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This morning we're back in Matthew

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chapter 1. Continuing our second sermon

here in Matthew chapter 1. Start off

Matthew 1 · chapter mention

with a little bit of an illustration

as a means of thought. Suppose you were

thinking about buying a car and you

talked to all your young friends, school

kids at church and you said, "Hey,

thinking about buying this car. What do

you think of this car?" Like, "Oh, that

car is great. It's so cool looking. It's

so fast. And then you think, "Okay,

that's great. Now I want to go talk to

the mechanics I know and the people that

are in the manufacturing industry. I'm

going to talk to some older people. They

all say, "That thing's a piece of junk.

Don't buy it." Who would you listen to?

If you're wise, you wouldn't listen to

your young friends. You listen to

mechanics. You listen to people that

know what they're talking about. Matthew

has a hurdle to overcome because he's

talking to first century Jews

persuading them that Jesus indeed is the

Messiah that we've long been waited

waiting for as we saw in the first

but to the first century Jew there's a

problem

who

believes that Jesus is Messiah

Gentile that is non Jew

tax collectors, prostitutes,

women

did not did not necessarily bolster his

testimony to be a woman. And Matthew is

trying to appeal to a first century

Jewish audience and persuade them that

Jesus is the Messiah. But the first

century Jew is saying the experts say

he's not. the scribes, the Pharisees,

the priests, the temple, all the experts

are saying Jesus is not the Messiah. And

then simultaneously,

the the people that a Jew may not have

as much respect for are believing in

record numbers.

Well,

this is God's plan. And we're going to

see this morning, we're going to be

reading in the family tree of Jesus.

We're going to read the genealogy. Last

week we didn't read the genealogy, but

we alluded to the genealogy. And in the

genealogy, there's going to be some

added phrases that are added in addition

to the so and so is the son of so and

so. There's some little additions.

There's some little additions. And

particularly women,

great women like Sarah not mentioned.

Rebecca not mentioned Rachel not

mentioned mentioned

Rahab Ruth Ba

women who had a past

women who would not have been highly

esteemed. And yet

three of those women are the

grandmothers, the great grandmothers of

David. And every Jew knew that they were

in the family tree of King David.

And they serve as an illustration that

God takes the lowly, the sinful, the

Gentiles, and drafts them in by faith.

And God will often pass over the

seemingly religious

righteous.

So it's a major theme of Matthew Gentile

in

we will see this little hint in the

genealogy is actually one of the big

themes of Matthew is that God is saving

that this is a global faith. This is

what we call a small Catholic faith. It

is universal. It's not just a regional

faith for Israel anymore. It is now

going global so that all can be included

and you can be included in this family

tree. There's a family tree leading up

to Christ and there's a family tree

proceeding from Christ. But it's not a

blood. It's a covenant

by union with Christ.

Though you may have a sexually immoral

Though you may have some horrible sins

that no one even knows about, yet you

faith by union with Christ can be

included in this family tree. If you

stand with me God's word, we're going to

read in Matthew 1.

Matthew 1, the book of the genealogy of

Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son

of Abraham.

Abraham was the father of Isaac and the

Jacob and Jacob the father of Judah and

his brothers and Judah the father of

Perez the father of Hezron the father of

Ram the father of

the father of and the father of

the father of by

and the father of by

and the father Jesse and Jesse the

father of David the king. And David was

the father of Solomon by the wife of

Solomon the father of Riaboam. And

Riaboam the father of Elijah. And Elijah

the father of Asaf the father of

Jehoshaphat. And Jehoshaphat the father

of Jorum the father of Uzziah. And Uziah

the father of Jam. And the father of

Ahaz.

the father of Hezekiah. And Hezekiah the

father of Manasseh and Manasseh the

father of Amos and Amos the father of

Josiah. And Josiah the father of

Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of

the deportation to Babylon. And after

the deportation of Babylon, Jeaniah was

the father of

the father of Elim. And the father of

Azor and Azor the father of Zadok. And

Zadok the father of

the father of

the father of Elazar the father of

the father of Jacob. Jacob, the father

of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom

Jesus was born.

Lord God, we thank you that Father, you

came from heaven above to the

condescended. You came down to walk our

streets. You came to be born not to a

wealthy person, although that would have

been a great humiliation.

He came to be born to a humble carpenter

and his wife and raised

the streets of Nazareth. And you did

that because of your great love for us.

You were willing to become poor that we

might be made. You were willing to come

and give yourself that we might be

included in your family. Lord, we thank

you. We are saved by

grace through.

This is the last great

of the Bible. Granted, Luke also has a

genealogy, but what I'm saying is

whether Luke is first or Matthew comes

first

of

the great

in the Bible.

And as we saw last time, this genealogy

shows that God has kept his promises

first to Adam, then to Abraham, and then

to

raise up to David to sit on his throne,

a son who would have an everlasting

kingdom. And the genealogy is given to

Jesus that promised that God made

certain promises. And this is the record

of the family line up to Christ that

shows that he

being the son of David, being the son of

Abraham to be the fulfillment of those

after

anybody who's ever tried to read through

the Bible in that large portions of

scriptures and chronicles that are

geneal and people often want to pass

over them. Sometimes there's some real

jewels in those genealogies like wow

that really

but a lot of people skip them because so

and so and so and so James

people get bored of it and they want

they want to skip on that but from God's

vantage point it's very important

because from God's vantage point God is

demonstrating to us that he made

particular promises to particular people

Adam and Eve made the promise that the

seed of the woman would crush the

Adam we looked at last week Jesus the

last Adam who ata the hill of the skull

crushed the serpent's head to Abraham he

made a promise that he would make him of

his seed all the nations of the earth

would be blessed and also from his

atonement for sinapter

22 gyra my provider not provider of my

electric bill but he was a provider of

my atonement that's the emphas

we talked about in Genesis 22 and then

the day that he made the promise that of

his own body he would make a son to sit

on his throne with an everlasting

kingdom

that promise kept that promise no more

testament after this genealogy we're

done with genealogy

they're no longer important but don't

don't make they extremely important

until Christ came so important that when

Ezra comes back from the captivity

there's certain people where you want to

participate in the rebuilding of the

walls right where's your genealogy we

don't have one then you're excluded you

can't participate

participation we don't know if you're

really Jews or not your family record

in the book of Nehemiah I'm Sorry. Ezra

uh Ezra finds out that certain of the

people, certain of the priests and

chapter 10 have married foreign lines

and God said you're going to have to

divorce your wife

yet. And God did not want them to

intermingle with the pagans around them

and lose track of of their faith because

God God was very protective like like a

hen is protective of an egg. God was

very protective of the the family line

of of Christ and the priesthood until

Christ came. After Christ comes, we're

told in 1 Corinthians 7, if you're if

you're a believer and you married an

unbeliever, presuming you were you

became a believer before actually you

came to faith in Christ, you were

already married to an unbeliever. He

says if you have an unbelieving spouse

who's content as well, if you don't stay

with them

for ever marry an unbeliever, even in

the New Testament, but if you're already

married to an unbeliever, then you try

to win them to Christ by your life and

your example. talk about that in

the Old Testament marriage to an

unbeliever was so forbidden that in Ezra

he said divorce your unbelieving

what what has changed what changes

Christ

and the family line is not what's

important is what is important faith in

Christ with Christ and now it's no

longer an issue of you come from a

particular tribe a particular family the

issue is have you put your faith in

Jesus

You have

this language of union with Christ.

When we come into

Christ and his dwells within us, the

spirit of God comes to dwell in the

believer.

And by his spirit dwelling in us, we

have

you become a temple of God. No longer

does God dwell in temples made with

men's hands. dwells in individuals who

have consecrated themselves by faith in

Christ. His spirit dwells in us and we

have union with Christ. We are one with

Christ.

And since we have union with Christ, our

family tree is his family tree. The one

that matters is we are union with Christ

by faith and therefore his royal line is

our royal line because we are found in

him.

How does that work? Well, how does it

work? When a woman marries a man and she

takes his last name and his bank account

becomes her bank account,

she leaves her father and mother. He

leaves his father and mother. They form

a new family. They have union. The two

become one. That is one of the types of

union is when a man and woman become one

flesh together in marriage. They have

union. His becomes hers and hers becomes

his. His body is now her body. First

Corinthians 7 says and her body is his

body. They have union. They're owners of

each other. They have union with each

other. And in the same way when we come

to faith in Christ, we repent of our

sins. We put our faith in him. His

righteousness becomes our righteousness.

We are called by his name. We are part

of his family. We are grafted into his

family tree. Welcome dear believer to

the royal family. You are sons and

daughters of the king

by union with Christ.

Christ. All right, let's get down now.

Let's look at this verse by verse one.

We're actually not going to focus on the

last verses.

Probably one more sermon in the

genealogy. I didn't cover but we're

going to pay attention to the breaks in

the pattern. First of all, let's look at

verse one again. This is our last week.

Our verse last week, the book of the

genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of

David, the son of Abraham. Remember last

week I

gives

the book of

the same phrase for Adam.

I believe it's the book of the genesis

of the book of the uh in the Greek it's

the same word the book of the genesis of

Christ the son of David the son of

Abraham and again Abraham was made the

promise that in him all nations will be

in him

all nations

will be blessed in Christ, Jew and

Gentile, male and female, bond, slave,

free. In Christ, we are blessed. Christ

is that promise kept to Abraham.

And to David, God made the promise that

he would have a son that would have an

everlasting kingdom. And so, as you saw

last week, major theme in the book of

Matthew is the kingdom of God.

525 I said it last week

of Matthew it is used more in Matthew

than any other book the word kingdom

it's the gospel of the kingdom Jesus is

the king

as we saw last week in Matthew 28

all authority in heaven earth has been

given me that my friends is a kingdom

Christ at the right hand of the father

a throne and rules the nations by the

word of his power.

He has all authority in heaven and

earth. Jesus is the promise to David

Abraham and Adam who is the biolog

between Adam and Jesus. You're either in

Adam family or you're in Christ family

And so this family tree that we read

about, you're either in it or you're not

in it. You may be a Jew and not be in

it. You may be a Gentile and be in it.

Maybe a Gentile and not be in it. You

may be a Jew and be in it. And what

makes the difference

and

there's a lot of there's applications

we're going to make here. Some takeways

that I think are great importance.

in our modern time. But for now, let's

look at verse two.

What we're going to be looking at here,

what I want you to see is there's a

pattern. Was the father of the father of

was the father of the father of a little

detail of the genealogy. And I want you

to see these breaks

are worthy of the break.

Why is that there? All right. Abraham

was the father of Isaac and Isaac the

father of Jacob and Jacob the father of

Judah and his brothers there's addition

and his brothers

and Judah the father of

Perez and by a woman

and the father of

Hezron the father of Lam the father of

the father of Nan the father and Salmon

the father of Boaz by Rahab another

woman

and Boaz the father of Oed by Ruth

another woman and Oed the father of

Jessie and Jessie the father of David

the king note there and David was the

father of Solomon by the wife of not

mentioned by name

the wife of another

David.

So one thing I want to mention first of

all is Jesse the father of David the

king. It's a reminder that's in there to

remind you that Jesus is the promise to

David kingdom.

Now a lot of these people are kings all

the following

up until Babylon but specifically David

the king. Why is David the king

mentioned? Because Jesus is the promised

son who would sit on David's throne

forever and that other than that he

by

uh Boaz by Rahab of Ruth and Solomon by

the wife of I want to look at these and

think about what

happen so we have this Judah and his

brothers

Judah

The father

the father of

Boaz the father by

the father of David the king the father

of my wife ofahhah and Jacob the father

of Joseph the husband of Mary of whom

Jesus is born

is the final woman

and Mary was such an woman

that she blessed among above all

No woman blessed Mary

of any woman to ever live to be the

woman who brought the son to all

nations. So she's our final break in the

pattern and we'll talk about that

very

Judah first of all. Judah and his

brothers. He mentioned that that

Jacob was the father of Judah and his

brothers. Why? Why? What does he want to

think about? Well, as we talked about

now, maybe a month, month and a half

ago, going through Genesis, finishing up

the book of Genesis,

we were reading in Genesis 49 8-10.

Remember, there's a prophecy of Jacob

over each of the sons of

each of his 12 sons and they came to

Judah verse 89

your brothers shall praise you refers to

praise

your brother shall praise you your hand

shall be on the neck of your enemies

your father's son shall bow down before

you

is lion

from the prey. My son gone up and lion

shall not depart from Judah nor the

ruler in his feet until tribute comes to

him and him shall be the obedience of

the people. So Judah has this marvelous

messianic prophecy that will come the

Messiah who will rule all nations and

all nations will bow before him.

Christion's

reminder that Jacob is the father of

Judah and his brothers. Oh, out of all

the brothers, one was chosen to bring

forth the Messiah

who is a father of Christ

as the lion of the tribe of Judah. So I

believe that's I believe that's the

reason Judah is mentioned is a reminder

of the promise to first century readers

of Judah will come the Messiah who will

have a scepter that all the people not

just all because again there's a massive

theme here of the inclusion of all

nations

of Matthew and the big I believe in this

then we also read that Judah

Judah.

So where do we read about that back in

Genesis 384

to 27? Let me give you a little

background here. I know I just preached

on it last year, but if you remember

after Judah,

there's a whole chapter dedicated quite

a bit of narrative here to Judah and

some of the things that he did and one

of the things he had already married a

womanite

woman, but he did aite woman had two

sons by them and

took a

and

simply say don't worry

in place of his brother

if a woman died without children would

marry the widow but on didn't want the

responsibility

of of his brotherly

being the father to our son because he

knew that that son would be the heir of

his dead brother's estate.

told his feet on the ground and God him

and then he had another son and that son

when it came when he came of age you

came of age

he didn't want to give his youngest son

and so he was going to be childless

went back to live in her father's house.

And one day Judah was on

Judah

and he gave her money here. I'll give

you I'll give you some tokens.

I'll come back. I'll pay you for playing

nice with you. And he goes, "Okay, wait

for you." And he goes back, "Hey,

where's the temple?"

Well, she's not here. And so we get down

to verse 24. It says, "About three

months later, Peter was told, your

daughter-in-law has been immoral.

Moreover, she is pregnant by

immorality."

And bring her out and let her be so

ready to condemn her just

as she was being brought out. She sent

word to her father-in-law by the man to

whom these belong.

Then Judah identified them and said she

is more righteous than I

did not give her to my son Sheila and he

did not know her again.

So

God takes this woman who dressed up like

a prostitute. She wanted children so bad

like a prostitute

relationship with her father-in-law

and

children by him and

God yet again a woman

why why is she mention first why would

why wouldn't they mention Sarah

woman of great faith

who being so old and yet she considered

her body as

she considered God's promise that she

would have received. She believed it was

going to be

or not. Why not why not Rebecca who was

so noble that when the servant of of

Abraham came she said I'll draw water

for you and for your 1000

gallons of water

she's not

or like Leah every time she she was

having another baby she would praise the

Lord

those women are not mentioned who's

mentioned first

the

If Jesus is the Messiah, how come all

these prostitutes and tax collectors of

which

comes

don't believe?

And he's also demonstrating something

else. He's demonstrating

hope for the defile.

hope for the hope for the nonigus

Christ came into the world to save

my name.

The attitude of the Christian should not

be well I'm not as I understand why I

got in but I don't know how he could be

saved. Our attitude should be if God can

save me.

That should be our attitude. never have

an attitude. You know, we don't have a

lot of homeless walk in here that sort

of thing. We have a church on

we were close to

homeless people. We had alcohol

in

the street

and

anytime

we want to welcome them.

We're not going to tell you that it

doesn't matter our stand. God demands

that we repent.

But we hope it says in first

such not inherit the kingdom of God, nor

idolattors, nor fornicators, nor

homosexuals

will inherit the kingdom of God. And

such were some of you.

You were washed. You were sanctified.

You were justified. You were righteous

by the spirit of our God. God delights

in taking

the wicked, the sinner, the lowly

saving them. And often times he passes

over the expert, intellectual, the

philosopher,

high.

All right. Next one. The

We saw Salmon the father of Boaz by

a few generations later

getting a close

came from saying go the land especially

Jericho

and they went came into the house of a

prostitute whose name was

so versatile

and said, "Hey, where are the men?

came into your house last night.

We're terrified. We know what God did

Egyptian

and

I don't want my family to die.

Will you remember me? Because tell you

what, our lives are your life. You

spared us. We spare you. She let him let

him down

and they said, "But you got to do this.

You got to hang

it from your house." The house was built

into the wall.

When they came to Jericho, they marched

around the wall with the exception of

the part of the wall. By the way, I very

interesting video

of Jericho, the walls of Jericho did

indeed fall down and one section that

did not fall at that time and that would

have been whereabitute.

She had a high body count. She did it

for a living

yet.

She's she's noted in multiple places

including James 2.

Now everybody in Jericho, everybody God

said you were wipe out everything in

Jericho. You're not their clothing,

their gold, their silver. Burn it all

these people out. They were such a

wicked people full of human sacrifice.

It was just a very abominable place. And

God said you're going to burn

everything.

And when was in there, he was supposed

to burn everything, but he saw some

silver. He saw Babylon and he took it

and it was

so

battle, battle, not technology.

They lose the battle.

If you bring a cursive thing in your

house, you're bring

They did they

by they said

they took the

particular family and they came down

there

and

burned. So it's very interesting. of

Judah who could have been in the family

of Christ

and Rahab who was under the curse the

curse of Jericho her and her household

is

so you have an Israelite of the tribe of

Judah like a branch broken off and a

curse is grafted in

the family tree of All

right. What do we read in the book of

Ruth? We read that Boaz who was okay. So

Rahab

with

Boaz. That's his son.

And Boaz

marries Ruth and has Oed who has David.

All right. That's kind of how far off we

are. It's like great.

Who is Ruth?

Ruth. I'll read through the days when

the judges ruled there was a famine

because of the judgment of God and it

was really bad where Jesus would end up

being born here

and a man of

Judah went to the country of Moab

and his wife and his two sons. The name

of the man was the name of his wife

Naomi. And the names of his two sons

were

they were from Judah. That's where

they went to the country of Moab and

remained there. Butcabit

wives the name of the one and the name

of the other.

All right. So who are the Moabites?

was a

lot random and he went and lived in a

cave with two daughters and two

daughters came to him and said we don't

like our father and they got him drunk

and one got him drunk and laid with her

father one night

drunk he didn't know he didn't know

anyway pretty disgusting story of incest

between Lot and his two daughters the

daughter became pregnant and conceived

Ammon who became

and the other daughter got pregnant and

conceived Moab who became the Moabites.

So the Moabites and the Ammonites are

two tribes that were born of incest from

the line of Lot of Abraham.

And when Israel came out of Egypt, the

Moabites

came hired a prophet to come and curs.

But later on we're told that this

prophet named

Israites

and the Ammonites God told him he says

you're never ever going to interit

forever noted.

It was illegal. They were the people

that must not be married. And yet what

happens is is in a time of famine.

Naomi and her husband and her sons go

down into the land of Moab because

there's no there's no bread in

Bethlehem, which means house of bread.

And so they go over to Moab and they

marry these two women.

And then under the judgement of God, her

husband and her two sons, they all die.

And

go back to live people. But says, "Where

you go, I will

be my people. Your God will be my God."

Ruth

said, "Your God will be my God." She had

faith. I want to serve Yahweh. Even

though it was an illegal marriage

initially, she goes back with Naomi and

she meets Boaz. Boaz sees her incredible

character, marries her and has Oed

and she

so far, one dressed up like a prostitute

and slept with her father-in-law. The

next one was a prostitute for a living.

And now we have a God specifically said

no and yet God allowed because

all right here's the next one mention

second. Now we get out of out of

further down.

David did really well.

When there was a lion to fight, he was

ready. When there was a bear to fight,

he was ready. When there was a giant

fight, he was ready. When there was a

beautiful woman to sleep with, he was

ready.

This is where he falls.

in regards to his wife's a man after

God's own heart but apparently a man

also after his wife

11 says it happened late one afternoon

walking on the roof of the king's house

that he saw from the roof the woman

bathing and the woman was very beautiful

and inquired about the woman and one

said is not this the daughter of the

wife of your

David sent me and took her and she came

to him and he lay with her and she had

been purifying herself.

Then she returned to her house and the

woman and she told David I am

well

of his best

of

So first he says there's a battle going

on

it easy

on the fly but it was a time when he got

the war and David sitting at home

instead of being engaged in the war he's

sitting on his couch

sitting on his couch and uh that's when

he falls into

uh

what does he do he calls

Hey,

good job.

I'm not going to do that. He refused to

go home. He was such a noble. He was a

nobleite. A noble gentile. Not not an

Israelite. Aite, a gentile.

And he's more than David by far.

Well, David David cannot. David was

hoping that would go home and be with

his wife and conceive a child or think

child. Oh, congratulations on the baby

baby boy. Didn't work out that way. God

wanted.

So later on David goes to Joab.

Not just a bunch of people died.

Oh, okay. Don't worry about it.

But he does make

you

a year later. comes into

not lawful what you do here

and

David is finally confronted recogniz

The child later

that's how David

God

Jebiahus

is our

adultery

draft.

Well, I I put here as a reminder to that

Jewish reader. God's always been

by

the Old

Jesus Christ.

Later on in Matthew 21,

we read about the

Matthew 2132.

When he entered the temple, the chief

priest, the elders of the people came up

to him as he was teaching and said, "By

what authority are you doing these

things? And who gave you this

authority?" So here they are the chief

priest.

They're in the temple. The elders the

elders also were the rulers of the

people by their tribe.

And they're asking by what authority

I will also ask you one question and I

also will tell you by what authority I'm

doing the baptism of John and where did

it come from heaven or man they

discussed it among themselves saying if

you will say to us why then did you not

believe but we from we are afraid of the

crowd. For they all told that John was a

prophet. So they answered Jesus, we do

not know. And he said to them, neither

will I tell you by what authority I do

these things.

He said listen

to market share. They didn't want to

lose followers. They didn't want to lose

their subscribers.

So, look, what what did John the Baptist

say?

They know what he said. They said, "This

is the Messiah. Greater than um and I'm

not waiting on

that message." It wasn't that the

experts didn't have enough information.

It's that they had a reason to reject

him because they did not want to lose

their following. And so, because they

had a dishonest question, I tell you

what

and he went to the first and said work

in the vineyard today and he answered I

will not

change his mind and he went to the other

son and said the same and he answered I

will sir will

father they said the

Truly I say to you

came to you in the way of righteousness

and you did not believe him but the tax

collectors and the believed him even

when you saw it you did not change your

mind

I gave the Jews

and the people

when God shows up.

And so that brings the question we are

we

say I'll follow Jesus anywhere. A lot of

people people get baptized

faith but afterwards they quit the Bible

they quit church

they said I'll serve Christ I'll follow

Christ

don't none go with me so I will follow

I

came down to it

for those who

see in Matthew we're going to see many

examples of

chapter eight we're read

Later on, we'll read about how

Christ

is rejected. It's a major theme of

gentile inclusion.

Then

I want to go to a new

Romans 11.

There are two

God's chosen people because of their

ethnicity, their race, their

pitfall

elect

Israel was chosen to be the the country

from which the Messiah would come. He

would come from Abraham's flesh. He

would come from David's line. That's why

the genealogy is there. But that's the

last genealogy.

That's it.

The genealogy of Christ the last

pitfall

and I'm really sick of it. People that

want to just talk about the Jews like

behind that ever happened and cherry

linenwood

all run by Jews and uh pornography run

by Jews and all the banks is run by Jews

and Jews Jews. Okay, so ignore all the

Nobel prizes and science and medicine

because some important processed by I'm

tired of hearing about

It's just another way of boasting in

your ethnicity because you wouldn't be

saying that if you were a Jew, would

you?

I'm not a Jew. I'm notic

by

British and Americ

that that we do as a people as Americans

as a nation. Do you want to be

accountable for every war that we've

been involved in since World War II?

You want to be accountable for that? You

want to take ownership of it?

Every everybody in the village has been

bombed in some way, whether just or

unjust. You want to take credit for it?

Listen,

we should not be boasting our ethnicity.

in Christ.

You're either in Christ or you're not in

Christ. Now you are

wise very intelligent people and there's

a lot of brilliant genius Jews and some

of them are evil geniuses and some of

them

sense contributed greatly to humanity

and some Jews are believers.

Christ, right?

But in terms of righteousness, what

matters? What matters is being in

Christ. You are saved by grace, not by

race. Nor are you excluded by race. Paul

says here in Romans 11, he says, "Now I

am speaking to you as much as I am the

Gentiles. magnify my ministry in order

somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous

and thus save some of them for their

reject

what will acceptance but life

on one hand

there is no salvation given to men

outside of

There is no other name under heaven

given whereby we must be saved but in

Christ. But on the other hand

he longs to see the Jews saved in

Christ.

And that should be all as well because

there's plenty of people around every

human race is corrupted. But in Christ,

What do we have in verse 16? If the

dough offered the first fruit, so is the

analogy. And if the root is holy, so are

the saying, listen, if the starter

loss

from it is holy. If you're in Christ,

you are in him.

back to Leviticus 2 and the offering of

first fruits that would be offered. If

you are Christ from the dead, if you are

in Christ, you are holy as he is holy.

And then he uses the next analogy. And

if the root is holy, so are the

branches. The root of the tree, if the

root of the tree is holy, then the

branches that come from that tree are

holy. And that's the illustration of a

family tree here. I'm tying it in

Matthew although it doesn't mist

but if some of the branches were broken

off and you although a wild olive were

grafted among the others and now the

olive tree do not be arroant towards the

branches if you are remember it is not

you take the root but the roots you've

got this olive tree which is a picture

of Christ

and Some have been broken off Jews. Why?

Because they rejected Christ. And some

are in Gentiles. Why? Because they put

their faith in Christ. They're grafted

into the tree. The analogy here is a

branch was cut off and a wild branch was

grafted in and becomes part of the tree.

It has

branches off.

Jews didn't believe they rejected Jesus

until the gospel.

That's right. That is true. They were

broken off because of their unbelief.

But you stand through faith. So do not

become fear. For God did not spare the

natural branches. Neither did they spare

you. Not the kindness of God.

But God's kindness to you provided you

kindness. Otherwise, you will be cut

off.

Be very careful. You don't get an

antiite attitude in your heading against

the branches. You are saved because of

your faith in Christ, nothing in

yourself. And if you have the same

arrogant, unbelieving attitude, you will

be broken off. It's only by faith in

Christ that we are grafted in that we

become part of that royal family. Verse

23, and even they do not continue in

unbelief will be grafted in. For God has

the power to them in again. For if you

were cut off Nature by nature olive tree

and grafted concrete nature into a

cultivated olive tree. How much more

will these natural branches be in their

own

practically speaking?

I don't support an ethnicity just

because they have an ethnicity.

I don't I don't believe God never did

say unconditionally support the Jewish

people

called the Jewish people in the Old

Testament.

If you love the call to repentance,

call them to faith in Christ.

But there should be no hatred in the

heart of Christian

making lots of jokes, making jokes,

saying all kinds of things.

Yes, there have been Jewish

conspiration.

You don't have

your branch.

We thank you, God.

Lord, I pray for anyone here tonight.

They're still relying on some kind of

pride

and they're yet to humble themselves.

Lord, I pray for them this morning.

You would draw them to yourself

that you would make them a new creature.

I thank you that you welcome

sexually immoral

violence.