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As we begin today, I have been wrestling with where to go next for our time together, I wasn’t sure where to go but my mind kept going to the Gospel of Matthew.
when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, ‘Lord, Son of
My reason for doing so is that for the last year, we have centered our teaching and preaching around the Law and the Gospel and how it is that we should be pursuing after Christ.
From this point forward, I want us to dig deeper about who the Jesus is that we’re supposed to be pursuing.
It is easy for us to say that we’re pursuing Christ.
But the question I have for all people who would say that they’re pursuing Christ is which Jesus.
Which Jesus are you pursuing?
And in order for us to answer that question, the first question we must ask is “Who is Jesus?”
“Who is Jesus?”
With that in mind, please turn with me to .
Matthew 1:
Pray.
One of the first things I’d like to tell you this morning is that today will be more of a time of teaching than it will be of preaching.
And that is okay, we need both within the Church.
Preaching is with exhortation and commands to pursue after Christ.
Teaching is to equip the heart to be exhorted later through the work of the Spirit.
Often times, teaching gives us a deeper understanding of the Scriptures.
With that in mind, I want to go back to the original question I had asked a minute ago.
“Who is Jesus?”
What would you say if someone asked you this very question?
What if I also told you that there is a difference between knowing of Jesus and actually knowing who Jesus is.
I know of Donald Trump, his business practices and much about him.
A man was playing tennis with a friend of his at a tournament and the team they were set to
But I do not know the person Donald Trump.
Sadly, I think for much of the Church today, the same could be said concerning Christ.
We know of Jesus, little pieces here and there, little snippets about His ministry.
But for most, most do not know who Jesus truly is.
And I say this with confidence because even in our own Church today, I don’t see us asking the very questions the Gospels asked concerning Jesus.
Think about this for a minute.
All throughout the life and ministry of Jesus, one of the most common questions about Him was who He was.
Not a rough general oversimplification of who He is, but a true questioning of who He is.
When Jesus was on a boat in the middle of the Sea, a great windstorm arose that was threatening to overtake the boats and capsize them.
During this time, where was Jesus?
He was in the stern asleep on a cushion.
He was sleeping through a storm that was literally crashing waves over the boat.
The Disciples woke Jesus up and asked Him this question, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
And what was His response?
He commanded the winds to be still!
And what was the question the disciples had concerning Jesus?
“Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
This was the disciples standing alongside of Jesus.
People who had watched as Jesus had done many great and mighty works.
And yet here they stood before Jesus, asking a question that I can only pray for us all to ask.
“Who then is this Jesus, the even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
But listen, this isn’t the only place this happened.
Think about .
Jesus goes and eats dinner with a religious leader and this wretched and miserable sinful woman comes and begins to wash the feet of Jesus with her tears and her hair.
Simon, the religious leader had much to say to Jesus about this concerning this woman’s sinful situation.
Yet Jesus rebuked Simon and spoke about the forgiveness she has for her sin.
What was the response of those which Jesus was dining with?
“Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
When Jesus entered the city on a Donkey and a Colt, the people followed before Him and laid out their cloaks and palm branches on the road before Him.
The people who went before Him and after Him proclaimed this very message, “Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest!”
But what was the response of the people of Jerusalem?
“Who is this?”
“Who is this Jesus?”
The people were not asking some superficial question about Jesus.
They didn’t want to know about Jesus.
They wanted to know who He is!
They wanted to know the very depths of this man and His purpose for being amongst them!
They longed for a knowledge of Jesus that went far beyond His being Jesus of Nazareth.
In each of these situations, they wanted to know why Jesus had the Authority to command the winds to stop!
How He had the authority to forgive sin!
Why the people praised Him as God!
These are many of the very same question that I pray that each and every single one of us will be asking over the course of the study of the Gospel of Matthew.
My prayer is that within the depths of your own heart, you will begin to ask this question.
That your view of Christ will be elevated and that Christ will be exalted to His rightful place as King over all of creation and Lord of our hearts and lives.
With that in mind, let’s dig into our text for the day.
Look with me if you will at verse 1.
What is the first thing you notice about the introduction that we have concerning Jesus?
Look at the title given to Him in the very first verse.
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
Right off the bat, Jesus receives the name Christus Easus.
The Christ Jesus.
What does it mean for Him to be given the name Jesus?
I know that we don’t think much of names in our culture and time, but in the first century, a name meant a lot.
It spoke of your connection to your ancestry and to your lineage.
His name was Jesus not because it was fashionable or manly, but because it was loaded with significance.
Jesus’ name reveals a part of His identity, a part of His lineage.
says that He is to have the name Jesus because He shall save His people from their sins.
Matthew, who is the Apostle Matthew is giving a defense right off the bat concerning something that most people will merely gloss over and miss.
We want to focus on the title given to Jesus as the Christ.
While that is important, it is nowhere near as important as His name being Jesus.
Christ merely means anointed one in its easiest translation and there were countless many others who were anointed ones.
Yet all of those fell drastically short of being the Messiah.
So let’s not focus on the title, Christ.
Instead, let’s focus on His name as Jesus.
His name can be translated as Joshua but in our own native tongue, it is better understood as Jesus.
And the significance of that name reflects who He is.
Jesus is the son of Abraham and the Son of David.
Why is this important though?
Jesus in the Hebrew is Yehoshua which literally is translated as Joshua and means, Jehovah is Salvation.
Another way to render Jesus’ name would be God our Savior.
This is all important because it reveals that God is faithful to His Word.
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What seems obscure here when we have a surface level reading of this passage is brought to life when we take God’s promise to Abram, and exegete what was meant.
You see God didn’t call Abram out of the land of Ur because he was a good and upright man.
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