Notes on Matthew
Ch.1 1. Matthew immediately sets about proving to his audience, of predominately Jewish origin, the authenticity of Jesus Christ to sit on David’s throne, as Messiah. 5. Jesus Christ was perfect; but he did not come into a perfect world…nor did he come into a perfect family line: He came to redeem that which was unredeemable…to bring good out of what was intended for evil: I am a first generation Christian, coming from an ancestral line that I don’t even want to talk about anymore. But whenever I look at Jesus’s “family tree” I realize I am in very good company: We have… Rahab: a Canaanite harlot Ruth: a Moabite outcast (from a nation birthed out of incest - and the sworn enemies of Israel) King Solomon (born from an adulterous relationship) Joseph: the unrecognized heir of a dissolved royal family, of a disgraced, dispersed, defeated nation, now under foreign rule… And the list goes on… Yeshua came down to the place where we are, to become one of us (Phil...