Sermon Tone Analysis

Luke 3:23-38

Goes through the bloodline of Mary

Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit

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.

Two things we learn about Rahab.

She is a prostitute, but she chose to trust God, follow and serve Him through helping His servants.

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

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

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.

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.

Very good, not kinda good but with some defect.

Exactly the way God wanted it.

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

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?

Do you seek your glory, or God’s?