The Seed
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The Seed: He Is Coming
The Seed: He Is Coming
Salvation for the Worst
Matthew 1:1-17
INTRODUCTION
Do you remember the “good ‘ol days of Christmas shopping before online shop[ping?
Back when Christmas seemed to bring out the best and worse in people?
Black Friday—spraying mace in order to get bargain. (traffic on 71st)
Jesus came to earth to die for the worst of people.
God demonstrates his grace through the genealogy of Jesus. - Full of the unworthy.
1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,
4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,
5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,
6 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,
7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,
8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,
9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,
10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah,
11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,
14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud,
15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
17 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.
4 Women= 4 Gentiles – each had their own issues.
In the seed was passed the promise.
Promised directly to…
Eve- through woman
Abraham
isaac
Jacob
Jesse
1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
King David
4 Ways God Demonstrated Salvation through the Seed
4 Ways God Demonstrated Salvation through the Seed
1. Salvation is For the Forgotten
1. Salvation is For the Forgotten
A. Tamar
B. Canaanite- Judah gave her to his son Er.
1. God kills Er because of his sin.
2. Brother Onan was to give her an heir. He refused and God killed.
3. Other brother Shelah was too young.
4. Tamar was sent home and forgotten.
11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.
5. She has to act in own power, tricks Judah and conceives.
B. Jesus came for the forgotten in our society.
1. He loved the tax-collector, diseased, possessed.
2. Salvation is for the Labelled
2. Salvation is for the Labelled
A. Rahab “the harlot”
1. She was known throughout history as “Rahab the harlot”
2. She hid the spies during 2nd trip to Jericho
3. She was suppose to die with everyone else. God commanded.
4. Marries Salmon.
B. Jesus came for those living in sin.
1. Living in sin will not inherit eternal life. Jesus came to change them.
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
2. Mary, Luke 7:36-50 (sister of Martha as told in John 11)
36 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.
37 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,
38 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”
40 And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.”
41 “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
42 When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
43 Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”
44 Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
45 You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.
46 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”
48 And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
50 And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
C. Hebrews 11:31
31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
1. Hebrews 11:1
1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
2. By faith in the coming of the Messiah.
D. Matthew 21:28-32
28 “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
29 And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went.
30 And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go.
31 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
3. Salvation is for the Cursed
3. Salvation is for the Cursed
A. Ruth: Moabites
3 “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,
4 because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
5 But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.
6 You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.
B. Ruth married Mahlon who died without giving her a son.
1. Pledged herself to Naomi and her God.
16 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.
17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
C. Sin is a curse on all mankind.
1. “All have sinned… Wages of sin is death, but the gift of God…
2. “Whoever call upon the Lord shall be saved.”
3. “Where you go I will go…”
4. Salvation is for the Passionate
4. Salvation is for the Passionate
A. Bathsheba: Hittite- wife of Uriah, one of mighty men of Israel, general in army.
B. David- Man after God’s own heart—fall during time of passion.
1. Great sin, with great consequences. – son dies in childbirth.
2. Not the way either one lived their lives- still failed in the moment.
C. It only takes one sin to be separated from God.
CONCLUSION
God was able to use these sinful gentile women in the redemption of the world.
No matter your past or present God wants you in his kingdom. Will you receive his forgiveness.
