The Gospel of Matthew

Christ is come. He's the promised Seed of Abraham, the Son of David. He is God with us, Emmanuel, the Son of God. His name is JESUS, because He saved His people from their sins. He tells us what God requires, and tells us where it is found. He exposes our refuge of lies, shows us the plague of our heart. His grace brings us to Himself, Matthew 11:28, and leaves us low in the dust before Him, impoverished, mournful over our sin and waiting on His will, His word, Himself to take our sins and bear them in His own body on the cross (1 Peter 1:24). He is the King who would save, Hosanna, O Save, we beseech! And He saved us in fulfillment of God's will by taking our sins and bearing the guilt and shame and filth of them before God and enduring the contradiction of sinners against Himself, spitting, smiting, hitting and hating, falsifying testimony of liars who finally had their way and exerted their will in putting to death the Prince of Life, the Lord of glory. But He, as King, overcame these: our sin, the devil, the world of false religion that we lived in and that is natural to our hearts. And He rose triumphant over all our enemies. He ascended to the throne and sent His ambassadors to preach this gospel to chosen sinners until the end of time (Matthew 28:18). Matthew is about Christ, it's about removing all of the props I naturally trust, leaving me bankrupt and mourning in my sin, but finally shows me Christ who gave Himself a ransom to God to redeem, to release, to forgive me all my sins and bring me to Himself to see His glory and worship Him to the praise of the glory of His grace.