RD begins this new Bible series by giving some background on the book of Matthew before he and Greg dive into more detail. Greg then spends time talking about The Five Discourses (which is how the structure of Matthew is built), most notably the Sermon on the Mount. RD responds by stressing that the Sermon on the Mount, all of Matthew, and even all of the Bible shouldn’t be read just through the lens of what we need or should be doing to follow God, but also through the lens of what God has done for us through Jesus.

From there, Greg shares a little about the Olivet Discourse. Because this Discourse can be confusing, RD suggests that people studying it and all of Matthew might benefit from a study Bible.

Greg also brings up that some people get confused by the Gospels because they are all different from each other and feature different stories and timelines. However, Greg compares this to an analogy of four different people writing a book about why Abraham Lincoln was a great president; each of the writers are going to have different reasons or different stories to prove their points, but they all have the same subject and all agree that Lincoln was a great president. Greg brings that up because he says that the author of Matthew was trying to show that Jesus was the Messiah of Israel, but the other authors of the Gospel are not showing that aspect of Jesus, so they are going to tell the story a little differently.

To end, Greg and RD spend some time looking at how the Gospel of Matthew ends and how Matthew talks about the Kingdom of God. 

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