Welcome back, we're exploring
the genealogy of Jesus,
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found in Matthew Chapter 1.
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Ranko, let's go back into
this a little bit further.
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What else do we need to
know about this genealogy,
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in terms of its
background, this was--
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these Old Testament
echoes, that you mentioned?
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Tell us little more about that.
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If the intention
of the Holy Spirit,
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who inspired Matthew to
begin His Gospel of genealogy
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and put it at
the very beginning,
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you know, you put
at the very beginning,
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the things that
are the most important.
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That sets the tone,
for the rest of the book.
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Then, we really have to
go to the Old Testament,
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to the Book of
Genesis and find out
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about the meaning of genealogy,
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there in order to understand
the meaning of genealogy,
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in Matthew Chapter 1.
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So, Glenn, now you
have to help me, okay.
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We have in Gospel of Matthew--
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in the Book of
Genesis, Chapter 1.
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God created the
heaven and earth,
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okay, in six days, on
the seventh day He rested.
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And then, God
wanted to establish
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that working
relationships with human beings.
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Telling them, as
long as you work with Me,
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you'll be happy here
in the Garden of Eden.
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And then, we know sin came.
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Genesis Chapter 3
and destroyed everything.
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So in Chapter 2, verse 1,
we have the book of genealogy.
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It's the
beginning with the history
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of the planet earth, and
God's effort to establish
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the working relationships,
with human beings.
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Then the crush, the sin came.
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Now, we know what happened
as the consequences of sin.
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Now we come to
remember, the second reference
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to the book of
genealogy is chapter 5.
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One is before the coming of sin,
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another one after coming of sin.
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You see, even though, the
human beings fell into sin
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and the sin
according to Apostle Paul,
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enter into all human
beings, because all have sinned.
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God wanted, still to
keep the knowledge of Himself
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among the human beings
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and to work for their salvation.
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Any idea, what is the method
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that God used in order to do it?
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So you're saying, He
hasn't given up on them? No.
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He is still reaching out,
He is working to intervene?
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How? Okay.
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By means of genealogy.
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In Genesis 5:1, He says,
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now this is the beginning--
this is the book of genealogy,
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genealogy of Adam.
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See, God had genealogy,
let's explain genealogy.
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It means God has a
lineage of His faithful people,
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throughout history,
who were faithful to Him.
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And it is through those people,
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through that
genealogy, Adam's genealogy,
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that God wanted to preserve
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the knowledge of Himself
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to work for the
salvation of human beings.
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See, God did not leave
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the human beings
alone, but then what happened?
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So He works
through this family tree
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to preserve the
knowledge of the truth, okay.
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But then we have,
Satan was doing very similar.
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He made the
counterfeit genealogy.
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We have that evil genealogy,
the genealogy of Cain. Cain.
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Tell me, which
genealogy succeeded?
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Well, we
certainly see this coming
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all the way down
to the time of Jesus.
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No. Actually the flood came,
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have they seen the genealogy,
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finally
concluded with the flood.
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Only Noah and his
family stayed faithful,
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but the entire
earth became corrupted.
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So the flood came and brought
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the end of the
generation of the--
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So God's family tree.
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What does God
do after the flood?
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We have the new, the
beginning of a new genealogy,
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the genealogy of Noah.
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So the same
purpose, the same reason
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but at the same time, Satan,
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creates his own
genealogy, the new genealogy
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that try to do
something at the Tower of Babel.
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Yeah. To make the name beings,
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to prevent God's
plan, that he wanted
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to accomplish
through his genealogy.
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And finally, we
have that God's plan
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almost failed with
the Tower of Babel.
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Then, we have God
makes the beginning
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of a new genealogy of Abraham.
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Telling him that,
through your offspring,
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through your genealogy,
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all the people of the
earth will be blessed.
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It is through Abraham,
that we have the beginning
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of that Old Testament genealogy,
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that we call the
people of Israel.
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What can we say,
Glenn, about that genealogy?
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And for the
Hebrews, for the Jews,
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this would have been
the most important one.
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But that
genealogy, was the history,
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of a constant failure.
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Failures, repeatedly.
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Which actually concluded
with the Babylonian exile.
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So now, what is the purpose
of this Matthew genealogy?
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So can my genealogy save me,
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can my family tree make
all the difference, Ranko?
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Matthew want to tell his
readers, his, his readers,
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is that it is
through that genealogy.
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And, can I say,
out of that genealogy,
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Jesus Christ came.
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And he says, this is
the book of genealogy
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of Jesus Christ came.
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He came out of that genealogy.
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So the coming of
Jesus is actually the climax
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of that Old
Testament genealogies.
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Now, as you ask
that question is,
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what this the concluding text
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of the genealogy
in Matthew Chapter 1.
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Actually the
Bible student recognize,
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that actually its verse
21, functions as the conclusion
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and as the
climax of this genealogy
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in the Gospel of Matthew.
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Can you just read?
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All that family tree
leads us down to Mathew 1:21.
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"And she shall
bring forth a son,
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and you shall
call his name Jesus,
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for he will save his
people from their sins."
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Sin, so you see--
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That's the hope,
that's the common end--
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So, you see,
Jesus is the last one
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in that list of genealogy.
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I would like you
Glenn, to pay something
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very, very
important is, its verse 16.
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Usually, we don't pay
too much attention to this,
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if we go from verse
two, what do we see?
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"Abraham bore
Isaac, Isaac bore Jacob,
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Jacob bore Judah" and this
is what the entire genealogy.
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It shows that
something, those individuals,
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they have to do
something with the next,
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with the
descendants who came after them.
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They came,
because they bore them.
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But when we come
to verse 16, it says,
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"Jacob bore Joseph,
the husband of Mary,
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by whom Jesus was born,
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who is called
the Messiah Christ."
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So now, a careful
reader will notice, wait,
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there's a shift,
something's happening.
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So what is the shift?
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You see, before you
have all this active verb,
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Abraham bore, Isaac bore,
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David bore but
Joseph had nothing
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to do with the birth of Jesus.
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Joseph did not bare Jesus.
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And, we'll see
in the next program
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about the birth of
Jesus. About the birth of Jesus.
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But, this is a great miracle.
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Because Mary became pregnant,
because of the Holy Spirit,
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not because of the sexual
relationships with Joseph.
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So really Jesus came
out of that genealogy,
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but he is not
out of the genealogy,
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does it make sense?
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Yes, it does.
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And I do wanna ask you here,
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just very briefly, Ranko.
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Verse 17, it talks
about these generations,
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it says that there were
14 from Abraham to David,
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14 from David to captivity,
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and 14 from the
captivity to Christ.
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There is a structure here.
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Yes. Actually the
Holy Spirit through Matthew
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makes periodization of history.
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We have three
periods, but you know,
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to make it you had to
take few Israelite kings out.
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Okay, evidently, this
is theological purpose,
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not really the
purpose of genealogy.
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And the Bible
students have been always
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struggling with meaning of that.
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What is the
purpose of this 14, 14, 14?
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And there is only one
satisfactory solution,
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is because it's the
key name here is David.
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And we know that, in Hebrew,
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the name of David consists
of those three consonants.
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D.V.D. in Hebrew
alphabet this is four,
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this is four. Four
plus four, it's eight.
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And the middle
one V is actually six,
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so you have the number, 14.
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So, the number
14 in three groups,
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and three letters in the name.
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Because in the
Gospel of Matthew,
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the name of David
is very significant.
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Jesus is always
the son of David.
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He is the king sitting
on the throne of David.
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So, they need to
show that in Jesus Christ,
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all those Jewish expectations,
of the son of David,
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who'll come in the reigning
justice actually was fulfilled.
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And you see what a story?
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Here you go from,
from the great king David,
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down to the
captivity of the Babylon.
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And what a
disappoint from Abraham
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to David, all the hope.
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Now, the hope is destroyed
into captivity and then,
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the last one
brings you to Jesus.
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So, did you notice in verse 21,
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"His name will be Jesus",
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which is actually
the Hebrew name Yeshua.
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And Yeshua means "Yahweh saves".
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So, His name is
supposed to be Yeshua,
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Jesus which means, "He will save
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His people from their sins".
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You know, the
question is, why genealogy?
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Is genealogy important?
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According to the Old
Testament, it is important.
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Unfortunately, in
the Old Testament times,
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people made genealogy
to be a means of salvation.
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Ranko, I'm gonna
wrap this up quickly,
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but it's moving
to the point of this,
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of--what if I say my
family tree's a mess,
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this world's a mess?
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How does this,
what does this teach me?
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You see, genealogy is
not an excuse for what I am.
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What genealogy cannot do for us?
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By the way, when
we read the genealogy,
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I'd like to invite viewers
to open the Gospel of Matthew.
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And God name after the name,
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and to go to the
Old Testament time,
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and you will see that
each one of these names,
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has the history,
the history of struggle,
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a history of falling into sin.
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Each one of these names,
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really there is something
attached to their name.
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That really asks
us this question,
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what kind of genealogy is this?
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But, I just want to tell you,
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genealogy cannot save anybody.
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Actually, the key
text, Matthew 1:21,
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is to tell us,
that His name is Jesus,
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because, what
genealogy could not do, okay.
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He came to save, His
people from their sins.
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One more time, He came to save
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His people from their sins.
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Which people? The
people that are here,
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in the genealogy,
Jesus came to save,
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you see, David and Bathsheba--
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So, you're saying if Jesus came
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to save people like Tamar,
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if Jesus came to
save someone like Rahab?
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David, Solomon, Rahab.
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A prostitute, David a
murderer and adulterer,
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if He came to save those--
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He can save me. He can save me.
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Yes. So Jesus came
to save His people.
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We are a part of His people.
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Friends, we need genealogy.
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We need to belong.
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God has always, His
genealogy, His people.
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It is through His
people, God wants to proclaim
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the knowledge of Himself,
that everlasting gospel.
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Today, God has His genealogy
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and He would like,
through His people,
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to proclaim the
message of Jesus Christ.
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That Jesus Christ is
coming very, very soon.
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We need the genealogy,
but we have to understand,
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that genealogy cannot save us.
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We need Jesus Christ,
because He is the only one,
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who is able to save
people from their sins.
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And this is that great message.
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This is the great
comfort that comes
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to me from the
Gospel of Matthew.
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Now, we see why
Matthew under the inspiration
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of the Holy
Spirit, he begins his book
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with genealogy to tell
us, that what human beings,
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they cannot do for my salvation,
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what I, cannot
do for my salvation.
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Our hope is only in the
one, whose name is Jesus,
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because He is
the one who can save
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His people, from their sins.
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So I would like
to tell the viewers,
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if you are in
despair. If you are fighting
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with the issues of your life.
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If you think that
you cannot do anything
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for our self and
for our salvation.
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The hope is only in Him,
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who can save His
people from their sins.
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