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Matthew 8:14-17 meaningMay 22, 2024
Matthew records his third account of a specific miracle. Jesus heals Peter's mother-in-law of a fever. Later that evening some people bring Him many who were demon-possessed. Jesus frees them from their spiritual bondage. Matthew points out that these instances and others is a direct fulfillment of Isaiah 53:4. This is the tenth time Matthew has said Jesus fulfilled an Old Testament prophecy concerning the Messiah.
Matthew 8:5-13 meaningMay 22, 2024
Matthew gives his second account of a specific miracle of Jesus. Jesus heals the servant of a Roman centurion of great faith. Jesus marvels at this centurion's faith and makes an important and stunning point to His disciples: Gentiles who have faith will participate in the kingdom of heaven alongside the patriarchs, while the sons of the kingdom who lack faith will lose rewards, and be excluded from being honored.
Matthew 8:1-4 meaningMay 22, 2024
Large crowds follow after Jesus. A leper comes to Him, asking to be made clean. Jesus touches and miraculously heals the leper instantly. This is Matthew’s first specific account of Jesus miraculously healing someone.
Matthew 7:15-20 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus gives His disciples a warning against false prophets and a test for unmasking them.
Matthew 7:28-29 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus’s audience was taken aback by His method of teaching.
Matthew 7:24-27 meaningMay 22, 2024
Continuing His thoughts on the Day of Judgment, Jesus compares two men and their choices. The man who takes His teachings to heart is likesomeone who builds a house that will be able to endure the coming storm.
Matthew 7:21-23 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus asserts He will refuse many people entrance into His kingdom on the Day of Judgment because they did not know Him or follow His Father’s will. Despite their claims of performing mighty works in His name, their deeds and hearts violated God’s law.
Matthew 7:13-14 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus gives a parable about life and death. He urges His disciples to seek life by entering through the narrow gate that runs counter to the way of the world. The way of the world is commonly traveled but its end is destruction and ruin.
Matthew 7:12 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus commands His disciples in every circumstance to treat people the same way we want them to treat us. This is both a distillation of everything He has been teaching throughout His Sermon on the Mount, and a distillation of the Old Covenant delivered through Moses.
Matthew 7:7-11 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches His disciples how much their heavenly Father delights in them coming to Him. He tells them to seek God and ask Him to provide for their needs. God knows how to give good gifts.
Matthew 7:6 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches His disciples to discern who they correct. They should not correct people who are like dogs or swine, people who are unwilling to receive correction, people who will respond with hostility.
Matthew 7:1-5 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches His disciples not to judge other people because they will be judged according to the same standard they use to criticize others.
Matthew 6:34 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus adds another thing to the list of what not to worry about. He admonishes His disciples to not worry about the future. We cannot control the future. Our focus should be upon faithfulness in the present. That is the only time we can trust or act.
Matthew 6:33 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus crystalizes what He has been teaching His disciples when He tells them to “seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.” If they do this, He promises them that God will grant them all their needs.
Matthew 6:25-32 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches His disciples to trust in God to meet their needs and not live their lives worrying.
Matthew 6:24 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches that people cannot love both God and wealth. They must choose one or the other. We can do what God commands, which is to serve and love other people; or we can love wealth and obey what its lusts require. It is one or the other, it can’t be both.
Matthew 6:22-23 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus gives a short parable about what the eye can see to emphasize the importance of spiritual awareness. To have a true perspective. If our eye is good, we see the reality and glory of His Kingdom and we will act according to our sight, and prosper.
Matthew 6:19-21 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus encourages His disciples to invest their treasures wisely where their value won’t be lost. And He tells them that their hearts will follow their treasures.
Matthew 6:16-18 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus warns against fasting to win the hollow rewards of man’s approval and self-righteousness. Instead He encourages His disciples to seek the greater reward from their Heavenly Father by fasting in secret.
Matthew 6:9-15 meaningMay 22, 2024
Jesus teaches His disciples how to pray. They are to pray to their Father with all due honor, seeking to accomplish His will, acknowledging their dependence on Him to meet their physical and spiritual needs.
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