Matthew (The Story of God Bible Commentary | SGBC)

by Rodney Reeves

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2017

Overview

The vision for this series is to provide for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and lay people a clear and compelling exposition of texts of the Bible in the context of the Bible’s Story, and to provide discussion and instantiations of how the Bible’s Story is lived today. The purpose of the Story of God Bible Commentary Series is to explain and illuminate Scripture as God’s Story, with each text examined as embedded in its canonical and historical setting, in order to foster discernment in living the Story faithfully and creatively with and for the Church in the 21st century.

Contents

Top Highlights

“To be sure, Peter will play a significant part in Jesus’s kingdom. But he and the rest of the disciples will need to learn what that means. To follow Jesus to Jerusalem, they will have to deny themselves, even to the point of death, because that’s what he’s going to do. They need to have God’s thoughts on the matter; to think any other way about Jesus’s mission is to have ‘merely human concerns’ (16:23). Saving your own skin will eventually fail; everyone dies. Why spend your life for things that don’t last (v. 26)? But if you lose your life for the kingdom, you will get it back in the end (vv. 25, 27).” (Page 340)

“Therefore, the entire Sermon—from introduction, exposition of Scripture, illustrations, to conclusion—is an invitation to follow Jesus because of the way he sees the kingdom of heaven coming to earth. It’s as much about him as what’s expected of his disciples because following him (the king) is the way of righteousness (the kingdom).” (Page 103)

“And, according to Jesus the only purpose, the only way to ‘be blessed,’ is to follow him, to be a blessing, to live for the kingdom of God. That’s why Jesus believed people needed to repent, to change their minds about what it means to be blessed, to see the kingdom of heaven come to earth through those who are considered ‘cursed’—people who are surely ‘unhappy’ according to our standards.” (Page 107)

“As any good cross-reference Bible will reveal, practically all the Beatitudes come from the Old Testament (in order of the eight sayings: Isa 61:1; Isa 61:2; Ps 37:11; Isa 55:1–2; Prov 11:17; Ps 24:4–5; Ps 34:14; there is no Old Testament promise of blessing for the persecuted¹¹).” (Page 100)

Product Details

• Title: Matthew
• Author: Rodney Reeves
• Series: The Story of God Bible Commentary
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Matthew › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780310537823, 9780310537793, 0310327148, 0310537797, 9780310327141, 0310537827
• Resource ID: LLS:STRYGDCM61MT
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-26T21:36:15Z

About Rodney Reeves

Rodney Reeves earned his PhD at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has done postdoctoral study at Oxford University. He is dean of The Courts Redford College of Theology and Ministry and professor of biblical studies at Southwest Baptist University, both in Bolivar, Missouri. He served previously as a pastor with churches in Arkansas and Texas.