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Dr. Best concludes with his fourth reason: ”Lastly, in Matthew 5:17-20 Jesus lays out his own relationship to the Law. Jesus had not come to abolish the Law or to set it aside. He said that not a jot or tittle should be removed from the Law. His life stood in continuity with it. He was, in...

Two down, two to go. Dr. Best: ”Third, Moses is one of the most interesting characters in the Old Testament. Some of the most amazing stories in the Old Testament are about Moses - the baby sent down the river, the ten plagues, the crossing of the sea, Mount Sinai and the giving of the Law, the...

Dr. Best continues: ”Second, it’s difficult for me to believe that Deuteronomy 18:15-16 does not lie behind the persistent use of this motif. Moses had said that God would ‘raise up a prophet like me from among’ Israel. The Gospel John makes the explicit connection between Jesus and ‘the...

Why is Jesus presented as the new Moses in Matthew? Dr. Garrett Best presents four reasons for our consideration. His first reason: ”There are a number of reasons Matthew might have wanted to present Jesus as the new Moses. First, most readers of Matthew’s Gospel quickly notice that it is very...

“The temptation to worry should be resisted as a temptation of the devil; to yield to it is a sin against our own peace, and a reproach upon our Christian character.” - Theodore Cuyler