Redeeming Genealogies - [Luke 3:23-38]

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Like to read something this morning, and if it's not true. There's no salvation for any of us
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There's no forgiveness for anyone There's no eternal life
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Jesus when he began his ministry was about 30 years of age being the supposed son of Joseph son of Heli son of Matthew son of Levi son of Melchi son of Jani son of Joseph son of Mattathias son of Amos son of Nahum son of Esli son of Nagai son of Mattath son of Mattathias son of Semang son of Joshesh son of Jodah the son of Jonan the son of Risa the son of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel the son of Neri the son of Melchi the son of Adai the son of Kosem the son of Eladim the son of Er The son of Joshua the son of Eliezer the son of Joram the son of Mathat the son of Levi the son of Simeon the son of Judah The son of Joseph the son of Jonam the son of Eliakim the son of Melia, the son of Menah, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salah, the son of Nashon, the son of Amenadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arnie, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, the son of Sarag, the son of Ru, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Canaan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
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What just went through your mind when I read those? Maybe you thought to yourself, well
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Pradeep pronounces those better than Pastor Mike. Maybe that went through your mind. Why are you laughing? I thought
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I did a pretty good job. I practiced. I mean we're in the most exciting part of Luke and there's
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John the Baptist recognizing Jesus. We have the heavens open and there's the
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Father that says, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. The Spirit of God attends to that very thing.
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Soon we're going to be in the middle of the wilderness and the temptation with Satan. I mean what in the world are we doing with this long extended genealogy?
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Why would that be here? How can that possibly help me live the Christian life? Say no to sin, say yes to righteousness.
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I mean can't we just kind of dismiss these son ofs and begats? It's very interesting though.
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Many of you, and I don't do it too much but I'm attracted to it to some degree, would love to study genealogies .com
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or ancestry .com. We love ancestral study.
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Oh this is my great -grandfather and this is my great -grandmother and they did this and they did that and they accomplished these things.
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I wonder why it is that we'd love to study those ancestors but when it comes to these long genealogies in Scripture we just think, oh ho hum, let's just skip it and get to the good stuff.
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Did you know that Jewish people around the time of the Bible were so intrigued with genealogies,
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Paul even had to warn them to not spiral off into some weird esoteric non -biblical genealogies.
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Paul writes of Timothy in order to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than stewardship from God that is by faith.
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Did you know even for a second time Paul not warned just only Timothy but Titus, be careful of people who spend way too much time in weird non -biblical genealogies.
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Titus chapter 3, but avoid foolish controversies. Genealogies, dissensions and quarrels about the law for they are unprofitable and worthless.
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And so today the sermon title is simply redeeming genealogies. Not that the
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Bible genealogies need to be redeemed but our view of genealogies need to be redeemed.
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If you're a visitor here we're just working through the Gospel of Luke and we come today to Luke chapter 3 verses 23 through 38 which
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I just read and we're going to look at how to redeem genealogies.
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In other words when you're reading a genealogy in Scripture instead of you bypassing it or skipping over it
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I want you to try to think of some of the things you learn today to make it more meaningful to you. It is meaningful but we want to make sure it's meaningful to us and so the next time you're reading something in Chronicles or for that matter even something with a long list of names like numbers that you would read it and think oh this is wonderful now because I have some idea about how to redeem genealogies and we're going to move from general to specific and so these first seven general ways to redeem genealogies apply to Luke but then we're going to move into Luke in particular.
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So today redeeming genealogies I think you're really going to be glad you came today for lots of reasons because there's so many genealogies in Scripture and you're going to think okay great
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I now get to understand genealogies. Now before we get into this let's pick up a little bit of context for where and why this genealogy is here.
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Remember the gospel of Luke is written by a physician who wants to make sure you have a very precise faith, a historical faith.
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Remember Luke chapter 1 verses 1 to 4 the very prologue that tells us why it's written.
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A detailed account, an orderly account like a physician would write so that you might know.
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And of course it was written so if you're a Christian you'd keep believing because sometimes trials in life and difficulties make you think you know what is there really a
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God? Is it really Jesus only? Did he really rise from the dead? Is this all true? Luke will help you with that.
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And of course if you're here today and you're not a believer you think I don't know about the claims of Christ there's a detailed orderly historical theological account of the
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Lord Jesus that should drive you to believe in the Lord Jesus. And the gospel of Luke is pretty simple it starts off with his origins that's where we are now in Luke chapter 3 it moves towards Jesus setting his face like a flint towards Jerusalem with a resolute determination to obey the
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Father's will that's why he was sent by the Father to go to Jerusalem and then the end of the book to die to be buried to raise again and then to appear.
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And so we're just working through this book that helps us think through the issue of why did
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Jesus come and why does it matter? And of course we know remember with Zacchaeus Jesus came to seek and save those who were what?
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Lost. That is the key to the gospel of Luke. And John the
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Baptist he recognized Jesus did he not? If you look back in chapter 3 verse 15 as the people were in expectation and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John whether he might be the
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Christ. John answered them all saying I baptize with water but he who is mightier than I is coming the strap of whose sandals
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I am not worthy to untie. While I baptize with water now John says he will baptize you with the
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Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
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So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people but Herod the
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Tetrarch who had been reproved by him for Herodias his brother's wife for all the evil things that Herod had done added this to them all that he locked up John in prison.
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So John recognized Jesus and now we see the Father and the Spirit do as well. Verse 21 now when all the people were baptized and when
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Jesus had also been baptized and was praying the heavens were opened and the
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Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove and a voice came from heaven you are my beloved son with you
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I am well pleased. And remember from two weeks ago Jesus didn't need to be baptized as a sinner because Jesus was sinless spotless
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Lamb of God but Jesus to identify remember to have solidarity with sinful humanity
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Jesus is baptized. Remember John said I don't want to be baptizing you you should be baptizing me
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John recognizing even though he's a great man still sinful but Jesus said permit this to fulfill all righteousness in Matthew chapter 3.
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And so now that we have context we come to genealogy of Jesus in chapter 3 of Luke verses 23 and following with our outline today redeeming genealogies how do we do that number one how do you redeem genealogies is recognize the profit of genealogies of course the genealogy is just a line of descent traced through an ancestor number one recognize the profit of genealogies now normally when
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I'm preaching I try to stick in one passage we might go to one or two other passages but we're probably going to look at more today and and so what
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I'm teaching preaching students I tell them try to stick with one passage most the time otherwise you don't want to sound like you're a football quarterback audible in all the time the whole sermon 328 682 413 back all around but today we might
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I might have to call an audible today and audible some alright so let's go to 2nd Timothy chapter 3 and I know you know this but I want to remind you that genealogies are in the
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Bible for a reason and they're God -breathed and they're profitable for you so we don't want to fall into the trap of thinking they do me no good because it's just a bunch of names the
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Bible teaches that everything in the Bible including genealogies is good for you and profitable for me as well
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Paul writes to Timothy his last letter before he is beheaded for the
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Lord Jesus's sake and he writes in 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse 14 and following but as for you
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Timothy continue and what you have learned and have firmly believed knowing from whom you have learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus all scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching for reproof for correction and for training in righteousness that the man of God that's the preacher but it would apply to anyone may be complete equipped for every good work while the false teachers were teaching a bunch of mumbo -jumbo that just led to dissensions and ungodliness and just crazy talk the
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Bible's breathed out by God and therefore it's profitable Paul doesn't say the men are inspired says that the scriptures are
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God -breathed Paul says everything is important the false teachers in the context would say only parts of scripture important but not everything and Paul said no everything is important and it'll make you what adequate thoroughly equipped and so we need to make sure we understand that genealogies are profitable for us so we just don't skip them how to redeem genealogies one recognize they're profitable and God -breathed number two notice the context of genealogies ask yourself the question why is that genealogy there
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I'm gonna give you an illustration of that turn to Genesis chapter 5 we're working broadly on how to look at genealogies generally speaking and then we'll narrow it into Luke chapter 3 there are many genealogies in scripture here's one
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Genesis chapter 5 and if you notice the context and ask the question why are these here it will help you when you read genealogies you might even succumb to underlying a few things in a genealogy one day that'd be a good test go around the congregation and see how many people have underlined things in genealogies
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Genesis 5 gives us an illustration of context that makes you think okay now this could this genealogy in Genesis chapter 5 is mine
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I get it I can go to it often Genesis 5 1 this is the book of the generations of Adam when
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God created man he made him in the likeness of God male and female he created them and he blessed them and named them man when they were created
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Adam had lived 130 years he fathered Seth etc and then it says in verse 5 do you notice thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died verse 8 thus all the days of Seth were 912 years and he died verse 11 of Genesis 5 thus all the days of Enoch were 905 years any guesses and he died verse 14 thus all the days of Canon were 910 years and he died verse 17 thus all the days of Mahala though were 895 years and he died verse 20 all the days of Jared were 962 years and he died verse 27 thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years and he died and then finally verse 31 the 8th and he died thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years and he died so what's the deal and he died and he died remember what happened in Genesis 3 remember what happened well you're right there close by we might as well just look at it together
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Genesis 3 one now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the
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Lord God had made he said of the woman did God actually say you shall not eat of the tree of the garden and the woman said of the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden but God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden neither shall you touch it lest you die but the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die and he died and he died and he died and he died and he died and he died and so if you look at the context you think now
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I get it it's there for a reason it's there for me not just to skip over but to punctuate that very truth that was found earlier in the context if you eat of that tree you will surely die
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Satan is the liar and the father of lies and everything just opens up how do you redeem biblical genealogies in your own mind well you say they're
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God -breathed number one number two context helps me understand number three remember that the
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Bible is historically accurate when you read a genealogy you should say this is not
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Narnia this is not Middle Earth this is not some weird Mormon Bible that doesn't have a map at the back this is real these people are true and right biblicals historic the
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Bible's historical accuracy family histories do you know there was a person literally named Adam there's a person literally named
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Methuselah hence the term as old as Methuselah 969 years old there were actually people with those names real events not a myth not a legend in Luke we have learned in the past have we not people really called
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Herod people really called Quirinius people really called John number four how do you redeem a biblical genealogy in your own mind rejoice over the fulfillment of prophecy and promises rejoice in the fulfillment of prophecy and promises the
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Messiah was to come through what line Isaiah chapter 11 gives a prophecy of the
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Messiah Messiah coming and he was going to come through whose line David good
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David's line and all of a sudden you read in Luke 3 son of David Matthew 1 the genealogy of Jesus and his was
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Jesse the father of King David and David was the father of Solomon and you read in the in the proclamation of 2nd
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Samuel chapter 7 the Davidic Kingdom it's going to be through David and then you realize David son ultimate son
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Jesus comes from David you think this is true when I read prophecy excuse me when I read genealogies
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I say to myself this affirms prophecy in God's truth how about this one number five when you read a biblical genealogy why don't you praise
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God for his care and interest in people praise God for his care and interest in people not just groups of people some amorphous blob of people not just nations but individual people he knew every single one of these people just like he knows every one of us his detailed nature knows all the ins and outs of all these people he knows their image bears he knows that they have eternal souls his kindness to them and benevolence reminds me of Jesus's words in Matthew 6 therefore
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I tell you do not be anxious about your life what you will eat what you will drink nor about your body what you will put on is not life more than food in the body more than clothing look at the birds of the air they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns and yet your
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Heavenly Father feeds them are you not of more value than they and which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his lifespan and why are you anxious about clothing seek first the kingdom of God Jesus goes on to say in his righteousness and all these things will be added to you next time you read a genealogy why don't you say
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God knows every one of those people he knew the ins and outs their hopes their dreams their sins how they trust in the
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Messiah and he knows me too he knows individual people sometimes people think
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God is just far off and not involved and could care less I love Isaiah 41 do not fear for I am with you
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Psalm 46 be still and know that I am God Philippians 4 be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God let your forbearing spirit be known to all men the
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Lord is near when I read a genealogy and I think to myself what in the world is this here for how can
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I think it through it rightly number six be amazed that God is not a far -off
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God this is related to the last one that he's not a deist he's working he's involved he knows all these folks and he's he's sovereign over them all
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God is working in history if you look at the world you're going to say this the world is out of control it's spiraling out of control and no one is at the helm and if you look at genealogies you'll just say you know what
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God has this all ordered he's working everything together first purpose he works everything for good for those who are called and love him it's just all lined up in faraway places in tiny little places
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God knows everything I love Psalm 103 the Lord has established his throne in the heavens and his sovereignty rules over most things oh sorry
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I misread that just wanted to see if you're paying attention his sovereignty rules over all and all these people and all these ancestors and I read genealogies and I think
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God's got this he's he's he's sovereign I can trust in him our statement of faith says
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God the good creator of all things in his infinite power and wisdom does uphold direct dispose and govern all creatures and things from the greatest even to the least and every person in every one of those genealogies
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God is sovereign over and working through our statement of faith also says as the providence of God does in general reach to all creatures so after a more special manner it takes care of his church and disposes of all things to the good thereof when you read a genealogy
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I want you to think Lord sovereign King who has dominion who rules who decrees who who runs the universe with predestination for ordination establishes and chooses
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I want you to read a genealogy and just think I'm in awe of such a God who could do all this not one particle out of place not one person out of place not one person born in an inopportune time
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I mean who would read a genealogy and say that just comforts me in sorrow we should we should building our faith and the last general principle on how to redeem a biblical genealogy we see it's
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God breathe we notice the context we think oh the Bible is historically accurate oh there's fulfillment of prophecy
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God cares for people God's in charge of every situation and lastly number seven you could trust the
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Lord that he can use sinful people for his purposes who does that who can use sinful people for his purposes the
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Lord can and we see that in Genesis 5 we see it in Luke 3 and every other genealogy
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God uses Israelites God uses Gentiles God uses men
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God uses women God uses children God uses believers God uses unbelievers
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God uses believers who sin God uses unbelievers who sin God uses pretty much anybody he wants right and I read that in the end and genealogies and I think wait a second in Matthew's genealogy there are people in there like Rahab the prostitute there are people like Tamar we want to talk about what happened with her
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Bathsheba Manasseh Amnon we think how can
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God do these things well see sometimes we think if left to ourselves that God is one of these transaction gods and he is doing things based on what we let him do or if we do something then he's allowed to do something and there's all these contingencies about God and he he's not going to do things unless we somehow allow that of course that's untrue
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God is sovereign he sits in the heavens and he does whatever he pleases Psalm 115 and when you look at this and you think he can use sinful people and good thing because that's all that there is to use except the
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Lord Jesus right you read genealogies and you you think okay wait a second he used
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David David was a man after God's own heart and he was also an adulterer he was also a murderer in our day of cancel culture where if you've got something in your past you are done and you're out
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God uses people that should have been canceled listen what Phil Riken says they were guilty of the same kind of sins as we are all these people in the genealogies are sinners it's nice to think our ancestors were noble and good they did something heroic heroic this is one of the reasons why people study their family trees whether they were heroic or not the people who came before us were just as flawed as we are consider some of the skeletons in the family closet of the
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Old Testament Tara the father of Abraham was an idolater
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Abraham was a liar Jacob was a cheater and a thief Judah traded slaves and consorted with prostitutes
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David was a murderer and adulterer we usually remember these men as heroes but they're also scoundrels all the way back to Adam at the taproot of the family tree like any genealogy the one in Luke's gospel records a long line of sinners and we should be glad that God uses sinners and so when you read genealogies you should say to yourself
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I'm so thankful for many things including God you can use a sinner like David you can lose use a sinner like me all right now let's go back to Luke chapter 3 and let's get more particular on redeeming genealogies seven general principles now three in particular so I guess we could have 10 total today seven general three particular okay so far you look like you're still paying attention to some degree it is a daunting task to think
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I have to get up and preach a genealogy they don't make you do that in seminary because they know you totally bomb it and so today we're just gonna hide behind the text and say it's there it's there for a reason and it's good when you come across a genealogy before you skip it if you could just say
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Lord teach me something from this genealogy if you only do that today I'd be very very the first particular thing that we can do to understand
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Luke which would be number eight if we're adding these all together is spot the order of the names take a look at the names and see what kind of order they're in and so if you look at it you see kind of a reverse order you see something that's not normal Matthew's gospel will show in Matthew chapter 1 starts with older people and works into the near present what's
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Luke trying to do he's shining a spotlight here for us to ask some questions the genealogy of Jesus is back word as it were
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Jesus verse 23 when he began his ministry was about 30 years of age being the son as was supposed of Joseph the son of Eli and so of course we move from Jesus the boy in Luke 2 to now
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Jesus the man 18 years passes the only thing we see is with John the Baptist just earlier
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Luke chapter 3 and he's 30 and of course at 30 Ezekiel in the ministry at 30
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David becomes the king at 30 this is just kind of the way it goes you're in public ministry at 30 and now
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Jesus does the same thing but the genealogy ends at the beginning verse 38 the son of Enos the son of Seth the son of Adam the
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Son of God no Old Testament genealogy is like that that should make us go what's going on no rabbinic genealogy is like that that should make us think what's going on your own genealogies and Ancestry .com
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I'm by the way I'm just curious how many people do Ancestry .com stuff or any genealogical stuff okay some do all the people in the back row there's always a group of Baptists hit every
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Baptist Church you notice that telling you so some do and you're exploring oh this happened to that happen when
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I do some exploration by the way in my genealogy I think it was my great -great -grandfather and he was cutting a tree down and the tree fell on him and killed him and somehow the obituary didn't get written properly to recognize the other side of the family so it was
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Abendroth the Abendroths had a big family fight because of great -grandpa dying great -grandpa dying and and so there was a split in the family because the one side of the family wasn't recognized and so they said this other side of the family from this day forth were no longer the
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Abendroths were the Abendroths so you want to pronounce my name Abendroth but because of a genealogy we've learned that it's pronounced
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Abendroth because my side of the family was the right side and the righteous side I would not write my genealogy like this so when you see things that are different not it should make you think okay why is he doing this there has to be a reason things just don't happen like a big bang of theology in Luke chapter 3 there's a reason why it's reversed
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Luke wants us to see that it ends with verse 38 the son of Adam and before you know what your mind starts thinking hmm first Adam garden food temptation
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Satan that's what you should be thinking because in the next chapter which it leads right into the last verse of chapter 3 leads us into chapter 4 what's the first word in English of chapter 4 verse 1 and Jesus well it's not a garden but it's wilderness it's going to deal with food it's going to deal with temptation it's going to deal with Satan and we're to be thinking like first Corinthians 15 the last
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Adam there's the first Adam G there's a first Adam Adam who plunges us into sin and there's the last
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Adam Jesus who's going to rescue us you should be thinking oh he's writing this for a reason so that we can start thinking about who this one is including what does it say after the son of Adam the son of God wait what do you mean the son of God why is he ending it with the son of God and then we go into the temptation son of Adam I get son of God what's going on now remember from probably two months ago if I were to say to you
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Jesus is known as son of man you would say true Jesus is known as son of God you would say true and if I were to ask you which one stresses his humanity in which one stresses his deity you probably are going to get tricked because when we hear son of man we think of man humanity and when
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I say son of God God we think of deity and that's a normal natural way to think but it's not biblical son of man
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Jesus calls himself the son of man the son of man has for the authority to forgive sins son of man has the authority to be over the
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Sabbath when Jesus calls himself the son of man is he saying I'm man he certainly is man but son of man is a designation remember
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Old Testament one of the best things you can do as you study the Bible is to think Old Testament Lee to think about the
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Old Testament and so we have in the Old Testament Daniel chapter 7 listen
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I saw in the night visions Daniel said and behold with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of he came to the ancient of days and was presented before him and to him was given dominion and glory and the kingdom that all people's nations and languages should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion a lot better than Nebuchadnezzar's which shall not pass away and this kingdom one that shall not be destroyed when you read son of man
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Jesus's favorite designation for himself you should be thinking deity it's just opposite of what you think
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I know it's confusing but once you figure it out it's fine so what does it mean when he says he's son of God that's talking about his humanity and as God has attributes of holiness and righteousness and justice and kindness and I don't want to be blasphemous but if my children are a chip off dad's old block and they're doing things that I do properly they reflect what
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I do Jesus said you're like your father Satan because you do the things that your father
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Satan does you false teachers and so Jesus does what his father does since he's the son and so he acts like his father holy and righteous and blameless as a son human son he does what the father does and so now we have the man
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Adam in a garden fallen to temptation and now Jesus who's the last
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Adam but also is the best ultimate human is in the garden to face
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Satan number nine recognize the differences between Luke's and Matthew's genealogy we were looking before the order and now we look at the differences of names and for some of you that have studied there's a lot of differences between Matthew's genealogies and Luke's genealogy and Matthew's genealogy and so you study and you think okay what's going on I'll tell you what not to do what not to do is well
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I can't figure them out my mind the Bible must be a lie that would be tragic if I can't figure out something in the
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Bible you know what I usually think the problems not with the Bible the problems with you guys the problem with me and the problems with me
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I can't figure out I mean I'm finite I'm fallen I don't live 2 ,000 years ago
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I'm not from an Eastern culture I didn't speak Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic and the problems with me it's not ever with the
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Bible and so before you think because you'll see this online well the Bible has two conflicting genealogies of Jesus one in Matthew one and one in Luke three the
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Bible must be bogus that's what you ought not to do actually that's lazy that's intellectually lazy to do
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I don't think you do that so what do we do there are names that are different I think there are 38 different names here between Matthew's account and Luke's account the order is different the names are different the patterns are different there's a bunch of seven patterns in Luke there's a bunch of 14 patterns in Matthew the easiest way to do this is to ask yourself the question could it be that Matthew and Luke are asking two different questions and if you do that you're there
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I could give you a long seminary list of all the different things this is about but that's not my purpose today
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Matthew asked the question who's the next king of Israel who has their credentials to be the king
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Matthew answers that Luke asked a different question who was
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Jesus's father one is royal lineage the other is paternal lineage and that's why it bypasses
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Joseph because remember Jesus didn't have a literal father right because he needed to be sinless and so who conceived
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Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary the Holy Spirit did that's exactly right two different genealogies because two different questions are asked and both show through the royal line
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David and through the paternal line David so both ways Jesus can be
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Messiah the line of Joseph is his legal father in Matthew the line of Mary is
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Luke's genealogy royal succession in Matthew physical descent in Luke and now finally which would be kind of a normal sermon we come to number 10 understand the author's purpose understand the author's purpose how do you redeem genealogies now specifically here in Luke understand the author's purposes let me give you four of them and then we'll then wrap up first purpose
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Jesus was a historical purpose it's a microphone makes me sound good but it's supposed to correct my my mistakes
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I was recording a show the other day on genealogies for the radio and I said out loud this is the worst show
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I've ever done I don't know if this is the worst sermon I've ever preached but that was a bad pronunciation there
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Jesus was a historical person that's the first purpose he was a historical purpose purpose person every pastor is so thankful that it's the
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Word of God that's powerful and it has nothing to do with me sometimes you know when you taught the
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Bible you thought you really did a good job and people like ho -hum and then you really bomb it and someone comes up and says I so needed that today pastor that's that's good news
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Jesus was a real Jew born in a real town of Bethlehem underneath King Herod where Quirinius was in charge that Jesus was a real person not mythical not made up not a legend not a lore not like a lot of other teachers the false teachers around he died on a real
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Friday was raised on a real Sunday he's a real person and we have to have Jesus as a real person because to be our representative he has to be real to be our substitute at Calvary he has to be real
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Adam was real Jesus needs to be real that's why people talked about Genesis 1 and 2 and 3 as poetry and and there's like 8 ,000 hominids walking around and God says one of you 8 ,000 hominids is now
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Adam that's just all trash Jesus was a real person to be my shepherd to be my
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Savior to be your Savior some of you know about the Wycliffe Bible translators and the work that they do and so they go to Papua New Guinea and they start translating
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Matthew because they want them to know the good news that Jesus dies for all kinds of people including those in Papua New Guinea but they said you know what we're gonna skip
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Matthew 1 the first 17 verses because it's a genealogy what are we gonna do start with a genealogy so they skip the genealogy they translated everything they thought well
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I guess we go back to translate the genealogy the account goes this way they translated
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Matthew chapter 1 Abraham begot Isaac Isaac begat Jacob Jacob begat etc by the time they completed about six of these begats the translator could sense the men from Papua New Guinea were becoming excited they the men said do you mean these were real men yes they were real men well that's what we do regarding keeping genealogies we thought this was just a white man's story you mean
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Abraham was a real man yes that's what we've been trying to tell you well we didn't know that said the men in Papua New Guinea but now we believe that interesting they thought it was just some lore some made -up thing that someone has no they're real people phantoms can't redeem weird hybrids can't redeem well what else is
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Luke trying to say that Jesus was a real understand me person and also that he has the right credentials he's a real person with the right credentials if you have to go to a doctor do you check that doctor and his credentials if you go to a financial counselor do you check the credentials of the financial counselor
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I would say if you want to just go to the doctor because you have a hangnail you don't check but if you go to the doctor because you need your heart bypass surgery done
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I bet you check by the way just some free pastoral advice if you don't check you should check you can find out how many people have done surgeries and what the negative things are and you think well
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I probably shouldn't stay here in Clinton mass for my brain surgery I think I should probably make it to Boston what do you think good idea you laugh but sometimes
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I'll say this so what are you one of you and they'll say you'll say well I'm getting surgery it's in such a place and it seems to me kind of a major surgery like you're getting it in Clinton I guess
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I can't say anything I call Pastor Steve and I say you tell him don't we need the right credentials if we need it for family we need it for for surgery and we need it for finances you better make sure that you're trusting in the right
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Messiah or you're gonna pay for your sins forever in hell if you've got the wrong Messiah so Luke make sure you realize it's the right
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Messiah and everything in Luke shouts it's the right Messiah baptism the
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Father and the Spirit agree John the Baptist point into Jesus genealogy point into Jesus you have the right
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Jesus no wonder Luke is such a good doctor so precise so orderly he wants to make sure if you're all in on someone with the right credentials you're all in and of course remember for an
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Old Testament priest they couldn't say I'd like to be the priest self -appointed priest we learn from Matthew Hebrews chapter 5 rather that it says
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Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest but was appointed by him the father who said to him you are my son today
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I have begotten you Jesus isn't just a good teacher Jesus isn't just a good storyteller
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Jesus wasn't just somebody walking around one of many religions Jesus has the right credential so you can trust him you can rely on him if you read reviews on Yelp and Thrillist and Google Maps for food so that you don't get a bad dinner how much more do you need to have the right
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Messiah and then lastly they're sorry there two more third purpose Jesus is truly and perfectly man he's a real man he's got the real credentials and he's the perfect man he is the
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Son of God so he can sympathize with your weaknesses he's the second
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Adam he's the one who's truly man and can identify with us and as I said before he number four is the last
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Adam the last Adam first Corinthians 15 for as by man came death by a man has also come the resurrection of the dead for as in Adam all die so also in Christ shall all be made alive your only hope is the
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Lord Jesus so if you're going through a trial dear Christian and you're in a dark time you think you know what
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God is still faithful good song to be reminded today we open with the hymn great is thy faithfulness and we have the scriptures and the words of eternal life and we can say he is the right
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Jesus he's a real person he has the right credentials he's truly man he's truly
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God too but he's truly man and and he's the last Adam he'll undo what the first Adam did and more so today we've looked at a genealogy
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I guess I have two takeaways for you today homework assignments number one when you see an ancestry .com
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commercial instead of doing what I do in the past thinking bunch of Mormons trying to trick me that's what
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I think I didn't say it was right or wrong you know why
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Mormons are in ancestry stuff right because there's a lot of people that need to be baptized a lot of dead people that need to be baptized so they need to make sure they're baptized in for the dead but instead of thinking that I want you to think there's a greater genealogy found in Luke 3 in a different place of the
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Bible so ancestry .com don't forget about this biblical ancestry of Jesus and then also
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I'd like you to read a genealogy this week go to Chronicles go to Genesis go to Matthew go to Luke and just read one and ponder through just a few of the things that come to your mind
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God knows individual people God knows me God's sovereign over everything he's sovereign over them he's sovereign over me these things are important they teach me things the more
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I can learn about Jesus the better I'd like to know about Jesus I'd like to know about his grandpa I like to know about his
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Abraham I'd like to know about David I'd like to know about these things Lord please help me to appreciate genealogies
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PS Jesus loved Old Testament genealogies yeah that's great thank you father for today father a difficult passage of scripture yet there for us to enjoy and to be edified and we would praise you for Jesus the last
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Adam Jesus the ultimate David and Jesus the complete fulfillment of all the
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Abrahamic promises father would you help the Christians here today who are hurting and struggling be reminded again that they have a faithful Savior in whom they can trust and who loves them even though they've fallen short this week and father for those that aren't