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Family
Ancestors, we’ve all got them.
Some we’re proud of, others, not so much.
Family has a lot to do w/ who we grow up to be.
I was born in 1960, grew up in the 60s and 70s.
One of things my family is most proud of, that we can take no credit for, Daniel Boone is my 8-great grandfather.
As a child of the 60s, that was one of the most popular TVs, along w/ Gunsmoke.
Fess Parker, coonskin cap.
Which, come to find out, Daniel Boone never actually wore a coonskin cap.
My mom worked at a TV station in Wichita so we got to meet Fess Parker.
He was was tall man, over 6’.
Daniel Boone was maybe 5’8”, my height.
One of his descendants married Cherokee, the son of the Cherokee chief.
He became Chief when his father died.
So, I’ve got a little royalty in my blood.
My grandfather told the story that Ulysses S. Grant was another grandfather.
Great General for Abraham Lincoln that led the Union to win the Civil War, establishing state’s right and freeing the slaves.
Apparently, he was terrible president.
That time in his life was referred to by my grandfather as, Useless S. Grant.
I watched the biography of him on the History channel a few years ago.
I’m not sure which told more truth, the History Channel, or my grandfather.
My grandparents played a huge role in raising me.
That’s because my dad was not faithful to my mom, more than once, they divorced and my mom moved back to Wichita after.
This was 1962.
Nobody got divorced in the 60s.
One of the things that influences me and my ministry today is how the church treated my mom after the divorce, then.
She need support.
My father was not a good husband or father.He broke her heart.
But the church painted the scarlet ‘D’ on my mom and pushed her out into the margins.
You know what they say about divorcees, right?
They’ve got their eye on every married man in the place.
Not true.
But that was the reputation and you know the bible says God hates divorce.
So, who in their right mind would do something knowingly, on purpose, that God hates.
I have also since learned that God hates what leads to the divorce.
Not only was he an adulterer, broke my mom’s heart, he married twice more, had 2 more kids, died a chain-smoking alcoholic, tied to an oxygen tank, at 53 years old.
My mom, waited till I went off to college to re-marry.
My step-dad, Joe, was a good man, he was good to mom.
They dated 6 years, broke up once b/c he wanted t/b the most important person to her, but she had 2 kids that outranked him.
I don’t know that he was a man of faith.
He was raised in a Catholic church in southern Illinois.
I appreciate step-dads who invest in children they didn’t conceive.
I am committed to being supportive, merciful, and gracious w/ people who are in bad marriages and who are committed to blending families.
I’m sensitive to the realities that a divorce might be, may have been, the best option.
Sara’s family has an interesting history thru her dad’s line.
Sara’s dad was adopted as very young child.
For years he didn’t want to know anything about his bio family.
But, then, just a few years ago, his interest was peaked.
They went thru one of the DNA websites.
Sara did her best sleuthing and eventually connected with a cousin.
It turns out, his bio dad spent a couple of years in prison for arson.
Later, died in a fire.
His bio mom moved back in w/ her parents when her marriage went bad.
Her father was an itinerate Methodist preacher.
They couldn’t afford to keep all 3 of her kids.
It was the early 30s, the depression.
So they put the 2 youngest up for adoption.
A doctor and his wife from Tyler, TX adopted Sara’s dad.
His name was Charles Estin Willingham.
His father was Charles Hayden Willingham and he was a doctor in Whitehouse, TX.
They named Sara’s dad, Charles Harold.
He went to William & Mary in Va for his undergrad and then Baylor med school in Galveston, TX and became and orthopedic surgeon.
Sara’s brother is Charles Lawrence (Larry).
He’s an excavating contractor in Tucson.
His son is Charles Hayden.
Back where it started.
Ancestors.
If he had stayed w/ his bio parents and gone into the family business, he might have been a fire-starter, or maybe a fire-fighter, who knows.
But, he ended up a doctor.
And you know 2 generations of doctors had an influence on him and what he ended up doing.
Our family tree has a lot to do who we are and how we turn out.
It is also true of Jesus.
His family tree, at first look, has some white sheep and some black sheep.
Some, anyone else, would be embarrassed, not proud to talk about and claim as a DNA contributor.
Jesus ancestors played a big role in showing Who He is and why He is that way.
God is a keeper of his promises, redeemer of black sheep and bad situations, and supporter of step-dads and adoptive dads who raise their kids as their own flesh and blood.
We looking at Jesus’s genealogies today.
Exciting.
There are some great stories that come out them.
They humanize Jesus, the Son of God, promised King of God’s kingdom.
We all have them, Jesus did, too.
Ancestors.
B/C of the importance of the ancestry of all Jews, the temple kept great records in Jerusalem until it was destroyed in ad 70.
The gospel writers would have had access to these records for their research.
This is why it became important for Mormon’s to keep accurate genealogies.
You used to have make the trip to Salt Lake City to do your family research.
Now, it’s available online and thru ancestry.com,
23andme, and other services.
We’ll be in 2 passages today, Mt. 1 and Lk. 3.
The Beginning
Matthew starts w/ Abraham.
He is the father of the Jewish race.
What happened before him, who came before him, are insignificant when it comes to considering who Jesus is in His family tree.
He traces Jesus’s line thru David.
It’s the first thing Matthew writes, chapter 1, verse 1.
That’s because, to Jewish readers, this would be the first question they would ask about any candidate claiming to be their Messiah.
Is he a descendant of Abraham and David?
Their promised Messiah is the answer to promises God made to both of these men.
God promised Abe land and descendants.
He had neither at the time.
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