#80 – A Breath-Taking Genealogy (Matthew 1:1)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 29 October 2017

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Matthew's genealogy identifies Jesus as the promised Savior and the center of history.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:05.8	Matthew chapter 1 verse 1 the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ
0:11.7	the son of David, the Son of Abraham.
0:15.0	Oh, these introductory words, this introduction to Jesus is nothing short of breathtaking. You think about what that verse means. We learned
0:29.5	at least five things from this one verse about Jesus. Think about it, the genealogy of Jesus,
0:36.8	so this is his name, Jesus which we see later in Matthew chapter one, but his name literally
0:42.4	means Savior. He's the one who will
0:44.3	save us from our sins you've got 39 books in the Old Testament before this talking
0:50.5	about showing us the sinfulness of man before a holy God,
0:55.0	and then bursting on to the first verse, the first chapter of the New Testament,
1:01.3	we see that God has sent Jesus to save us from our sins.
1:06.2	He's the Savior, he's Jesus Christ.
1:08.5	So contrary to popular opinion, Christ is not his last name. Christ actually means the promised one, the Messiah,
1:16.8	who was promised all throughout the Old Testament. So God had given promise after promise after
1:22.2	promise in the Old Testament saying a Messiah would come
1:26.2	who would save his people from their sins.
1:27.9	And so from the very first verse of Matthew,
1:31.0	Matthew is saying, the promised one has come.
1:34.4	He's the Savior, he's the Messiah, the promised one, the number three, he's the son of
1:38.6	David.
1:39.6	He's from the kingly line of David going all the way back in the Old Testament to Israel's most famous
1:46.7	king, most noteworthy king and God's promise to send one from the seed of David who would be the king over all the nations and then
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