Sunday, February 16th: Matthew 1-4


Thoughts: 
(For this section, just write any take aways and put your name below if you want... it can just be thoughts or a discussion)


How crazy would it be Joseph who was about to leave his fiance who cheated on him and was pregnant just as an Angel appeared to him and told him that his soon to be son was from the Holy Spirit and was going to save the sins of the wold. Wow, I would call that a game changer.

How much do we really 'Prepare the way for the Lord,    make straight paths for him.’  How much do we actually produce good fruit?



I wonder what Jesus' life was like before baptism.  He obviously was God's son but his baptism was more than a ceremony; it was the moment that heaven opened to him and that the spirit descended on him. 

Jesus did not only resist the temptation but he knew that he didn't even need to be tested. Giving into the tests, even if he came out victorious would have acknowledged that he was proving himself by Satan's standard.  His angels would have definitely lifted him up but just engaging in that would have signified the importance of Satan's opinions.  Too often do I try to prove myself faithful or seem like a good Christian by the world's standards when I should be proving myself faithful to God. The world's opinion shouldn't even matter compared to what God wants.  We should ask ourselfves whther we try to seem like a good Christian more than we try to be a good Christian?