[Music]
alright let's get into the Gospel of
Matthew as we start our journey through
the entire New Testament chronologically
if you've got your Bible open it to
Matthew chapter one and of course
Matthew most scholars believe that his
target audience was what were Jews
believing and unbelieving Jews of course
and so more so than anybody else Matthew
is the guy who quotes from the Old
Testament to prove beyond any shadow of
a doubt that Jesus is indeed the Messiah
of the Jews and as we start reading in
Matthew today I hope you realize we're
cutting in to what could be considered
the middle of the story you know you if
you're a believer in Jesus and you've
got a Bible notice that your Bible is
not just the New Testament it's the what
we call the old and the New Testament in
fact that's a differentiation that Paul
and Peter and James and John would have
not even recognized when they went out
and preached to the Jews of course they
always appeal to the Old Testament
Scriptures and everything in the Old
Testament anticipates what we're about
to read the most astounding story in the
history of all human history and that is
the the life of Jesus Christ it's so
important that it's been recorded for us
get this four times by four different
people and I think that says something
about what God feels is the most
important I don't want to be
controversial here god forbid that I
need controversial but I'm afraid that
much of the church has pushed aside the
Gospels though the life of Christ as if
it were irrelevant I've even heard
people teach that Jesus is Sermon on the
Mount for example is irrelevant because
he was ministering to Jews under the Old
Covenant well Jesus finished out this
gospel that we're about to read by
telling his followers go into all the
world preach the gospel go and make
disciples teach them to obey all that
I've commanded you right right so
everything that Jesus commanded his
disciples Jesus
consider that relevant for all the
subsequent generations of disciples so
the Gospel of Matthew and Mark and Luca
John is very relevant to us and there
were no epistles for the early church to
read I mean it's gonna be Acts chapter
11 before we even jump into the first
epistle that was written that was James
and so many times we think oh the
epistles is where it's really apt this
is written to the churches and so on and
so forth it's not you know it's much
more relevant to me than the Gospels are
know the one of the writers of the New
Testament Pistols Paul said let the word
of Christ richly dwell within you all
right so the early church was focused on
making disciples teaching them to obey
all that Christ commanded okay Matthew
starts his gospel with this genealogy of
Christ if you're English if you're
American rather you'll say genealogy I
understand if you're British will say
geniality so we just want to make
everybody happy here on our broadcast no
matter which continent you live on and
here's the record of the genealogy
Matthew says in Matthew 1:1
of Jesus the Messiah The Anointed One
okay so right from the start he's very
bold to tell his Jewish audience this is
the one folks I'm telling you his story
and to kind of add fuel to the fire
there and to undergird that he says the
son of David the son of Abraham why did
he mention those two well-known folks
well because Abraham was promised of
course that the Messiah would come
through him and through his descendants
you may recall early on there when God
first started dealing with Abraham
before he even named him Abram he was
already making promises to him and that
in you in you he didn't say at first in
your seed he said in you all the nations
of the earth will be blessed well that
is a clear reference to the Messiah who
had come through Abraham and later on in
in Genesis chapter 22 God said after
Abraham was willing to offer up his only
son Isaac on an altar
on the very mountain where Christ would
ultimately be crucified where the son of
God would give his life God says to him
because you have done this thing and
have not withheld your only son from me
I'm gonna greatly multiply your seed and
I'm reading here now from Genesis 22 and
verse 18 in your seed all the nations of
the earth shall be blessed because you
have obeyed my voice all right so we way
back in Genesis 22 were already
anticipating the grand scheme of God to
bring the Messiah and what was the
purpose to bring blessing to all the
nations of the earth Peter preached a
sermon indeed it gives a little more
specifics in the book of Acts about how
that blessing would come he said to turn
every one of you from your wicked ways
okay and Jesus came right from the start
of course preaching repentance calling
people to turn away from their sins
that's where the blessing starts because
people are rebels against God they're
sinners you know they're going their own
way all we like sheep have gone astray
but Jesus bore our sin and his body on
the cross and it's only through him that
salvation is made possible to everyone
on planet Earth
praise God in fact we'll talk about this
I'm sure eventually that's the only way
salvation has ever been offered whether
people realized it or not before the
time of Jesus salvation was made
possible by the work of Christ so Jesus
was clearly the son of Abraham course
son we would not literal son as we would
think first generation but simply a
descendent and then he's also a son of
David course David was also promised
that one of his descendants would sit on
the throne of David and he would reign
and rule forever and ever
and so the Messiah had to be in the
lineage of Abraham Isaac Jacob and
everyone all the way through of course
to get up to David and and that's why no
doubt those are the two are emphasized
now the the genealogy here that ensues
taking us all the way through verse
number seven
is a pretty accurate record of Jesus
genealogy through his his stepfather
Joseph both Mary and Joseph can trace
their lineage back to David and when we
get to Luke's Gospel we'll see the other
side of Jesus's family through his true
mother Mary as it were but you'll see a
lot of familiar names as you read
through this and for us to do that of
course it's like we looked at every
single person we patently studied the
entire Old Testament okay all right very
good this has been good a good start
okay see you next time
[Music]