Gospel Matthew study

Matthew 4:17-22 ¹⁷ From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” ¹⁸ As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” ²⁰ At once they left their nets and followed him. ²¹ Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, ²² and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

The message that the Lord Jesus preached at the beginning was: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of God, and the Lord Jesus also said that the kingdom of God is within you. When a person repents, is baptized, he receives the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit indwells, the Holy Spirit dwells in the heart, and with the presence of the Lord, the kingdom of God is within you.
The Lord Jesus called four disciples, Peter and his brother Andrew, James and his brother John. They were fisherman and were not educated. After they followed the Lord Jesus, they were greatly used by the Lord. The Lord Jesus called them, and they immediately followed, they were fishers of men, turned many people to the Lord.
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Matthew 4:1-11 ¹  Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. ² After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. ³ The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” ⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” ⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ⁶ “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” ⁷ Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” ⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ⁹ “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” ¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’” ¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

Here it says that the Lord Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty days and nights, he became hungry, and the devil asked him to turn stones into bread. The devil asked the Lord Jesus to use his spiritual power to satisfy his physical needs. The Lord Jesus quoted the Bible and said, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” The Lord Jesus was more concerned about spiritual food than the physical food. Then the devil took him to the top of the temple, told him to jump off, and misused the Bible.
¹¹ For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; ¹² they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. (Psalm 91:11-12)
Here the Psalm talks about God’s protection for those who trust in Him, protecting them in all their ways, not for people to tempt God and jump off the top of the temple.
We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. (1 John 5:19)
The Bible says that the devil is the prince of the world, and the whole world is under his control. He told the Lord Jesus that if he worshiped him, and he would give him everything in the world. The Lord Jesus replied again with the Bible: “Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only“. The Lord Jesus overcome the temptation of the devil, drove away Satan, and angels came to serve him.
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Matthew 3:13-17 ¹³ Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. ¹⁴ But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” ¹⁵ Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented. ¹⁶ As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. ¹⁷ And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

John the Baptist baptized people with water in the Jordan River, people went to him, confessed their sins and be baptized. The Lord Jesus also went from Galilee to the Jordan River to be baptized by John, but John stopped him because the Lord Jesus was more powerful than John, and he will baptize people with the Holy Spirit and fire. The Lord Jesus said to John, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” What does this mean? Jesus is both God and man. He is the Son, one of the Trinity God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As a man, he must fulfill God the Father’s rules for all people. Jesus’ baptism was not for his own sins, Jesus is sinless, He bore the sins of the world. When Jesus was baptized, he identified with the sinners, thus fulfilled the justice required by the law. Here we also see that when the Lord Jesus was baptized, the Holy Spirit landed on him like a dove, and the voice of the heavenly Father said: “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Both the Father and the Holy Spirit witnessed the baptism of the Lord Jesus, and here again we see the presence of the Trinity God, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38)
Here Peter said that if a person repents of his sins and is baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, his sins will be forgiven and he will receive the Holy Spirit. This is born again and being saved according to the Bible.
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Matthew 3:1-12 1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea ² and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” ³ This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’” ⁴ John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. ⁶ Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. ⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. ⁹ And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. ¹⁰ The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. ¹¹ “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. ¹² His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Here we see that the message of John the Baptist preached was “Repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The message that the Lord Jesus preached at the beginning was the same as that of John the Baptist, that is, “Repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of God, and the kingdom of God is the kingship of God, that is, God is king. What does it mean to repent? Repentance means change of mind, a fundamental change of mind, change from self-centered to God-centered.
A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. (Isaiah 40:3)
The book of Isaiah in the Old Testament prophesied the coming of John the Baptist. He was the forerunner of the Lord Jesus, opened the way and prepared the way for the Lord Jesus. John the Baptist gave people water baptism, asked people to repent, confessed their sins and repent, but the Lord Jesus came to baptize people with the Holy Spirit and fire, that is, to receive the Holy Spirit during baptism, and the Holy Spirit indwells and dwells in people’s hearts.
²⁰ Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, ²¹ nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.” (Luke 17:20-21)
Here the Lord Jesus said that the kingdom of God is not something you can see, but the kingdom of God is in your heart.
When I was baptized, I confessed my sins and repented, entrusted my life to the Lord, and let God be the Lord of my life, the King of my life. I experienced the Holy Spirit entering my heart from the top. I was very touched. On the night of baptism, as soon as I closed my eyes  I felt joy in my heart, and this joy came from the Holy Spirit. Thank the Lord.
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Matthew 2:19-23 19 ¹⁹ After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt ²⁰ and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.” ²¹ So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. ²² But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, ²³ and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.

Last time we saw that when King Herod knew that Christ was born in Bethlehem, he wanted to kill him, so an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and told him to take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. After Herod died, an angel appeared to Joseph again and told him to take the child and mother back to Israel. Because Herod’s son succeeded his father as king, Joseph did not return to Bethlehem, but was instructed by the Lord in a dream to go to the town of Nazareth in Galilee, so the Lord Jesus was called a Nazarene. Here we see the Lord was leading Joseph step by step.
⁴⁵ Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” ⁴⁶ “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.  (John 1:45-46)
When we were studying the Gospel of John, we mentioned that when Philip found Nathanael and told him that he had seen the Savior, the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, Nathanael said that can anything good come out of Nazareth? , but when he saw the Lord Jesus, the Lord knew that he had talked with Philip before the Lord Jesus saw him, that is, the Lord knew everything and he believed.
Nathanael said this because the Old Testament prophesied that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, not in Nazareth. They did not know that the Lord Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but he later came to Nazareth.
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.(Isaiah 11:1)
The Hebrew word for Nazareth is Natzeret, the Hebrew word for the branch mentioned in above verse is Netzer, the two words have the same root in Hebrew, and Jesse is the father of David, and the Lord Jesus is called the son of David, so the above passage is considered to be the Old Testament prophecy prophesying that the Lord Jesus is a Nazarene.
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