It's good to see everybody that came out this evening.
Thank you for your presents and spend a few minutes tonight.
Studying God's word. Please open your Bibles to the
first chapter of Matthew, will be kind of touching some on some
verses in Matthew chapter 1 and Matthew Chapter 2, and
referencing some passages from the Old Testament, as well.
For the next few minutes to just a very simple aim that I have.
And that is to show Jesus and God's word in a way that by the
time we're finished here, that were more encouraged that were
more enlightened and more more have more faith in Jesus, and
what he is, and what he does for us.
And for those who, you know, may be young and still fully
grasping the whole concept of the gospel.
And also, for those who have been in the church for a long
time, 50, 60 years, whatever, maybe hope that we just have a
new Fresh Vibrance of Jesus and who he is and what he has done
for us. So, I wanted to, I wanted to
touch bases on how Jesus Changes Everything.
Everything Changes Things in our life changes things, in
perspective, that, that a lot of people in the gun in the world.
Don't know. And we're going to start, of
course in the Book of Matthew in verse 1.
And it says there, Matthew chapter 1 verse 1.
It says the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the
son of David, the son of Abraham, I'm going to stop right
there. We're going to notice eight
points on how Jesus changes everything.
And the number one way that that Jesus changes everything is
Jesus redefine. Ends history.
You know, the first book of the New Testament starts with
genealogy that is really not very pleasant to read sometimes
and it's just redundant when we get into the genealogies and we
want to skip over it but there's a strong significance.
Why it's in there and there's reasons why every single passage
in the Bible is in there and from from the start of the Book
of Matthew, which Matthew was a disciple of Jesus, It's showing
that all the history is pointing to Jesus.
Everything in the Old Testament, Matthew calls that the book, the
book that he wrote the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
Now, of course, if there's any confusion we know that Christ is
not a last name. Christ means messenger or the
anointed one. The Messiah, the promised one
ever since the entrance of sin into the world, in the beginning
of the Bible, God promised the coming of an anointed one in
Messiah. I'll Messiah or one who would
defeat sin and deliver people from sin.
So in Genesis 3 and 15, we remember that were right after
sin entered into the world. God said to the serpent, which
was the tempter. It says I will put enmity
between you and the woman and between your Offspring and her
Offspring and then it talks about one Offspring from the
woman and said, is he shall bruise your head, And you shall
bruise his heel. So all the way back in the
beginning of the Bible, there was there was an immediate
prophecy of Jesus and he would be the one to come the one who
would come to from The Offspring of a woman and would bruise.
It, he would bruise The tempters Head, and some translations say
he will crush your head. So the first verse of Matthew
Matthew says, That basically the snake Crusher has come Jesus is
here. This is what all the Old
Testament has been pointing to. Jesus is The Offspring of from
the woman and he has come to conquer sin and Satan and the
rest of the chapter will tell us the miraculous story of how
Jesus would be born, uniquely from The Offspring of woman and
not a man, not from Adam, the first man who was, of course
succumb to sin. This man Jesus that we read
about, he would not be like us, he would not succumb to sin, he
would save us from sin. If we go back, of course,
looking still at the first verse in Matthew, it says, the book of
the genealogy of Jesus Christ. The son of David Jesus is The
Offspring from David, who can't who has come to reign as king
forever. And we reference back in Samuel.
2nd, Samuel 7. We read that David wanted to
build a temple for God, but God told David know your son Solomon
is going to build that temple in that passage God, promised David
that his offspring would continue.
Then one from his line would reign as king forever.
If we look at second, Samuel chapter 7 verses 12 through 13.
It says, when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your
father's I will set up your seed after you who will come from
your body and I will establish his kingdom.
He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the
Throne of his kingdom forever. Now it's obvious that he was
referencing Solomon in this but he was also pointing towards
Christ as well towards Jesus. Build a house in God's name and
will establish a throne forever. We read the same thing in the
16th verse of second Samuel 7, it says in your house and your
kingdom shall be established forever.
Before you, your throne shall be established forever.
We read in the in, in the entirety of the Old Testament
over and over again, the promise that promise being repeated,
Also, in Isaiah 9:6 through 7 talks about the Prince of Peace.
Who would come to sit on the throne of David?
Jeremiah 23:5 through six tells about a king from the line of
David who would who would bring perfect Justice and
righteousness into the Earth and his equal, Ezekiel 37 verses 24
through 25 tells about a davidic king, who would Reign Over a New
Covenant for all nations and we could keep going over passages
and passages and passages of scripture in the Old Testament.
Spent that reference at the point, is that through the Old
Testament? God's people were continually
looking for a different King. Unlike any other key to come in
the line of David and what Matthew is saying here is that
the King has come Jesus is here. This is the one that you guys
have been looking for. In Matthew 1 17.
It says they're you know as we read these names it's not
actually a comprehensive genealogy in verse 17 that we
read. Not every descendant in that
family tree is included. In fact, some entire Generations
that have been skipped. So why did Matthew do this?
Why did Matthew decide to skip Generations in here?
We read in in, in the 17 verse There it says so all the
generations from Abraham to David are fourteen Generations
from David until the Captivity in Babylon are fourteen
generations and from the Captivity in Babylon until
Christ are fourteen Generations. So the number 14 is mentioned,
three times in this one verse. And you know, I kind of wondered
why why would he specifically say fourteen generations?
And I kind of started doing some research on this.
And this, this is just interesting to me.
It may or may not make any sense to anybody, but it goes all the
way back to the Hebrew name of King David.
Going back to a little bit of Hebrew information in the Hebrew
language. They have something called
Gematria in. Gematria is the Jewish alphabet
had specific numbers identified to each letter of the Hebrew.
Alphabet, for example, like we have in this slide here, this is
the, this is the Hebrew alphabet, and the value under
each letter, They came up with a number that was identified to
each letter of the alphabet. So example, you would have a
number of soy sauce associated with your name and what happens
is the Hebrew name of David? Is this here?
And then you add these numbers together for each letter that
number comes out to 14, For whatever it's worth, you know?
I think Matthew may may, if we want to take it that far, again,
putting the stamp that this is the line of David, and Jesus is
here. I thought that was very
interesting to me. Now we go back one verse Jesus
is the son of David and he's also the son of Abraham.
So one more look back at the Old Testament remember that we read
in Genesis 12 1, through 3 1, God said to Abraham now, the
Lord had said to Abraham get out of your country from your family
and from your father's house to a land that I will show you, I
will make you a great nation. I will bless you, and make you a
great new your name. Great.
And you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those who bless
you, and I will curse him who curses you and in all, and in
you all the families of the Earth shall be blessed.
If we keep reading in Genesis verses 15 through 16 where God
tells Abraham that he would bring a blessing to all the
nations and the Kings would come from his line and then says, in
verse 10 of chapter 49 from the line of Judah would come a king
who shall be The Obedience of the people's.
So, now, in Matthew 1, verses 1 through 2, when it says, the
book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham Abraham was Father of Isaac, and Isaac, the
father of Jacob, and Jacob, the father of Judah.
So we can see that Jesus is The Offspring from Abraham who was
come to bless all nations. So what's the point of all the
Old Testament? History of David?
The Bible is making it extremely clear and very clear that
nothing is done by accident. Nothing was ever done by
accident in the Old Testament, leading up to Jesus, we just
study this a little bit on Wednesday, last Wednesday,
evening throughout history from the very beginning.
Everything in the Old Testament has been pointing to a King who
would come then from the first verse in the New Testament, the
Bible is announcing. The King has come Jesus Christ.
The son of David, the son of Of Abraham is here.
He is the center of history, and that's really important for us
to hear because you and I are not the center of History.
Our Generation that we live in is not the center of History.
The United States is not the center of History.
Throughout history, billions of people of come billions of
people have gone empires have come empires, have gone
countries Nations, Kings presidents, dictators rulers,
have come and gone. And at the center of it all
stands. One person who has never left
and that is Jesus. He is always been there.
So, the second thing that she's Jesus changes is he Jesus
reunites Humanity, Jesus, redefines history and reunites
Humanity. Here we have a list of different
people, different Generations, different backgrounds, there are
men, and women Jews, and Gentiles from the upper class
Kings to lower class prostitute, but they all have one thing in
common. They all point to Jesus.
Okay. So let's go over to Matthew to
and we're going to read the first 12 valve.
Versus a Matthew too. It says there.
Now, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days
of Herod, the king behold, wise men from the East came to
Jerusalem saying, where is he, who has been born King of the
Jews? For we have seen a start in the
East and have come to worship him.
When Herod the king heard this. He was troubled and all
Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the
chief priests and the scribes of the people together, he inquired
of them where the Christ was to be born.
Or was to be, yes, was to be more.
So they said to him in Bethlehem of Judea for thus it is written
by the prophet, but you Bethlehem in the land of Judah,
are not the least. Among the rulers of Judah for
out of you shall come a ruler. Who will Shepherd My People
Israel then Herod when he had secretly called, the wise men
determined from them? What time, the star appeared and
he sent them to Bethlehem and said, go and search carefully
for the young child and when you have found him bring back word
to me, That I may come and worship him also.
When they heard the king, they departed and behold the star,
which they had seen in the East went before them till it came
and stood over where the young child was when they saw the
star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.
And when they had come into the house, they saw the young child
with Mary, his mother and fell down and worshipped him.
And when they had opened their Treasures, they presented gifts
to him. Gold, frankincense, frankincense
and myrrh. Merv then being divinely warned
in a dream that they should not return to Herod.
They departed for their own country, another way.
That's a pretty fascinating story when we think about it.
There's there's been some mystery around these guys and
you know, by the way, it never says there was three wise men As
sometimes as depicted in what we see is nativity scenes.
But there was never never says that there was three wise men.
They also weren't just some crazy stargazers, these were
well respected men with prominent religious and
political influence. Their name literally means great
or powerful ones. Their High position was also
evident in the wealth that they brought of course with their
Caravan that they probably likely had beside them as they
went. We learned about about men like
this and Daniel. It's likely that they had been
influenced by some Jewish teachings from the Old
Testament, when the people of Israel had been scattered across
the East during the Exile. Now, of course, through their
studies of the Stars, they were drawn from the East to worship
the king. King of Jews of the Jews.
There's Old Testament background, but of course, that
we don't have time to look out, but nothing is accidental.
Back in the Book of Numbers. Balak, the king of Moab had
called for Balaam and which was a magician or a Seer from the
East to come and curse Israel for him.
And in that story Balaam refused to do that for Bay them and
instead he actually blessed Israel.
And in his last words Bayless Balaam said this and numbers 24
15 through 17. It says so he took up his Oracle
and said the utterance of Balaam the son.
Son of beor and the utterance of the man, whose eyes are opened
the utterance of him who hears the words of God and has the
knowledge of the most high who sees the vision of the almighty
Who falls down with his eyes wide open.
I see him but not now I Behold Him but not near a star shall
come out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel.
So Balaam said from the people of Israel, a star would come out
a scepter or a king would rise a star would announce a king.
Then as we if you continue to read and numbers 24, you see
this King would be king. Who would save people of God.
So think about, you know, we can think about this and numbers of
well-respected magician, a Seer from the East told about a star
and a king that would rise from or would rise among the Jews.
And then now in Matthew a powerful influential magicians
or Magi from the East. Follow a star to see the one who
was born, King of the Jews. God in this whole entire
history, starts orchestrating everything, he arranges the
planets and the stars in the sky, to shout to the world.
That Jesus is here. Our God does that?
Jesus is the king to whom all nature points.
And he's not just King of the Jews, their non-jewish men from
the East. These were non Jewish men from
the East. So what do they do when they get
to see Jesus? And in this scene, these Magi
are, these wise men come and they worship a baby.
When you think about it. Jesus is just born and they are
worshiping a baby because they know that Jesus is the king
before whom All Nations bow. Jesus has come as king not just
for one type of people, but for all types of people in All
Nations, you know, as we read this in as we learn more and
more about how the Old Testament points to Jesus, there is no
denying that it was all purposeful from God.
In fact, we almost have to consciously deny the facts.
In order to disprove the Bible and that it was all pointing to
Jesus. So we it's just pretty amazing.
We know that Jesus is the king of all Nations, the Lord's
church is made up from people, from countless Nations and we've
got and we've gathered here. We gathered here in Bakersfield
and across California, the United States and the world.
Not because of our politics are the same.
Not because our ethnicities are the same.
Not because our backgrounds are the same, but we come because we
come, we have one king. That's the reason why we are all
worshiping together. And his name is Jesus and he
reunites Humanity but we're human race.
Of course that is sinful. So what does all this history?
Mean for our lives and that point system gives us the point
number three and that is Jesus gives a fresh start.
So back to Matthew chapter 1, in the first 17 verses, there's a
list of names of sinnard after sinner after sinner in the line
of Jesus family. and, Judah and Tamar.
And verse 3 had twins by incest in verse 6.
The story of David's adultery with it with the wife of Uriah
from and then whom Dave David, then murdered Then we have evil
king, after evil King, who led people into idolatry and or
immorality, even resulting in the destruction of Jews in
Jerusalem and deportation to Babylon story.
After Story of people who rebelled against God, And if you
think about it, you know I was looking at this and you think
about the great, great, great, great grandparents of Jesus
hated God and were leading others to hate God.
Then we get to verse 18. I might have this wrong.
Yes, Verse 18. I've got 17 up there on the
screen but it's wrong. Matthew writes here.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows so that word
birth there and they want to underline it highlighted Circle.
It That word in the Greek, the original language of the of the
New Testament that word means Genesis.
That is the Greek definition of that word, so it's pretty
awesome to think about it. You know, the very choice of
language that God decided to inspire Matthew about is taking
us back to the very beginning. When sinful Humanity started, he
started, you know, and he's saying, you know, God is
bringing us a new start. This is the new way that we're
going to do things because Jesus changes, all of that.
Jesus is who we are going to rely on.
His very name in the Greek version of the Hebrew word,
Yeshua or Joshua, it means the Lord saves or Yahweh saves just
as God use Joshua in the Old Testament, to lead his people
into the promised land. So Jesus or the Lord saves has
come to lead people into eternal life.
I want to read the verse 18 through 21 in the first chapter
of Matthew. It says, they're now the birth
of Jesus Christ was as follows. After his mother, Mary was
betrothed to Joseph before they came together.
She was found with child of the Holy Spirit, then Joseph, her
husband being a just man and not wanting to make her a public
example was minded to put her away secretly but while he had
thought about these things behold, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph, son of David do
not be afraid to take this to take your marry your wife For
that, which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit and she
will bring forth a son and you shall call his name Jesus for.
He will save his people, from their sins.
And that, that that is the reason Jesus came to save us
from our sins. And tells us right there in
verse 21, he came to save us from our sins.
A lot of people hope that when they stand before God, that
they'll go to heaven because of all their good deeds and they
hope that their Good Deeds are going to weigh out their bad
deeds. And that is not biblical.
They hope that they have done enough to over done enough good.
Overcome their bad. But here's the problem with that
whole way of thinking, one sin against an infinitely.
Holy God is worthy of infinite separation from God.
One sin. No matter how much good we've
tried to do, we can't erase that one sin, we have committed so
many more scenes than that. Of course, everyone of us has
we've turned from God's ways, to our own ways, are selfish ways,
all the time, but the beauty is that we don't have to try to
overcome bad with good. We are not saved from our sins
because we are good enough. We are saved from our sins
because Jesus Died for our sins and he is gracious enough for
us, because Jesus has come, and he paid the price for all of our
sins. Not based on anything we can do
to earn it. Jesus died on the cross to cover
over all of our sins is the greatest news that any of us
could ever know ever have. We can be forgiven of all, of
our sins today before a holy God, not, because of the,
because we do enough good things, but because we are
following Jesus as he commands us to do.
To all of us who are guilty of sin which which is all of us.
He gives us a new identity and not just that.
If I mean, think of all the names of the shame associated
with some of the stories in the Old Testament of sin of incest
adultery Rahab, The Prostitute even Ruth was a moabite from a
people known for their sexual immorality, but Jesus gives a
fresh start to all of those who are stained by sin.
Every one of us. He gives us new be in new
dignity and that family tree of Jesus is not the straightest
family tree. It's pretty crooked.
When we when you go back and look at all the history of it,
I've always wondered, you know why?
Why are the names of such shameful, Sinners, included in
the line of Jesus. And I think the answer is the
same reason that our name is included from Jesus, be on
Jesus. It's totally by the grace of
God. I mean, God's grace covers a
multitude of sins that what we're told.
God sent his son, to save an undeserving, an unlikely people
like you. And I I mean, Matthew, the one
who was writing this book was a tax collector that people hated
because Tax Collectors were were looked at as people who extorted
the public stole from people who made a living off, ripping up
ripping off the Jewish people in Matthew 9, all the people that
Matthew had at his House at the time or were considered moral
reprobates and, and I think Matthew knows that he's probably
the least likely person to be riding a gospel book, but that's
what makes the gospel such an encouragement to all of us.
The good news that God Saves us, not based upon our vain efforts
at goodness but based upon his Supernatural Gifts of Grace.
We can have a new identity and new, I didn't and new dignity
and Jesus. Next Jesus gives us fresh hope.
You know, you think about all these stories of sin and shame
that we read about often in the Bible and what if that was it?
What if all those sinful shameful stories and shameful
decisions that people made? But if that was all there was
You know, we may have circumstances in our life that
we look upon or sins that we may have committed or actions that
we may have done that. We can feel like there's no way
that we're going to get back from this.
I've made this poor decision and I'm not going to get back from
this. Maybe we've sinned in a way that
could take, you know, that we can think that the sin is going
to Define my life forever. and if we have ever thought that or
thinking that that's I think that's Satan working his way in.
We need to be careful of that because Jesus gives us fresh
hope that sin does not define Our Lives.
But as we read the gospel, stories will see story after
Story of people who have sinned, but when they encounter Jesus,
Everything Changes, Everything Changes for these people all the
way to the cross, with the thief was dying next to him, and ask
for forgiveness. Jesus said today, you will be
with me in Paradise, Jesus ensures that sin will do not do
not Define our life, and that's pretty good news.
Then there are those are those of us or here that suffer as a
result of sin, you know, sin causes consequences, not only to
ourselves, but those around us and it has an impact that we
don't consider sometimes when we make those choices and, you
know, some of us here, a lot of us, I would say, probably most
of us here have family members that are no longer part of the
church or worship here because sin and Satan in the Gold has
taken hold of them. Because the devil works so hard
to divide the family unit that God has created.
And then for those who have family members that aren't here,
because of the choices that they've made doesn't have an
effect on us. Doesn't that hurt us?
Doesn't their choice affect us. Don't we suffer because of other
choices and other sinful nature. Not just, of course attendance.
It's not what we're talking about solely but also because
the choices that they make out in the world or, you know,
worldly decisions that may have an effect on somebody, you know,
the choices we make whether we like it or not or have an effect
on people around us. And we need to understand that
before we make a choice suffering is a reality, you
know, we try to raise our children teaching them, raising
them by God's standards, and the way that God would have us to
do, and Then all of a sudden, things get flipped 180 degrees,
blindsided completely, blindsided.
Or someone who we have entrusted and ensured, all of our trust
into becomes the person who hurts us the most.
Or sudden death of a loved one, or a family member.
You know, of course we get down. Of course we lose heart but if
we have lost heart, understand that Jesus gives us fresh hope.
Because he ensures that suffering will not be the end of
the story. You know, are we need to
understand or mark it down, whatever it takes suffering is
not the end of anyone's story because we trust in Jesus.
The one who had saved us from our sins, and came and conquered
death itself. With Jesus suffering, will never
be the end of our story with Jesus even Earthly, tragedies
turns into Eternal Triumph because Jesus changes
everything. That brings us to our fifth
Point, Jesus is presence will never leave you alone in Matthew
1, 22. It says, all this took place to
fulfill what the Lord had spoken.
By the prophet, behold, the Virgin shall conceive and bear a
son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which means God
be with us. That prophecy was given seven
year hundred years before Matthew one, that Jesus is god
with us. It's the astounding truth of
Christianity. It seems income.
Principal to those who don't believe it.
But those who believe it is an irresistible truth.
The stairs. And there was a story of a group
of man in the Middle East who who said to themselves or to
others, they were in a group talking that that there's no way
that God himself could come to this person.
There's God is too great and too glorious to debase himself and
become a man like us and a Christian man replied to him.
And said he said, let me ask you a question in my life.
I once met a woman and my heart fell in love with her, when it
came time for For me to tell her that I loved her.
Do you think I got somebody to go and tell her that I loved her
for me? Or do you think that I went and
told her myself? And of course the man in the
Middle East said, of course she went and the Christian Man
replied in matters of love. One must go himself and not send
somebody else and that's the point.
Our God is so great. And So Glorious that he is not
just sent the Prophet. This Prophet or that Prophet, or
this person, or that possible person.
God Has Come himself in jazz Jesus.
Because in matters of love one goes himself.
It's pretty amazing when we think about that, the God who
spoke the world into the, into being, who rules, and Reigns
over creation, who knows every star in the sky by name, who
tells every ocean wave where to stop.
The god around whom multitudes of angels worship and sing and
praise, and continually day and night.
Worship Him. The god, whose glory is beyond
our imagination, who's Holiness is beyond our comprehension that
God came here for us. Jesus is the constant companion
that our soul. Craves, no matter what happens
to you. No matter what happens around
us, no matter what we may go through.
To all who follow Jesus Commandments, we are never alone
in the world. You can do we ever feel alone?
I think all of us at some point I felt alone in our lives.
Like people don't understand what we're going through like
what we're experiencing even heard it in a description at
times you know. Have you ever been in a A crowd
of people, but filt absolutely alone.
Will know that Jesus has come so they we might never be alone.
He will never ever leave our side if we don't leave his
Number 6, Jesus will never lead you astray in the middle of
Matthew 2. We read from a quote, from Micah
5:2 about the promises of a coming Messiah and at the end of
Matthew verse 6, it says from from you shall come a ruler.
Who will Shepherd My People Israel?
That picture of a Shepherd is actually not in.
Micah 5:2, it goes all the way back to Samuel second.
Samuel 52 were God. Anointed David as king over
Israel. And God told him.
You were not just to lead my people.
You were to Shepherd my people. You don't just rule over them.
But you should you lead them and you Shepherd them, you care for
them, you protect them, you provide them, this is a picture,
this is Jesus. And as Jesus Will Shepherd us as
well, he's not just going to Reign Over Us.
He's going to Shepherd us as well.
And you know, do we ever wonder which direction to take in life?
What choice? We ought to make.
Jesus is the Y Shepherd that we need.
We need to always go to. What Jesus has instructed us to
do to make the choices in life. We are never without guidance.
And number 7, Jesus is word. Will Never Let You Down in the
Old Testament. Quotations, just keep the keep
the quotation from the Old Testament.
The first couple chapters of Matthew were, are quite a bit.
I thought, when I started reading it, And in Matthew 215,
after Joseph and Mary flee to Egypt and then return Matthew
says that that was not by accident.
He says this was to fulfill what the Lord has spoken by the
prophet out of Egypt. I called my son just like God
had brought Deliverance out of Egypt into from Egypt in the Old
Testament. Jesus coming is coming out of
Egypt to bring Deliverance in the New Testament.
And then we get down into verses 17 and 18 of Matthew Chapter 2,
where he quotes from Jeremiah 31 verses, 15 through 17, and his
family's were weeping because babies were dying in Bethlehem.
Because King Herod made a decree to have all the, all the male
babies killed because he was afraid of Jesus was going to
rise above it. So, so hair decided to have all
the male babies killed. Matthew takes us back to
Jeremiah 31, where families were weeping as they were being
ripped apart from each other. In the deportation to Babylon in
Jeremiah 31, God promises just as I brought hope in Jeremiah 31
when I said you helped, you'll have a future in this.
Will not be the end. He is now promising.
Even though you have weeping and are experiencing, this, this is
all perfect. The whole point is that God is
always faithful to his word. Jesus is the faithful deliver.
Our deliverer, our soul desires. And we need to understand that
God's word will prove true every single time.
Jesus is a picture of that all these promises that God had made
over the hundreds of years are now coming into fulfillment.
When Jesus comes the Bible tells us all of God's promises are in
Jesus and that's found in 2nd Corinthians 1 verse 20 he's the
picture of God's faithfulness. That brings us to.
Our eighth point where Jesus is Love, is worthy of Our Lives.
The Jesus is, the thing is all these things.
We talked about and he is worthy of our life.
He is worthy of everything that we can give to him and the rest
of the Book of Matthew. We can see the question over and
over again, that who is going to believe Jesus.
Jesus is living, and he's teaching and Performing Miracles
and he's seeing who was going to follow me.
And we see that religious leaders reject him, Roman
rulers, reject him, but then a small band of disciples believe
that he's worthy of their lives and Jesus changed their lives.
And then threw him. He quite literally change the
world through a small band of guys and Jesus.
So Do we believe that Jesus is the one whose love is worthy of
our entire life? Followers of Jesus are not
people for whom Jesus is just part of their lives.
Us as followers of, Jesus are not people who kind of do what
they want to do with their lives.
And and then tack on Jesus, on Sundays, actually, that's not
following Jesus, that's actually patronizing.
Jesus, I think, You know, we have to is he Lord of our life.
Does he determine every decision that we make?
Does he change everything in our lives to follow him everything?
You know, the curse wrote this down, the curse of nominal,
Christianity is people who claim the name of Jesus, but have no
real love for him or desire to follow him as their life
followers of. Jesus are not people who for
whom Jesus is part of their lives.
Followers of Jesus are people in whom Jesus is their life.
When we put our trust in Jesus and confess his name, and be Pat
back baptized into his name, then we can be sure that life is
yours forever. As long as we keep his
Commandments, no matter what, inspect unexpected, things come
in to us in our lives. Or this week, we can be sure
that we are secure in Jesus and his promises as long as we don't
leave his side. So how can we not see in the
first just here in the first two chapters of the New Testament
that all the Old Testament prophecies pertaining to Jesus
as coming as a king. How can we see that?
We those are not fulfilled, you know I'm as I mentioned before
we would have to make a conscious decision to deny the
writings and the Prophecies of the Old Testament.
It would have to be a mental choice that we make to deny it.
So what has Jesus changed in your life or a better question?
Does Jesus change your life? Every day, does he change the
way? We think?
What we do, the decisions we make everything.
Jesus changes everything. Have, we surrendered all to him
is Jesus, lord of, or law, Lord of our life.
Or not. We thank you for listening to
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