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THE ANNOINTED ONE
Jesus Christ, Yeshua haMashiach, is found all through out Scripture.
“Yeshua” means ‘salvation’ or ‘savior’. The Hebrew name “Yeshua” was translated into the Greek as “Iosous.” Later “Iosous” was translated into English as “Jesus.” But we cannot stop with the name Yeshua. He is also called “Christ”. This is not a second name but rather a title, like president, king or prime minister. This extraordinary title originated in Scriptures as “Mashiach, or Meshiach,” which in Hebrew means “Anointed One”.. it also followed translation into Greek as “Christos,” and later into English as “Christ.” Therefore, “Jesus Christ” literally in Hebrew is “Yeshua haMeshiach” (Yeshua the Messiah)
In Genesis He is the woman's offspring (3:15)
In Exodus He is the Passover lamb (12:1-14)
In Leviticus He is the atoning sacrifice (17:11)
In Numbers He is the bronze snake (21:8-9)
In Dueteronomy He is the promised prophet (18:15)
In Joshua He is the commander of the Lord's arm (5:13-15)
In Judges He is our deliverer
In Ruth He is our heavenly kindsman-redeemer
In Samuel, Kings and Chronicles He is the promised king
In Ezra and Nehemiah He is the restorer of the nation
In Esther He is our advocate
In Job He is our redeemer (19:25)
In Psalms He is our all in all
In Proverbs He is our pattern
In Ecclesiastes He is our goal
In Song of Songs He is our beloved
In the Prophets He is the coming Prince of Peace
In Matthew He is the Christ, the King
In Mark He is Christ, the Servant
In Luke He is Christ, the Son of Man
In John He is Christ, the Son of God
In Acts He is Christ: risen, seating, sendingI
n the Letters He is Christ: indwelling and filling
In Revelation He is Christ: returning and reigning
(The Living Insights Study Bible)
Jesus Christ is the central theme of the Bible.
He longs to be the central theme of our lives.
Have you allowed Him free access to your life?
Have you opened up your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ?
If you do He will be the center in your life.
He won't barge in uninvited.
So allow Him to come in and establish a presence in your life, and in your heart and allow Him to establish control.
He sent the Holy Spirit as your counselor and the Holy Spirit fills you with His power. That makes you a temple of the living God.
Do you walk moment by moment dependent on His power?
Jesus came that you might have life. This is what He wants to give you. Just ask Him and He will give it you. He withholds no good thing.
Jesus Christ, Yeshua haMashiach, is found all through out Scripture.
“Yeshua” means ‘salvation’ or ‘savior’. The Hebrew name “Yeshua” was translated into the Greek as “Iosous.” Later “Iosous” was translated into English as “Jesus.” But we cannot stop with the name Yeshua. He is also called “Christ”. This is not a second name but rather a title, like president, king or prime minister. This extraordinary title originated in Scriptures as “Mashiach, or Meshiach,” which in Hebrew means “Anointed One”.. it also followed translation into Greek as “Christos,” and later into English as “Christ.” Therefore, “Jesus Christ” literally in Hebrew is “Yeshua haMeshiach” (Yeshua the Messiah)
In Genesis He is the woman's offspring (3:15)
In Exodus He is the Passover lamb (12:1-14)
In Leviticus He is the atoning sacrifice (17:11)
In Numbers He is the bronze snake (21:8-9)
In Dueteronomy He is the promised prophet (18:15)
In Joshua He is the commander of the Lord's arm (5:13-15)
In Judges He is our deliverer
In Ruth He is our heavenly kindsman-redeemer
In Samuel, Kings and Chronicles He is the promised king
In Ezra and Nehemiah He is the restorer of the nation
In Esther He is our advocate
In Job He is our redeemer (19:25)
In Psalms He is our all in all
In Proverbs He is our pattern
In Ecclesiastes He is our goal
In Song of Songs He is our beloved
In the Prophets He is the coming Prince of Peace
In Matthew He is the Christ, the King
In Mark He is Christ, the Servant
In Luke He is Christ, the Son of Man
In John He is Christ, the Son of God
In Acts He is Christ: risen, seating, sendingI
n the Letters He is Christ: indwelling and filling
In Revelation He is Christ: returning and reigning
(The Living Insights Study Bible)
Jesus Christ is the central theme of the Bible.
He longs to be the central theme of our lives.
Have you allowed Him free access to your life?
Have you opened up your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ?
If you do He will be the center in your life.
He won't barge in uninvited.
So allow Him to come in and establish a presence in your life, and in your heart and allow Him to establish control.
He sent the Holy Spirit as your counselor and the Holy Spirit fills you with His power. That makes you a temple of the living God.
Do you walk moment by moment dependent on His power?
Jesus came that you might have life. This is what He wants to give you. Just ask Him and He will give it you. He withholds no good thing.
UNITY IN CHRIST- who is Christ?
"Who do people say the Son of Man is?" And they said ,"Some say John the Baptist; and others Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is heaven. Matt. 16:13-17
"Who do people say the Son of Man is?" And they said ,"Some say John the Baptist; and others Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is heaven. Matt. 16:13-17
Why did Yeshua refer to himself as the door?
What is the function of this door? 1"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a theif and a robber. 2But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep. 3To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
9"I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John 10 selected NASB
9"I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John 10 selected NASB
Matthew 1:1-17
The Background of Jesus
Ancient biographies typically began by rehearsing the noble lineage of their subject. Here Jesus is connected with the history of his people from the beginning.
1:1. The Messiah was to be a “son [descendant] of David”; “son of Abraham” was applied to Jewish people in general, so Matthew begins by reminding us that Jesus is Jewish. Genealogies could provide unity to a survey of history between major figures (as with Adam, Noah and Abraham in Genesis 5, Genesis 11). Greek readers often called the book of Genesis “the book of generations,” and the title is also used for genealogies and other accounts contained in it (Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1 LXX). In Genesis genealogies are named for the first person cited, but Matthew’s genealogy is named for the person in whom it climaxes, Jesus Christ.
1:2-16. As in Old Testament genealogies, but in contrast to Luke and Greco-Roman genealogies, Matthew records the names beginning with the oldest and moving to the most recent.
Genealogies reminded Jewish people of God’s sovereignty in arranging marriages and providing offspring. Sometimes they explained why a person behaved a particular way (e.g., Moses’ descent from lawbreakers like Reuben, Simeon and [directly] Levi helps explain some of his own weaknesses in Exodus 6:12-30). Most important, they were essential to document a person’s proper lineage as a pure Israelite (in contrast to some other Galileans, who could be descended from converted Gentiles), a member of the priesthood, or royalty. Genealogies could also be used as unifying links between major figures in history; Genesis links Adam, Noah and Abraham in this way (Genesis 5, Genesis 11). Matthew connects Jesus with the Old Testament narratives about the patriarchs, the Davidic kingly line and the exile.
At least partial genealogical records of important (especially priestly) families were kept in the temple. After the temple was destroyed in 70, anyone could have claimed to be of Davidic descent, but the claim for Jesus was made before 70, when it still could have been checked (Romans 1:3). Even after 70, the evidence for his Davidic descent was still sufficient to provoke trouble for some of Jesus’ relatives with the Roman government.
Women did not need to be recorded in ancient genealogies, but Matthew includes four women (Matthew 1:3, 5-6), three of them Gentiles (Genesis 38:6; Joshua 2:1; Ruth 1:4) and the other also a Gentile or at least the wife of a Gentile (2 Samuel 11:3)—even though he omits the matriarchs prominent in Jewish tradition, Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel. Thus he hints from the Old Testament that God has always planned missions to all peoples (Matthew 28:19).
Scholars have suggested that some ancient genealogies incorporated symbolic material based on the interpretation of biblical texts. Jewish interpreters of Scripture sometimes would modify a letter or sound in a biblical text to reapply it figuratively. Thus the Greek text of Matthew 1:10 reads “Amos” (the prophet) rather than “Amon” (the wicked king—2 Kings 21), and Matthew 1:8 reads “Asaph” (the psalmist) rather than “Asa” (a good king turned bad—2 Chron. 16); most translations have obscured this point.
1:17. Matthew omits some names, as was customary in genealogies (in this case perhaps following the Greek translation of the Old Testament); creating patterns like three sets of fourteen made lists easier to remember. Some commentators have argued that Matthew uses fourteen generations because the numerical value of David’s name in Hebrew letters is 14. (Unlike letters in the English alphabet, Greek and Hebrew letters were also used as numerals; the Jewish practice of counting the numerical values of words and deriving meaning from them came to be called gematria.) Dividing history into eras was common; a later Jewish text, 2 Baruch, divided history into fourteen epochs.
—Bible Background Commentary
The Background of Jesus
Ancient biographies typically began by rehearsing the noble lineage of their subject. Here Jesus is connected with the history of his people from the beginning.
1:1. The Messiah was to be a “son [descendant] of David”; “son of Abraham” was applied to Jewish people in general, so Matthew begins by reminding us that Jesus is Jewish. Genealogies could provide unity to a survey of history between major figures (as with Adam, Noah and Abraham in Genesis 5, Genesis 11). Greek readers often called the book of Genesis “the book of generations,” and the title is also used for genealogies and other accounts contained in it (Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1 LXX). In Genesis genealogies are named for the first person cited, but Matthew’s genealogy is named for the person in whom it climaxes, Jesus Christ.
1:2-16. As in Old Testament genealogies, but in contrast to Luke and Greco-Roman genealogies, Matthew records the names beginning with the oldest and moving to the most recent.
Genealogies reminded Jewish people of God’s sovereignty in arranging marriages and providing offspring. Sometimes they explained why a person behaved a particular way (e.g., Moses’ descent from lawbreakers like Reuben, Simeon and [directly] Levi helps explain some of his own weaknesses in Exodus 6:12-30). Most important, they were essential to document a person’s proper lineage as a pure Israelite (in contrast to some other Galileans, who could be descended from converted Gentiles), a member of the priesthood, or royalty. Genealogies could also be used as unifying links between major figures in history; Genesis links Adam, Noah and Abraham in this way (Genesis 5, Genesis 11). Matthew connects Jesus with the Old Testament narratives about the patriarchs, the Davidic kingly line and the exile.
At least partial genealogical records of important (especially priestly) families were kept in the temple. After the temple was destroyed in 70, anyone could have claimed to be of Davidic descent, but the claim for Jesus was made before 70, when it still could have been checked (Romans 1:3). Even after 70, the evidence for his Davidic descent was still sufficient to provoke trouble for some of Jesus’ relatives with the Roman government.
Women did not need to be recorded in ancient genealogies, but Matthew includes four women (Matthew 1:3, 5-6), three of them Gentiles (Genesis 38:6; Joshua 2:1; Ruth 1:4) and the other also a Gentile or at least the wife of a Gentile (2 Samuel 11:3)—even though he omits the matriarchs prominent in Jewish tradition, Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel. Thus he hints from the Old Testament that God has always planned missions to all peoples (Matthew 28:19).
Scholars have suggested that some ancient genealogies incorporated symbolic material based on the interpretation of biblical texts. Jewish interpreters of Scripture sometimes would modify a letter or sound in a biblical text to reapply it figuratively. Thus the Greek text of Matthew 1:10 reads “Amos” (the prophet) rather than “Amon” (the wicked king—2 Kings 21), and Matthew 1:8 reads “Asaph” (the psalmist) rather than “Asa” (a good king turned bad—2 Chron. 16); most translations have obscured this point.
1:17. Matthew omits some names, as was customary in genealogies (in this case perhaps following the Greek translation of the Old Testament); creating patterns like three sets of fourteen made lists easier to remember. Some commentators have argued that Matthew uses fourteen generations because the numerical value of David’s name in Hebrew letters is 14. (Unlike letters in the English alphabet, Greek and Hebrew letters were also used as numerals; the Jewish practice of counting the numerical values of words and deriving meaning from them came to be called gematria.) Dividing history into eras was common; a later Jewish text, 2 Baruch, divided history into fourteen epochs.
—Bible Background Commentary