Out of Egypt

Savior and Teacher: A Study of Matthew - Part 2
Dr. Timothy Keller
19 February 2012

Matthew 2:13-23
13When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.  "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt.  Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."

14So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15where the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."

16When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old an under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.  17Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18"A voice is heard in Ramh, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her childred and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

19After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead."

21So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.  22But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there.  Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.  So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets: "He will be called a Nazarene."

JESUS-AN OBJECT OF HATE
--Claim of the King of the Jews threatened Herod's authority.
--Jesus did not come to show you the way, he was the way.
--Threatens our personal control over our lives.
--Herod tried to fight the authority of Jesus
--We all try to fight the authority of Jesus.

JESUS-AN AGENT OF GRACE
--Jesus came for the weak and those that admit it
--Nazareth was a backwater place.
--Don't look down at others
--Don't let things in the world rule us.

JESUS AS SALVATION
--Jesus is the true Adam, Moses, Israel, etc