Category: Matthew
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matt 24 (2)… the course of the age and the coming of the son of man
Vv 1-3 the disciples questions To recap. Jesus, seeing his disciples dazzled by the beauty of the temple, punctures their infatuation by telling them that soon the temple will be a ruin – a scattering of stones. Later this prompts a three-sided question; when will the temple be destroyed, when will the age end and…
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matt 24 (1)… introduction
Introduction Matthew 24 and 25 record what is often called the Olivet discourse because it is delivered from the Mt of Olives (v3). It is the last of five discourses in Mathew and appropriately describes last things – it spans the interadvent period and beyond. Jesus’ eschatological teaching informs NT books like Thessalonians and Revelation.…
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matthew’s genealogy
Matthew’s gospel begins with a genealogy. Not the way, you may think, to attract readers. However, genealogies were important in the ancient world, as, indeed, they are in the modern world. They establish credentials. Matthew’s genealogy is a dynastic genealogy and critical to Christianity because it establishes Jesus historical and legal right as a Davidic…
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sussing the sermon on the mount
It seems that The Sermon on the Mount has a negative press in large segments of evangelicalism. Some insist it is pure law and its purpose, like the Mosaic Covenant, is only to kill (Lutheranism and variants of it). Others also see it as law but think its primary focus is to instruct believers during…
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call his name jesus…
“… for he will save his people from their sins.” Jesus means ‘Yahweh the Saviour’. Israel needed a Saviour – not from Rome but from her own rebellious heart. She, like all of us, needed saved, from her ‘sins’. Yahweh had always promised that he would be her Saviour. Indeed, he was her only…
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he shall save his people from their sins…
Matt 1:20-21 (ESV) But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall…
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out of Egypt have I called my son…
Matt 2:13-21 (ESV) Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” And he rose…
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following the star and finding the king
Isa 60:1-22 (ESV) Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and…
Cave Adullam 