Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Matthew shows us that God's ways are unexpected, but they are wonderful.

You know, nobody saw this coming, right?

They thought he was going to come as a mighty conqueror.

They thought he would come as a judge to end all oppression.

But if that's how Jesus had come, if he had come like they expected, he could not have helped us.

He would have crushed us.

If there's one part of scripture,

most of us skip over, it's the genealogies, those long lists of names about who begat who.

And be honest, you started reading through, say, Matthew, and you kind of skimmed and skipped ahead until you got to the good stuff, right? But today on the program, Pastor J.D. explains that those lists are

actually critical to understanding God's plan. We're looking at the genealogy of Jesus,

learning how God has been working through all of history to reveal the plan of salvation.

It's part of our teaching series called The Whole Story. And as always, you can catch up on previous messages or study the transcripts when you visit jadigrear.com.

But right now, let's dive back into the message we started yesterday called When the Expected

Happens in an Unexpected Way.

Matthew chapter 1, verse 1. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Notice verse 1 that Matthew is going to call his whole gospel the book of the genealogy.

Then he points out at the end, the organization pattern, and that's important too.

He says there are three sets of 14 generations.

Now, 14 is two sevens, and seven is the biblical number of completion or perfection.

But he presents it in this way, according to these three sets of 14, to show that God has

superimposed his perfection onto world history, shaping it entirely and

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