Matthew // Pastor Gene Pensiero

Joseph faces the choice of either breaking off his engagement with Mary or taking on a life very different than the one he must have planned. Matthew 1:18-25 Christmas 2023 Gene Pensiero Jr

Matthew ends his Gospel with Jesus giving His followers what has been called the Great Commission throughout the church age (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Matthew tells us that when Jesus was crucified graves were opened and afterward many bodies of the saints were raised (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus chooses to give His life on the Cross out of obedience to His Father and love for us (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Pontius Pilate is stunned when the Jews demand he release to them the notorious criminal bar-Abbas instead of Jesus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The chief priests and elders of Israel refuse to help Judas while themselves betraying Jesus to His death (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In order to convict Jesus the Jewish authorities produce a number of false witnesses (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus uses the occasion of Peter cutting-off a man’s ear with his sword to show the superiority of the Word of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus lets us know He is determined to go to the Cross in perfect submission to the will of His Father (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus shares the Passover dinner with His disciples as the final lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus praises a woman whom the disciples accuse of wasting a precious resource (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

At His Second Coming Jesus will separate all nonbelievers for eternal punishment (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus proclaims that He will return “on the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus warns the Jews in the Great Tribulation to not be fooled into coming out of hiding by reports He has returned prematurely (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus sends a shockwave through His disciples when He informs them that the Jewish Temple is doomed to be destroyed (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus decries the hypocrisy of the Pharisees by pronouncing a series of “Woes!” against them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus answers a series of loaded questions put to Him by hypocrites hiding their sinister motives (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells a parable in which He compares the earthly kingdom God promised the Jews to a wedding banquet (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells two parables that remind the Jews God provided all they needed to be His fruitful vineyard (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The disciples marvel that Jesus causes a fruitless fig tree to wither (Pastor Gene Pensiero)