September 15, 2012
Title: Week 2 — The Gospel of the Available Kingdom
Series: The King’s Speech
We continue our new series on the Sermon on the Mount called The King’s Speech. We had to spend one more week with background information, so we can better understand Jesus’ words in the actual sermon. Our passage this week is Matthew 4:12-25. What is the gospel that Jesus himself proclaimed? How would we describe the gospel that Jesus preached in a phrase or two? Does the gospel we teach and preach have a natural tendency to cause the people who hear it to become full time disciples (apprentices) of Jesus? What did Jesus mean when he said, The kingdom of heaven is arriving”? If the Sermon on the Mount is all about life in the kingdom, it might do us well to take a week and ask: “What is the kingdom?” Our study this week centers in on this concept of the “kingdom of heaven.”
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we were not able to record this sermon.