Sunday with Devore - Matthew 4_12-25

So, Matthew chapter 4.

As it says here, Jesus begins his ministry, as Brother Daniel read earlier.

So, in the In the other Gospels, there's kind of different accounts.

It's kind of the way the Gospels saw, you know, retold of what they saw when they were walking with Jesus.

So in the Gospel of John, there was actually some other ministry that Jesus did before this.

It says in his timeline, the wedding at Cana, more baptisms in the Jordan, things like that kind of came before this.

But this is something that Matthew, the author of this gospel, is drawing our attention to.

He's drawing his perspective, his point, his theme was presenting Jesus as the king.

Jesus as the king who's going to take the Davidic throne, the promised Messiah throne.

So he's showing that this is the king.

This is the king that's been promised from long ago.

And he's writing to a mostly Jewish crowd, okay, because those were mostly, most of the first Christians were Jewish, right? Jesus was Jewish.

We've talked about that extensively before.

So he's writing to most of these times.

So what does he do? He uses a lot of Old Testament texts.

He used a lot of Old Testament typology because they would have known that.

The people that were reading this gospel right here at the time, they would have known.

He wouldn't have to like read the whole, like for us it's chapters, you know, chapters and divisions and subheadings, things like that in our Bibles.

It wasn't like that before.

It was in scrolls.

He wouldn't have to pull out the scroll of Isaiah and say, okay, let's recap all of Isaiah, right? Recap all of it because I want to show you here where, no, he would just use a, a scripture or a passage from the scroll of Isaiah, already they would have known the context.

Oh, okay, we get it.

We know what was going on in Isaiah because they knew their word.

They knew it.

That was what their mindset.

So, Matthew chapter 4.

As it says here, Jesus begins his ministry, as Brother Daniel read earlier.

So, in the In the other Gospels, there's kind of different accounts.

It's kind of the way the Gospels saw, you know, retold of what they saw when they were walking with Jesus.

So in the Gospel of John, there was actually some other ministry that Jesus did before this.

It says in his timeline, the wedding at Cana, more baptisms in the Jordan, things like that kind of came before this.

But this is something that Matthew, the author of this gospel, is drawing our attention to.

He's drawing his perspective, his point, his theme was presenting Jesus as the king.

Jesus as the king who's going to take the Davidic throne, the promised Messiah throne.

So he's showing that this is the king.

This is the king that's been promised from long ago.

And he's writing to a mostly Jewish crowd, okay, because those were mostly, most of the first Christians were Jewish, right? Jesus was Jewish.

We've talked about that extensively before.

So he's writing to most of these times.

So what does he do? He uses a lot of Old Testament texts.

He used a lot of Old Testament typology because they would have known that.

The people that were reading this gospel right here at the time, they would have known.

He wouldn't have to like read the whole, like for us it's chapters, you know, chapters and divisions and subheadings, things like that in our Bibles.

It wasn't like that before.

It was in scrolls.

He wouldn't have to pull out the scroll of Isaiah and say, okay, let's recap all of Isaiah, right? Recap all of it because I want to show you here where, no, he would just use a, a scripture or a passage from the scroll of Isaiah, already they would have known the context.

Oh, okay, we get it.

We know what was going on in Isaiah because they knew their word.

They knew it.

That was what their mindset.