Years ago I did Bible studies on the Gospels. I'm finding myself drawn again to studying these books of Jesus' life on earth, so I'm starting with, can you guess? The book of Matthew. I plan on taking a chapter a week, studying and pondering on what is conveyed to me through the words as penned through this disciple. Since there are 28 chapters in this very first Gospel, it will take until almost the end of 2016 to cover going at the rate of a chapter a week.
Specifically, I am focusing on the "Mission of Jesus"...what each chapter tells us about why Jesus came. I think that's very important for us, as Christians, to understand because we are more and more being challenged as to the uniqueness of Jesus in His role in history. We need to know why Jesus was sent to fully understand the difference between Him and every other earthly religious figure.
Also, each week, I'm going to pick my verse in that chapter to commit to memory. You can pick your own or use mine. But I want a verse to tuck back in my head to bring that chapter to life for me. The verse from Chapter 1 that I've selected is vs. 21 - "She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from theirs sins."
So - for the next 28 weeks, I will post once a week with what I have seen in God's Word in the chapter covered that week. I earnestly invite you to join with me...read God's Word...and please offer your comments as to what God has shown you as well.
So let's read Matthew 1 every day this week...when you have time dig a little deeper and really study the verses that you have questions about. I have a question right now that I need to look deeper into, "What is the signficance of the 14 generations mentioned in v.17?" That intrigues me.
Feel free to post comments through the week, and then next week I'll summarize what I have seen in this first chapter of the first of the four Gospels of our Lord and Savior, JESUS!
Specifically, I am focusing on the "Mission of Jesus"...what each chapter tells us about why Jesus came. I think that's very important for us, as Christians, to understand because we are more and more being challenged as to the uniqueness of Jesus in His role in history. We need to know why Jesus was sent to fully understand the difference between Him and every other earthly religious figure. Also, each week, I'm going to pick my verse in that chapter to commit to memory. You can pick your own or use mine. But I want a verse to tuck back in my head to bring that chapter to life for me. The verse from Chapter 1 that I've selected is vs. 21 - "She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from theirs sins."
So - for the next 28 weeks, I will post once a week with what I have seen in God's Word in the chapter covered that week. I earnestly invite you to join with me...read God's Word...and please offer your comments as to what God has shown you as well.
So let's read Matthew 1 every day this week...when you have time dig a little deeper and really study the verses that you have questions about. I have a question right now that I need to look deeper into, "What is the signficance of the 14 generations mentioned in v.17?" That intrigues me.
Feel free to post comments through the week, and then next week I'll summarize what I have seen in this first chapter of the first of the four Gospels of our Lord and Savior, JESUS!
2 comments:
A good thing to know when you start to study a book in the Bible is WHY the book was written. It is generally agreed upon that Matthew wrote his gospel to an audience of Jewish Christians in the latter part of the first century A.D. Matthew's emphasis is to present Jesus as the true King that the Jewish people had been awaiting. It is the perfect bridge, therefore, between the Old and New Testaments, with more "proof texts" of Jesus' fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy than the other Gospels. And yet, Matthew also stresses that Jesus came for all, for it is in Matthew's closing that he includes the Great Commission that Jesus gave His disciples before His ascension, to go and preach the Gospel to all people, making disciples of all nations and baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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