Matthew 1 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams — Transcript

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1. 0:00The record of the genealogy of Jesus,
2. 0:02the Messiah the son of David, the son of
3. 0:05Abraham.
4. 0:06Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac
5. 0:09the father [music] of Jacob, and Jacob
6. 0:11the father of Judah and his brothers.
7. 0:14And Judah was the father of Perez
8. 0:16[music] and Zarah by Tamar. Perez was
9. 0:19the father of Hezron, and Hezron was the
10. 0:21father of Rahm. Rahm was the father of
11. 0:24Abinadab. Abinadab the father of Non.
12. 0:27and Nashan, the father of Salman. Salman
13. 0:30was the father of Boaz by [music] Rahab.
14. 0:33Boaz was the father of Oed by Ruth. And
15. 0:35Obed, the father of Jesse. Jesse was the
16. 0:38father of David the king. David was the
17. 0:42father of Solomon by Beth Sheeba, who
18. 0:44had been the wife of Uriah. Solomon was
19. 0:47the father of Rayaboam. Rayoboam the
20. 0:50father of Abijah. And Abijah the father
21. 0:52of Asa. Asa was the father of
22. 0:55Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat the father of
23. 0:57Jorham and Joram the father of Uzziah.
24. 1:01Uzziah was the father of Jotham the
25. 1:03father of Ahaz and Ahaz the father of
26. 1:06Hezekiah.
27. 1:08Hezekiah was the father of Manessa.
28. 1:10Manessa the father of Aman and Aman the
29. 1:13father of Josiah. Josiah became the
30. 1:16father [music] of Jeconiah and his
31. 1:18brothers at the time of the deportation
32. 1:21to Babylon. After the deportation to
33. 1:24Babylon, Jeconiah became the father of
34. 1:28Shayiel and Shayitel, the father of
35. 1:31Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel was the father of
36. 1:34Abihood. Abihood the father of Eliakim.
37. 1:38And Eliakim the father of Azor.
38. 1:41Azor was the father of Zadok. Zadok the
39. 1:44father of Aim. And Aim the father of
40. 1:46Iliood. Ilud was the father of Eleazar.
41. 1:50Eleazar the father of Mathan and Mathan
42. 1:53the father of Jacob. Jacob was the
43. 1:56father of Joseph the husband of Mary by
44. 1:59whom Jesus was born who is called the
45. 2:02Messiah.
46. 2:04So all the generations from Abraham to
47. 2:06David are 14 generations.
48. 2:09From David to the deportation to Babylon
49. 2:1314 generations. [music]
50. 2:14and from the deportation to Babylon to
51. 2:16the Messiah, 14 generations. [music]
52. 2:20Well, what has Matthew just done in this
53. 2:23first [music] section of his book? We
54. 2:25are told that Matthew's gospel is the
55. 2:27Jewish [music] gospel, meaning that he
56. 2:29is writing from the Jewish perspective,
57. 2:33which is a covenantal perspective, and
58. 2:35he's writing it to Jewish people. And so
59. 2:38it's very important that he anchors the
60. 2:42Messiah in the story of what has come
61. 2:45before. So Matthew is trying to tell
62. 2:50the readers of the New Testament that
63. 2:53the God who has revealed himself in
64. 2:56Messiah is not doing a strange thing. He
65. 3:00is doing something deeply anchored in
66. 3:02what came before. He has given us two
67. 3:05distinct patriarchal lines that Jesus is
68. 3:09descending from. One is Abraham and one
69. 3:12is David. Abraham is the covenant of
70. 3:15promise
71. 3:17and David is the royal covenant, the
72. 3:20kingly covenant. And so these two
73. 3:23covenants are coming together in the
74. 3:26life of Messiah. So all these all of
75. 3:29this is to say what God is doing through
76. 3:32Messiah is consistent with the covenant
77. 3:35he has made to Abraham and to David. And
78. 3:39that promise is consistent throughout.
79. 3:42Something else that we notice in here is
80. 3:44that Matthew does not hide from the
81. 3:48reader the brokenness of the story. He
82. 3:52includes tragic situations like Tamar,
83. 3:56like Basheba. He he includes sinners and
84. 4:00failures like David and Solomon and
85. 4:03Rahab the harlot because he's trying to
86. 4:06tell us that
87. 4:08God has come to be with us to make
88. 4:12covenant with the brokenness of our
89. 4:14humanity and that in his flesh Jesus is
90. 4:18the offspring and and family member of
91. 4:22this broken generation of these broken
92. 4:25people. So he doesn't whitewash it for
93. 4:27us because God isn't here to do
94. 4:29something strange. He's here to work
95. 4:31redemption through the the coming of
96. 4:34Messiah. So now we go into the next
97. 4:36section of this same chapter beginning
98. 4:38in verse 18. Now the birth of Jesus
99. 4:41Christ was as follows. When his mother
100. 4:44Mary had been betrothed to Joseph,
101. 4:48before they came together, she was found
102. 4:50to be with child by the Holy Spirit. And
103. 4:55Joseph, her husband, being a righteous
104. 4:58man, and not wanting to disgrace her,
105. 5:01planned to send her away secretly.
106. 5:05But when he had considered this, behold,
107. 5:08an angel of the Lord appeared to him in
108. 5:10a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David,
109. 5:13do not be afraid to take Mary as your
110. 5:15wife, for the child who has been
111. 5:19conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
112. 5:24She will bear a son, and you shall call
113. 5:26his name Jesus, for he will save his
114. 5:30people from their sins.
115. 5:33Now, all this took place to fulfill what
116. 5:36was spoken by the Lord through the
117. 5:39prophet. Behold, the virgin shall be
118. 5:42with child and shall bear a son, and
119. 5:45they shall call his name Emmanuel, which
120. 5:48translated means God with us. And Joseph
121. 5:53awoke from his sleep and did as the
122. 5:56angel of the Lord commanded him and took
123. 5:59Mary as his wife, but kept her a virgin
124. 6:03until she gave birth to a son, and he
125. 6:06called his name Jesus. There's a couple
126. 6:10things that that we need to focus on
127. 6:12here. one, Matthew starts in that first
128. 6:17section by showing us how Jesus is
129. 6:21connected to the lineage of a sinful,
130. 6:25broken family, but a covenant family.
131. 6:28And he focuses on two covenants, the
132. 6:31Abrahamic covenant and the Davidic
133. 6:33covenant. And then in the next section,
134. 6:36he starts to bring in the other part of
135. 6:38Jesus's nature that Jesus was conceived
136. 6:42by God. And in this part, he tells us
137. 6:46several things that are very
138. 6:48interesting.
139. 6:50He tells us that she was found to be
140. 6:52with child by the Holy Spirit. The Holy
141. 6:56Spirit fathered Jesus.
142. 7:00And then he says that Joseph
143. 7:02was disturbed understandably that his
144. 7:06fiance
145. 7:08is pregnant.
146. 7:10But it says that because he was a
147. 7:13righteous man, he did not want to shame
148. 7:16her but to put her away quietly.
149. 7:20And this is an insight into how the Lord
150. 7:23views righteousness. In this instance,
151. 7:25Joseph Joseph's righteousness is
152. 7:28restraint.
153. 7:29Joseph's righteousness does not champion
154. 7:32other people's faults or take pleasure
155. 7:36in embarrassing them publicly. So even
156. 7:38though he is hurt, even though he feels
157. 7:42embarrassed,
158. 7:44he does not want to embarrass Mary
159. 7:47through this scandal.
160. 7:49So he's going to put her away quietly to
161. 7:52preserve her dignity.
162. 7:55And the Bible calls that righteous.
163. 7:58And then it says that this righteous man
164. 8:01who had this attitude of respect and
165. 8:04kindness receives a visitation from God.
166. 8:08An angel [music] comes to him and says,
167. 8:12"Do not be afraid."
168. 8:14He understood that Joseph was afraid to
169. 8:18do the right thing and be [music]
170. 8:21thought evil for doing it.
171. 8:23He was afraid to accept Mary as [music]
172. 8:26his wife after this scandal of her
173. 8:28pregnancy. But the Holy Spirit says,
174. 8:31[music] "Don't be afraid to take Mary as
175. 8:33your wife because that which is
176. 8:36conceived in her is from the Holy
177. 8:38Spirit." Again, telling us that the Holy
178. 8:41Spirit is the father of Jesus.
179. 8:45And he says [music] that this is
180. 8:47fulfilling prophecy. So the first part
181. 8:50of Matthew ties us to the lineage of the
182. 8:52Jewish family and the second part ties
183. 8:55us to the Holy Spirit and the prophecies
184. 8:58of the [music] old covenant. The virgin
185. 9:00shall be with child and he you will call
186. 9:03his name Jesus. You will he says that
187. 9:06the prophecy says [music] his name will
188. 9:08be Emmanuel which means God with us. God
189. 9:12is not distant in heaven anymore. God is
190. 9:15not far away and unknowable. God is near
191. 9:18at hand. God is [music] with us. And he
192. 9:20says, "You will call his name Jesus
193. 9:23because he will save his people from
194. 9:26their sin." So that's an insight into
195. 9:30what the name Jesus [music] means. The
196. 9:33Hebrew version of Jesus is Yeshua.
197. 9:37And Yeshua
198. 9:39in our English is translated as Joshua.
199. 9:43But they would not have said the J sound
200. 9:45because Hebrew didn't say that. So they
201. 9:48would have said Yesua.
202. 9:50And Yeshua comes from two [music] words,
203. 9:53Yahweh and Hosa.
204. 9:57So Yahweh has become salvation. Hosa
205. 10:01means salvation. And when those two
206. 10:03words Yahweh and salvation come
207. 10:05together, we have
208. 10:08Yahweh [music] becoming salvation. So
209. 10:11when he says, "Call him Jesus, for he
210. 10:14will save his people from their sins,"
211. 10:16he's telling us that his name means
212. 10:19salvation.
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