1 00:00:01,866 --> 00:00:04,033 In the beginning, 2 00:00:04,033 --> 00:00:07,033 there was darkness. 3 00:00:07,033 --> 00:00:08,900 But God said, 4 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:11,900 let there be light. 5 00:00:11,966 --> 00:00:15,000 This was the beginning of creation 6 00:00:15,766 --> 00:00:18,766 and the story of our salvation. 7 00:00:20,433 --> 00:00:22,866 And there was light 8 00:00:22,866 --> 00:00:25,800 when everything seemed lost. 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,800 We got the promise of hope. 10 00:00:29,700 --> 00:00:32,700 A day will come where pain is gone. 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,600 A baby shall be born. 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,600 He'll be our living hope. 13 00:00:40,833 --> 00:00:43,833 He is coming with a precious gift. 14 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,233 He shall come to bring us peace. 15 00:00:48,933 --> 00:00:51,600 A humble birth will shine on earth. 16 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,600 When our Savior born takes his first breath. 17 00:00:55,333 --> 00:00:59,466 Our Prince of Peace, mighty God is here. 18 00:01:00,133 --> 00:01:03,133 The light has come. 19 00:01:03,333 --> 00:01:04,900 Glory in the highest. 20 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:06,066 The heavens sing. 21 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:09,100 As the earth rejoices for the joy he brings. 22 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,000 Let us praise his holy name. 23 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Rejoice together for us. He came. 24 00:01:16,266 --> 00:01:18,833 I did find sin unraveled that night. 25 00:01:18,833 --> 00:01:21,833 As Mary and Joseph cuddled this child. 26 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,200 This was a baby like no other. 27 00:01:25,866 --> 00:01:28,500 Swaddling clothes face uncovered. 28 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:30,300 Lay our king. 29 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:33,300 The one who came to make us free. 30 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,400 He came for the ones that have lost all hope. 31 00:01:36,566 --> 00:01:39,566 For his purpose was pure love. 32 00:01:39,666 --> 00:01:42,666 To give his life for our souls. 33 00:01:43,233 --> 00:01:45,833 We are no longer alone. 34 00:01:48,266 --> 00:01:50,000 Emmanuel. 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 God is with us. 36 00:01:56,900 --> 00:01:59,900 That is the point and purpose of Christmas. 37 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:03,500 That God would be with us. 38 00:02:03,533 --> 00:02:05,800 One of the ways that that is experienced 39 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,800 is by us being with each other. 40 00:02:09,633 --> 00:02:15,033 And to that end, I want to make sure that, you know, those of you who are connected 41 00:02:15,033 --> 00:02:20,400 to the Davidsons, that Lisa service will be Tuesday at 10:00 at Jay Chapel. 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,100 And one of the ways, though she is with the father right now, 43 00:02:25,966 --> 00:02:29,233 one of the ways that the father visits us 44 00:02:29,633 --> 00:02:32,633 is by us being with each other. 45 00:02:32,933 --> 00:02:35,066 And so I know the family would appreciate it 46 00:02:35,066 --> 00:02:36,933 if you're connected with them. 47 00:02:36,933 --> 00:02:40,266 If you can make that a priority, I would as well. 48 00:02:41,233 --> 00:02:43,700 She was a dear, dear 49 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:47,200 friend and servant of God and of this church. 50 00:02:49,266 --> 00:02:51,900 Another thing, just as a way of announcement, 51 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:54,900 I want to let you know that as we go into the Christmas season, 52 00:02:55,233 --> 00:02:58,233 the focus certainly is on God with us 53 00:02:58,666 --> 00:03:01,533 and God's plan after Jesus 54 00:03:01,533 --> 00:03:05,866 for his revelation to the world would be through his church. 55 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:09,233 The church is God's Plan A, 56 00:03:09,233 --> 00:03:11,966 and there is no plan B. 57 00:03:11,966 --> 00:03:13,833 This was his idea, 58 00:03:13,833 --> 00:03:18,466 and the thing that the world needs more now than ever are churches. 59 00:03:18,466 --> 00:03:22,900 And so we at flipside with Excel Leadership Network 60 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:27,533 that I helped run is our goal for 2025 61 00:03:28,033 --> 00:03:31,033 is to start 100 churches this year. 62 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,200 Here's why. 63 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,333 Because in 2021, that was the first year in our nation's history 64 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:41,500 where we lost more churches than what we're started. 65 00:03:42,266 --> 00:03:46,233 So just to keep up with population growth, we need to start more churches. 66 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,800 But secondarily, this mark for 20, 67 00:03:50,533 --> 00:03:53,466 Jesus tells a parable about the sower and the seed. 68 00:03:53,466 --> 00:03:56,966 And then that parable, Jesus says, some seed fell on good soil 69 00:03:56,966 --> 00:04:00,566 and produced a harvest of 30 of 60 of 104. 70 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:05,400 So undertaking that model, we at flipside 71 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,866 and with Excel have already started 30 churches in a year. 72 00:04:08,866 --> 00:04:12,766 We've already started 60 churches in a year, and over a 20 month 73 00:04:12,766 --> 00:04:16,033 period during the pandemic, we started 100. 74 00:04:16,966 --> 00:04:19,800 But now in this one single 12 month 75 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,800 period, our goal is to start 100 churches around the world. 76 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:25,266 It is the focus of our church. 77 00:04:25,266 --> 00:04:28,266 It is one of the purposes of what we do, 78 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,966 and it is God's plan for his revelation to the world. 79 00:04:34,333 --> 00:04:36,200 As Hallel, the elder 80 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,333 John Lewis and JFK all said, if not us, who? 81 00:04:40,333 --> 00:04:42,100 If not now, when? 82 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:46,833 And so what I'm asking you church is over and above your tithes and offerings 83 00:04:46,833 --> 00:04:50,066 through this Christmas season and culminating on Christmas Eve, 84 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:53,400 if you will partner with us 85 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:59,133 through our ministry and work with Excel and funding 100 church 86 00:04:59,133 --> 00:05:03,500 plants in 2025 over and above your regular tithes and offerings on our app. 87 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:07,166 There's a little button there under giving for church plants. 88 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:10,500 You can indicate that in any way you choose, 89 00:05:10,533 --> 00:05:13,766 but this is something we're committed to, and I invite I invite you into it. 90 00:05:14,033 --> 00:05:17,666 It is God's plan and we have to be about it. 91 00:05:19,233 --> 00:05:22,166 And the third thing is this 92 00:05:22,166 --> 00:05:25,566 we have been in the Old Testament for so long through the Book of judges, 93 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:30,600 and last week you were graced with the opportunity 94 00:05:30,733 --> 00:05:33,833 to sit under a young man's incredible teaching. 95 00:05:36,466 --> 00:05:39,366 In the book of, Exodus. 96 00:05:39,366 --> 00:05:42,366 And now we're jump into the New Testament. 97 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,466 And to make that jump easier for you, 98 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,733 I want to help you understand 99 00:05:48,733 --> 00:05:51,100 how we get from the Old Testament to the New Testament, 100 00:05:51,100 --> 00:05:54,000 because the old times, it closes in Malachi. 101 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,733 And when the Old Testament closes, there's a certain world regime 102 00:05:58,233 --> 00:06:02,166 that the known world is living under, and we open the New Testament. 103 00:06:02,166 --> 00:06:05,566 There's a whole new regime, a whole new language, a whole new way of being. 104 00:06:06,333 --> 00:06:08,566 And so there's 400 years 105 00:06:08,566 --> 00:06:11,166 between the close of Malachi and the Old Testament, 106 00:06:11,166 --> 00:06:13,033 the opening of Matthew in the New Testament, 107 00:06:13,033 --> 00:06:17,533 of which the Bible is silent and they're called the 400 silent years. 108 00:06:17,533 --> 00:06:21,133 And it's as if God has withheld his revelation. 109 00:06:21,133 --> 00:06:22,066 Now he didn't. 110 00:06:22,066 --> 00:06:25,966 We just don't have any biblical record of what happened during those 400 years. 111 00:06:26,133 --> 00:06:28,566 But there's a lot that happened. 112 00:06:28,566 --> 00:06:31,400 But unless, you know, history 113 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,400 secular and, and and, 114 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,433 Jewish history, you're not going to know what happened during those 400 years. 115 00:06:38,966 --> 00:06:42,266 And so I've written a few page little document 116 00:06:42,366 --> 00:06:47,233 that will get you from Malachi to Matthew and fill in the blanks 117 00:06:47,233 --> 00:06:52,166 of how we get to Matthew chapter one, because a lot has happened. 118 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,566 So if that's if you're interested in that, you can pick up 119 00:06:55,566 --> 00:06:58,566 those little, pages at the start here booth. 120 00:06:58,666 --> 00:07:00,500 I would happily share those with you. 121 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:02,700 Because it's good 122 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,700 to be intelligent about this stuff. 123 00:07:05,733 --> 00:07:08,666 In this Christmas season, we're going to look at 124 00:07:08,666 --> 00:07:11,933 four chapters in two Gospels, 125 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,666 Matthew and Luke, chapter one and two of each. 126 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:19,366 So today we're going to look at Matthew one. 127 00:07:19,366 --> 00:07:21,533 Next week will be Luke one. 128 00:07:21,533 --> 00:07:23,400 The week after that will be Luke two. 129 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,200 And we'll end on Christmas Eve with Matthew two. 130 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,633 So if you want to read ahead and kind of find out where we're going, there it is. 131 00:07:29,766 --> 00:07:32,800 A lot of the story is very familiar to most people, 132 00:07:34,033 --> 00:07:37,800 but there's a lot of the story that is very unfamiliar and unknown 133 00:07:37,966 --> 00:07:39,466 to most people. 134 00:07:39,466 --> 00:07:42,466 And so, in true flip side fashion, we're going to do what the unknown. 135 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:46,500 And, and we're going to find out what is there. 136 00:07:46,533 --> 00:07:48,100 Let me tell you this. 137 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:52,966 The devil's plan from day one has been to thwart the plan of God. 138 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,566 That's what his business is 139 00:07:56,533 --> 00:07:58,200 in the Old Testament. 140 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,100 The devil tried over and over and over to destroy 141 00:08:02,266 --> 00:08:05,700 the lineage that would lead to the Messiah. 142 00:08:06,066 --> 00:08:08,900 To Jesus and the New Testament. 143 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:12,500 He started early in this process by trying to kill all the babies. 144 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:15,200 A little baby Jesus included. 145 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,966 And now he continues that work primarily 146 00:08:19,466 --> 00:08:23,100 through making churches selfish and insecure. 147 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:26,033 So they don't plant churches 148 00:08:26,033 --> 00:08:29,500 because the church is God's planning and there is no plan B, 149 00:08:30,366 --> 00:08:33,900 and if they can get churches and pastors to be insecure and selfish, 150 00:08:33,966 --> 00:08:38,100 so all they do is worry about their own fountains and coffee shops and donut shops 151 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:41,133 rather than planting churches. 152 00:08:41,133 --> 00:08:44,133 Do you understand? 153 00:08:44,833 --> 00:08:45,300 So all the way 154 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:48,300 through the Bible, we see this plan of the evil one 155 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:51,633 to thwart and destroy God's plan both to bring salvation 156 00:08:52,233 --> 00:08:55,233 and for the revelation of himself to the world. 157 00:08:55,233 --> 00:08:57,700 And as we look at the Christmas story of Matthew and Luke, 158 00:08:57,700 --> 00:09:00,600 we're going to see the same thing multiple times. 159 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:02,900 So today, I want to be in Matthew one, 160 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:06,600 and I want to cross-reference that with Luke chapter three. 161 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:08,900 Now there are different, 162 00:09:10,366 --> 00:09:13,200 but we see the same beautiful truth. 163 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,200 And that beautiful truth that we see is 164 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,200 this, that God is with us, 165 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,233 even though oftentimes 166 00:09:21,233 --> 00:09:24,233 we're not worthy of him. 167 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,766 He's with us 168 00:09:26,766 --> 00:09:29,766 even though our story. 169 00:09:32,166 --> 00:09:35,166 Not worthy of being with. 170 00:09:35,166 --> 00:09:38,033 I want us to note this, 171 00:09:38,033 --> 00:09:41,033 that Matthew, the writer of the first gospel, 172 00:09:42,033 --> 00:09:44,833 was Jewish and a tax collector. 173 00:09:44,833 --> 00:09:47,366 Now, what that means is 174 00:09:47,366 --> 00:09:50,866 the Roman government had a 40 over Israel, 175 00:09:51,566 --> 00:09:54,000 and they were under Roman occupation. 176 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,800 And as any government is going to do, they're going to tax the people. 177 00:09:58,833 --> 00:10:02,533 And so Rome gave some Jews 178 00:10:02,533 --> 00:10:05,933 authority to be their tax collectors or IRS agents. 179 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:10,133 Rome had their set amount of taxes that they wanted to collect, 180 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,766 but they gave authority to these tax collectors to charge more. 181 00:10:14,366 --> 00:10:15,966 And many did. 182 00:10:15,966 --> 00:10:21,133 And with the more that they charged their own people, they pocketed the extra. 183 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,433 And so tax collectors, Jewish tax collectors were working on behalf 184 00:10:25,766 --> 00:10:30,700 of occupying Roman government, were hated by the Jews. 185 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:33,833 Matthew was one of them. 186 00:10:33,833 --> 00:10:37,400 As a tax collector, he was very, very, very detailed. 187 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:43,100 Anybody who works with the IRS is very detailed about the money. 188 00:10:43,133 --> 00:10:45,266 You all right? 189 00:10:45,266 --> 00:10:48,133 Okay, so Matthew is no different. 190 00:10:48,133 --> 00:10:51,233 Matthew, being a tax collector, 191 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:55,566 was invited by Jesus to be his disciple. 192 00:10:55,566 --> 00:11:00,500 His apprentice, which brought the other disciples 193 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,700 because he was the outcast one. 194 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:05,300 He was the one knowing life. 195 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:09,166 Not only did Jesus invite Matthew to be an apprentice of his, 196 00:11:09,266 --> 00:11:12,266 he also invited a zealot. 197 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,466 The zealots were the opposite of tax collectors. 198 00:11:15,466 --> 00:11:18,466 They wanted to assassinate Roman authority. 199 00:11:18,733 --> 00:11:20,500 So one was working for Roman authority. 200 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:24,500 One wanted to kill them all and Jesus put these two carts together. 201 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:28,500 Jesus usually does stuff like that. 202 00:11:28,966 --> 00:11:32,966 And so Matthew brought all of this detailed, 203 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:37,033 very systematic way of seeing the world. 204 00:11:38,066 --> 00:11:40,900 He brought that to the writing of his gospel. 205 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:42,600 The book of Matthew. 206 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,633 And Matthew was a very detailed account of the story of Jesus 207 00:11:46,933 --> 00:11:50,300 from a Jewish mindset and perspective, 208 00:11:51,333 --> 00:11:53,833 focusing on the royal line, 209 00:11:53,833 --> 00:11:56,833 the kingship of the Messiah. 210 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,400 How many gospels are there 211 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,266 for good? 212 00:12:02,266 --> 00:12:03,233 Luke? 213 00:12:03,233 --> 00:12:05,400 Some of them are called Synoptic Gospels. 214 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,100 How many are synoptic Gospels? 215 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:11,100 Three. Good. Okay. 216 00:12:11,166 --> 00:12:12,266 The Synoptic 217 00:12:12,266 --> 00:12:15,266 Gospel means they basically tell the same story. 218 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,200 So the three synoptic gospels are Matthew, Mark, and Luke. 219 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,133 John's the fourth gospel. 220 00:12:21,133 --> 00:12:22,133 He's kind of an outlier. 221 00:12:22,133 --> 00:12:25,400 He's very, very different in his perspective of writing. 222 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,400 And what he records is very different than what we see in Matthew, Mark and Luke. 223 00:12:29,866 --> 00:12:32,100 Two of the four writers of the Gospels 224 00:12:32,100 --> 00:12:36,733 were disciples of Jesus and apostles Matthew and John. 225 00:12:37,433 --> 00:12:39,666 Mark and Luke were not. 226 00:12:39,666 --> 00:12:45,333 So Matthew was the only apostolic, author of the Gospels. 227 00:12:45,333 --> 00:12:48,833 As a disciple of Jesus has a very unique, 228 00:12:50,433 --> 00:12:52,266 view understanding 229 00:12:52,266 --> 00:12:55,266 because he had a unique relationship with Jesus. 230 00:12:55,966 --> 00:12:59,666 And so he brings all of that to the table 231 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:02,900 in writing his gospel. 232 00:13:04,966 --> 00:13:07,200 Two things we're going to see 233 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:07,566 today. 234 00:13:07,566 --> 00:13:10,933 Two things we're going to look at the genealogy of Jesus 235 00:13:12,333 --> 00:13:13,800 from Matthew's perspective. 236 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,066 And then we're jump to Luke's for a little bit. 237 00:13:16,066 --> 00:13:19,200 But the two things you'll see in the genealogy of Jesus are this. 238 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:24,600 We will see through his genealogy God's plan and through his genealogy. 239 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:26,666 God's presence. 240 00:13:26,666 --> 00:13:29,633 And this is why it's important for us to study this, 241 00:13:29,633 --> 00:13:33,166 because those are the two things that you and I need today as well. 242 00:13:33,866 --> 00:13:38,233 We need an assurance and a confidence of both. 243 00:13:38,233 --> 00:13:41,233 God's plan and his presence. 244 00:13:42,466 --> 00:13:44,700 If God has a plan but he's withdrawn, 245 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,200 he's nothing but this ethereal 246 00:13:49,866 --> 00:13:53,033 puppet master with no involvement. 247 00:13:53,866 --> 00:13:56,633 If he's present but has no plan 248 00:13:56,633 --> 00:13:59,100 and he's just a good pillow 249 00:13:59,100 --> 00:14:00,800 and comforter. 250 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,333 So we need him to be both. 251 00:14:02,333 --> 00:14:06,000 Both to have a plan and to have his presence with us. 252 00:14:06,666 --> 00:14:09,700 And we see both of those in the genealogy of Jesus. 253 00:14:10,466 --> 00:14:13,466 So this is important for us. 254 00:14:16,166 --> 00:14:18,800 Old Testament prophecy 255 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,366 told us time and time and time again, and looking forward to the Messiah, 256 00:14:22,966 --> 00:14:26,100 that the Messiah would come through Abraham's line, 257 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:29,566 through David's line, and through the tribe of Judah. 258 00:14:30,566 --> 00:14:33,866 And both Matthew and Luke contain 259 00:14:34,233 --> 00:14:37,400 genealogies of Jesus's background. 260 00:14:37,866 --> 00:14:42,700 Matthew, in descending fashion from Abraham to Jesus. 261 00:14:43,133 --> 00:14:46,833 Luke in ascending fashion from Jesus all the way to Adam. 262 00:14:47,333 --> 00:14:50,333 So they both have genealogies, but they're different. 263 00:14:50,466 --> 00:14:53,466 They tell the same story, but they're different. 264 00:14:54,066 --> 00:14:55,366 And we're going to dive into those. 265 00:14:57,233 --> 00:15:00,433 Matthew is concerned with the legal line 266 00:15:00,433 --> 00:15:04,200 of Jesus through King David to Abraham. 267 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,733 And so Matthew begins, like this in Matthew chapter one, verse one. 268 00:15:07,733 --> 00:15:10,166 If you have a Bible, turn there. 269 00:15:10,166 --> 00:15:13,166 It's on the scriptures on our app, so you can follow along there as well. 270 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,300 This is the genealogy of Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of David, 271 00:15:18,666 --> 00:15:19,900 the son of Abraham. 272 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:23,133 Matthew's concern is the legal line 273 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,366 and the legal right that Jesus has to the throne. 274 00:15:27,366 --> 00:15:30,666 Going back through David to Abraham. 275 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:35,066 While Matthew is concerned with the legal line, 276 00:15:35,066 --> 00:15:39,366 the legal Jewish line that traces through David to Abraham. 277 00:15:40,033 --> 00:15:44,466 This is not the bloodline of Jesus. 278 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,633 The bloodline is different because 279 00:15:47,633 --> 00:15:51,333 Matthew's genealogy will travel through Joseph, 280 00:15:52,100 --> 00:15:56,533 and Joseph was not or Jesus wasn't in the bloodline of Joseph. 281 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:57,300 You know why? 282 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,300 Because it wasn't Joseph's kid. 283 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:06,266 It was adopted by Joseph. 284 00:16:06,266 --> 00:16:09,133 Jesus's bloodline 285 00:16:09,133 --> 00:16:12,133 runs through Mary. 286 00:16:15,066 --> 00:16:17,600 The interesting thing, if you're to read, I'll read it to you. 287 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:19,133 It's not on the screen. Let me just read this. 288 00:16:19,133 --> 00:16:23,700 I was I was going over this Luke in verse 16 of Matthew one, 289 00:16:24,933 --> 00:16:27,600 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, 290 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,600 of whom was born Jesus, who was called the Christ. 291 00:16:31,166 --> 00:16:35,266 When the Greek text reads, of whom was born. 292 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:38,700 It's the singular feminine 293 00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:41,000 word for that. 294 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,500 And so what the Matthew is saying is that Jesus came from Mary, 295 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:49,500 not from Joseph, of whom was born the singular feminine. 296 00:16:50,933 --> 00:16:54,533 So it came from one feminine source, Mary, not Joseph. 297 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,733 And so it's clear, Jesus was of the bloodline of Mary. 298 00:17:00,633 --> 00:17:03,533 Matthew with the legal line of Jesus. 299 00:17:05,133 --> 00:17:06,300 Now I want us to consider who 300 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:10,466 was in the legal line of Jesus to the throne. 301 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,733 So go to verses two and three. 302 00:17:13,733 --> 00:17:17,500 And the Bible says this Abraham was the father of Isaac, 303 00:17:17,766 --> 00:17:21,533 Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 304 00:17:21,933 --> 00:17:25,400 Judah the father of Perez, and Zera, whose mother was Tamar. 305 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,766 Underline that one for you. She's important. 306 00:17:27,766 --> 00:17:29,133 Perez the father, Perez Ron 307 00:17:29,133 --> 00:17:31,366 has run the father of Ram, and it just goes through this litany. 308 00:17:31,366 --> 00:17:34,800 All these, these three different lists of 14 generations 309 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,800 leading up to Jesus. 310 00:17:38,566 --> 00:17:40,933 There are people in this lineage that we would expect to be there. 311 00:17:40,933 --> 00:17:43,800 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. 312 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,066 I mean, all the I mean, all the. 313 00:17:46,066 --> 00:17:48,300 Yeah, right. 314 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:51,666 I mean, these are ones that you're going to claim at the family reunions. 315 00:17:52,266 --> 00:17:55,366 These are the ones like we're hanging our head on them because they, you know. 316 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,400 But there's some in this line that. 317 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:03,166 Especially as a Jewish person. 318 00:18:03,166 --> 00:18:05,433 Just make it scratch your head 319 00:18:05,433 --> 00:18:08,433 in this lineage that we'll find. 320 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,733 There are four women named. 321 00:18:11,733 --> 00:18:13,666 And if you were trying 322 00:18:13,666 --> 00:18:17,933 to establish a 40 and credibility, especially in a family lineage, 323 00:18:18,033 --> 00:18:21,500 you would not use women because in that 324 00:18:21,733 --> 00:18:24,733 not in that culture. 325 00:18:25,666 --> 00:18:29,100 There was a famous Jewish prayer that Jewish men would pray every morning. 326 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:31,566 Thank you. Oh, God, 327 00:18:31,566 --> 00:18:34,566 that I am not a Gentile, a dog or a woman 328 00:18:35,366 --> 00:18:35,600 then. 329 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,600 So there just there wasn't much credibility in that. 330 00:18:38,833 --> 00:18:42,100 And so the fact that Matthew uses for women in this lineage, 331 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:45,100 just like this, was going against protocol. 332 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,200 And the first woman he lists there is Tamar. 333 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,666 What's important about Tamar? 334 00:18:50,666 --> 00:18:53,633 Again, remember I said the things we're going to focus on 335 00:18:53,633 --> 00:18:57,000 today in this genealogy is God's plan and God's presence. 336 00:18:58,733 --> 00:19:00,100 Okay, so 337 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:03,100 this woman came as a surprise to God. 338 00:19:03,466 --> 00:19:07,133 It's a surprise to those who don't understand what God does. 339 00:19:08,333 --> 00:19:11,066 But this woman, Tamar, and go back 340 00:19:11,066 --> 00:19:14,066 all the way to Genesis 38 to read a little bit about her story. 341 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:16,333 Tamar husband dies. 342 00:19:16,333 --> 00:19:22,100 She has no sons, and so that her family doesn't die out in that line. 343 00:19:22,100 --> 00:19:25,100 Doesn't she acts as a prostitute 344 00:19:25,933 --> 00:19:28,933 and tricks her father in law 345 00:19:29,766 --> 00:19:33,900 into propositioning her, and she gets pregnant by her 346 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:37,466 father in law, Judah, and has a baby. 347 00:19:39,833 --> 00:19:43,400 That's not the story that you tell 348 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,733 when families get together and talk about your heritage 349 00:19:47,766 --> 00:19:50,233 right? 350 00:19:50,233 --> 00:19:53,233 You leave that one out. 351 00:19:53,366 --> 00:19:56,066 But just think about this seven generations 352 00:19:56,066 --> 00:20:00,600 listed later in this, you come to, let's look at verse five, 353 00:20:02,366 --> 00:20:02,966 Solomon, the 354 00:20:02,966 --> 00:20:05,966 father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, 355 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:09,866 Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth. 356 00:20:09,866 --> 00:20:11,233 Oh, the father of Jesse. 357 00:20:11,233 --> 00:20:13,433 This is all in David's line. 358 00:20:13,433 --> 00:20:16,433 So you come to this lady named Rahab. 359 00:20:16,533 --> 00:20:20,633 You go back to Joshua two to hear some of her story. 360 00:20:21,066 --> 00:20:23,600 She was she didn't act like a prostitute. 361 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:25,400 She was a prostitute. 362 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,200 And when the when the Hebrew spies went into the 363 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,200 to spy off the land, she hid them 364 00:20:32,033 --> 00:20:33,366 and gained their favor. 365 00:20:33,366 --> 00:20:36,900 So when they took over the land, they protected her and those with her. 366 00:20:37,066 --> 00:20:41,666 And she kind of was adopted into the Hebrew family 367 00:20:41,966 --> 00:20:44,966 and became a worshiper of their God. 368 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,400 So she wasn't even a Jew. 369 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:51,233 And she had a real question. 370 00:20:51,233 --> 00:20:53,366 Well, there was no question about her past. It was back. 371 00:20:54,466 --> 00:20:54,966 And she's a 372 00:20:54,966 --> 00:20:57,966 part of this legal line of Jesus again, 373 00:20:57,966 --> 00:21:00,966 not one that makes the family newsletter. 374 00:21:02,333 --> 00:21:03,400 Not only that, 375 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,400 but then you come to this other lady named Ruth. 376 00:21:07,133 --> 00:21:09,266 Ruth. 377 00:21:09,266 --> 00:21:12,266 She was again another non Hebrew, 378 00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:15,700 but her background goes like this. 379 00:21:16,533 --> 00:21:20,200 If you go back to again the Old Testament and Abraham 380 00:21:21,333 --> 00:21:24,333 has this nephew named lot, 381 00:21:24,366 --> 00:21:28,800 and lot moves into this city area called Sodom and Gomorrah, 382 00:21:30,033 --> 00:21:33,033 and Lord has two daughters and a wife and whatnot, and 383 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:36,500 and God finally tells a lot, look, I'm done with Sodom and Gomorrah. 384 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:37,933 I've had enough of them. I'm going to destroy them. 385 00:21:37,933 --> 00:21:39,700 So get out. You and your family get out. 386 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:41,400 So they leave. 387 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,566 As they're leaving, lot's wife turns around 388 00:21:43,566 --> 00:21:47,333 because she still kind of desires to be back in that environment, 389 00:21:47,866 --> 00:21:50,900 and she turns a pillar of salt and lot and his daughters sweet. 390 00:21:51,966 --> 00:21:55,600 The story goes that lot's daughters 391 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,166 are looking around thinking, there's nobody for us to have babies from. 392 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,800 So let's get dad drunk 393 00:22:02,833 --> 00:22:05,100 and sleep with our father 394 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:08,100 and have kids through him. 395 00:22:13,266 --> 00:22:15,633 So the oldest one does. 396 00:22:15,633 --> 00:22:18,000 And what comes from that 397 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,733 incestuous relationship 398 00:22:20,733 --> 00:22:23,733 are the people that we call the Moabites. 399 00:22:24,633 --> 00:22:27,633 Ruth was a moabite. 400 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,200 That's her family lived. 401 00:22:33,133 --> 00:22:36,133 From this ancestral relationship, 402 00:22:36,766 --> 00:22:39,400 it's not a good. 403 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,400 It's not a good scenario. 404 00:22:42,833 --> 00:22:45,833 Not only that, then this fourth woman that is 405 00:22:46,633 --> 00:22:48,633 somewhat mentioned. 406 00:22:48,633 --> 00:22:50,300 And Jesse, the father of King David. 407 00:22:50,300 --> 00:22:54,266 David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife. 408 00:22:55,833 --> 00:22:58,266 Her name is 409 00:22:58,266 --> 00:22:59,800 Bible students. 410 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,100 Bathsheba. 411 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:05,933 She's called the one who had been Uriah's wife. Why? 412 00:23:06,233 --> 00:23:09,966 Because her story in second Samuel 11 413 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:13,300 is the story of lust, 414 00:23:13,366 --> 00:23:16,533 of adultery, of contracted murder. 415 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:22,600 And all of this 416 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,366 is in the line 417 00:23:24,366 --> 00:23:27,366 of Jesus, his legal line to the throne. 418 00:23:28,233 --> 00:23:31,233 That's not even the worst of it 419 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,500 in the legal life. 420 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:38,566 We come to verse 11 of Matthew one and Joseph, Siya, 421 00:23:38,566 --> 00:23:42,800 the father of Jacob Niya and his brothers at the time of the exiled of Babylon. 422 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,066 Now, that doesn't mean anything to most people, but it means something to me 423 00:23:47,233 --> 00:23:48,000 and I'm going to help. 424 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,233 It means something to you. 425 00:23:50,233 --> 00:23:53,866 This guy, Jack Anaya was a horrible, terrible king. 426 00:23:53,866 --> 00:23:56,800 Everybody say horrible, terrible king. 427 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,700 He was a horrible, terrible king. 428 00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:01,466 So bad. 429 00:24:01,466 --> 00:24:03,400 Everybody say, 430 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,400 how bad was he? 431 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,033 You go back to Jeremiah chapter 22. 432 00:24:08,033 --> 00:24:11,033 This is what God says of Jeremiah 433 00:24:11,566 --> 00:24:16,500 is this man Jack and I despise broken pot in order no one wants. 434 00:24:16,733 --> 00:24:20,233 Why will he and his children be ruled out, cast into the land? 435 00:24:20,966 --> 00:24:23,966 They do not know. O land, land, land! 436 00:24:23,966 --> 00:24:25,266 Hear the word of the Lord. 437 00:24:25,266 --> 00:24:29,566 This is what the Lord says about this guy, Jack of niya, 438 00:24:29,766 --> 00:24:32,866 who is in the legal land of David. 439 00:24:34,366 --> 00:24:37,766 Record this man as if childless, a man 440 00:24:37,766 --> 00:24:41,966 who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring, 441 00:24:43,033 --> 00:24:43,833 Will prosper. 442 00:24:43,833 --> 00:24:48,333 None will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah. 443 00:24:48,333 --> 00:24:51,333 The line is done. 444 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Does anybody see a problem? 445 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:02,500 Because of his sin that. 446 00:25:04,133 --> 00:25:06,633 The bloodline 447 00:25:06,633 --> 00:25:09,633 that would lead to the throne 448 00:25:09,766 --> 00:25:12,766 seems to be severed. 449 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,133 There's no way 450 00:25:17,133 --> 00:25:19,466 that the Messiah 451 00:25:19,466 --> 00:25:20,600 through purely the. 452 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,300 I'm sorry. The legal line. Through the legal line. 453 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:25,666 It seems that that is severed. 454 00:25:25,666 --> 00:25:28,366 And there's no way that the legal that the Messiah could be 455 00:25:28,366 --> 00:25:31,366 a part of this legal line, because it's cut off here in Jeremiah 22. 456 00:25:32,933 --> 00:25:35,933 And so it looks like legally, 457 00:25:36,233 --> 00:25:38,833 the devil wins. 458 00:25:38,833 --> 00:25:41,700 This has been his plan all along 459 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:45,133 to sever the legal line of the Messiah, 460 00:25:46,333 --> 00:25:48,133 right? 461 00:25:48,133 --> 00:25:50,333 Never wins 462 00:25:50,333 --> 00:25:52,533 except 463 00:25:52,533 --> 00:25:54,900 the devil never wins. 464 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:57,900 He's a defeated foe. 465 00:25:58,933 --> 00:26:00,166 In those moments 466 00:26:00,166 --> 00:26:03,166 in your life and in my life, 467 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,966 when it looks like the devil has got the last laugh. 468 00:26:07,966 --> 00:26:10,666 We must remember 469 00:26:10,666 --> 00:26:15,733 that as a defeated foe, the truth remains that greater is he who is in me. 470 00:26:15,866 --> 00:26:17,433 Than he who is in the world. 471 00:26:17,433 --> 00:26:21,600 Than a weapon formed against us even at the hand of the evil one will prevail. 472 00:26:21,766 --> 00:26:23,433 That is the Lord's purpose that prevails. 473 00:26:23,433 --> 00:26:26,566 So even when it appears there is no way. 474 00:26:27,300 --> 00:26:28,233 No way. 475 00:26:28,233 --> 00:26:30,866 Yes. What? 476 00:26:30,866 --> 00:26:33,866 There's a way. 477 00:26:34,366 --> 00:26:37,366 Even when all we see are roadblocks, 478 00:26:37,733 --> 00:26:40,733 defeats. 479 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,833 Dead ends. 480 00:26:43,833 --> 00:26:46,833 Oh, there's a way. 481 00:26:47,833 --> 00:26:49,800 When it looks like the devil. 482 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,800 When we gotta remember. 483 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:56,700 We have a god who was with us. 484 00:26:58,433 --> 00:27:01,433 And he died when? 485 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:06,233 Though we know that Greater Rashid was in me than he was. 486 00:27:06,233 --> 00:27:08,700 Oh, no weapon formed against you will prosper. The. 487 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:10,033 Though we know all of that. 488 00:27:10,033 --> 00:27:13,033 Sometimes it feels. 489 00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:15,566 Though there is no way. 490 00:27:15,566 --> 00:27:20,633 And this is where we push pause on the genealogy and Matthew want, 491 00:27:20,666 --> 00:27:24,300 and we jump over to the genealogy in Luke chapter three. 492 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:29,700 In Luke chapter three. 493 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,566 The Bible tells us this. 494 00:27:32,566 --> 00:27:37,033 Now Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry, 495 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,500 and he was the son. 496 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:44,133 So it was thought of Joseph, the son of Hili. 497 00:27:45,066 --> 00:27:46,333 Now, now this is. 498 00:27:46,333 --> 00:27:49,266 Please stay with me here. I'll do my best. 499 00:27:49,266 --> 00:27:51,800 To unpack this, 500 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,800 Luke says Jesus was the son, so it was thought of Joseph. 501 00:27:56,533 --> 00:27:58,633 You notice his words? So it was thought. Why? 502 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:03,566 Because Jesus wasn't the son of Joseph right 503 00:28:04,333 --> 00:28:07,333 now, as far as everybody else understood, who didn't know the story, 504 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,400 he appeared to be the son of John, but it was. 505 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:14,500 And it says that that, 506 00:28:14,666 --> 00:28:17,066 Joseph was the son of Hili. 507 00:28:17,066 --> 00:28:20,066 And let me explain something to you, how the Scripture is written here 508 00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:24,533 in the in the original Greek text, 509 00:28:24,733 --> 00:28:27,000 the words son 510 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,933 are not included in this genealogy. 511 00:28:29,933 --> 00:28:33,200 It just reads, he was of this person. 512 00:28:33,833 --> 00:28:37,733 So the way this actually reads is Joseph of Healy. 513 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,333 The the, the writers of the scribe inserted the word son. 514 00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:47,566 So it would help us understand that these most of these 515 00:28:47,566 --> 00:28:51,566 are the son up, but the actual text has no son there. 516 00:28:51,733 --> 00:28:56,266 And in the Greek there's no word for son in law, 517 00:28:58,033 --> 00:29:00,433 okay, that doesn't exist there. 518 00:29:00,433 --> 00:29:05,033 And so the only way they had to write this was Joseph of Healy, 519 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:07,200 and they inserted the word son. 520 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,200 But here's what most likely Healy 521 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,266 Joseph was the son in law of Healy, 522 00:29:15,933 --> 00:29:18,300 not the son of 523 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:20,100 okay, now, 524 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:23,500 Healy was the father of Mary. 525 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:27,133 Okay. 526 00:29:27,133 --> 00:29:31,200 Joseph of Healy, who was the father of Mary. 527 00:29:31,833 --> 00:29:36,166 So Healy is it is a part of this line through marriage. 528 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,466 But Mary was the daughter of Healy. 529 00:29:41,333 --> 00:29:46,433 So what we have in Matthew is the line of the Messiah through Solomon 530 00:29:46,433 --> 00:29:50,533 and that evil king Japanese in Luke three. 531 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:55,400 The son of, 532 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,400 Malia. 533 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,400 The son of Menna, the son of Matthew, 534 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,533 the son of Nathan, the son of David. 535 00:30:02,533 --> 00:30:04,500 Luke's genealogy is different. 536 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:07,466 Matthew runs from David 537 00:30:07,466 --> 00:30:10,466 to Solomon to this evil King 538 00:30:10,633 --> 00:30:13,933 Mary's genealogy runs from David, 539 00:30:14,366 --> 00:30:17,466 not through Solomon, because that's where this evil king is. 540 00:30:18,233 --> 00:30:21,800 Runs to Solomon's other or so David's other son, Nathan, 541 00:30:23,133 --> 00:30:26,133 because that's the line that Mary comes from 542 00:30:26,866 --> 00:30:27,933 to understand. 543 00:30:27,933 --> 00:30:30,733 Yeah. 544 00:30:30,733 --> 00:30:32,666 The legal line. 545 00:30:32,666 --> 00:30:33,666 David Solomon. 546 00:30:33,666 --> 00:30:36,666 Jack, when I that line is cursed, 547 00:30:37,566 --> 00:30:39,833 the bloodline. 548 00:30:39,833 --> 00:30:42,833 Mary Healy, David 549 00:30:43,033 --> 00:30:47,233 or Nathan David bypasses Jack or niya. 550 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:50,600 Both Joseph and Mary 551 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,600 are in the line of David. 552 00:30:55,233 --> 00:30:58,233 Jesus legal line through Joseph. 553 00:30:59,133 --> 00:31:01,400 Bloodline through Mary. 554 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,400 Both have a right to the throne. 555 00:31:06,066 --> 00:31:07,700 So when it appears 556 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,700 that there is no way Jack or Naya, 557 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,266 God makes a way. 558 00:31:13,266 --> 00:31:15,000 Mary, 559 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,500 to understand. 560 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:20,033 Some of you right now are looking at the jack layers in life. 561 00:31:20,866 --> 00:31:23,233 You got a jack and I. 562 00:31:23,233 --> 00:31:26,233 There's no way this thing has happened. 563 00:31:26,466 --> 00:31:29,033 It is ruined. It. 564 00:31:29,033 --> 00:31:30,600 There's no way 565 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,600 God says, oh no, no, there's a way. 566 00:31:34,366 --> 00:31:37,166 Because I got a Mary in your life. 567 00:31:37,166 --> 00:31:37,833 Do you understand? 568 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:41,666 Do you understand? 569 00:31:41,666 --> 00:31:43,566 Get your eyes off the Jack. 570 00:31:43,566 --> 00:31:45,733 And I. 571 00:31:45,733 --> 00:31:47,066 It might be a roadblock. 572 00:31:47,066 --> 00:31:48,300 It might be a detour. 573 00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:49,433 It might be a dead end. 574 00:31:49,433 --> 00:31:52,333 For now. 575 00:31:52,333 --> 00:31:55,333 But God's got a plan 576 00:31:55,566 --> 00:31:57,800 because of his presence. 577 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,733 Do you understand? 578 00:31:59,733 --> 00:32:01,133 Now, this. 579 00:32:01,133 --> 00:32:02,700 This is good news because of Mary. 580 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:04,966 But now we still got a problem here. 581 00:32:04,966 --> 00:32:07,166 Here's the problem. 582 00:32:07,166 --> 00:32:08,566 In that culture. 583 00:32:08,566 --> 00:32:13,100 The blessing of the father does not run through women. 584 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,000 Yeah. 585 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000 So, though Mary has a clear line, guess what? 586 00:32:19,366 --> 00:32:21,600 She's not a son. 587 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,966 She's a girl. 588 00:32:23,966 --> 00:32:26,100 She's a girl who identifies as a girl 589 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:29,100 and not a boy. 590 00:32:31,633 --> 00:32:34,633 And so she has no right. 591 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:37,100 Right. 592 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:39,066 Unless 593 00:32:39,066 --> 00:32:41,533 God made a way 594 00:32:41,533 --> 00:32:42,933 and the way God made. 595 00:32:42,933 --> 00:32:45,433 And if you don't know the Bible, you don't know the way. 596 00:32:45,433 --> 00:32:47,466 Let that be a lesson, okay? 597 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:49,533 If you don't know the 598 00:32:49,533 --> 00:32:52,533 Bible, you don't know the way. 599 00:32:52,633 --> 00:32:54,133 The way for Mary 600 00:32:54,133 --> 00:32:57,133 to be in line for the inheritance of the throne. 601 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:00,300 It goes back through numbers 27 602 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:02,866 and in numbers 27, there's 603 00:33:02,866 --> 00:33:05,933 this man named the lesser had ever seen. 604 00:33:05,933 --> 00:33:07,600 His love for that. 605 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,333 I don't know if he said it right, but you don't know the difference, 606 00:33:10,333 --> 00:33:13,833 because he had five daughters and no sons, 607 00:33:14,266 --> 00:33:17,266 and so his blessing 608 00:33:17,633 --> 00:33:20,600 would not be passed to his son because he has no sons. 609 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,300 It would go to somebody else bypassing his daughters. 610 00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:26,300 And so his daughters get together and they say, hey, this isn't right. 611 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,966 Just because we're not a boy doesn't mean the blessing of the father shouldn't 612 00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:30,800 run through us. 613 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,400 And so they make an exception. There's an asterix, 614 00:33:34,566 --> 00:33:36,900 and a new protocol is created 615 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:39,266 that says the inheritance can pass 616 00:33:39,266 --> 00:33:42,266 to the daughters when no son is present. 617 00:33:43,233 --> 00:33:46,233 And so God made a way. 618 00:33:46,533 --> 00:33:48,600 God made a way 619 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,900 when there seemed to be no way. Yeah. 620 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:56,766 And because of the tragedy of the life and death, and having no sons. 621 00:33:56,766 --> 00:33:59,766 And grace was given to the daughters, 622 00:33:59,966 --> 00:34:02,166 and through the grace of God, 623 00:34:02,166 --> 00:34:05,166 God made a way for Mary 624 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,400 to be the line of Jesus 625 00:34:08,666 --> 00:34:11,666 to the throne. 626 00:34:13,233 --> 00:34:15,300 Making a way 627 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:18,300 where there was no way, 628 00:34:18,333 --> 00:34:21,966 long before generations before Mary had to have it. 629 00:34:22,166 --> 00:34:25,166 God already did it. 630 00:34:27,733 --> 00:34:30,266 What a good God. 631 00:34:30,266 --> 00:34:31,933 What a God of grace! 632 00:34:31,933 --> 00:34:33,733 What a God of foreknowledge! 633 00:34:33,733 --> 00:34:36,733 What a God of planning. 634 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:41,200 I'm telling you, 635 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:43,933 I know that some of you all you see. 636 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:46,533 Is the 637 00:34:46,533 --> 00:34:50,000 end, is the loss, is the roadblock, is the defeat. 638 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,600 Is the jack linear? 639 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,033 I am telling you, based on the truth of Scripture 640 00:34:56,333 --> 00:35:00,366 that God has already made a way, even if you can't see it, 641 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:04,000 and you can allow yourself to deny it and walk away from him, 642 00:35:04,166 --> 00:35:12,133 or to embrace it by surrender to him. Or. 643 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:15,966 The story of Christmas 644 00:35:15,966 --> 00:35:18,966 is that God makes a way. 645 00:35:19,466 --> 00:35:20,200 Christianity 646 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,000 is the only religion in the world where God comes to man. 647 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:25,400 Every other religion 648 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,300 and every other faith system is an attempt of man to get to God. 649 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,300 But Christiana is the only one where God says, no, no, no, I will come to you 650 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000 because I am with you. 651 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,200 And Christmas proves it. 652 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,666 Matthew one verses 18 through 25. 653 00:35:45,666 --> 00:35:47,566 The story is very familiar to most people. 654 00:35:49,066 --> 00:35:50,900 It's the story of Christmas. 655 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:56,133 It's the story where God is with us, and Joseph and Mary are are engaged to be 656 00:35:56,133 --> 00:36:01,033 married and engagement in this culture was as binding as the actual marriage. 657 00:36:01,033 --> 00:36:04,033 Now, they had not had the sermon, they had not consummated their relationship yet, 658 00:36:04,066 --> 00:36:09,266 but it was a legally binding agreement that had been already made. 659 00:36:09,266 --> 00:36:12,433 And so to get out of engagement was literally a divorce. 660 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,800 In this culture, sexual purity was a 661 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:19,866 utmost importance, 662 00:36:19,866 --> 00:36:22,866 and it wasn't to be trifled with and flirted around with. 663 00:36:23,633 --> 00:36:28,500 And so when Mary discovers she's pregnant, she has inside information 664 00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:31,700 from the angel that says, don't worry, Mary, the Holy Spirit's come upon you. 665 00:36:32,533 --> 00:36:35,200 You're the chosen one of God. 666 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,800 And so she knows what's going on, but nobody else does. 667 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,166 Joseph finds out she's 668 00:36:40,166 --> 00:36:44,000 pregnant, and Joseph, being honor man, decides this. 669 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000 I love you, but I can't live with you. 670 00:36:47,133 --> 00:36:49,766 And so I'm going to protect you. 671 00:36:49,766 --> 00:36:51,800 But I have to end this. 672 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,800 I love the fact that Joseph 673 00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:57,000 protected. 674 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,000 That was his first response. 675 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,700 I will protect this one who's hurt me. 676 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:04,133 It's amazing. 677 00:37:04,133 --> 00:37:05,200 And then you know the story. 678 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,100 The angel comes, says Joseph. Don't worry, man, I got this. 679 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:11,400 Your wife is good and you're good too. 680 00:37:12,166 --> 00:37:14,166 So go through with this. 681 00:37:14,166 --> 00:37:16,300 This is of God. 682 00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:19,833 And the moment he gained God's perspective, everything changed. 683 00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:21,700 And here's what I know. 684 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:24,733 When we have to understand, when we gain God's perspective, 685 00:37:24,733 --> 00:37:27,733 it changes our attitude and it changes our response. 686 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:30,500 See before God's perspective. I'm done. 687 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:33,666 There's no way I need out of the way. 688 00:37:33,666 --> 00:37:36,366 I'm going after God's perspective. 689 00:37:36,366 --> 00:37:38,100 It changes his attitude. 690 00:37:39,333 --> 00:37:42,333 It changes his response. 691 00:37:42,333 --> 00:37:45,066 God, I trust you and I'm in this because I know 692 00:37:45,066 --> 00:37:48,066 that you got away and that you're with us. 693 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:49,833 The same thing for us. 694 00:37:49,833 --> 00:37:52,200 If we lack God's perspective, 695 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,333 our attitude is one of I'm done, I'm out, this is over. 696 00:37:56,333 --> 00:37:57,166 There's no hope. 697 00:37:57,166 --> 00:38:01,633 But with God's perspective, my attitude and then my response changes. 698 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,533 God, I'm going to trust you, God. 699 00:38:03,533 --> 00:38:04,866 I'm going to believe God. 700 00:38:04,866 --> 00:38:07,866 I'm going to submit because you are good. 701 00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:11,100 You got a plan. You're with me. 702 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,833 You understand? 703 00:38:12,833 --> 00:38:15,833 Today. 704 00:38:15,833 --> 00:38:17,766 And so the angel tells Joseph 705 00:38:17,766 --> 00:38:20,500 that the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son. 706 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:25,366 You'll call him Emmanuel, which means what church of God with us. 707 00:38:25,366 --> 00:38:26,600 And let me ask you this question. 708 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,333 If this is Jesus's name. 709 00:38:28,333 --> 00:38:31,000 Emmanuel, where was he ever called? Emmanuel? The scripture. 710 00:38:37,766 --> 00:38:38,233 There's no 711 00:38:38,233 --> 00:38:41,233 record of anybody ever calling him Emmanuel. 712 00:38:41,466 --> 00:38:43,200 So how can you have a name and never be called 713 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,200 the name? 714 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:50,700 The entire biblical record 715 00:38:51,366 --> 00:38:54,366 is the story of God with us. 716 00:38:55,033 --> 00:38:57,300 The entire life of Jesus. 717 00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:00,300 Is the story an example of God with us? 718 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:04,533 He is with us in the storm, walking on the water. 719 00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:09,600 He's with us in the knee in the application of fish and bread. 720 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,133 He is with us in our lameness. By making us walk. 721 00:39:12,133 --> 00:39:15,133 He is with us. 722 00:39:15,966 --> 00:39:18,966 Making a way. 723 00:39:19,633 --> 00:39:21,300 All through the life of Jesus 724 00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:24,300 we see the truth of Emmanuel that God is with me. 725 00:39:24,933 --> 00:39:26,166 And so think for a moment. 726 00:39:26,166 --> 00:39:28,900 Let's go back to the genealogy. 727 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:31,900 God is with those. 728 00:39:32,833 --> 00:39:35,833 God is with us 729 00:39:35,933 --> 00:39:38,666 who agree to be adopted into his family. 730 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:40,766 And once I agree 731 00:39:40,766 --> 00:39:43,800 to be adopted into the family of God, God is with me. 732 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,833 So think back to the genealogy for the liars among us. 733 00:39:48,533 --> 00:39:51,533 If we are God's, God is. 734 00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:58,233 You can't be so bad 735 00:39:58,233 --> 00:40:01,233 that God says, I'm done 736 00:40:01,633 --> 00:40:03,833 if you are his 737 00:40:03,833 --> 00:40:06,833 and he is yours. 738 00:40:07,733 --> 00:40:10,700 For the sinners among us, 739 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,400 if you are God, your God is yours. 740 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:17,033 God says, though you are sinner, I am with you. 741 00:40:20,866 --> 00:40:24,533 For the sexually impure, guess what 742 00:40:25,666 --> 00:40:28,433 God says not even that 743 00:40:28,433 --> 00:40:30,633 can make me run away. 744 00:40:30,633 --> 00:40:33,133 I'm with you 745 00:40:33,133 --> 00:40:35,666 through the tragedies of life. 746 00:40:35,666 --> 00:40:38,633 God says, because I am yours and you are mine. 747 00:40:38,633 --> 00:40:41,400 No, that tragedy looks like a dead end of the defeat. 748 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,400 I am with you 749 00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:45,966 through every misstep, 750 00:40:45,966 --> 00:40:49,200 every sin, every hurt, every defeat, every failure. 751 00:40:49,333 --> 00:40:51,700 God says, I am with you. 752 00:40:55,766 --> 00:40:58,566 And that's his promise 753 00:40:58,566 --> 00:41:01,566 to those who are with him. 754 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:02,233 Their friends. 755 00:41:02,233 --> 00:41:05,233 And none of us are born into that relationship. 756 00:41:06,333 --> 00:41:09,333 It comes through adoption, 757 00:41:09,333 --> 00:41:12,000 where the father makes the plea, 758 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,366 I want you to be my. 759 00:41:14,366 --> 00:41:17,366 And the child says, I want to be yours. 760 00:41:20,533 --> 00:41:23,533 This is the promise and this is the purpose of Christmas, 761 00:41:24,133 --> 00:41:26,333 that by faith 762 00:41:26,333 --> 00:41:27,066 God is with us. 763 00:41:27,066 --> 00:41:30,833 And all of this culminates God with us culminates 764 00:41:31,300 --> 00:41:34,166 revelation 21, verses 345. 765 00:41:34,166 --> 00:41:35,500 Let me read it for you. 766 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:38,666 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 767 00:41:38,866 --> 00:41:43,900 now the dwelling of God is with men, God with us, 768 00:41:44,933 --> 00:41:47,166 and he will live with them. 769 00:41:47,166 --> 00:41:49,100 God with us. 770 00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:53,800 They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 771 00:41:53,900 --> 00:41:55,833 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. 772 00:41:55,833 --> 00:41:59,666 There will be no more death, no more mourning, no more crying, 773 00:41:59,666 --> 00:42:01,633 no more pain for the old order. 774 00:42:01,633 --> 00:42:03,166 The things has passed away. 775 00:42:04,166 --> 00:42:04,600 He who 776 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,566 is seated on the throne said, I am making everything new. 777 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,900 And then he said, write this down, 778 00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:14,666 for these words are trustworthy and true. 779 00:42:14,666 --> 00:42:17,666 God is with us. 780 00:42:21,100 --> 00:42:24,100 He will make a way. 781 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,000 If you surrender 782 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,366 fully to him. 783 00:42:29,366 --> 00:42:32,600 And so the question that we have to answer, 784 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,000 every one of us. 785 00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:39,233 Will I trust him enough today 786 00:42:40,633 --> 00:42:43,633 to give myself fully to him? 787 00:42:44,533 --> 00:42:47,533 So what I call a surrendered life. 788 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,800 When we surrender control. 789 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:57,100 When we surrender our rights 790 00:42:57,533 --> 00:43:00,533 and our expectations. 791 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,633 And when we surrender to this God, 792 00:43:05,633 --> 00:43:08,266 what's left in the wake of surrender 793 00:43:08,266 --> 00:43:11,266 is joy and confidence. 794 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,266 Joy and calm. 795 00:43:12,266 --> 00:43:15,600 Because I know I got a God that even though 796 00:43:15,633 --> 00:43:19,633 there appears to be no way, there is a way. 797 00:43:19,733 --> 00:43:23,666 Even though when all I see is dead end, there is a way. 798 00:43:23,666 --> 00:43:25,300 Even when all I see is defeat. 799 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:27,166 There is a way. 800 00:43:27,166 --> 00:43:30,833 So I can surrender completely and be filled with joy and calm. 801 00:43:30,866 --> 00:43:33,866 Because I know I got a God 802 00:43:33,866 --> 00:43:38,066 who not only has a way, but as promised, his presence with. 803 00:43:38,433 --> 00:43:43,233 And when I know that my God has a way and has given me his presence, 804 00:43:43,233 --> 00:43:46,700 I don't care about the defeat, the failure in the dead end. 805 00:43:46,833 --> 00:43:50,000 I can look at it with joy and confidence because I got a God. 806 00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:55,100 You understand? 807 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,400 Is not the God you have? 808 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:00,666 Oh, yes. 809 00:44:00,666 --> 00:44:02,933 If it is 810 00:44:02,933 --> 00:44:05,933 joy and confidence in the face of every defeat, 811 00:44:06,133 --> 00:44:09,133 I ought to be left in the wake of that God. 812 00:44:13,033 --> 00:44:16,033 This is Christmas. 813 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:20,100 This is Christmas. 814 00:44:20,366 --> 00:44:20,666 Father. 815 00:44:20,666 --> 00:44:21,666 Thank you. 816 00:44:21,666 --> 00:44:24,666 Thank you that you made a way. 817 00:44:25,333 --> 00:44:28,333 Thank you that you. 818 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:30,300 Have always made a way. 819 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:33,100 Oh, yeah. You promised us your presence. 820 00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:36,100 You are a good God. God. 821 00:44:38,433 --> 00:44:40,200 Father, I thank you that there's no defeat. 822 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,466 There's no sin, there's no failure. 823 00:44:42,466 --> 00:44:43,500 There's no dead end. 824 00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:45,666 There's no pit, there's no hole. 825 00:44:45,666 --> 00:44:46,766 There's no habitat. 826 00:44:46,766 --> 00:44:47,433 There's no hurt. 827 00:44:47,433 --> 00:44:50,433 There's no hang up that's greater than you. 828 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,766 I thank you that you always make a way, 829 00:44:53,766 --> 00:44:57,866 that you made a way through your son, and that he came to earth for me and for us. 830 00:44:59,200 --> 00:44:59,800 The things that you've 831 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,833 invited us into your family. 832 00:45:04,733 --> 00:45:07,100 Holy spirit, I pray that every person here would submit, 833 00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:10,100 that we would submit ourselves and surrender. 834 00:45:11,533 --> 00:45:14,533 To you, God, who made a way. 835 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,100 I'd encourage you in this moment. 836 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:17,800 Just. 837 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,800 It's. 838 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,600 To say something along these lines at this. 839 00:45:26,366 --> 00:45:29,733 To have this moment between you and the God who makes it way, 840 00:45:30,366 --> 00:45:33,366 the Jesus who is the way. 841 00:45:34,366 --> 00:45:34,833 So you, God. 842 00:45:34,833 --> 00:45:37,833 Thank you that you love me, 843 00:45:38,166 --> 00:45:40,900 that you made a way. 844 00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:43,900 I believe that ways through Jesus. 845 00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:50,100 And I'm responding to your invitation 846 00:45:50,333 --> 00:45:53,333 to be a part of your family because of Jesus. 847 00:45:53,766 --> 00:45:55,000 Yeah. 848 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,066 Today 849 00:45:57,066 --> 00:45:59,933 I accept your way 850 00:45:59,933 --> 00:46:02,933 for my saving 851 00:46:03,166 --> 00:46:04,666 through your son, Jesus. 852 00:46:04,666 --> 00:46:07,666 Thank you for your forgiveness. 853 00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,800 Give me the faith and the sight 854 00:46:14,333 --> 00:46:17,333 and the trust and the confidence 855 00:46:18,433 --> 00:46:21,433 to know and to remember 856 00:46:22,733 --> 00:46:25,166 that you got a plan 857 00:46:25,166 --> 00:46:28,166 and your presence is with me. 858 00:46:29,366 --> 00:46:32,233 So I can live confidently, 859 00:46:32,233 --> 00:46:33,900 with joy, 860 00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:36,900 with you. 861 00:46:37,266 --> 00:46:39,466 Father, we love you. 862 00:46:39,466 --> 00:46:42,466 Thank you for the celebration of Christmas. 863 00:46:42,666 --> 00:46:45,933 That reminds us of your presence in your plan. 864 00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:50,100 That you've made a way where there seem to be no way 865 00:46:50,533 --> 00:46:53,266 you are a good God. 866 00:46:53,266 --> 00:46:54,733 In your name I pray, Amen. 867 00:46:54,733 --> 00:46:55,900 Amen. 868 00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:59,033 Listen, next week, Luke one. 869 00:47:00,266 --> 00:47:03,266 So read through Matthew one with new eyes 870 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,066 and read ahead and Luke one in expectation. 871 00:47:07,066 --> 00:47:10,000 And next week you understand. 872 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,933 Listen, I'm giving you this charge as your pastor 873 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,133 and as a head coach, 874 00:47:17,133 --> 00:47:20,133 because we're getting ready for game day on Monday. 875 00:47:20,533 --> 00:47:21,800 Okay? 876 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,000 So getting ready for game day, 877 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,266 you go into this with all confidence. 878 00:47:27,266 --> 00:47:30,566 Not who you are, but and who he is that he's already made a way 879 00:47:31,466 --> 00:47:34,000 that you surrender fully to him 880 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,833 and you go into game day with confidence and joy. 881 00:47:38,333 --> 00:47:41,566 You understand that you carry Christmas with you 882 00:47:42,066 --> 00:47:45,066 because he is a good God and you are not alone. 883 00:47:45,433 --> 00:47:47,800 Yeah, you understand? Listen.