The Genealogy of Jesus

And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.

This had to happen because sin is transferred, inherited from the Father. This is why there had to be a virgin birth.

The son of Heli, This was the Father of Mary, not the father of Joseph. The inference is Jesus, the son of Heli.

The messiah had to come from the house of David, Joseph was not the biological father of Jesus. To show the bloodline of Jesus Luke sets out to show that Mary herself was from the bloodline of King David.

Who’s in the Genealogy

Sala (Salmon) married Rahab, their son Boaz married Ruth.

Joshua 6:17 ESV

And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

Two things we learn about Rahab. She is a prostitute, but she chose to trust God, follow and serve Him through helping His servants.

Ruth 1:3–4 ESV

But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years,

The Moabite people came when Abrahams nephew Lot escaped from Sodom and Gomorrah. Lots daughters believed the entire world to be destroyed so decided to get their dad drunk and sleep with him to preserve the family. Not a great start to the family.

They worshipped an aweful demon god there and they hated Israel.

These two, God ordained to be in His family.

I say this for two reasons:

1) God wants you in His family

It doesn’t matter, what’s in your past. What you’ve done, what your family is like. God wants you.

2) Those in the family should be welcoming

Sometimes we can get spiritual snobbery.

Continues to Adam

Two reasons for this:

1) Shows the offspring of a woman crushing the serpents head

Genesis 3:15 ESV

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

In Gen 3:15 it is prophesied that the offspring of the woman would crush the serpents head.

Luke is showing that indeed, the one who had come in the flesh, was of the flesh therefore able to fulfill the prophecy.

2) Temptation and fall of the first Adam, ties into the temptation Jesus was about to face

Just like Adam was sinless and faced the temptation of Satan, Jesus to is sinless and has to face the temptation of Satan

1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

The correlation between Jesus and Adam.

Adam was the first Adam, the one who physical life came to all of us.

The last Adam brought spiritual life to us all.

Romans 5:18–19 ESV

Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.

We see the one man’s sin Adam, and through that one man’s sin we are all condemned.

Now Jesus is about to go into the desert and face the temptations of Satan where we see Jesus not succumbing to the temptations of the first Adam and through his righteousness lead to Justification for Himself and life for us who through faith have His righteousness imputed to us.

Son of God

God created Adam, breathed life into him, he is the only one besides Jesus “the last Adam” who’s actual father is God.

Adam was a son of God but what the Greek says as of God, son is implied. Adam is not on the same equal footing as Jesus for Adam was not Deity like Jesus. Jesus is the same essence as God, Jesus is the Son because He is submissive to the Father. Adam was a son because he was created by the father. But the unique thing about Adam was he was sinless.

Genesis 1:31 ESV

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Very good, not kinda good but with some defect. Exactly the way God wanted it.

Genesis 1:27 ESV

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

God created all things, He started with the heavens, the earth. Then he makes the waters, and land. Then he makes the plants and the animals. After he had created all of it, he said now it’s time to make something really special. He made man…in His image.

Imago Dei, in the image of God. Though God transcends over us in power, glory, being, nevertheless in some ways we are like Him.

God is a intelligent moral being. We are moral agents equipped with a mind, heart and a will. With these faculties we have the ability to mirror the holiness of God. This is the purpose we were created for.

But instead, after sin came into the world, instead of using our mind, heart and will to glorify God, we use them to do our own will. Instead of glorifying God we desire to glorify ourselves. Instead of offering our time to God we offer it to jobs, hobbies, sports.

Because of this fall it says in

Galatians 4:4–5 ESV

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

SONS!! Not just because He is the one who created us, but because He redeemed us to bring us into the family.

What’s our reaction?

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 ESV

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.