1 00:00:00,110 --> 00:00:10,810 to read several different verses and we'll have people read them out so we can see parallels as well that we read in the Old and New Testament that parallel with Matthew's 2 00:00:10,810 --> 00:00:11,490 message. 3 00:00:11,490 --> 00:00:16,410 So if someone can please turn and read Zechariah 14 and verse 9. 4 00:00:28,430 --> 00:00:31,530 It's Zechariah 14 and verse 9. 5 00:00:35,862 --> 00:00:37,468 show there being one. 6 00:00:39,211 --> 00:00:40,862 So he's king over all the earth. 7 00:00:40,862 --> 00:00:43,203 So that's universal kingship. 8 00:00:43,444 --> 00:00:50,489 Daniel 22 and verse 24, the next verse shows that the kingdom cannot be destroyed. 9 00:00:50,489 --> 00:00:54,651 Let's have someone read Isaiah 32 and verse one. 10 00:00:55,492 --> 00:00:56,923 Let's see how Jesus rules. 11 00:00:56,923 --> 00:01:03,677 Because we know he's the universal king and we know that the kingdom's not going to ever be destroyed, but how does he rule in his kingdom? 12 00:01:05,539 --> 00:01:08,160 Isaiah 32 and verse one. 13 00:01:14,596 --> 00:01:17,636 He rules in righteousness. 14 00:01:17,636 --> 00:01:20,496 Of course we wouldn't expect anything less of Jesus Christ. 15 00:01:21,906 --> 00:01:30,740 While conducting this study through Matthew, I couldn't help but think, and I always try to think of key words ah that go with each chapter in each book. 16 00:01:30,740 --> 00:01:36,363 I think the key word that we're going to use this morning for the book of Matthew is the word fulfilled. 17 00:01:36,423 --> 00:01:41,385 I think that properly sums up the meaning of Matthew's text in a single word. 18 00:01:41,385 --> 00:01:45,707 The heart of the Matthew's gospel is this idea. 19 00:01:45,767 --> 00:01:50,009 It's in a nutshell that Jesus fulfills the Old Testament. 20 00:01:50,009 --> 00:01:51,910 We have prophecies all throughout the Old Testament. 21 00:01:51,910 --> 00:01:58,071 showing that Jesus is coming and what He's going to be, how He's going to rule, and even how long His kingdom is going to exist. 22 00:01:58,071 --> 00:02:03,893 In fact, Matthew uses the phrase that it might be fulfilled which was spoken. 23 00:02:03,893 --> 00:02:08,773 This phrase he actually uses 11 times throughout the book of Matthew. 24 00:02:09,014 --> 00:02:11,394 So it's all being fulfilled. 25 00:02:12,394 --> 00:02:20,336 But when we open up to Matthew chapter 1, we're going to notice that it starts out with a laundry list of boring names. 26 00:02:22,251 --> 00:02:25,011 That's how I viewed it the first time I opened the book. 27 00:02:25,011 --> 00:02:27,011 Most of the time I'm reading through Genesis. 28 00:02:27,231 --> 00:02:37,931 You pick up the schedule, I'm read through the Bible in a year, and you start getting to Genesis, Numbers, Job, and it's so and so, but got so and so, but it got so and so, but it 29 00:02:37,931 --> 00:02:42,651 got so and so, but it got so But this is very important. 30 00:02:42,994 --> 00:02:49,177 This could be one of the most important portions of the Bible is because of the genealogies that it gives here. 31 00:02:49,177 --> 00:02:52,738 Matthew begins with a genealogy that ties Jesus to Abraham. 32 00:02:52,738 --> 00:02:58,320 This would be the father of the nation and David who is known as Israel's greatest king. 33 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:05,263 He uses the title son of David more than all other gospel writers combined in the book of Matthew. 34 00:03:05,924 --> 00:03:07,764 Two, Jesus fulfills the law. 35 00:03:07,764 --> 00:03:10,826 Jesus often looks like he was breaking the law. 36 00:03:10,826 --> 00:03:12,026 Now how so? 37 00:03:12,072 --> 00:03:15,523 He may look like he's breaking the law, of course we know that that's not the case. 38 00:03:15,523 --> 00:03:21,925 The Gentiles, the ones in power, the sect of the Jews, would claim that he was healing on Sabbath and that was a work. 39 00:03:21,925 --> 00:03:25,366 He shouldn't be doing that because you weren't supposed to work on the Sabbath. 40 00:03:25,366 --> 00:03:32,147 He would also ignore man-made washings and claim to have the authority to forgive all sins. 41 00:03:32,147 --> 00:03:38,669 Now to those that don't know, it would have been blasphemous to say that you could forgive someone's sins. 42 00:03:39,769 --> 00:03:42,042 But it says in Matthew chapter 5, 43 00:03:42,042 --> 00:03:45,904 Think not that I have come to destroy the law, but to fulfill. 44 00:03:46,465 --> 00:03:49,106 Christ was not breaking the law. 45 00:03:49,106 --> 00:03:52,949 He was here to fulfill it completely and entirely and perfectly. 46 00:03:52,949 --> 00:03:58,352 True righteousness, Jesus shows, is deeper than the Pharisees outward obedience. 47 00:03:58,352 --> 00:04:00,233 It's a righteousness of the heart. 48 00:04:00,242 --> 00:04:02,944 You see, the Pharisees would go through all the motions. 49 00:04:02,944 --> 00:04:04,746 They'd punch the time clock in the back. 50 00:04:04,746 --> 00:04:06,589 They'd wear the proper garment. 51 00:04:06,589 --> 00:04:07,807 They'd be on time. 52 00:04:07,807 --> 00:04:09,162 They looked great. 53 00:04:09,162 --> 00:04:12,782 But what was in their hearts wasn't what it should have been. 54 00:04:12,782 --> 00:04:14,782 They were sinning. 55 00:04:15,182 --> 00:04:17,262 Three, Jesus fulfills Israel's story. 56 00:04:17,262 --> 00:04:22,302 Matthew shows Jesus living out of Israel's, living out Israel's entire story. 57 00:04:22,302 --> 00:04:24,042 So we see Israel going to Egypt. 58 00:04:24,042 --> 00:04:25,642 And here we see parallels. 59 00:04:25,802 --> 00:04:28,462 Israel fleeing all the way to Egypt. 60 00:04:28,462 --> 00:04:30,102 Jesus was taken to Egypt. 61 00:04:30,102 --> 00:04:32,382 He did this as a small child where he learned. 62 00:04:32,802 --> 00:04:34,842 Israel passed through the Red Sea. 63 00:04:35,242 --> 00:04:37,770 We have a parallel with Jesus passing through baptism. 64 00:04:37,770 --> 00:04:40,031 He didn't do this for the remission of his sins. 65 00:04:40,031 --> 00:04:42,351 He did it as an example for all of us. 66 00:04:42,492 --> 00:04:44,312 Here's another parallel I saw. 67 00:04:44,312 --> 00:04:46,773 Israel was tested for 40 years. 68 00:04:46,813 --> 00:04:49,154 Jesus was tested for 40 days. 69 00:04:49,334 --> 00:04:53,476 It's interesting all the parallels that we can see between the Old and the New Testament. 70 00:04:53,476 --> 00:04:55,556 Moses gave the law on the mountain. 71 00:04:56,377 --> 00:04:58,637 What mountain did Jesus give his sermon on? 72 00:04:58,657 --> 00:05:00,598 Sermon on the mountain, right? 73 00:05:04,296 --> 00:05:06,169 My notes just jumped all over the place. 74 00:05:06,231 --> 00:05:07,733 There we go. 75 00:05:07,835 --> 00:05:11,121 Some calls Matthew's of Jesus a new Moses. 76 00:05:11,432 --> 00:05:12,523 Now these are commentators. 77 00:05:12,523 --> 00:05:14,594 I wouldn't go as far as to say he's a new Moses. 78 00:05:14,594 --> 00:05:16,766 He's the first Jesus, not a new Moses. 79 00:05:16,766 --> 00:05:22,950 But there are five books of Moses and five major teachings within the section of Matthew, another major parallel. 80 00:05:22,950 --> 00:05:26,392 Throughout the book, Jesus repeatedly calls Israel to repent. 81 00:05:26,392 --> 00:05:34,137 When they refuse, he weeps over the city and warns of judgment, which was fulfilled in 8070 when Jerusalem fell and was taken over. 82 00:05:34,634 --> 00:05:38,494 So the theme, what is the central theme of Matthew as a book? 83 00:05:38,554 --> 00:05:41,174 Well, it's that Jesus Christ is King, right? 84 00:05:41,174 --> 00:05:45,314 If the key word is fulfilled, who's fulfilling and what is he fulfilling? 85 00:05:45,754 --> 00:05:47,694 Jesus Christ being the King. 86 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:52,771 Matthew is the gospel of the king and his kingdom. 87 00:05:52,771 --> 00:05:54,592 So we have a few different key verses. 88 00:05:54,592 --> 00:05:58,814 And I'm going to skip over this section because I picked out key verses of the book. 89 00:05:58,814 --> 00:06:03,416 But I prefer to go through key verses of each chapter as we're able to get to those. 90 00:06:03,416 --> 00:06:05,697 ah So we'll hit those. 91 00:06:05,697 --> 00:06:07,978 And you can feel free to highlight those verses. 92 00:06:07,978 --> 00:06:09,779 Now, these are not anything written in stone. 93 00:06:09,779 --> 00:06:13,420 These are just ones that kind of called out to me that I thought. 94 00:06:14,449 --> 00:06:19,793 summarized the full meaning of what was in that specific chapter. 95 00:06:20,214 --> 00:06:22,176 so overview of Matthew. 96 00:06:22,176 --> 00:06:23,597 Part 1. 97 00:06:23,597 --> 00:06:25,798 is going to be chapters one through four. 98 00:06:25,798 --> 00:06:36,340 This is going to be the introduction to Jesus because we see His birth, His boyhood, His baptism, and His battle with Satan all in the first four verses. 99 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,221 Then we can section it off into two more sections. 100 00:06:39,221 --> 00:06:42,122 We have part two, which is the ministry in Galilee. 101 00:06:42,122 --> 00:06:44,163 This is going to be chapter four to chapter 18. 102 00:06:44,163 --> 00:06:47,393 This divided would be what Jesus taught. 103 00:06:47,393 --> 00:06:51,064 This would be chapters five through seven, which is the Sermon on the Mount. 104 00:06:51,064 --> 00:06:53,425 You have what Jesus wrought. 105 00:06:53,581 --> 00:06:55,563 or brought, either one. 106 00:06:55,804 --> 00:06:58,486 Us preachers, like to rhyme things, so. 107 00:06:58,927 --> 00:07:02,311 That would be chapters 8 through 10 and his miracles, what Jesus wrought. 108 00:07:02,311 --> 00:07:03,912 And what people thought. 109 00:07:03,912 --> 00:07:11,720 These are the varied reactions from chapter 11 through chapter 18 of how they reacted to the gospel message and all of his miracles. 110 00:07:12,365 --> 00:07:14,466 And part three is the climax in Judea. 111 00:07:14,466 --> 00:07:17,108 This is chapter 19 through chapter 28. 112 00:07:17,108 --> 00:07:20,609 Jesus presents himself in Jerusalem, 19 through 25. 113 00:07:20,609 --> 00:07:23,331 Jesus is crucified, 26 through 27. 114 00:07:23,331 --> 00:07:27,905 And Jesus rises and commissions his disciples in chapter 28. 115 00:07:28,013 --> 00:07:30,935 So that completes an overview of the book of Matthew. 116 00:07:30,935 --> 00:07:33,316 So let's go ahead and get into chapter one. 117 00:07:33,316 --> 00:07:35,437 aah We'll go ahead. 118 00:07:36,145 --> 00:07:40,947 and ask why are we studying specifically this chapter. 119 00:07:41,407 --> 00:07:44,509 This chapter looks simple, but it's a genealogy. 120 00:07:44,509 --> 00:07:48,410 I genealogies were important, followed by a birth announcement. 121 00:07:48,471 --> 00:07:58,895 And this actually helps us in chapter one defeat one of the largest arguments made for Jesus Christ being the Messiah, which is that he was not a Levite. 122 00:07:59,456 --> 00:08:02,597 This genealogy helps us prove 123 00:08:02,659 --> 00:08:13,259 how he came from the order of Malkizideq, which I'm hoping to get to either today or at the next class, and proved that he was the Messiah despite not being a Levite. 124 00:08:13,259 --> 00:08:17,362 Because in Old Testament law, you had to be a Levite to be a priest. 125 00:08:17,362 --> 00:08:20,625 And we know him to be both our high priest and our king. 126 00:08:21,826 --> 00:08:27,211 Again, this is one of the most foundational chapters in the entire New Testament. 127 00:08:27,932 --> 00:08:29,393 Most importantly, 128 00:08:30,393 --> 00:08:34,292 Matthew does not begin with a miracle or teaching, but with a legal record. 129 00:08:34,292 --> 00:08:39,684 All right, so we have a roadmap that I've created for chapter one. 130 00:08:39,811 --> 00:08:44,703 So here's the roadmap, and you can feel free to mark this in your Bible if you want with little connotations. 131 00:08:44,703 --> 00:08:48,985 I like to just put a little line and section them off so I can see the different sections. 132 00:08:48,985 --> 00:08:52,346 But verses 1 through 17 is Joseph's ancestry. 133 00:08:52,346 --> 00:09:02,961 We're going to examine the genealogy of Jesus, who these people were, why genealogy mattered to the Jews, and why Matthew includes certain surprising names, and what all this 134 00:09:02,961 --> 00:09:04,541 teaches us about the Messiah. 135 00:09:04,541 --> 00:09:08,673 That's going to go deeper into the whole argument for the order of Melchizedek. 136 00:09:08,991 --> 00:09:17,627 The second section of Matthew chapter one is verses 18 through 19, very small, but I noted this as Joseph's quandary, his question. 137 00:09:17,627 --> 00:09:23,451 We're gonna look at Joseph's situation when he learns Mary's pregnant, how he reacts to this. 138 00:09:23,451 --> 00:09:32,217 We're gonna talk about Jewish betrothal, Joseph's options, his emotional struggle, and the character he shows and what he decides to do when he finds all this out. 139 00:09:32,217 --> 00:09:34,138 Because he did have options. 140 00:09:34,239 --> 00:09:35,239 And some of the... 141 00:09:35,239 --> 00:09:36,192 uh 142 00:09:36,192 --> 00:09:46,072 some of the marriage laws in antiquity for the Jews is very different from how we see things now, but we'll get into that. 143 00:09:46,092 --> 00:09:57,352 Section three for chapter one, we Joseph's dream, this is verses 20 through 23, where they examine the angel's message to Joseph, the meaning of the name Jesus, what it actually 144 00:09:57,352 --> 00:10:00,912 translates to, and how prophecy is fulfilled. 145 00:10:01,052 --> 00:10:04,350 So be thinking about what the word Immanuel, 146 00:10:04,350 --> 00:10:05,150 means. 147 00:10:05,150 --> 00:10:10,923 Jesus goes by many different names, but each one of these has different meanings, and they're very important meanings. 148 00:10:11,204 --> 00:10:14,065 And finally, we have section four, which is Joseph's decision. 149 00:10:14,065 --> 00:10:15,486 This is verses 24 through 25. 150 00:10:15,486 --> 00:10:25,372 We're going to see how Joseph responds with obedience and faith, and what teaches us about righteousness itself, because Joseph can be a very good teacher on what a good Christian 151 00:10:25,372 --> 00:10:33,486 attitude can be, what righteousness looks like, and how Joseph's choices help establish Jesus as the legal heir of David's throne. 152 00:10:33,909 --> 00:10:34,656 So. 153 00:10:36,522 --> 00:10:39,771 Does anyone know why Jews kept genealogies? 154 00:10:42,174 --> 00:10:43,475 Why do we keep genealogies? 155 00:10:43,475 --> 00:10:48,139 For the most part, it's kind of cool to see where you came from, right? 156 00:10:48,139 --> 00:10:54,994 If you're, you know, one third part Samoan or Japanese or whatever it may be. 157 00:10:54,994 --> 00:11:03,902 um But we need to know that while it's cool, every word in scripture is very, very important. 158 00:11:03,902 --> 00:11:08,615 Every comma, every apostrophe showing ownership, all of these things are important. 159 00:11:08,615 --> 00:11:12,052 So that list of boring names that we were talking about earlier, 160 00:11:12,052 --> 00:11:13,393 They all have a major purpose. 161 00:11:13,393 --> 00:11:17,475 uh So let's go ahead and start. 162 00:11:17,475 --> 00:11:21,347 Let's have someone read section, actually I'll go ahead and read section one. 163 00:11:21,347 --> 00:11:25,639 So I'll read one through 17 so we can kind of see what's going on. 164 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,862 So we're in Matthew chapter one versus 17. 165 00:11:30,862 --> 00:11:34,332 One through 17. 166 00:11:34,384 --> 00:11:39,347 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 167 00:11:39,567 --> 00:11:41,264 Abraham begat Isaac. 168 00:11:41,264 --> 00:11:45,386 Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren. 169 00:11:45,386 --> 00:11:57,704 And Judas begat Pharez, and Zahra of Tamar, and Pharez begat Esrum, and Esrum begat Aram, and Aram begat Aminadab, and Aminadab begat Nason, and Nason begat Salem. 170 00:11:57,704 --> 00:11:59,354 I don't go to sleep on me. 171 00:11:59,634 --> 00:12:06,138 And Salem begat Boaz of Rechab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse. 172 00:12:06,138 --> 00:12:10,969 And Jesse begat David the king, and David the king begat Solomon. 173 00:12:10,969 --> 00:12:14,552 of her that had been the wife of Uriah. 174 00:12:15,895 --> 00:12:25,115 And Solomon begat Reboam, and Reboam begat Abba, and Abba begat Asa, and Asa begat Jehoshaphat. 175 00:12:25,115 --> 00:12:39,036 And Jehoshaphat begat Joram, and Joram begat Osias, and Osias begat Jotham, and Jotham begat Haz, and Haz begat Ezekias, and Ezekias begat Manasseh, and Manasseh begat Amon, and 176 00:12:39,036 --> 00:12:47,602 Amon begat Joesis, and Joesis begat Jeconias, and his brother, about the time that they were carried away to Babylon. 177 00:12:47,763 --> 00:12:54,446 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconias begat Selepheal, and Selepheal begat Zerubbabel. 178 00:12:54,446 --> 00:12:56,957 And Zerubbabel begat Abuid. 179 00:12:56,957 --> 00:12:59,198 And Abuid begat Elekin. 180 00:12:59,198 --> 00:13:01,259 And Elekin begat Azor. 181 00:13:01,259 --> 00:13:02,750 And Azor begat Saddock. 182 00:13:02,750 --> 00:13:04,640 And Saddock begat Achim. 183 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,901 And Achim begat Eluid. 184 00:13:06,901 --> 00:13:09,363 And Eluid begat Eleazar. 185 00:13:09,363 --> 00:13:11,083 Eleazar begat Mathen. 186 00:13:11,083 --> 00:13:12,884 And Mathen begat Jacob. 187 00:13:13,124 --> 00:13:20,530 Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, so we see it all coming to a head, and whom was born Jesus who is called Christ. 188 00:13:20,530 --> 00:13:25,134 So the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations. 189 00:13:25,134 --> 00:13:30,918 So that long laundry list of boring names that we just wrote were 14 generations of families. 190 00:13:31,339 --> 00:13:36,743 Seems boring on the top, but there's a lot of very important information and stories that we gain from that. 191 00:13:37,364 --> 00:13:42,368 From the carrying away from the Babylon onto Christ are 14 generations. 192 00:13:42,972 --> 00:13:46,312 All right, so let's go through this. 193 00:13:46,312 --> 00:13:50,832 Starting off, why genealogies were so important to the Jews. 194 00:13:51,011 --> 00:13:55,132 It has a lot of similarities with why genealogies are important to us today. 195 00:13:55,132 --> 00:14:01,432 Number one, land inheritance in ancient Jewish culture depended a lot on genealogy. 196 00:14:01,432 --> 00:14:07,512 If you didn't know who owned the land before you, you wouldn't know who's supposed to inherit the land once the person died, right? 197 00:14:07,512 --> 00:14:10,352 It's the kind of same thing with us, with wills. 198 00:14:10,428 --> 00:14:16,908 And we can read this if someone will get Leviticus chapter 25 and verse 23. 199 00:14:16,988 --> 00:14:20,408 It'll be Leviticus 25, 23. 200 00:14:23,496 --> 00:14:32,536 We're going back into the Old Testament to see why the genealogies were so important, how they relate to property management. 201 00:14:46,780 --> 00:14:48,260 So the lamb belonged to God. 202 00:14:48,260 --> 00:14:52,100 Families needed to prove their ancestral line to reclaim it during the year of Jubilee. 203 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,060 That's what it's talking about here. 204 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,340 They needed to be sown for that time. 205 00:14:57,420 --> 00:15:04,720 Another reason for genealogies that we see in Ezra 2 and verse 62 is that priestly qualifications depended on this. 206 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:10,500 We had hinted at this earlier about the tribe of Levi, but priests had to prove that they were descended from Aaron. 207 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:13,760 Without genealogical records, you weren't allowed to serve. 208 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,294 You could say you were a Levi all the time. 209 00:15:16,294 --> 00:15:18,248 but they weren't going to allow you to. 210 00:15:18,471 --> 00:15:21,544 So let's look at Ezra 2 and verse 62. 211 00:15:32,568 --> 00:15:33,788 I'll get this one. 212 00:15:34,369 --> 00:15:37,850 These sought their register among those that were mocked. 213 00:15:37,850 --> 00:15:42,412 I'm sorry, those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found. 214 00:15:42,412 --> 00:15:44,063 So they couldn't find their genealogies. 215 00:15:44,063 --> 00:15:48,955 Therefore were they as polluted, put from the priesthood. 216 00:15:48,955 --> 00:15:52,976 So without proof of the record of their genealogy, they weren't allowed to serve. 217 00:15:52,976 --> 00:15:56,868 It'd be kind of like today, without that passport, we can't leave the United States. 218 00:15:56,868 --> 00:16:00,119 Without our driver's license, we're legally not allowed to drive the car. 219 00:16:00,215 --> 00:16:05,215 They pull you over, see that you don't have the driver's license, they're going to take you out of the vehicle rather quickly. 220 00:16:06,515 --> 00:16:13,435 Another reason for why the genealogical line mattered was the Messiah had to come from a specific line. 221 00:16:13,855 --> 00:16:15,215 Now why? 222 00:16:15,535 --> 00:16:21,295 Let's go back to Matthew, but let's skip ahead and go to Matthew chapter 22 and verse 42. 223 00:16:35,751 --> 00:16:42,831 saying what things he approached to the Son is, they say unto him, the Son of David. 224 00:16:42,831 --> 00:16:43,971 The Son of David. 225 00:16:43,971 --> 00:16:48,731 Every Jewish reader knew that the Messiah had to be descended from Abraham, from David. 226 00:16:48,731 --> 00:16:50,751 He had to come from that line. 227 00:16:50,751 --> 00:16:58,631 So genealogies weren't filler, they weren't, you know, to use a modern term today, but it was important. 228 00:16:58,631 --> 00:17:00,971 These were legal documents, identity markers. 229 00:17:00,971 --> 00:17:03,775 They were spiritual records as well. 230 00:17:03,775 --> 00:17:05,996 So genealogies were very important. 231 00:17:06,137 --> 00:17:17,207 Now the structure of the genealogy that we see in the first part, the first 17 verses of Matthew chapter 1, it can be organized into three different groups of the 14 generations. 232 00:17:17,207 --> 00:17:19,029 We have Abraham to David. 233 00:17:19,029 --> 00:17:25,714 We have David down to the Babylonian exile and the Babylonian exile all the way to Christ. 234 00:17:25,955 --> 00:17:27,886 It's an easy structure that I came up with. 235 00:17:27,886 --> 00:17:31,135 That way it's intentional, it's memorable. 236 00:17:31,135 --> 00:17:34,655 It's something to help me kind of break down the sections in my head. 237 00:17:34,655 --> 00:17:38,578 It helps make a little more sense when you're reading through that long list of names. 238 00:17:39,519 --> 00:17:43,080 It shows Israel's rise of the Abraham to David. 239 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:50,143 We see the decline of Israel, which is David to the exile, and the restoration, which would be the exile to Christ. 240 00:17:50,323 --> 00:17:54,065 So three different sections to look at the genealogy a different way. 241 00:17:54,065 --> 00:17:57,326 But there are key names throughout the genealogy, very important ones. 242 00:17:57,326 --> 00:17:58,287 Abraham. 243 00:17:58,287 --> 00:17:59,567 Who is Abraham? 244 00:18:01,943 --> 00:18:08,763 Father of the faithful, recipient of God's promise, in thy seed shall all nations be blessed. 245 00:18:09,043 --> 00:18:10,943 That's what he was told by God. 246 00:18:11,043 --> 00:18:12,463 All right, what about Isaac? 247 00:18:14,155 --> 00:18:16,258 Was Isaac the child of promise? 248 00:18:16,841 --> 00:18:18,924 God promised that they would have a child. 249 00:18:19,187 --> 00:18:22,352 In a way, was foreshadowing Christ's virgin birth as well. 250 00:18:23,336 --> 00:18:24,017 Jacob. 251 00:18:24,017 --> 00:18:25,269 Who was Jacob? 252 00:18:27,937 --> 00:18:28,850 What'd say? 253 00:18:31,143 --> 00:18:34,425 Isaac's son, yes, and he was the father of the twelve tribes, right? 254 00:18:34,425 --> 00:18:35,365 Yes. 255 00:18:35,605 --> 00:18:36,366 Yeah. 256 00:18:36,366 --> 00:18:41,068 He was a perfect, but he was chosen, and he did a very good job. 257 00:18:41,068 --> 00:18:42,448 What about Judah? 258 00:18:42,823 --> 00:18:44,789 Judah received the promise of kingship. 259 00:18:44,789 --> 00:18:47,891 We read that in Genesis chapter 49 and verse 10. 260 00:18:47,891 --> 00:18:52,632 The Messiah must come from Judah, as it reads, okay? 261 00:18:53,953 --> 00:18:55,314 That's something else to look. 262 00:18:55,314 --> 00:18:58,675 We have four women located in the genealogy. 263 00:18:59,059 --> 00:19:04,439 It's kind of shocking for the Jews to put women in genealogies. 264 00:19:04,439 --> 00:19:07,059 It was a mostly patriarchal society. 265 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:08,879 So it would have had the king at the head. 266 00:19:08,879 --> 00:19:10,939 We see that later on with the Queen of Sheba, right? 267 00:19:10,939 --> 00:19:12,599 The Queen of Sheba didn't have a whole lot of power. 268 00:19:12,599 --> 00:19:15,039 In fact, she was thrown out at one point. 269 00:19:15,799 --> 00:19:17,459 But he includes women. 270 00:19:17,699 --> 00:19:21,879 And more notably, it's not the women that we would expect in the genealogy of Christ. 271 00:19:21,879 --> 00:19:22,939 And yet they're there. 272 00:19:22,939 --> 00:19:24,019 But it teaches us something. 273 00:19:24,019 --> 00:19:25,739 Let's look a little deeper. 274 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:28,759 Do we see the name Tamar? 275 00:19:29,660 --> 00:19:31,165 Who knows who Tamar is? 276 00:19:33,564 --> 00:19:35,474 Genesis chapter 38. 277 00:19:39,250 --> 00:19:40,630 She did pretty despicable things. 278 00:19:40,630 --> 00:19:41,911 We don't have to say it out loud. 279 00:19:41,911 --> 00:19:43,071 It's all right. 280 00:19:43,131 --> 00:19:44,231 Her story is messy. 281 00:19:44,231 --> 00:19:46,512 It's very scandalous, right? 282 00:19:46,612 --> 00:19:49,113 But God works through her, right? 283 00:19:49,333 --> 00:19:50,793 We see Rahab. 284 00:19:51,033 --> 00:19:53,514 We read about Rahab in Joshua chapter two. 285 00:19:53,694 --> 00:19:57,515 This was a Gentile prostitute, but she had great faith. 286 00:19:57,875 --> 00:20:01,170 She's also included and talked about in Hebrews chapter 11. 287 00:20:01,676 --> 00:20:04,657 But these women are in the genealogy of Christ. 288 00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:05,737 Okay. 289 00:20:05,737 --> 00:20:06,517 Let's keep reading. 290 00:20:06,517 --> 00:20:07,838 We're going to learn something. 291 00:20:07,838 --> 00:20:08,818 Ruth. 292 00:20:09,232 --> 00:20:15,505 Ruth was a Moabite outsider, adopted into God's family through loyalty and faith, right? 293 00:20:16,106 --> 00:20:18,307 Ruth was a stand-up person. 294 00:20:19,448 --> 00:20:26,011 Now, she's not named specifically, but we see David's name and who he bore, Solomon, through who? 295 00:20:26,011 --> 00:20:29,233 It says the wife of Uriah. 296 00:20:29,233 --> 00:20:30,393 Who was that? 297 00:20:31,634 --> 00:20:32,535 Pashiba. 298 00:20:32,535 --> 00:20:34,199 It's okay, you guys can talk out loud. 299 00:20:34,199 --> 00:20:37,277 I teach a little different than Aaron does, for sure. 300 00:20:37,277 --> 00:20:38,858 um 301 00:20:38,938 --> 00:20:41,279 She's mentioned as the wife of Rirai. 302 00:20:41,980 --> 00:20:44,842 I think this is because he's reminding us of David's sin. 303 00:20:45,523 --> 00:20:47,204 He's not going to name her by name. 304 00:20:47,204 --> 00:20:52,377 These women teach us that Jesus' family includes a few different things. 305 00:20:52,377 --> 00:20:57,530 We see outsiders, we see sinners, we see broken stories. 306 00:20:58,091 --> 00:20:59,912 We see Gentiles, don't we? 307 00:20:59,912 --> 00:21:01,193 Full of Gentiles. 308 00:21:01,193 --> 00:21:04,555 We see scandals and we see redemption. 309 00:21:05,796 --> 00:21:08,638 Jesus didn't come from a perfect family. 310 00:21:09,436 --> 00:21:12,128 But he didn't use that and become a victim of it, did he? 311 00:21:12,629 --> 00:21:16,032 He came for imperfect families. 312 00:21:16,413 --> 00:21:18,234 The big difference. 313 00:21:18,254 --> 00:21:21,236 We can learn a lot by looking at the genealogical list. 314 00:21:21,918 --> 00:21:23,779 So we move forward to David and the kings. 315 00:21:23,779 --> 00:21:26,882 Also in the genealogy, it's almost a centerpiece, right? 316 00:21:26,982 --> 00:21:31,206 They're the names that stick out to us most when we read that laundry list of boring names. 317 00:21:33,328 --> 00:21:37,781 God promised them eternal throne and Jesus is the fulfillment of that. 318 00:21:38,403 --> 00:21:41,805 Solomon follows, then a line of kings, both good and evil. 319 00:21:41,906 --> 00:21:43,467 We see Hezekiah. 320 00:21:43,467 --> 00:21:46,249 Was Hezekiah faithful or evil? 321 00:21:46,858 --> 00:21:47,504 Faithful. 322 00:21:47,504 --> 00:21:48,312 Faithful. 323 00:21:48,312 --> 00:21:50,033 He was faithful, yes. 324 00:21:50,033 --> 00:21:51,474 What about Manasseh? 325 00:21:53,042 --> 00:21:54,102 It's a bit a trick question. 326 00:21:54,102 --> 00:21:59,845 Manasseh was terribly wicked to begin with, but then he repented, changed his ways, right? 327 00:22:00,285 --> 00:22:01,825 What about Josiah? 328 00:22:03,847 --> 00:22:04,747 Mm-hmm. 329 00:22:05,467 --> 00:22:13,470 God preserved the messianic line through faithful kings, through wicked kings, through crises, and even through an exile. 330 00:22:13,691 --> 00:22:18,893 And yet the genealogy proves that Christ's line never left the planet. 331 00:22:19,593 --> 00:22:21,559 But here we come into the Jeconiah problem. 332 00:22:21,559 --> 00:22:22,979 and God's solution. 333 00:22:22,979 --> 00:22:28,383 I'm going to use the word curse here, but it's not a curse as we think, like, you know, voodoo curse. 334 00:22:28,383 --> 00:22:32,506 It's just the best word that I can think of to use to signify what happened. 335 00:22:32,506 --> 00:22:40,671 But we see Jeconiah, your translation may say Jehoiakim, and he was cursed in Jeremiah 22 and verse 30. 336 00:22:40,671 --> 00:22:41,732 Can somebody please get that? 337 00:22:41,732 --> 00:22:42,772 We want to read that. 338 00:22:42,772 --> 00:22:45,539 Jeremiah 22 and verse 30. 339 00:23:00,536 --> 00:23:01,579 the Lord. 340 00:23:21,728 --> 00:23:25,920 Okay, so God said that no descendant of his would sit on the throne of David. 341 00:23:25,981 --> 00:23:27,821 So we had a problem, right? 342 00:23:28,702 --> 00:23:33,695 If he was part of that line, how could Christ be sitting on the throne of David? 343 00:23:33,695 --> 00:23:35,746 How could Christ be the Messiah? 344 00:23:36,967 --> 00:23:45,952 Okay, so here's the perfect solution that God gives us, Joseph's genealogy includes Jeconiah, right? 345 00:23:46,072 --> 00:23:49,194 This gives Jesus legal right to the throne. 346 00:23:49,698 --> 00:23:54,510 But Jesus is not biologically descended from Joseph, is he? 347 00:23:54,878 --> 00:23:55,594 No, he's not. 348 00:23:55,594 --> 00:23:56,997 Who's he descended from? 349 00:23:59,064 --> 00:23:59,604 through Mary. 350 00:23:59,604 --> 00:24:00,174 Yeah. 351 00:24:00,174 --> 00:24:02,735 So would he be able to avoid that curse? 352 00:24:03,796 --> 00:24:04,776 Absolutely. 353 00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:05,146 Yeah. 354 00:24:05,146 --> 00:24:14,299 So through Mary's genealogy, which we read through Luke chapter three, this avoids Jeconiah altogether and traces his lineage back through Nathan instead. 355 00:24:14,559 --> 00:24:16,320 So we avoid the Jeconiah problem. 356 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:17,620 That's not an issue. 357 00:24:17,620 --> 00:24:24,302 Jesus receives the throne without receiving the, as I said before, the curse that was put on Jeconiah. 358 00:24:26,222 --> 00:24:29,582 But then we come into section two, moving past the genealogy. 359 00:24:29,582 --> 00:24:31,482 We're going move into Joseph's quandary. 360 00:24:31,482 --> 00:24:36,162 This is section two, verses 18 through 19 of Matthew chapter one. 361 00:24:37,302 --> 00:24:38,902 Jump back over here. 362 00:24:43,670 --> 00:24:46,252 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on the rise. 363 00:24:46,252 --> 00:24:54,019 When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. 364 00:24:54,140 --> 00:25:03,608 Then Joseph, her husband, being just a man and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. 365 00:25:04,990 --> 00:25:07,331 Who can tell me the meaning of the word privily? 366 00:25:08,473 --> 00:25:09,153 Secretly. 367 00:25:09,153 --> 00:25:10,284 Privately. 368 00:25:10,606 --> 00:25:13,732 It's an old fancy word, but Mary's found to be pregnant. 369 00:25:13,732 --> 00:25:17,658 She knows Joseph isn't the father, right? 370 00:25:17,658 --> 00:25:20,181 She knows that it's not Joseph's son. 371 00:25:20,603 --> 00:25:24,970 They're betrothed, but are they legally married yet? 372 00:25:27,030 --> 00:25:28,291 No, no. 373 00:25:28,291 --> 00:25:33,885 And yet, now we get back into why I said earlier we need to look at Jewish law in antiquity. 374 00:25:33,885 --> 00:25:36,977 It was a lot different back then than what it is today. 375 00:25:36,977 --> 00:25:51,087 Joseph would have been heartbroken, he would have been confused, but when you are betrothed to a woman in ancient Jewish culture, you actually had to get a divorce. 376 00:25:51,227 --> 00:25:55,350 Before you were even like completely submerged in marriage, right? 377 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:02,073 You had to get divorce papers just to get rid of the being betrothed to one another. 378 00:26:02,073 --> 00:26:10,097 When you're in the fiance state, that was just as legally binding for them as it would have been for us today being completely married. 379 00:26:10,097 --> 00:26:11,258 Which is kind of odd. 380 00:26:11,258 --> 00:26:13,999 It's something that stuck out to me. 381 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,820 but moving forward from that. 382 00:26:18,281 --> 00:26:19,981 Yeah, engaged, promise, yeah. 383 00:26:19,981 --> 00:26:22,621 But it was kind of like a legal status back then. 384 00:26:22,621 --> 00:26:29,321 And so you would have had to have went to what would be the equivalent of the local courthouse, and you'd have to get documentation. 385 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:33,921 He would have to embarrass her publicly and put her away for that. 386 00:26:33,921 --> 00:26:37,541 But he had a mind to do so privately, right? 387 00:26:38,761 --> 00:26:43,501 When we look at verse 19, it calls Joseph what kind of man? 388 00:26:45,787 --> 00:26:46,818 A just man. 389 00:26:46,818 --> 00:26:47,938 That's right. 390 00:26:47,939 --> 00:26:52,662 This means that Joseph would be righteous, merciful. 391 00:26:52,762 --> 00:26:54,784 A just man would be self-controlled. 392 00:26:54,784 --> 00:26:56,505 A just man would be patient. 393 00:26:56,505 --> 00:26:58,326 A just man would be wise. 394 00:26:58,326 --> 00:27:01,048 He would be conscious of his decisions. 395 00:27:01,048 --> 00:27:03,570 He wouldn't just leap into things, right? 396 00:27:03,630 --> 00:27:08,093 So Joseph decides to put Mary away quietly instead of shaming her publicly. 397 00:27:08,294 --> 00:27:13,377 I think this speaks volumes of his character because he doesn't want to ruin the life of someone else. 398 00:27:13,915 --> 00:27:21,148 So a lesson that we can learn from Joseph when looking at this is as Christians, should we think before deciding to act? 399 00:27:22,309 --> 00:27:24,069 Yeah, absolutely. 400 00:27:24,069 --> 00:27:27,511 Yeah, we notice Joseph doesn't panic. 401 00:27:27,671 --> 00:27:30,032 He doesn't lash out in anger. 402 00:27:30,152 --> 00:27:31,845 had every right to. 403 00:27:31,845 --> 00:27:34,914 I mean, he thinks that it's someone else's child. 404 00:27:34,914 --> 00:27:35,999 It is someone else's child. 405 00:27:35,999 --> 00:27:36,975 It's not his. 406 00:27:36,975 --> 00:27:38,775 And it's his betrothed. 407 00:27:39,536 --> 00:27:42,317 But he doesn't assume the worst either. 408 00:27:42,877 --> 00:27:44,678 We see no indication of that. 409 00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:46,820 He doesn't react emotionally. 410 00:27:47,197 --> 00:27:51,504 He finds this unique balance between justice and mercy, doesn't he? 411 00:27:51,504 --> 00:27:53,405 He's trying to think through. 412 00:27:54,057 --> 00:27:58,850 So as Christians, I think we need to not act on emotion, but we need to think. 413 00:27:58,850 --> 00:28:01,733 We need to pray, most importantly. 414 00:28:01,733 --> 00:28:08,358 Then we need to decide on what action we're supposed to take whenever we're faced with very tough and hard decisions with people. 415 00:28:08,899 --> 00:28:11,481 Joseph's example here is one of mature. 416 00:28:11,481 --> 00:28:11,913 m 417 00:28:11,913 --> 00:28:14,833 disciplined righteousness, isn't it? 418 00:28:16,093 --> 00:28:18,293 So moving on to section three, Joseph's dream. 419 00:28:18,293 --> 00:28:21,593 This is going to be verses 20 through 23. 420 00:28:21,593 --> 00:28:23,393 If I can get someone to read that. 421 00:28:26,345 --> 00:28:28,565 Matthew chapter one, 20 through 23. 422 00:28:28,565 --> 00:28:39,525 But while he thought about these things behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream Saying Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take him marry your wife for that 423 00:28:39,525 --> 00:28:50,125 which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit and She will bring forth a son and you shall call his name Jesus for he will save his people from their sins 424 00:28:50,693 --> 00:28:51,964 How many verses? 425 00:28:51,964 --> 00:28:53,053 That's a 23. 426 00:28:53,354 --> 00:29:03,489 So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying, behold the virgin shall be with child and bear a son and they shall call 427 00:29:03,489 --> 00:29:07,141 his name Emmanuel, which is translated God with us. 428 00:29:07,622 --> 00:29:14,004 Now, when we look back at the verse, it says that which was conceived in him was of the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, depending on your translation. 429 00:29:15,546 --> 00:29:20,642 The Holy Ghost there, that word in Greek means guest. 430 00:29:20,642 --> 00:29:23,794 Doesn't mean like cat's birds, not a wispy spirit floating around. 431 00:29:23,794 --> 00:29:25,214 Just a side note. 432 00:29:26,555 --> 00:29:31,717 But as Joseph considers what to do, God intervenes, doesn't he? 433 00:29:33,078 --> 00:29:34,539 We see an angel appearing to him. 434 00:29:34,539 --> 00:29:35,960 And what does he tell Joseph? 435 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,260 Two words, very important for Joseph. 436 00:29:39,081 --> 00:29:40,201 Fear not. 437 00:29:40,302 --> 00:29:41,482 Fear not. 438 00:29:41,502 --> 00:29:45,084 One, it'd be frightening to have an angel standing right in front of you. 439 00:29:45,336 --> 00:29:48,619 But also it could be frightening the situation as well as what he's in, right? 440 00:29:48,619 --> 00:29:52,842 We're not sure the context of which one those would be, but he tells him, fear not. 441 00:29:53,264 --> 00:29:59,109 This also kind of gives us a glimpse into his emotional state, right? 442 00:29:59,109 --> 00:30:05,274 We can assume, and I'm not going to say verbatim, but we can assume that Joseph's internal state was afraid. 443 00:30:05,316 --> 00:30:06,695 He would have been hurt. 444 00:30:06,932 --> 00:30:09,917 I would have been confused with this kind of a situation. 445 00:30:10,019 --> 00:30:16,152 He was clearly worried about Mary's reputation, and he would have been worried about his own son, right? 446 00:30:18,754 --> 00:30:21,805 The angel reveals that Mary is innocent, doesn't it? 447 00:30:22,365 --> 00:30:25,306 Shows him that the child was of the Holy Spirit. 448 00:30:25,446 --> 00:30:27,385 And then it kind of gives him a command. 449 00:30:27,407 --> 00:30:30,968 He says, must take Mary as your wife. 450 00:30:30,968 --> 00:30:34,409 And Joseph, you must name him Jesus. 451 00:30:34,729 --> 00:30:39,550 Does anyone know what the name Jesus means or translates to? 452 00:30:40,711 --> 00:30:41,491 Savior? 453 00:30:41,491 --> 00:30:42,391 Yep. 454 00:30:43,132 --> 00:30:45,032 Yahweh saves. 455 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,222 is the most direct literal translation of the name that you can get. 456 00:30:49,222 --> 00:30:55,966 So Jesus being completely anglicized from the Greek would be Yahweh saves or savior. 457 00:30:56,407 --> 00:30:57,607 Absolutely. 458 00:30:58,228 --> 00:31:01,789 That name would denote his entire mission on this planet, right? 459 00:31:01,790 --> 00:31:05,932 For Jesus came to seek and save the lost. 460 00:31:08,324 --> 00:31:14,204 I chose this verse, for He shall save His people from their sins, as the key verse for the entire chapter. 461 00:31:14,324 --> 00:31:18,424 In fact, this is the one that I made the boys memorize whenever we taught them this class. 462 00:31:19,744 --> 00:31:23,764 But we see prophecy fulfilled here, right? 463 00:31:23,764 --> 00:31:27,844 Everyone turn back over to Isaiah chapter 7 and verse 14. 464 00:31:29,664 --> 00:31:36,084 We're going to point back to the scripture that was prophesying that this would happen. 465 00:31:37,132 --> 00:31:40,045 Matthew is quoting Isaiah in Matthew chapter 1. 466 00:31:40,045 --> 00:31:42,672 Isaiah chapter 7 and verse 14. 467 00:31:53,412 --> 00:31:58,252 and bear a son shall call his name Immanuel. 468 00:31:58,252 --> 00:31:59,432 Well, which one was it? 469 00:31:59,432 --> 00:32:01,492 Was it Jesus or was it Immanuel? 470 00:32:04,546 --> 00:32:06,556 It can be both, right? 471 00:32:07,817 --> 00:32:10,908 Matthew quotes Isaiah that shows this birth fulfills the prophecy. 472 00:32:10,908 --> 00:32:13,719 A virgin shall conceive, his name shall be called Immanuel. 473 00:32:13,719 --> 00:32:19,780 And Immanuel, literally translated, simply means God with us, right? 474 00:32:19,780 --> 00:32:21,941 Be very similar to Yahweh saves. 475 00:32:22,621 --> 00:32:26,002 The Creator enters creation. 476 00:32:26,582 --> 00:32:27,963 We see it happen. 477 00:32:27,963 --> 00:32:33,324 God walks among his people and God becomes man, which brings us on to chapter four. 478 00:32:33,505 --> 00:32:35,725 I'm sorry, section four. 479 00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:37,345 Joseph's decision. 480 00:32:37,345 --> 00:32:42,685 This is going to be verses 24 and 25 of Matthew chapter one. 481 00:32:43,105 --> 00:32:45,625 Matthew one, 24 and 25. 482 00:32:46,745 --> 00:32:57,505 Then Joseph, being raised from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife, and knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son, and 483 00:32:57,505 --> 00:33:00,325 he called his name Jesus. 484 00:33:02,398 --> 00:33:06,722 What does Joseph do the moment he wakes up from his dream? 485 00:33:11,998 --> 00:33:12,548 Runs to Mary. 486 00:33:12,548 --> 00:33:13,709 Does he obey? 487 00:33:14,268 --> 00:33:15,040 He obeys God. 488 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,422 The moment he wakes up, he obeys God. 489 00:33:17,422 --> 00:33:19,774 Another testament to Joseph's character. 490 00:33:19,774 --> 00:33:21,255 He had a great character. 491 00:33:21,255 --> 00:33:23,156 He cared about Mary. 492 00:33:23,156 --> 00:33:25,037 He cared about himself. 493 00:33:25,037 --> 00:33:26,408 He wanted to do what was right. 494 00:33:26,408 --> 00:33:28,100 He didn't want to ruin someone's life. 495 00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:32,682 He wanted to think and pray about what he chose before he acted on it. 496 00:33:33,223 --> 00:33:34,654 Stand up, gentlemen. 497 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:38,581 He names the child Jesus. 498 00:33:40,242 --> 00:33:50,287 Something I noted, it kind of stuck out to me when studying chapter one, was that we never see Joseph speak a single line in scripture. 499 00:33:50,508 --> 00:33:52,889 Nowhere in scripture does Joseph speak. 500 00:33:53,009 --> 00:33:54,730 He's simply just there. 501 00:33:54,770 --> 00:33:57,031 And we get a testimony of his character. 502 00:33:57,552 --> 00:34:01,584 Sometimes some of the best lessons we can learn is from someone who speaks less. 503 00:34:01,584 --> 00:34:05,216 Because actions speak louder than 504 00:34:05,874 --> 00:34:11,188 words, many, many times. 505 00:34:11,188 --> 00:34:12,208 That's right. 506 00:34:12,208 --> 00:34:12,809 That's right. 507 00:34:12,809 --> 00:34:13,279 would know. 508 00:34:13,279 --> 00:34:15,310 I put my foot in my mouth a lot. 509 00:34:17,792 --> 00:34:18,932 Of course. 510 00:34:19,653 --> 00:34:21,894 His actions declare his faith. 511 00:34:21,975 --> 00:34:26,248 He chooses God's reputation over his own reputation, doesn't he? 512 00:34:26,248 --> 00:34:29,580 Because if it got out, people would wonder, well, that's not your kid. 513 00:34:29,580 --> 00:34:30,931 You guys aren't even fully married yet. 514 00:34:30,931 --> 00:34:32,442 You're just betrothed. 515 00:34:33,583 --> 00:34:35,924 But he wants to protect God's reputation. 516 00:34:36,670 --> 00:34:38,421 That speaks volume of him. 517 00:34:39,602 --> 00:34:49,350 If we had to, we'll end the class on this because I know the bell just rang and we're right at getting to chapter two and we'll go through the priesthood in Mount Kizidek next 518 00:34:49,350 --> 00:34:49,650 time. 519 00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:54,674 But if you had to use one word to define Joseph, what would you use? 520 00:34:56,276 --> 00:34:57,816 Just would be a good one. 521 00:34:58,097 --> 00:34:59,198 Anyone else? 522 00:35:00,179 --> 00:35:01,940 I like the word obedience. 523 00:35:03,744 --> 00:35:05,924 to always see him do is obey. 524 00:35:06,724 --> 00:35:07,984 It's fantastic. 525 00:35:08,084 --> 00:35:09,104 All right. 526 00:35:09,104 --> 00:35:10,444 We've got just a minute or two left. 527 00:35:10,444 --> 00:35:12,004 Does anyone have any questions? 528 00:35:12,424 --> 00:35:19,684 I was just thinking, I don't know about you, but if an angel showed up to me and told me to do something, I kind of not change what I was told. 529 00:35:19,684 --> 00:35:20,084 Yeah. 530 00:35:20,084 --> 00:35:22,124 Well, what if he tells you, fear not? 531 00:35:22,124 --> 00:35:23,604 It's kind of a tall earth. 532 00:35:23,604 --> 00:35:25,684 We'll get an angel in the eye, right? 533 00:35:25,784 --> 00:35:26,526 Yeah. 534 00:35:26,526 --> 00:35:28,760 All right, thank you guys very much for your attention this morning. 535 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,947 We'll continue about the Order of Melchizedek in Chapter 2 next class. 536 00:35:34,149 --> 00:35:35,040 Thank you.