The Gospel of Matthew

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The Gospel of Matthew
Knowing the Messiah
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Overview

• I Timeline Summary
• Birth
• Baptism
• Teaching
• John the Baptist Killed
• Transfiguration
• Triumphal entry
• Jesus at the Temple
• Plot against Him
• Lord Supper
• Peters Denial

• Gethsemane
• Arrested
• Sanhedrin
• Judas
• Pilate
• Soldiers mock him.Psalm 22
• Crucifixion
• Death
• Burial
• Tomb Guards
• Resurrection

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Miracles of Jesus

• Water to Wine
• Man with leprosy
• Centurion Servant
• Many
• Peters mother-in-law
• Demon possessed
• Jesus calms the storm
• 2 demon possessed men
• Paralytic
• Dead girl
• sick woman
• blind and mute-demon possession

• Feeding of 5000
• Feeding of 4000
• Canaanite woman-demon possessed daughter
• Demon possessed boy
• 2 Blind men see
• Man with a shriveled hand
• Possessed manblind and mute
• Transfiguration
• Temple Taxcoin in the fishs mouth

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Miracle Categories

• Healing-He heals us
• Casting out Demons-He cleanses us
• Provision-He provides for us
• Protection-He overcomes our trouble
• Transformation-He changes us into His image

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The Healer-Jehova Rafa

• Man with leprosy
• Centurion Servant
• Many
• Peters mother-in-law
• Paralytic
• Dead girl
• sick woman
• 2 Blind men
• Man with a shriveled hand

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Isaiah 426-7

• Jesus fulfilled the prophecy
• And I will appoint you as a covenant to the
  people, As a light to the nations, 7 To open
  blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the
  dungeon, And those who dwell in darkness from
  the prison.

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Dead and Gone

• Matt 91-19/23-26
•  While He was saying these things to them, a
  synagogue official came and bowed down before
  Him, and said, "My daughter has just died but
  come and lay Your hand on her, and she will
  live." 19 Jesus got up and began to follow him,
  and so did His disciples.
• 23 When Jesus came into the official 's house,
  and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy
  disorder, 24 He said, "Leave for the girl has
  not died, but is asleep." And they began laughing
  at Him. 25 But when the crowd had been sent out,
  He entered and took her by the hand, and the girl
  got up. 26 This news spread throughout all that
  land.

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Just when you think it is over

• The girl was dead
• The disorder was the result of professional
  mourners. She had been dead some time.
• How do we know?
• A crowd had gathered
• The professional wailers had come
• The orchestra had also arrived.
• It was the funeral time

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No laughing matter

• When Jesus says that she is sleeping, the
  attendants laugh.
• Why did they laugh?
• Odd behavior for a funeral-should be solemn.
• Fear causes nervous laughtera nervous response.
• How would you feel if you were at the casket of a
  departed loved one and a guy came up and said
  She isnt dead. Ill wake her up?

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Death Swallowed in Victory

• He entered and took her by the hand, and the
  girl got up. 26 This news spread throughout all
  that land
• When Jesus takes our hand, even death can not
  hold us. He will one day wake us up from our
  sleep.

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Sick Woman-Issue of blood

• In the midst of the previous scene, another
  miracle occurs.
• 920-22
• And a woman who had been suffering from a
  hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind Him
  and touched the fringe of His cloak 21 for she
  was saying to herself, "If I only touch His
  garment, I will get well." 22 But Jesus turning
  and seeing her said, "Daughter, take courage
  your faith has made you well." At once the woman
  was made well.

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Desperate Faith

• If only..
• Touching Jesus is all it takes
• Risk of rejection.It was a gamble of faith
• She was unclean, He was spotless
• In desperation she grabbed the fringe (Tzit-Tzit)
  of his garment.
• His power is complete and sufficient

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2 Blind Men

• 927-31
•  As Jesus went on from there, two blind men
  followed Him, crying out, "Have mercy on us, Son
  of David!" 28 When He entered the house, the
  blind men came up to Him, and Jesus said to
  them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?"
  They said to Him, "Yes, Lord." 29 Then He
  touched their eyes, saying, "It shall be done to
  you according to your faith." 30 And their eyes
  were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them "See
  that no one knows about this!" 31 But they went
  out and spread the news about Him throughout all
  that land.

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The Real Question

• Do you believe
• Why did He ask them? Hadnt they already
  demonstrated that they believed by asking?
• Asking does not mean believing.
• Jesus wants us to commit to faith-Speak it before
  others..this is where the risk is.
• We receive according to our measure of faith.

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Withered

• Matt 129-14
• 9 And departing from there, He went into their
  synagogue. 10 And behold, there was a man with a
  withered hand. And they questioned Him, saying,
  "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"in order
  that they might accuse Him. 11 And He said to
  them, "What man shall there be among you, who
  shall have one sheep, and if it falls into a pit
  on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it, and
  lift it out? 12 "Of how much more value then is a
  man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do
  good on the Sabbath." 13 Then He said to the
  man, "Stretch out your hand!" And he stretched it
  out, and it was restored to normal, like the
  other. 14 But the Pharisees went out, and
  counseled together against Him, as to how they
  might destroy Him.

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The Lord of the Sabbath

• Jesus was concerned more about the person than a
  regulation.
• God desires mercy not Sacrifice
• We are a withered people
• When we reach out what the world has withered,
  Jesus reaches out and restores us.

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Conclusions

• We serve a God that proved He was God by His
  power over sickness and death.
• Only God can raise the dead.
• Death is in His hands
• There were many witnesses to support the claim
• If the power to heal is in Jesus and Jesus is in
  us, then the power of God to heal is in us.
• He is still God, our healer.

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Casting out Demons

• Matt 101  
• Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them
  authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out,
  and to heal every kind of disease and every kind
  of sickness.

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Before the Time

• Matt 828-32
• When He came to the other side into the country
  of the Gadarenes, two men who were
  demon-possessed met Him as they were coming out
  of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that
  no one could pass by that way. 29 And they cried
  out, saying, "What business do we have with each
  other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment
  us before the time?" 30 Now there was a herd of
  many swine feeding at a distance from them.
  31 The demons began to entreat Him, saying, "If
  You are going to cast us out, send us into the
  herd of swine." 32 And He said to them, "Go!" And
  they came out and went into the swine, and the
  whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the
  sea and perished in the waters.

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Pearl Before Swine

• The Demons knew Jesus as the Son of God
• They knew what He would do
• They Admit that there would be a time of judgment
• They Expected to have authority over the man
  until that time
• They were cast into pigs because they are an
  image of uncleanness.
• Why not just leave the man? Why into the pigs if
  they were going to die anyway?

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Houses of the Damned

• Matt 1243-45
• "Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man,
  it passes through waterless places seeking rest,
  and does not find it. 44 "Then it says, 'I will
  return to my house from which I came' and when
  it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put
  in order. 45 "Then it goes and takes along with
  it seven other spirits more wicked than itself,
  and they go in and live there and the last state
  of that man becomes worse than the first. That is
  the way it will also be with this evil
  generation."

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Destined for destruction

• Demons fins no rest unless they possess
• You are a house for God or for Demons
• The ultimate goal is destruction of the house
• They have an aversion to water (They go to arid
  places)the pigs ran into the sea.

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The Demons and Deafness

• 932-34
•  As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed
  man was brought to Him. 33 After the demon was
  cast out, the mute man spoke and the crowds were
  amazed, and were saying, "Nothing like this has
  ever been seen in Israel." 34 But the Pharisees
  were saying, "He casts out the demons by the
  ruler of the demons
• Matt 1222-24
• Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute
  was brought to Jesus , and He healed him, so that
  the mute man spoke and saw. 23 All the crowds
  were amazed, and were saying, "This man cannot be
  the Son of David, can he?" 24 But when the
  Pharisees heard this, they said, "This man casts
  out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the
  demons."

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Be Quiet in the Name of Satan

• His muteness was a result of demonic oppression
  from within
• When Satan get a stronghold, he is able to shut
  us up.
• When Jesus sets us free, Satan cant keep us
  quiet.
• 1 Cor 123
• Therefore I make known to you, that no one
  speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is
  accursed" and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord,"
  except by the Holy Spirit.

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Prayer and Fasting

• Matt 1714-21
• When they came to the crowd, a man came up to
  Jesus, falling on his knees before Him and
  saying, 15 "Lord , have mercy on my son, for he
  is a lunatic and is very ill for he often falls
  into the fire and often into the water. 16 "I
  brought him to Your disciples, and they could not
  cure him." 17 And Jesus answered and said, "You
  unbelieving and perverted generation, how long
  shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with
  you? Bring him here to Me." 18 And Jesus rebuked
  him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy
  was cured at once. 19 Then the disciples came to
  Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not drive
  it out?" 20 And He said to them, "Because of the
  littleness of your faith for truly I say to you,
  if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you
  will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to
  there,' and it will move and nothing will be
  impossible to you. 21 "But this kind does not go
  out except by prayer and fasting."

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Lunacy

• A lunatic (Effected by the moon).mad
• What caused it?
• Perverseness
• Results in falling
• Fire
• Water
• Both are agents of destructionThe demon is
  trying to destroy the man

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Faith, Prayer, Fasting

• They could not drive it out.Why
• Littleness of faith
• Lack of prayer
• Lack of fasting
• When all three are present, we have a triune
  weapon, the perfect and complete weapon against
  the enemy.

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Conclusion

• There is demon possession
• Demons are in the business of property
  acquisition and demolition
• They have been given limited dominion
• They can repossess a property that has not been
  occupied
• The house must be guarded

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