Prepared for Ancient history Pt 2

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Scripture: Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon: Sinclair Ferguson from time stamp 7:00- 13:03.

Song: O Come, All Ye Faithful 

Notes continued:

3 lessons Matthew is teaching us about the way in which the promises of God come to their fulfillment in the Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ:

   1) There is no unreliability in God's promises to us.

   2) There is no difficulty that can halt God's purposes for us.

   3) There is no obscurity that can hinder God's work through us.

#1 Although in many ways this (genealogy) is mess and untidy it underscores that even through 2000 years of messiness God's promises are always reliable.

-Abraham and Sara. They contrived to mess God's promises by trying to take them into their own hands- yet through it all God kept His promises.

-David. With even greater personal lapses. A man after God's own heart, yet still prone to sin. Matthew chastely writes this, "David, the father of Solomon, by the wife of Uriah, the Hittite.

+need to learn not to insist that the Lord will keep His promises to us in our way and at our beck and call, in our time...and preferably now.

Thoughts to ponder:

1) Do we try to assist the Lord in His plans? Are there situations even this season you need to remove your hands from and trust that God is faithful?

2) God's ways are not our own. Yet His time is always perfect. James Boice references this in one of his Advent sermons. He talks of the consistent steadiness, not the suddenness; but the constant and perfect thread of God's plan throughout all of History. His perfect redemptive plan established in eternity past that will go through to eternity future. His plan can never be unreliable. - Do you believe this to be true?

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