Matthew 3 (closing verses)Jesus In The Wildernessthe heavens opened at Jesus's baptism and God declared 'this is my dearly loved son'
Matthew 24 (broader chapter)Filtering the FuturePastor referenced Jesus warning about birth pains, signs in the heavens, and not being fooled by false christs
Matthew 3, final versesUncomfortable Is Not the Same as Abandonedread to show what happened right before the wilderness, the baptism of Jesus and the Father declaring this is my dearly loved son
Matthew 1:1The Christmas Storyread as the opening of the New Testament genealogy tracing Jesus to David and Abraham
Matthew 1:1Christmas： The Whole Storyread as the opening of the New Testament genealogy tracing Jesus to David and Abraham
Matthew 1:18-19The Virgin and The Villagefulfillment of the virgin birth prophecy, read aloud by a congregation member
Matthew 1:18-25The Christmas Storyread as the account of Jesus' birth from the Holy Spirit and the angel's message to Joseph
Matthew 1:18-25Christmas： The Whole Storyread as the account of Jesus' birth from the Holy Spirit and the naming of Emmanuel
Matthew 1:21The Christmas Storyreferenced again specifically to break down the meaning of the name Yeshua
Matthew 1:21Christmas： The Whole Storyreferenced again to explain that the name Yeshua means Yahweh saves
Matthew 2:1-11Born Championread by Brian to show Jesus fulfilling the Isaiah 9:6 prophecy of a child being born, including the wise men visiting
Matthew 2:1-11Born Champion： Isaiah's Prophecy of the Kingread to show Jesus fulfilling the Isaiah 9 prophecy, covering the wise men following the star to Bethlehem and presenting gifts
Matthew 3:17 or similarThe Greatest Hookquoted as God speaking at Jesus' baptism or transfiguration: 'This is my beloved son, listen to him'
Matthew 4:1-11Jesus In The Wildernessthe full account of Jesus being led into the wilderness and tempted by the devil
Matthew 4:1-11When You FastJesus fasting forty days and forty nights before beginning his ministry, cited as the model apprentices follow
Matthew 4:4The Master, The Manager, and The MoverReferenced as man does not live by bread alone, used to show Jesus keeping his spirit in authority over his flesh
Matthew 5:17New Winequoted to show Jesus came to fulfill rather than abolish the law
Matthew 6:9-13Worship and Prayerread from the screen as the Matthew version of the Lord's Prayer, used line by line as a framework for corporate prayer
Matthew 6:9-10Training for Reigningread aloud as the Lord's Prayer, used to introduce the coming literal kingdom of God on earth
Matthew 6:14They Recognize His Voice and Come to Himquoted directly during the open-mic sharing time on forgiveness: 'for if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly father will also forgive you'
Matthew 6:16Throw Your Line OverJesus says when you fast, not if, introducing fasting as normal practice
Matthew 6:16-18When You FastJesus's teaching on fasting in secret, contrasted with the hypocrites who fast to be seen by others
Matthew 6:19-20 (alluded to)The Gold of Jesusstore up treasure in heaven where moth and rust cannot get to it
Matthew 6:19-34Love, Trust, and Something to Work Withmain passage read aloud, covering treasures in heaven, the lamp of the body, serving two masters, and not worrying
Matthew 6:19-21Sex, Money, and the BibleJesus warns against storing earthly treasure and says the heart pursues what it esteems as treasure
Matthew 6:19-21Work and RewardJesus teaching on not storing up treasures on earth but storing treasure in heaven
Matthew 6:19-21Three Aspects of Tithingcore text for the sermon, on storing treasures in heaven vs earth and the heart following treasure
Matthew 6:19-21Sex, Money, and the BibleJesus telling listeners not to store up earthly treasures but heavenly ones, and that the heart follows its treasure
Matthew 6:19-21Make Room in Your HeartUsed to show that hearts follow appetites and that treasures should be stored in heaven
Matthew 6:22-34Three Aspects of Tithingextended reading covering the eye as lamp, serving two masters, and not worrying because God provides
Matthew 6:24The Test of Tithingcongregation member connects the tithing and trust theme to no one can serve two masters including money
Matthew 6:24The First Tithecongregation member connects the tithing and trust theme, no one can serve two masters, you cannot serve God and be enslaved to money
Matthew 6:31Sex, Money, and the BibleJesus tells his followers not to worry about food and clothing as unbelievers do but to seek God's kingdom first
Matthew 6:31Sex, Money, and the BibleJesus asking why believers worry about food and clothing, saying the Father already knows their needs
Matthew 6:33How To Hang Your Hatused to encourage surrendering circumstances to God, 'seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness'
Matthew 6:33How to Hang Your HatJay quoted it to encourage surrendering to God rather than chasing after the hat
Matthew 6:33My Love for Israel Is Passionate and Strongseek ye first the kingdom of God and everything else will fall into place, used to encourage aligning with what is important to God
Matthew 8:18-22You're Not Being Very Sensitive, Jesusthe focused passage for the sermon, Jesus instructs disciples to leave, addresses the teacher of religious law and the disciple wanting to bury his father
Matthew 9:14-17Warnings About New Wineread aloud by congregation member as primary text for the series on new wine and wineskins
Matthew 10Easter Sunday at TribeReferenced for the principle that everyone who acknowledges Jesus publicly on earth he will acknowledge before the Father
Matthew 10The Master, the Manager, and the Moverreferenced for the promise that anyone who gives a cup of cold water in Jesus name will not lose their reward
Matthew 10:42 (alluded to)The Gold of Jesuscannot receive full reward without giving even a cold cup of water at God's direction
Matthew 11:28-30The How of HolinessCome to me all you who are weary and burdened - read aloud by a congregation member, used to explore the invitation and yoke of Jesus
Matthew 11:28-30The Promise of RestJesus invites the weary to come to him and he will give them rest
Matthew 11:28-30Entering the Arena with GodJesus says come to me all who are weary, my yoke is easy and my burden is light
Matthew 11:28Easter Sunday at Tribeall who are burdened and heavy laden, come to me and I will give you rest, spoken during altar call
Matthew 11:29-30Restfulness vs. Restlessnessquoted as Jesus offering his yoke in contrast to Pharaoh's yoke of bondage
Matthew 12:1-14Being With Jesusmain text for the series on wineskins, two Sabbath stories involving the disciples eating grain and healing a crippled hand
Matthew 12:1-14Shhhh! Smell Something?Central text for the sermon, read aloud by congregation members
Matthew 12:1-14Breaking The Lawprimary passage read aloud and discussed throughout the sermon
Matthew 12:1-14Two Men Enter, One Man Leaveprimary passage read aloud at the opening, covering the disciples eating grain on the Sabbath and the healing of the man with the deformed hand
Matthew 12:1-14New Wineskins ｜ Joy Abadthe series text about the disciples eating grain on the Sabbath and the healing of the man with the crippled hand, used throughout as the foundation for the wineskin discussion
Matthew 12:1-14Smell Somethingcentral text read aloud, disciples picking grain and healing of withered hand
Matthew 12:1-14Breaking the Lawmain passage read aloud, disciples in grain field and healing of withered hand on Sabbath
Matthew 12:12-14Two Men Enter, One Man LeavesJesus healing the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath, leading the Pharisees to plot how to kill him
Matthew 12:21The Promise of Restcongregation member cited it saying Jesus will be called the hope of the world
Matthew 12:43-45Breaking the Lawparable of the swept house, demon returns with seven others, used to frame Jonathan Cahn's Return of the Gods premise
Matthew 13:24-30Entering the Arena with Godparable of wheat and weeds growing together until harvest when weeds are burned
Matthew 14:24-31Listen Before You ObeyPeter walking on water toward Jesus amid wind and waves, used to encourage testing and pursuing God's voice amid complexity
Matthew 16Enter Into Abundancequoted by a congregation member as Jesus warning his disciples to beware the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees
Matthew 16:6Portal of BloodJesus warns his disciples to beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees
Matthew 17:16-23Sons of God ｜ Dr. Laura Sangerdisciples unable to cast out a demon tormenting a boy who fell into water, cited to show some water spirits only go out by fasting
Matthew 17:20Pecky DayReferenced in passing during discussion of whether Israel had enough faith to believe God could make water from a rock
Matthew 18:3The Revelation of His Wordreferenced without specific verse when a congregation member said 'unless you become like a little child you cannot enter the kingdom of God' in response to the dream
Matthew 18:7-9Devoted to Destructionif your hand or eye causes you to sin, cut it off, linked to the call to radically destroy sin
Matthew 18:7-9Devoted to DestructionRead by a congregation member about cutting off hand or foot or eye if it causes you to sin
Matthew 18:20Entering the Arena with GodRenee opens prayer noting where two or three are gathered, God is with them
Matthew 19:4-5Tribe JH Livestream Mothers Day 2023Jesus says from the beginning God made them male and female, a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife
Matthew 19:12God's CallingJesus describing the three types of eunuchs, born that way, made by others, and voluntary for the kingdom
Matthew 19:12Character Before Callingquoted to explain the three types of eunuchs Jesus describes
Matthew 21:44His Name on Your BootBrian cites it when talking about falling on the rock and being broken or being crushed flat
Matthew 21:44Shhhh! Smell Something?Jesus speaks of himself as a stone that breaks those who stumble on it and crushes those it falls on, used to argue there is no neutral response to Jesus
Matthew 21:44Israel, A Stone In the Pathread from the screen: anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces and it will crush anyone on whom it falls, used to call people to fall on the rock of Jesus regarding Israel
Matthew 21:44What Great Lovefall on the rock and be broken, otherwise the rock will fall on you and crush you
Matthew 21:44Smell Somethinganyone who stumbles on the stone is broken, anyone it falls on is crushed, only two options
Matthew 21:44Israel: A Stone in the Pathanyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces and it will crush anyone on whom it falls
Matthew 22:2-3A Little Story With a Big Meaningopening verses of the parable of the wedding feast, the king inviting guests who refused to come
Matthew 22:8-9A Little Story With a Big Meaningthe king tells servants the invited guests are unworthy and to go invite everyone from the street corners
Matthew 22:11-14A Little Story With a Big Meaningthe king confronts the man without proper wedding clothes and has him bound and thrown into outer darkness
Matthew 22:37Rooted In The WordLove the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, cited when discussing what areas of the mind need renewal
Matthew 22:37What Do I Memorize？love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind, cited in discussion of what to memorize
Matthew 23:25Entering the Arena with Godwoe to Pharisees who clean the outside of the cup but inside are full of greed, first clean the inside
Matthew 23:25Consecrated Through the Blood ｜ Reneewoe to you Pharisees, you clean the outside of the cup but inside is greed, first clean the inside
Matthew 23:33Turn And LiveJesus calling Pharisees snakes and asking how they will escape the judgment of hell
Matthew 23:37First Fruits of the Resurrectionreferenced as Jesus longing to gather Jerusalem under his wings like a mother hen does her chicks
Matthew 23:37No Rest for the Watchmanquoted at the close as Jesus grieving over Jerusalem and saying Israel would not see him again until they say blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Matthew 24A Measure of Hope for Israelreferenced to show Jesus warning that Israel would be hated across the whole earth in a coming persecution
Matthew 24The World's First SelfieBrian says Jesus uses the word 'know' seven times and illustrates with a fig tree about knowing the season of his return
Matthew 24I Will Not Keep StillReferenced for the language of birth pains and Jacob's trouble in relation to end times events
Matthew 24:1-43The Return of Jesusread aloud in sections by congregation members as the main text for the sermon on the return of Jesus
Matthew 24:1-43The Return of Jesusprimary text read aloud in full by congregation members, covering signs of the end times and the return of Jesus
Matthew 24:11-13Why is it Important to Walk in the Spirit?many false prophets will appear and deceive many, sin will be rampant, love of many will grow cold, those who endure will be saved
Matthew 24:15-21Sukkot Series Week 3： Sukkoth Builds Gritwarning about the abomination of desolation, those in Judea fleeing to the hills, and the coming great tribulation
Matthew 25TTCA WEEK 7 Wrap Upreferenced as the parable of the ten virgins, illustrating the need to build obedience now before the cost increases
Matthew 25:21Partial Obedience Is Disobediencefaithful in little, entrusted with much, referenced in discussing how calling is revealed through obedience
Matthew 25:31-34Turn And Liveson of man coming in glory, separating sheep and goats, sheep invited to inherit the kingdom
Matthew 25:41Turn And Liveking sending those on his left into eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons
Matthew 25:46Turn And Livethe wicked going into eternal punishment and the righteous into eternal life
Matthew 27:27-31The Burning Bushread to show the crown of thorns placed on Jesus, connecting it to the thorny bush of Exodus 3
Matthew 27:27-31The Burning Bush: Clarity in ComplexityBrian read it to connect the crown of thorns to the thorn bush of Exodus, showing what was meant to mock actually glorified
