Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

A Savior is needed

Gen. 3:15

Although Jesus is Son of God in a very different sense, Luke invites readers to see Jesus as the second Adam, a man who would succeed where Adam failed.

Luke shows that the catastrophic consequences of the first Adam’s rebellion were redeemed by the costly obedience of the second Adam.

Descendant of Abraham

Jesus fulfilled God’s prophecy to bless the whole world through Abraham.

Gen. 12:

Descendant from David

2 Sam.

7:8-

Both Gospels set up the legal lineage of Jesus to be in the Davidic line.

Matthew’s evidence points specifically to the legal heir, not the biological heir.

Matthew wrote mainly to the jewish culture in setting Jesus as messiah of Israel through His Davidic line.

Through Difficulty and Sin

Gen. 38:

Gen. 38:12-

Gen. 38:18-

Gen. 38:24-25

Even by this horrible act, God can be glorified

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Even a harlot, turned to God can be redeemed.

Look at the heartache and sadness in the book of Ruth.

What a picture of the redemption we have in Christ.

In David steals a man’s wife, has him killed and by marrying her hide her pregnancy.

This is the line of Christ.

All four of these women were gentiles, and were also morally compromised.

These four women are such wonderful links in the line of Christ indicating to all of us God’s unstoppable plan of redemption that He foretold in .

This reality makes the great commission so important.

That gentiles were in Christ’s line, that he sought to fulfill a promise to bless all nations through Abraham and that David’s line would continue on for all eternity demonstrate the fulfilled promise of God to bless the whole world through Abraham.