Welcome back, we
are exploring Matthew
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and we have been realizing
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that the more we
know about how this book
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was written
originally, the more we can gain
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God's blessing for us today.
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So, Ranko, tell
us again a little bit
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more about this
document that we have from God
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through the writer
Matthew authored by God.
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Tell us a little
more, help us understand?
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You know Glen, when
we started the Bible
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as we mentioned before this.
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We have to
understand that for instance
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New Testament gospel
of Matthew in particular,
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was written
about 2,000 years ago.
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We saw it was written to
particular people at that time.
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Today, we saw this book
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and another books of the Bible
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and that message of the Bible is
still powerfully speaks to us.
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But, before we discovered
that message for ourselves
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to find out what
the text means to us,
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for our personal salvation,
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and for our
relationships with Jesus Christ.
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First we have to find
out, what this text meant
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to the people of the time
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to whom this text
was originally written.
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So, first we
discover what the text meant
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and then we try to find
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what the text
means to our daily life.
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So, the more we
know about what it meant
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the more it will mean for us.
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The powerful message,
becomes, becomes to us.
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So, lets talk little
bit how the gospel of Mathew
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was organized and
during this series
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we will follow
this structure. Okay.
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There are some Bible students.
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They noticed
something very significant
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with regard to this
structure of this gospel is.
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I'd like you
Glen, if you can open
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Matthew Chapter 4 verse 23.
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All right, Mathew 4:23. Yes.
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"And Jesus went
about all Galilee,
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teaching in their synagogues,
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preaching the
gospel of the kingdom
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and healing all
kinds of diseases
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and all kinds of
sickness among the people."
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Actually, based on these texts,
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if you goes to
conclusion of Chapter 9,
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the same text is repeated there.
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It's telling us that
Jesus ministry consisted
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of two different
aspects. Which aspects?
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Jesus did
preaching and teaching,
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which is one aspect,
and then Jesus did healing.
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So, he spoke and he acted, okay.
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This is exactly how the
gospel of Mathew is organized.
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The Bible students
actually they noticed
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that the gospel of
Matthew has five blocks
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of sayings of Jesus,
something that is not found
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in other gospel,
synoptics or the gospel of John.
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Now, for the Jewish
folks, numbers were important.
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So, let's be alert whenever
you talk about a number here.
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You are saying five
blocks. Number fives. All right.
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Let's leave this for the end.
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First, we would like
to see those five powers.
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But there is
something significant,
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its not that we
are something guessing.
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Actually, Mathew
indicated this in his book.
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Lets what is the
first instance part,
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is the Sermon on the Mount.
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Chapters 4 and 5,
it's a long sermon
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that Jesus preached
from the unknown mount
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there in Palestine.
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People are trying to guess
where that mountain was located.
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And now would you
read Chapter 7 verse 28,
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how does this sermon
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conclude in the
gospel of Matthew?
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All right, Mathew Chapter 7:28
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and we're
looking at verse 28. Yes.
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And, so it was, when
Jesus had ended these sayings,
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that the people were
astonished at His teaching.
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Okay, let's conclude this.
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Actually it says,
when Jesus finished
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these sayings, what now?
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There is something else.
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After the
sermon, what do we have,
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we have Chapters 8 and 9.
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What are the Chapters 8 and 9?
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About the healing
activities of Jesus.
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Do we see that,
teaching and preaching
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and now we have the
healing activities of Jesus,
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but the line is when
Jesus finished these sayings.
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Let's go to Chapter 11 verse 1.
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All right, and as we go, Ranko,
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you are suggesting that
there is a direct connection
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between the
teaching and the healings.
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They are not disjointed,
they are tied together.
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They are always.
Jesus taught people,
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but He also cared
about their physical needs.
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So Chapter 11 verse 1.
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"Now came to past,
when Jesus finished
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commanding his 12 disciples,
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that he departed from there
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to teach and to
preach in their cities."
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When Jesus finished,
what was that Jesus finished.
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It's in Chapter
10, we have the speech
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that Jesus made to His disciples
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when He sent them
to the mission field.
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He instructed them,
go preach the gospel
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and heal every
sickness in people.
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Now after Chapter 10,
what do we have in Chapter 12?
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Now we have the
healing activities of Jesus.
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Now we come to Chapter 13.
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We have another block?
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What do we have
there, the parables of Jesus.
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Now let us read
Chapter 13 verse 53.
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Verse 53 of
Chapter 13, all right.
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"Now came to past,
when Jesus is finished
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these parables there
he departed from there."
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The same saying formula,
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when Jesus
finished the parables,
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now what we have,
Chapter 14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
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we have the healing
activities of Jesus.
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So, over and over again,
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there is teaching and
then there is healing.
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We will not
read it, they're now,
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we have in Chapter
19, verse 1. All right.
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When Jesus gives the instruction
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about how to live in the church,
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we will come about that.
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Chapter 19 verse 1, when
Jesus finished these sayings,
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now we have the
activities of Jesus.
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And then Chapter
24 and Chapter 25,
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it's about the
second coming of Christ.
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When Jesus finished in
Chapter 26 verse 1 says,
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when Jesus
finished these sayings,
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now we have Jesus
goes to Jerusalem to die,
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to die on the cross.
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See the gospel of Matthew,
it's organized fantastically.
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Matthew must be wanting to say
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that through what
Jesus said what he taught,
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what he preached
and through what he did,
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He is the Messiah.
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And the complete
restoration to human beings.
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But some Bible students
they noticed, see number five,
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as you mentioned before.
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When you write to the
Jewish people number five,
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there is something
that comes to their minds
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and is the Torah,
five books of the Moses.
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And many people think
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that actually Matthew
did these intentionally.
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He organized his
gospel as five books of Moses,
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let me just go quickly
the time is flying very fast.
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We have the Sermon on the
Mount is the first sermon,
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is the beginning
of Jesus ministry.
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He called His
disciples and brings
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to mind the Book of Genesis,
the beginning of this world.
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Then, we go the
second, its Exodus,
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when God brought the
people of Israel out of Egypt.
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It really reminds the
Exodus of the disciples,
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when they were sent
to the mission field.
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Then, we have the parables,
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they're really parallel
to the Book of Leviticus.
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What is the Book of
Leviticus all about?
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It's God's
parables, teaching people
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through the century sees them
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about how He saved sinners
is the parables of Jesus.
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Then, we have Chapter 18,
is how to live in the church,
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parallel is the Book of Numbers.
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The people of Israel
is organized congregation
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they're in wilderness about
to enter the Promised Land.
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And then we have
Chapters 24 and 25,
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is the second coming of Christ.
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It's about the time to
enter the Promised Land,
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the Book of the Deuteronomy.
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Those laws that Moses gave
before the people of Israel
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entered the
Promised Land that they are.
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So, you are
describing a document,
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it is a master
piece of craftsmanship
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and inspiration to
communicate the message.
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So, that gospel they spoke
to the people of that time,
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it still speaks to us in
a mighty and powerful way.
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Yes, yes. What else
as we think about this,
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you know, what's the
Book of Matthew all about?
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We've noticed
that it was originally
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written to Jewish audience. Yes.
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What's the purpose, what
does he want them to know?
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Let me tell you,
you know, people know
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that I'm very much in
the Book of Revelation,
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this is what I go
around and giving seminars.
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But when usually people ask me
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what are other
New Testament books
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as much important as
the Book of Revelation,
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I tell them the Book of Romans,
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teaching us how we
are saved before God.
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But then the
gospel of Matthew, why?
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See the Book of
Revelation is telling us
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that as we are waiting for
the second coming of Christ,
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we have the message
to proclaim to the world.
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But the gospel of
Matthew is telling us
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how we should live in the church
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as we are awaiting for
the second coming of Christ.
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I want to make sure,
if I can just interrupt,
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I want to make sure,
we got that point Ranko,
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say it one more time, the
gospel of Matthew tells us
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how we should live
in the church. Yes.
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As we are waiting
for the second coming,
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that describes us today. Yeah.
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By the way, the key
concept of the gospel of Matthew
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is the kingdom of
heaven, not the kingdom of God,
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which is found in
Mark, Luke, and other books,
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is the kingdom of heaven,
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which means that
the kingdom of heaven
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is present down to
the earth in the church.
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So when you and me
when we live in the church,
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we already have a foretaste,
a foreshadow of that heaven,
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heavenly life that
one day will we live.
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So in the church, we
have the visible manifestation
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of the kingdom of heaven.
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And of course, if we
talk about a kingdom,
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there needs to be a king. Yes.
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And that's what this book tells.
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That's what the book.
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So, lets conclude that
these studies with something.
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All right. We will see
in our next presentation
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that on the key
text, I found in Chapter 1.
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So the gospel of
Matthew Chapter 1 contains
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a very significant
text which is verse 23,
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Chapter 1 verse
23. Can you read?
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All right, Matthew 1:23. Yes.
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"Behold, the virgin shall be
with child and shall bear a son,
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and they should
call his name Immanuel,"
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which is
translated "God with us."
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So, the book begins
with that the coming of Jesus
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down to the earth.
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God came to be
present with His people.
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As God in the
Old Testament time,
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lived with His people
through the sanctuary.
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Now He lives
through Jesus Christ,
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God came into the
person of Jesus Christ
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to be present among the people.
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God wants to
dwell with His people.
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Now Ranko, they
may have felt at times
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that they are
abandoned and perhaps
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if you were today
feels, you know, where is God.
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He has abandoned me, but
as God came through Jesus,
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so He comes to us today.
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Yes, so I would like to
tell something to the viewers.
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The gospel of Matthew
concludes with the last verse,
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Chapter 28 verse 20,
when Jesus said go around,
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make people disciples,
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baptize them in
the name of the Father,
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of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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He said them teach them
everything what I told you,
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for I am with you always
until the very end of the age.
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So the book begins
with God who is with us
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and the book
concludes with the statement
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that God will always be with us
until the very end of the age.
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By the way this is for the
gospel of Matthew is all about.
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And I just want to
say to the viewers.
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As we are going
through this book,
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I know we all who
are reading the Bible,
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we have our
personal issues in life.
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We have our different needs.
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We live in
different circumstances
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and we ask does God care.
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So the question is
does God really care?
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The purpose of the
gospel of Matthew is to give us
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that promise with
regardless of our circumstances,
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God will be with us always
until the very end of the age.
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