The Messiah for the Whole World
20th December 2006
Awhile back, I wrote about the message that my church pastor preached on that struck a chord with me. It was a message he preached from the first six verses of the gospel of Matthew.
What I found especially remarkable was that in the designs of God, He included four women with rather questionable pasts in the lineage of the Messiah’s ancestry. What is remarkable is that in the customs of the day, ancestral records do not typically include females, let alone broken, messy ones.
Yet, in a Gospel that purportedly was supposed to set the record for Israel that Jesus is the Promised Messiah, what do we find but the evidence that the Messiah’s ancestry included four women who had less than perfect histories? If we were to include Mary as well, that would make five women ancestors with messy life-stories.
This demonstrates the heart of God: He sent His Son into the world, as the Apostle Paul declares, to save sinners. Read the rest of this entry »
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