Oh, let the Son of God enfold you with His spirit and his love.

Let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you,

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues with the genealogy of Jesus, as we pick up in Luke chapter 3 verse 23 and now with today's message

here's Pastor Chuck. Now Jesus at this point was about 30 years old. How long John was

baptizing before Jesus came we are not informed. But Jesus, at this point, being

about 30 years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, which was the, and this should

read, son-in-law of Helai. For here we obviously have the genealogy of Mary and not of Joseph.

In Matthew's Gospel, we have the genealogy of Joseph.

And in Matthew's Gospel, the genealogy begins, not with Adam, but with Abraham,

coming down through David and from David through Solomon, coming to Jesus Christ.

Now, here we start with Jesus, and we go back to Jesus Christ. Now here we start with Jesus and we go back to Adam, not to Abraham,

but we go all the way back to Adam. Now you'll find that the genealogy between Abraham and

David is the same. However, in the genealogy here in Luke, rather than coming

through Solomon, it comes through Nathan, Solomon's older brother. And we come to marry

the mother of Jesus, Joseph, the son-in-law of Helai.

Now, why would we have two genealogies for Jesus differing?

And if Joseph isn't the father of Jesus, then what is the value of putting Joseph's genealogy in the record?

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