Matthew 1:18-25

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Speaking the Truth in Love from Ephesians 4:15

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Like to call this truth and love. Because I was reading Ephesians and and saw Ephesians chapter 4 verse 15 where Paul is telling us to speak the truth in love. We are to grow up in all aspects into him.

Who is the head even Christ. And sometimes, you know we focus on one thing or another but. And and we should because we want to dive deep and we want to learn and grow and learn about who God is and who He says he is and who we are.

So we want to dive deep into all his subjects and. And we want to share that. God wants us to share that with each other. Pray for one another share God's Word with one another share the gospel with one another.

And but when we do that Paul is telling us to speak the truth in love and that's my goal. And I hope that I always do that. Not just on the video. But in person as well wherever wherever I am. I want to be consistent and Be the same person everywhere that I Speak truth and I share truth and whatever I'm doing.

I do it in love. So that's where I get truth and love is from Ephesians chapter 4 verse 15. The title if you happen to see the title that I posted. We're in the series of Jesus is King. I always Say that and I picked that up from One of the earlier videos that I did a long time ago.

And so I started saying it because it's so relevant. It's so true. But I speak of Jesus being King and so therefore we should live in the victory of Jesus being King. Not in not in any type of victory that we've won but living in in the victory that Christ won.

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Victory is won. And so we just got to live in it and we need to know from Scripture how to live in that victory that that Jesus is King. And the best place to do that is Well all of Scripture, of course.

But one great place to do that is I feel like Matthew because Matthew one of the goals of Matthew Is to reveal to his readers that Jesus is the long-awaited King the the anointed one. The one that they were expecting.

So he wanted to share and teach that Jesus is King. And so as we pull out from Matthew him showing us through through the life of Christ that that Jesus is King Hopefully we can learn how to live in that victory that he won.

And I'm just gonna go through Matthew and pull it pull out where Matthew is is pointing to us that Jesus is King and see if we can God will reveal how How we should live in that victory that Jesus is King.

So Jesus is King. We should go live in that victory and then Kind of the subject that I saw in today's verses.

Was.

Rejecting Christ as King. That's not what happened in these verses but it it happened a lot that Jesus and God have been rejected over and over again as King and so the verses that we're going to look at today is Matthew chapter 1 verses 18 through 25 and.

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Let me read those to you. And we're gonna be looking at how Matthew is teaching us that that Jesus is King and the thoughts That I want to share with you are regarding Rejecting Christ as King now those thoughts I'm intentionally going to make those points second to last.

Because I don't want to end on a negative note. We're gonna end on a positive note. But we want to look at Jesus being rejected as King. Matthew chapter 1 verses 18 through 25 if you have your Bibles if you have an app if you want to follow along that'd be terrific and And I'm I didn't print out the verses so I'm gonna be flipping back and forth a good bit.

Hopefully the pages don't make too much noise on the microphone. But we'll see what happens and we'll take our time. Matthew chapter 1 verses 18 through 25. Matthew tells us now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows when his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit and Joseph her husband being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her desire to put her away secretly.

But when he had considered this behold an angel the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit and She will bear his son and you shall call his name Jesus.

For it is he who will save his people from their sins. Now all this took place that what was spoken by the Lord through the Prophet might be fulfilled saying Behold, the Virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel which translated means God with us and Joseph arose from his sleep and he did as the angel the Lord commanded him and took her as his wife and Kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a son and he called his name Jesus.

It seems like not just in these verses but To understand what Matthew is is pointing out to us In the verses that we looked at last time in the last video on this subject and these verses right here. You want to talk about the the main character of the story?

Of course Jesus is the overall main character of the whole Bible. He's the main character here. And of course we have Mary. She's a main character, but it seems as if In these verses and the verses before that that Matthew was is bringing out.

And bringing up to the surface Joseph a little bit more and it's showing us him being more of the main character here in these verses and Why why is Matthew bringing out Joseph as as more the main character?

He's speaking of Joseph and Joseph's account. What happened to Joseph in in this? Story of Christ. We have the genealogy In Luke and we also have a genealogy in Matthew. The genealogy of Matthew is is of who it is of Joseph.

Verse 16 says and to Jacob was born Joseph the husband of Mary to whom was born Jesus who was called Christ this genealogy is is of Joseph and Then then verses 18 through 25. We hear the account of what happened to Joseph where he was.

He was a righteous man. He was. You know, there's many other things that he could have done with Mary or to Mary because of her being pregnant and and them not being Married and had been together. But he was he was a kind man and he was gonna put her away Secretly so that nothing happened to her.

Because he loved her and he was a righteous man. He was a kind man. Angel come to him. Told him what was going on that that this the child was of the Holy Spirit. And so therefore Joseph took went on to take Mary as his wife.

And didn't touch her until she had given birth to Jesus. They called his name Jesus. So why why is Joseph the main character here? Um, I think Matthew is trying to to Show us that Jesus is King through this this life of Joseph.

And of course Looking at the genealogy of Joseph. Who do we find in that genealogy? We find that um, we find that Joseph is a descendant of King David, so so Jesus comes through this line.

Being.

Being from the family of Joseph Being in a line of King David. So therefore Legally in an earthly sense He has legal rights to the throne because he is a descendant of King David. He is he's adopted son of Joseph and and therefore in that family line descendant of Of King David.

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And if you've ever dug into Matthew if you know around Christmas as As you studied Luke you study Matthew and you and you've had Study lessons on on the Christmas story. This may be familiar familiar to you that Joseph is genealogy and it shows us that Jesus is King through the line of David.

But it was interesting to me as I was looking at it as I was studying it reflecting on it that um Jesus is not just Jesus is not just an earthly King. And this passage, I do believe that these passages here are showing us that that Jesus.

It is.

Legally in in an earthly sense has the right to the throne of David because of the genealogy. Because of Joseph and being of the family of Joseph. That's absolutely what it's teaching but I also think it's teaching us a Different aspect of who Jesus is.

Because Jesus is not just King of the earth.

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Someone could be a king like like David himself. He was king of a certain area. He had boundaries and so if you know if Jesus were to take on David's Literal throne there, you know, he would have the boundaries that David had of course.

They were in a different situation by the time Jesus showed up, but just just as an example the the one who followed after David would would Be reigning over the those boundaries. There would there be limitations to his reign.

But with with Jesus His reign would be here on earth if that was you know. If that was the only sense in which he was reigning it all the only sense in which he was king He would have he would have boundaries.

He would have limitations. But we know that's we know that's not the case with Jesus that his kingship does not have boundaries, right? It's not just limited to a certain area here on the earth. It's not just limited to The earth the globe itself and I noticed some folks jumping in and out and that's cool and I'm glad I'm glad you guys are watching with me.

Let me know that you're watching if you have any questions. If you have any comments, I'm open to that love to hear from you if you're open to typing. Leaving a comment. I'd love to hear from you and and and know that you're watching.

Let me know if you're encouraged and let me know if you'd like to add anything as well. And if I can ever pray for anybody, all you have to do is type me and I'd love to be able to do that. So in what other way is Jesus King?

We know we're learning that Jesus being in the line of David Legally has that right to to obtain the the throne of David and of course that fulfills You know other prophecies in Scripture. So what in what other way does he reign in?

What other way does is Jesus King? Well, we look at the prophecy and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna flip to these scriptures. I do have kind of a summary of where they come from. But but the prophecies were fulfilled.

Now all this took place verse 22 that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet Might be fulfilled and which prophet was that? Well the the prophet that spoke these things was the prophet Isaiah.

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The verses here say behold The Virgin shall be with child and shall bury son and they'll should call his name Emmanuel which translated means God with us. Isaiah 7 14 speaks of a virgin bearing a son and His name will be Emmanuel.

Chapter 9 verses 6 and 7. The government will rest on his shoulders and the increase of his his government will there will be no end and in his brain his.

Reigning will.

Will be forever chapter 8 verse 10 says teaches us that He will he will be known just like just like when it's when he gives him the name Emmanuel. Being translated God with us chapter 8 verse 10 is another area where you can see that he is called God with us and so.

How does that point to Jesus being King? And how does that and what does that tell us about the the kind of King that Jesus is well? Who was who was God to the folks in the Old Testament to to his people in the whole Testament?

Jesus was God was King of his people in the Old Testament. He was their king. Even though God was invisible He is invisible. He is spirit, but he was invisible. He was he was still their king. He ruled over them.

He was their king. He's the one who gave them the their laws and that they were to obey and follow. Even though he was invisible he still ruled and and reigned over his people and At times he revealed himself.

If you're familiar with some of the stories in the Old Testament That he did reveal himself, you know several times to Individuals like you know, like Moses in the burning bush as an example God did reveal himself, but as a whole Being the invisible God But still king over his people being the lawgiver and being and reigning and ruling over his people.

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What happens next? Oh, yeah, let's look at let's look at the Psalms. How do we know that. Well Let's start at Psalm chapter 10. Psalm chapter 10. You know, how do we how do we know that they that God was their king?

How do we know that they viewed God as their king? Well, we can look at we can look at several Psalms and this is not all of them. There there are plenty more Psalms that we could read and we could look at other places in the Old Testament That speak to this but let's just look at for Psalm chapter 10 verse 16.

It says the Lord is king forever and ever. Nations have perished from his hand. And then chapter 24. Chapter 24 verse 10. Who is the king of glory the Lord of hosts? He is the king of glory. And then verse chapter 47.

Like I said, I was just gonna flip through these passages. I didn't print them out today. So we'll just take our time 47 verse 7 for God is the king of all the earth. Sing praises with a skillful song and then the last one chapter 95.

Psalm chapter 95. And you sometimes you can skip by these songs really quickly because they're they're short chapters. And you can skip by and go past it chapter 95 verse. Verse 3 for the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods.

So the the psalmist viewed David. Hey mom and dad. Thanks for watching. The psalmist we can see that it's evident that the psalmist Viewed God as the king of all the earth the king of his people. The king of The king over him.

In fact the last one that I'm going to read from the Psalms is Psalm 110. And and this passage is is quoted as well in Matthew chapter 22 verse 44. It says a psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord sit in my right hand until I make thine enemies a footstool for thy feet for the Lord will stretch forth the strong scepter from Zion saying rule in the midst of thine enemies.

And so and it's questioned of Course in the New Testament. How can how can David say to to Jesus? And how can David call Jesus Lord if David came before Jesus and so of course we're speaking of the eternality of Christ and that he always existed he always was and and the Lord is king over David as well as Now being given the legal rights being from the family of Joseph to to sit on that throne of David.

And so this is the verse that that Matthew references there the Lord says to my Lord sit at my right hand and here's the big prophecy part of in times prophecy until thine enemies. Until I make thine enemies a footstool for thy feet and that that process is happening Christ.

Christ is ruling and reigning and his enemies are being made his footstool.

So.

The Lord was viewed as King in the Old Testament and now we look to Matthew chapter 1 and Matthew chapter 1 when he speaks of fulfilling what the prophets said. What are the prophets say that You shall call his name Emmanuel being translated.

God with us.

So who was God. God was King and There was going to come this one this fulfillment of prophecy. That was going to be God with us the King with us. And so Matthew was teaching us that Jesus is King and And he's he's an unlimited King.

He doesn't have those limitations and boundaries that that David or any other King had. He is King in in a earthly legal sense by being of the family of Jesus and the line of David but he's also King in a spiritual sense because he is Emmanuel he is God with us and God is King was King over his people and there's going to come one who will be God with us.

The King with us he will be with us he will come dwell with us. And Jesus fulfilled that prophecy so therefore Spiritually Spiritually Jesus fulfills that kingship because he comes from the Holy Spirit, right it says.

You know, Joseph Mary is is now with child and he is from the Holy Spirit. So Jesus will kill fulfills, excuse me, I can't talk this morning. Jesus fulfills that spiritual kingship because he comes from the Holy Spirit and also because he has fulfilled the prophecies of the anointed one to come the one that they will call Emmanuel God with us the King is with us and he is also the earth in an earthly legal sense King so what does that mean?

Jesus is is King in two different senses in two different ways that makes him an unlimited King King of the earth and King in the spiritual realm. So therefore Jesus is is King over.

Everything.

Right. Jesus is King over everything now. I want to get to Again just want to Put this in there. I keep I see folks jump in and out and and I do that too on Facebook. You know, I jump in and out. I Don't have time to watch complete videos at one time all the time.

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Now what did? What did the people of God the people of the king. What did they do what they do in the Old Testament? With God being their king. Well, we can look at Samuel 1 Samuel chapter 8. Listen to how they treated their king and this is where we're getting to the part of Rejecting the king rejecting King Jesus.

And of course, I'm I'm going to end on a positive note. So We're on the second to last last point here. But this is where I thought about Speaking of the title, you know, Jesus is King. We want to live in that victory of Jesus kingship and then rejecting Jesus as King from Matthew chapter 1 and this is where this is where that comes from when I thought of Matthew teaching us that Jesus is is King in an Earthly legal sense through Joseph and Jesus is King through the Holy Spirit and through Fulfillment of prophecy.

He's a he's a spiritual King Emmanuel God with us the King with us. So how and then I thought about how they treated their king in the Old Testament and I remember 1st Samuel chapter 8 and Let me read Let me read verses 1 through 1 through 7.

And it came about when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of his first one was Joel in the name of a second Abijah. They were judging judging in Beersheba his sons, however Excuse me.

His sons, however did not walk in his ways. But turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah and they said to him behold You have grown old and your sons do not walk in your ways now Appoint a king for us to judge us like all the other nations.

So all the other nations Have an earthly King this this idea of nations is going to come up in the end on in the positive part but but keep that in the back of your mind this this idea of other nations and the other nations had an earthly King and.

And of course the the Jewish people Israel they were God's people and then you had everyone else right and so everyone else. From a biblical sense or and in reality, we're worshiping idols false gods living for themselves.

And that's why you have that's why you have the flood. That's why you have the the Tower of Babel, that's why you have all the all these judgments upon the earth and The people are worshiping other gods and they've gone away from God but here Israel wants to be like the other nations those who are different than God's chosen people.

Worshiping false gods and and the like and they want to be like them in the fact that they have a king as judge over them. Verse 5 now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations. Verse 6 but the thing was displeasing in the sight of Samuel when they said give us a king to judge us and Samuel prayed to the Lord.

And the Lord said to Samuel Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you. For they have not rejected you. But they have rejected me from being king Over them. So the people the people that God had chose to rule over and to To keep separate to bring the Messiah through he was their king.

He was their lawgiver and here they reject him as king. They wanted a king Like the other nations to rule over them to judge of them to go before them in battle and all these other things that they.

Talk about.

But the Lord says to Samuel they've not rejected you they rejected me as king.

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This happened. They they broke their covenant with God over and over again. They reject him as king.

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That's what came to mind when when I read Matthew chapter 1 and And the fulfilled prophecy was they shall call his name Emmanuel God with us and we're talking about Jesus being king and Jesus therefore it is the king with us spiritually.

And How did the people treat their king? They rejected him. And that rejection Continued even to the time of Jesus even on the cross. And we're going to read some verses about that in just a second. So they were they rejected God as king and I think that's repeated in verse chapter 12.

Verse 12 it says. When you say to Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon come against you. You said to me no, but a king shall reign over us. Although the Lord your God was your king.

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Again.

This is a situation where the the people of God reject God as their king and God told them God had a response and I want to I want to show you the response. Because we want to look at we want to look at the the consequences.

The fact of the matter is that that Jesus is king. The the prophecy was fulfilled. And even before the prophecy God Was and is God. God was their king. Even though they rejected him and wanted an earthly king and God gave them the earthly king that that did not.

God did not step off his throne. God remained on his throne. You see how that works that um God as as the king of kings Allowed them to have a king. So if he didn't want them to have a king he would they would have had another king, but he let them Have what they wanted.

So that that is the ability of the ultimate king that has the ultimate authority. So he didn't he didn't step off his throne. He remained king and he allowed things to happen. They just had an earthly king.

This was his response. And then he gives a warning verse. Verse 8. Verse 8 is the response. The Lord says like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day.

And that they have forsaken me and served other gods. So they are doing to you also Samuel.

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He's saying it's just like it's always been. They they went after other gods. They've forsaken me and now in your time Samuel. They're doing it to you. They're rejecting me. And the message that I'm giving you they're rejecting you.

And you read that Over-and-over in the in the New Testament and Jesus and I think it's in John Jesus speaks to them about how how they treated their fathers those that um, those that were speaking of him.

They they killed all The prophets that spoke of Christ they they killed they persecuted the prophets of God. And here the Lord is saying there, you know, just like they've always done in the past. They're doing it to you Samuel.

And then here's his warning here's the warning of God because of their decision to reject the Lord as king and Have an earthly king just like the other nations. The Lord is giving them a warning verses 9 through 17.

He says now then listen to their voice. However, you shall solemnly warn them and tell them of the procedure of the king who will reign over them. This is what the king who's gonna reign over them. This is what he's gonna do so Samuel spoke to all the spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who asked of him a King and he said this will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you.

He will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of 50s and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and Equipment for his chariots.

He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers and he will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants and he will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants and He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.

Verse 17 and he will take a tenth of your flocks and you yourselves will become his Servants. So this is this is the warning. This is what this king that you want. This is what he's going to do. This is gonna be his procedure.

And we know this warning from the Lord came true, this is this is really pretty cool. To see this happen. If you flip over a couple chapters to chapter 17 We know that we know that this warning of the Lord Came true that this would be the procedure of the king that was appointed over them.

How do we how do we know that was fulfilled? That it came true that that this new king treated them this way. If you if you go to chapter 17 you you get into the story of David and Goliath Goliath the Philistine who was the giant who came out and mocked Israel Mocked God's people and said send out your best warrior to fight me and no one ever went out.

And of course David eventually went out but Goliath was a threat to the people of God. To to Israel and And King Saul at the time. It was a threat to him and he really wanted somebody to defeat this giant this this warrior.

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He he wanted this so much That he offered basically a reward to the one that would would kill him. Listen to what the reward is for the one that defeats this warrior. Goliath chapter 17 verse. Verse 25 in the men of Israel said have you seen this man?

Who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel and It will be that the king will Enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and Make his father's house free.

In Israel, it doesn't go over all the reversal of all All the procedures that is spelled out in in chapter 8 but we we read that.

The.

The families the families that made up the people of Israel they were the servants of the king and so therefore The king owned these people. To be able to free the the father's household of the one who kills Goliath They had to be owned by the king and and he would they would give them riches give him his daughter.

And so we saw we see this this warning being fulfilled even in the their first king Saul and His father's house would be free so therefore they were enslaved to the king. So this is this is what happens.

This is what happens in an earthly sense when we reject Christ as king. In in the earthly sense. You know We spoke of Jesus having or being king in in two senses. In in two aspects of the word. Or in two aspects of his kingship that this earthly reign.

And we see here that when we in it in an earthly sense when we reject God as king. There's gonna be someone to take his place and we're going to be we're gonna be owned.

By.

That one that replaces God as king we're gonna have a king. The truth is Jesus is the Son of God. Believing Jesus is God Denies the truth. It denies God and the Son. May read that again. From. Jody the truth is Jesus is the Son of God.

Believing Jesus is God denies the truth. It denies God and the Son. That is a Different perspective.

That.

Is a perspective that has been Renounced. I'm not sure who Joe Joe D is. He's watching. It looks like he's watching on YouTube. Thank you for watching Joe.

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That perspective is one that that has been renounced For a long time it was that. That perspective was around even in the in the first century that Jesus was not God. He was it was just a mere man. Scripture scripture does speak to the Father being God scripture speaks to Jesus being God and it speaks to the Holy Spirit.

It references all three of them With divine attributes and that's the way it describes and speaks to their identity that that all three are are God and so Where where I stand and where I believe which is which is going to be the the Orthodox position the one that is Has been most widely held throughout since the time of the Apostles.

Is that that God is Trinity three in one? One God in three persons, so I appreciate you commenting and Being interactive Joe. I really appreciate that.

But yeah, that's that's.

Definitely a subject to look into and and I just I wanted to share with you my perspective and Where I landed on that issue. But but I believe the Bible does teach that that Jesus is God and that that title son of God, which is which is more of a title than a description of his Incarnation the title son of God also speaks to his divinity as well.

So.

Jumping back in To where we were we know that. That we will be owned. We we are gonna have a king. We are gonna have a ruler over us.

Even if we.

We think we think we're freeing ourselves. We go into rebellion. Our parents try to teach us about Christ. Our parents try to teach us to Follow God and follow his word and and be obedient to our King Jesus.

And and then we will reject that. Or we'll reject someone in our life that's trying to point us to Christ. Joseph's incarnation is a lie for it is appointed unto me and wants to die and then judgment.

Yeah, I believe in that verse. If if you believe the the incarnation is a lie then You would have to reject the the actual verses that we read. Initially our key text this this morning that we were looking at Matthew Matthew chapter 1 verses 18 through 25 where The angel comes to Joseph and says don't put her away.