This is the Bamaul Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we resume our look at the opening teachings of Jesus in the sermon of the Mount and how he sets the stage for his interpretation of Torah.

It's an interpretation that's going to matter for us that claim to follow Jesus as our Lord and Savior and Rabbi. Be a big deal. So we want to make sure we understand it correctly.

So we're using the Gospel of Matthew in the way that Matthew articulates this announcement of a new king and a new kingdom.

What do you say the Greek word was for that was Brent? You on Galeon. You on Galeon. You on Galeon.

So Matthew and all four Gospel writers have a you on Galeon. They're all going to talk about it slightly differently. We've already done that in our podcast.

Matthew is agenda. Matthew's you on Galeon. It was about what Brent? It's about the mum's ear and he's a Jew writing to Jews giving them a perspective on the outsider.

And he has his own biographical tale if you will to understand this agenda quite well, right?

Yeah, he came as a tax collector pretty outcast kind of guy. Not not the most loved person in the in the region.

Right. He would have been a he would have been one of many group of people that good old religious folks orthodox folks would have said,

no, he is he is forsaken the way he has tossed it in the garbage. He sold out he has the Roman sold out to the Romans. He has done so.

And this Jesus comes along and says, Hey, come, follow me. You get a second chance because God's wanting everybody at the table.

So Matthew wants to convey this. Matthew wants to teach this. And so he does that by starting his Gospel where Brent in the brokenness and the genealogy.

The genealogy, right? Yeah. So we've got a like a word of that the brokenness and the genealogy. Yeah. He has like he points out all of the places where his genealogy isn't pretty and isn't perfect because that's his point like Jesus has come to be a part of the story.

He's come to announce it to those parts of the story. That is what the gospel looks like. And then he talks about the birth narrative compares this baby born in the corner of the empire in the sheep poo with the most richest powerful as far as wealth,

man, the world's ever seen. We talked about him getting kind of his set up to his ministry as baptism, his temptation talks about his rabbi getting arrested last week. And then all of a sudden it says he moves to Copernol.

And Matthew references this passage out of Isaiah 9 and says a whole new day is dawning like light is being shown to the who by the way Brent.

A light to the Gentiles to the Gentiles. Is that a mums are group for this Jewish audience? Well, yeah, I guess is that how they consider the

absolute yeah. And this is going to be a part of what Matthew is going to try to correct in them is this is actually been our mission all along, but we're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit.

But yeah, for them, Gentiles were definitely outsiders definitely unclean, definitely outsiders. I just didn't know if that term mom sir would be applied to a non Jew. And we're using it so loosely and so poetically. It's probably a good critique. But yeah, so definitely an outsider group. And and that's what Matthew says. He moves to Copernol. And you're like, oh, a message for the

for the Jewish people. And Matthew says no, a light has shown for the Gentiles. What Jesus is going to do in Copernol is going to have massive implications for a larger, the larger mission of what God's doing with the whole wide world.

And so he does that shows up in Copernol and we're told that he picks up the mantle and starts telling people repent for the kingdom of heaven is here. There's a new king and a new kingdom on the scene. And we're told that as he does the work of the kingdom, how many different groups of people came Brent, a whole bunch of lots of them to capitol or six words spread throughout Syria and the Jerusalem people and Judea and the region beyond the Jordan and all these people are coming because there's a whole new thing.

There's a whole new day happening a day is dawning a new kingdom is here. And so as all these people start to come, we said as disciples probably felt a little what was the word you use, Brent, I like to uncomfortable, uncomfortable. And so he calls his disciples to a side. And he says, listen, this is what the kingdom is about. And he has a list that we called the and the Beatitudes, the Beatitudes and he opens kind of like his public teaching in Matthew's gospel. He opens that public teaching at least to his disciples.

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