Hello my friends, welcome to another Follow Him favorites.

John and I are taking a part of this week's lesson, which is Matthew chapter 1 and Luke

chapter 1, and just talking about a tiny portion of it.

John, we've got all sorts of people listed in Matthew 1 and Luke 1 from Abraham to David

to Joseph and Mary and Elizabeth and Zacharias.

And then you go to the rest of the Christmas story and you've got shepherds and angels

and herod and wise men.

What do you take from all these characters?

Is there any of them that stand out to you?

One fun way to look at it whenever you see a name in the scriptures is to ask yourself,

is this person an example?

Like I want to be like that or is this person a warning?

I don't want to be like that.

And boy do we have some contrasts here.

We've got Joseph who, the angel Lord visits him in a dream.

We've got Herod who was so wicked and sometimes when there's not a whole lot of doctrine being

taught, we can look at the examples of the people and say, which one of those do I admire,

which ones do I own avoid?

I mean, I've heard you talk about Herod before and Joseph and what a contrast those two

are in their personal character.

Matthew put them side by side and here you've got Joseph who is very responsive to dreams,

very responsive to promptings.

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