Four Oaks East Podcast

Pastor Joshua HughesText: Matthew 24:36-25:13
Big idea: Since the day of the Lord will come with shocking suddenness and severity, we must make it our daily business to be watchful and faithful.
1. The destination is certain, the arrival time is unknown.
2. We must stay watchfulLuke 21:34-35

Pastor Joshua Hughes
Text: Matthew 24:15-35Big idea: Jesus frames our story as suffering then glory so that we might endure with our eyes on eternity.
1. The Sign of the Abomination of Desolation
Luke 21:20
2. The Promise of Tribulation
Mark 13:23
Luke 21:24
3. The Hope of Consummation
Application: Stay Situated in the Story

Pastor Joshua HughesText: Matthew 24:3-14
Big Idea: Jesus wants to make durable disciples who see and sturdy themselves in light of his rule and his return, even and especially in times of tribulation. 
1. Be suspicious about signs- Pretenders- Wars- Famine- Earthquakes
2. Be prepared for persecutionLuke 6:22
3. Play the long game with perspective
Appllication:1. Don't lose your mind2. Don't lose heart3. Don't lose the plot

Pastor Greg Hutchins
Text: Matthew 23:1-24:2
 
Big Idea: Behold and beware the future of hardhearted hypocrisy, because Jesus’ weighty woes are a window and a warning
 
I. Glory in servanthood over status
-Deuteronomy 6:8
-Numbers 15:38-39
 
II. Grasp the deviation of hypocrisy
Misapplied zeal (1st 2 woes)
            -1 Corinthians 10:6
Misunderstood emphasis (3&4)
           -Micah 6:8
Misplaced purity 
III. Gaze at the destination of hypocrisy

Pastor Greg Hutchins
Matthew 22:41-46
Big Idea: Surrender your stance on Jesus to Scripture's conception of the Christ
I. Jesus' Inescapable Inquiry
II. Scripture's Authoritative Attestation-If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— (John 10:35)
-“No prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s interpretation, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21)
-All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16)
-The Lord says to my Lord:    “Sit at my right hand,until I make your enemies your footstool.”  -Psalm 110:1
III. The Hardhearted Hush
1) Search Scripture's stance2) Search your heart's subversion

Kyle KraeftText: Matthew 22:34-40
Big Idea: wholehearted disciples pursue wholehearted love as a holistic vision.
1. What is Required The great commandment requires devotion of our entire persons entirely to God and tirelessly to our neighbors.
        - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
      - Deuteronomy 6:10-14And when the LORD your God brings you into the land… Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—
Love: Attention, Affection, Allegiance, Atmosphere, Attitude
2. What is Reflected
Christian love uniquely reflects the heart of God and the heart of the Gospel
1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
3. How it is Realized
- Intention
- Imagination 
- Imitation         - 1 Corinthians 11:1 Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.
        - Luke 10:33-34But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw (attention) him, he had compassion (affection). He went to him (allegiance) 
 
 

Pastor Funmi Ojetayo
Text: Matthew 22:23-33
Big Idea: Jesus has no time for smug scholars or loveless Christians, so don’t confuse religious fakery for biblical mastery. 
Two Takeaways:1. Beware of the unbalanced, self-justifying use of Scripture.2. Beware of a loveless and Christless Christianity.

Pastor Joshua Hughes
Text: Matthew 22:15-22
Big Idea: Because King Jesus has all authority, kingdom citizens give to lesser authorities what they are owed properly (but not what they want ultimately).
1. A Pharisaical Maneuver
2. A Political Football
3. A Polemical Rebuke
Three applications:1. Pay attention to your affection
2. Pay attention to your attention
3. Pay attention to your devotion

Pastor Joshua Hughes
Text: Matthew 22:1-14
Big idea: The Father has prepared a feast, and we must respond to his call by coming to Jesus and being clothed by Jesus. 
1. An Irresistible Invitation (vv. 1-4)
Isaiah 25:6-9
2. A Terrible Treachery (vv. 5-6)
3. A Righteous Recompense (v. 7)
4. An Extraordinary Extension (vv. 8-10)
5. A Required Regalia (vv. 11-14)

Pastor Funmi Ojetayo
Scripture Passage: Matthew 21:23-46 Big Idea: our response to who Jesus is reveals our heart’s reception or resistance to grace, so don’t harden your heart in hypocrisy but instead fall broken on Christ the cornerstone.
Two Lessons from Two Parables:
The Two Sons: A heart hardened in hypocrisy immunizes you against grace.
The Vineyard: Christ is the cornerstone and you must fall on the rock or the rock with fall on you.
 Two Takeaways from the Text:
1. Care more about God’s opinion of you than people’s opinion of you.2. Fall broken on God’s love, for though your sin is great, God’s grace is greater still.