Tag: is Jesus the messiah
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Jesus’s Compassion for the Jews
When I come to the Lord’s table to offer what I have in service to others, I find that I never have enough. If it were up to me—my ability to provide, my hermeneutical and homiletical prowess, my planning ability, or my heart for others—no one would be satisfied or get what they need. I…
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The Position of Christ- from David to the Exile
In our study of Matthew’s genealogy, so far, we have discovered that Matthew had a very particular purpose and wrote in an order, including specific information to accomplish that purpose. His gospel is not necessarily chronological, nor is it intended to include every detail of Christ’s life and ministry. In the previous session, we discovered…
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The Work of Christ- from Abraham to David
In the previous session, we discovered that Matthew clarifies Jesus as the Messiah. This meant that Jesus was the completion of all creation. All of history and everything happening now and everything that will be done in the future forever finds its consummation in the bodily life of Jesus Christ (particularly as fulfilled in the…
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Becoming a Complete Person
As we read verse 1 in Matthew’s Gospel, we must also read verse 17 in Chapter 1. We must also remember that Matthew’s Gospel is written by a Jew to Jews in order to prove that Jesus is the Messiah. Numerology was very important to Jews. While modern westerners, I think, have used the idea…
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What is the Christian Faith? Part 3
Today I want to do some trivia. Below you will find a statement that is sometimes taught as coming from Scripture and we are going to find out whether or not the statement actually represents Scripture well. __________________ __________________ “God helps those who help themselves.” This is actually from Aesop’s Fable, “Hercules and the Waggoner.”…
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Is Jesus the Messiah? ( John 1:38-51)
In 2013, there was an event held in which two atheist scholars posited that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist within history and that the entire Christian religion was a ruse designed by the Roman government in order to control the Jewish people. While this is a stretch concerning what we know of the…