Matthew 3:1–4:11 Sermon by Kyle Schwahn | Sermon Analysis

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My Attempt Before Listening to the Sermon

Title: A People Prepared for Christ
Telos: John prepares the way for Jesus the messiah, then baptizes him. God is pleased in Jesus

My Outline

1. John Prepares the Way for Jesus
2. A Baptism for Repentance
3. God is Pleased with Jesus

Walking Through the Sermon

- John the Baptist dresses like Elijah
- Explain how he is like the prophet Elijah
- What was John doing “and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. - Matthew 3:6”
- How did we get here from the temple and animal sacrifice
- explain "He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. - Matthew 3:11
-  connect this to John 15
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." - Matthew 3:12

- why was Jesus baptized by John?

"But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented. - Matthew 3:15

- God was pleased in Jesus before he started his ministry

and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." - Matthew 3:17

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Notes from Kyle's Sermon

Title: To Fulfill All Righteousness
- couldn't ascertain an outline
- usually we look at the passage Luke a mirror and say, I’m like that, I should do that, but we should look through the passage like a window to see Jesus, not ourselves in it
- Put together ch. 3 and part of ch. 4 for a reason he’ll explain later
- Reads the text until to John the Baptist
- Explains how prophets are cast out and how John dresses like Elijah
- Quotes Isaiah
- Brief Teaching on the book of Isaiah
- Before God will come to save Elijah must come, before Jesus starts his ministry John came
- Explains how they’re repenting and being baptized
- Explains Sadducees were religious elites, but John doesn’t agree with them and calls them a brood of vipers, offspring of snakes - snake-lings, children of Satan
- Our works, nationality, etc is nothing
- 2 images of judgement ax laid to root, winnowing fork - will you repent
- All In preparation for Jesus
- Jesus stands with you in order to stand for you
- Continues reading through the passage as he preached it instead of reading the whole thing at the beginning
- Why should they repent? Because the nation rebelled and that’s why they were exiles
- Why does Jesus need to be baptized?
- He’s without sin
- Psalm 2 Anointed King - “this is my beloved son”
- Isaiah 42:1 - ”in whom I am well pleased” - “behold my servant whom I uphold in whom I delight I have put my spirit upon him he will bring judgement to the nations“
- talks to non Christians, shares what sin is and the gospel
- Jesus was baptized to be identified with Israel but as the true Israel who would not fail
- How can Jesus be baptized for me? Just as he can be crucified with you
- Brings In Nehemiah from church bible reading plan how they repent
- Passionately talks about how he can’t preach moralism to us because we won’t do it and will go to hell
- I can’t just give you law but must preach the gospel to us and how Jesus already did it
- talks about Jesus facing temptation and how he quotes from Deuteronomy
- Jesus in the wilderness for 40 days being tested as Israel was for 40 years in the wilderness
- They failed but Jesus didn’t
- Matthew demonstrates that Jesus stands when Israel failed
- Jesus is the sin, Satan says “since you’re the son”
- Point of food was so they would live in dependence on God
- Quotes when Jesus said “I have food you don’t know about to do God‘s will and accomplish his work
- Israel was supposed to do this
- Explains 2nd temptation
- Jesus Deuteronomy 6, Israel quarreled about water but it was really about “Is God really with us or not?”
- Satan offered Jesus to rule over the world without sacrifice a d humbling himself as a shortcut to rule
- God exalts Jesus after he humbled himself to the point of death - Philippians 2
- God’s word is that by which he rules
- Adam stood and fell before the tempter, Israel stood and fell, the beloved son was the first one to live by the word of God but the rule of God

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Takeaways

- It worked well to read through parts of the long passage and then teach on them, then read more and teach on it as he worked his way through the passage. Kyle does a great job of using snippets of verses with a quick reference to back up the biblical text he’s working on. I stop and put it on the screen and read it and teach on it a little bit. Sometimes Kyle does this too, but he’s also great at using snippets of scripture to build up what he’s saying without sidetracking and distracting us with too much information getting off the main point he’s teaching. I can learn from this.