Before Giving Up on life Listen to this..Mathew chapter 1-3 motivation

Chapters 1-3 Chapters 1-3 set the stage with Jesus’s ministry set right onto the storyline of the OT. It starts with the genealogy of Jesus which highlights how he is from the messianic line of David and is a son of Abraham indicating that he will bring God’s blessing to all the nations of the earth (Genesis 12:3). Then we get the famous story of the birth of Jesus and how this fulfills all the OT prophetic promises. These fulfillments are to show that Jesus is not merely a human but is really “God with us.” Matthew demonstrates that Jesus is the new authoritative teacher as Moses was to the people of Israel. Like Moses, Jesus came out of Egypt, went through the waters of baptism (Red Sea), went into the wilderness for forty days (rather than forty years) and also taught the people on the Mount of Olives (Moses at Mount Sinai). Through all of this, Matthew is showing that Jesus is the “greater” Moses. He will deliver people from slavery, give new divine teaching, save them from sin, and bring a new covenant relationship with God. The Moses and Jesus parallel also explains why Matthew structured the next major sections as he did. The five main parts highlight Jesus as a teacher and parallel the first five books of OT, called the “Torah” (תּוֹרָה) from the Hebrew meaning “law” or “commandment.” Jesus is the new authoritative teacher who is going to fulfill the storyline of the Torah.