Be Like Matt (but not a doormat)
True or false? The Pharisees were often friendly toward Jesus.
False
What is the Incarnation?
The doctrine that God became man.
What is the Visitation?
At the Annunciation, who appeared to Mary?
Gabriel
Matthew wrote for this audience.
The Jews.
What is the first reason for the Incarnation?
To reconcile us with God.
He was baptized by John.
This is the name of the high priest, who was John the Baptist's father.
Zechariah
Matthew was this before he began to follow Jesus.
A tax collector.
What is the second reason for the Incarnation?
So that we could come to know God's love.
How many days was Jesus in the desert?
40
The Bible is the _______________ Word of God.
Living.
Matthew emphasizes this about Jesus, because of the audience he wrote for.
That Jesus fulfills the Old Testament.
What is the third reason for the Incarnation?
To give us a model of holiness.
When he gave the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus acted as a "new" ________.
Moses.
When did the Incarnation happen?
The Annunciation.
Matthew starts his Gospel with this, as a way of connecting Jesus to the Old Testament.
A genealogy.
What is the forth reason for the Incarnation?
To make us partakers of the divine nature.
At the moment of Jesus' baptism, what did John see?
The spirit of the Lord descending like a dove, and the heavens opened.
In the story of the sower, what type of soil should we strive to be like?
Good soil.