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The
Book of Matthew
Matthew was taught by Dr. James Modlish
CHAPTER
TEN
10:1
The #12 reinforces that Christ is a Jewish Messiah sent to
rescue Israel. The 12 are a substitute for the 12 Sons of
Jacob. The signs He authorized them to do (Heb. 2:3,4) are
Jewish in character. The 1st sign was given to Moses (Ex.
4:1-6). The Jew seeks a sign (1 Cor. 1:22), for that is his
"roots" (Deut. 26:8). The first healing of any kind is in
connection with Israel's liberation from a foreign power
(Ex. 15:26). So now, when Israel is in bondage to Rome, the
successor of Moses (Heb. 3:1-6) shows up with all the signs
and wonders necessary to prove His divine calling.
10:2-4
Three James in scripture:
[1].
James Zebedee, John's bother.
[2]. James of Alphaeus, Christ's cousin.
[3]. James the less, the brother of the Lord, by
Mary.
Two
Judas'
[1].
Judas Iscariot
[2]. The one in (Lk. 6:16) which is undoubtedly
Thaddaeus.
10:5-7
[1].
No Gentiles are to be preached to - as opposed to (Rom.
10:9-10).
[2]. The message is to the House of Israel, (Acts
2:36-38).
[3]. The message is not the death, burial and
resurrection of Christ; it is the kingdom.
Attempts to
make the two Gospels the same only end in
confusion.
10:8-10
[1].
When was the last time you saw a faith healer cleanse a
leper, or raise someone from the dead?
[2]. Freely give? All healers take up
collections, and emphasize it.
[3]. Neither provide gold etc.! What a laugh for
today's healers.
10:11-13
"Who in it is worthy?" As in 1 Cor. 11:29. worthy has to do
with who is willing to receive the message. So if they
approached a house and said "peace be unto you" and it was
received as in Heb. 11:31. The angels announced the birth of
Christ - "peace on earth" when will that happen? When He
establishes His kingdom!
10:14,15
[1].
The custom was to take the scandals off and beat them
together until the dust came out. Lorenzo Dow, the
Methodist evangelist, did this to a town in Georgia,
which is said to have had perpetual problems since.
[2]. "More tolerable" - degrees of punishment,
(Deut. 32:22; Matt. 23:14).
10:16,17
The four animals selected in the text clearly demonstrate
the warfare the Saints have always found themselves in.
[1].
The sheep, until here, have always referred to the
believing remnant within Israel as in (Eze. 34, and Isa.
63).
[2]. However, (Jn. 10:11-160 gives insight into
Gentiles being included.
[3]. What complicates things is that some wolves
will be in sheep's clothing, (Matt. 7:15), and they do
get in the flock, (Acts. 20:29).
[4]. Consequently the church has the look of a
zoo more than a pasture. Particularly when you consider
we are warned about dogs, pigs, wolves, carnivorous
birds, and serpents.
[5]. Therefore, the Saint is to be full of common
sense strategy, tact, diplomacy and shrewdness in dealing
with the zoo.
[6]. Council is always in the New Testament a
body who hat the Scriptures, (Acts. 4:15; 5:40,41; Matt.
12:14; 26:59).
10:18-20
[1].
The verses first find their fulfillment in (Act
12:1-2).
[2]. The difficulty is Paul is the one that bears
the brunt of the cross examination, yet he is not present
in (Matt. 10).
[3]. Does the warming foresee a yet future
commission to Jewish evangelist that will take place
later, preceding Christ's 2nd coming. (Matt. 10:23; 24:9;
Mk. 13:9-11) The primary fulfillment seems to be yet
future.
[4]. "Father" is still at this point a reference
to God's relationship to Israel.
10:21-23
[1].
The disciples were not hated of all men at this time,
(Acts 2:43; 4:4,23).
[2]. "The end" refers to a time immediately
preceding the coming of a literal king, from heaven, in
glory, and cataclysmic destruction of the Gentile powers
(Dan. 9:26-27; 7:25-28).
[3]. By (Acts 28) they had gone all over Israel
and Christ had not come, so it must be a future
fulfillment!
[4]. The thing could have been fulfilled in
Israel had accepted the rises Saviour in (Acts 2-7).
Since they didn't, it is a foreshadowing of something in
the future.
10:24,25
[1].
(Vs. 24) is self-evident and is magnified in (Jn. 15:20;
13:15,16).
[2]. The verse indicates that they had already
called Christ Beelzebub even though it doesn't show up
until (Matt. 12). See (9:34).
10:26-28
[1].
The entire passage exhorts the Jewish witness to fear God
and not fear men, contrary to the "reverential trust" pushed by the liberals. (Heb. 12:28; Phil. 2:12). Many
times (1 Jn. 4:18) is quoted to defuse the bomb but never
in the context of the previous verse (Prov. 1:7).
[2]. Jesus quotes (Isa. 66:24) more times in the
Gospels than any other Old Testament passage. Better to
be hell-scared than hell-scorched.
[3]. "Soul and body in hell"
(a).
The body is not the soul - (1 Thess. 5:23; Job
14:22).
(b). The soul has a bodily shape - (2 Cor. 12:1-4;
Rev. 6:9; Lk. 16:19-24).
(c). In the Old Testament, the soul is stuck in the
body; so often they are spoke of as identical - (Eze.
18:4; Gen. 19:20; Josh. 10:35).
(d). In the New Testament new birth is a spiritual
operation cutting the soul loose from the body - (Col.
2:11-13).
(e). The soul is the ego or "I am" and is separate
from the Spirit.
10:29-33
[1].
(Vs. 29) is supposed to be a contradiction of (Lk. 12:6).
Street people understand what scholars cannot - a
bargain, 2 for 1, or 5 for 2.
[2]. Notice God deals in details not
generalizations.
[3]. Notice the "fear ye not" of (vs. 31) follows
the commandment to fear, exactly as it is stated in (Ex.
20:20). Love and fear go together - (Heb. 12:4-10).
[4]. The confession and denial of (vs. 32,33) in
context has to do with standing in front of a hostile
audience exactly as Steven did in (Acts 7) and Christ
confessed him. In other places in the New Testament it
has to do with the Lord denying an inheritance to a
sinning Christian. (2 Tim. 2:11-13; Rom. 8:17; Col. 3:24;
Eph. 5:5; 1 Cor. 6:9-11).
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