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Matthew chapter 1 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 1. Let's pray.
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  Oh Lord, God, you still do miracles.
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  Oh Lord God, you are amazing. Our God and our Father and our
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  Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, we lay at your feet today.
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  Lord, we lay prostate before you as dead men and women, Lord, and
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  we're just asking for a touch. Let us grab a hold of the hem of
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  your garment and be healed today.
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  Healed of all of our sickness, healed of all of our negative
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  thinking, God, healed of the fear, Lord, Healed of anxiety
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  and depression. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, you'll heal us from fits of rage and anger.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus you'll heal us, God from our
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  past trauma. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus you'll heal us. God, of seeing ourselves in the
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  wrong light. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you'll give us dignity. I pray in the name of Jesus that
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  you will instill our purpose. Father, for this day and for
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  this time, for such a time as this, Father, we have come into
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  the world. God to serve you, for you are
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  Christ. You are the Son of God, Jesus
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  Christ. High and lifted up above our
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  homes, high and lifted up above our emotions, high and lifted up
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  above our circumstances. High and lifted up above our
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  finances. High and lifted up above our
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  health. High and lifted up above broken
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  relationships and wayward children, God and marriages that
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  are falling apart. Father, you are high and lifted
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  up over everything that tries to exalt itself, over the knowledge
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  of you, Jesus Christ. You are high and lifted up.
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  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, Lord, but we
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  wrestle against the principalities, Lord, we wrestle
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  against the darkness, Father, and Lord, we know that you have
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  overcome, and greater is he who lives in us than he who is in
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  the world. So, God, we put our heel on the
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  head of the snake, we crush the head of the opposition, Father,
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  we advance, we charge the hill, Father, in the name of Jesus,
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  Lord, we take back the enemy strongholds.
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  Lord, we take back all of the areas that Satan thought was his
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  God. We demolish them by that name,
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  the name that is above all names, Jesus Christ.
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  Lord. Jesus is Lord.
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  We look to him today and we are saved.
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  We look to him today and we are healed and it is by his stripes
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  that we are healed. So in the name of Jesus, God
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  Almighty Holy Spirit, Phyllis, Phyllis today, Phyllis up
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  welling up overflowing like you did at the wedding.
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  God, Phyllis to the brim, Phyllis overflowing.
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  Turn the mundane into the miraculous.
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  Father, I pray that everywhere that we step today is holy
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  ground. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus for our coworkers. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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  the ones at the store, God, that we're going to encounter today.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus for our friends and family.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus for our neighbors.
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  God, I pray that they see us. In light of eternity, they see
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  us as reflecting your goodness and grace and mercy and love,
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  Lord, to the world. And Lord, we do love you with
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  all of our heart. God Almighty, we do love you
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  with all of our strength and all of our might.
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  Lord, we surrender all. Lord, we surrender all the ways
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  that we thought this life was going to go, all of our own
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  passions and desires. Lord, we surrender them to your
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  will. We surrender them to your
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  Kingdom to come here on this earth just as it is there.
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  Father, we thank you for another day to come and worship you in
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  spirit and truth. And we know that your mercies
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  are new every day. God.
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  So we say thank you. Father, thank you so much for a
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  life worth living. Thank you so much for giving us
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  the abundant life. Thank you so much for grafting
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  us in. Thank you so much for pruning us
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  God, even whenever we resisted and we ran from what was
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  hurtful. Father, you are producing much
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  fruit, Father, and I pray for a harvest, God.
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  We look up and we see that it is plenty, Father.
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  And we are here God, and we are sold out to you.
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  We have our hand to the plow, Father, to you.
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  And we say yes and Amen to all of your ways.
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  We say yes and Amen to your will.
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  Father, come in and do what only you can do.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, teach us today, Holy Spirit, discipline
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  us today. Holy Spirit, show us the cancer
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  and the things in our lives that are holding us back for what you
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  have for us, God. And it's not about us.
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  We decrease as you increase. It's all about you, King Jesus,
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  we love you. Yes, we love you.
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  We love you with all of our heart and all of our mind.
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  We love you, King Jesus, thank you for your sacrifice.
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  Thank you for what you did for us.
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  Thank you for life here, eternal there.
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  Thank you for the abundance that you've already provided for us
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  today. Thank you for clean drinking
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  water. Thank you for sustenance.
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  Thank you for love amongst brethren, amongst our fellow
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  believers here. Thank you for these outposts of
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  true worship unto you where we can accurately and actually see
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  you being worshipped in this land here now.
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  Thank you God, for the outpouring of the Spirit.
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  Thank you God, for the baptism of fire.
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  Father, I pray fresh wind and fresh fire upon this camp and
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  upon this house. God bring revival, Lord, to the
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  globe, every continent, every people group, every language.
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  God bring revival. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, open our eyes up to your wonderful words today.
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  And it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name that I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one, the
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  book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
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  son of Abraham. That's a loaded verse right
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  there, friends. We could spend countless hours
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  just meditating upon this opening of the New Testament.
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  We could spend countless hours really diving in and pulling out
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  so much truth, friends, of what was just stated.
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  Just know in the most complete way that what Matthew is
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  endeavoring to do is pull our minds back all the way to when
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  the Jews started, all the way when Father Abraham was called,
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  all the way back there where God promised that he would make his
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  descendants more numerous than the stars.
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  And here we're getting this little introduction, and we're
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  showing that Jesus came from the Davidic line.
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  So there were promises not only to Abraham, but God made
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  promises to David that there would never fail to be one who
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  sat on the throne from his Davidic line.
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  And God is making good on both of those promises here.
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  One to Abraham, 2 to David. And Matthew, as a tax collector,
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  he had access to all of the tax records.
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  And he, I'm sure, in the beginning was a skeptic, and I'm
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  sure that he went and searched all of his accessible tax
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  records that were pointing them all the way back to Abraham.
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  And I'm sure coming out of exile from Babylon that the Jews were
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  very meticulous in their record keeping.
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  And you can see that even today how God has made the Jews a very
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  meticulous people group, which is why all the financial
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  institutions are entrusted to them, not only because the
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  blessing of God, but because they have an innate ability.
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  And so it was not unlike a Jew who had crossed over and became
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  part of the Roman employment to have this access to all these
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  financial records to go back and search.
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  And is he's not just pulling this out of his hat, friends.
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  This was a man who was very meticulous and he would have
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  searched all of the tax records to figure this little genealogy
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  out. So when it as we go through this
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  genealogy, don't just gloss over it.
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  We can learn much from all the scripture that we Passover that
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  we don't understand if we will dial in, if we will actually
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  search the scriptures. What you're going to find out is
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  so many jewels, so much richness in this genealogy that we would
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  pass over and not really take the time to peel back the layers
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  and understand all these names. Let's try as we go through it
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  pretty quickly, let's try to pull out some very valid points
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  here that will help us as we study this beautiful, wonderful
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  book in our Bible here, friends. 2 Abraham had Isaac, Isaac had
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  Jacob, and Jacob had Judah and his brothers.
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  So verse 2, we can spend hours upon hours just talking about
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  verse 2, but suffice to say that Abraham had Isaac, which means
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  laughter and it wasn't a miraculous birth here.
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  And he also had from his his wife Sarah's servant Hagar.
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  He had Ishmael which was a illegitimate child, which is
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  where all of the Muslim nation which traces their lineage back
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  to Abraham. It is a warring nation and they
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  are hostile with their brother Isaac, which means laughter.
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  And God is in heaven and he laughs here friends and is
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  because Sarah laughed because she was at such an old age that
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  she did not think it was possible to have her own child,
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  which is why she nudged her husband into having an affair
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  with her servant Hagar. And God made it all good and he
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  made good on his promise to bring Isaac laughter into the
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  world, which is where the nation Israel was birthed from.
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  You can see it in verse 2 where he says Jacob, his name after he
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  wrestled with God was Israel, wrestled with God, and then
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  Judah. And we know that Judah, we're
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  going to learn it here in verse 3, but we know that Judah is the
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  line that Jesus Christ came from the lion of Judah.
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  And whenever Jacob was blessing all of his twelve children, he
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  pronounced the messianic line to come from Judah.
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  Praise God. And then we can also see in
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  verse 3, Judah had Ferris and Zara of Tamar, and Ferris had
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  Asram and Isram had Aram. So we can see here this Tamar,
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  this was the daughter-in-law who was very clever and she
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  disguised herself as a prostitute and Judah had
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  relations with her. And what you're going to find in
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  the genealogy of Jesus Christ is there's some pretty seedy
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  characters in this lineage. And there are those who are not
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  all Jews. And we learned a couple chapters
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  back in Malachi that is not about a race thing, friends.
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  It is about a faith thing, friends.
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  And here we can see that Tamar had faith, and that is the
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  lineage of Jesus Christ. Let's keep going.
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  There's so much here. Friends and Four and Aram had
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  Abbinadab and Abbinadab had Nasong, and Nasong had Salman.
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  So here we're getting into a lot of different names and it would
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  be easy to gloss over, but just know this is rich.
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  Friends 5 Salman had Boaz of Rakam, and Boaz had Obed of Ruth
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  and Obed had Jesse. This Rahab is the one who hid
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  the spies. She was a prostitute.
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  Friends, another seedy character and God, you can see how he
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  exalts women. You can see how this lineage,
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  this genealogy of Jesus Christ, our Messiah, the anointed One,
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  the only perfect man who was all God and all man, the only one
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  who was completely perfect ever to be born and live here in his
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  lineage. He had a Moabite.
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  He had two prostitutes. Imagine that.
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  And here we see the stump of Jesse.
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  We see the root of Jesse here, and we know that in verse 6.
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  And Jesse had David the king, and David the king had Solomon
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  of her. That had been the wife of Uriah.
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  And we know that Uriah was a Hittite.
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  He was not an Israelite. So here again, another outside
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  of the Jewish race. Here we have another character
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  in the lineage of Jesus Christ. And we know that Solomon was the
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  man of peace, and here David a man after God's own heart.
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  And we can see the grace of God already in this genealogy.
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  We see God's grace in Rahab. We see God's grace in Ruth the
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  Moabite. We see God's grace in this
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  lineage here of Uriah the Hittite of whenever David was on
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  the roof and he looked down and he saw a beautiful woman bathing
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  and he went and had an affair with her and we can see the hit.
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  She doesn't even get a name in the story.
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  She is just called the wife of Uriah.
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  Imagine that 7 and Solomon had Riboam, and Riboam had Abya, and
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  Abya had ASA. 8 and ASA had Jehoshaphat.
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  Jehoshaphat had Joram, Joram had Isaiah, and Isaiah had Jotham
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  and Jotham had Achas and Achas had Hezekiahs, and Hezekiah had
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  Manessa And Manessa had Amon and Amon had Josiah.
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  So here we have a reform of Josiah where it was this
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  beautiful reform. As you go and search 1st and 2nd
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  kings, you can see that Josiah was a godly king.
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  You can see Manessa was a wicked king.
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  You can see that Hezekiah prayed to God and God gave him an
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  additional amount of years. That is whenever he had Manessa,
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  which the lineage of Jesus Christ actually came from.
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  Had he died whenever God said that he would, then the lineage
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  of Jesus Christ would not have been fulfilled in the way that
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  you see it here. So we can see all these
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  beautiful, gracious moments of God all the way through.
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  He's orchestrating. Jesus is coming.
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  And just so you know, friend, it is no different today.
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  There is so much trouble in the world if you are looking for it
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  and you go and you tune into all of these secular programs.
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  There is so much going on in the world that you might scratch
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  your head and say how in the world is all this going to shape
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  up into the second coming of Jesus Christ?
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  But just know that just like during this first come coming of
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  Jesus Christ, the first Advent, God used all of these turbulent
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  circumstances to bring about this beautiful picture.
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  It's no different today, friends.
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  He's using all the things all around us that are going on all
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  around us that we think of as being very fearful and we're
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  afraid and we can't see how God is in it.
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  Just trust and believe. And it's no different for the
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  Second Advent friends. 11 And Josiah had Jeconius and his
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  brethren about the time that they were carried away to
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  Babylon. And if you remember, if we go
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  back to this time, I believe it was in Jeremiah where there was
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  this seizing where God pronounced that there would not
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  anymore be a king out of this line from the Jeconiah.
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  And Satan thought that he had his heyday and he won.
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  But as Matthew is going to show us, this is the legal genealogy
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  that traces it back. That would all the the people
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  who were studying the Scriptures during this time looking for a
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  Messiah. Matthew is going to show them
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  that Jesus Christ is a legitimate heir and a legitimate
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  candidate for the Messiah role that they were all looking for.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah. And here we see Babylon mention
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  as they went into Babylon into exile.
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  They formed this because they did not have the temple.
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  They formed this circle where they would all gather on the
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  Sabbath and read Scriptures and try to keep their lineage, try
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  to keep their heritage alive, even though they did not have
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  the temple. And that is where the Pharisees
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  and the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin, that is where it was
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  birth. It was birth during this time in
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  Babylon. And as they came back into the
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  land, even though they had the temple of the Lord again, they
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  still carried on the traditions that they had started back in
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  Babylon. Let's read verse 12 and after
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  they were brought. To Babylon, Jackanias had
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  Shertel and Shertel had Zerubbabel, and so we know that
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  the Second Temple was built by Zerubbabel.
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  We can see that he was a legitimate heir all the way
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  going back to David and the Davidic line. 13 So Zerubbabel
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  had Abiud, and Abiud had Elokim, and Elokim had Azor. 14 Azor had
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  Zadok, and Zadok had Akim, and Akim had Elokim.
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  So this Zadok is a very interesting character.
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  So whenever David's son was trying out for the throne and he
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  was trying to overthrow his father, Zadok stood by him,
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  while the Levitical priest actually sided with David's son.
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  And so as a blessing unto Zadok, God announced in the temple for
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  the Millennium reign, for the thousand year reign of Jesus
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  Christ on this earth, that the Zadokites will actually be the
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  ministers there in the Millennium and the Leviticals,
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  the Levitical line will be the those that have actually been
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  degraded down to just being the servants.
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  They are not in the priestly line.
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  So you can see here another prophecy being talked about in
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  this genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Zadokites. 15 And Eliud had
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  Eleazar, and Eliazar had Matan, and Matan had Jacob, and Jacob
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  had Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is
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  called Christ. Wow, praise God, Hallelujah.
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  Look at how good God is. Here comes this little bitty
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  baby boy who is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  And he was not born into a palace, he was born in a Manger.
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  He was born to obscure situation.
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  And here we can see how God made good on his promise to Abraham.
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  He's making good on his promise to David.
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  And here Matthew I am sure, as he searched.
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  Who is this Jesus character? Who is this rogue St. preacher
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  who proclaims to be the Son of God?
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  Who is he? And as he goes and he searches
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  and he traces it all the way back to David and then he traces
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  it all the way back to Abraham. I'm sure it blew his mind.
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  So when Jesus said come and follow me, he left everything.
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  He left his high position. Praise God.
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  And we're going to learn a lot about Mary.
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  We're going to learn about her obedience. 17 So all the
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  generations from Abraham to David are 14, and from David
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  until the carrying off into Babylon are. 14 and all the
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  carrying away from Babylon to Christ are 14 generations.
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  So these were broken up, 14 from Abraham to David, 14 from David
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  to Captivity, and 14 from captivity to Jesus Christ
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  showing up on the scene. And there's so much history
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  here, friends, and this is legitimate history that can be
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  proven. This is not just fables on a
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  page 18 And now the birth of Jesus Christ was this way when
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  as his mother was espoused to Joseph before they came
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  together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
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  So here we can see the Immaculate Conception, we can
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  see the Holy Ghost impregnated her.
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  We can see that Jesus was all man and all God.
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  He was able to identify with us because of Mary and he was able
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  to have the divinity because of the Holy Spirit impregnating
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  Mary. What a thought, what a thought
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  when you think of this as reality and not just some fable.
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  19 Then Joseph, her husband being a just man and he was not
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  willing to make her a public example.
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  He minded to put her away privately.
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  So here you can see that Joseph was trying to be as reasonable
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  as possible for someone who found their fiance to be
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  pregnant and they had never had relations.
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  They had never been together. And here he walks in and sees
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  her to be pregnant. Imagine that, friends.
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  Imagine the shame. Imagine the embarrassment.
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  Imagine the anger and the rage and the confusion all wrapped up
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  in this little picture here in one little verse.
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  And if you're not careful, you'll just gloss over it.
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  And if you're not careful, all this will just be yeah, yeah,
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  yeah. We've heard that it's second
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  nature to us. But we need to lock in.
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  We really need to put ourselves in that time.
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  We really need to try to understand the emotions.
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  We need to try to see it from Joseph's angle, to say he didn't
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  have the helicopter view, that you and I have these words on a
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  page that are trustworthy and true.
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  He was there on the ground and it was hard for him to try to
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  understand what was actually happening.
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  And at this time, Mary had not told him about her visitation,
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  so he minded to put her away privately.
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  He did not want to make a public spectacle of her, like most of
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  us probably would. 20 But while he thought on these things,
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  behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream,
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  saying, Joseph, you son of David, do not fear to take Mary
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  your to be your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of
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  the Holy Ghost. Praise God, The only ghost we
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  believe in is the Holy Ghost. Praise God for this visitation
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  from the angelic. Praise God that he came and he
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  instructed Joseph what to do. You know, Joseph had no excuse
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  past this point. It was all green light, it was
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  all gas, no break. So Joseph, being a just man and
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  being reasonable, thought about these things and was told what
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  to do. Do you wait on the Lord before
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  you make a knee jerk reaction friend?
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  Or do you just go with what you feel because feelings will lie
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  to you? Friends, we need to sit before
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  the Lord. We need to receive our worth
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  from the Lord. We need to receive our direction
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  from the Lord. If you will acknowledge the
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  Lord, he will direct your steps, friends, and you'll never have
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  to worry about missing out on something or getting it wrong.
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  Sit before the Lord, acknowledge him in the morning and watch how
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  he directs your steps for the entire day and do it.
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  Make it part of your discipline. Do it every day.
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  Sit and wait on the Lord and acknowledge him, friends, and he
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  will make sure that you get there in the end. 21 And she
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  shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for
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  he shall save his people from their sins.
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  That is what Jesus means. That is what Yeshua means,
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  friends. Ayusus.
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  That is what it means, friends. Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Jesus
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  the anointed one, Jesus the name above all names.
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  Bring that name on your lips today and watch the darkness
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  flee. It is the name above all names.
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  The only name that is able to save is Jesus Christ of
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  Nazareth, Jesus the anointed one, Jesus the Son of God.
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  Jesus is God, and Jesus is Lord. He saves us from our sins. 22
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  Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was
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  spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, What did the
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  prophet say in Isaiah? It says, Behold, a virgin shall
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  be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call
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  his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us.
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  Jesus was born, Jesus came, and he is not just a historical
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  figure, He is God Almighty. And it has proved that he came
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  and it has proved that he died and it has proved that he
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  resurrected. It has proved that He appeared
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  to many after his death, burial, resurrection, and then he
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  ascended to the right hand of God and he goes to prepare a
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  place for you. Friend, Praise God that this is
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  reality. He is Emmanuel, He is here with
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  us now. He is able to save to the
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  utmost. There's no one too far from Him.
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  Cry out to that name. All who call on the name of
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  Jesus shall be saved. If you confess with your mouth
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  that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised
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  him from the dead, shall be saved. 24 Then Joseph, being
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  raised from sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had bitten
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  him, and took unto him his wife. We'll end on 25.
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  And he did not know her until she had brought forth her first
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  born son. He called his name Jesus because
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  he was a smart man. He was a wise man.
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  He was a just man. He loved God Almighty and he was
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  able to hear from him. And he received him in a vision.
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  He received him in this dream and he received him and he said
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  yes and Amen to what the Angel proclaimed to him.
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  And he didn't trust his own feelings and emotions.
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  He trusted God and he named him Jesus.
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  He didn't name him Joseph Junior, he named him Jesus.
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  How amazing is this first chapter here in the New
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  Testament? This is where we should all
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  start to read the Bible. It's hard when you're over there
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  in the Old Testament trying to chomp on meat and you've yet to
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  even receive your first set of teeth.
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  It's super hard to try to eat AT bone steak when you don't have
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  any teeth. And the Old Testament is meet
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  friends. And this is the milk we are
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  drinking the milk, friends, we're being brought up.
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  And whenever we are reading the New Testament, friends, it's
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  the, it's the milk for the new believer.
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  I pray that as we read this, God speaks to you loudly and boldly
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  as He did me whenever I first read this, as He spoke to me in
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  such mighty ways during this time.
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  I pray that the Holy Spirit teaches you as you read this.
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  And it's very interesting here at the end of Matthew 1 and it
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  says he did not know her until after Jesus was born.
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  This is them being intimate and there is belief that Mary was a
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  virgin her entire life. That is not so.
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  Bible does not teach that she is not our mediator.
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  She was a human just like you, just like me.
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  She had amazing faith and she was chosen by God to house and
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  to to take care of God in the flesh.
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  Jesus Christ, how amazing is this book that we hold in our
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  hands. Let's not gloss over.
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  Let's not check out, let's lock in friends as we read through
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  this next book and all through the New Testament.
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  Hope you've been blessed by this book.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you, so does God.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you and I will see you back
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  here tomorrow. God bless you.