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Life-Study of Matthew

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The King’s antecedents and status (1)    msg. 1
A word of introduction
The opening word of the new testament
A living picture of Christ
Four biographies of one Person
The expansion of Christ
The order of the four Gospels
The general sketch
The central thought
The King’s antecedents and status
I. His genealogy
A. The Generation of Christ
1. The fathers
2. The kings
3. The civilians (the captured ones and the recovered ones)
4. The four remarried women
5. The one virgin
B. The son of David
C. The son of Abraham
The King’s antecedents and status (2)    msg. 2
D. Abraham
1. Called
2. Justified by faith
3. Living by faith
E. Isaac
F. Jacob
G. Judah
H. His brethren
The King’s antecedents and status (3)    msg. 3
I. Tamar
J. Pharez and Zarah
K. Rahab
L. Boaz
M. Ruth
N. Jesse
O. David
P. The wife of Uriah (Bathsheba)
Q. Solomon
The King’s antecedents and status (4)    msg. 4
R. David the King begetting Solomon
S. Rehoboam
T. Joram begetting Uzziah
U. Josiah begetting Jeconiah
V. The captives to Babylon
W. Jeconiah
X. Jeconiah begetting Salathiel, and Salathiel begetting Zerubbabel
Y. Zerubbabel
Z. Jacob begetting Joseph
AA. Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born
BB. Mary
CC. The one who is called Christ
DD. Abraham, David, and Mary
EE. To David and from David
FF. Until the carrying away and from the carrying away
GG. Three groups of fourteen generations
HH. “To the Christ”
The King’s antecedents and status (5)    msg. 5
II. His birth
A. By God’s sovereignty
B. Through Mary’s surrender
C. Of the Holy Spirit’s power
D. With Joseph’s obedience and coordination
E. Fulfilling the prophecies
F. God becoming flesh
G. Jehovah to be Jesus
H. God to be Emmanuel
I. Jehovah God born in the flesh to be the King
The King’s antecedents and status (6)    msg. 6
J. Jesus, the name given by God
1. Three elements in the name of Jesus
a. Jehovah — “I Am that I Am”
b. Savior
c. Salvation
2. The name of Jesus being above every name
a. To believe in
b. To be baptized into
c. To be saved
d. To be healed
e. To be washed, sanctified, and justified
f. To call upon
g. To pray
h. To be gathered into
i. To cast out demons
j. To preach
3. Satan’s hatred of the name of Jesus
a. Attacking this name
b. Preventing speaking in this name
c. Having to suffer for this name
d. Not denying this name
K. Emmanuel, the name called by people
1. Jesus as Emmanuel experienced by us
2. With us in our gatherings
3. With us all the days
4. With us in our spirit
5. His presence being the Spirit
6. Receiving the Spirit by calling on the name of Jesus
7. The enemy trying to take over the land of Emmanuel
8. The enemy unable to take us over
The King’s antecedents and status (7)    msg. 7
III. His youth
A. The record of Christ’s youth in Matthew and Luke
1. Luke’s record proving the humanity of Christ
2. Matthew’s record proving the Kingship of Christ
a. Found in Bethlehem by pagan men
(1) Led by the star, the heavenly vision
(2) Distracted by their human concept
(3) Corrected by the Scriptures
(4) Led again by the star to find and worship Christ
(5) Warned by God to return another way
b. Fleeing to Egypt
c. Raised in Nazareth
The King’s anointing (1)    msg. 8
I. Recommended
A. The recommender
1. Born a priest
2. Forsaking the outward position of the priest
3. Living in a way contrary to religion and culture
B. The place of recommendation
The King’s anointing (2)    msg. 9
C. The message of recommendation
1. Repentance for the kingdom of the heavens
2. The need for the nature to be changed
3. Christ the Baptizer
D. The way of recommendation
1. To baptize people in water
2. To prepare people to receive Christ
The King’s anointing (3)    msg. 10
II. Anointed
A. Through baptism
1. Coming from Galilee
2. Coming to Jordan
3. Baptized by John
4. To fulfill all righteousness
B. With the Holy Spirit
1. Rising up from the water
2. The heavens being opened to Him
3. The Spirit of God descending upon Him
4. The Father speaking to Him
The King’s anointing (4)    msg. 11
III. Tested
A. Being led by the Spirit
B. Having fasted forty days and forty nights
C. The tempter’s temptations
1. To change stones into loaves of bread
a. Tempted to give up the standing of man by assuming to be the Son of God
b. Defeating the tempter by standing in the position of a man
2. To cast himself down from the wing of the temple
a. Tempted to make a show that God would protect Him
b. Defeating the tempter by not tempting God
3. To worship the devil
a. Tempted to gain the kingdoms of the world and their glory
b. Defeating the tempter by worshipping God and serving Him only
D. The result
The beginning of the King’s ministry    msg. 12
I. Beginning of the ministry
A. After John the Baptist was imprisoned
B. Starting from Galilee
C. As a great light shining in darkness
D. Preaching repentance for the kingdom of the heavens
E. Calling four disciples
1. Peter and Andrew
2. James and John
F. Attracting great crowds
1. By traveling through the whole of Galilee
2. By teaching in the synagogues
3. By preaching the gospel of the kingdom
4. By healing every disease and those possessed by demons
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (1)    msg. 13
I. The place and the audience
A. On the mountain
B. To His disciples
II. Concerning the nature of the kingdom people
A. Poor in spirit to receive the kingdom of the heavens
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (2)    msg. 14
B. Those mourning to be comforted
C. The meek to inherit the earth
D. Those hungry and thirsty for righteousness to be satisfied
E. The merciful to receive mercy
F. The pure in heart to see God
G. Those making peace to be called the sons of God
H. Those persecuted for righteousness to participate in the kingdom of the heavens
I. Those reproached, persecuted, and evil spoken of for His sake to receive great reward in the heavens
Life study of matthew    msg. 15
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (3)
The inward being of the kingdom people
Nine crucial words
Poor in spirit and mourning
Mourning and meekness
A word about meekness
Hungering and thirsting for righteousness
Righteous with ourselves, merciful toward others
Pure in heart and seeing God
Peacemakers
Sons of God
Suffering persecution for righteousness
Reproached for the sake of Christ
Christ with the kingdom
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (4)    msg. 16
III. Concerning the influence of the kingdom people upon the world
A. Being the salt of the earth
1. To kill and eliminate the germs of corruption from the earth
2. The possibility of becoming tasteless
B. Being the light of the world
1. As a city upon a mountain
2. As a lamp on the lampstand
3. Glorifying the Father in the heavens
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (5)    msg. 17
IV. Concerning the law of the kingdom people
A. Not to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them
1. Keeping the law on the positive side
2. Fulfilling the requirement of the law on the negative side through the substitutionary death on the cross
3. Complementing the old law with the new
B. Keeping even the least of the commandments of the law being the condition to be great in the kingdom
C. The surpassing righteousness being the condition to enter into the kingdom
D. Regarding murder
1. The old law — not to murder
2. The new complementing law — not to be angry with the brother, not to contemn the brother, and not to condemn the brother
a. Before offering a gift to God, reconciling yourself to your brother
b. Before you die, your opponent dies, or the Lord comes back
E. Regarding adultery
1. The old law — not to commit adultery
2. The new complementing law — not to look at for lusting
a. Considering the seriousness of such a sin in relation to the kingdom
b. Putting away the motive of such a sin at any cost
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (6)    msg. 18
No need to keep the sabbath
The principle of the law
The commandments of the law not abolished, but uplifted
A higher standard of morality
The problems of temper and lust
A warning regarding the judgment of the believers
Forced to stay with Christ
Dispensational punishment
Fleeing our temper and lust
Walking according to the spirit
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (7)    msg. 19
F. Regarding divorce
1. The old law — to divorce with a writing
2. The new law — not to divorce except in a case of fornication
G. Regarding swearing
1. The old law — not to perjure yourself but to keep your oath to the Lord
2. The new law — not to swear at all
H. Regarding the resistance of evil
1. The old law — eye for eye, tooth for tooth
2. The new law — do not resist
I. Regarding Enemies
1. The old law — love your neighbor and hate your enemy
2. The new law — love your enemies and pray for your persecutors
a. To behave as the sons of the heavenly Father
b. To be perfect as the heavenly Father
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (8)    msg. 20
Three aspects of the law
living by the Father’s life and nature
Fulfilling the righteous requirement of the law by walking according to the spirit
How our spirit is formed
Not only God’s creatures, but also His regenerated children
No time element with God
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (9)    msg. 21
V. Concerning the righteous deeds of the kingdom people
A. The principle — not to do your righteousness before men
B. Regarding alms
1. Not sounding a trumpet
2. Not letting the left hand know the doing of the right
3. Giving alms in secret
C. Regarding prayer
1. Not to make a public show
2. To pray in secret
3. Not to repeat empty words
4. The pattern of prayer
a. Praying that God’s name may be sanctified
b. Praying that God’s kingdom may come
c. Praying that God’s will may be done on earth
d. Praying that God may give us our daily food
e. Praying that God may forgive us our sins
f. Praying that God may keep us from trial and deliver us from the evil one
g. Recognizing God’s kingdom, power, and glory
5. The condition of prayer — to forgive others their offenses
D. Regarding fasting
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (10)    msg. 22
VI. Concerning the dealing of the kingdom people with riches
A. Laying up treasures not on earth but in heaven
1. The heart being where the treasure is
2. The eye being single and the whole body being illuminated
3. The eye being evil and the whole body being dark
B. Being unable to serve two masters
C. Not being anxious about our living
1. The life being more than food and the body more than clothing
2. Not being anxious about eating, drinking, and clothing
3. The heavenly Father knowing all these needs
4. Seeking first the Father’s kingdom and His righteousness
5. Not being anxious for tomorrow
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (11)    msg. 23
VII. Concerning the principles of the kingdom people in dealing with others
A. Not judging lest you be judged with what you judge
1. Considering the log in your own eye when you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye
2. Removing the log from your eye first
B. Not giving the holy things to the dogs nor casting pearls before the hogs
C. Asking, seeking, and knocking
D. Doing to people what you wish them to do to you
The decree of the kingdom’s constitution (12)    msg. 24
VIII. Concerning the ground of the kingdom people’s living and work
A. Entering the narrow gate and taking the constricted way
1. The wide gate and the broad way leading to destruction and many entering it
2. The narrow gate and the constricted way leading to life and few finding it
B. Discerning the false prophets by their fruit
c. The condition of entering into the kingdom of the heavens
1. Not merely calling on the Lord, but doing the will of the heavenly Father
2. Many prophesying, casting out demons, and doing many works of power in the Lord’s name, but not according to the heavenly Father’s will
3. The Lord not approving them, but considering them as workers of lawlessness
D. Two kinds of building upon two kinds of foundation
1. The building on the rock according to the Lord’s words
2. The building on the sand not according to the Lord’s words
IX. Authority in speaking
The continuation of the King’s ministry (1)    msg. 25
I. Signs with dispensational significance
A. Healing of the leper
1. The King coming down from the mountain
2. A leper approaching Him for cleansing and worshipping Him
3. The King stretching out his hand and touching him to cleanse him
4. The cleansed leper being charged by the King to offer the gift for a testimony
B. Healing of the centurion’s servant boy
1. A Centurion approaching and beseeching Him for the healing of His servant boy
2. The centurion, knowing authority, asking only for a word
3. The King marveling at the gentile centurion’s faith and indicating that many gentiles will participate in the enjoyment of the kingdom
4. The centurion’s servant boy being healed according to the centurion’s faith
C. Healing of Peter’s mother-in-law
D. Healing of many — restoration to all on earth in the millennium
1. Evening having come
2. Many demon-possessed and all the sick being healed — a foretaste of the power of the coming age
3. The fulfillment of the word of the prophet
II. The way to follow the King
A. The King giving orders to depart from the great crowds
B. A scribe coming to follow the King
C. The King unveiling to the scribe that He has nowhere to rest
D. Another disciple asking permission to bury his father first
E. The King telling the disciple to follow Him and leave the dead to the dead
The continuation of the King’s ministry (2)    msg. 26
III. The authority of the King
A. Over the winds and the sea
B. Over the demons
C. To forgive sins
The continuation of the King’s ministry (3)    msg. 27
IV. Feasting with the sinners
A. The calling of Matthew
B. A feast prepared for the King
C. Many tax collectors and sinners participating in the feast with the King and His disciples
D. The Pharisees condemning the King for eating with tax collectors and sinners
E. The Lord revealed as the Physician and as the one Who came to call sinners
V. Fasting without the bridegroom
A. The disciples of John and the Pharisees
B. Not fasting with the Bridegroom
The continuation of the King’s ministry (4)    msg. 28
C. Not putting a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment
D. Not putting new wine into old wineskins
E. Putting new wine into fresh wineskins
The continuation of the King’s ministry (5) and the enlargement of the King’s ministry (1)    msg. 29
The continuation of the King’s ministry (5)
VI. Signs with dispensational significance repeated
A. The daughter of the ruler of the synagogue having died
B. The healing of a woman with a hemorrhage
C. The healing of the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue
D. The healing of the blind and dumb
1. Healing of the two blind men
2. The healing of a demon-possessed dumb man
3. A shadow of the millennium
4. The Pharisees’ rejection of the King
The enlargement of the King’s ministry (1)
I. The need for shepherding and reaping
A. The King traveling through all the cities and villages, teaching, preaching, and healing
B. The King being moved with compassion concerning the people as sheep without a Shepherd
C. The harvest being vast but the workers being few
D. Beseeching the Lord of the harvest to thrust out workers into His harvest
II. The appointment of the twelve apostles
A. Giving them authority to cast out demons and to heal diseases
B. Pairing them two by two
III. The way to spread the gospel of the kingdom to the house of Israel
A. The King sending the twelve apostles only to the house of Israel
B. Preaching that the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near
C. Exercising the authority of the kingdom
D. The worker being worthy of his food
E. Bringing peace to the house where they stay
F. The judgment upon the rejecting people
The enlargement of the King’s ministry (2)    msg. 30
IV. Persecution and the way to meet it
A. The apostles sent as sheep into the midst of wolves
B. Delivered to the sanhedrin and scourged in the synagogues
C. Brought before governors and kings as a testimony for the heavenly King’s sake
D. Hated by the relatives
E. Fleeing from city to city
F. Not above their teacher
G. Not fearing the persecutors but preaching the heavenly King’s message on the housetop
V. The King’s disturbance and the way of the cross to follow Him
A. The heavenly King coming not to bring peace, but a sword on the earth
B. The way to follow the heavenly King
1. Not loving relatives above Him
2. Taking the cross and following after Him
3. Losing the soul-life for His sake
VI. Identification with the King
A. Receiving the heavenly King’s apostles being the receiving of Him
B. The reward of receiving a prophet or a righteous man
C. Che reward for giving a cup of cold water to a little disciple
VII. The heavenly King going to teach and preach in the cities
The result of the King’s ministry    msg. 31
I. Strengthening His imprisoned forerunner
A. The imprisoned forerunner sending his disciples to provoke the King
B. The heavenly King’s answer
II. Appraising His forerunner
A. Not a reed in the wilderness shaken by the wind or a man dressed in soft clothing
B. Much more than a prophet
C. Being a messenger before the heavenly King’s face, preparing the way for Him
D. Greater than all who were born before the kingdom of the heavens, but smaller than he who is in the kingdom of the heavens
E. Being Elijah
F. The prophets and the law having prophesied until John
G. From John until now, the kingdom of the heavens being taken by violence
H. Ears needed to hear this
III. Reproaching the stubborn generation
A. The generation not having responded to the preaching of the forerunner or of the heavenly King
B. The cities not having repented
IV. Acknowledging the Father’s will with praise
A. Answering the Father in His fellowship with Him at the time he was reproaching the stubborn generation
B. Acknowledging the Father’s will with praise
1. The Father having hidden the knowledge of the Son and of the Father from the wise and the intelligent
2. The Father having revealed these things to babes
3. Well pleasing in the Father’s sight
4. All the remnant having been delivered to the Son by the Father
5. No One knowing the Son except the Father, and no one knowing the Father except the Son and He who receives the Son’s revelation
V. Calling the burdened to rest and the way to rest
A. The call
B. The way
1. Taking the heavenly King’s yoke
2. Learning from Him
The establishment of the King’s rejection (1)    msg. 32
I. The reason for rejection — the breaking of the abbath
A. Picking and eating the ears in the grain fields on the Sabbath
1. The heavenly King and His disciples going through the grain fields on the Sabbath and the disciples picking the ears to eat
2. The Pharisees seeing and condemning
3. The King’s defense
a. David and his men having entered into the house of God and having eaten the showbread
b. The priests profaning the Sabbath on the Sabbath in the temple
c. The heavenly King being greater than the temple
d. God desiring to have mercy rather than sacrifice
e. The Son of Man being the Lord of the Sabbath
B. Healing a withered hand in the synagogue on the Sabbath
1. The heavenly King coming into a synagogue
2. A man having a withered hand
3. The withered hand being restored
4. The Pharisees taking counsel to destroy the heavenly King
II. Rejection causing the turn to the gentiles
A. The King departing from the rejecting ones
B. The King healing all the sick
C. The prophecy of Isaiah regarding the King’s turn to the nations
1. Not striving nor crying out
2. Not breaking a bruised reed and not quenching a smoking flax
D. The nations (the gentiles) hoping in His name
The establishment of the King’s rejection (2)    msg. 33
III. Climax of rejection
A. A person possessed by a demon brought to the heavenly King and the King healing him
B. All the crowds being amazed and wondering that the King is the Son of David
C. The Pharisees saying that the King casts out the demons by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons
D. The heavenly King’s answer
1. Satan’s kingdom unable to stand if Satan casts out Satan
2. The sons of the Pharisees casting out demons by Beelzebub
3. The King casting out demons by the Spirit of God that the kingdom of God may come
4. Binding the strong man, entering into his house, and plundering his vessels
5. The one not with the King being against the King and the one not gathering with the King scattering
6. The Blasphemy of the Spirit not being forgiven
7. Speaking against the Holy Spirit not forgiven in this age or in the coming age
8. The tree known by the fruit
9. The mouth speaking evil out of the abundance of the heart
10. Every idle word to be accounted for in the day of judgment
11. By words people being either justified or convicted
The establishment of the King’s rejection (3)    msg. 34
IV. The sign to the rejecting generation
A. The rejecting generation wanting to see a sign
B. No sign given to them except the sign of the King’s death
C. The King as the greater Solomon in resurrection
V. The rejecting generation becoming worse
VI. Rejection resulting in the King’s forsaking
The unveiling of the kingdom’s mysteries (1)    msg. 35
I. The preliminary work of the kingdom
A. The heavenly King going out of the house to sit beside the sea
B. Great crowds gather to the King on the seashore
C. The King stepping into a boat — the church
D. The King speaking to the crowds in parables
1. The mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens hidden to the crowds but explained to the disciples
2. The disciples being blessed
The unveiling of the kingdom’s mysteries (2)    msg. 36
E. The parable of the sower — the preliminary work of the King for the kingdom
1. The sower having sown the seeds
2. Some seeds falling beside the way
3. Some falling on rocky places
4. Some falling on the thorns
5. Others falling on good earth
The unveiling of the kingdom’s mysteries (3)    msg. 37
II. The establishment of the kingdom and its false constituents
A. The kingdom of the heavens likened to a man sowing good seed
B. The heavenly King having sown good seed in His field
C. The enemy having come and sown tares amidst the wheat
D. The King’s slaves wanting to gather up the tares, but the King allowing the tares to grow with the wheat until the harvest
E. The time of harvest — the consummation of the age
The unveiling of the kingdom’s mysteries (4)    msg. 38
III. The abnormal development of the outward appearance of the kingdom
A. The kingdom of the heavens being like a grain of mustard seed
B. The heavenly King having sown a mustard seed in His field
C. The mustard seed growing greater than the herbs and becoming a tree
D. The birds of heaven coming and roosting in the branches of the tree
IV. The inward corruption of the outward appearance of the kingdom
A. The parable of leaven
1. The kingdom of the heavens being like leaven
2. A woman (the apostate Catholic church) having taken the leaven and hidden it in three measures of meal
3. The whole lump (christianity) having been leavened
B. The heavenly King having spoken nothing to the crowds but in parables
The unveiling of the kingdom’s mysteries (5)    msg. 39
V. The kingdom hidden in the God-created worLD
A. The kingdom of the heavens being like a treasure hidden in the field
VI. The church produced out of the Satan-corrupted world
A. The kingdom of the heavens being like a merchant seeking fine pearls
B. The heavenly King’s work
The unveiling of the kingdom’s mysteries (6)    msg. 40
VII. The eternal gospel and its result
VIII. The treasure of things new and old
The treasure and the pearl    msg. 41
The facts of history
A complete picture of christendom
The overcomers
Reduced and made solid
The church and the kingdom
The kingdom life
Taking heed how we build
Staying in the constricted way
The pathway to glory (1)    msg. 42
I. Increase of rejection
A. Rejection by the galileans
1. Knowing Him according to the flesh and blinded by their natural knowledge
2. Causing the heavenly King not to do many works of power among them
B. Rejection by the heathen tetrarch
1. Heathen politics coinciding with jewish religion
2. The darkness of politics exposed
3. Causing the heavenly King to retreat to the desert
The pathway to glory (2)    msg. 43
II. lacking in necessities
A. At evening time in a barren desert
B. Learning to take care of the need of others
C. Offering all to the heavenly King
D. The heavenly King taking care of all the need by a miraculous blessing
1. Feeding the people
2. In resurrection
3. With an overflow
The pathway to glory (3)    msg. 44
III. The storm on the way
A. The disciples sailing in the boat — the church
B. The heavenly King praying on the mountain
C. The boat with the disciples distressed by the waves under the contrary wind
D. The heavenly King walking on the sea coming to the disciples
E. The heavenly King bringing courage to the disciples by His presence
F. The disciples learning to walk in the storm by faith and not by sight
G. The storm ceasing because of the heavenly King’s presence
H. Worshipping the heavenly King and recognizing Him as the Son of God
IV. The power of healing
The pathway to glory (4)    msg. 45
V. Kept away from religious tradition
A. Accused by the religionists of not washing hands when eating
B. The hypocrisy of the religionists
1. Transgressing the commandment of God because of tradition
2. Honoring God with the lips, but the heart being away from Him
3. Worshipping God in vain, teaching the commandments (traditions) of men
C. The real defiling things
D. The hypocritical religionists
1. Not planted by the heavenly Father
2. Blind leaders of the blind
The pathway to glory (5)    msg. 46
VI. Feeding on Christ by faith
A. Outside the sphere of religion
B. Knowing Christ in a proper way
1. Incorrectly calling Him Son of David
2. Rightly calling Him Lord and worshipping Him
C. Feeding on the Lord
1. Standing in the proper position — as a heathen dog under the table of the master
2. By faith
VII. Healing for the glorification of God
VIII. Further provision for necessities
A. By the compassion of the heavenly King
B. Because the lesson of faith was needed
C. The offering of what the disciples had bringing in the blessing with an overflow
The pathway to glory (6)    msg. 47
IX. Being wary of the leaven of the pharisees and sadducees
A. Temptation of the Pharisees and the Sadducees
1. Asking for a sign
2. Not being able to discern the signs of the times
3. Only the sign of Jonah being available to the evil and adulterous generation
B. The leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees
X. Receiving the revelation concerning Christ and the church
A. In the district of Caesarea Philippi
B. Receiving the revelation concerning Christ
1. Christ not being John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets
2. Christ, the Son of the living God
3. Revealed by the heavenly Father under His blessing, not by flesh and blood
C. Receiving the revelation concerning the church
1. The building of the church
a. By Christ
b. Upon the rock
c. With the stone
d. The gates of hades not prevailing against it
2. The church being the kingdom of the heavens
a. The keys given to Peter
b. Binding and loosing on earth what has been bound and loosed in the heavens
D. The revelation concerning Christ and the church kept secret
The pathway to glory (7)    msg. 48
XI. Taking the way of the cross
A. Christ going to Jerusalem to suffer crucifixion and to be resurrected
B. Satan’s frustration of Christ through Peter’s natural concept
C. Following Christ by denying the self and taking up the cross
1. Saving the soul-life being to lose it, but losing the soul-life for Christ’s sake being to find it
2. Gaining the whole world by forfeiting the soul-life profiting nothing
D. The reward of the kingdom
1. At the coming of Christ in the glory of the Father
2. According to the believers’ doings
3. At the judgment seat of Christ
4. To be enjoyed at the manifestation of the kingdom
The miniature of the manifestation of the kingdom    msg. 49
I. The kingdom having come
II. Christ transfigured on a high mountain
III. Moses and Elijah, representing the old testament overcomers, to be in the manifestation of the kingdom
IV. Peter, James, and John, representing the new testament overcomers, to be in the manifestation of the kingdom
V. Moses and Elijah, representing the law and the prophets, being wrongly ranked with Christ
A. Peter’s natural concept
B. The Father’s revelation
C. No one except Christ alone
VI. The manifestation of the kingdom kept secret
VII. John the Baptist being Elijah coming before the kingdom
Application of the revelation and vision concerning Christ    msg. 50
I. The power of darkness outside the kingdom
II. Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection
III. Application of the revelation and vision concerning Christ
A. Peter’s natural concept
B. Christ’s correction
C. Flexibility by Christ as the living Law-giver replacing Moses
D. Application through a miracle prophesied by Christ as the living Prophet replacing Elijah
Relationships in the kingdom (1)    msg. 51
I. Humility required
II. Stumbling abandoned
III. The heavenly Father’s care for the little ones
IV. Dealing with an offending brother
A. By direct rebuking
B. By the testimony of two or three
C. By the church
D. By cutting off the fellowship
E. By exercising the kingdom authority
F. By prayer in one accord
G. In the Lord’s presence
V. The unveiling of the local church
A. The church in locality
B. Other than the two or three meeting in the Lord’s name
C. Being the kingdom with the heavenly authority
D. Having the Lord’s presence as its reality
Relationships in the kingdom (2)    msg. 52
VI. Forgiving for being forgiven
A. Forgiving the offending brother even seventy times seven
B. Forgiving others as the Lord has forgiven us
1. Our debt to the Lord being impossible to pay off
2. The Lord’s forgiveness by His mercy
3. Another’s debt to us being very small compared with our debt to the Lord
4. We being unwilling to forgive
5. The brothers being grieved by our unwillingness to forgive
6. Punished by the Lord for our unwillingness to forgive
C. Forgiveness in the kingdom
1. Forgiveness in the present age
2. Forgiveness in the kingdom age
The kingdom requirements    msg. 53
I. Unveiled in the districts of Judea across the Jordan with the power of healing
II. From the written law back to God’s ordination from the beginning
A. Dealing with lust
B. By God’s gift
III. The kingdom blessing coming through humility
IV. Higher than the law
A. Realizing only God is good
B. Keeping the law’s commandment
C. To be perfect by laying up treasure in the heavens and following Christ
The kingdom reward and the parable of the kingdom reward    msg. 54
I. Impossible for the rich man to enter into the kingdom
II. The impossibility becoming a possibility with God
III. The kingdom reward
A. To receive a hundredfold in this age
B. To inherit eternal life in the coming age
C. In the time of restoration to be co-kings with Christ
D. Not being a legal matter
IV. A householder hiring workmen for his vineyard
A. Early in the morning
B. About the third hour
C. About the sixth hour and about the ninth hour
D. About the eleventh hour
V. The householder rewarding the workmen
A. At evening
B. Beginning from the last to the first
C. The last and the first receiving the same reward
D. The first murmuring according to legality
E. The householder’s answer showing grace according to his desire
F. Not a legal matter but a matter of grace
The throne of the kingdom and the cup of the cross    msg. 55
I. Knowing Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection
II. The throne of the kingdom
III. The cup of the cross
IV. The fleshly rivalry of the disciples
V. The exercise of the kingdom life
VI. Blindness needing to be healed
The warm welcome of the heavenly King, the cleansing of the temple, and the cursing of the fig tree    msg. 56
I. A warm welcome to the meek King
A. The coming of the meek King
1. Under the Lord’s sovereignty
2. Fulfilling the prophecy
3. On a donkey and on a colt
B. The warm welcome of the crowds
1. Spreading their garments on the road
2. Spreading palm branches in the road
3. Crying Hosanna to the Son of David
4. Still knowing Him as the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee
II. Cleansing the temple
A. Cleansing, healing, and praising
B. The religious people being offended
C. The heavenly King staying away from Jerusalem to lodge in Bethany
III. Cursing the fig tree
A. Christ being hungry
B. The fig tree — the nation of Israel — having leaves but no fruit
C. The fig tree being cursed
D. The frustrating mountain removed by believing prayer
The heavenly King being tested (1)    msg. 57
I. In the last week of His life on earth
II. As the passover lamb being examined before the passover
III. By the chief priests and elders of the people
A. Asking Him about the source of His authority
B. Christ asking them about the baptism of John
C. The chief priests and elders lying to Him
D. The Lord answering them, exposing their lie, and avoiding their question
E. The parable of two sons
F. The parable of the vineyard
1. A householder planting a vineyard and leasing it to husbandmen
2. The householder sending his slaves again and again to receive fruits, but the husbandmen flogging and killing them
3. The householder later sending his son but the husbandmen casting him out of the vineyard and killing him
4. The householder destroying the evil husbandmen and leasing the vineyard to other husbandmen
5. Christ as the cornerstone rejected by the jewish builders
6. The kingdom of God having been taken from the Jews and given to the church
7. The Jews stumbling at Christ and being broken to pieces
8. Christ as God’s building stone to fall on the gentile nations
9. The Jewish leaders seeking to seize the heavenly King
The heavenly King being tested (2)    msg. 58
G. The parable of the marriage feast
1. A King making a marriage feast for his son
2. The King sending his slaves again and again to call those invited to the marriage feast
3. The King sending his troops to destroy the murderers and burn their city
4. The King sending his slaves to the thoroughfare to call people to the marriage feast
5. Many, both evil and good, coming to the marriage feast
6. A man being found not clothed with the marriage garment
7. The man without the marriage garment being cast out into the outer darkness
8. Many being called but few being chosen
The heavenly King being tested (3)    msg. 59
IV. By the disciples of the Pharisees and the Herodians
V. By the Sadducees
VI. By a lawyer of the Pharisees
VII. Muzzling all the testers by the question of questions
Rebuking the Jewish religionists and forsaking Jerusalem with its temple    msg. 60
I. Rebuking the Jewish religionists
A. Their hypocrisy
1. Seating themselves in Moses’ seat and saying but not doing
2. Binding heavy burdens and laying them on the shoulders of others, but not moving them with their finger
3. Doing all their works to be seen by men
4. Broadening their phylacteries and enlarging the fringes of their garments
5. Loving the chief place at dinners and the chief seats in the synagogues
6. Loving the salutations in the market places and being called rabbi by men
7. In contrast with the humility of the kingdom people
B. Their eightfold woe
1. The first woe
2. The second woe
3. The third woe
4. The fourth woe
5. The fifth woe
6. The sixth woe
7. The seventh woe
8. The eighth woe
II. forsaking Jerusalem with its temple
A. Jerusalem killing the prophets
B. The Lord as a hen desiring to gather her children together under her wings
C. The house — the temple — left desolate
D. Not seeing the Lord until His coming back
Prophecy of the kingdom (1)    msg. 61
I. Concerning Israel
A. From Christ’s ascension to the end of the age
1. The temple about to be destroyed
2. Many deceivers coming
3. Wars, rumors of wars, famines, and earthquakes
4. The disciples to be persecuted and hated by the nations
5. Many being stumbled, delivering up one another, and hating one another
6. Many false prophets arising and leading many astray
7. Lawlessness being multiplied and the love of many growing cold
8. The one enduring to the end to be saved
9. The gospel of the kingdom being preached in the whole inhabited earth to all the nations
Prophecy of the kingdom (2)    msg. 62
B. At the end of the age
1. The great tribulation
a. The image of the Antichrist standing in the temple
b. The Jews needing to flee
c. There being great tribulation
d. False Christs and false prophets arising and showing great signs and wonders to lead the jews astray
2. Christ’s coming to the earth
a. Christ’s coming being like the lightning from the east to the west
b. The vultures being gathered where the corpse is
c. Immediately after the tribulation the sun being darkened, the moon not shining, the stars falling, and the powers of the heavens being shaken
d. The sign of the Son of Man appearing in heaven
3. The gathering of Israel
Prophecy of the kingdom (3)    msg. 63
II. Concerning the church
A. Watching and being ready
1. The restored nation of israel being a sign of the end of this age and a sign to the believers
2. All things predicted concerning Israel taking place
3. No one knowing that day and hour except the Father
4. The coming of Christ being as the days of Noah
5. Before the coming of Christ, one being taken and the other left
6. Watching and being ready because Christ will come as a thief
B. Being faithful and prudent
1. The faithful and prudent slave giving food to the Lord’s household at the appointed time
2. The evil slave beating his fellow slaves, eating and drinking with the drunken, and being cut off from the Lord in His coming glory
Prophecy of the kingdom (4)    msg. 64
C. Parable for watchfulness
1. Ten virgins
a. Taking their lamps
b. Going forth
c. To meet the bridegroom
2. The five foolish ones not taking oil with them
3. The five prudent ones taking oil in their vessels
4. The Bridegroom delaying
5. All the virgins becoming drowsy and sleeping
6. A cry at midnight
7. All the virgins arising
8. Trimming their lamps
9. The foolish wanting to borrow oil from the prudent
10. The answer of the prudent
11. The bridegroom coming and the ready ones going in with him to the marriage feast
12. The foolish virgins coming later, but the Bridegroom not knowing them
13. Watching
Prophecy of the kingdom (5)    msg. 65
D. Parable for faithfulness
1. A man going into another country
2. Delivering his possessions to his slaves
3. Giving five talents, two talents, and one talent
4. To each according to his ability
5. Those with five talents and two talents trading with them
6. The slave with one talent digging in the earth and hiding it
Prophecy of the kingdom (6)    msg. 66
7. The lord of the slaves coming to settle accounts with them
8. The five-talented and the two-talented ones both receiving a reward
9. The one-talented one receiving a rebuke and being punished
Prophecy of the kingdom (7)    msg. 67
III. Concerning the nations
A. Christ on the throne of glory
B. Judgment on all the nations
1. All the nations being gathered before Christ’s throne of glory
2. Christ’s separating them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats
3. The sheep inheriting the kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the world
4. The goats going into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels
A test to all people and the establishing of the table    msg. 68
I. Last unveiling of the crucifixion for the fulfillment of the Passover
II. A test to all the people
A. Hated by the religionists
B. Loved by the disciples
C. Betrayed by the false disciple
III. The establishing of the table
A. At the feast of Passover
B. At the time of His betrayal
C. To replace the feast of Passover
1. With the bread
2. With the cup
3. Until the kingdom age
D. Praising the Father with a hymn
Pressed in Gethsemane, arrested by the Jews, judged by the sanhedrin, and denied by Peter    msg. 69
I. Warning the disciples
II. Pressed in Gethsemane
III. Arrested by the Jews
IV. Judged by the Sanhedrin
V. Denied by Peter
Judged, crucified, and buried    msg. 70
I. Judged by Pilate
A. Jesus delivered by the Jewish religious leaders to Pilate, the Roman governor
B. The destiny of Judas
C. Jesus before Pilate
II. Crucified by men
A. Mocked by the roman soldiers
B. Simon the Cyrene being compelled to bear His cross
C. Brought to Golgotha
D. Given wine mingled with gall
E. Crucified
F. Labeled King of the Jews as an accusation
G. Two robbers at His side
H. Blasphemed and mocked
I. Reproached by the robbers crucified with Him
III. Judged by God
A. Forsaken by God
B. Mocked by being given vinegar to quench His thirst
C. Dismissing the spirit
IV. The effect of His death
A. The veil of the temple torn from top to bottom
B. The earth shakes and the rocks split
C. The tombs opened and the bodies of many saints raised
V. Buried by a rich man
Man’s unrighteousness and God’s righteousness    msg. 71
Man’s unrighteousness
Man’s unrighteousness turning into God’s righteousness
Christ exposing man’s unrighteousness
Christ bearing man’s unrighteousness
God’s righteousness in the gospel
Righteousness, love, and grace
The kingdom of God built upon righteousness
The King’s victory    msg. 72
I. Resurrected
A. On the first day of the week
B. Discovered by Mary the Magdalene and the other Mary
C. Pointed out by the angel
D. Meeting with Mary the Magdalene and the other Mary
E. Rumors of the Jewish leaders
II. Reigning
A. The disciples going to Galilee to meet with Him on the mountain
B. Appearing to the disciples and being worshipped by them
C. Declaring that all authority has been given to Him in heaven and on earth
D. Charging the disciples to go and disciple all the nations
E. Promising to be with the disciples all the days until the consummation of the age

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