Call Him Messiah

• so you read in Matthew 2:16 then Herod when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men was exceedingly angry and sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its districts from two years old and under according to the time which he had determined from the wise men but the Sovereign hand of God intervened and directed Joseph to flee with his family to Egypt and the life of Jesus was spared genealogy is a billion dooll industry that has spawn profitable websites and television
• shows and scores of books and with the Advent of over-the-counter genetic testing kits a cottage industry in DNA ancestry testing someone has said I trace my family history so I will know who to blame every tree has some sap in it when we open our Bibles to the first chapter of the New Testament we discover that Jesus family tree is not the exception Jesus genealogy recorded in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke reveals a whole host of characters there are spies and foreigners and kings and poppers and prostitutes and Military
• Heroes what can we learn from this section of scripture filled with hard hard to pronounce names and dozens of begot let’s begin first of all with the long wait for our Messiah the Jewish people had not received any word from the Lord for over 400 years after the close of the Old Testament the end of The Book of Malachi till you get to the Book of Matthew four centuries go by and there is no word from of God what would God say when he would speak for the first time I promise you none of us would have done it this
• way Matthew 1:1 the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham Matthew’s gospel begins with a 17 verse 40 name genealogy tracing Jesus Earthly l age back some 2,000 years and 42 Generations Jesus Christ means Jesus the Messiah or Jesus the anointed one Jesus Christ didn’t get in trouble in his world because they didn’t like his last name Jesus Christ got in trouble in the Jewish world because he claimed deed to be the long awaited Messiah Jesus was the Messiah and the Old Testament is filled

Dr. David Jeremiah