Matthew: The Savior-King Has Come | ECC Stamford

We continue in the book of Matthew to see what Jesus profoundly has to teach about fasting, and specifically about how radically different it is now that he's brought the new covenant 

Jesus calls the tax collector Matthew to follow him. Jesus chooses to recline at table with tax collectors and "sinners." Why does he do so? He tells us 3 gospel-centered, life-changing reasons

We look at the famous story of Jesus's healing of a paralytic, and how he teaches about his authority to forgive sins

We look at the stunning authority of Jesus in two famous stories—the calming of the storm and the casting out of the demons from two men

We look at Jesus's blunt and challenging words to some would-be disciples, and his overall call to "follow me."

We pick up where we left off in Matthew to see Jesus begin to act in his authority as he heals, even "taking upon himself our illnesses and diseases."

We see the Bible conclude the section on Jesus's Sermon on the Mount by telling us how and why the crowds responded the way they did, and how it applies to us

Jesus concludes his long Sermon on the Mount with a teaching about how hearing him alone isn't enough. We must "do"—we must make a reality in our lives—what he says

We look at what may be the most frightening paragraph in the whole Bible. We pause over it, reflect on it, and we see how it makes us gladly cling more to Jesus

Jesus warns us about false teachers, and the more generally talks about how we're each one of two types of "trees": diseased and bearing bad fruit, or healthy and bearing good fruit