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We have in our text 4 references to OT passages.
Some explicit and some not.
None of them you would read through a simple reading and say, OH that’s talking about Jesus.
Yet all the same, they speak about Christ.
Some people claim that you only see Jesus in the pages of the OT where he is explicity predicted.
Matthew on the other hand takes a look back at the OT story and sees the bigger picture.
That Jesus is the fulfillment of the story of Israel.
Jesus is the true Israelite.
Some also believe that the God of the OT is not the God of the new.
(Andy Stanley) A closer look at this section shows that this is not Matthew’s perspective at all, he sees in Jesus the pattern repeated in the OT.
He see’s the redemptive story of Israel almost reinacted through the life of Jesus.
This proves he is the Messiah and the same God of the OT.
The Story
The Flight From Egypt vs. 13-15
- Jesus’ Humanity Recognized
He was weak, vulnerable he needed protection.
-God Saves through unusual means
His faithfulness to God and scrupulous obedience to his commands are the means whereby God protects the newborn King from the tyranny of Herod and Archelaus.
We are here taught, that God has more than one way of preserving his own people.
Sometimes he makes astonishing displays of his power; while at other times he employs dark coverings or shadows, from which feeble rays of it escape.
-Fullfillment of Hosea
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Not a prediction but a type.
The Massacre of Infants vs. 16-18
-The Opposition of a Tyrant
Jesus is despised
-God Sovereignly Rules
Examples: Job, Jacob.
Sometimes in God’s providence includes terrible tragedy.
It’s a mystery.
Application: Some of us in this room may be faced with a terrible tragedy, we can still trust him.
Psalm 2:1
-The Scriptures Fulfilled
Not a direct foretelling, but a picture a type fulfilled.
The Return to Nazareth vs. 19-23
-Jesus known as a Nazarene
A suffering servant, derided and scorned
Scripture Alluded To:
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vs. 20, 23
Jesus Is the Fulfillment of the Redemption Story
Jesus is the culmination of God’s Redemption Story
Matthew is showing us that Jesus is the repeat and fulfillment of God’s redemption story.
Everyone here as heard that Jesus fulfills OT predictions.
Illustration: Handwriting experts discerning a person’s signature.(Forensic
Document Examiner)
Everyone here as heard that Jesus fulfills OT predictions.
-Jesus’s Life follows the Pattern of Former Redeemers.
Like Moses rescued from the edict to kill the Israelites’ baby boys (Exod.
1:15–2:10), Jesus is spared from the slaughter of the “innocents” in Bethlehem
There may well be “new Moses” typology in baby Jesus, like baby Moses, being preserved from the threat of death ordered by a wicked ruler for the baby boys around him.
As God raised up Moses to rescue Israel from bondage, so he has appointed Jesus to save his people from their sins.
As Pharaoh endangered the infant Moses, so Herod seeks to slay the child Jesus.5
When Pharaoh later tried to kill Moses, he fled to a foreign land, Midian; and following the death of that Pharaoh, he returned to Egypt in obedience to Yahweh’s commission.
Similarly, Jesus escapes death by fleeing to a foreign country, Egypt; and once Herod dies, he returns to his own land to carry out his mission.
As Israel was redeemed by the death of a Passover lamb, so Jesus will give his own life as ‘a ransom for many’ (Matt.
20:28).
The Signature is a Match
-Jesus Succeeds Where Other’s Didn’t
In Every OT Redeemer You Were Left Wanting
Moses didn’t enter the promised land.
Samson was unfaithful to his covenant.
David used his position to fulfill his lusts.
Jesus however heard a voice from heaven saying, “This is my son in whom I am well pleased.”
Jesus is greater than Moses.
He is the true Israelite who was delivered from death so that he might deliver us from death!
Concusion
This shows us the trustworthiness of our God, and His Gospel.
He can save to the uttermost.
We have something to celebrate this Christmas.
A deliverance from death so that he might eventually die and deliver us from death.
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