Uploading My Matthew Outlines & Notes

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I am in the process of uploading all my outlines and notes for the Gospel According to Matthew. In the process I must first convert my word files to pdf, while editing them to be more presentable. Converting them to a pdft makes it easier to get the file to work in the blog.

Not all of the outlines will be the same, since the original files were created over a span of a couple of years from 2006 to 2008 using a couple different programs. I originally did them as I prepped for my Study Nights and Sermons I presented at a retirement home where I was the head pastor.

Anyone who so desires to use them for you own purpose, feel free. To give you an example, I am posting the latest outline I uploaded with this thread. However, this is in Word, and it is not as seamless or in proper order as if it were a pdf. You will understand when you see it posted to my blog.

Matthew 3:1-6

Master Outline

June 12,2006

(3:1) 

In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

I. John the Baptist

1. First Prophet since Malachi who prophesied his coming (Malachi 3:1) 

2. Luke tells us of his birth to Zacharias and Elisabeth (Luke 1:57:66)

A.) Zacharias struck dumb until John’s circumcision, John called to be a loud voice crying in the wilderness

3. Zacharias descendent of Abia (1 Chronicles 24:10), Elisabeth descendent of the daughters of Aaron (Luke 1:5)

II. Wilderness

1. More like what we know as a desert, rocky instead of sand but very dry wasteland

2. Geographically, the wilderness lay’s southeast, and southwest of the inhabited land of Israel

3. This particular wilderness, sometimes called Jeshimon, became a refuge for David when he fled from Saul, and was the locale of the temptation of Jesus

4. In biblical times people feared the desert, as a place inhabited by beasts of prey, snakes, and scorpions (even demons) to which one might drive out the scapegoat.

1. Scapegoat was a goat that, on the Day of Atonement, is sent into the wilderness, symbolically bearing away the sins of the people (Leviticus 16:5-10).

2. Atonement was the making of amends for transgressions to God. It meant to make atonement and to give something or do something whereby alienation ceases and reconciliation begins. Mosaic Law called for a sacrifice for sins and a scapegoat released into the wilderness bearing the guilt of those sins, as mediator between man and God. Christ would be the final sacrifice and scapegoat for all mankind (1 Timothy 2:5) 

5. Atonement was the making of amends for transgressions to God. It meant to make atonement and to give something or do something whereby alienation ceases and reconciliation begins. Mosaic Law called for a sacrifice for sins and a scapegoat released into the wilderness bearing the guilt of those sins, as mediator between man and God. Christ would be the final sacrifice and scapegoat for all mankind (1 Timothy 2:5)

6. John was the voice Isaiah said would cry in the wilderness (Isaiah 40:3-5)

7. Many times in OT God had done wonderful works in the wilderness

1. God revealed himself to Moses (Exodus 3)

2. God gave the law and established his covenant with Israel (Exodus 19)

3. Parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 14:21-27)

4. Manna from Heaven (Exodus 16:14-31) 

5. Parting of the Jordan River (Joshua 3:16)

(3:2) 

"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

1. Repent

1. Origin of word

1. Greek

1. Transliterated wordMetamellomai; 

2. Phonetic spellingmet-am-el'-lom-ahee

2. Hebrew 

1.) Transliterated word Shuwb

2.) Phonetic spelling shoob

2. To turn from transgression and to lead a holy life because of a deep sense of the evil of sin as committed against God as in David’s sin with Bathsheba (Psalm 51:4)

3. There are two words in the New Testament translated “repentance,” 

A.) One denoted a change of mind and a reforming of ones life. This is the form of the word used in this passage. John was telling the Jews to a change their life, and reform their conduct 

B.) The other was sorrow or regret that sin has been committed, but no change of character or lifestyle, ie.. “I’m sorry I got caught”.

2. “Kingdom of Heaven” or “Kingdom of God"; An expression used in the New Testament to signify the reign, dispensation, or administration of Jesus Christ. 

1. Used 31 times in the New Testament and only in Matthew. Matthew used it probably because again he was writing to the Jews who would have understood it better then the gentiles whom the other gospels were directed at. 

A.) Daniel 2:44 is the only time it is even alluded to in the Old Testament

1.) Meaning and origin of term 

1. "Kingdom of Heaven", "Kingdom of God" and “Gospel of the Kingdom” are all interchangeable and mean the same thing

2. A watchword used by Jesus to describe His reign

3. A comprehensive term for the whole of His teaching “Kingdom of Heaven is like”

4. In relationship to the Old Testament the, Jews thought that this Kingdom would be ruled by the Messiah on earth. Thus they were expecting Christ to overthrow the Roman rule. Some have suggested this is why Judah was disillusioned with Jesus and thus betrayed him for some personal profit in this world. Not until His resurrection did they fully understand the concept of “The Kingdom of Heaven”. 

2.) Its use by Jesus and its contrast with Jewish conceptions 

A.) Jewish Opinions (Prosdechomenoi)The true custodians of the conceptions of a Kingdom of Heaven. Simeon (Luke 2:25), Anna ( Luke 2:36), Nicodemus (John 3:1-2), and Joseph of Arimathea (Luke 23:51-53), from what is said of them in the New Testament they "waited for the kingdom of God." 

C.) The Apostles and His contemporaries thought mostly of the “Kingdom” part of the phrase while Christ dwelt mostly on the “God” part of the phrase. 

5. Prophetic Character of the "Temptation" Satan offered Christ a Kingdom on earth, Jesus was here to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to us. Twice Christ said His Kingdom is not of this world (John 8:23 & John 18:36) 

(3:3)

For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said, "THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, 'MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT!'"

I. (Isaiah 40:3)A voice is calling, "Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God”

II. One crying 

1. Town crier was one who would blow a horn and yell out loud about an important event or news ie… “Breaking News”Usually it was news of someone important coming, so everyone was to get ready.

III. Make His paths straight!

1.) Idea is taken from the practice of eastern monarchs. Upon going on an expedition, or took a journey through a desert country, they would send messengers, emissaries, and engineers before them, to prepare all things for their passage; at great expense they would open the passes and level the ways by removing all impediments.

Diodorus’s account of the march of Semiramis into Media and Persia, will give us a clear notion of the preparation of the way for a royal expedition.

“In her march to Ecbatane, she came to the Zarcean mountain, which, extending many furlongs, and being full of craggy precipices and deep hollows, could not be passed without making a great compass about. Being therefore desirous of leaving an everlasting memorial of herself, as well as shortening the way, she ordered the precipices to be digged down, and the hollows to be filled up; and, at a great expense, she made a shorter and more expeditious road, which, to this day, is called from her, The road of Semiramis. Afterwards she went into Persia, and all the other countries of Asia, subject to her dominion; and, wherever she went, she ordered the mountains and precipices to be leveled, raised causeways in the plain country, and, at a great expense, made the ways passable.” Diod. Sic. lib. ii. and Bp. Lowth.

(3:4)

Now John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

1. Garment of Camels hair and a leather belt;

1. A very coarse material was woven from the hair of a camel's back and hump

2. Wearing a hairy mantle was the mark of a prophet like Elijah (2 Kings 1:8)

3. Jesus contrasted John's cloak and the members of the court (Matthew 11:8)

2. His food was locusts and wild honey

1. To this day the Bedouin will pack them with salt in close masses, which they carry in their leather sacks. To cook them they tear off the legs and wings, remove the entrails, then they stick them in long rows upon wooden spits to roast them in a fire. They are also cooked in oil, or dried in open oven then pulverize to be used in the making of breads when other foods are scarce.

2. Often called the land flowing with milk and honey (Exodus 3:8; 3:17; 13:5) John would have no problem finding honey to eat. There is also a species of honey called wild honey, or wood honey (1 Samuel 14:27), or honeydew, produced by certain little insects, and deposited on the leaves of trees. This honey would flow from the leaves in great quantities to the ground. (1 Samuel 14:24-27). This type of honey is still produced in Arabia, perhaps it was this which John lived upon.

(3:5)

Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan; 

I. Being the first prophet since Malachi many thought he might be the Messiah (Luke 3:15)

1. Like then, many today will go out of their way to hear a gifted speaker because of curiosity and love for novelty and variety and be affected for a while, but in time they forget the message and return to old ways

2. From the metropolitan center to the extremities of the Judean province the cry of this great preacher of repentance and herald of the approaching Messiah brought trooping penitents and eager expectants

(3:6) 

and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, as they confessed their sins.

I. Baptism; 

1. All mystery religions of the ancient world had bathing rituals

2. Israelites were baptized by red sea and cloud when they left Egypt (symbol of old self) (1 Co 10:2)

3. Jews had been taught to justify themselves by the Law, but John said to accuse yourself and repent

4. Those set aside for temple worship went through a ritual bathing (Exodus 30:18-20) (Leviticus 16:4)

5. Christians are all set aside for Temple worship as our body is Gods Temple (1 Co 6:19)

6. After the Babylonian captivity Jewish converts started to be baptized

7. A rite of initiation when you join a club, the only hazing you will ever get from it’s leaders

8. Put of the old self and put on the new identity (1 Co 2:12)

9. A public confession of your sins (Matthew 3:6) (Mark 1:4)

10. A public acceptance of Gods rules in your life

11. A public declaration of dedicating yourself to Christ

12. A cleansing or washing of the soul from sin (Ezekiel 36:25)

13. Jordan River signifies the Israelites passage into the promised land (Joshua 3:14-4:18)

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[RetiredTexasVet]

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[chalkfarmer]

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