The Big Story | Matthew - After 400 Years of Silence, the Story Begins Again
Matthew 1:1–17 | ~11 min
Four hundred years of silence. No prophets, no word from God — just a promise and a people waiting. Then Matthew opens the New Testament not with a dramatic entrance, but with a list of names. A genealogy. And yet, for anyone who knows the story, those names are anything but ordinary.
In this first episode of Part 3, Lisa Scheffler sets the stage for everything we'll explore this week: why Matthew begins here, what three titles in a single verse reveal about Jesus, and why a list of 42 generations is actually one of the boldest declarations in Scripture.
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