Introduction to Matthew Jesus is the Promise Kept | Matthew 1

Starting

the book of Matthew this morning right

off chapter one after 105 or so sermons

in Genesis. Uh those sermons will come

in handy as we come into the book of

Matthew. Matthew alludes to Genesis a

lot. Genesis. In Genesis, we see

promises made to Adam and to Abraham and

later on promises will be made to David.

In the book of Matthew,

we'll see those promises kept. It's a

long wait for Messiah, a long way before

Christ has come. Book of Matthew

uniquely goes after a Hebrew, first

century Hebrew audience. Mark is geared

very much towards the Romans. Okay, it's

a language, a quote scripture, post the

Old Testament, but not like Matthew.

Matthew is geared towards the Hebrew

mind, the Hebrew leader of the first

century who reads the Greek Old

Testament. That is who Matthew is

talking to. Luke has in mind a very

Greek audience and a lot of the same

things as Matthew, but Matthew is

uniquely Jewish and written to an

audience that read again and again and

again the Old Testament. And so as we

read every chapter in Matthew, there's

going to be quotations of the prophets

going to be illusions to the law, the

Torah. And we're going to look at that

this morning. We look at the major

from the

sign.

The Jew of the first century has

questions about does Jesus meet the

criteria of being the Messiah we've been

waiting for. We're going to see he comes

at the proper time. He comes from the

proper family. He he uh he does things

that only Messiah could do. And he is

the long awaited

second Adam, the seed of Abraham and the

son of David the king. So my title this

morning is introduction to Matthew

text. The point of this morning sermon

is the promises made to Adam, Abraham

and David are fulfilled in Christ. If

you stand with me now for the reading of

God's word, we'll start reading in

Matthew 1

verse one. The book of the genealogy of

Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son

of Abraham. Skipping down to the final

verses of the book of Matthew 28.

And Jesus came and said to them, "All

authority in heaven and on earth has

been given to me. Go therefore and make

disciples of all nations, baptizing them

in the name of the Father and of the Son

and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to

observe all that I have commanded you.

And behold, I am with you always to the

end of the age."

Lord God, we thank you that you are a

promise keeping

God that you made promises to the

fathers and the prophets that you have

kept the person of your son Jesus Christ

with the king that's coming Lord even as

we are getting ready to enter into this

Christmas season and we think about your

incarnation your life on our behalf your

death on our behalf and your exaltation

God I pray that this Christmas with you

especially focused on you our Lord and

Savior that the king has come the

kingdom has come and you are our Lord

and Savior forever. We pray your Jesus

name. Amen. You may be seated. You may

be seated. So I started with the first

verse of the Bible of the book of

Matthew

and I ended with the final verses of

Matthew. We're really gonna see that the

scene that begins in verse one and the

final verses of Matthew, it shows Jesus

as the last Adam to whom heaven and

earth has been given. Adam was given to

man. Now Christ has been given to him as

the seed of Abraham. The promise made

Abraham that Jesus is the fulfillment of

that promise. Here is the seed of

Abraham in whom all the nations of the

earth will be blessed. And so here we we

have Jesus saying go and teach all

nations. And we see also the promise

made to David that from him would come

an everlasting king. And Jesus is that

everlasting king. And he says I am with

you always to the end of the age. Let's

look here. I'm speak this morning and

and look at verse one. Matthew 1. That's

as far as we're going to get in Matthew

1 this morning. But we're going to look

at a lot a lot of parts of the Bible

that are reflected in this verse. The

book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,

the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Verse one calls out directly

to whom promises were made that Jesus is

the fulfillment of this concept of Jesus

being the Messiah. Jesus is the Messiah.

Jesus Christ. Christ is a Greek word for

means anointed one. Someone who smeared

with oil. The Hebrew word Mashiach. It

also means anointed one. We get our word

Messiah from the word Messiah. And we

get our word Christ from the word. But

they all mean the same thing, the

anointed one. Christ is not his last

name. Or maybe you could look him up in

a first century telephone book. Christ

is a title. It's a title. In the Old

Testament, the the prophets were

anointed with oil, the priests were

anointed with oil, and the kings were

anointed with oil. And a symbolic

ceremony where he became the anointed

one, a spot. But Jesus says, Jesus,

the Christ, he is the anointed one that

all former anointed ones pointed to. And

so the first thing we do is asking the

question, does Jesus meet the criteria

of being the anointed one? And so we'll

start off the book of Matthew. I'll get

into it next week. A genealogy that

demonstrates he comes from the exact

family that that God promised the

Messiah would come from. But as the

anointed one, uh he is our prophet, our

priest, and our king. And we will see in

the book of Matthew, Jesus, a prophet.

Matthew 567 showing the people their

sins calling them to repentance. We'll

see him as God's priest by bearing our

sins on the cross in our place. And we

will see him as our king exalted with

all authority in heaven and in earth. My

hope is that that just as encouraged the

first century Jew that as a 21st century

Christian you will be invigorated with

the concept that Jesus indeed is king.

He is all sorts of authority. He is

God's sovereign and not just sovereign

over us in a personal way. He has all

authority in heaven and in earth. He is

the king of kings and the lord of lords.

He is the one by whom princes rightly

reign by which they will be judged if

they violate him. We are not

secularists. We are Christians and we

acknowledge the authority of Jesus

Christ. He is Lord. Is he our personal

savior? Yes, indeed. Personal. He died

for you. If you trust in him, he will

save you. But he's more than our

personal savior. He is the one from whom

all authority in heaven and earth is

derived. This is what clearly put forth

in the book of Matthew. We will see the

word

55 times the word kingdom will appear.

It is a it is a theme of Matthew. Jesus

is the king who's on the throne of

David. Jesus is the promised king

Adam.

We see here

the book of the genealogy of Jesus

Christ the son of David the son of

Abraham. Now that word

is the word.

It's the word.

The book of the genealogology

is the book of the genesis of Jesus the

Messiah the son of David the son of

Abraham. The word means source and

origin. So when you're talking about

your genealogy you're talking about

where you came from your origin. This is

the Greek word hol I think 13 times at

least in the book of Genesis. The book

of Genesis as we read after 525

in the book of Genesis. We read many

genealogies.

We read the genealogy of Adam and the

genealogy of Noah and the genealogy of

Abraham. We have many genealogies. And

the genealogies show record of the

people for whom the promises were made.

God made certain promises to Adam of

which we are all descendants and we are

the heirs of those. God made certain

promises to Abraham that all the nations

would be blessed and we are in another

sense the heirs of that and Jesus made

promises to David. Genealogies are

important because it's God saying I made

a promise and I want you to keep record

so that when the promise is fulfilled

you know I fulfilled that promise and we

talk about that a lot in the book of

Genesis. The book of Genesis is a book

of origin the origin of the Adam and the

earth but also the the of the families

of the earth and the origins of the

priesthood and the origins of of of

substitutionary atonement dying in the

place of the sinner. And so here in the

first verse, Matthew chooses to use the

word Genesis which is the name of the

book in the Greek. The Hebrew reader

when he reads the book of the Genesis of

Jesus Christ his mind comes back to

promises.

So while the verse mention specifically

Abraham and David

of all the places this word Genesis is

used in the Greek translation is only

called the book of the Genesis one time.

The book of the Genesis is in Genesis 5

1-3 here. Look at what it says. It says

in Genesis 5 going back to Genesis. This

is the book

of the generations of Adam. This is the

book of the Genesis of Adam. It's the

same.

But here Adam

created man. He made them in the

likeness of God. Male and female he

created them. And he blessed them and

made them man. when they were created

when Adam lived 130 years from father to

son in his own likeness out of his image

and made himself.

So the one time it's used uh in the Old

Testament this phrase the book of

Genesis is in reference to Adam. It

refers to the genesis of Noah and the

genesis of Abraham. And here's the of

the generations of Adam. And I believe

the reason that uh Matthew is doing this

is he wants us to think about Adam.

I'm going to show you promises were made

to Adam and Jesus called the last

Adam.

All of us are descended from

Adam we all partake of his sin nature.

But we can either be legally in Adam as

sinners or we can be legally drafted

into Christ and be in the last Adam and

which we are partaker not of his sin but

of his righteousness. So Matthew wants a

first century thinking about Genesis and

the promises that were made. I'm going

to show you some parallels between

Jesus and what Adam had and what Jesus

says of it's I find it very fascinating

and in Genesis 126 28 we see Adam's

dominion. Then God said, "Let us make

man in our image after our likeness, and

let them humanity have dominion over the

fish of the sea, and over the birds of

the heaven, and over the livestock, and

over all the earth, and over every

creeping thing that creeps on the

earth." So God created man in his own

image, in the image of God, he created

him, male and female, he created them.

And God blessed them. God said to them,

"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the

earth and subdue it and have dominion

over the fish of the sea and over the

birds of the heavens and over every

living thing that lives on the earth."

Okay. So, Adam had

it.

It makes him a king. He had a kingdom.

He had dominion over the earth. But what

happens to Adam is Adam will fall and

his kingdom. But what do we see in

Christ? Christ has given his kingdom

back. So the verse I've already

said, all authority in heaven and on

earth has been given to me. All

authority

has

dominion at the end of

they reflect each other. And it's a

major theme of the book of Matthew is

Christ has dominion. He is the last

Adam. He is our king. He is our

authority. All authority comes from him.

Authority in the home. Authority in the

civil government. Authority in the

church. Our own authority as human

beings derive from Christ authority.

It's all authority in heaven and on

earth. No, he doesn't just say all

authority on earth or all authority in

heaven. is all authority in heaven and

on earth. When we say Christ is king, we

mean he is king. All right. But Adam

also reflected Christ. Adam is tested

for sin.

In Genesis 3:16, the Lord God took him

Genesis 3:16

and put him in the garden of Eden to

work it. The Lord God commanded the man

saying, "You must surely eat of every

tree of the garden, but of the tree of

the knowledge of good and evil. You

shall not eat for in that day that you

eat of it you shall surely die. So God

gives a practical test. Adam is created

sinless and his wife is sinless. And in

order to show his love a

tree in the midst of the garden of all

the tree you may freely eat but the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil you

shall not eat of it. The tree of it you

shall surely not.

This is a practical way for Adam and Eve

to show their love to God by continuing

in obedience and fellowship with him.

They had two trees set before them.

There's the tree of life from which they

could eat and they could enjoy it and

live forever. And they have the tree and

the knowledge of good and evil or the

tree of death if you will. And so this

test was given to Adam. Adam was tested

in a gardener.

Matthew 41 was led up by the spirit into

the wilderness to be tempted by the

devil. And Adam is

wild.

Adam is driven from the garden by angels

and at the end of the temptation angels

come and minister to Jesus. This is a

contract

fail.

So we see Jesus as the second Adam. We

see Adam fall in Genesis 36

at the tree of an evil. But the serpent

said to the woman, "You will not surely

die. For God knows that when you eat of

it, your eyes will be opened and you

will be like God, knowing good and evil.

So when the woman saw that the tree was

good for food, and it was a delight, and

that the tree was desire, he desired to

make one wise, she took of it and ate.

And she also gave some to her husband

was with her and he ate. So Adam,

they

just

think you can

be as

selfexating

himself to pass through the womb of a

woman. What a contrast. Adam

selfexation.

Jesus being God humiliation

to do what? To die on a tree. Adam is

temped at a tree and failed. Jesus

tested on a tree.

We will see Jesus

on a tree. The question why

why not a sacrificial altar like the

oldest

I think the symbolism is very strong

that God chose as a means of sacrifice

for God's son. Adam was at a tree. Jesus

was tested on a tree. Adam failed.

Christ prevailed. He is the greater

Adam. He is the son of God who

prevailed.

Genesis 3:4-6

Genesis 3:4–6

and the serpent

the Lord God saidp

here

people laugh. This isn't merely a

talking.

This is an intelligent supernatural

being who is temping Adam and Eve to

usurp God's authority and to become God

for themselves to be a self

above all livestock and above all beasts

of the field on your belly you shall go

and dust you shall eat all the days of

your life. I will put enmity between you

and the woman and between your offspring

your seed and her offspring. He shall

bruise your head and you shall lose his.

Now notice here it says there will be

there will be war between the seed of

the serpent and the seed of the woman.

The seed of the woman. Biologically who

has the seed, the man or the woman?

The man. But in this verse, it promises

that the seed of the woman will crush

the serpent's head. What will we see

later in Genesis chapter one and later

this month? The virgin birth, the seed

of the woman, the man, finally a child

will be born to a woman who will crush

the serpent's head. You see this in

Matthew 27:32

Matthew 27:32

later in the book as they went out they

found the mannequel

this man to carry his cross made of

what?

And when they came to a place called

the woman

where Jesus will die

of the woman born of a virgin one is now

going to crush the head at a place

called the place of the

And they offered him wine to drink mixed

with gold was bitter but was a pain

reliever. But when he prayed for he

would not drink it. See Adam and Eve

perceiving that the fruit of the tree

was sweet. They took it down. But Jesus

being offered a reliever

rejected it. He rejected all of the

natural relief that could be given

because he was there to get silver mind

and a place of judgment to bear our sins

and it would not refuse to drink strong

drink in the place of judgment. Verse 35

and when they had crucified him they

divided his garments among them by

casting lots. That means he was naked.

But how did God find him? Naked in the

garden.

Then they sat down and kept watch over

him there and over his head they put the

charge against him which read this is

Jesus the king of the Jews. Then two

robbers were crucified with him one on

the right and one on the left. So in

Genesis we see Adam beginning

and we see and then in Matthew we see

Jesus born of a virgin woman. We

prevailing in tempting

out a tree. We see Jesus on a tree. We

see Jesus the seed of a woman crushing

the serpent. This is all intentional.

But this is not merely the orchestrating

of of man. This is the work of God. God

orchestrated all of history to point

the whole Old Testament. the Jew who

read the the Torah at least three years

went through the entire Torah through

the synagogue year after year after

year. He's making these connections as

we go through the book of Matthew to the

best of my ability. I'm going to try to

find those connections which I've

already

talked

and what I hope will happen is it will

invigorate your fa your faith. book is

not the man's mind. This book is divine

because it's the very growth of God

telling us God's story. This is the

meaning of history, the meaning of life.

It all points to Christ who is the last

Adam who is the seed of the woman who

trustes the serpent. And we will see

this in chapter one through the virgin

birth. The king has come and born of a

virgin. Now moving on in Genesis the

of Jesus Christ. We also read that he's

the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Certain promises are again made to

Abraham that will be alluded to very

heavily in the book of Matthew Genesis

12 1-3. This is what Abraham gets

introduced into the story of Genesis.

Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from

your country and your kindred and your

father's house to the land where I show

you. And I will make you a great nation.

And I will bless you and I will make

your name great so that you will be a

blessing. I will bless those who bless

you. And him who honors you, I him who

dishonors you, I will. And in you all

the families of the earth shall be

blessed." Paul refer to this as the

inbations

of the earth will be blessed. The

blessing will not just be for his

biological

but in Christ all the nations of the

earth are blessed. He reiterates this

again.

Now is veryap

and I want you to take him on a thour

and when you get there I want you to

offer up your on a particular mountain

that I will show you. It's got to be a

specific one. I will show you when you

get there. He goes to the area

Jerusalem.

That's where Jerusalem

offer.

But I believe on the very spot where God

Abraham

only son that he loved God only

know what's in your heart. I know I I

know it's in your heart and because

you've done this makes some great

promises. Um and and he he promises the

uh he authored in the place of his son

Isaac, the promised son. And and he says

this in verse 16, he said, "By myself I

have sworn before Lord because you have

done this and have not withheld your

son, your only son. I will surely bless

you and I will surely multiply your

offspring as the stars of heaven and the

stand on the seashore. and your

offspring shall develop to David his

enemy. And in your offspring shall all

nations of the earth be blessed because

he obey my voice. And what's interesting

in Hebrew is the word offering here

isn't plural.

And we might just say, well, okay, yeah,

it's one, but I know in Genesis, but

the promise

Paul says, "Now the promise were made to

Abraham and to his offspring." It does

not say and offer referring to referring

to one and your offspring who is

according to Paul

Abraham is that one particular offspring

beloved son all the nations of the earth

will be left.

And so what do we read? Going back to

our final verse that I repeated

repeatedly

verse 18

all authority in heaven and earth has

been given therefore and make disciples

of all nations baptizing them in the

name of the father and of the son and of

the holy spirit teaching them to observe

all that I commanded you and behold I am

with you always to the end of the age

the final verses of the book of Matthew

are about taking this message of Christ

the last Adam the seed Abraham, the one

who sits on the throne of David in front

of all nations and in him all the

nations are going to be blessed because

people from all nations are going to be

are going to believe and be saved. This

is a major theme of the book of Matthew

is that Jesus is the seed of Abraham. He

is the fulfillment of that promise and

his whole nation will be formed. And

just like his first words to Abraham was

Abraham go from your country

here in Matthew 28 or his command is go

therefore

as you go

and this

glorious message of the death

resurrection of Jesus to all nations

that all nations will be blessed in

So here in Matthew,

the genesis of Jesus Christ, the son of

David, the son of Abraham

referred to his promise that all nations

would be blessed in him. All right, now

we got David to cover.

David,

love the story of David. David starts

off with a shepherd boy and he's tending

his father's sheep and God says I want

my own heart

David becomes king David makes some

major mistakes and

crimes and God is very gracious to him

and forgiving him and so at one point

David says I want to build a house

temple for the Lord I want to build a

temple and That's a great idea. Go do

that. Go do everything in your heart to

do it. God directs

me

to go and talk. He doesn't

your son will, but you won't. And he

makes certain promises to actually go

God's very pleased with David's heart.

David wants to build temple. David wants

to see God's arwelling and beautiful

temple. And so he makes certain

when your beliefs are fulfilled and you

lie down with your fathers, I will raise

up for up your

shall come from your body and I will

establish his kingdom. He shall build a

house for my enemy and I will establish

the throne of his kingdom forever. I

will be a father and he shall be a son.

When he commit iniquity, I will

discipline him with the men with the

stripes of the sons of men. steadfast

love will not depart from them as I take

it from Saul my foot away from before

you and your house and your kingdom

shall be made sure forever before me

your throne shall be established forever

now there's certain ways in which his

son

of

Solomon did fall into and did him and

did thank him kind of the modern

vernacular

of treatment

but Jesus

and Solomon's descendants did end up

leaving the kingdom. So he's not the

everlasting king. So the Jews read this

and they're saying well the son of David

everlasting has an everlasting kingdom

that will be made forever that will be

established forever.

that they are waiting at the time.

The Jews are waiting for the son of

David who will have a kingdom

established forever. This promise was

later clarified through the prophets

through Daniel and Isaiah and others

that God would take of the family of

David and make an everlasting kingdom

to come at the time.

We're going to look at a very precise

timeline at that time.

The wise men will come and they're

coming because they have a timeline and

a star that directs them.

But they knew it's time for Messiah to

show up.

It's time for him to show up. Where is

he? Where is he everlasting?

Well, the word king, as I told you, the

word uh kingdom is used

in the book of Matthew, more than any

other book. It's a little bit less than

Luke

is a shorter book, but the theme of the

gospel of Matthew.

Here's just a few of them. Matthew 32

the preaching of John the Baptist with

John the Baptist.

The kingdom of heaven is at

the kingdom at the time. The kingdom of

heaven is at hand. In Matthew 4:17,

Matthew 4:17

Jesus takes up the same message. From

that time,

the kingdom of heaven is at

hand. It's nearby. It's not thousands of

years away. It's at hand.

Matthew 4:23

Matthew 4:23

the uh we see Jesus and he went

throughout all Geing in their synagogue

and proclaiming the gospel of the

kingdom and healing every sickness and

every affliction affliction among the

people Jesus preaching the gospel of the

kingdom the good news of the kingdom

53

blessed are the poor there is the

kingdom of heaven

Matthew 12:28

Matthew 12:28

by the spirit of God that I demonstr

to whom David was made the promise that

his son will sit on his kingdom forever

and Jesus saying all authority is given

to me in heaven and in earth saying I

gin

he lost it

but he forfeited it

now has come at the right hand of the

father and all authority in heaven and

earth has been given to him and So as we

read the book of Matthew, we'll get to

chapter 13. We'll hear the parables of

his kingdom. He's teaching us what the

kingdom is like. Now this is one of the

things like talking about what's the

nature of that kingdom. Jesus makes it

very clear. It's not like the kingdom of

this world. It's a different kind of

kingdom.

This kingdom is an inside out kingdom.

The kingdom is within you. The kingdom

starts from the inside of its way

outward. Other kingdoms have to impose

from

fear and promise of reward and bribery

rule. But Christ changes us from the

inside.

What's very clear in the book of Matthew

I think

is that the time of the kingdom has come

in the first century and Jesus said it

comes out and delivered people.

So over the next couple years as we go

through I don't know if it'll take years

or notice

maybe more

week after week after week about the

kingdom of God

and everyone comes under the authority

of Christ. He's either your Lord and

Judge or he's your Lord and Savior.

and think about it. He is your lord.

He rules at the right hand of the father

and nations are judged by the words of

his

instit.

I believe that there's something

physical present in the bread and

present in the wine. I don't believe in

that. But physical is not the most real

thing. In fact, before there was a

physical universe, there was eternal

God, father, son, and holy spirit. When

we think of Christy

in a powerful way, he is walking amongst

the candlestick. He's walking in his

church. He's evaluating them. knows our

hearts. And people say that, "Oh, well,

yeah, I'm doing some bad things, but God

knows my heart."

It's actually terrifying.

If you're walking contrary to his will,

if you come to him as a child and you

say, "Lord, I'm struggling. God, I need

your help. Father, I need you as my

deliverer." If you come to them in

humility with the knee bowed, there's a

lot of comfort in that. But if you come

to the rebel, there's no comfort in the

fact that he knows our heart. When we

come to table, God's people, we do this.

We heal

at Matthew 28:18, the final verses of

Matthew 28:18

the book of Matthew. Let's look at it

one more time. And Jesus came and said,

"All authority

in heaven and on earth has been given to

me."

Go therefore

given all authority and you're my

disciples. What do I want you to do? I

want you to go. Go therefore and make

disciples of all nations.

Today the modern concept

laws and geography. The first century

when they heard the word

of the earth to go and teach all the

families of the earthaches

and after they believe on the Lord Jesus

Christ, what do we do? We baptize them.

If baptizing them in the name of the

father and of the son and of the holy

Baptism.

We require baptism.

Baptism is much like a marriage ceremony

where you say your vows. Baptism is the

vows.

Baptism

to you. I'm trusting in you. I identify

with your death and resurrection on my

behalf. And I'm yours.

by union with Christ. Uh what he has

becomes ours and what we have becomes

his heon

and we take his rightous upon us by

union with Christ a great

he says I'll take your sins

and and we take his righteousness this

is what we teach all nations we preach

the gospel the newsary

atonement, how he died on a tree.

And then what teaching them to observe

all that I have in the name of what

we

are command of Matthew? There are

promises to be believed. There are

warnings to be heeded. There are

commandments to be obeyed. as his

people, we are commanded to obey him.

So week after week, yes, we're going to

preach the gospel and the good news of

some preachers say, "Oh, that's

moralistic preaching." That's not

moralism. What moralism is if you're

telling people you can be saved by good

works

but Jesus taught the disciples

we're going to spend some time in

Matthew 56

amount of time

when I was a young man first year in

Bible college I went to Bible college

and I come out I'd gone to a public

school where I' been I thought I was a

very alone

And I started reading I'm like Lord I

just I

want to be I want to do

and so for quite a while I don't even

know how long it was quite a while every

morning I

serve

memorize this thing. I read it so much.

Matthew seemed easy. I think in three

days I memorized

I read it so many times it's like my

ears up and then within a week or so I I

memorized Matthew 5.

A great challenge for you. It takes some

time to do it

not not in an effort to try to merit or

earn God's favor.

God's people. He's our king. We should

submit to him.

We need to be the kind of people we

should say to all things.

Jesus teaches us what to value, how to

live, how to feed our enemies, what type

of what type of he

doesn't go. It's very practical.

I found it very convincing.

really humbled me greatly

just reading the repeatedly

therefore perfectrifice.

init.

I'm not as honest as I thought I was.

I'm not as free as I thought I was. I'm

not I'm not as generous as he called me

to be. I don't love my enemies like I'm

supposed to. Nor do I love my neighbor

as I'm supposed to. Nor do I love God as

I'm supposed to.

It should leave you humble when you're

done.

And when you're humbled by it, you

should say

I want to be more.

That's what it should be. We're a lot of

people in the book of Matthew. We're

going to be given again typology, the

fulfillment of the Old Testament.

We're going to see Christ as the last

of the woman in Matthew chapter one just

like we see Genesis in Matthew chapter

one. We'll see.

We'll see.

And we'll see the beginning of the law

in Matthew 56 and there's a lot of

things we're going to delve into that

the first century Jew would have picked

up on. It should leave us humble, but it

should also leave us

known. This is good news. The gospel of

according to Matthew is that all the

promises made to Adam and Abraham and

Jesus are fulfilled in Christ. This is

good news and it will be our delight to

love him and

join.

We thank you Lord that we acknowledge

our sin and we are humbled before you

interfailed.

And Christ is indeed seated at the right

hand of the father extending mercy and

grace to us. Lord, I I pray father now

for those who don't yet know you who are

yet to confess their sins to you and to

repent and come from a life of a life of

faith in Christ. Lord, I pray that in

their hearts today I pray for our little

they

for the forgiveness

and I pray father that you give your

people confidence to proclaim the

lordship and the kingship of Jesus

Christ we would not leave to declare

that Christ is king

of kings the lord of lords the judge of

all the