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Lessons from the Past
by Steve May
Text: Matthew 1:1-17
Topic: What can be learned from biblical genealogy
Big Idea: Jesus came to save all people who will call on his name.
Keywords: Salvation; Gospel; Jesus Christ; Family;
Introduction:
- Illustration: May tells a humorous but biting story from his college days where he joked about hard it would be to draw a sermon from Matthew 1:1-17, only to have his professor insist it was a significant passage for any preacher.
- What can be learned from Matthew’s genealogy?
Jesus is the Messiah for all people.
- There are some names included in this list that you wouldn’t expect to see in a typical Jewish genealogy.
- In this new kingdom Christ is establishing, there will be no second-class citizens.
- Galatians 3:28-29
- Romans 2:28-29
- There’s no room for any kind of discrimination in the church
- Illustration: May provides the negative illustration of a church that did discriminate, a church that targeted only wealthy white neighborhoods.
God’s mercy is greater than your sin.
- Some of the people in this list committed sins that you just wouldn’t expect ancestors of the Messiah to commit.
- As you look at this list of names in Matthew 1, you see examples of God’s mercy at work in people’s lives.
- Micah 7:18-19
The fruit doesn’t always fall close to the tree.
- Illustration: May points out the tendency to label children in a small town according to their parents’ past in order to illustrate our assumption that good families produce good fruit, while bad families produce bad.
- In the genealogy of Jesus there are many lives characterized by brokenness, pain, and rebellion.
- You’re not tied to the past; you have unlimited potential.
- Philippians 2:6-7
- Jesus could have followed in the sinful footsteps of his ancestors, but he didn’t.
- The same power that was available to Jesus is available to you
Conclusion:
- Big Idea: Jesus came to save all people who will call on his name.
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