Bethlehem, though you are small out of you something big is going to come. In Matthew Chapter 1, Matthew is writing to the Jews trying to prove Jesus is the Messiah, the King. This wouldn’t be some aristocratic, untouchable, blue blood Messiah. This would be God sending a Savior who would identify with the people, the common blue collar people.
The New Testament opens up with a sketchy list of people who all come from the same family, the Jewish lineage that promised the Messiah. It begins with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It includes David who we can identify with because he messed up, royally. Oddly, it lists three women. Tamar - a battered wife who, Rahab, the harlot, prostitute, and Bathsheba - the wife of Uriah, the woman who committed adultery with King David, of whom it would be said about Jesus who is the Root of Jesse, the father of David.
Why long lists of names in the Bible? People matter to God, He makes a promise/covenant to someone, and not matter how crooked the people may be, we see that God is faithful.
Big things or good things or, better yet, great things and people come from broken families. All great things start small. You have to be filled with Holy Spirit inspiration and sight to be able to see potential in all situations. God sees differently than we do. He works in sketchy ways, more sketchy than your ways and my ways. But, He is effective in His sketchiness.
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The Source of Liberty -- 4 July 2021
27 June 2021 -- Did God Really Say?
20 June 2021 -- Humble Dads Over Perfect Dads, Father's Day 2021
13 June 2021 -- Did God Really Say?
Uncensored -- 6 June 2021
30 May 2021 -- Baptism Sunday
23 May 2021 -- Pentecost Sunday & Missions Week Kick-Off
Never Been This Way Before -- 16 May 2021
Mother's Day -- 9 May 2021
The Culture That Transforms, Part II -- 2 May 2021
The Culture That Transforms -- 24 April 2021
Full-Brained Christianity -- 18 April 2021
Half-Brained Christianity -- 11 April 2021
Resurrection Sunday -- 4 April 2021
The Aaronic Covenant -- 28 March2021
The Holy Spirit Reformation -- 21 March 2021
Resurgence -- 14 March 2021
Salt of the Earth, Week 2 -- 7 March 2021
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