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🗓️ 2 October 2021
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
0:13.2 | Today we dropped it on a new gospel, Matthew, and even though he's a new gospel to us in |
0:17.2 | our reading plan, he's quite possibly the oldest of the four gospels. |
0:21.3 | Most people believe this is Matthew the Apostle, slash disciple of Jesus, who was a tax collector |
0:25.9 | before Jesus called him. |
0:27.9 | Even his attention to numbers and money and return on investment, it seems likely. |
0:32.7 | Matthew's unique lens on Jesus is Jesus as king. |
0:36.7 | As a refresher, Luke's lens is Jesus as man and John's is Jesus as God. |
0:41.8 | So far, we have Jesus as God, man, and king. |
0:45.8 | Matthew starts out by giving us the lineage of Jesus, and if you were with us in the Old |
0:49.2 | Testament, you probably recognized at least a few of these people. |
0:52.8 | Here are three things worth noting about this genealogy. |
0:55.4 | First, it includes women. |
0:57.9 | That's unheard of in ancient Jewish genealogies. |
1:00.8 | So we can see right out of the gate that the message Jesus sent his disciples about women |
1:05.2 | was one of inclusion. |
1:07.0 | Jesus obviously taught Matthew that women matter, otherwise he would have left them out. |
1:11.4 | Second, his inclusion extends beyond just gender because this genealogy also includes |
1:17.0 | Gentiles. |
1:18.0 | That's any non-Jew. |
1:20.1 | And it includes people with scandalous histories. |
1:22.6 | For instance, Rahab had been a pagan prostitute, and we don't have time to go into all the |
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