Hey everybody welcome back to the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. I'm Matt and this week of the

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All right my friends we are in the home stretch

on Matthew Chapter 1, but there's one glaring question

that I want to tackle before we move on to a summary of that

and then into Matthew Chapter 2 next week.

And that's this.

If Jesus was adopted by Joseph and Joseph is not his physical father,

then wouldn't that invalidate Jesus' claim to sit on the throne of David? I think this is a really fair question and I think there's a few different ways

that we can respond to that and the first is this it's possible that Jesus is

actually double descended from David,

descended by adoption on his dad's side

and descended by blood on his mom's side.

Now we don't know this for sure,

but a lot of people think that Luke Chapter 3 is the genealogy of Mary.

I don't know if the genealogy in Luke Chapter 3 is actually Mary per our discussion in an earlier

episode but that is one possible answer to the question. I think the far better

answer to the question is just to think about the nature of adoption itself. Okay, let's say you go out

and adopt a kid, right?

And then, you know, it's horrible and tragic and sad,

but your spouse dies, and then you die in a tragic sheep shearing accident, and what would there be any legal question remaining

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