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01/06/2010 16:07
We will put aside our march through Matthew for a moment in order to ensure understanding of certain common Christian terms related to our study in Matthew and also to their relevance in practical application with events of today. The words Heaven, Hell, Kingdom, Hope, and Gospel are quite...
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01/02/2010 11:54
Immediately following the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew provides narration of a series of miracles. The miracles are meant to show two things—the authority of Christ and the power of Christ. Both authority and power are important aspects for accepting Christ as Messiah. Without authority, his...
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01/02/2010 11:52
The next (and last) major section of Christ’s mountain sermon begins in summary fashion. We are told in verse 19-20 that we should not lay up treasures on earth, but rather lay them up in heaven. By now we should recognize that the heaven-earth antithesis speaks of the heart attitude difference...
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11/18/2009 09:30
We are in the middle of our study of the Sermon on the Mount. But before we jump back into the middle of it, we’ll take a running start review just to be sure we have the background in place before starting off again.
Matthew showed us the baptisms in chapter 3. We learned that the water...
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11/14/2009 12:26
Constitution
New Covenant Chapel
Greenville, SC
Preamble
Recognizing God’s grace by which we live here and eternally and desiring to glorify God through relationship with him and with others of biblical and Christian faith, in praise of our great God, Lord Christ, and...
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11/11/2009 08:25
Most Bible scholars will offer Luke 6 as the parallel passage for Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. But there are notable differences. The first is that in 6:7 Luke tells us Christ came down from a mountain and stood on a “level place.” We could surmise that once finished with healing, he retreated...
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11/04/2009 09:40
Chronologically, chapter 4 begins immediately after the baptism. From the incredible high point of God’s Spirit descending on Christ as a dove and the voice from heaven announcing Jesus as beloved Son, the Holy Spirit leads Jesus out into the wilderness of Judea, away from all others for a...
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10/30/2009 16:09
Would it be permissible to baptize yourself? After all, isn’t baptism your own public profession? Why do you need someone else assisting? Although it may seem plausible, self-baptism does not follow the examples we have in Scripture. From the very first encounter with baptism in the New...
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10/22/2009 19:01
In the first two chapters (the introduction of the book), five times Matthew refers to events as fulfillments of prophecy. But when viewing these events in Christ’s life as the realizations of prophetic predictions, we may think Matthew reaches a bit far to conclude as he does. In fact, liberal...
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10/15/2009 08:25
Although we say that Matthew includes one of the two birth narratives of the New Testament, Matthew has very little to say about the birth of Jesus. As far as storyline goes, chapter 1 focuses on the genealogy and Joseph’s handling of the Holy Spirit conception. At the very end, Jesus is born...
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