1. New Testament--Matthew
The Story of God
New Testament--Matthew

2. The New Testament Is built from stones quarried from the Old Testament
It fulfills the OT, but adds or promises nothing new.
The only exceptions are called “mysteries”
Mysteries are things not fully or clearly revealed in the OT
There is the mystery of the kingdom; the cross, the rapture, of the church, and of iniquity

3. The OT closes with the anticipation of promise (Malachi 4)
The NT fulfills the promises made in the OT
The promise of the New Covenant
The promise of New Land
The promise of New Creation
The promise of New David

4. The promises are fulfilled in and through Jesus the Messiah
Since Thomas Schreiner’s book The King in His Beauty is our primary source for these lessons, we’ll follow his pattern for dealing with NT books:
Synoptics and Acts
John and his epistles
Pauline epistles

5. General epistles
Revelation

6. Matthew
The very first verse connects us clearly to the OT: Genesis 2.4; 5.1
Matthew’s Gospel makes the case that the entire world will be blessed through the seed of David. Matthew
Above anything else, Matthew identifies Jesus as the Christ—the Son of David
David and Abraham are not just patriarchs, they are recipients of major covenants pertaining to salvation.

7. 1.1
9.27
12.23
15.22
21.9; 15
may function as the most critical text in Matthew

8. All of this begs the question: If the Messiah is the King, the Son of David, and the King is here—can the kingdom be far behind?
But there is a mystery to the Kingdom. Matthew 13.11

9. In Matthew, Jesus is a type of Israel

10. Jesus is the fulfillment of prophecy
; Isaiah 7.14
2.23; Isaiah
4.14; Isaiah 9.1-2
8.17; Isaiah 53.4
; Isaiah ; 52.13
Matthew 13.14; 35; Isaiah 6.9
Matthew 21.4; Zechariah 9.9
Matthew 27.9; Zechariah
Matthew 27.35; Psalm 22.18