Matt 1:1-25 The coming of the King who will Save His people. COVENANT VERSION

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*Greet Congregation -Good Morning I welcome you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are here this morning because God calls us into his presence to Bless us by his Holy Spirit and by the means of Grace.

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Our Scripture Meditation comes from

Isaiah 53:1-12

Hear the Word of the Lord

53 Who has believed what he has heard from us?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,

and like a root out of dry ground;

he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,

and no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

and as one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;

he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

and with his wounds we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned—every one—to his own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet he opened not his mouth;

like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he opened not his mouth.

8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;

and as for his generation, who considered

that he was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of my people?

9 And they made his grave with the wicked

and with a rich man in his death,

although he had done no violence,

and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;

he has put him to grief;

when his soul makes an offering for guilt,

he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;

the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;

by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,

make many to be accounted righteous,

and he shall bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,

because he poured out his soul to death

and was numbered with the transgressors;

yet he bore the sin of many,

and makes intercession for the transgressors.

LET THE LORD ADD HIS BLESSING TO THIS READING OF HIS WORD

Prelude -Take a moment to prepare for worship and to think about the passage we just read.

We are here this morning because God calls us into his presence to Bless us by his Holy Spirit and by the means of Grace.

Would you please rise for Gods call to worship

THE LORD CALLS US TO WORSHIP HIM

*Our Call to Worship is from…………….Psalm 139:6-10

Hear now the Word of the Lord

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.

Let us turn in our Handout which is printed from the Trinity Psalter Hymnal to

Psalm 139

stanzas 1-4 O Lord, You See and search my life.

Background on

Psalm 139

Psalms, Volume 3: (Psalms 107–150): An Expositional Commentary Psalm 139: A Hymn to the All-Knowing God: Part 1

Sometimes we speak of “doing theology” today, and we often talk about the conflict between the head and the heart, saying that either one alone is inadequate. A theology that is all of the head is cold, dry, barren, and of little practical value. A theology that is all heart may be warm, comforting, and practical, but it will lack substance, and because it does it will be subject to every theological fad that comes along and will not hold up in hard times. Psalm 139 has both head and heart. It is strongly theological, dealing with such important doctrines as God’s omniscience (it is probably the weightiest part of the Bible for discussing God’s omniscience), omnipresence, and omnipotence; but it is also wonderfully personal, because it speaks of these attributes of God in ways that impact the psalmist and ourselves.

LET US SING Psalm 139A stanzas 1-4 O Lord, You See and search my life. TUNE BOPFW 105C

LET US PRAY

Prayer of Confession and Repentance

Father we come before you in prayer

According to your abundant mercies,

blot out our transgressions.

Wash us thoroughly from our iniquity,

and from our sin cleanse us.

Father forgive us of our past sins against you and our neighbors.

And Father help us to show the Mercy and Grace your Son Jesus Christ showed to us.

O Lord, you have searched us and you know us.

You know when we sit and when we rise; you perceive all our thoughts.

You discern our going out and our lying down; you are familiar with all our ways.

Before a word is on our tongue you know it completely, O Lord.

You hem us in behind and before; you have laid your hand upon us.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for us, too lofty for us to attain.

Where can we go from your Spirit?

Where can we flee from your presence?

If we go up to the heavens, you are there;

if we make our bed in the depths, you are there.

If we rise on the wings of dawn, if we settle on the far side of the sea.

even there your hand will guide us, your right hand will uphold us.

In Christ name Amen

YOU MAY BE SEATED!!!!!!

READING OF GODS LAW Romans 3:9-26..........Pew Bible pg. 940

W9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,

10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

11  no one understands; no one seeks for God.

12  All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;

no one does good,

not even one.”

13  “Their throat is an open grave;

they use their tongues to deceive.”

“The venom of asps is under their lips.”

14  “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”

15  “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

16  in their paths are ruin and misery,

17  and the way of peace they have not known.”

18  “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—

22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Confession of Sin ............. Question 60 of the Heidelberg Catechism on page 882 I will read the question And we will read the answer together.READ THIS FROM THE TRINITY PSALTER HYMNAL

​Heidelberg Catechism 23. Sunday QUESTION 60. How art thou righteous before God? Only by true faith in Jesus Christ. That is: although my conscience accuse me, that I have grievously sinned against all the commandments of God, and have never kept any of them, and that I am still prone always to all evil, yet God, without any merit of mine, of mere grace, grants and imputes to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness and holiness of Christ, as if I had never committed nor had any sin, and had myself accomplished all the obedience which Christ has fulfilled for me, if only I accept such benefit with a believing heart.

Hear now our Assurance of Pardon

Assurance of Pardon

Hebrews 8:10-12

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, declares the Lord:

I will put my laws into their minds,

and write them on their hearts,

and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.

11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor

and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

for they shall all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest.

12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,

and I will remember their sins no more.”

*WE OFFER OURSELVES IN PRAYER AND GIVING *CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER...

LET US PRAY

Congregational Prayer

Father in Heaven help us your people to focus our attention on Christ.

grant that in true and sincere faith we may raise up all our thoughts and affections to your only begotten Son,

who is our propitiation, that you being appeased,

we may lay hold on him, and remain united to him by a sacred bond,

until you at length gather us all into that celestial kingdom which he has

procured for us by his own blood.

Cause us to be fervent in prayer, and joyful in your praises, and to serve you this day without distraction,

that we may find that a day in your courts is better than a thousand,

and that it is good for us to draw near to God; through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

Father we Pray for _____________ and we ask for all these things in the powerful, glorious, majestic, and wonderful name of Jesus Christ Amen.

WOULD YOU PLEASE RISE AS WE GO TO THE LORD IN SONG SINGING THE REST OF PSALM 139A

Let us turn in our handout of Trinity Psalter Hymnal #139A Stanzas 5-8

Hymn of Thanksgiving ..Psalm 139A stanzas 5-8 O Lord, You See and search my life. TUNE BOPFW 105C

LET US SING

Psalm 139

stanzas 5-8 O Lord, You See and search my life.

THE LORD FEEDS US FROM HIS WORD

Scripture Reading……...……………

*GOD FEEDS US FROM HIS WORD

OUR SERMON TEXT IS ABOUT THIS MESSIAH WHO WE JUST READ ABOUT IN

ISAIAH 53

Everyone has relatives some good some bad and this is the case of the line of Christ as well.

The good the Bad and the Ugly.

God hides nothing when it comes to what his ancestors did.

Because Christ came to save sinners out of this world and not to gloss over their sin.

*Turn in you Bible to

Matthew 1:1-25

repeat

Matthew 1:1-25

Children if your parents ask you what the sermon is about.

You say it was about “The coming of the King who is Jesus who will save his people.”

>>>>HEAR NOW THE VERY WORD OF GOD>>>>

* The coming of the King who will save his people.

English Standard Version Chapter 1

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, 4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, 8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah, 11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

The Birth of Jesus Christ

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,

and they shall call his name Immanuel”

(which means, God with us). 24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.

The Grass withers and the Flower fades but the Word of God shall stand forever

SERMON

The word genealogy in Greek in GE/NESIS - which means birth Genealogy, existence orgin. - the word sounds like the word Genesis which is our first book of the Bible.

Our word Word Genesis in English actually mean In the beginning in Hebrew.

R.T. France comments on this saying

The Gospel of Matthew A. The “Book of Origin” of the Messiah (1:1–17)

The first two words of Matthew’s gospel are literally “Book of genesis” (see note 1 above).8 The effect on a Jewish reader is comparable to that of John’s opening phrase, “In the beginning …” The theme of the fulfillment of Scripture is signaled from the very start, and these opening words suggest that a new creation is now taking place.

Remember

There are four books the Gospel of Matthew Mark Luke and John that are all speaking of the coming of king Jesus but from different perspectives.

And each gospel brings things to bear on things the other doesn't and there is no contradiction between these different books.

The book of Matthew is given to us to tell the story of the one Gospel of the Life death resurrection and reign of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ’s human ancestry is traced back in two separate lines to David and then back to Abraham. Jesus’ descent from David is of importance for his Messianic claims.

Because he is the Son of David we should obey him.

Because he is the son of Abraham - he brings salvation.

The book begins by saying this is the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

Matthew Henry comments on why this Genealogy this Genesis is given in the beginning of the Book of Matthew.

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged in One Volume Matthew 1:1–17

II. The principal intention of it. It is not an endless or needless genealogy; it is not a vain-glorious one, as those of great men commonly are. Stemmata, quid faciunt?—Of what avail are ancient pedigrees? It is like a pedigree given in evidence, to prove a title, and make out a claim; the design is to prove that our Lord Jesus is the son of David, and the son of Abraham, and therefore of that nation and family out of which the Messiah was to arise. Abraham and David were, in their day, the great trustees of the promise relating to the Messiah. The promise of the blessing was made to Abraham and his seed, of the dominion to David and his seed; and they who would have an interest in Christ, as the son of Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth are to be blessed, must be faithful, loyal subjects to him as the son of David, by whom all the families of the earth are to be ruled.

We have 3 sets of 14 Generations that the text gives us to assist our memory for grouping them.

1. Abraham

2. David

3. Babylonian Exile

The Three Great Periods of Jewish History With the Climax of Jesus Christ as the Pinnacle.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations;

and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

Did you notice that the last set of 14 generations only has 13? Where is the

missing generation?

Was Matthew lousy at counting?

Matthew wants you to notice this about it

Why is there a missing generation?

Where is the generation?

Who is the real father of Jesus?

Our first point comes from the text

1. Jesus Christ descended from Abraham

Abraham was a believer who God called out of the world and who the promise was made to - that Christ would come from his descendants.

This was the promise

Galatians 3:16

spoke of(ESV) — 16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.

This one the text speaks about is Jesus Christ

This is important because there were two sons of Abraham .

One is mentioned in the genealogy that being Issac and the other is not mentioned that being Ismael.

Why was this because our King would come through the line of Abraham and Sara and not Hagar.

Even though Abraham and Sara tried to take things into their own hands because Sara was Baron for so long.

But this was not the will of God.

2. Jesus Christ is descended from Isaac

Issac was chosen instead of Ishmael because of Gods sovereign selection. - this shows the doctrine of Election clearly that God will choose one and leave another.

God is sovereign and men may not manipulate his will throughout history.

No matter how hard they try.

3. Jesus Christ is descended from Jacob

Again we see that Jacob is in the Genealogy and not Esau

Even though Jacob was deceptive and tricked and lied to his father and manipulated his brother Esau.

God still called Jacob instead of Esau.

4. Jesus Christ is descended from the tribe of Judah

Gen 49:8-10

Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.

9 Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?

10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

This was the fulfillment of Prophecy that Jesus would come out of the tribe of Judah.

Not because Judah was a stellar man and sinless.

This is the same Judah who slept with his daughter in law Tamar.

5. Jesus Christ descended from Judah the MAN- In

Gen 38:12

and following we are told - Judah the man who had children by his own daughter in law because he thought she was a harlot because of the vail over her face and took off the garments of her widow hood.

Tamar was supposed to be given to the son of Judah after her husband had died who was named Shelah.

Tamar put on a vail and pretended to be a harlot and Judah thought she was a prostitute and had relations with her.

Judah finds out that Tamar is with child and thinks she has been sleeping around.

And he ordered the burning of Tamar but when she produced his signet he cancelled that order - And Jesus is the descendent of Judah and Tamar

Next Perez and Zerah are in Christs lineage who are the sons of Tamar - One of the midwives tied a scarlet thread on this hand when it came out first that was Zerah - his name means to rise or to shine or come out and appear ---- but his brother was born first of the twins and his name is Perez - which means to make a breach or a split.

Jesus is the son of Hezron and Ram - we don't know who they are because this is the only place they are mentioned in the Scriptures.

But they are used of God even though they don't make the headlines in the church like many of us in the church.

You may not think much of yourself nor should you think to much of yourself.

But if you are in Christ and apart of His church then you are favored and loved by God even though many people today will never know who you are or what you did.

6. Jesus Christ descended from Amminadab - during the Exodus from Egypt - He was the father of a woman named Elashiba who married Aaron the first High Priest and was a type of Christ and would teach Israel in his ministry how Jesus would reconcile us to God.

His son Nahshon - was the leader of the tribe of Judah in

Numbers 7

he offered the first sacrifice the first burnt offering which is a type of Christ

and this would point us towards Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for the sins of his people.

His son -- Salmon - He married Rahab the Harlot --- she was the one who helped the two spies of Joshua and her family.

And she lowered scarlet cord as a signal that everyone in her home would be saved because she entered into an oath with the men she helped.

Salmon and Rahab were the parents of Boaz who married Ruth who was a Moabite.

Boaz was Naomi’s Kinsman Redeemer and Ruth has a whole book of the Bible written about her and she was a foreigner not born into the tribe of Israel.

And the man who we don’t know his name because he would not Marry Ruth for fear it would mess up his families lineage we don’t even know his name.

You see where trying to raise or puff yourself up among the people of God will get you. Your name may not even be remembered.

7. Jesus Christ descended from Jesse

Verses 5-6 Boaz and Ruth had a son named Obed the Grandfather of David

Obed had Jesse the Father of King David

8 Jesus Christ descended from David

This is where the Davidic Covenant comes about and how Jesus comes from a royal line.

God never holds anything back no matter how embarrassing it is to us.

Meaning we always hear of the great things men do and the evil things they do.

God sees everything you do and say so be mindful of how you live your life in light of this. Remember we were told this in

Psalm 139

in which we sung today.

David is mentioned as having the wife of Uriah - there it is written for the rest of History - Jesus descended from a great sinner in which God had mercy on David and Bathsheba

Psalm 51

speaks of this Mercy.

David had killed Uriah and taken his wife Bathsheba and the seed of that relationship is Solomon.

9. Jesus is greater than David we are told in

Psalm 110

and in

In

Revelation 22:16

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

10. Jesus Christ is descended from Solomon

Solomon - Was Rich and Wise and we are told that he asked the Lord for wisdom and was the wisest man that ever lived.

But even Solomon married many wives and concubines and sacrificed in the high places like the Pagans did.

Solomon needed a savior Jesus - who would come from his family one day.

11. Vs 8-11 Jesus is the Son of the Davidic Southern Kings of Judah - all of these Kings were in Need of the Savior Jesus who would come from their loins.

Some of these kings are said to have been good kings and some are said to have been bad kings.

All were in need of Jesus Christ for forgiveness.

Verse 12 we learn of King Jekoniah who was humiliated and taken to Babylon

The Fact that Jekoniah who is an ancestor of Joseph who’s Geneology this is makes the Virgin Birth an absolute necessity if Jesus is to sit on Davids throne.

If Jekoniah was an ancestor of Jesus through Joseph and not born of the virgin Mary then he is a fraud

Read

Jeremiah 22

:24-30

24 “As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah “which means JEKONIAH or is the same name in the Hebrew” the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off 25 and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die. 27 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.” 28 Is this man Coniah “Jekoniah” a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know? 29 O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord! 30 Thus says the Lord: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”

This is why the Jesus being conceived by the power of the wholly ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary is so important and necessary.

Joseph could not be the father of a Davidic Messianic King in light of the curse on Jekoniah!!!!!!

12. Jesus Christ is descended from men during the inter testamental period.

vs 13-16 we know nothing about these men except from what is written in the apocrypha which has no divine authority. We don't know if these men were faithful or if they were wicked like some of the men that came before them.

Application

Jesus is the Son of Evil people - Even the best men were sinners and had their concubines and multiple wives.

This was not unique to the men and women in the Old Testament and these are the same sins that men and women can fall into today.

This shows are fallen condition church and our need for Jesus Christ as a Savior.

AN Old Testament Example

2 Kings 16:2-4

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done, 3 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

Jesus came from Adulterers Idolaters , apostates, unbelievers people deceived by Satan

Rahab - the former prostitute

The Moabitist Ruth

The Adulterer and Murderer David

The Adulterer and Immoral - Bathsheba

Christ can forgive what you have done in light of what he has forgiven in the saints who have come before us.

Come to Jesus Christ because you are a sinner like these people.

And you are in need of forgiveness.

13. Jesus Christ as the Son of Joseph and Mary 18-25

Were told that this was a miracle and that Joseph was betrothed to Mary and he found out she was pregnant.

Without knowing how she became pregnant I believe Joseph responded well.

Mary had a good husband because he could have turned her over to the authorities but this is not what Joseph did.

Joseph was going to divorce Mary quietly but an angel visits Joseph in a dream and tells him that Mary was faithful and that that the child is from God.

Not only is Joseph given his name which is Jesus.

And that he is going to save HIS PEOPLE from their sins.

Verse 23 is the fulfillment of what was said by the prophet Isaiah in chapter 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

So Joseph was convinced and does exactly what the angel told him in his dream and he takes Mary as his wife and doesn't consummate the marriage until after the birth of Christ.

Jesus is descended in a different way than all of these people in this genealogy.

In verse 16 we see how it is written different in this Gospel than any of the others in this genealogy

verse 16 Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

This is different from Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob

Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ

This is written like this so no one will be mistaken of how Christ came into the world.

verse 18 Jesus was born of a virgin.

verse 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

verse 23 Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”

His mother was a virgin mother - And the Holy Spirit impregnated her.

This answers are QUESTION OF WHY Matthew LEFT OUT ONE GENERATION AND WHO Jesus’s real Father is. It is God the Father.

Thus Matthew prepares us to understand that Jesus is not a sinner like his lineage might suggest.

There is only one women in all of history that was a virgin who gave birth to a child and this was Mary.

In carnation - Latin in the Flesh - we see this idea in the book of John

Jesus never ceased being God - full of grace and truth

The Incarnation is by addition and not by subtraction. Christ never emptied himself of anything.

There was nothing supernatural about his birth it was his conception that was miraculous.

Jesus was born just like you and me.

The miracle is in Christs Conception and Christs Father is God.

Jesus has several Names

Vs 16 He is called the Christ - the anointed one

He was commissioned by God to be our prophet priest and our King.

Vs 21 Jesus will save his people from their sins - Jesus - God named him - Not Joseph and Mary.

To be saved is to be emancipated or delivered from the greatest evil.

Matthew 1:21

- It is he that shall saves HIS people from their sins - he came to save out of this fallen race His people that the father has given Him.

His name is Emanuel - God with us. - Jesus is the embodiment of this.

If we enter the New testament in Faith it will change us forever.

But If we enter into this in unbelief we Heep up more darkness on ourselves.

And we are not his and we are in danger of Hell Fire.

Jesus came into this world and accomplished everything that was foretold about him before his birth.

Let us turn to this glorious King

This King who has come and who is God with us.

Christ promised us I will be your God and you will be my people.

Turn to your King Jesus Christ and believe what the Gospel according to Matthew proclaims.

And here and now repent of your sins and surrender your life to Christ.

All of this genealogy was full of people that were tragic failures that we read of in the book of Matthew

Just like you are if you don’t know Christ.

Just like all who are in Christ were before Christ called them to himself.

But a God man was needed,

the Son of David,

the Son of Mary,

the Son of God Jesus Christ,

Emanuel,

the Savior of the World.

No Salvation apart from him

To God be the Glory forever and ever In Christ name Amen.

*Let us pray

· Father we thank you for this teaching on who Jesus Christ is and HOW he has come in to the World as our King and is worthy of this title and the fulfillment of 4000 years of church history that predicted that the Messiah would come. Lord help us and enable us to turn to your son Jesus who is the only mediator between God and man.

AMEN.

SINGING

Would you please rise for the singing of

TPH Psalm #123 To You, O Lord I lift my eyes which is in your handout.

Let us sing Psalm #123 BOPFW tune 22A

CREED

Would you please remain standing and turn in the back of our Trinity Psalter Hymnal to page 851 where we find the words of the Apostles Creed. This is a great summary of the Christian faith that we share with the church of the ages

WE ARE DISMISSED WITH GOD’S BLESSING

*God’s Word of Blessing

May the Lord be with you and keep you throughout the week.

And that we would keep in mind that we are his children and are here to play a role in His Story.

Our closing hymn is from the TPH #567

*Closing Hymn…………………..………………………. TPH #567 Doxology

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