At this time of year, we often think the blessing of family and friends.

We must never forget, however, that the greatest blessing of Christmas is Christ himself.

Today, we look with Scott Pauli at the eternal

blessings found in the Word of God.

I'm thinking today of women that God that God is used in my life in an amazing way.

I'm talking about virtuous women that have been used to the Lord to instruct me, to live as an example to me, to pass along certain things to me,

a godly grandmothers, aunts, a mother full of honor and full of the Lord,

a mother-in-law, a wife, the lady that led me to the Lord Jesus Christ. Can you think of women that

the Lord has used in your life? We're living in an age where there's much debate and discussion about the place

and the rights of men and women and on and on and on the discussion goes.

Can I just remind you that wherever the gospel of Jesus Christ has gone, that the value and

honor given women has always been lifted, it's always been raised, that other religions frequently push women

down, but it is the Lord Jesus that lifts them to a place of great honor and of great exaltation.

Think of how Jesus himself treated women. Look at all of the faithful followers, the women from

the Galilee who followed the Lord Jesus Christ,

and they not only followed him, they led many others to him.

Why am I saying all of this?

Because we're looking in this amazing chapter, Matthew chapter 1, the first page of the New Testament.

So many wonderful spiritual blessings found here connected to the genealogies that we've been discussing,

and that we began in our last study to see these four women that are mentioned.

Four women mentioned in the genealogical record of Jesus Christ in Matthew chapter number one,

women that were found in the Old Testament, Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bashiba, and now they make an appearance in the pedigree of Messiah.

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