Four Points Church

The scribes and pharisees built their interpretations from the letter of the law. They looked at what the scripture said and then made rules to enforce it so that no one broke what the letter spelled out. The pharisees prided themselves on being able to keep the letter of the law and demanded others to do the same. In this way they thought they would be commended by God for their outstanding righteousness. However, Jesus came to show them how they missed the spirit of the law of God

Now that Jesus had set the beatitudes of His new kingdom He wanted the people to understand that He wasn’t merely doing away with the Law and Prophets. Rather, He was the fulfillment of what was longed for in their pages. Notice the passion that Jesus has for the written word of God. I believe the Bible is inspired and infallible because thats they way that Jesus speaks of it. Jesus knew that everything God spoke was coming to pass and nothing could stop the will of the Father.

As we close our study of the Beatitudes that they are not only descriptions of what our life is to be like as believers. The Beatitudes are the righteousness we are able to walk in because Jesus has set us free for joyful obedience!

The beatitudes provide us with a portrait of a Christian and encapsulate what it means to call ourselves a disciple. These “blessed” statements by Christ reveal to us where our true, eternal happiness is found. It’s found in our understanding of who we are and who God is. Jesus is the better Moses. Jesus is the better David. When our understanding of who we are in relation to God is in its rightful place, as the first four beatitudes show us, then and only then can we properly relate to those around us. In the next half of the beatitudes, Jesus then shows us how we are to relate to others, which is solely rooted upon the first four beatitudes how we relate to God.

The writer of Hebrews leaves us no doubt that Jesus is the greater Moses (3:1-6). However, as Matthew writes to his Jewish brethren, he shows all the similarities that Jesus shared with Moses. We have already seen that God divinely caused Jesus to escape the murder of the Hebrew boys (Matthew 2:13-18). We have been told that Jesus would deliver His people from sin (Matthew 1:21). This we we continue with part II of A New Moses.

The writer of Hebrews leaves us no doubt that Jesus is the greater Moses (3:1-6). However, as Matthew writes to his Jewish brethren, he shows all the similarities that Jesus shared with Moses. We have already seen that God divinely caused Jesus to escape the murder of the Hebrew boys (Matthew 2:13-18). We have been told that Jesus would deliver His people from sin (Matthew 1:21).

Simon and Andrew have no idea what was about to happen to them,... in this text where we are first introduced to them, they are merely fisherman going about their routine duties of mending nets and catching fish. How glorious is the change that Jesus can bring to a human life! And change is His purpose. Jesus tells Simon and Andrew that He is going to make them something that they currently are not. At the moment they fish for fish. Jesus is going to make them fishers of men.