December 28, 2025
Teacher: Mike Laughrun
Colossians 1:13-14
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, (14) in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Revelation 1:4-7
(4) John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from … Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood (6) and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. (7) Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
2 Peter 3:11, 13
(11) Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, … (13) But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Matthew 6:31-33
(31) Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ (32) For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. (33) But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
BIG TRUTH:
Jesus Followers Seek the King
Big Idea:
We prioritize the eternal over the temporal.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Matthew 6:19-21
(19) “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, (20) but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. (21) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
BIg idea:
We serve only one Master.
Matthew 6:25-30
(25) “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? (26) Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (27) And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? (28) And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, (29) yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (30) But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
BIg idea:
We entrust our needs to the King’s care.
Matthew 6:31-32
(31) Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ (32) For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Big idea:
We pursue communion with our Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:9
Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
Big Idea:
We pray and work for the advancement of His Kingdom
Matthew 6:10
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
(7) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (8) Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
John 4:31-34
(31) Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” (32) But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” (33) So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” (34) Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Big Idea:
We walk in repentance toward God and forgiveness toward others.
Matthew 6:12
and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors
Big Idea:
We run from sin and pursue holiness.
Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
1 John 3:2-3
(2) Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. (3) And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
BIg idea:
We endure well holding fast to an eternal perspective.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
(16) Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. (17) For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, (18) while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
FDP: Advent Week 3
Jesus Followers Rejoice in The King
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- Talk about Jesus. He is the Christ, the Word who has come to us, the King who is coming again.
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