I don't know about you. But with me, as I grew up and
beginning to start reading the New Testament, first of all, and
then, as I grew up, it seemed like.
Every time we had this reading, it's like, what do you do with
the first 16 verses of Matthew Chapter 1?
What if that's your chapter steady?
What do you do with it? And, you know, the easy point is
to say, look, this just helps us prove that Jesus had the lineage
that he supposed to have. But now, Paul told Timothy says,
all scripture is given by the inspiration of God, it's
profitable for Doctrine for reproof for correction for
instruction, in righteousness. That the man of God may be
complete thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
So, what can we learn then? From the family tree of Jesus,
that might be profitable for Doctrine, reproof.
Correction and instruction A couple of years ago.
I decided it's time that I figured that out.
If if I can figure it out yet, and honestly, I was just kind of
like I'm still blown away. I haven't had the chance to
preach this very many times. So, Wade, warned me this morning
says, okay. Now it's going to be on the
website, so anywhere you go to preach a meeting, you know,
expect they're going to have heard it.
So can you at least give me till June.
The end of June, I've got three meetings and they'll be done
this year and after that But what, we're going to study to
me, I hope I can bring this off with the aha moment for you that
I felt when it it started to click when you back up into
Matthew chapter 1 says the book of the genealogy of Jesus
Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
I'm not into genealogy. We have some different members
in the church at Oakdale that are really into it.
And there's one in particular and I get it now, why he's?
So, To it. He was actually a man, young man
that was brought to church because he was dating one of the
girls from church. And you guys may know Merlin
Tiffany Richardson used to be anyway.
I'm not going to go down the family lines of genealogy but he
thought he was first generation met it, Riverbank High School
and they dated got married. He happened to go back to a
Fourth of July meeting with her one year in Missouri.
And on the way because he's in the genealogies is like while we
were there. He says, I understand some of
our family were actually Richard sons and he knew where they were
from. He says, I want to go and try to
connect and see if we can make it his people when they came
West had to change their name to Richardson for legal reasons.
you know, you know, Todd Richardson, the preacher turns
out they're cousins, His people go back to this and this was
like for him, I'm getting chills thinking about just how he feels
about it. He thought he was the first
generation and so, genealogy to him, he's all the time asking me
about my people. And I don't know, I wish Evelyn
was here today because she kind of represents that for our
family. She's my Dad's cousin.
And I know nothing really about her.
Until I was here, one Sunday, and, and she was making
connections for me, and I thought that is really cool.
Jesus has a genealogy that sometimes and in the Just admit
it. I just blew through it like I
can't wait to get onto his birth.
And not even realizing where he came from.
He's a son of David, the son of Abraham, Abraham, begat, Isaac,
and Isaac begat, Jacob, Jacob, begat Judah and his brothers and
Judas, begat Perez and zerah, by Tamar the reason Perez and zamar
Perez and zerah are talked about here is because they're twins.
So usually when you read about this, you're going to hear just
one. But these two came out as Twins
and its really interesting as we go, let's consider just so you
know, a little bit about his family.
You know who Abraham is and you know Isaac and you know Jacob we
heard of your god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and you probably
know enough to say. And so I won't spend time saying
much about the fact that Jacob really wasn't are he didn't have
the birthright to have all this happen through him but you
remember Esau sold it for a bowl of beans.
See, he didn't realize what he was given away and this is
exactly what he saw was given away.
I mean, there was other things that came with it, but there's
nothing like being the are the bloodline of the Messiah.
I mean we're so proud of our kids were so great.
It's awesome. When we hear good things about
them, it's awesome when we see them being able to take care of
things on their own and we see them progressing, can you
imagine what it would be like? Be like, for those that could
say, that's my grandson, that's my great grandson.
Jacob seen to understand this. I don't know why or what?
Or if you even understand the depth, I'm sure he did not but
he did understand the birthright and Jacob begat Judah.
Now, if you know much about Judy, you're like how is this?
Because Judo wasn't the oldest You know, the fact is there are
certain things about this. That's fascinating to me.
First of all, Judah was the third son of Leah?
Now you might remember the other two had curses against them one
because he laid with his father's concubine ruined it.
The other two were just Wicked people.
They lost it and so when it came time for blessing, Judah was the
first that was able to even receive it.
It's fascinating to me that he wasn't even the son of the one
who Jacob loved. Remember Jacob was absolutely in
love with Rachel. Who wouldn't be in love with
Rachel. But he got tricked and had to
marry Leah and then wait to marry Rachel.
The bloodline that led to Jesus didn't even go through Jacobs
love. See God sees things different
than we do. That's what we're beginning to
learn already with this this, this lineage and it wasn't
Joseph. I mean, Joseph, there's so much
written about Joseph. We know so many things about the
details of Joseph's life, but yet, that's not where this
bloodline, that's not where it comes from.
In fact, it was Judah. The one who the bloodline came
through. This was part of selling Joseph
for twenty shekels of silver that was the price of a Slave.
His grandson would be sold for thirty shekels inflation.
The price of a Slave. You got to go down to judah's
great. Great grandson in Matthew 26 15.
You see where we're going. You know, this is the genealogy
of Jesus. He had Judah by Tamar.
Now, this is all recorded in Genesis chapter 38.
Tamar Tamar, are you pronounce? It was actually his
daughter-in-law. His son earlier was wicked, and
God killed him before he and Tamar had children.
And so, it was by the Old Law. The next in line had to take it.
The next son was Onan and so he was given to her to continue the
bloodline. He was unfaithful to God
scriptures, say God killed him Judah, now is getting nervous,
he promised Shayla the youngest son but then he didn't ever
really let it happen. He sent her to her father's
house in her widows garments, but he was afraid, she would
die. He thought that Tamar was like
I'm going to lose all my kids because they're married her.
She's bad luck. He didn't give her to her and
Tamar realized this. Well, judah's wife dies.
And then he begins to seek companionship.
I don't want to go in the whole story for time sake.
He ends up finding companionship because Tamar puts a veil over
her health had takes off for widows garments, but to another
Veil over her head and goes out and sits where unsavory women
would sit the Harlot would sit and he comes along and he goes
into her, she gets pregnant. Now, she's said he was supposed
to Perry, didn't have money. So she said, give me something
to prove, you'll come back, he gave him his Signet and his and
his staff. Remember later when word gets
out hey your daughter-in-law is pregnant.
Goes like this is my chance. Let's get her as killer because
she's clearly been playing the Harlot.
And she says, she sends message to him by the man who owns these
as whose child, this is. That's these two twins.
You see, this is not like the family treat.
I've known people who say you don't want to know about my
family. It gets dirty and gets ugly
quick. I'm like, you know what?
You're not the only one this is one of the things that makes the
Bible so believable to me, is it doesn't protect the greatest
names in the greatest people from the truth and the reality
of the ugliness of sin, like, we talked about this morning, She's
tiled Willis. We already talked about that
Perez. This is interesting because he
was a twin, but he was the second one.
And yet prophecies were that he would dominate.
And indeed the Bloodlines comes through Perez Judah.
The got Perez and zerah by Tamar Perez begat hezron, hezron begat
ram ram to got a minute dad. A minute ab begat nahshon
nahshon begat Salman. There is little known about many
of this accepted a minute. Dad's daughter married Erin the
priests. And so Aaron being Moses
brother, her name was Alice Sheba.
That makes a minute to have the grandpa denied, having a by Hugh
and Eleazar and ithamar. That's about all I could find on
these because actually, to be honest, I began to try to seek
information on these guys in this, in the genealogy, Jesus
more than I have my own. I couldn't tell you this about
my own ancestors. Salman though. we start to
recognize something as big God Boaz by Rahab Boaz begat Obed by
Ruth and Obed begat, Jesse, and Jesse begat David, the King
David, the king begat Solomon by her, who had been the wife of
Uriah That's how I came to, finally, decide what to preach
this morning. We're going to save a lot of
time this afternoon by me, not have to explain her that had
been the wife of Uriah you know, it now.
There are Generations here six of them with a very gloriously
in glorious family tree think about and if you don't know that
Solomon married Rahab you can read about this in Joshua
chapters 2 and + 6. And she bore Boaz.
This is Rahab who was a Canaanite, harlot.
You can read this for sure. And Hebrews 11 31, James 225 Now
we know it was her faith and she saw something different about
Israel and she wanted to be protected and be a part of that.
And she winds up because of her stand of Faith, even though she
was really from the enemy. Boaz begat Obed, by Ruth.
That you've read the book of Ruth.
I don't want to go through the this time because we got so much
but it's a great read and it won't take you very long if you
don't know the story. But the fact is so what I want
you to know for the portion of this study is she was a moabite
and in Deuteronomy chapter 23 and verse 3, it says an ammonite
or moabite shall not. Enter the Assembly of the Lord
even to the tenth generation. None of his descendants shall
enter the Assembly of the Lord forever.
Because they did not meet you with bread and water on the road
when you came up out of Egypt because they hired against you
Balaam, the son of beor, frumpy Thor of Mesopotamia to curse
you. If you don't know all those
stories, you have read those, they're great when you can
preach on them. Here's what I want you to get
out of this. One of Jesus's.
Greg, Greg, Greg, Greg Greg, Greg grandmas.
Could not even as enter the Assembly of the Lord, according
to the Old Testament. Do you realize when Jesus died
on the cross his blood as it were float forward and
backwards? He was opening up a pathway even
for his ancestors. That didn't exist without his
blood. And what we're going to begin to
fill in this is that he is open up a pathway for everyone in the
same way. Obed, begat, Jesse, and Jesse
begat David, the King David, the king begat Solomon by her, who
had been the wife of Uriah Won't even use her name.
But it reminds us of the sin. You see, sometimes the
consequences we can't get away at get away from.
See how much time we're saving. In Jesus, family, tree so far.
We have found deceit. We found for slavery in his
family, tree, Judah and Joseph, we found fornication between
Judah and Tamar. And now we add cannot adultery
and even murder to the family tree Solomon begat, ribaldry
bigotry, Obama got abijah abijah begat ASA.
Now, Solomon was a man that had was them like no other.
We know that and he learned some pretty tough life lessons.
His son rehoboam You can read about First Kings 14 and 15.
It was basically because he took the bad advice of his peers and
not the good advice of the elders that the whole Kingdom
became divided. Now it was prophesied so I
agree. It was bound to happen but it
was only bound to happen because God knew how irresponsible
riobamba would be about who he gathered and took wisdom and
advice from. So if we learn nothing else from
the family tree than this right here, Value.
The advice of your elders, over the advice of your peers.
When push comes to shove, am I saying, they're always right,
sometimes you'll find that the word of God gives clear
Direction and The Pier is right, and the older was wrong, but on
many cases it's not. There isn't a clear direction.
If you make a mistake, make a mistake listening to your
elders. Abijah and second Chronicles
chapter 13 relied on God and he had victory over jeroboam.
Now jeroboam was the one who had the other 10 when the kingdom
divided and they got ugly abide. You was able to overcome
jeroboam at that point in second, chronicles, 14 and 15.
There's ASA, he's good, and right?
And he's loyal to God. Until chapter 16, says late in
his life, he made in a treaty with Syria.
Now, God, scolded ASA through the Seer.
A Seer is kind of like a prophet.
And the prophet came to him and God scolded him.
And so, you know what, he did with the prophet, he did not
say, you know what, you're right, I'm wrong.
I'll be like David, and I will just confess my sin.
Instead he threw the Seer in prison and so God gave him a
disease. Started in his feet and killed
him. We don't know what that disease
is. I know of three people who died
from diseases that started in their feet.
Everyone, I'm diabetic. I'm a bit curious.
If that's what a sad. But the question I have is, why
do people change when they grow old?
We're going to start to notice a pattern as we go through this
and blow through this genealogy. That there were some of the
people that were good when they were younger.
And as they got older, they turned away from God.
What was it that would take ASA and somebody that was loyal to
God did good and right, but later kind of started calling
his own shots. You know, I wonder if it's not
like Paul's warning to the Ephesian Elders that even have
their own cells would arise men. Who would be ravenous wolves?
I've known of people who in their youth and in their younger
days and their young men's age, could could literally explain to
you and defend. You the way we've commune today?
The way we worship today. Everything we stand for, they
could help and identify from the word of God.
Thus saith the Lord and somewhere between 40 and 50.
They became arrogant or something, they began to think
they understood better than this.
And I've had a couple of them. Tell me personally, I know it
says that but I cannot believe that.
Insert whatever. Doctrinal point we're talking
about. And it goes something like that.
What is it? That makes us.
We get older. We been around the block a few
times. That we think we're good?
God, we'll take it from here. I'm not saying everyone does
that but it seems like this man ASA did and he's not alone and
we continue to see that Trend today.
If I as I grow older will remember this And check myself
and my own attitude and my own desire to help others that it
doesn't start to come between my ears, but it comes from the good
book, I will help to protect myself and you will do the same
for yourself as we stand before God in our own chronology of
family ASA. Begat Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat
began joram and joram. Begat Uzziah Jehoshaphat is you
can read about him in second chronicles 17.
He was a good King. There's another but he made an
alliance with Ahab and Merit in marriage.
Bad choice on who he married and the family.
He connected himself with You can read about lacaille has
warning all about what happened with that.
You know, good people. Can create a bad Alliance.
And it can suffer their genealogy and what goes on as it
were in their Kingdom. This happened with Josh at joram
and second Chronicles chapter, 20 and 21.
He was a bad man, he killed his own Brothers.
He married, Wicked 8/2 daughter and he suffered a bad death,
we'll leave it at that. Zion second chronicles 26 had a
good start but then he was given up to Pride which ended up
giving him leprosy. Who's Zaya begat joatham and
joatham begat ahaz ahaz begat Hezekiah.
Now, Joe them you can read about and second chronicles. 27 just
says he was a good king, that's a summary, I can make a has in
second chronicles, 28 was a bad King, he gave in to the Baal
worship. Hezekiah second chronicles, 29
through 32 is a good King. You see how things going back
and forth Let us not be shocked that we look back and we look at
a generation and say, you know what, things just aren't like
they used to be that's been going on since the beginning.
Ups and downs, ups, and downs. Make sure your generation is on
and up. I can't control the Next
Generation Wade, and his brothers and those kids, they're
going to decide. I can control what my choices
are. And what will I will humble
myself before God or not, you can do the same thing.
You see, part of understanding his genealogy is to see the ups
and downs, and the choices each person had Hezekiah restored,
Temple worship, he kept the Passover.
He even tried to unify the Kingdom because he loved his
Brethren. There is a lot of good things
written his about Hezekiah, a wonderful example.
He destroyed pillars, and, and altars and images, and He
restored truthful warship. but you know, at the end of his
life, he struggled with the sin of Pride as well, He had to
learn humility. Pride, you see it keeps Finding
its way back in Hezekiah, begat Manasses and Manasses begat Amon
and Amon begat, Josiah. Manasseh was a bad King cording.
Second chronicles 33, he rebuilt those altars that have been torn
down the Bell warship. He caused his sons to pass
through the fire. He was guilty of sorcery.
He defiled the temple. And the Bible says he did more
evil than other nations. God's people became more wicked
than the wicked people. but, This is finally a good change.
In fact, in the genealogy of Jesus, I wish there were more of
these. But unfortunately, his genealogy
is write a reflective of ours that seems.
Like there's more people that go bad and stay bad, then, bad
people, that turn good. But now here's an example of
Manasseh that says, it can God humbled him through the
Assyrians. He repented.
He wound up destroying those altars.
He restored true worship before. God.
Then there was a man in second chronicles 33.
He was a bad King. He never did repent and Josiah.
He was a good King. He sought He restored.
He tried to give the BET Josiah's tragedy.
She really came to the fact that he died.
Choosing War. Over piece.
It wasn't really a bad king and you read through what he did and
he wasn't Wicked. He had a chance to choose peace
and he chose War. In the New Testament.
We are taught a whole different concept or under Jesus.
Then you can read about through some of the genealogical things
we're studying. And today, you and I live in a
nation and which we are blessed to be able to choose peace or
War. It's called conscientious
objectors. We're told to love our enemies
as Christians. We're told the weapons of our
Warfare are not carnal but they're Mighty to God building
out strong. It's it's the, it's the sword of
the spirit. It's not machine guns and
missiles. It's true from wrong.
It's when our enemy is hungry, we feed them when they're
thirsty. We give them drink.
We have a choice. Nobody is forcing anybody in
this room or this nation to go to war or align yourself with
people that would kill. Don't make the same mistake.
Josiah made in choosing when he had the opportunity for peace.
He chose war and tragically died.
Josiah begat jeconiah his brothers about the time.
They were carried away to Babylon and after they were
brought to Babylon, Babylon, Jack, and I have begot Shield
Hill, shalt, ill-begotten, Sarah bubble, jeconiah Esther's
chapter 2 and 6, Jeremiah 24 429 that's when they go into
Babylonian captivity. In fact, he is the last declared
king of Judah that I could find. She was dealing with a lot of
kings in the lineage of Jesus up.
To this point, I mean, Patriarchs and kings.
But Jack and I will now be the last one who was declared to be
a king. Shall tell is only revealed as
their bubbles dad. That's really all we know.
Is there a bubble? You can read about in Ezra
Nehemiah haggai and Zechariah. He was a governor of though he
was not a king, the king is Darius King of Babylon according
to haggai chapter 1 and 1. He's a good governor.
In fact he was chosen by the Lord of hosts according to
haggai 2 and 23, he rebuilt the temple and he trusted God, he's
a good guy. But royalty and the language is
now beginning to change in Jesus genealogy.
Is there a bubble begat ABIA to be Hood?
The god? L like I am like I am begat.
Azor Azor begat sadoc and sadoc begat a Khmer.
Khmer got a lion the lion begat Eleazar, Eleazar begat matthan
matthan and matthan begat. Jacob, Jacob begat Joseph, the
husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ.
Now, I don't know if that's interesting to you.
That to me, is interesting because the family tree of Jesus
went to Patriarchs and Keynes to relative obscurity.
Can you find anything about these people?
Until Jesus was finally, Born Into the family of a carpenter.
I'm not sure what that says about the trade of carpentry
relative to other traits. He's a common man.
He's common people and that is exactly.
We're his invitation will go in his ministry.
What can we learn from Jesus family?
True family tree. We can learn that.
Prophecy was fulfilled, concerning the Messiah.
We can learn that social status is not relevant.
It doesn't matter where you came from, and who your family people
and who they were, it matters. Who we are together as the
children of God, and we learned that our parents have an
influence over who we become. But our faith is in our own
control. Think about the kings that would
be good than bad, good than bad. It's almost like it took a bad
parent to make a kid. So you know what?
I don't want to live that way and what a kid had a good
parent. They're like, I don't want to
live that way. And then they went bad and then
their kids, I Don't Wanna Live that way and then they get good
and kissing. I want to live that way.
See this is the same thing going on in your families and my
families and every generation. And every group, what is the key
to weathering? This storm of up and down?
I believe wholeheartedly the key is that you stand firm with
truth? Read an article not too long
ago, I believe was in the light. I don't remember who wrote it.
But I won't forget, I don't think the illustration.
Talked about a farmer Rancher guy whose cow had got off in the
winter and caft clear on the other side of the place.
The snow was bad. The blizzard was coming in.
And they went out to try to get it.
And, of course, the mama took off, and here's this calf in the
snow. And Has his son with him and he
picks up that little calf and starts going back to the barn.
The sun was just worried. This calf can't live.
It's just brand new, but it needs.
Its mama needs the milk and he's the warmth of her body.
It needs mama. He kept his fret over it and
dancing. Don't you worry don't you worry?
Talked about watching his dad, go back into the into the barn.
And in, through all the gates, he left everything open and he
said pretty soon that Mama Cal followed him right into the bar.
They shut it all in the cath, lived, everything was safe.
He said, I learned a big lesson that night, there's some
instincts of motherhood. If they're going to be, we're
going to be where the children are.
He says in some ways that's beautiful in other ways.
He says, I've seen people lead them their children lead the
parents into captivity under the same principle.
Moms and dads. It's tough.
When we have to decide where to be when it comes to our
children. But make sure wherever we are
Wherever You Are. When they're ready to come home,
they come to a place of faithfulness.
That is the most. We can offer them so that their
faith can try to find that plane.
We learn from the family tree of Jesus.
The common trait of those who failed.
They did not have faith in God's word and therefore, they were
disobedient. You can read through all those
chapters. We've really blew through it
really in historical setting. When the New Testament talks
about us having faith in God, it's not just because God wants
us to do what he wants us to do, and just deal with it.
He wants us to have faith in it so we believe it, we see the
value of it. Because he knows if we don't
have faith will give in, I mean, it's like that plan.
When the doctor says, look you need to do this or you need to
do that and you're like okay I'll do it but you're really not
convinced. That's Wilt what it'll take, are
you really not convinced, it'll make that big a difference so
you don't sell out to it. The great physician tells us in
his word, this is how we have to live.
If I believe it the common trait of those who failed, they didn't
believe it and they were disobedient.
The commentary to those who succeeded.
They had faith in God's word. They completely believe it.
They obeyed to it. And when necessary, they
repented, We also learn that God was also always faithful to
receive and forgive repentance, Souls over and over.
When people would repent, God would receive them.
You know, there's a verse there that I put up here on the slide
Isaiah 55:8 night. I had that verse memorized long
before I knew what it was talking about.
In fact, I quoted that verse, in sermons about other things, that
I believe is true long. Before I knew what that was
talking about. Isaiah 55, 89 for my ways are
not your ways. My thoughts are not your
thoughts, as the heavens are higher than the earth.
So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts. And I always and I believe it's
true, apply it to our worship, this doesn't seem right but
God's ways are higher than our ways.
Certain items have Doctrine doesn't make sense, but God's
ways higher than my voice and that's all true.
But do you know what, Isaiah 55, what he's been talking about?
he's been talking about his mercy and his grace, and his
willingness to forgive And less man.
Say, I just can't believe that I can't I just don't see how God
can really forgive. He says my ways are higher than
your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.
So the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways.
God is always faithful to receive Andhra forgive those who
will repent. You know, I suppose, when we
consider Jesus, family tree, there are a lot more questions
without closure than there are answers.
And I believe God probably did that intentionally.
But I asked you, what was Jesus perspective of his genealogy.
I've told you what I studied and what I gathered out of the first
16 verses of Matthew chapter 1, Listen to what Jesus said in
Matthew, 20, 12, and verse 46. Now the specifically
contextually what happens here is he's inside preaching, and
his mother and his brothers are outside and some people aren't
even sure if he's going crazy or what's really happening and
while he was still talking to the multitudes, behold his
mother. And brothers, stood outside
seeking to speak with him, then once said to him, look your
mother and your brothers are standing outside seeking to
speak with you, but he answered and said to the one who told
him, who is my mother? And who are my brothers?
He stretched out his hand toward his disciples and said, here are
my mother and my brothers for whoever does the will of my
Father in Heaven is my brother and sister.
And mother. I remember hearing this saying
when I was growing up, Bloods thicker than water.
And what that meant by the people, I heard say it was who
you were relative to blood relation to.
That's who are you going to line up with before where you were
baptized and what church? You were a member of Jesus is
not the other way around. God's word is always.
This is my mother. This is my sister.
This is my brother. This is my family.
Does that disassociate him from those people standing outside?
Absolutely not, in fact, you can read where they stayed together
but they knew where he stood when they were outside wanting
him to come out to. He says that's not a place.
I'm going there. Welcome in here.
And you know what they came in, we learned that by the time they
were at the cross. Jesus is saying, John take care
of my mama? Jesus brother.
He's part of the early church, the faithful though.
You see the faithful or adopted in Ephesians chapter 1 and 1.
Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God to the Saints
who are in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus.
This is to those who are Saints and those who are faithful grace
to you and peace from God. Our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ blessed, be the God, and father of our Lord.
Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing.
In the Heavenly places in Christ just as he chose us in him
before the foundations of the world that we should be holy and
Without Blame before him in love having predestined us to
adoption as his son by Jesus Christ to himself, according to
the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory.
Of his grace by which he made us accepted in the Beloved, how was
it? That we were predestined to
adoption as Sons. Was it just random on God's side
that we have? No real know about like some
would teach It's called Calvinism.
Nope. It's to the Saints who are in
Ephesus and faithful in Christ, Jesus, he predestined long
before all this happened that if people would be faithful, they
would be adopted. That plan was long before all
this started. Now, I'm not going to take the
time right now to give you my two cents worth on that.
If you're interested, we can talk afterwards.
But he decided before all this was even created.
How he was going to determine who he would adopt.
He said a plan in order and it required faithfulness in Christ
Jesus. The adopted then that are
adopted, they're not just like put in there to be kind of like
half welcome. Know their heirs according to
Galatians chapter 4 and verse 4 but when the fullness of the
time had come God sent forth his son born of a woman born under
the law to redeem. Those who were under the law
that we might receive the adoption as Sons.
And because you are Sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his
son into your heart, crying out, Abba Father.
Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son and if a son
then an heir of God through Christ You're our adoption into
Christ, through our faithfulness comes with all the blessings, as
if we were natural born. That's just awesome.
You know, when we stop and realize it theologically when we
know God is the father of all, I mean.
So of course, There are two sides to that.
There are conditions of this inheritance.
This inheritance in this faithfulness isn't just left is
like here, come, get it and just receive it.
He says, their conditions for it according to Roman's 11 and 19
and I wanted to use this worse. There's plenty of that we could
use, but Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter 4 gets just
abused doctrinally to make it sound like you just got it and
they're no conditions. So let's go to Roman's, he's
already explained all those things that people draw their
conclusions about, once you're saved and Faith only, and it
doesn't matter, no conditions. So he gets on as he continues.
Let her say you will say, then branches were broken off that.
I might be grafted in, he's compared this adoption to a tree
and all entry that just was bad in some of the branches had to
be cut off, that was Israel and then the Gentiles were adopted
and grafted in and so he says you might boast That and well
said, because of unbelief they were broken off and you stand by
faith. Now, we just read about it in
the genealogy of Jesus, those who were broken off those who
died without faith, those who God killed, because of the lack
of faith, and he has no part with them.
He says, that's right. They were broken off.
And you stand because you stand in faith but do not be haughty.
No me arrogant, but fear for if God did not spare the natural
branches He may not spare you either.
Therefore what do you do consider the goodness and
severity of God? On those who fell severity but
toward you goodness? If if you continue in his
goodness, otherwise you also will become You see, it's really
simple. The message is still the same
that said, God wants us and he gave Jesus so that we can be
saved. But here's the deal.
If I don't continue in his goodness, I will also be cut
off. What if you're cut off, can you
repent? Absolutely God is faithful and
just to forgive us and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
If we're going to first John 18 night, But now, we're going to
have to repent. And returned as the Book of
Revelation, says, and do. The first Works, come back, and
they also these ones who were broken off that I might be
grafted in, and they also, if they do not continue in unbelief
will be grafted in for God is able to graft them in again,
Israel doesn't have to be lost Just because they were so bad
and did such awful things and even killed the Messiah.
In fact, it didn't take long for them to be offered salvation.
The day of Pentecost. That's what it is all about.
In Acts chapter 2, What they say minute brother?
What do we do? We did we killed God, we killed
the Son of God. We've been broken off.
How do we fix this? And what are the applied, the
disciples? The apostles, tell them Peter
said, repent, and be baptized every one of you.
That's it. They can be graphed in again and
so the question comes to us today, are you Faithful in Jesus
Christ? Are you in there?
If this genealogy continued to be written, she, that's the
interesting thing about genealogy.
Is tracing yourself back to the source.
You begin to narrow down a narrow down, right?
but when you come back to Jesus, think about how big the tree is
getting. Think about everything below
that, that's where you and I fit in.
Where are we in this? When it comes to the genealogy?
Of the family of Christ. We know, as we studied this
morning, that faith comes by hearing hearing comes from the
word of God. You've heard it today.
We know that without faith, it's impossible to please him for.
He who comes to God, must believe that he is, and that he
is, a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
He wants our faith. In Acts 17 and 30, it says all
men everywhere have to repent. There was a time he said, God
winked at ignorance. But that time was no more in
Romans 10. And 10, he says with the heart
man believes And righteousness. And with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation. Today, you believe, are you
willing to confess? Are you willing to take?
And be adopted Galatians 3:27. Speaking of the adopted, sins of
many of you have been baptized into Christ, have put on.
That's the deal. That's the Covenant.
That's what he offers us. All today, if you are a
Christian today, we already referenced it.
According to 1st, John 1 and 9. He is faithful.
And just to forgive us and cleanse us of all
unrighteousness. James says, the effective,
fervent prayer of a righteous Melon Man developed in these
cases, if you're here today and you desire to come and obedience
to the gospel, be baptized Me, Love Stupid.
I'll tell you this if you're here and you're like yeah I want
to Big Greg. I mean, nothing personal, but
I've been studying with Frank or somebody else and I really want
them to do it. That's awesome.
You won't hurt my feelings a bit.
What would hurt my feelings? Just to think you knew you need
to do something today and you put it off for any reason.
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