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O Worship The King
/Text: Matthew 2:1-12/
Place Preached - (Mississauga International Baptist Church)
Date Preached - (12~/23~/01)
Introduction:
The first two chapters in the New Testament introduce us to the birth of the King.
No matter how many times we go over the birth of Christ, it still captures our fascination, fills our hearts with joy.
I'd like us to focus this morning along with Matthew on the birth of the King...emphasizing the royalty of Jesus Christ.
We sing "/Joy to the World, The Lord is come, let earth receive her King/."
And then there is "/It came upon a Midnight Clear/," in which we sing, "/Heavens all gracious King/."
"/Angels We Have Heard on High/" says, "/Christ the Lord, the newborn King/."
And, "/Hark the Herald, Angels Sing/" says, "/Glory to the newborn King/."
The wise men who came seeking asked, "Where is He who is born King?"
John, says He is King over all kings and Lord over all lords.
*/Christ’s Kingship – His right to rule – is certified in a variety of ways…./*
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I. His Royal Heritage 1:1-17
We have the genealogy of Jesus.
A king has to have an authentic lineage.
Royal blood!
You don’t become a King, you are born a king!! And, in fact, that is precisely true of Jesus.
The *racial* line was promised through Abraham in *Genesis 12*.
The *royal* line was promised through David in *II Samuel 7*.
And so, to qualify, Jesus needs to be son of Abraham, son of David.
And the genealogy begins with these words, verse 1, "/The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham/."
The detail of this genealogy is very important.
Matthew is writing to a Jewish audience.
Certification is essential to them.
For EXAMPLE: - Whenever there was the need to sell or transfer or exchange property, it required a knowledge of family trees in order to ascertain to whom the property really belonged.
And in the Jubilee Year, the fiftieth year when land all went back to its original family.
At the end of the 70 years captivity in Babylon, when they went back into the land, Ezra tells us it was necessary for people to prove their descent in order to lay claim to the land which was rightfully theirs.
In Luke 2, all of the Jews in Palestine went to the place of their ancestry to register for a taxation being imposed upon them by the Romans.
We should note, however, that today all of that has changed.
And there is no Jew alive on the earth today who has any idea of his lineage.
All of the records were destroyed in 70 A.D. when Jerusalem was sacked by Titus.
Anyone who showed up today and claimed to be Messiah, and have justifiable lineage could never under any circumstances prove that to be true.
*Christ is the last claimant!*
It is through Mary, descended from David, that Jesus is the real son of David.
On the other hand, Joseph's line is the line of the legal right to the throne.
Notice in verse 16 the emphasis.
"/And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom (/...that's in the feminine form in the Greek, referring only to Mary...) / was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”/
The flow of names takes us to verse 11 where we have an interesting inclusion, "/And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon/".
*Jeremiah 22:30* /Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah./
Now God said no son of Jeconiah will ever reign in Israel.
And yet, Jeconiah is in the Messianic line.
How then can Jesus be the King?
That seemingly hopeless dilemma is resolved in the virgin birth.
There was no taint of the blood of Jeconiah in Him because He had no blood from Joseph in Him either.
So He has impeccable credentials.
Now that is His royal heritage.
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His Royal Nature
We don't know a lot about kings in our society, kings aren't a part of our understanding.
But put yourself in a situation where one man rules absolutely unilaterally and you have an understanding of what it is to be under a king.
And by the way, that's the best form of government if you have the right king.
It is the worst if you have the wrong one.
It is the form of government in which we will live in the millennial Kingdom.
Kings were then the source of grace.
In fact were often referred to as “Your Grace”.
If you wanted mercy, you bowed before the king and pleaded for mercy.
If you wanted grace, you bowed before the king and pleaded for grace.
ILLUS: Esther before Ahasuerus.
Jesus will be a King of grace.
He will be a King to whom sinners can go for pardon, forgiveness, and favor, even those who have violated His very law and despised His very name.
*/It's bound up even in the genealogy.
Look at verse 16.
It says that Jesus was born of Mary...of Mary.
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!! A. One Woman
Mary was not a perfect woman.
She was not sinless.
She needed salvation from death and hell like all others.
*Luke 1:47*, "/And my spirit hath rejoiced in *God my Saviour*./"
And isn't it something that the King of Kings and Lord of Lords allowed a sinner to be His own earthly mother?
You see His grace as He arranges for His mother and chooses a sinner.
!! B. Two Men
*Vs.
1*, "/Son of David, son of Abraham/."
Now Abraham was called the friend of God, he was a man of great faith.
But Abraham also was a man who was known by his sin.
He lied blatantly and flagrantly about his own wife to try to protect her when he was in Egypt.
He doubted the power of God.
He committed adultery because he didn't believe God could really give him a child.
Abraham was a sinful man...liar, doubter, and adulterer.
Abraham yet was the source humanly of the Messiah.
And God's grace is seen again in the choice of Abraham.
David though he was a man after God's own heart was also a man who was well-known for his sin.
He was a failure as a father, losing his children and allowing them to fall in evil and even rebellion.
He was exceedingly sinful in his adulterous affair with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband.
And yet both Abraham and David are in the royal line.
They're in the line of Messiah.
That speaks of the grace of the King.
!! C. Three Eras
This genealogy has three sections of fourteen names.
Each of those three sets out a different period.
The first fourteen names include the patriarchs...Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
The second fourteen names are the kings, the monarchy, David and Solomon etc.
The third fourteen deal with the captivity period.
The age of the patriarchs and judges was an age of sinfulness.
The age of the monarchy was an age of decline, degeneracy, apostasy.
And from the captivity to the coming of Christ was a time of evil, a time of hostilities, a time of war in the land of Palestine.
It was a Spiritually and Scripturally dark age.
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