Hope's Heritage
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If you are new to our church today, it would be helpful for you to know that we practice a form of preaching called “Expository Preaching”.
What that means, is we believe the Bible is best taught by taking books of the Bible and then breaking them down from beginning to end, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. Our goal, to better understand not only what God’s Word says, but what it means in our lives today.
Everyone is in luck today because we are starting a new book of the Bible. We are beginning in Matthew.
So although this book does not specifically say who the writer was most scholars believe that Matthew was the author. This book was written in Greek and most commentaries believe that it was written to greek speaking Jewish Converts to prove the legitimacy of Jesus claim to be the Messiah.
Matthew is believed to have penned his letter sometime after A.D. 60 and before A.D. 70. The temple was destroyed in A.D. 70 and there is no mention of it in this letter so we can conclude that it was written before the temple was destroyed.
Throughout this letter we are going to see Matthew establish and show how Jesus fulfills all the prophecy’s foretold about the Messiah in the Old Testament.
Today we get tho read the best part of this entire book. So the first impulse is to skip this section and get straight in the good stuff. However......
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
So if it is in the Bible we can probably gain something from it.
So lets look at The Genealogy of Hope.
Or As I have Titled it Hopes Heritage.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Matthew dive straight into the letter declaring the Royal Heritage of Jesus Christ.
He goes at it from Joseph's side of the family while Luke does it through Mary’s Family.
Which is cool because when you think about it Jesus came from royalty from both sides of the family.
Just mentioning the Names David and Abraham would have gotten the attention of Any Jew.
Abraham was their Father and David was their most revered king.
Right Here Matthew is declaring the that Jesus is from:
The Royal Heritage of the King
The Royal Heritage of the King
He is the son of David
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’ ”
Jesus is the King of this New Kingdom.
He is the Son of Abraham
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
This is the proof that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old testament prophecies on the Messiah’s Lineage.
Matthew 1:2–6(ESV)
Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,
and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,
and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,
I want you to notice something here. There are four women named here in Hope’s Heritage. This is not normal because Jews did not account for women in Geneologies.
Matthew was prompted by the Holy Spirit to Include Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba in Jesus’s Story because Matthew is showing us....
The Redeeming Hope of the King
The Redeeming Hope of the King
Let’s Talk about Tamar
Her Story is found in Genesis Chapter 38.
She is a Canaanite women who married Judas Son Er and his brother Onan, Both who had their lives taken by God for their wickedness, She was then promised to the youngest brother Shelah to fulfill his duty to give his Brother and Heir. He wouldn’t do it so Tamar took things into her own hands and dressed up like a prostitute and seduced Judah got pregnant with twins.
Next we Rahab another Canaanite woman and a prostitute. She is known for protecting the Jewish Spies in Jericho. Because of her faith and fear of God Her family was saved and she became part of Jesus’ lineage.
Then there is Ruth she was a Moabite. A descendant of one of Lot’s incestual children. By the law of God Ruth was locked out of the Kingdom of God.
“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever,
Crazy right.
But Naomi’s Isrealite son Mahlon married Ruth and then died. Ruth followed her MIL home to Isreal wherew she married Boaz and became King David’s Grandma.
God Chose a pagan/ Gentile woman to carry out his purpose and included her in Jesus’ lineage.
Then lastly Matthew includes Bathsheba.
and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,
God chooses to include an adulterous, murderous relationship to be included in Jesus’ lineage.
Why?
Because in this Kingdom God does not look at where you came from. He looks at where you are going. If you will turn from your sin and follow Jesus there is nothing he can not redeem.
and that is ....
The Reaching Hand of the King
The Reaching Hand of the King
and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,
and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,
and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah,
and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,
and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud,
and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,
and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
The fact that God included Gentiles in the lineage of Jesus points to the fact that the Kingdom of God was never meant to be exclusively for the Jew.
We just finished Jonah and if you recall the Ninevites became God’s people
“And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—
these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
Salvation is not exclusive it is very inclusive.
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
God’s plan has alway been to include the Gentiles in His Kingdom
“I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
Jesus is available to all backgrounds, all races, all nations, all that will turn from their sin and follow him.
I can not follow both
The King is reaching out to us the question is are we going to be a part of his Kingdom Story.