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Introduction
Please open your Bibles to Matthew Chapter 1 this evening
John the Baptist was born
Mary leaves
Marry is now into her second trimester.
Before we get into the birth of Christ though there is the question, who is Christ?
The word Christ means anointed one, messiah.
In America we are disconnected from the idea of Kingship.
The term messiah, anointed one, Christ, is first and formats a kingly title.
Matthew’s genealogy here is primarily about establishing Christ as the legal King of Isreal and fulfillment of the promises to David.
By connecting Christ with Abraham Matthew is showing that not only is Christ a king in the Davidic line, he is thee king, whos rule will fulfil the presses to Abraham that all the nations would be blessed in his seed.
Lets read
May God Bless the reading of His Holy and infallible Word
Let’s Pray
Transition
Verse 1 gives us insight into why Matthew has the genealogy and where he does.
Understand why Matthew includes this is vital because Luke also includes a genealogy as well, and Luke put the genealogy in a different place, and it is not identical to Matthews.
Understanding the purposes Matthew has for this genealogy is fundamental to properly understanding it.
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The Table Of Genealogies
This is a very Jewish phrase that we can see in the Pentateuch
Gen 5:1 Reads “This is the book of the generations of Adam.
When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God” (Ge 5:1, ESV)
The first statement, book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, should be understood as table, or catalog.
Matthew does not intend to say here that the whole historical Biography he is writing is the genealogy of Jesus Christ any more then Moses ment the whole book of Genesis is a genealogy.
Further More, these phraseology gives us the first clue that Matthew Writes to Jewish people in is case for Christ
Next Matthew begins with Abraham
Because he knows his Jewish reader knows the promises to Abraham and they they will make the connect about Abraham seed that will bless the nation.
Then on to David connecting Christ to the kingly line.
David is emphasized in the Genealogy because he is the only person mentioned 3 times.
From these we understand that Matthew includes this Genealogy so the Jewish reader will see Christ as the fulfillment of the prophesier to Abraham and the rightful king.
Transition
Matthew breaks the Genealogy down into 3 parts.
Later, when we get to verse 17, we will seen that the parts are numbered according to the normal reckoning of Matthews day, we will examine each part.
Part one of the Genealogy is verse 2-6
Abraham to David
3 of the women mentioned in this genealogy are mentioned here.
The purpose of mentioning them, timing and typologies.
For example, by knowing that Salmon and Rahab we know that this even divides the wilderness and the enter into Caanan.
Nahshon, who is mentioned all the way back in Exodus 6, died in the wilderness, and Salmon was there when Jericho fell.
The Moabites were under a special curse, the yet God redeems the unlikely
The meaning of mentioning a pretend prostitute (Tamer), and actual prostitute (Rahab), a cursed Moabite (Ruth), and an adulterous (Bathsheba) is profound.
RC Sproul said, “At least three of the five (Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba) have Gentile associations, an important theme in this gospel.”[1]
That’s just a small part of the significance of their being mentioned.
But it makes you stop and think about that
what about all the other women, like Sarah, or the wife of Nahshon, Salmon’s mom.
There are 42 moms here and only 5 of them are mentioned?
The story is not about them, its about Jesus.
God often chooses the weak, and unlikely, Jesus did the same, He didn't choose 12 elite scholars, or 12 noble prince just twelve fishermen.
Before Jesus was ever born Ruth is receiving the blessing to the nations from Abraham's seed.
Before Jesus had come Bathsheba was experiencing the promises God made to David.
The reason these were chosen and others not mentioned is for God’s Glory.
Brothers and sisters it is likely all of us will live and die and not have our name written in history.
But God will glorify himself and we, the light carriers, are blessed to be a part of it.
Keep the main thing the main thing.
Jesus.
Transition
Though is are more we can say here, and God willing we will get back to this passage, its time look at the second grouping Matthew makes of the Genealogy.
From David, to the Exile.
Verse Matthew 1:6–11
David to the Exile
The way Bathsheba is mentioned here is “wife of Uriah” clearly intended to remind the reader of the whole story.
Almost all translation have the past tense, but the Greek is just by the the Uriah.
Calvin commented on this, “This taint, at the commencement of the kingdom, ought to have taught the Jews not to glory in the flesh.
It was the design of God to show that, in establishing this kingdom, nothing depended on human merits.[2]
Here is the line of Kings from Judah, clearly this is about showing the legal right of Christ to the title king of Israel.
As I mentioned there are differences between Luke’s and Matthews Genealogy because of their intent, Luke the careful schalor give us Jesus’ natural line while Matthew focuses on Jesus’ legal hereditary.
Gabe may elaborate more on this Sunday.
We think of the line of David,
there were wicked kings like Rehoboam and Manasseh
There were righteous kings like Uzziah and Hezekiah
All part of this line and then there was that Exile,
Some thought that the line of kings was broken
but Matthew here is making the point that the line remains and Jesus takes up this mantle.
Transition
The third grouping that Matthew makes here we has the post Excilic names.
Some of these are known names, like Shealtiel and Zerubbabel but many are not.
Verse 12-16
Post Exilic
Many of these names only apear here, as far as mentions in scripture.
“Eliud” for example is only mentioned here.
These names would have meant much to those waiting for the Davidic king.
Joseph was Jesus’ legal father, though not physically, and since Joseph was of the line of David, Jesus being Joseph’s legal ward make Jesus legally David’s son and rightful king of God’s people, Israel.
This is our king brothers and sisters, though we are graphed in to this people by God’s grace, Paul makes it clear that the Children of Abraham and those of the promise by faith,
“6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed.
For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.”
(Ro 9:6–8, ESV)
By grace being graphted in to the promise by faith we can rightful say I am a child of Abraham and Jesus is my king.
I am a child of the promise and Jesus is the promised king.
Make no mistake, Jesus is king of the whole world and every knee will bow, but Jesus’ kingly role is only a comfort to his people, to all else it is a terror.
Jesus is king to God’s people,
His is the kingdom that will not end
His is the people that will go on to eternal life
Jesus is the king that will reign over God’s people forever on the thrown of his father David.
This is what Matthew is writing about here.
Transition
In verse 17 Matthew explains some of why he divided the genealogy into 3 parts.
The 3 Parts
Understanding and talking about history in Matthews day would have been done much like this, by showing the large scale events connect thought history.
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