Survey of the book of Matthew

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The Gospel of Mark.

Now this is the first of the four gospels. This one is written more to a

Jewish audience and the view of this gospel is that Jesus is the King.

Makes sense. It's a Jewish audience, they're looking for that King of David and here he is,

Jesus Christ. Now I happen to believe that the Gospel of Matthew was the first of the four gospels written.

Many people think it's Mark. We'll get to that later when we talk about the book Mark, but I believe it was Matthew. Why? Well, it would make sense because in the early years, first Christianity was really a religion of the

Jews. So it would make sense that the gospel to the Jews would be the one first written.

Now Matthew is very interesting because who was Matthew? He was a tax collector.

This is some of the irony of God, that God uses a man like Paul, a Pharisee, to write so much to the

Gentiles. Here he uses a tax collector to write to the Jews.

Why is that irony? Because a tax collector would be one person that in Judaism you would not see as someone high.

It would actually be a traitor to the people. A tax collector is someone who collected money for Rome, for the enemy, and collected it from their own people.

The Jews saw a tax collector as a traitor, and so that is why I find that so interesting.

But it is the first of the four Gospels, and it focuses on Jesus Christ as the