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Was He King?

January 6, 2009 at 2:35 am · Filed under Matthew 1 and tagged: ,

This is the question that the Jews would want to know the answer of anyone claiming to be the Messiah. This is the main question that Matthew tackles in his gospel. He starts out the most basic and first way a Jew would to see if a person had rightful heir to the throne.

The genealogy. We so often look at the genealogy when reading the Word and skip over it so quickly, maybe thinking it’s insinificent. But to the Jewish mind it was very important. It was a family tree or even like a family photo album. So very important indeed. Matthew used it to show how Jesus Christ was not only the rightful heir to the throne, but also the fulfillment of the promise of the coming Messiah, the Seed of Abrahman(Gen. 22:18, Gal. 3:16).

Interesting enough if you claimed to be Messiah you needed the genealogy to prove your throne right! Well in 70 a.d. the Temple where all genealogies were kept was destroyed by the Romans, making it impossible for anyone to prove their right to the throne! Leaving Jesus Christ as the only possible Messiah!! Wow I think the genealogy just got pretty interesting!! Who are some of the interesting characters you see in the genealogy. Take a closer look!! God bless.

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Whats so great about the Genealogy?

January 5, 2009 at 5:17 pm · Filed under Matthew 1 and tagged: ,

I want to take the oppurtinity to show how amazing God’s word is. So I want to open up with this question in mind. What is so great about the Genealogy of Jesus Christ in Matthew 1? What are some things you have found that have made that text interesting? So many others (even my kids) pretty much just laugh at me trying to sound out the names. But there had got to be more to it, right? I dont want to over spiritualize this but the genealogies are Holy Spirit inspired so what reasons is it there and why is it so good?

The Genealogy of Jesus Christ

1:1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, [1] 4 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, 6 and Jesse the father of David the king.

And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph, [2] 8 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah, 9 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, [3] and Amos the father of Josiah, 11 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.

12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, [4] and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor, 14 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, 16 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

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No flashing lights or crazy graphics.

January 1, 2009 at 6:24 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: ,

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Happy New Year to all the New Testament Project folks. Here is were the rubber meets the road. This is the year your Bible becomes more important than your tv, car, radio, mp3 player, etc. This is hard work. This will be tough. But God will get the glory and you will grow in your walk. Looking into the next 30 days this is what we have to be excited for…

Matthew 1:18

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way.

Matthew 2:1

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,

Matthew 3:1

In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.”

Matthew 4:23

And He went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every afflicition among the people.

Matthew 5:1

And He opened His mouth and taught them saying:

Matthew 6:9

Pray then like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Matthew 7:21

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who’ does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

There was so much more but those are some of the things we get to dive into.

People have died to bring the word of God to us. We have it, use it. Lets join hands and pray for one another as we all undergo a spiritual commitment of self discipine. No time is not going to cut it. We will be on one another and hold eachother accoutable. The buck stops here today. Are you commited? Not to this Blog, not to us but to God. He is the one who has died for you. Setting “decent” amount of time aside to commit to studying that word is the very basic neccesasities of anyones Spiritual growth. Want to be more brave in your witness? Want to be a better worker? Want to be able to have stronger faith? Not sure what to teach your kids? TV does not have a clue, radio is out of the picture, we must look to the word of God.

God Bless,

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