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Gospel Project
Verse: Matthew 1:1-7
M.I: God is faithful to His promises
Intro:
Me:
My kids love this show called Bluey.
You guys know this show?
It is a show from Australia, it is absolutely brillant.
The show is about a family of Dogs, heelers actually.
(Here’s a photo)
That is Bandit, Chilly, Bluey and Bingo.
I say my kids love it, actually I love it as well.
Each episode is only 7min long but somehow they pack a great amazing episode into 7 mins.
I don’t know how they do it but it is incredible.
Anyway they have an episode called promises.
I was going to explain the episode but I figure it 7 mins and I can just show you.
So here is Promises presented by Bluey.
Watch Bluey:
Right this show is amazing.
Anyway:
So naturally kids now ask me all the time to promise to do something.
We were driving back after basketball practice and Rosey said to Brittni my wife, I’m hungry can I get a snack when I get home and of course Brittni said yes.
To which Rose responded you promise?
To which we said yes.
And she did get a snack.
We:
And it kind of hit me, why do we ask people to promise us things?
Because we want them to do it, we want them to keep their word.
Because when people keep their word it builds trust in us.
And when they don’t?
We tend to not trust them anymore.
Or we lose trust in them.
Have you ever broken a promise?
Not the ones where you joke about, but a honest true promise.
One that when you broke it you caused pain to someone, it caused someone to lose trust in you.
Maybe you told a secret that you promised you wouldn’t.
Maybe you did do something that someone asked you to promise you would do.
Like take out the trash after dinner.
We understand that when we break promises it causes pain, it cause others to doubt us and it ultimately loses trust.
Know this because I am sure we have all been on the other side where we ask others to make promises to us, and they have broken them.
It makes us angry, it makes us say things like I will never trust them again.
It hurts.
You see God knows what it is like to have promises broken to him by his people.
As we climb out of the Old Testament we have heard several stories of God’s people breaking their promises to God.
And some of that comes with consequences.
But always God is still faithful to keep his promises despite if we keep ours.
We see this through out the whole Old Testament.
Time and time again— we see God promise to not flood the earth again, we see God promise Abraham that we would have many decedents.
We see God promise to bring his people out of Egypt.
To bring them into the promise land.
We go through the Judges and see most of them fail to follow God and break the promises that they will He will be their God and they will be His people.
We see him promise to raise up David.
We see God promise to bring in the messiah.
The one to save the world.
And after 400 years of silence when the promise looks like it won’t be fulfilled— Enter Jesus.
God keeps his promises.
God:
Jesus coming is God’s promise fulfilled.
As we read Matthew 1, there are a lot of names but it is a reminder that no matter the past, no matter how messy life has been, God still keeps his promises through it all.
Matthew has a very interesting way to begin his Gospel.
He opens up with saying look here is where we have been and here is where we are going.
I don’t know about you but when I read through the Bible and when I come to these genealogies I tend to skip them.
They have a ton of names, some that are only mentioned here.
But let me encourage you tonight that if we skip over these we are omitting God faithfulness.
But before we dive into that too much, I want us to look at this phrase in verse one.
Now, Jesus was not a literally son of these two men, but he was a descent of them.
We know that David was this mighty warrior and a great king.
That this Jesus would have royalty in his blood.
But not only was he from the line of David, he was also called a son of Abraham.
Again not a literal son but a descendent of Abraham.
And they have the receipts to show it.
Again Abraham is important because God had made some divine promises to him and those who would follow after him.
Remember the first promise made.
All of Isreal took pride in being descendant of Abraham.
In combining David and Abraham Matthew is drawing attention to two strands in Jesus’ Hebrew ancestry and implying that he fulfilled all that would be expected in a Messiah with such connections.
As we jump into verses 2-7 it is important to note that 4 women are mentioned here.
Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba.
Why this is interesting not because we see women mentioned in a culture that highlighter the Fathers and sons, as they often mentioned 4 main women.
But these are not the 4 normally mentioned.
They would have been Sarah— wife of Abraham
Rebecca, wife of Issac
Rachel and Leah, wife of Jacob.
Now those women were all jews, but the other 4 mentioned were not most likely.
Tamar was a Canaanite.
And her children were formed out of wedlock.
Rahab was also a Canaanite and a prostitute, as she snuck the Israelites out of Jericho.
Ruth was a Moabite and was actually said that she should not be admitted to the Israelites.
Yet we read one of the clearest showing of Christ in the OT.
As Boaz is the kinsmen redeemer.
Then you have Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba.
Remember Uriah?
King David had committed a sin by sleeping with Bathsheba.
And then she got pregnant and David did the responsible thing, and had Uriah sent to the front lines durning a battle and had him killed.
That was a joke!
So then David could have Bathsheba.
Well Bathsheba was not a Jew either.
And we look through this list we see a lot of messiness.
We some good stuff, but overall we see brokenness.
We see sin.
We sin promises broken.
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