Kevin Thoman - Assisting Pastor's teaching references for 03/25/2018

Matthew 25:1-13 - Is There Enough Evidence?

Life Lesson (verse Matthew 25:5)

The verifiable evidence of Jesus Christ of both His existence and validation as the Son of God lend credibility to His future claims.

Life Lesson (verse Matthew 25:5)

God desires for you to come to Him from the position of an unaltered altar … a heart that is given wholly unto Him.

Life Lesson (verse Matthew 25:10)

Spend time allowing God to change your heart, then spend time sharing about it  with others. You are not a conformer, but WORLD CHANGER. One prayer, one conversation, and one invitation at a time.

Matt 24:3 NKJV

Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

Heb 13:8 NKJV

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Mark 13:32-33 NKJV

32 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

Matt 9:15 NKJV

And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Is 54:5 NKJV

For your Maker is your husband,
The Lord of hosts is His name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is called the God of the whole earth.

Jer 2:2 NKJV

“Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“I remember you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal,
When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown.

John 14:6 NKJV

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Psalms 119:105 NKJV

Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.

1 Cor 6:19 NKJV

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

Proverbs 23:26 NKJV

My son, give me your heart,
And let your eyes observe my ways.

Ezek 36:24-28 NKJV

24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

Rev 21:3-4 NKJV

3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”

Romans 8:9 NKJV

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.

Matthew 22:37-40 NKJV

37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Romans 12:1-2 NKJV

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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