Christ Through the Ages, 8: Matthew–Jesus was Jewish

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/christ-through-the-ages-8/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p>Emphases of Matthew</p><ul><li>Jesus is the Jewish Messiah.</li><li>Jesus a teacher and lawgiver like Moses.</li><li>5 Teaching Tracts – like Torah (Pentateuch) and Psalms.<ul><li>Suggests Jesus' teaching is scripture (follows the O.T. model).</li><li>Suggests Jesus is a second Moses.</li><li>Matthew 5:17: He came not to abolish, but to fulfill, Torah.</li><li>OT fulfillment formulae (11x).</li></ul></li></ul><p>Observations chapter by chapter in Matthew</p><ul><li>1:1 -- Son of Abraham, Son of David: Jesus is Jewish through and through.</li><li>2:1 -- Born in the town of David, Bethlehem.</li><li>2:1-2 -- King of the Jews (<i>legitimately</i>)</li><li>4:1ff -- Tested in the desert, like the people of Israel. For more on the parallels, listen to<a href="http://www.ipibooks.com/IPIStore/Details/tabid/89/rvdsfpid/15/Default.aspx#.VgrhQHpVhBc" target="_blank"><i> Night of Redemption: A Study of Exodus</i></a> (10 lessons).</li><li>5-7 -- Teaching like Moses<ul><li>Goes up a mountainside (as Moses twice went up Mt. Sinai).</li><li>Authority higher than that of the rabbis or Pharisees; Jesus speaks on his own (divine) authority. See 7:28-29.</li><li>Updates God's Word, reinterpreting Torah.</li></ul></li><li>10:23 (15:24) -- Preaching to the Jews.</li><li>12:1ff -- Lord of the Sabbath.</li><li>28:16-20 -- Make disciples of all the Gentiles (nations)<ul><li>Mountain -- Moses.</li><li>Worship -- Deity.</li><li>Fulfilling the Abrahamic promise (Genesis 12:3; Exodus 19:6).</li></ul></li></ul><p><br /><i>Next: Luke: A Universal Vision from the Center to the Margins</i></p>