How to understand THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW. ( the first book of the New Testament.)

Although Matthew is only one of the 66 books of the Bible. It's importance is soon discovered. It is the first book of the New Testament. It is the hinge book that takes us from the Old Testament into the New Testament. It helps us to understand that the Bible with it's 66 books is in a unique way still one book.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• THE KING JAMES BIBLE ( Which is God's preserved Word )
• TIME SET ASIDE TO STUDY
• A PRAYERFUL TEACHABLE ATTITUDE.
• A REALIZATION THAT IT IS WHAT WE LEARN AFTER WE KNOW IT ALL THAT COUNTS.

1. The first thing to notice about Matthew is that the words . . . THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED are all through it's 28 chapters.
2. Now take a quick survey and see. Matthew 1:22,23 "A VIRGIN SHALL BE WITH CHILD" as promised in Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 2:15,17,23 "OUT OF EGYPT HAVE I CALLED MY SON" HEROD KILLS BABIES (people mourn) JESUS WOULD BE CALLED A NAZARENE. Matthew 4;14 "THE PEOPLE THAT SAT IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT. Matthew 5:17,18 "THE PROMISE THAT ALL OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES WOULD BE FULFILLED" Matthew 8:16,17 THE SICK WERE HEALED AS PROMISED.
3. Now you are coming to realize that THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT BELIEVING THAT JESUS IS . . . THE PROMISED ONE. Matthew 12:17 "that it might be fulfilled." Matthew 13:14 "they hear but they do not perceive." Matthew 13:35 "Jesus speaks in parables" Matthew 21:4,5 "JESUS ENTERS INTO JERUSALEM" "sitting upon an ass"
4. Now we see that that in Matthew 24:32-35 Jesus said that HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY.
5. Now in Matthew 26:53-56 JESUS IS MOST CONCERNED ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES BEING FULFILLED verse 56 "but all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets ( In the Old Testament ) Matthew 27:9-10 might be fulfilled" JUDAS GETS 30 PIECES OF SILVER . . . The Old Testament in ZECHARIAH 11:12 records this.
6. And FINALLY or last but certainly not least in . . .Matthew 27:35 "AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND PARTED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS . . . THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED. ( That which was written in the Old Testament )
7. THE KEY to it all is . . . John 5:39 "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; ( THE OLD TESTAMENT ) for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which TESTIFY OF ME."
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Tips & Warnings

• YOU WILL CONCLUDE THAT MATTHEW IS CERTAINLY THE HINGE BOOK THAT HINGES THE OLD TESTAMENT TO THE NEW.
• THE MORE YOU STUDY THE MORE YOU WILL CONCLUDE THAT TRULY THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD.
• SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES ( NOT NOTES OR BOOKS ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES OR THE MANY MANY PERVERSIONS OF SCRIPTURE PASSING THEMSELVES OFF TO BE THE WORD OF GOD.) ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.