Jesus was a rabbi, not a reverend. Let's remember that when we read his words.

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is shuah the messiah his mother's name was miriam not mary he had disciples with names like

johanan and juhuda matit yahhu and he was a rabbi not a reverend Yochanan in Yehuda, Matyahu.

And he was a rabbi, not a reverend.

He was called Christ because Christ is the Greek way of saying Messiah.

So when we read his words, we don't want to read them against the backdrop, say, of 21st century America. Well, they absolutely applied

every culture around the world at all times, all generations. But we don't want to read him as if

he was a Maga Republican or a liberal Democrat for that matter. We don't want to read him as if he was sitting in the

Vatican teaching. We don't want to read him as if he was a Puritan from England in the 17th

century. I'm just saying culturally, we've got to put things in the proper context, right?

For example, if I'm trying to explain MAGA to somebody

and it's before America exists as a nation, it's like, what are you even talking about? Right? What does

MAGA even mean? Is it a good phrase or a bad phrase? It's a contemporary American concept.

So what we want to do is just look back. Before we dig into the words of Jesus, Yeshua,

let's look back at what comes first in Matthew's Gospel. I'm going to go through this pretty quickly,

but I just want to get you caught up to where we're going because we're going to dig in,

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