Jesus Saves Sinners pt 2

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Scripture: Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon: Jesus Saves Sinners through marker 18:30

Song: God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman

Jesus Saves Sinners pt 2

1) Jesus identified with idolaters

- His family tree is full of idolatry! Often we look at Abraham, Issac, Jacob...David as pious saints of old. However: Abraham- took another woman to try and create his own son of promise (Hagar and Ishmael); Jacob-sees his older brother coming towards him and sends the lesser loved wife and children in front of him as a buffer (among other things Jacob does); David-has adulterous relationship and sets in order the marching orders for Bathsheba's husband death; Solomon with 700 wives and 300 concubines...

The truth remains Jesus saves sinners. 

The genealogy list goes on-Kings of Judah (read their stories in 1+2 Kings) Judah, Abijah, Asaph,Jotham-they refused to take down the high places of worship; Ahaz we read in 2 Kings burned his own son as an offering and worshipped false gods under every hill, high place and under every green tree...

- Pause and think about this genealogy. Jesus is identified with these people. If we were to write the genealogy of the greatest man of all times, would we have done it like this?

-Tendencies are to clean up the past of important people, to separate them from us as better than us. But Jesus identifies with the sinner, because that is who he came to save.

-Theological term for the son of God taking on flesh is : State of humiliation. -This begins not just in His birth but in the Old Testament as we see the thread of the promised Seed.

-Should cause us celebration- not that we are sinners but that we have a savior that saves us from our sin.

Questions/thoughts to ponder:

1) Have you finished/started your timeline of these people? I hope that you are able to start filling in the gaps of who these men and women are within the genealogy and see the mercies of God to mankind.

2) Do you cringe at being considered a sinner or does it bring you to a place of humility? Have you thought through the concept that Jesus came to save us from our sin? Do you see your sin as your greatest problem, or have you gotten swept up in the humanistic lies of our days, treating our sin as simply human tendency rather than separation for a Holy God?

3) What idols take worship away from God in your life? What do you love more than Jesus? ( I know hard question to answer, but it is good to truly think through, repent and discard of these...or balance out things that aren't inherently evil but yet sitting in the throne of our hearts rather than in their rightful areas)

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