The Fruit of Rejection
Pastor Jim Fikkert
‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 21.42-43 Like a master cultivating a vineyard, from the beginning all God created […]
Jesus Confirms
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change […]
Jesus Cleanses
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if […]
EASTER | 2015
Pastor Jim Fikkert
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. | 1 Corinthians 15.17-19 The Easter story […]
Jesus Enters
Pastor Jim Fikkert
“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest.” V.9 Jesus had spent His entire ministry in the rural areas, teaching about what He had come to do; now He was coming to do it. He enters Jerusalem to the reception of a king. […]
Position and the Kingdom
Pastor Jim Fikkert
“… whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” V. 27 As Jesus nears Jerusalem, he pulls the twelve disciples aside. […]
Rewards and the Kingdom
Pastor Jim Fikkert
“… ’Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ So the last will be first and the first last.” V. 15 Jesus now teaches with a parable. He says “the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the […]
Wealth and the Kingdom
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Jesus said, “… go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. V.22 Pretend for a moment you don’t know this story. Jesus is approached by man while setting out on […]
Marriage and the Kingdom
Pastor Jim Fikkert
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh V. 5 After a time of teaching, Jesus moves away from the crowds at Galilee … so the crowds follow him. Among the crowd are the Pharisees who seek to trap Jesus in a […]
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