The King's Speech - An Introduction
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Series: The King's Speech Topic: Exposition Passage: Matthew 4:18–5:2
INTRODUCTION
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The Power of Words
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SETTING THE SCENE
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Scene 1—The King’s Roots
Matthew 1:1, 17
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Scene 2—The King’s Birth
Matthew 1:19-23
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Scene 3—Opposing Kings
Matthew 2:13-15
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Scene 4—God’s King
Matthew 3:16-17
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Scene 5—The king’s Temptation
Matthew 4:1
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Scene 6—The King’s Calling
Matthew 4:18:25
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Scene 7—the King’s speech
Matthew 5:1, 2
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Community Meditation
Know
- Why is it good to read the gospels casually as a story yet also closely as theology?
- Discuss why Matthew “sets the scene†so deliberately in leading up to the Sermon on the Mount?
- Why is it important to maintain a tight connection in our understanding of Jesus’s identity with his words/teaching?
Feel
- How do you feel about the call to establish your life based upon the words and teachings of someone else? Easy to do? Hard?
- Why do you listen to the counsel and advice of certain people and not others? What do you need to know before you heed someone’s words?
Live
- Read Hebrews 10:19-30. We are called into a beautiful relationship which then calls us forward in a new life together. Our call is forward.
- “But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.â€
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2015
The Authority of the King
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Mar 29
2015
Foundation for the Good Fight
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Passage: Matthew 7:24–7:27 Series: The King's Speech
Mar 22
2015
House Builders
Speaker: Dean Macke Passage: Matthew 7:24–7:27 Series: The King's Speech