Address—P. Wilson
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First chapter in the New Testament.
Matthew 1.
The book.
Of the generation of Jesus Christ.
The son of David.
The son of Abraham.
Abraham begat Isaac.
And Isaac begat Jacob.
And Jacob begat Judas and his bread.
And Judas begat berries, and Zara of tamer.
Fairies, we got Ezra and Ezra begat Aaron.
Aaron begat a minute.
A minute ABBA got Madison, Madison begat Sound, Salmon begat boys, a grey cat boy as we get old bed of Ruth.
And obey it, began Jesse. Jesse begat David the king.
And David the king, begat Solomon, a bird that had been the wife of Uriah.
When Solomon begat Rob Long.
Robon began to buy you.
The buyer, began ASA.
Mesa begat Joshua, and Joshua begat Joram, and Joram begat Asias.
Mosiah spigot Jotham, Jotham begat Akas and Akaz begat is a chaos. There's a guys begat Manassas and Manassas begat Ammon, Ammon began to Sias.
Josiah's begat Jeconius and his brethren about the time that they were carried away to Babylon.
And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconius began Silathia, and Solathiel begat Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel began a Bayou, and Bayou began to Lyacam and Eliot and begat Azor.
Mazor begets a doc and say doc began a come and they can begat Elias.
Begat Eliezer and Eliezer begat method.
Begat Jacob Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, was called Christ.
So all the generations from Abraham to David are 14 generations and from David.
Until the carrying away into Babylon or 14 generations.
And the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ for 14 generations.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise.
When, as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with Child of the Holy Ghost.
Then then Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying.
Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife.
For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
She shall bring forth the Son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
For he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying.
The oldest virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel.
Which is being interpreted.
God with us.
Then Joseph, being raised from his sleep, did as the Angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife.
No, we're not. So she had brought forth her first born son, and he called his name.
Jesus.
You know when man wants to emphasize something.
He brings forth the preponderance of words.
God brings. God sets forth His truth in few words.
In the simplicity of it.
Now the most important event.
In the history of this world, aside from the crucifixion.
Is found here in this chapter.
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And yet it's not gone into in great detail.
But there is a wonderful amount in it for our profit.
How do we begin the New Testament? First of all, let's ask God. It would begin the Old Testament.
The Old Testament begins.
With, in the beginning, God.
That is, when you open the word of God, the first thing you meet is God Himself.
They are introduced to a person.
When you open the New Testament, how does it begin?
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ.
You're introduced to a person, Son of God.
So many people think that Christianity is a system of ideals.
A Christian system of Christian ethics.
And even with so-called fundamentalists today are veering toward that view.
I've just been reviewing some.
Book of pay books and some literature by a man by the name of Bass.
And he wants Christianity to just take over the world and improve it.
By instilling the ideals.
The ethics and the teachings of Jesus.
Now I insist that that is not Christianity.
Christianity brings you to a person.
And a person that will meet our needs.
A person that will satisfy our hearts.
For time and eternity.
So we begin the New Testament with an introduction to Jesus Christ.
Now, if we go back to the Old Testament for a moment, how does the Old Testament conclude?
The Old Testament concludes.
By looking for a person to come.
Home it calls the Son of righteousness.
The sun to come and it's full orb light and shine upon this dark work.
And when the sun does shine in its strength?
It will burn up the chap with unquenchable fire.
So Malachi concludes the Old Testament Canon.
Looking for the sun to rise.
And shine in its strength.
How does the New Testament conclude?
Looking for the Morning Star to appear?
Looking for the Lord Jesus to come as the morning star.
Now, what's the significance of the Morning Star and the Sun?
We have no difficulty with it in nature. We know that the sun doesn't appear first, the morning star appears.
Therefore, we conclude that the old the New Testament, the closing part of the New Testament, is to be fulfilled before the closing part of Malachi.
For the sun appeared this morning, Star appears while it's hit dark and only to those who are waiting, those who are looking for it.
However, I want to guard that statement by saying that every Christian, everyone that knows the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior, is going to be taken when the Lord Jesus comes for his own, even if he doesn't believe in the truth of the Lord's coming.
Is going to be taken anyway.
And I venture to make this statement that he will not be disappointed even though he found his belief strong.
The Old Testament poses looking for the sun, so therefore it will follow.
When the sun shines.
It'll wake up sleeping people. In fact, a sleeping man can feel the warmth.
Of the sun.
I merely make these few statements to show that the fabric of the book is 1.
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And while God has used many different writers.
Of many different times over a period of about 1500 years.
To write the several sections of this book.
It is evident that one person designed it all.
Because you never could get so many people to write the same things. So that when you finish it, when you read, when you read the whole book, you realize that there's been one designer, one planner, and that the whole thing is 1 fabric that cannot be taken apart without mutilation.
Therefore, we come now to the New Testament, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ.
Oh, it's a wonderful thing to come to a person.
Doctrine won't satisfy your soul.
The creeds of Christianity won't satisfy your soul.
If you do not know, Christ is your savior. We were just singing Jesus. How much thine name unfolds to every open dear.
What a precious name Jesus is.
The name that God decreed should be the name given to His beloved Son on earth, Jesus.
You know he only has two names.
Jesus and Emmanuel.
Jesus means Jehovah the Savior.
Emmanuel means God with us.
The other type, the other words like Lord and Christ King and.
Various other things are just titles.
But his personal name was Jesus.
And thou shalt call his name a man.
Wonderful thing you think of a manual that God has actually been here on this earth.
I'm not going to be occupied with.
Other celestial bodies the word of God would occupy me with.
The one that came into this work, the Lord Jesus, correct?
Now what does it say?
Abraham begat Isaac.
And Isaac begat Jacob.
This book presents the Lord Jesus Christ to us as the Messiah, the King of Israel.
Therefore, it was very fitting.
That we should that his genealogy here should begin with Abraham.
And David?
Abraham and David.
Why? Because it was well known in the Old Testament Scriptures that the Messiah was to come and that he was to come through Abraham and through David.
So they're going to present the Lord Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. And this was written for the Jew in that day, really, but was written for our prophet, for our learning.
For our enjoyment too.
It was necessary to prove that he came according to the prophecies.
Now we would turn to the 10th chapter of John. We would read there.
That he came in by the door into the sheepfold.
By coming into the door, by the door into the sheepfold. The sheep hole was Israel.
And by coming in at the door, he came according to all the Old Testament prophecies concerning him.
Therefore Matthews Gospel begins showing that he was came as the Messiah, the son of Abraham and the son of David.
May I also make another aside here?
Man would like to make the four gospels into one.
Many attempts have been made at they call it harmonizing the gospel.
I want to ask you how you can harmonize what was never in disharmony.
I want to know how you can harmonize something that was never left harmony.
Well, if the Spirit of God indicted these four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, there must be perfect harmony.
What do you say? Why did they give us four and why did he repeat some things and some gospels and not give them another's?
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I think the answer to that is quite simple.
Suppose you went outside to give A and you were told to write a description of this building.
You might write about the north side and the South side and the West side and the east side. You might give us four different viewpoints of this building.
Well, you might mention several things in common.
You might mention that there's a chimney.
Fortuning above the roof, it could be seen from all four sides, and so you might mention it in all four in all four descriptions of the building.
So there would be things in common.
And yet there are things that you wouldn't have in common if you were doing that.
There is another way to illustrate why there are 4 gospels.
Some years ago they had a king in England, King George the 6th.
Let's suppose the case about His Majesty King George has sex.
The royal family sent for a portrait painter and called him to the.
Main headquarters. So now we want you to come in on certain dates.
And make a portrait of His Majesty the King.
Well, he said. I'll be happy to do it.
But before we proceed any further, I'd like to know what you wish.
Would you like to portray the King, His Majesty?
As the sovereign, the King with his crown.
Or would you like to portray him as a family man at home with his family?
Or would you like to portray him perhaps as the Admiral of the fleet?
Or the General of the Armies.
Suppose somebody in a royal family says, well, just make a composite picture.
Just blend it all together. We want just a composite picture. We want a harmony here. I submit that you'd have the worst disharmony.
How in the world would you mix an Admiral in a general and a king and a family man all in one picture?
Just be foolishness.
Well, these four Gospels give us just that. They give us 4 portraits given by divine inspiration of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1St as the Messiah, the King of Israel, according to the prophecies.
And rejected by them according to the prophecies.
Going away and coming back again.
Fallen Mass.
Therefore you get his genealogy in Matthew and it's traced up to Abraham and David.
Mark did no genealogy.
Mark could be described according to a verse in Isaiah.
Behold, my serpent, I one time saw a book.
Written as an exposition of the Gospel of Mark, and it was entitled Bold My Servant.
Well, that's a good title for a book written on Mark, where in the Gospel of Mark the Lord Jesus is presented as this God servant. The prophet who came to do God's will came to speak for him.
And you find one characteristic of the gospel of Mark is and forthwith.
And immediately.
The busy servant, always in his father's business.
And you find him going from one thing to another with wraps, with rapidity that's not marked anywhere else.
Well, you don't need a genealogy for a servant. Therefore there is no genealogy given in Mark.
Luke gives us his genealogy not back to Abraham and David, but back to Adam.
Why Luke presents him as the seed of the woman.
Adam was told the seed of the woman should prove the serpent's head.
He presents him as the Son of Man.
And so all the teachings in Luke are in keeping with it. You'll find a much broader aspect of things in loop than you do in Matthew. In Matthew, he says to the 12 go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any of the villages of the Samaritans and are Enoch.
In Luke he sends out the 12 with no such restriction, Memory serves me right. And then he sends forth other 70 with no such restriction.
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He sends forth other 70 and they go farther afield.
Where you find the broader character of things in Luke's gospel and you find the Lord.
In a wider sphere, not only to Jew but to Gentiles.
John's Gospel you get no genealogy.
Now, why should you have a genealogy in John's Gospel? Or why should you not have it? The answer is very simple.
In John's Gospel, he's presented as the Son of God.
It would be all together out of place to try to give a genealogy of the Son of God.
Therefore you find none in John's Gospel.
In John's gospel, he's rejected from the very first chapter. The other three gospels give you a point in each gospel where he's finally rejected by Israel. But John's gospel gives it to you. In the first chapter. He came unto his own, and his own received enough. And so in the third chapter you'll find him leaving Israel and going to.
Samaria.
And then coming back to Israel after two days.
So even in the crucifixion.
Everything isn't in keeping with those four characters of the four gospels.
In John's gospel, he's he's supreme. He's master of it all.
He sees one thing yet to be done, and he says I thirst.
He pronounces on the whole thing and says it is finished.
In Luke's gospel, you get another character and you'll find that the thief converted.
You might even mention here that the Luke's Gospel gives us the character, the peace offering where God gets his part.
The Lord gets his, the thief gets his.
Oh, it's the communion office in Luke's Gospel.
Matthew is the synonym.
We won't go into that phase of it, but I fully believe that the four chapters of Leviticus 123 and four are supplanted by.
The four Gospels.
Where you see in the 40th Psalm he says sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not.
Or we get from the 10th of Hebrews. 2 hours. Just read it.
During a might misquote it.
Well, when he said, they were sacrifice, and offering, and burnt, offering and offering for sin now with us not which are offered by the law, neither has pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
And so he takes the place of that which was characterized in the first four chapters of Leviticus. And if you will analyze it in the 40th Psalm, you will find that the the 4th offerings, the burnt offerings, the meat offering, the peace offering, and the sin offering are all mentioned.
The oblation is given and new translation in the 40th Psalm I think. Definitely marking out the meat off.
It's a burnt offering, the peace offering, the meal offering and the sinoff.
But he comes to take this place then said, I'll, Oh, I come to do thy will, God.
Now let's go back to our first chapter of math. It is not my point to.
Bring out a great deep detail here in this chapter, so much as to show the part that the chapter plays in the whole book of God.
Abraham would get Isaac. Isaac would get Jacob.
Jacob begat Judas and his brethren, Judas begat fairies, and Zarah tamer.
Now there are four women mentioned in the genealogy.
Four and only four and if a jewel.
With his national pride.
Had been writing this gospel or the genealogy of the Messiah, He would have hidden every one of them.
He would not have mentioned one of them.
So that while this gospel presents the Lord Jesus to Israel as their Messiah.
Along with it, he's he's showing out that the Messiah came to Israel on the ground of pure grace.
They didn't deserve it, didn't deserve to have him come.
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Grace is preeminent in this chapter.
Judas begat fairies, and Zerah of Tamer. Now that was a most wicked act.
You look back to Genesis, you'll find that it was a revolting frame.
Why did God mention it? He shows that the grace of God was abounding over the sin of man, and Israel with their high privileges was no exception to sin.
Therefore, he brings in Tamer.
And Aaron begat Aminadab and Aminabad, And Minidab begat. And Naism begat soma begat Boaz.
A right half.
The reason that has the hard sea in there Ray cab is due to the fact that there's a difference in the languages, one having it and the other not having it.
So it's Rahab.
Who was Rahat?
We hear of Rahab, we read of Graham in the book of Joshua, we read of her in the list of those that had failed, and they 11Th of Hebrews.
But it isn't her faith that the Spirit of God would emphasize here now.
But it's a character and her nationality.
For she was a woman of Canaan. She was a Canaanite. She was one of the accursed race. It was to be exterminated.
Cast out to make room for God's people. But here's Rahab not only of the accursed race, but an immoral woman.
And now the Spirit of God brings her in and mentions her.
Salmon begat Bohaz, a rare.
I might make mention of something.
We have to be careful what we read.
I went to see a brother one time long ways from here.
And he was a brother that didn't believe in Sunday school.
I learned anathema to him.
The chief object, the chief objection he had, was that sisters might instruct the little children in the word of God.
When I was in his home, I picked up a book.
And it was a Bible story for children. He had some small children.
And it was written by a woman.
All consistency thou art a virtue.
He had this book by this woman, by their sister, giving the account of the doings of the Lord Jesus.
And the Old Testament accounts here, there and beyond.
So he said this woman said that when they brought Rahab over to Israel after they took her out of out of.
Jericho.
The season taken that they brought her into Israel.
And gave her the best tent in Israel and she married one of the spies.
One of those that went to spy out the land.
I asked his brother if he could give me chapter and verse for those assertions. He said no, he couldn't.
We need to be careful that we do not introduce things that speculate, and I do warn young preachers.
Do not speculate.
Do not go beyond what's written.
And the case not long ago, one of them came and preached and said.
That when the Samson met the lion and that the that the lion was a type of Christ.
And he spun a great big theory out of it. The lion was a type of Christ because he was of the lion. He was a lion of the tribe of Judah.
Well, you can make anything fit if you want to twist it here and twist it there.
But it's just the reverse. Samson's the type of Christ, and he goes down and the lion roars against it.
Did not Satan, as the roaring lion roar against him in the Garden of Gethsemane?
He surely did.
And they're not. Did not the Lord overcome the Satan? And did he not go down into his domain, as it were, and come forth with the victory? Yes.
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And they brought forth meat out of the eater.
It brought forth sweetness.
To overcoming Satan as the roaring lion. I just mentioned this as a sample for young breaches of what I mean by speculating and getting beyond scripture.
Now we go on Boaz.
I don't know that he was one of the spies spied out the land and Obed begat Jesse. No go as begat Obed approved.
Now they wouldn't have. The Jew wouldn't have put Rahab in the list in their chronology.
He'd rather put in Sarah Rebecca.
Honorable figures of honorable women in their backs.
But God brings in that that makes nothing of man, and now shows His grace. So it brings in Reyes.
Now the next woman is brought in his rule. Now you say what was wrong with Ruth?
Lot of thing. Morally, she was a virtuous woman.
She was an upright woman. She was a God fearing woman.
But she was a foreigner. She was a stranger.
She had no right or title in the land of Israel. She was not to come into the congregation of the Lord, and I think it was till the 10th generation.
Lord.
But he brings her in.
Now you know, Israel votes. They've been having quite an argument over in Palestine about who's a Jew.
Prisoner upset the the the government of the country about who was a Jew and they decided that.
A Jew is one who had his His mother was a Jewish, even if his father wasn't.
They had to. They had to separate the argument some way.
But here a Jew rightly is 1 whose father and mother were both Jews. They were not supposed to intermingle. God had put a wall around them, separated them.
Now here we find a woman brought in a Moabite us.
And when she came into Israel and married Boaz, who was her mother-in-law.
Ray have the Canaanite.
I want to ask you just how much Jewish, true Jewish, blood there was in the strain at that time.
Here we find.
Sam and we got Boaz of Rahab.
One's Jew, one's Gentile. Now the the son marries A Moabite us.
Ruth and has obeyed. Now how much Jewish blood is there?
Oh, the picture here is very humiliating towards the Jewish mind, but that's what it's intended to do.
And then furthermore, thinking not only grace to bring bring all this into the the line of the Messiah, but next and obed.
Begat Jesse.
And Jesse begat David the king, he began. He becomes the grandfather of the king.
All through him, to him through whom the promises came, through whom the Messiah must come. Here is a woman brought in that shouldn't get into the congregation till the 10th generation and their son of the second generation sits on the throne.
Or the make the grace of God.
And that's why we find in the 11 Chapter of Romans that when Israel comes into blessing again, it's going to they're going to come into blessing on the ground of pure mercy, that he might have mercy upon all.
And that's why Ruth is a type of the Jewish remnant. She's a Gentile, and she's a type of the Jewish remnant who embraces the God of Israel.
And the kinsmen the Redeemer brings her in is the type of the Jewish remnant of the future.
Because the Jewish remnant will come in in the future on the ground of pure mercy, just like a Gentile.
Well, we go on.
And David begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of Uriah. This wasn't necessary to add that was it?
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Or one of the saddest blocks on Israel's history was David Sin in the matter of Uriah's wife?
David and David.
Jesse, we get David and David the king begat Solomon of her. That had been the wife of your eyes.
A marvelous grace of God that would bear with that people and through the Royal Lion.
That had been so interspersed with Gentile blood.
And so many foul bloods, Very, very light comes the Messiah.
So therefore women mentioned and the Jew would have hit everyone, hidden everyone of them, every good.
Grace of God by the Spirit of God brings it all out. Now we go on. And Solomon begat Robo and Robo and begat Abaya, and Abaya begat ASA. ASA begat Joshua that Joshua begat Joram, Joram begat Isaias, Musias begat Joratham, and Jotham begat Akaz, and Akas begat Ezz and Ezekai forget Manassas, and Manassas forget Ammon and Ammon to get Josiah.
Well if you would go back and check this with the Old Testament you will find.
That there is a there are about four or five kings left out. Remember I haven't checked it just recently. So how many were left out?
But they're all the descendants.
Of that unholy alliance.
Between the King of Judah.
And the king and King Ahab and his wife Jezebel, they all come down from that unholy alliance through Athelia coming into the royal family. And God just eliminates each other. Or they're about four generations missing.
But the Spirit of God has done it for a purpose, that He might show us His displeasure with the seed royal of the House of Judah mingling with the House of Israel.
In all their idols. And so here's a here's a family that's left out.
Might say when it says all the generations were 14 generations from here to here and here to here and so on, that's an arbitrary 14. But the Lord has done that. It's two sevens in each cases, but in order to do it, He left out those.
Persons that were of that unholy alliance. Or you might bring somebody in and grace into the lines, but that which is an unholy alliance with Ahab's house, Jezebel eliminate.
From the records.
And Josiah's begat Jacinius and his brethren about the time they were carried to Babylon.
Now jeconias is called by various names.
I want to have you turn with me to the 23rd chapter of Jeremiah.
Jeremiah. No, it's the 22nd of Jeremiah, verse 28.
Is this man Kanaya?
To the same man.
It is 5 broken idol.
Is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure?
Wherefore are they cast out? He and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not.
Or Earth. Earth.
Earth.
Hear the word of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord.
Write ye this man childish.
A man who shall not prosper in his day.
Where no man of his seed shall prosper.
Sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judith.
Now that's a strange verse. Here's the one that's in the royal line here, Jack and I.
And no one of his seed was ever to sit on the throne of Judah again.
That's strange, isn't it? Here's a decree against this man, this profane man. I think he was the man of remember correctly.
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Who made an oath? The king of Babylon and the name of Jehovah broke.
No man of his seed was ever to sit on the throne of Judah.
Now why? Why does that happen? Where does it fit in here? It fits in here simply this way.
That in the royal line through which Joseph came for Joseph was the direct lineage of David through Solomon, as we see here.
He was of that line, but no actual descendant of his was ever to sit on the throne.
Now how do we count for that if you go back?
If you go to the Lukes Gospel and the Lords genealogy and the Gospel of Luke.
You'll find that Mary who is of the royal line for its Mary's genealogy, and Luke.
Begins with going back to Adam and it comes on down and.
After David it's. It divides.
One Matthew goes down through Solomon. Luke's genealogy goes down through Nathan.
So that the genealogy divides David and goes down through.
One through Solomon through Jeconius for the legal right to the throne, but there was a decree against anyone of the actual blood relation sitting on the drone. Remember that the Lord was not a a direct descendant of Joseph, but by his mother's engagement, his spousal to Joseph, he had the legal right to the throne.
But in the Gospel of Luke, you get Mary's genealogy and he and it was her seed, the seed of the woman, and there's no jeconiah Senate for it came down through Nathan and so the the prescription.
Against the descendant of Jeconiah sitting on the throne anymore.
He's taken care of carefully in Mary's genealogy and Luke.
The accuracy of scripture is marvelous.
The accuracy of scripture, the intricate details that all fit together is better than anything the archaeologists Spade can uncover.
And the scripture is better than any argument you can give the unsaved man either.
Because if he'll let it, it'll reach his conscience. It'll give him a probe sometimes. Say if I if I gave you a big argument about how sharp my knife was and gave you a big long dissertation about how sharp this knife was, it wouldn't be half as convincing as a jab with it.
And so the Word of God gives that jab to the conscience. The man that spelled his keen edge doesn't need an argument.
So we go down.
Josiah to get Jeconiah and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon and after they were brought to Babylon, Jack and I forget so late the own slate. You'll get the gets a rubble book. The rubble will be get a Bayou and a Bayou begets Hazel and Azor begets Aidoc and Sadak to get akim and they can begun to lie. You allow you begat Eliezer and Eliezer begat Methen and Matthen begat Jacob and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary.
Now that's where the Lord had his legal right to the throne.
Here was Joseph.
The reputed father of Jesus.
The Royal Air to the throne of Israel, working as a Carpenter.
It said. You know that Herod called for those.
His Lords, brothers and sisters and at a later time and and he asked them about their claim to the throne.
And he looked at their hands and saw their rough hands from hard work. He dismissed them. He didn't think they were looking for any thrill.
So all the generations here we get this 14 generations are summed up here. Now we go to the 18th verse. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Then Joseph, her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought of these things, behold, the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph.
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Thou Son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in hers of the Holy Ghost.
Ah.
A new element has entered the genealogy now.
It's not merely the son of David now.
That which is born was to be born is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth his Son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
More exactly, Jehovah the Savior.
For he shall save his people from their sins. His people are Jehovah's people.
Jehovah his people to save them, not from their enemies, for which the Jew was looking, but from their sins. They were looking for a deliverer to save them from their enemies, but knowing he shall save his people from their sins.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Now he quotes from Isaiah, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and they shall, and she shall bring forth the Son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel, which is being interpreted, God with us.
Now there are three scriptures in the Old Testament.
That seem irreconcilable.
And if you would take these three, these three thoughts from the Old Testament and put them down one side by side, you'd say they couldn't be reconciled.
It was it was prophesied that the Messiah was to be the direct. He was to be the of the royal line of David.
It was prophesied that He was to be the Son of the virtue seed of the womb, and it was prophesied that He was to be the Son of God or God with us, Emmanuel, Emmanuel meaning God with us. Now you would say, how is it possible that those three things can be put together?
The son of David.
The son of the Virgin.
Son of God.
Matthew's Gospel takes the three of them and puts them together and brings them together into one.
And to me, it's marvelous. Legally, he was the heir to the throne of David Drew Joseph.
But he was actually the son of Mary, the son of the Virgin.
And really?
He was the Son of God.
All three things are brought together in a way that there is perfect harmony now between the three, seemingly.
Irreconcilable statements from the Old Testament. The son of David, the Son of the Virgin, the Son of God. Oh, he's all that, brethren, He's all that.
It was the son of David legally. That is, he was the son, the son of David through the royal line, down through Solomon.
And as such, he had a right and right entitled to the throne.
But he was the son of the virgins who married.
And in evil build Scripture in that, but he was also the Son of God. He was God manifest in flesh. He was a manual God with us. And so we see all it was prophesied of him as to who he was put together into one check 1 short chapter here in the first of Matthew.
To me it is. It is marvelous and it's beautiful.
And.
She gave birth to this son and they called his name Jesus.
Well, may we sing, Jesus, how much thy name unfold every open.
The pardon sinners memory holds none other half so this.
Oh, I know that the name of Jesus is more often heard in blasphemy than in reverence.
I hope none of us ever become so calloused that we can hear the name of the Lord Jesus taken in vain, and not feel it not be cut by it.
I heard of one Christian who said to one who whom he heard taking the name of Jesus in vain, he says, You speak against a friend of mine.
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I was in a Barber chair one day.
The man in the next chair was.
Very profane, Very profane.
And he just kept his mouth going all the time.
I called out to him. I'm just tired of listening to it.
I called out to him and I said, Mr. would you please tell me one thing?
Why is it that when you must speak black, when you must say something and add somebody's name, that you have to add the blessed name of Jesus?
Or you speak of God.
Or hell, I said, why don't you? Why don't people use the name of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or something like that?
He says Mr. You've got something there. Never said another word while I was in the shop.
May we can't stop it, I recognize that. But may we never become so callous that it becomes common to us that we fail to feel it as a slight on one whom we love.
Well, I just hurriedly gone through the chapter and in its relation to the other four Gospel, the other of the four Gospels.
But may it be for our problem, some brother in him.
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Soon will the Master come, soon pass away our times of conflict, grief and suffering here.
Our night, a weeping end and cloudless day and sorrows moment like a dream appear #218.