New Testament (1597)
  1. Unlike Luke, who provides most of the parts for the children’s program (the shepherds, the angel hosts, the innkeeper, and the animals), Matthew’s version is rated “M” for mature.
  2. The reality of the Incarnation and the accomplishments of the Incarnate God-man, Jesus the Son, are even more astonishing because His story brings to a climax the long-storied history of Israel, with all her divinely-inspired and prophetic Scriptures.
  3. Judge not, build your house on the rock and bear some good fruit.
  4. James takes the Jewish expectation and thoroughly baptizes it in the light of the fact of the Incarnation. Messiah has come.
  5. There he sat, awaiting his executioner. John looked around at what God and His Messiah were not doing, and even the greatest among those born of woman had his doubts. “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”
  6. Paul argues that now as the Messiah has come and has achieved what the entire Hebrew Bible (i.e., the Old Testament) has been moving toward, the Scriptures can be read as an open book.
  7. The problem is not that we are unrepentant. The problem is our contrition is too small.
  8. Jesus gives a long list of ethical demands for His disciples that seem contrary to everything that comes naturally.
  9. Sabbath breaking, hand healing, legalism, and the Beatitudes.
  10. A paralytic is lowered through a roof, sins are absolved, an unlikely person is called to follow Jesus and Jesus gets in trouble for partying with sinners.
  11. The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
  12. Leprosy, demons, sinful fishermen and a mother-in-law. All that in more in this episode.
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