Four Oaks Midtown Podcast

Sermon | Olivet Discourse: Watchful Readiness (Matthew 24:32-25:13)

Through parables, Jesus reminds the disciples that their task as followers is to anticipate and prepare themselves to be ready for the return of the Lord. 

Sermon | Olivet Discourse: The Son of Man Will Return (Matthew 24:15-31)

Jesus describes to his disciples what they should expect with his second coming and warns them to not be led astray by rumors and false prophets prior to his return.

Sermon | Olivet Discourse: Christ’s Coming And The End of The Age (Matthew 24:3-14)

Jesus answers the disciples questions about his coming and the end of the age by evoking imagery of the end times and exhorting them to endure in the faith. 

Sermon | Warnings and Woes (Matthew 23:1-24:2)

Jesus addresses the crowds and Pharisees warning them of the necessity to be both respectful and discerning of leaders, and calling out the hypocrisy of the leaders of the day.

Sermon | The Sovereign Son (Matthew 22:41-46)

Jesus questions the Pharisees regarding who the Christ is and leaves them silent as he makes them consider David’s own words about the Messiah.

Sermon | The Greatest Commandment (Matthew 22:34-40)

Jesus is tested regarding which commandment is the greatest, and responds that we are to love both God and neighbor.

Sermon | The Master of Scripture (Matthew 22:23-33)

Jesus responds to the question of the Sadducees regarding the resurrection by correcting the view on how to approach the scriptures. 

Sermon | Render to God What is God’s (Matthew 22:15-22)

Jesus responds to the Pharisees and Herodians trying to trap him in a question about taxes by astounding them with his wisdom, cutting at their pride, and pointing them to the heart of the matter.

Sermon | The Parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:1-14)

Jesus teaches us what the kingdom of heaven is like through the parable of the wedding feast. Those who respond to the invitation are met with a hopeful picture of what it means to enter the kingdom of God, as the story points forward to the great wedding feast to come. 

Sermon | Three Questions From a King (Matthew 21:23-46)

As Jesus’ authority is challenged by the Sanhedrin, their hardness of heart is revealed through Jesus’ questions and parables.