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Unveiling Emmanuel: A Deep Dive into Matthew 1 & 2
June 11, 2025 · 16 min
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Introduction to the New Testament and the Book of Matthew 0:10 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. Thanks for joining me this morning. Alright. The sun has not yet risen over our nation's capital, but I couldn't wait to start our 21 day family bible challenge as we move into0:21 the New Testament with the book of Matthew. We're gonna look at chapters 1 and 2. Gonna do an overview this morning. Verse 23 of chapter 1, behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his0:33 name Immanuel, which is translated God with us. Alright. I want you to remember some numbers. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Remember those because I'm gonna return to those in just a0:44 moment. Alright. So for those of you who are new on this journey, this video, daily devotional is just supplemental to the reading. Alright? If you don't have time for both, do the reading, the0:56 video. I just kinda hit some of the high points. I'm kinda like a tour guide. Alright? I'll point out some of the, maybe not so well known aspects. This is not1:08 a verse by verse exhaustive study. Sometimes, I'm I may do that, but that's not what we normally do. So it's important that you read the passages1:20 yourself. That's the primary focus of this 21 day family bible challenge. We've got the the questions, the conversations. Those things are most important. If you have time, watch the1:32 video. If not, read the word of God. And pray before you read it that the holy spirit would open your eyes and your understanding. Because Jesus said, I'm going to send the holy spirit, the1:44 comforter, and he's going to lead you into all understanding of truth. So the word of God is of the utmost importance. That should be your focus on this journey. Alright. Before we1:56 look at today's passages, I'm gonna give a little historical context to the New Testament and our first book of Matthew. Alright. So 400 years have passed since the closing final word of the Old2:08 Testament in the book of Malachi, which was written around 4 30 BC. Now let me pause to say there were some other writings during that 400 year period. For instance, there are the 14 books of the Apocrypha.2:20 These books are contained in the Catholic Bible today. They were placed in the Catholic canon at the Council of Trent in 15 46, AD. Now the reasons2:32 for them not being accepted in the Protestant Bible are as follows. They were not in the Hebrew Old Testament. They were not accepted by or recognized by the Jews as a part of the Old Testament.2:44 Josephus, the Jewish historian, rejected them. Jesus never quoted from any of those 14 books. And as a result, the early church leaders did not place them in the canon of scripture.2:56 However, I've I've read them. There's great information in them. And so I encourage you to to take a look at that, but they're not in our canon of scripture. Now a couple of, historical notes on this3:08 400 year period from 4 30, BC till we begin the New Testament. In 3 33 BC, that's when Alexander the Great conquered Persia. In,3:20 in 2 80, to 200 BC, the Greek translation of the Old Testament was done, which we know as a Septuagint.3:32 Now in, 1 67 BC, Antiochus Epiphanes that we read about in prophecy defiled the temple. And then that led to the Maccabean3:44 period, 1 65 BC, to 63 BC. They were free again, for for the most part as a Jewish nation. They threw off3:56 the Greeks, but in 63 BC, that began the Roman occupation. Alright. Let's look at the book of Matthew. The book of Matthew was written by Matthew. Alright. He was a tax4:08 collector or a publican who worked with the Roman authorities to collect taxes, and that didn't make him very popular. He was like the local IRS agent. He was actually seen as a4:20 turncoat siding with or helping aiding the Romans. However, Matthew responded to the call of Jesus and actually introduced others, to join Jesus. Now other than the4:32 initial encounter and being listed among the 12, we really do not read anything else about Matthew. Matthew's gospel was written most likely in the fifties or the sixties. It was it's pretty evident4:44 it was written before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 BC. Now of we've got the 4 gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and they cover a lot of4:55 the the same period. I mean, they cover the ministry of Jesus, and there's overlap. We'll see some, of the accounts in all of the gospels and and most of the gospels, but they're5:07 all written from a different perspective and with a different focus. Matthew's gospel was written primarily to Jews. He was writing to Jews to answer questions about Jesus. Was he5:19 the Messiah predicted in the Old Testament? Why did he not establish his kingdom if he were the Messiah? And when will he establish it? And and Matthew answered these answers these5:31 questions. Now just an interesting note, of Matthew, he is the only gospel writer to include the word church as a description of those who follow5:43 Jesus. Chapter 1 begins with a list of names. It's a genealogy, and I know it's tempting to skip over those. We looked at those5:55 in the old testament. We've talked about this before. And and it is tempting to to to jump over that and go to the part that is familiar to us, the story of of6:07 Jesus's birth. However, it's in this genealogy that we find items 1 through 4 that I mentioned before. Remember, I said 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Items 16:19 through 4 are found in the genealogy. There's a now there's a I'll just say this. There's a lot more in these 2 chapters than we're gonna have time to explore6:31 in the few minutes we have together today, like how god communicated through angelic appearances and through dreams to give guidance and direction. There's King Herod fearful of6:43 losing power to the Messiah who kills the male children under the age of 2. I mean, I could spend a lot of time just on that passage because Herod's action, I think, reveals the spirit of this age that6:55 is hostile to God and desperate to hold on to power, and we see some of that even today. But we're not gonna be able to cover everything in our few minutes together. So, again, be7:07 sure and read both chapters for yourself. Alright. I'm gonna focus primarily on what's in chapter 1 and 2, when we look at genealogy and the prophecies7:19 that we find in these first 2 chapters that point to Jesus as the Messiah. Chapter 1 traces g Jesus' lineage through Joseph, his legal father, all the way7:31 back to David. And there's 14 generations as you'll see in each of these periods that's covered. Pretty interesting. In Luke, we have Mary's genealogy. We'll look at that when we get to7:43 book to the book of Luke. Now it's provided. It goes back to David as well, which was essential to establish his rightful claim to the throne of David. So in the genealogy, we find 4. Alright. There's7:54 the number 4. There are 4 women. Now first, we have to understand it's not normal to actually see women included in genealogies, but their stories speak8:06 to and this is, again, you could we could just focus on 1 or 2 of those and spend all of our time on that because their stories speak to the grace and the mercy and the forgiveness and the8:18 redemption of God. 3 of the women had baggage. There's our number 3. 2 of the women, there's our number 2, were Gentiles, Rahab and Ruth. Rahab was the8:30 harlot or the prostitute in Joshua chapter 2 that the spies, went to, and she hid the spies in Jericho. Ruth is the only woman here who really doesn't have a record, so to8:41 speak. Then there was Tamar who played the role of a harlot and had a child by her father-in-law. I mean, that's a story. I mean, her father-in-law thought she was a harlot, and,8:53 actually, he has more to explain than Tamar. Then there was the 1 who had been the wife of Uriah. She wasn't even mentioned by name, but that, of course, with Bathsheba.9:05 So now we come to the number 5. There are 5 Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in these first 2 chapters or or the fulfillments talked about in these first 29:17 chapters. In all, in the book of Matthew, there are over a dozen prophecies about the Messiah. Verse 22 of chapter 1. So all this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the lord through9:29 the prophet saying, behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which is translated God with us. This comes from Isaiah chapter 7 verse 11, and we see the fulfillment of9:41 this in the story of Jesus. Verse 5 of chapter 2. So they said to him in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet, but you, Bethlehem, in the land of9:52 Judah, and not the least are not the least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. That comes from Micah chapter 5. And we see in the story of Jesus10:05 how he went he was born in Bethlehem. He had to go there. Joseph had to go there to to register, and it is so happened that Jesus was born there10:16 just as the prophets had said in Micah chapter 5 verse 2. Verse 14 of chapter 2. When he rose, he took the young child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod that it might10:28 be fulfilled, which was spoken by the lord through the prophet saying out of Egypt, I called my son, this fulfilling Hosea 11 1. Now10:40 the reason they went to Egypt is because Herod, as I mentioned earlier, was going to kill went ahead and killed the children under the age of 2, wanting to stop the Messiah, afraid of10:52 the king of the Jews. And so, in a dream, Joseph is warned that he needs to leave, and so they go to Egypt. Then11:04 in verse 17, we said, then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for11:16 her children, refusing to be comforted because they're what? They were they are no more. That comes from Jeremiah 31 15. That was the result of Herod killing the11:28 children, male children, under the age of 2. And so we see the fulfillment of this passage. It was predicted in Jeremiah 31 15.11:41 Verse 22, but when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judah instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by god in a dream, he11:52 turned aside into the region of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in the city called Nazareth that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophets. He shall be called a Nazarene. Now first, with12:04 Egypt, He was again warned in a or, he had an, angelic visitation in a dream and told to return. But then he sees that,12:17 Archelaus was reigning over Judah, so he turns to go to Nazareth. Now this last 1 about Nazareth is interesting because scholars say the town of Nazareth12:28 probably didn't exist in the Old Testament time. At least it wasn't mentioned. So the focus is not on Nazareth or being a Nazarene in terms of a geo geographical place like,12:41 you know, I'm a Louisianian. It was more of a description, because the the root word that we find in in Isaiah 11 1, means,12:54 a a twig, a sprout. And and it gives a sense of insignificance of what it's communicating as in John 1 46. Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?13:06 And I say so this really is kind the script of the Messiah. Isaiah 53 3 says he is despised and rejected by men men, a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief. As we hid, as it were, our faces13:18 from him, he was despised, and we did not esteem him. And then as I mentioned, Isaiah 11 1, there shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and a13:30 branch shall grow out of its roots, a sprig. And and and so here we see that he is described as a Nazarene, meaning a a twig, a sprout,13:42 and it just so happens that god directs the whole situation where he goes to Nazareth in that village, which may have been created after the fact, after13:54 the old testament time, after the prophecy was given, and there he comes out of Nazareth. So why are these prophecies significant? Because as we'll see in the in the in14:06 the gospel of Matthew, in particular, which I mentioned there are over a dozen prophecies about the Messiah, only Jesus fulfills those prophecies, which, I mean, it14:18 speaks to the fact that Jesus is the Messiah as he fulfilled it. So that brings us to number 1. There is only 1 Messiah, 1 savior, 1 son of god, and his14:29 name is Jesus. With that, that, brings us to the end of, chapter 1 and chapter 2 of Matthew. And, again, I'm grateful for all those who have joined us on this14:41 21 day, family bible challenge. And tomorrow, we're gonna look at chapters 3 and 4, the highlights of, the book of Matthew in chapters 3 and 4. Father, thank you14:53 for your word. And and I do pray that the holy spirit would open our eyes and our understanding to the truths contained in your word. Lord, not reading for intellectual purposes. Lord, but reading for transformational15:05 purposes that you would speak to our hearts, our minds, and change us and transform us by your word and by your truth. For we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright.15:16 Until next time, keep standing on the word.15:23 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan available for free at frc dot org slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you15:35 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 Introduction to the New Testament and the Book of Matthew
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