Matthew

The Book of Matthew provides the written proof that  by genetics and fulfillment of Old Testament prophesy Jesus Christ is all man and all God. To know Him is to know God. Unless our righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees we will not enter God’s Kingdom. And who is righteous? No one... but those who abide in the righteousness of Jesus Christ will be counted in His. Jesus the man is where God meets earth at the center of the cross and at that center is the whole truth of the Gospel and the salvation given as a gift to those who by choice accept it.

14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And where I go you know, and the way you know.” 

Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew has many Jewish overtones. For example, the term “kingdom of heaven” appears 33 times and the term “kingdom of God” four times. No other Gospel lays such stress on the kingdom; the restoration of the glories of David’s kingdom was a burning hope for many Jews at the time. Matthew clearly identifies Jesus with that hope by using the Jewish royal title “Son of David” nine times in his Gospel. Furthermore he calls Jerusalem “the holy city”  and the “city of the great King” , both uniquely Jewish ways of referring to it. First-century Jews emphasized righteousness, and Matthew uses the words “righteous” and “righteousness” more often than the Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John combined.