The Progress of Redemption | Matthew

Join us as Pastor Patrick Joyner shows the Progress of Redemption through Matthew. Many receive Christ as the remedy for their sins, they happily take Him at His offer of forgiveness, they delight themselves in devotional thoughts from the Bible, all the while lamenting that they don’t really know what the Bible says and that they know they should read it more.We are to receive the Bible as living truth, as a record not only of what God has promised will happen but a record of the fulfillment of those things. What God says - will certainly come to pass. If we really believed the Bible, that it should have a central, routine, exalted position in our lives as life-giving wisdom desperately needed - then wouldn’t we give it more time?The pervasive darkness that Messiah would be born into, spoken of by Isaiah, is a darkness of the ignorance of the truths of Scripture. The Gospel writer Saint Matthew was concerned with this same idea Christ was conveying to highlight the urgency of what has been declared by God in the past, that was being fulfilled in the day of Christ - listen for it in these passage we consider: “what the Lord has spoken”.We should focus on the idea of fulfillment in the Gospel of Matthew - but not merely the fulfillment of the Advent of Christ but of the fulfillment of all that Christ has said and all that will come to pass - in areas that perhaps we haven't considered regarding fulfillment. Such as: "the Lord is my shepherd" in Psalm 23 or "the ear that listens to life giving rebuke will dwell among the wise" in Proverbs 15. We cannot be our own shepherd and we must receive rebuke if we are to be Christ's follower.