Teaching Missions: Growing in God’s Grace

We are called to cast our burdens on Christ and work together yoked with Him. His manner is meek, and his burden is light

They thought John the Baptist was demonically controlled and tooascetic; Jesus was a man who enjoyed food and drink too much. But if the O.T. cities had seen what Jesus did in Galilea, they would have repented long ago.

John in prison questions about Jesus as the messiah. Jesus demonstrates his power and praises John the Baptist. 

Don't seek temporary pleasure but eternal rewards from Christ for serving Him

Jesus gives them warnings about persecution and leaving one location for another

Jesus gives initial instructions to the 12 disciples going out to minister in Israel

Jesus shows compassion to the lost of Israel and sends out his 12 disciples, here named, to minister to them

When we receive Christ as savior, we are justified (declared righteous). The Holy Spirit comes to live in us and gives us the power to live a godly life showing the fruit of the Spirit in our lives.

Jesus healed 2 blind men followed by a man who was unable to speak. But the Pharisees attriobuted the healing to working together with Satan

En route to healing Jairus' daughter, Jesus healed a woman with 12 years of vaginal bleeding who trusted in him. He removed all the men from the house, took Peter, James and John and the parents and raised the daughter from the dead.