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December 20 - Matthew 1 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, Sean here. Welcome to a chapter of a day
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  Bible reading where we are entering a new season.
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  Yeah, we've been an Advent for a while, but we are now having
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  moved on from reading through Isaiah.
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  We find ourselves with just a few more days to go until
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  Christmas and so we are going to read the 1st couple of chapters
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  of Matthew before our Psalm this week and then next week we will
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  celebrate Christmas together on Monday with a reading from Luke.
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  How good is that? Oh, very exciting.
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  Now today we are going to be reading the first chapter of
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  Matthew which is the one with all the genealogy.
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  This book was written for a Jewish audience to convince them
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  that yes, Jesus was actually the Messiah they were waiting for.
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  And this might sound strange, but as I have been coming up to
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  this Christmas, this has been the chapter, this genealogy has
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  been the thing that has been bouncing around in my head
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  giving me such joy And you might say, are you completely bananas?
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  How is that so? And so begat so and so begat so
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  and so. Any help at all?
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  Well, you and me, friend, we are part of a very, very big story.
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  And for me, listening to this list of generations, 42
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  generations talks to the fact that Jesus being born was God's
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  plan all along. We are part of this incredibly
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  big story, this big story in which God saves us.
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  And we are now still living part of that big story many
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  generations later. And when things seem a little
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  bit pointless or hopeless or despairing, I think of this
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  chapter and this is evidence that God is a God of big plans.
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  And there is an enormous meta narrative in which my life fits.
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  And this is a narrative of hope and a narrative of love and a
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  narrative of saving. So it is with great joy that I
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  will tackle all of these names with you this morning, this
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  afternoon, or this evening whenever you're listening.
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  And we will read through them together to hear that this God's
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  action to save humanity, his beloved people, has been His
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  plan all along. So join me, friends, as we read
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  together. Matthew, Chapter one.
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  This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah,
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  a descendant of David and of Abraham.
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  Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob.
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  Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.
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  Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was
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  Tamar. Perez was the father of Hezron.
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  Hezron was the father of Ram. Ram was the father of Eminidab.
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  Eminidab was the father of Nashon.
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  Nashon was the father of Salmon. Salmon was the father of Boaz,
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  whose mother was Rahab. Boaz was the father of Obed,
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  whose mother was Ruth. Obed was the father of Jesse.
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  Jesse was the father of King David.
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  David was the father of Solomon, whose mother was Bathsheba, the
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  widow of Uriah. Solomon was the father of
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  Rehoboam. Rehoboam was the father of
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  Abuja. Abuja was the father of ASA.
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  ASA was the father of Jehoshaphat.
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  Jehoshaphat was the father of Jehoram.
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  Jehoram was the father of Uzziah.
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  Uzziah was the father of Jotham. Jotham was the father of Ahaz.
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  Ahaz was the father of Hezekiah. Hezekiah was the father of
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  Manasseh. Manasseh was the father of Amon.
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  Amon was the father of Josiah. Josiah was the father of
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  Jehoiakin and his brothers, born at the time of the exile to
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  Babylon after the Babylonian exile.
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  Jehoiakin was the father of Shealtiel.
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  Shealtiel was the father of Zerubabel.
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  Zerubabel was the father of Abiud.
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  Abiud was the father of Eliakim. Eliakim was the father of Azor.
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  Azor was the father of Zadok. Zadok was the father of Akim was
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  the father of Eliad. Eliad was the father of Eliezer.
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  Eliezer was the father of Matan. Matan was the father of Jacob.
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  Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary.
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  Mary gave birth to Jesus, who is called the Messiah.
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  All those listed above include 14 generations from Abraham to
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  David, 14 from David to the Babylonian Exile, and 14 from
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  the Babylonian exile to the Messiah.
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  This is how Jesus the Messiah was born.
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  His mother Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph, but before
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  the marriage took place, while she was still a virgin, she
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  became pregnant through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Joseph, to whom she was engaged, was a righteous man and did not
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  want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the
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  engagement quietly. As he considered this, an Angel
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  of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.
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  Joseph, son of David the Angel, said, Do not be afraid to take
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  Mary as your wife, for the child within her was conceived by the
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  Holy Spirit, and she will have a son.
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  And you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from
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  their sins. All of this occurred to fulfill
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  the Lord's message through his prophet.
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  Look, the virgin will conceive a child, she will give birth to a
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  son, and they will call him Emmanuel, which means God is
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  with us. When Joseph woke up, he did as
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  the Angel of the Lord commanded and took Mary as his wife.
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  But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son
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  was born, and Joseph named him Jesus.
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  Father, you have loved us for such a long time.
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  Through countless generations, you have loved us.
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  You have planned to save us and to bring us close to you so that
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  your arms open wide, can wrap themselves around us and you can
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  be with us to show us your love for us, to show us who you are
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  and what you are like through the person of Jesus.
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  That is just the coolest news and it makes us so filled with
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  joy that you would love us this much from the beginning of time,
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  that your love would be there, working away in the background,
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  bringing this plan to fruition. And so we celebrate that this
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  Christmas, as we think of your Son born for us to enact your
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  saving plan for us. We praise you and we worship
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  You, our loving Father, in the name of Jesus.
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  Amen.