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The genealogy of Christ

In today’s day and age.

When we think of ourselves, or when we talk about ourselves.

What do we think or talk about?

We usually talk about our Job, our school, our certificates and qualifications.

Correct?

We think that what we are now is the result of what we have done in our lives for ourselves.

Rum dap phong phan

In today’s day and age.

When we think of ourselves, or when we talk about ourselves.

What do we think or talk about?

We usually talk about our Job, our school, our certificates ( ae ka san lup long) and qualifications.

Correct?

We think that what we are now is the result of what we have done in our lives for ourselves.

( raw mii wan nit pen prowaa raw ma cak nay duay).

But the truth is that who we are today has alot to do with where we come from.

Our roots.

What happens on our family line affects us.

I don’t know if you have noticed this in your own life.

But many times we behave a certain way in our lives because of what has happened in our family line.

For example, in my family line, my father’s side is very loud.

when we get together with my aunties and uncles, It is always very loud.

My father’s family also likes music, so I have a (Yaad) cousins who sing, play guitar and drum.

And they also love to eat.

And because of that I sing and play music too.

From my mother’s side, ( May tum taam khon en nay nay) (Tang mae kong phome)My mother is not easily influenced by what people say.

She will do what she believes is right.

My aunties ( Yaa)are also like that.

They don’t really care what others will say.

So in a way i’m also like that.

There are many other things that is in my family line that has made me the way I am.

If we look into our family life we may begin to see that God has a plan for our family line.

How did God bring us to come to know him?

Today we will look at the genealogy of Jesus and see what has been happening in the family line of Jesus and what God has been doing and is going to do.

If we look at , we will see that the beginning of Matthew is very different from the other writers of the gospels.

Luke 1

All the other gospels (pra kit ti khun) Lem un start by introducing and talking about Jesus.

But in Matthew starts with a genealogy of Jesus.

Why did Matthew do this?

Is it because Matthew just wanted to be different from the rest?

( Phra kum pii tuk ton day rup kan don cay cak phra caw.)Since all of the Bible is written by people who were inspired by the Holy spirit, it means that every verse in the Bible is purposefully written in the Bible for a purpose.

God has a purpose for inspiring Matthew to write about the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

So what does the genealogy of Jesus tell us?

Gen 38:12-

1. God’s promise to bless the nations (Phra caw san ya waa ca wei pon thang lok)

God’s promise to bless the nations

God’s promise to bless the nations

In the first verse it says

It says the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

The name Jesus was given when he was circumcised .

The title Christ was only used when Jesus was about to start his ministry at age 30.

So this genealogy begins with the coming of the Christ.This genealogy starts with the end in mind.

Telling us that this is the beginning of God’s plan.

When God called Abraham, God already has a plan to send Jesus as the Christ.

Then after that, it says that Jesus Christ was the ( Chua say) son of David and ( Phu suu takun) Abraham.

What did God promise Abraham when God called Abraham?

Then after this verse, it talks about 2 people.

God promised Abraham that he will bless the world through the Children of Abraham.

And how was God going to bless the nations through Abraham’s family?

Through then messiah who is going to come through his family line.

The messiah will come through the line of David also.

mt 20:31

That’s why the crowds called Jesus the Son of David.

The Messiah will come from the kingly line of David.

So the genealogy starts with the promise of God that a saviour of the world will come and that God will bless the world.

2. God does his work through ordinary people’s lives.

If we look at the list one thing that we notice is that almost all of the people mentioned are all men except for 4 who are women.

In the Jewish culture, (may hay kwan sam kan kup phu yin) woman did not have very good social standing.

The jewish man will thank God every morning that he was not born a woman and that he was not a gentile Chao tang chat).

Women were consider as goods which people traded with each other.

Thank God that we don’t live in those times and culture.

If you were writing this genealogy as a Jew, you would not put in the names of women.

And if you had to put in the names of women, you would not put in these 4 women.

Who were these woman who were the ancestors of Jesus Christ?

The first woman was Tamar.

She tricked her father in law (Phor Taa) to have children with her because both her husbands had died and she wanted to preserve her family line.

The second woman in this list was Rahab.

Do you know who is that?

She was the prostitute who helped the 2 spies who Joshua sent to spy the land of Jericho.

Because she helped them she was saved from death and also a sinful life.

After the Israelites had taken Jericho, Rahab entered into the community of the Israelites.

From her she married Salmon and had a Son called Boaz.

Do you know who is Boaz?

You can find him in the book of Ruth.

Ruth was a Moabite woman who came to Israel with her mother in law ( Mae yay)Naomi.

And because of her faithfulness to Naomi, Boaz took notice of her and ( Kuu Chi wit) redeemed her.

He married her and had a son named Obed.

This is significant because in the old testament, Moabites were not allowed to be in the community of the Israelites.

Then Obed had a son whose name was Jesse.

Jesse became the father of King David.

And from King David came Solomon.

Who was Solomon’s mother?

In this verse, it did not state her name.

But She was the wife of Uriah whom King David killed because he had an ( ruang pra wae nii) affair with his wife Bathsheba.

If you were to write a Genealogy of the Saviour of the world, would you write about these people?

Or would you write about some other people in the family like Sarah, Rachel.

Who did had better reputations.

Why did Matthew put in these 4 women whose lives were so broken and who were outcasts.

First they were women and they were all foreigners.

They did not have a place with the Israelites.