Hey everybody. Thanks for being here. I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast. Congratulations! We just finished Matthew Chapter 1. We took a long time on it because it's worth thinking hard

about it but because I want us to have this stuff in our hip pockets and on

lockdown we're going to look at the big picture of everything that we're taking away from this as we move into chapter 2 right now.

Okay, Matthew chapter 1. When people picked up the book of Matthew and were greeted with this genealogy that it opens with.

They would have been reminded of all the stories.

No matter what they made of those stories from their ethnic and religious past, they would have

remembered them all. They would have remembered him all.

They would have remembered the theme of God's promises and God's faithfulness.

And some would have said, ah, that warms my heart because that's the same God who's still going

to come through.

And others would have looked at that with cynicism and said,

yeah, where is that God? It's been a real long time. But they're still reading and when they get to

verse 18, they've already heard about Jesus because and by the time they're reading this he's already come and gone

They've heard some of the rumors about his birth and all of this stuff we keep seeing boxes getting ticked in terms of who the Messiah is supposed to be, Jesus does seem to fit the bill.

Then Jesus is born and he's born to a virgin, and then Matthew expertly connects this with a passing line in

Isaiah chapter 7 about this being assigned to you that God really is active and

that God is initiating and taking the next step because that's what God was doing in that

situation in Isaiah 7. He was taking the step even though A has was a jaded

disoriented king who wasn't really doing anything or lifting a finger to do right by God.

God was like, fine, I'll do it myself.

This will be assigned to you.

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