Gospel of Matthew

When we talk about the Great Commission, it is mostly about the Matthew 28 passage. However, the Luke 24 passage also give us insights about how to prepare the evangelists and missionaries. From a universal perspective, Luke is also on target about mission. If we look at the unity between the gospel of Luke and the book of Acts, we should arrive at the conclusion that Luke 24 is the preparation of Acts 1-28 and Acts 29. Of course, the result of Luke-Acts is Revelation. Therefore, to accomplish…

questions then do what you have learned. This is a new view on things; you have a choice of how you live. The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus in the New Testament, and occupies chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Gospel of Matthew, and one of the most beautiful stories of the New Testament. It focuses on love and humility rather than force. As I mentioned earlier, Augustine was a fourth and fifth-century theologian and philosopher, and considered this a perfect…

heavens his throne; from there he rules over everything (Psalm 103:19). In the New Testament we are asking God to do the same thing on earth that happens in heaven: “May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew…

In the gospel of Luke, Jesus twice warns us to count the costs of becoming His disciple (Luke 9:57-62; 14:25-33). There is a cost to following Jesus, and it is not an easy price to pay. Jesus told His disciples that they would have to lose their lives in order to save them (Matthew 10:39). Following Jesus brings with it the hatred of the world (John 15:19). Pascal's Wager makes no mention of any…

Within your lifetime you have probably heard the name Jesus Christ come up at least once, whether that was in a swear or someone was making a biblical reference, But if you still know little to nothing about him then this is the place for you. Jesus was and is still a religious leader, he plays an important role in the christian religion and based of the religion he was the one that paid the debt for all of our sins. The bible isn't a bibliography but more a book of principles told by stories…

Roberts writes that the Present Kingdom is when the prophesied child is born. Graeme Goldsworthy says in According to Plan, “The Gospel is the word about Jesus Christ and what he did for us in order to restore us to a right relationship with God” (Goldsworthy 73). This is it, this is what God has been promising. These are the words come into being. John 1:1-5, 9, says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things…

Spiritual Discipleship: A Biblical Guide to Disciplining New Converts Chapter One Introduction Over the past few years, I have seen many of our churches fail in disciplining new converts. Because of a failure in training, many people believe conversion is just accepting Jesus into your heart and professing Him with your mouth along with giving your heart to the Lord and that’s it, therefore many new believers are confused when it comes to salvation. Churches are good at “opening the altar” and…

especially within the context of the eternal soul of human beings being non-existent if they chose to sin against God in the Old Testament. Ironically, Christ was said to have believed in Annihilist Hell in the destruction of the body and the soul in Matthew 10:28, but these views tend to be metaphorical inn the way hell was transformed into a more classical view of the soul and the…

Introduction In much of the academic conversation surrounding theological interpretation of Scripture (TIS) one of the figureheads for studying a style and method for doing the old and re-imagined avenue of interpreting Scripture is John Calvin, yet Calvin is not particularly unique to his context because, as John Thompson notes, Calvin "accidentally" came into this second wave of seeing the necessity for biblical interpretation (Thompson, 59). Yet, instead of abstracting the theory or method…

Parable : An allegorical story that is used to teach truth, moral lessons, or religious principles. (Most known parable in the Gospel Bible is the parable of the lost coin) Parable of the Three Servants (Matthew 25:14-30) 2- Who was Christ speaking to? In the parable, which is speaking metaphorically, Christ (The man) was speaking to his servants. He taught his servants a lesson by giving them opportunities to prove they can follow his instructions. In reality, Christ does not have…