GOSPEL OF MATTHEW SERIES
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Welcome
back to my Gospel of Matthew Series. During 2020, each week, I will write a
post about the Gospel of Matthew as I review and explore each of the 28
chapters and how it may be applied in our daily lives. My goal is to understand
and pray the Gospel of Matthew. I hope you will join me on this journey
as we travel through the liturgical season of Year A.
PLAN OF ST MATTHEW’S GOSPEL PART 2.
In last week’s post, we discussed
the structure of Gospel of Matthew in relation to the narratives. If you have
not read this post, you might like to read it here.
In this week’s post we
continue on with understanding the plan of Gospel of Matthew by unpacking the structure
of the Discourses.
There are 5 discourses or sermons.
They are:
1.
Sermon on the Mount.
2.
Mission Sermon.
3.
Sermon in Parables.
4.
Sermon on the Church
5.
Judgement Sermon.
There is a pattern to these
discourses/sermons. In this pattern, Sermon on the Mount (1) is connected to the
Judgement Sermon (5): the MIssion sermon corresponds to Sermon on the Church
(4) and finally, Sermon in Parables becomes the central focus or significance.
In other words, Sermon 1 and 5 and 2 and 4 should be read in a
manner which sheds light on each other. It could be inferred then that because
of this pattern that the Gospel was
constructed on a structure that the title ‘son of Abraham’ given to Jesus in
the prologue (1:1) to be related to the command to the Eleven Disciples in the
epilogue ‘God therefore and make disciples of all nations’. Jesus is the realisation
of the promise made to Abraham’ In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed’(Gen
12:3).
In Matthew’s Gospel, he
stresses the following theme:
·
The universality of salvation.
It has a high theological for
Matthew as is shown by its exposed position at the very beginning and end of
the Gospel.
Stay tuned for next week’s
post as we begin our journey of salvation by examining Chapter 1.
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