Teaching on Matthew

Teaching on Matthew

To present Jesus of Nazareth as Israel’s long-awaited Messiah and royal King, in such a way as to strengthen the faith of Jewish Christians and provide an apologetic tool for Jewish evangelism.

Resurrection Hope Today

Matthew 17:1-8 Well, as we come to our time in God’s Word this morning, I’d like to return to Matthew’s Gospel, if you have your Bibles, you can take them and turn to an earlier scene in Matthew’s Gospel. Remarkable, very special event, occasion in Matthew known as the Transfiguration, which you’ll find in Matthew chapter 17, Matthew 17, the transfiguration is really a preview of resurrection glory. And now from the vantage point of hindsight, hindsight is 2020. We…

Happy Are the Persecuted

Matthew 5:10-12 For today, we are finishing up a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. If you want to turn in your Bibles there, you can do that now. But it’s really been a joy for me to have this opportunity to preach and teach through the Beatitudes. It’s been convicting, but also encouraging to my own soul. And I just find our Lord’s teaching to be absolutely fascinating, brilliant. The depths of which we cannot plumb,…

Happy Are the Pure

Matthew 5:8 Well, it is a joy to be here with you this morning. It’s a joy to bring God’s Word to you this morning. It’s a privilege. But we are in the middle of a series on the Beatitudes out of Matthew chapter 5. So if you want to turn there in your copy of God’s Word, we’re going to read that in just a few moments. But here in the Sermon on the Mount, in this section on…

The Worship of the Magi

Matthew 2:1-12 If the music didn’t give it away and the Scripture reading didn’t give it away, I’ll have you turn to Matthew chapter 2, because that’s the text we’re going to cover tonight, in just a few moments of reflection on the worship of the wise men, the worship of the Magi. We ended this morning taking note of those whom God had favored when he chose to reveal the birth of Jesus Christ. We talked about Zechariah, the…