The Royal Lineage

Luke’s Defense Of The Messiah

Luke is proving Jesus is the Messiah

his first piece of evidence is prophecy and John the Baptist testimony

next we have Jesus’ baptism

God opening up heaven and speaking about His son

Now we are going to have the royal lineage

proving that Jesus is the one promised

so he is giving us the genealogy of Jesus

from Adam to Jesus through Abraham, and David

we are going to look at the Genealogy according to Matthew and compare the 2

Luke wants us to know that Jesus is the true Messiah

Read Luke 3 23-38.

Pray

Genealogy

to an Israelite Genealogy is big

it establishes land holdings as we saw in Ruth

it establishes what a person is

when the Israelites came back from Babylon there was a census of who came back and what their family does

we see this in Ezra 2 62-63 we see a problem

Ezra 2:62–63 LSB

These searched in their genealogical records, but they could not be found; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood. The governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood with Urim and Thummim.

these people were not found in the genealogy and were refused as priests

they were considered unclean

Genealogy is always the male, never a female

the Jews at the time of Jesus very well understood the lineage of the Messiah

but this was not something that they could dispute about

Before we look at Luke’s Genealogy lets look at Matthew’s

I believe that the Genealogy in Matt there would be something that they could dispute about

Matt 1.

Matt gives us the Genealogy of Joseph

we have 4 women in this account

we also have in V 11 Jeconiah who is Johoiachin

Turn to Jeremiah 22 24-30

Jeremiah 22:24–30 LSB

“As I live,” declares Yahweh, “even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off; and I will give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, indeed, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. “I will hurl you and your mother who bore you into another land—there you were not born, but there you will die. “But as for the land to which their soul desires to return, they will not return to it. “Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered jar? Or is he an undesirable vessel? Why have he and his seed been hurled out And cast into a land that they had not known? “O land, land, land, Hear the word of Yahweh! “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Write this man down childless, A man who will not succeed in his days; For no man of his seed will succeed Sitting on the throne of David Or ruling again in Judah.’”

We have a problem

If Jesus is desended from Solomon to Joseph then because of

Jeremiah 36:30–31 LSB

‘Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. “And I will also punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the evil that I have spoken about to them—but they did not listen.”’”

I’m thinking that with the gentile women mentioned

and the no seed of Jeconiah. Matthew was telling us that Joseph was not the lineage to follow to find the Messiah

Matthew then immediately tells us of the Virgin birth that Joseph has nothing to do with

Matthew 1:15–16 (LSB)

And Eliud was the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar was the father of Matthan, and Matthan was the father of Jacob.

And Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

now lets Go to Luke 3 23’

V 23-24 there is already a discrepancy

Luke has a problem, there has never in the history of man a virgin birth

so how do you start a genealogy with a virgin birth

especially if you can’t use women in the genealogy

so what does Luke the historian do?

go to Mary’s Dad Eli

Eli can trace his roots back to David through Nathan, Solomon’s brother

V 31

V 33 Judah the kingly line\tribe

V 34 back to Abraham

V 36 Noah

V 38 son of Adam, Son of God

indisputable lineage

the Sanhedren checked and could not dispute in this account

God spoke from Heaven and they could not dispute this account either

Prophecy and John the Baptist presented to us the messiah

it is a good thing the Holy Spirit had Luke record this because in AD 70 all the records were destroyed with the Temple

The Genealogy is not important anymore

The Messiah has been established

the temple worship has been replaced with the new covenant

Galatians 3:28 LSB

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

right now in Israel there is a longing for the temple mount to build the 3rd temple

the Jews have rejected their Messiah

and wanting to go back to the temple worship

the sacrifices that don’t save anybody

Jesus the true King

Jesus the true Messiah of God

is the only one who can save

Genealogy is important to the Jew

but God has His own books in heaven

God’s Books

God Has His books with every ones who ever lived name

facebook and google cant hold a candle to the amount of information that God has on you

he knows every thought you have ever had

He knows every intention of every action

He knows every secret thing

every public thing you have done

there is coming a judgement

Revelation 20:11 LSB

Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sits upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.

Revelation 20:12–15 LSB

Then I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them, and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

God’s book of life

remember the passage in Ezra

Ezra 2:62 LSB

These searched in their genealogical records, but they could not be found; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood.

If you are not found in God’s records

in the book of life you will be excluded from Heaven

you will be considered unclean with sin

Romans 6:23 LSB

For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus died to take the penalty for sin

the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin

John 19:30 LSB

Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

the sin debt has been paid

Matthew 18:24 LSB

“When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.

Matthew 18:26–27 LSB

“Therefore, the slave fell to the ground and was prostrating himself before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.’ “And feeling compassion, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the debt.

Jesus forgives the debt of sin to those who come to him by faith

it is finished

the mission of the lamb of God that has come to take away the sin

to be our substitute

to those who call upon the name of the Lord to be saved

today is the day of salvation

Luke wrote of the defence trial of Jesus

to prove He is the Messiah of God

will you turn to Him and be saved?