Biblical Text: Mattew 4:12-25
The gospels in my reading have a log of prologs. Stuff like the Christmas stories and John the Baptist and even the temptation of Jesus. These are all things that have important doctrinal meaning. They are interesting. But they aren’t the main story. That main story starts with this part of the gospel. It starts when all the preliminary stuff is off stage and Jesus is left alone. And what are his first words? “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.” This sermon is a meditation on how those first words contain the entire story that follows right down to us.
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