a Being that is fullness, freedom, Life itself.
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Jesus’ words emphasise a reality where we are to ‘be’ rather than seem. This strikes right at the heart of Gospel… it’s more than a commands or something we're to try to do, but an invitation to rest in the very ‘be-ing’ of God — a Being that is fullness, freedom, Life itself.
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Jesus said: "You've heard it said, 'An eye for an eye...'"; what follows are some of the most radical statements ever spoken. The Christ has come, not to abolish the law 'an eye for eye', but somehow to fulfil it! The Christ has come to fulfil more than just the obeying of a law in the externals. Jesus is communicating to us how exactly the Christ is to fulfil the Law in us.
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Jesus draws from the most pervasive communications set in stone: The Ten Commandments. You have heard it said, "Thou shalt not murder," but the Christ has come to fulfil more than just the obeying of a law in the externals. Jesus is communicating to us how exactly the Christ is to fulfil the Law in us.
Jesus lived 2000 years ago in Bethlehem, but the Christ has come to live in our hearts at this very moment.
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Jesus affirms the Law as good. He says it cannot and will not be, revoked or removed. The Law's purpose is that it hems us in; puts us in the belly of the whale, where we are still, and find the Presence of God to be in Us.
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Do you believe in the possibility of perfect peace? The tried and trodden paths to peace are laws of conduct, or establishing buffers between hostile parties. Conflict might be subdued by these attempts, but peace is not established. The peacemakers, are the called children of God.
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To see something, is to recognise and comprehend something that already *is* (exists). It is only the PURE IN HEART who see God - the God who was and IS and is to come. This purity of heart cannot be achieved...but it can be received: "I have come to open the eyes of the blind."
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