Gateway Church Geelong
Sunday February 16th
Sunday February 16th
Locations & Times
Gateway Church Geelong
175 Moolap Station Rd, Moolap VIC 3224, Australia
Sunday 10:30 AM
Pastor Naomi Eden
Growth Track
If you want to know more about Gateway and what we believe or you have a heart to contribute and volunteer. This course is the way that you get involved and serving in every area across the church! Sign up for February 2020 course which will run over 3 weeks in a refined format.
https://gc.org.au/growthtracksignupPrayer Requests / Praise Reports
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http://gc.org.au/prayerGiving
As part of our services, we love that we have the opportunity to give to the work of the Kingdom through the church. Here is a link to online giving.
http://gc.org.au/giving21 Days of Prayer & Fasting Information
https://gc.org.au/fasting
Fasting Week 3 2020
Saviour of the World
Come follow me.
Come follow me.
Q. How is God preparing us, identifying who He has called us to be?
Q. How do I turn that vision or will of God into everyday living?
1. Let us look at His preparation
After Jesus was baptised, He was led by the Holy Spirit to the wilderness from a season of integral preparation
After Jesus was baptised, He was led by the Holy Spirit to the wilderness from a season of integral preparation
your calling fits you well
2. Let us look at His foundation
Matthew 4:1 Afterward, the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the lonely wilderness in order to reveal his strength against the accuser by going through the ordeal of testing.
Matthew 4:1 Afterward, the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the lonely wilderness in order to reveal his strength against the accuser by going through the ordeal of testing.
Tempted, denotes to entice a man to do wrong, to try and persuade him to take the wrong way.
Temptation 1
Matthew 4:2 And after fasting for forty days, Jesus was extremely weak and famished. 3 Then the tempter came to entice him to provide food by doing a miracle. So he said to Jesus, “How can you possibly be the Son of God and go hungry? Just order these stones to be turned into loaves of bread.”
Matthew 4:2 And after fasting for forty days, Jesus was extremely weak and famished. 3 Then the tempter came to entice him to provide food by doing a miracle. So he said to Jesus, “How can you possibly be the Son of God and go hungry? Just order these stones to be turned into loaves of bread.”
What method was He to use at this moment?
“Man does not live by bread alone but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.”
“Man does not live by bread alone but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.”
complete dependence on God.
Temptation 2
Matthew 4:5 Then the accuser transported Jesus to the holy city of Jerusalem and perched him at the highest point of the temple 6 and said to him, “If you’re really God’s Son, jump, and the angels will catch you. For it is written in the Scriptures: He will command his angels to protect you and they will lift you up so that you won’t even bruise your foot on a rock.”7 Once again Jesus said to him, “The Scriptures say: You must never put the Lord your God to a test.”
Matthew 4:5 Then the accuser transported Jesus to the holy city of Jerusalem and perched him at the highest point of the temple 6 and said to him, “If you’re really God’s Son, jump, and the angels will catch you. For it is written in the Scriptures: He will command his angels to protect you and they will lift you up so that you won’t even bruise your foot on a rock.”7 Once again Jesus said to him, “The Scriptures say: You must never put the Lord your God to a test.”
The Scriptures say
Temptation 3
Matthew 4:8 And the third time the accuser lifted Jesus up into a very high mountain range and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all the splendor that goes with it.9 “All of these kingdoms I will give to you,” the accuser said, “if only you will kneel down before me and worship me.”10 But Jesus said, “Go away, enemy! For the Scriptures say: Kneel before the Lord your God and worship only him.”
Matthew 4:8 And the third time the accuser lifted Jesus up into a very high mountain range and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all the splendor that goes with it.9 “All of these kingdoms I will give to you,” the accuser said, “if only you will kneel down before me and worship me.”10 But Jesus said, “Go away, enemy! For the Scriptures say: Kneel before the Lord your God and worship only him.”
The scriptures say. Kneel before the Lord your God and worship only him.”
Extra Notes
First Steps
If you want to know more, have just decided to follow Jesus or need resources to start your journey.
http://gc.org.au/firststeps