1. Resurrection
Sunday!
We will read part of the 1st Chapter of Matthew and look at
it today, and then toward the end of class, we will consider
a little about the resurrection
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2. Summary of last week: Genesis 15:18 NASU
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
Let’s look at just a couple of things from last week’s
introduction to Matthew…
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The main thing we need to remember, is that the Jews in
Jesus’ day KNEW the Land was theirs! - Not the Romans’
Remember, the Jews had been Ruled by:
The Assyrians
The Babylonians
The Medo-Persians
The Greeks
and Now the Romans - IN THEIR Land!
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3. 4 Biographies of Jesus: There are 4 biographies of the life of Jesus
We call these biographies of Jesus - Gospels (Good News)
Each of the 4 authors apparently had a specific audience in
mind when they wrote their biography, so they each have a
different emphasis based on their intended audience
Matthew seems to be writing to Jews, Mark to the Romans,
Luke to the Gentiles, and John to everyone
This gives us 4 similar, yet different accounts and so we have
more details than we would have if there was only one
AND… Just because Matthew’s intended audience was
primarily Jews doesn’t mean that we can’t learn a lot
from it!
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4. 4 Biographies of Jesus:
Each of the writers has a little different emphasis as they tell
the story.
And each seems to emphasize a different aspect of Jesus
that was prophesied in the Old Testament…
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5. Zechariah 9:9 NASU
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Matthew presents Jesus as King
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6. Isaiah 42:1 NASU
"Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.
Mark presents Jesus as servant
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7. Zechariah 6:12 & 13 NASU
"Then say to him, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the LORD. (13) "Yes, it is He who will build the temple of the LORD, and He who will bear the honor and sit and rule on His
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8. throne. Thus, He will be a priest on His throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two offices."'
Luke presents Jesus as the PERFECT man
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9. Isaiah 40:9-11 NASU
Get yourself up on a high mountain, O Zion, bearer of good news, Lift up your voice mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news; Lift it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!" (10) Behold, the Lord GOD will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him And His

10. recompense before Him. (11) Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes.
John presents Jesus as God
Even though each of the 4 Gospels have their own
emphasis, they still point out other aspects.
For example; Matthew shows Jesus as King, Mark shows
Jesus as servant, Luke shows Jesus as man, John shows
Jesus as God, but Matthew shows Him as servant, man,
and God too, and they all do the same thing, they just
emphasize one thing more.
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11. Again, we are just going to take a tour of the book of
Matthew…
I am just a tour-guide   
I am going to point out the things I find interesting and want
to make a note of
Remember, Pastor Don has been saying in his sermons
lately, The Bible is given to us so we can get to know God
and His will
So as we study ANY book of the Bible, our goal should be
to get to know God more
And to learn His will for our lives - How He wants us to live!
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12. Matthew
Chapter 1
We are going to start by looking at verses 1-17 of Chapter 1
This is the genealogy of Jesus as recorded by Matthew
Let’s turn to Chapter 1 and read verse 17…
READ VERSE
Now if you look at the books of Genesis, 1 & 2 Kings, and
1 & 2 Chronicles, you will see that Matthew left out a few
people in his genealogy.
This was common in Jewish genealogies, they would leave
out some who maybe were insignificant, or maybe
negative.
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13. Matthew
Chapter 1
They would use the term son of... to mean ANY descendant
or the term father of… in the same way.
So, just because it says so and so became the father of so
and so, does not mean that they were a direct father, they
may have been grandfather, great grandfather, etc.
When we say son or father, we mean that literally, but they
didn’t
So in Matthew’s genealogy, he is accurate, he just skipped
over some
And one reason for doing this is so that it can easily be
remembered or memorized.
So in verse 17 it shows us how they were very neatly
organized to make it easier to remember.
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14. As I said last week, we will look at just a small part of
the video of the Gospel of Matthew in the Visual Bible
Series
They just read the text word for word and act out what’s
being read (1984 NIV version)
I think they do a good job of illustrating Matthew’s genealogy
and what we just talked about, so instead of reading verses
1-17, we will listen to them being read and watch the video…
WATCH VIDEO - verses (less than 5 min.)
Can you see how they illustrated the idea of this genealogy
being memorized so it could be passed on?
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15. Matthew 1:1 NASU
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:
READ VERSE
Matthew tells us in the first verse what his purpose is…
He wants to show us the family line of the Messiah…
He wants to prove to us that Jesus IS the Messiah (the
promised anointed one - King of the Jews)
Let’s look at a few verses that the Jews would have
been familiar with, that show the promised one
would come…
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16. Genesis 12:1-3 NASU
Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father's house, To the land which I will show you; (2) And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;
************* By the way, as I mentioned last week, I really
am one who likes to have you look up and turn to the
passages we are going to read, but I will have so many
references to turn to and our time is limited...
So I will just have most, if not all of the passages up on the
screen for you just to save time, even though that is not
my first choice.
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17. (3) And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."
And also later in Genesis 22…
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18. Genesis 22:18 NASU
"In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
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Here, in an obscure way, God was promising the Messiah…
We can see from Galatians it is pointing to faith in Jesus…
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19. Galatians 3:7-9 NASU
Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham. (8) The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU." (9) So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.
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So, Matthew starts by showing us that Jesus is descended
from Father Abraham
Also, there was a promise in Genesis 49…
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20. Genesis 49:9 & 10 NASU
"Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He couches, he lies down as a lion, And as a lion, who dares rouse him up? (10) "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
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“The scepter” referred to a ruler’s rod or wand or staff like
thing that represented authority.
So, even here in Jacob’s blessings there was a reference to
the coming Messiah
Next, he shows that Jesus is descended from David who
also was promised something concerning the Messiah…
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21. 2 Samuel 7:8-13 NASU
"Now therefore, thus you shall say to My servant David, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel. (9) "I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the
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22. names of the great men who are on the earth
names of the great men who are on the earth. (10) "I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly, (11) even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your
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23. enemies. The LORD also declares to you that the LORD will make a house for you. (12) "When your days are complete and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come forth from you, and I will establish his kingdom. (13) "He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
And also in Isaiah, God re-affirms this promise…
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24. Isaiah 9:6 & 7 NASU
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (7) There will be no end to the increase of His government or of
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25. peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this.
We can see that the Messiah was promised to be descended
from David
The Jews knew all these promises, and so Matthew shows
through his genealogy, that Jesus has the right lineage to
be the Messiah
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26. Now, you may have noticed that Matthew’s genealogy goes
from Abraham to Jacob, the husband of Mary, the mother
of Jesus.
But Jacob was not his father! … God was!
So why show the genealogy of Jacob?
In the Jews’ minds, the legal genealogy came from the
father only.
A person got their identity from the father and all their rights
from the father and the father’s family.
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27. Luke 3:23 NASU
When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli,
READ VERSE
Everyone supposed Jesus was the son of Joseph…
Matthew is writing to Jews...
So, Matthew goes with that, and shows the Jews the
genealogy of Joseph, the “father” of Jesus
- Matthew’s genealogy was the “legal” genealogy of Jesus
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28. Did you notice? … Tamar Rahab Ruth Bathsheba Mary Did you notice…
These were mentioned in the genealogy…
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5 Women! - This was a man’s society, women were not
usually mentioned in a genealogy
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29. Did you notice… Tamar Rahab Ruth Bathsheba Mary
Let me read an excerpt from the a book by Yoel H. Kahn
on Jewish traditions…
These traditions would have been in place at the time
of Jesus…
“The traditional prayer book of the Jews includes a sequence
of three blessings in which a MAN thanks God for NOT
making him a gentile, a woman, or a slave!”
This shows how the Jews felt about gentiles, slaves, and
women.
Yet Matthew includes these five women in his genealogy!
I think there are a couple of things going on here…
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30. Did you notice… Tamar Rahab Ruth Bathsheba Mary
I will only look at one here, and we will look at the other
later…
I think Matthew is giving a clue that Jesus came for ALL
people - women included
In a culture where men dominated, Jesus himself talked to
women, treated them with respect, etc and I think Matthew
is giving a little clue to that by including theses women
in his genealogy
We will look at these women in more detail next time…
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31. Luke 24:1-6 NASU
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the
spices which they had prepared. (2) And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, (3) but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. (4) While they
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32. were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; (5) and as
the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead?
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33. (6) "He is not here, but He has risen
(6) "He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee,
As we think about the resurrection today, I want to just
read a number of scriptures and comment on them
briefly…
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34. What did Jesus come to do?
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35. John 4:34 NASU
Jesus *said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
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36. John 14:31 NASU
but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me…
READ VERSE
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37. John 10:17 NASU
"For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.
READ VERSE
Jesus came to do the Father’s will…
The Father sent Him to lay down His life for sinners!
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38. Romans 8:2 NASU
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
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39. Colossians 2:13 & 14 NASU
(13) When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him,, having forgiven us all our transgressions
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40. (14) having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
Through His death, He set us free from sin and death!
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41. 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 NASU
(54) But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. (55) "O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS
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42. YOUR STING?" (56) The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; (57) but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus conquered death! 
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43. John 19:28-30 NASU
After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, *said, "I am thirsty." (29) A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.
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44. (30) Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
I know I have said this before, but when He said; It is
finished!” - This was a victory cry!
He had done everything the Father sent Him to do
PERFECTLY!
But that was not the end…
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45. Acts 2:24 NASU
"But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
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46. Resurrection Sunday! That’s what we are celebrating today!
????? Sing Hallelujah, What a Savior ?
Luke 24:5 NASU ... the men said to them, "Why do you seek
the living One among the dead?
Bill Bright (The founder of Campus Crusade for Christ who
went home to be with the LORD in 2003) once went to the
Holy Land and when he came to the traditional place of the
garden tomb, he was anticipating having a very moving
experience. He got there and really expected to have
spiritual experience of some kind. After all, this may have
been the place where they laid His LORD after He was
crucified. This would be a wonderful place of reflection, and
to experience the presence of God. He sat down and began
to reflect on the events of the cross and the tomb, etc. And
he waited…
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47. Resurrection
Sunday!
And NOTHING! – He didn’t feel anything… He waited more,
and still nothing! Then the words came to him; “Why do you
seek the living One among the dead?”
- That’s the bottom line:
You don’t go to a special place to experience Jesus;
He’s alive and lives in all believers.
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