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Family photos
Remember film?
Christmas time is filled with tradition.
Remember when you actually used a camera to take pictures of people, places or things?
You’d have your camera.
It’s filled with images.
You’d put in this little spool of film.
And a good question to ask is why?
Wind it up.
Aim at the scene you want to take a picture of.
Why do we do the things that we do?
Click the shutter.
Then wind it.
Think of a nativity, why do we care about that nativity scene.
As you wound it, the film would move, and it would load up and new piece of film to take the next picture.
It’s
There was that little counter on the top of the camera that told you how many pictures you had taken.
Then when you hit the magic number, when you had taken the last of your photos:
You’d wind up all the film.
The film would go back inside the cassette it came from.
You’d remove the film, and put it inside a film canister.
You’d take it to a place to get developed.
Or if you were like us, you’d mail it in to be developed.
Then it would be mailed back to you.
Months later.
We didn’t take very many pictures growing up.
One roll of film would cover a year of photos.
We would send in film to be developed and you would get back a smorgasbord of events from just one roll.
There would be little league games, trips to the zoo, and birth pictures all in the same roll.
My parents treasured those pictures of babies being born.
One time one of these undeveloped rolls of film that had pictures of the birth of one of my brothers or sisters on it went missing.
There were tears.
One year, one of my brothers, went into the drawer where
My poor mom was so upset, because she would never be able to relive that moment.
About a year later, at Christmas, it was Christmas morning and we were opening presents.
My parents had taught us that you get presents for everyone in the family.
You either save your allowance, or you make a gift.
My mom was opening a present from one of my brothers.
And what do you know?
It was the film that had gone missing.
And there were tears again.
But this time they were tears of joy.
My mom was happy to have recovered the pictures of a birth.
My brother, thought he had given the perfect gift.
Apparently, he gone into the drawer and taken that roll of film with the intent of giving it to her at Christmas.
My mom was happy to recover those birth pictures, and no one else wants to see those pictures.
A parent is the only one who wants to relive those very personal moments.
Now fast forward to Christmas time.
What do we decorate our homes with?
A picture of someone else’s birth scene.
We put nativity scenes in our homes.
Some people collect nativity scenes.
Some people even decorate their front yards with this nativity scene.
There is a kneeling Mary, who is glowing blue.
Looking over her shoulder, is a glowing pink Joseph.
I don’t know why Joseph’s are always pink, but they are.
Why?
Why do we do this?
Why do we put out these nativity scenes?
Why do we care about these parents?
We know about the baby, it’s Jesus, but why the parents?
That what we will set out to look at today.
There actually is a need for these parents.
There’s a reason why we have Mary and Joseph.
Neither of them are pointless.
We begin with a Covenantal Need For These Parents
Let’s start way back in the Old Testament, in .
David is king at this time.
There’s a reason why we have
He sees the Ark of the Covenant inside the old Tabernacle and he thinks something is wrong.
So he asks if he can build a temple.
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David is king at this time.
He sees the Ark of the Covenant inside the old Tabernacle and he thinks something is wrong.
The Tabernacle was this tent that had traveled with Israel since they had left Egypt.
David sees the tent, and asks if he can build the Lord a temple.
The prophet Nathan sees nothing wrong with this request, and says, “Go ahead and do it.”
But then that night God appears to Nathan, and Nathan passes on this message to David.
David is not the one to build a house.
Then in verse 11, God changes gears.
This is something called the Davidic Covenant.
It sets a promise from God that extends into eternity.
It tells us that the day will come when God will raise up a descendant of David.
This descendant will have a kingdom.
He will have an eternal throne.
He will be the Son of God.
And He will rule forever.
And its because of this covenant that we have Joseph and Mary.
Matthew and Luke each have genealogies at the beginning of their Gospels.
It tells us that
These genealogies show us how Jesus fulfills this Davidic Covenant, but in slightly different ways.
These genealogies are important.
In order for Jesus to be the Messiah, there needs to be a way to trace Him back to David.
That’s important.
It’s like a detective looking for the murder weapon.
It confirms how the crime took place.
It’s critical.
The genealogy confirms how Jesus is related to David.
And the Jews took these genealogies seriously.
There was a time, in the book of Nehemiah, when a number of priests couldn’t prove their genealogy.
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