"The Genesis of Christmas" Part 2

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"The Genesis of Christmas" Part 3

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We have Full and and You and see

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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

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The gospel writers Blame the significance

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Significance We think of the

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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The woman Often the theme will be related

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

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Is 8 through 12 From the book of Genesis Phrase you

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Your hand shall be on the neck from the prey my

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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.

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You don't have to when you hear the

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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

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

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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

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Jesus the Messiah the son of Are given significant names.

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

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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

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

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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?

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

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

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Such an importance upon the name to our

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

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Jesus you shall call his name Jesus why from there

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

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Lord sign and they shall call his name Emmanuel which means

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I find this remarkable that Lane What to name

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

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Jesus and then Matthew interjects and says this was to fulfill

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The virgin with child and You're expecting

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

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Jesus fulfill Well quite simply this we

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Which exile the? This is salvation

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It is with us Reconcile us back to himself

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Name him Jesus this And indeed

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Joseph obeyed in verse 25 what a significant name chapter 1

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The child and This is the and in verse 30

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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

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

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

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

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Son of God emphasis on his and this continues

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

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

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We know that He is He is the

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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God with his word

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

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One another they are an agreement Right and see the

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

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

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

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Eber Abraham Isaac and Jacob and Shem is highlight

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She means name the name pay attention

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

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

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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

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

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

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Isaac had two sons Esau Obvious name

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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Amen the Holy Spirit is showing us in the text

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

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

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

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

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Jesus Christ Do this? Christmas celebrations

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

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

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Broken Abel is dead Cain is gone

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

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

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

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

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

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God says is very Implying and recognize

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Christ Every knee will bow every tongue

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

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

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Bury me with a hammer and chisel Because when

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

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

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Christmas celebrations Another coming of Christ, but also also

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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

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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

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I In this way practically,

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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

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Significance of the name That we would

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To rejoice in Christ help us to do that this season

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Full focused Into the

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