New Testament: Book of Matthew
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Last week we did a New Testament overview.
Subdivisions of the bible and NT.
Subdivisions and cycle that began in the OT.
First Part: God and humanity in Gen. 1-11.
Creates this beautiful garden for man to live in a partner in ruling the world.
Man gives in to temptation and rebels against God and is exiled into a wilderness where chaos begins.
Build violent cities that spread sin, ending up in Babylon.
But God loves his creation and gives more insight to the time when a new man would come and destroy the evil that has tempted man and caused our fall.
Second Part: God and Israel Gen 12-2 Kings.
Calls a new man out of Babylon into a new garden (Promised Land).
Abraham, Sarah and the Israelites called to the Promised Land
Through them, all the nations of the world will be blessed
BUT we have the same pattern…
Building violent cities that end in BABYLONIAN captivity.
BUT God expounds more on the Genesis 3:15 promise…
The man prophecied we find out, will come from Abraham’s descendants and be a priest-king that would save both Israel and all of humanity from Babylon.
Third Part: Prophets and Poets
Same cycle… sin, violence, death
Fourth Part: New Testament
Same cycle… Gen 3:15 now fulfilled.
Ends with an untold story…
Fifth Part: God puts his creation in the final garden, heaven.
Brings us to Matthew.
One of the earliest accounts of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection.
Author: Unknown, but most believe that Matthew (Levi) wrote the book.
Matthew was a taxt collector.
One of the 12 disciples, calling by Jesus recorded in 9:9
In the 30-40 years since the resurrection of Jesus, the Apostles orally taught what they had seen and had learned from Jesus as they traveled with him.
Matthew collected and then in a very specific way, begins to write the stories down, highlighting certain topics and themes.
We are going to cover chapters 1-13 in the session.
Three main themes of Matthew.
Jesus is the messiah from the line of David
Why it begins with linages and birth of Jesus is recorded
Jesus is the new teacher like Moses
Moses transitioned from time of patriarchs into law and prophets, Jesus from Law and prophets into grace.
Jesus is God with us; Immanuel
Matthew designs the book very specifically:
Introduction - conclusion that act like bookends for five specific blocks or parts of teaching.
Each block concludes with specific teaching.
Matthew’s Introduction: Chapters 1-3 - Attach Jesus’ story right on to the story line of the OT.
Opens with genealogies, highlighting that he is of the messianic line of David AND is the son of Abraham come to bless and or curse the world.
Birth of Jesus - establishing the fulfillment of OT prophecy.
Is. 60 - Nations would honor him (wise men)
Micah 5 - Birth in Bethlehem
Is 7 - Virgin birth and he would be Immanuel, God with us.
God become human
In the introduction we see two of the themes:
Jesus the Messiah from the line of David
Immanuel, God with us.
Matthew also want to show how Jesus is a new Moses.
Moses came out of Egypt.
Jesus came out of Egypt.
Moses crossed the Red Sea (Peter clearly teaches us this was a OT type of baptism.
Jesus was baptised in Jordan’s River.
Moses was in the wilderness for 40 years.
Jesus was in the wilderness for 40 days.
Moses receives law on the mountains
Jesus teaches law from the mountains
Matthew is saying that Jesus is the promised greater than Moses figure who is going to:
deliver Israel from slavery
give new, Devine teaching
save from sin
initiate a new covenant
This Moses and Jesus parallel explains why the book is structured the way it is.
The 5 main parts highlight Jesus as a teacher.
Paralleling the 5 books of Moses.
As Moses brought a new covenant to Israel and taught them in the 5 books of the law (Torah), Jesus the greater than Moses, will follow Moses’ storyline and teach about the new covenant in 5 specific parts of Matthew.
First Part chapters 4-7 - announcing the arrival of God’s Kingdom.
God’s Kingdom is God’s plan rescue the whole world through King Jesus.
Jesus has come to confront physical and spiritual e vil, sickness and death.
Restore God’s reign over the whole world.
Create a new family of people who will follow him, obey him and live under his rule.
So he gathers a group of followers and takes them to the hillside and delivers his first group of teaching we call the Sermon of the Mount.
Here Jesus teaches what it is to live in God’s Kingdom.
upside down kingdom with no privileged members.
Everyone from all walks of life is invited to repent and follow Jesus, join the family.
He teaches that he is not here to take away Moses Law but to fulfill it.
He is here to transform hearts to love each other, even their enemies.
Second Part: chapters 8-10 - Kingdom of God comes alive in people’s lives.
9 stories of how the Kingdom of God comes into the lives of the hurting around him.
There are three groups of three stories.
Leper, Centurion’s servant, heals Peter’s MIL
CALL: FOLLOW ME
Story sea calmed, cast out devil, paralyzed man healed
CALL: FOLLOW ME
Dead girl and sick woman healed, 2 blind men, mute man healed
CALL: FOLLOW ME
In between each of these groups of three stories there is a call from Jesus to follow him!
Matthew’s point: you can only experience the power of God’s Kingdom if you follow him.
After Matthew showcases the power of the Kingdom through Jesus
Jesus sends out the 12 disciples to do what he had been doing in the previous 2 chapters.
Then Jesus teaches (10) how to announce the Kingdom and what to expect when they do.
Many are following Jesus, Jewish leaders are not!
They have to much to loose to repent.
Rejection and persecution is coming…
Third Part: chapters 11-13 - Collection of stories of how people are responding to Jesus.
Regular people: Messiah!
Family, friends, neighbors: unsure
Jewish leaders: blasphemous false teacher
Jesus begins to teach parables about how people accept or reject the Kingdom
Sower, mustard seed, pearl of great price, wheat and tears.
These parables in chapter 13 parallel the reactions of people in chapters 11 and 12.
Bottom line is whatever the obstacle, the Kingdom moves forward!
First half of Matthew…
Other things going forward.
Remember; Matthew is presenting Jesus as the continuation of the OT.
First: Look for OT quotations.
There are many carefully woven into the story Matthew is trying to tell.
Next: Pay attention to those who chose to follow Jesus.
Most are the unknown, average people who are transformed by the Kingdom!
It’s the religious and prideful that are consistently offended by him!
Finally: There is a tension that is developing here between Jesus and the religious.
That’s the second half of Matthew!