The Gospel of Matthew was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was originally written to Jews who were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their promised anointed Messiah.

After being with Jesus for nearly three years in which the 12 disciples heard what Jesus preached and saw the miracles He performed, Christ commissioned His disciples to go out in pairs and do likewise. But He also warned them that ultimately the day would come when they would be persecuted for no other reason than they were His disciples.

Christ's warnings about the inevitability of persecution teaches us several truths:

(1) Persecution is spiritually motivated by evil forces.

(2) It's not about you, it's about the devilish enemy's hatred of Christ and therefore His servants.

(3) Persecution is not logical, fair, or rational.

(4) What Christ expects of His disciples when they are being persecuted is courageous faithfulness - which Christ Himself modelled to them.

Christ expects nothing less than total loyalty by those who claim to be His followers. Note this passage from Matthew 10 -

Matt. 10.32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, Matt. 10.33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. Matt. 10.34 ¶ “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matt. 10.35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

Matt. 10.36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Matt. 10.37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt. 10.38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

Matt. 10.39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matt. 10.40 ¶ “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.

Matt. 10.41 The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. Matt. 10.42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

The Gospel of Matthew was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was originally written to Jews who were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their promised anointed Messiah.

After being with Jesus for nearly three years in which the 12 disciples heard what Jesus preached and saw the miracles He performed, Christ commissioned His disciples to go out in pairs and do likewise. But He also warned them that ultimately the day would come when they would be persecuted for no other reason than they were His disciples. But Jesus gives His original disciples reasons to not fear those who oppose them. We can also be confident that ultimately, we too have no reason to fear our opponents either.

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The Gospel of Matthew was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was originally written to Jews who were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their promised anointed Messiah.

After being with Jesus for nearly three years in which the 12 disciples heard what Jesus preached and saw the miracles He performed, Christ commissioned His disciples to go out in pairs and do likewise. But He also warned them that ultimately the day would come when they would be persecuted for no other reason than they were His disciples.

Christ's warnings about the inevitability of persecution teaches us several truths:

(1) Persecution is spiritually motivated by evil forces.

(2) It's not about you, it's about the devilish enemy's hatred of Christ and therefore His servants.

(3) Persecution is not logical, fair, or rational.

(4) What Christ expects of His disciples when they are being persecuted is courageous faithfulness - which Christ Himself modelled to them.

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The Gospel of Matthew was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was originally written to Jews who were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their promised anointed Messiah.

In Matthew 10, Christ commissions His disciples to minister with His authority to cast out demons, heal the sick and proclaim that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. The selection of His 12 disciples corresponds to the Old Covenant's selection of 12 tribes of Israel and it marks Christ announcing that He was constituting a "new Israel" that was not based on ancestry - but on a connection with Him.

Of the 12 disciples that are named, only 3 will feature into the Book of Acts. This highlights that Christ was not calling His disciples to fame, but to faithfulness.

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The Gospel of Matthew is the first Book in the New Testament. It builds on the Old Testament which finishes in the Christian bible with Malachi's prophecy about the hope of the physical coming of the Lord into His Temple. Malachi also prophesied that one would precede the coming of the LORD who also come in the spirit of Elijah. Jesus tells His disciples that this was John the Baptist.

In this episode we explore how Jesus elevated the status of women, and used very strong language to rebuke men for how they had been treating those women whom God had charged them to care for.

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The Gospel of Matthew is the first Book in the New Testament. It builds on the Old Testament which finishes in the Christian bible with Malachi's prophecy about the hope of the physical coming of the Lord into His Temple. Malachi also prophesied that one would precede the coming of the LORD who also come in the spirit of Elijah. Jesus tells His disciples that this was John the Baptist.

In this episode we explore why Jesus used parables to communicate His message about God, heaven, and how to find salvation from the bondage of sin.

You can also find more insights into the Gospel of Matthew on my YouTube channel @DrAndrewC and if you are listening to this on your favourite podcast platform could you please leave some feedback and give this a 5 out of 5 rating.

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The Gospel of Matthew is the first Book in the New Testament. It builds on the Old Testament which finishes in the Christian bible with Malachi's prophecy about the hope of the physical coming of the Lord into His Temple. Malachi also prophesied that one would precede the coming of the LORD who also come in the spirit of Elijah. Jesus tells His disciples that this was John the Baptist.

In this episode we explore why Jesus preferred to identify Himself as "the Son of Man" and see why this indicated His deity not His humanity.

You can also find more insights into the Gospel of Matthew on my YouTube channel @DrAndrewC and if you are listening to this on your favourite podcast platform could you please leave some feedback and give this a 5 out of 5 rating.

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The Gospel of Matthew is often the first thing that people read when they begin to read the Bible. It was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was originally written to Jews who were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their promised anointed Messiah. You can also complete this with my daily 2-minute videos about the Gospel of Matthew on Youtube - https://youtube.com/DrAndrewC

The Gospel of Matthew was written by an eye-witness of Jesus the Christ - what He did, what He taught, the miracles He performed, the lives He transformed, and how people responded to Him. It was originally written to Jews who were eagerly looking forward to the arrival of their promised anointed Messiah.

This audio podcast of the Gospel of Matthew complements the additional teaching I am providing on my YouTube channel as I build the video commentary series of Matthew.

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In this concluding chapter I am proceeding to discuss the final biblical instructions to men to be men. GOD has created and designed men to be strong, appropriately aggressive, protective, socially organised, romantic, godly, spiritual, courageous, and to problem-solve. Lately, these very traits have been categorised as “toxic masculinity.” I am arguing that these are the traits of positive-masculinity. But they only warrant being positive if they are harnessed according to the wisdom of God’s Word. I have shown in our previous chapter that Christ was the preeminent example of such positive-masculinity. I now outline how the apostolic teaching of the earliest Church articulated how these traits were to be developed and celebrated by men. In my conclusion to this short book, I will appeal to all men to heed the example set by those I have referred to in the Old Testament, the preeminent example of Christ, and this apostolic teaching. I do this in the light of the current global crisis we must confront.

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