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Matthew 12:7–8 · BSB
12:7 If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
12:8 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
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…the abiding life. And to do this, we're— to prove this point, we're going to go to Jesus' teaching, His parable on the unclean spirits, which is inMatthew chapter 12. So, if you want to turn there with me, Matthew chapter 12. This is a very small section, yet very Sorry, 43 through 45, yep. When the unclean…
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…justice? He does it in such a way as to care for the very, very weakest. Not breaking the bruised reed. Not snuffing out the smouldering wick.Matthew chapter 12quotes these four verses of Isaiah about Jesus. And in context, we read in Matthew 12, many followed him and he healed all of them. This was to…
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…sisters being used by God for his instruction. Instructional and redemptive purposes. In fact, I think this is increased manifold when we get toMatthew chapter 12. When Jesus asks out loud, who is my mother? Who is my brother? Who is my sister? But those who do the will of my father, that even in the…
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…in fact eight detailed accounts in the Gospels of demon possession. So we're going to look at one of those examples this morning. Turn with me toMatthew chapter 12. Matthew chapter 12, verse 43. Matthew 12, 43. Then it says, I will return to my house from which I came. And when it comes, it finds the house…
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…not yet. But this time is a time when we see in Jesus that the kingdom comes full of power and full of authority. We see it in all of his miracles.Matthew chapter 12, we read it last week. Jesus speaks about driving out demons by the spirit of God as a sign that the kingdom of God has come. Every time Jesus…
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…It's a funny story, but when you look in them, it's not that funny. It's kind of raw. It's kind of uncomfortable. Jesus holds up this mirror inMatthew chapter 12. The Pharisees are demanding a sign of him, and he's kind of nudging them, look inward a little bit. They say, give us a sign. He says, No sign…
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…it actually draws out more of Jesus' heart to us to meet our needs. So he is the beloved son and he is the suffering servant. And here inMatthew chapter 12, we also discover more of the character of Christ as he is announced to be the light to the nations. That's part of Isaiah's phrase about this…
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…was standing as a witness against Jews. And let me tell you what happens. As soon as they reject Stephen, they have sinned. What did Jesus say inMatthew chapter 12? He told the Pharisees when they condemned him of being a man full of the devil, he said to the Pharisees, He said, You can sin against the Father…
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…that notion and came up with a wrong interpretation of who he was. So we see Jesus' response to the Pharisees if we continue on in that story fromMatthew chapter 12. Matthew chapter 12 verse 25. So the Pharisees have looked on this amazing healing of this blind and mute man. The common people are standing…
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…idea? Well, if you jump forward in your Bibles, we're given a massive hint by Jesus himself because Jesus picks up this story, these chapters, inMatthew chapter 12. So if you've got a Bible, you might want to turn with me to Matthew chapter 12 and verse 39. It's on page 978. 978. Matthew chapter 12, verse 39.…
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…Him above everyone else. Let me read to you another scripture before we get into First Kings. Actually, let's skip First Kings. Go to Matthew 12.Matthew chapter 12. I was going to use First Kings to talk about the fact that, you know, we need to make sure we stay away from family members that are enablers.…
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…That he's not just thinking. By saying that. He's not just thinking of the idea of scripture. He's talking about the written scripture. Jesus inMatthew chapter 12. He says. He's arguing with the scribes and the Pharisees. And he references the story of Jonah. And throughout the gospels. Jesus treats biblical…
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…and verse 21, especially going through verse 32, he says that adultery and murder begin in the heart as lust and hatred. He would teach it again inMatthew chapter 12in verse 34 and 35, he would say that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks whether good or bad. And then in Matthew chapter 15 verse…
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…another gospel. And Matthew adds some things to this same episode that I thought would help us to kind of flesh this out a little bit this morning.Matthew chapter 12, and as you start reading the chapter, you'll see it looks very similar because it is. It's the same story. It's Matthew's um Matthew's account of…
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…he went out of the house and sat by the sea. Matthew also tells us that he had told this parable right after he had done a bunch of things. SoMatthew chapter 12tells us what those things were. He had conflict with the Pharisees about what you can and can't do on the Sabbath, and then he went to a synagogue…
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…also hundreds of years later when when Jesus walked the earth, David was still, right, highly regarded. And there was one time you could see hereMatthew chapter 12on the screen that Jesus uses David as as as a reference when the disciples were hungry on the Sabbath. And they were walking in the fields and and…
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…know what it's doing? Acting. 2 Timothy 2, please, six pairing, and Matthew 12. I'm watching your time, but you don't have to. 2 Timothy chapter 2,Matthew chapter 12. You say, man, this is pretty point blank. The Bible's pretty point blank, amen. Say with me. 2 Timothy 2, Matthew chapter 12. Let's get back to…
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…in a moment, back to Jesus, which seems like a good place to start. And we're gonna be in Matthew in a second, but to understand what's going on inMatthew chapter 12with this metaphor of family, I'm gonna take us to Mark 30, Mark III, and just say that in Mark 3, the scripture tells us that Jesus fought, Jesus'…
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…by reading one last passage of scripture and we'll be done. You still with me? We're in Matthew chapter 9. This is just three chapters over inMatthew chapter 12. Kind of they had another encounter with a person. He had more issues. And look what happens. Matthew chapter 12, verse 22. Then a demon-possessed…
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…as Christians as well. As Jesus uses Jonah's time in the fish as an illustration of his time in the grave and the resurrection. And we see this inMatthew chapter 12. There's a whole section on it there. But most notably in verse 40, Jesus says, For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three…
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