Christ in Matthew: the Son of David and the Son of Abraham, the Christ, and the heavenly King!

Our Christ is all-inclusive – we recently got into the book of Hebrews and saw many aspects of the all-inclusive Christ in Hebrews, and now we are in the gospel of Matthew this week, seeing over twenty aspects of the all-inclusive Christ! Christ is the center and circumference of God’s economy, He is the centrality and universality of God’s economy, and He is the One that God finds delight in. It’s all about Christ in the Bible – the spirit of the Bible is to exalt Christ, and Christ is the center of everything. God desires Christ, God gives us only Christ, and from us God desires that we may enjoy, experience, offer, and minister only Christ. The Body of Christ, which is us the church, is actually Christ in His increase. Christ is the reality of every positive things in the universe, and He fills all and in all. So why talk about anything else? Why exalt anything else? Paul told the Corinthian believers that he preaches Christ(1 Cor. 1:23) and this One crucified, and he doesn’t want to know anything among them but Christ(1 Cor. 2:2). Really, Christ is everything. We are wasting our time if we talk about doctrines, teachings, ordinances, traditions, stories, etc – if we don’t talk about Christ as the center of everything. Even our experiences with God should be an experience of Christ – nothing in our spiritual life can be apart from Christ. Christ has become our very life, and He is also our person. So here are three of the many aspects of the all-inclusive Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.

God has perfected praise from the mouths of the babes and sucklings(crystallization-study of the Psalms)

Man can fall and man can sin, but man cannot overthrow the perfect will of God! What a statement – though man has fallen and is in a free fall ever since, man can never change God’s will or overthrow His purpose: God’s purpose will be fulfilled! God desires to have a corporate man in […]

The Crucial Elements of the Bible – Christ, the Spirit, Life, and the Church!

What are the most crucial elements of the Bible? The Bible must have some crucial elements – some important elements without which the Bible can be “an empty shell”. Just like a nut has a shell, the meat, and the kernel, so the Bible has a kernel which needs to be discovered and known in […]

the New Jerusalem is the Reflection and Consummation of the type in the Garden of Eden

The consummation of God’s salvation and the conclusion of the entire revelation in the Scriptures is the New Jerusalem! This week we are enjoying two particular aspects of the New Jerusalem – the Reflection & Fulfillment of the Divine Revelation concerning the Garden of Eden AND the Unique Goal of the Christian Work. The New […]

Christ is our Forerunner, the heavenly Minister, and the Surety and Mediator of a better covenant!

Christ as the all-inclusive One is our Forerunner (Heb. 6:20) – He is the Pioneer, the One who has cut the way into glory to enter within the veil. All the believers in Christ are running in God’s race, and the man Jesus Christ is our Forerunner in this race – He has run the […]

Christ is the Author of our salvation and the Merciful and Faithful High Priest!(Christ in Hebrews)

Christ is everything in God’s economy, and He is the Father’s beloved Son – all that God has the best and cares for the most is just Christ! This Christ is all-inclusive! In the Epistle to the Hebrews we see that Christ is the Author of our salvation (Heb. 2:10), the merciful and faithful High […]

Jesus is the Son of Man and the Apostle and High Priest of our confession! (Christ in Hebrews)

Praise the Lord – now we see Jesus! He was made a little inferior to the angels because of the suffering of death – but He was crowned with glory and honor so that by the grace of God He might taste death on behalf of everything (Heb. 2:9)! Christ is the Son of Man […]