"The Genesis of Christmas" Part 2

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Again and again towards yourself Last week we began to talk about in other words to begin to think about the connection between Is as we have them in the gospel

The gospel writers Blame the significance

Significance We think of the

Genesis us to think about the origin of our Can be somewhat controversial for The greenery maybe want to avert the whole thing

You Concentrating on the true meaning of Christmas and make the most of this season

Think you have put up a tree in your house the family tree and perhaps you

And decorate it perhaps it's part of your tradition terms out the

Old and New Testament That God on the serpent that he put in the

Serpent that the seed of the woman would crush that and throughout the rest of Genesis and the given to Reserving of that last the importance of the genealogies

I The true significance of the arrival of Christ is the fulfillment

The woman Often the theme will be related

Out Name of word seed and this in today this name of the seed

Is 8 through 12 From the book of Genesis Phrase you

Your hand shall be on the neck from the prey my

Who dares rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor the rulers

Shiloh comes and to him shall The choice vine he washes his garb

His eyes are dull from wine May God bless the reading of his word

For you and for your family for Christmas Day Very often those who are receiving the presents basically know

What it is by simply looking at the label This is the box full of cheese

For the present you don't have to unwrap it, you know That's the purpose of a name the name person but along with the name comes

All about that when you hear a certain name of a person who that person is

You have a you have a feeling about this person you have But a name is is meant to I Day I was we were picking up our kids from the

Barnett's who watched them for us and Barnett's and he was wrassling him back in This was going on Called grab the ball and you know with a name like that.

You don't have to when you hear the

Boys, have you ever noticed how much attention is given to the? Of God incarnate there is so much attention given in Matthew and in Luke and Nice to child

Why is that? to know the gospel he wants us to know of Jesus and this is not focus on the

Genesis as as we Can see of the ancestors of Christ and significance of name of Christ as we look in Matthew chapter mention given to the identity of the person we are going to be reading is and and Matthew starts

Jesus the Messiah the son of Are given significant names.

The most significant is that of Jesus the Messiah and Messiah we're going to learn about Jesus the

Messiah and again here and The birth we're interested in is the birth of Jesus Because now the birth of Jesus Christ was a troth to Joseph before they are brought

To be with child of the Holy Spirit Joseph Put her away and yet to do so secret

Joseph Put her away and yet to do so secretly so that she or Does know and the child conceived in her is of the whole?

And do you see how quickly the attention is? Is Joseph is greatly and with explains

What's going on removes the confusion? Cleared up instruction

Such an importance upon the name to our

To Christ is through his name And what's significant about the name you shall name him

Jesus you shall call his name Jesus why from there

Name him Jesus Ends now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the

Lord sign and they shall call his name Emmanuel which means

I find this remarkable that Lane What to name

Jesus Yeshua for meaning the Lord saved As this one yes, you are

Jesus and then Matthew interjects and says this was to fulfill

The virgin with child and You're expecting

He's Instead we read Not Emmanuel, but Jesus How does naming him

Jesus fulfill Well quite simply this we

Which exile the? This is salvation

It is with us Reconcile us back to himself

Name him Jesus this And indeed

Joseph obeyed in verse 25 what a significant name chapter 1

The child and This is the and in verse 30

Afraid Mary for you have found favor with God and behold you will Very first thing we hear about Most important that the name be got

You uh the Lord saves He will be Son of the most will give him the throne

Mary's confused, of course Holy Spirit will come upon you in the power of the

Most High the Son of God so Just and he will be called he

Son of God emphasis on his and this continues

Incidents where Jesus is being highlighted in his birth, but also we can beginning

We might at the very Vision about who this word is there may be a bit

We know that He is He is the

He is the word and he is the light and in him is life You Or in verse

Welt among us and we saw his glory All of grace and truth and we learn even more about that he

But the real jaw -dropping moment is in Was given through Moses grace and truth were realized through we have the name given to us by the

You And the light and You're given such an attention upon the name of the seed the name of the one to whom all the genealogies point

The Holy Spirit is showcasing the significance Understand who he is and what he came to do

He is Messiah one many were anointed in We're anointed but Christ Jesus He is called

God with his word

Revealing his word revealing accomplishing now from their sins, so Names are not

One another they are an agreement Right and see the

Murdered Abel. She calls Seth the son exiled the other murdered

We think of the name Noah lame. It calls him Loa Being free and there was a pause it was

Refreshing of the earth through the flood on Shem Through whom comes

Eber Abraham Isaac and Jacob and Shem is highlight

She means name the name pay attention

We think Father of a people and his name being changed or of a multitude of peoples

All the families of the earth through Abraham and through his seed we think

Isaac's name was not originally given in chapter 18 Listening in is at the age of 89 or 79 and She hears you can have a child and so she laughs

That's not ultimately why Isaac was named I'm in chapter 17 when a

Old age he says God says you'll name him Isaac laughter It did bring laughter and joy

Isaac had two sons Esau Obvious name

Harry Called him Harry and sometimes they called him red but Jacob Jacob Means heal means supplanter but yeah,

I hope and isn't that the real story of Jacob's life and Laban and then

Esau again and protected him from Shechem and protected Famine isn't that the real story of God showing his power then

Jacob Are in fierce competition for their husband's love and he

Rachel takes her action to compete with her sister Then Simeon didn't

Levi in each one the Lord pray Praise Judah Come from Judah whose name the one to whom it all belongs of the the seed through the genealogies and how

And we see that that in the Gospels the emphasis is upon the name of this

It's not unprecedented as we look at the genealogy pause and Person was born under these circumstances and this is the trajectory of their life

That is not unprecedented when we come to Christ In by the

Holy Spirit and what he came to do that he is named these names Jesus Christ.

Amen the Holy Spirit is showing us in the text

The name should be our focus His name and his name we learn nation in the gospel

Known to all of you and to all the people of Israel By whom

God raised from the dead by this name this man's Jesus Christ the

Nazarene. He is the stone Which became the chief cornerstone and there is

Jesus Christ Do this? Christmas celebrations

Focus of how we celebrate Christmas Event of Christ that our focus is drawn in The attention is given to the

We Our Savior and we ought to praise our focus as well and how vitally important Where we live

Broken Abel is dead Cain is gone

And God gives her another and she speaks the name God has appointed another

Into the family sorrow there comes a name living with one another in this moment

Naming him Judah praise the Lord praise the Lord and The sin and the darkness of our world

His name Jesus Son of God, what do we do with his name?

We Got to showcase what the spirit Is look at the text look at the story look at what

God says is very Implying and recognize

Christ Every knee will bow every tongue

He's he's the focus of the second coming shouldn't that be the? Right every year

You know, I think sometimes some people Have in the wrong way They don't actually do this, but they might as well

Bury me with a hammer and chisel Because when

I get to heaven, I'm gonna be taking chunk I'll finally be rich when

I get to heaven What we celebrate at Christmas But it's you of our

Christmas celebrations Another coming of Christ, but also also

Christmas in our trees and our shelves with the ornaments and with nativities which particular nativity said of a certain year that we the kents in terms of this of this history and the and the warmth that we feel for those that we're connected to because of Celebrations with other than About Christmas traditions and that last week because of Revelation 12 a big dragon to our nativity scenes and on Christmas Day Knock it over in which

Christ their custom wherein we all take a moment and Adorn our conversation on Christmas Day Praising In Names that we may say this is who he is and this is what he came to do and we can give

I In this way practically,

I think we will celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. Let's close with a word of prayer father Wonderful cascade of passages in the gospel

Significance of the name That we would

To rejoice in Christ help us to do that this season

Full focused Into the

Gospels that show the death and resurrection of Christ with the beginning of the