An Invitation to Christmas

1. An Invitation to Christmas

2. Matthew 1:1 “This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:”

3. Matthew 1:2 “Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.”

4. Matthew 1:16 “And Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.”

5. Matthew 1:17 “Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah.”

6. Why Did Matthew Write The Genealogy This Way? 1. He was writing to a _______. Jewish audience

7. Matthew 1:3 “Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar,

8. …Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,”

9. Matthew 1:4 “Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,

10. Matthew 1:5 “Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab,

11. Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth,

12. Obed the father of Jesse,”

13. Matthew 1:6 “And Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife.”

14. Why Did Matthew Write The Genealogy This Way? 2. He spent three years _____. with Jesus

15. Why Did Matthew Write The Genealogy This Way? 3. He knew that ____ ____ Jesus came to address. sin was the issue

16. Why Did Matthew Write The Genealogy This Way? 4. This was also ____. his story

17. Matthew 9:4 “Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, ‘Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?’”

18. Matthew 9:5 “Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?”

19. Matthew 9:6 “But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” – Then He said to the paralytic, ‘Get up, take your mat and go home.’”

20. Matthew 9:7 “And the man got up and went home.”

21. Matthew 9:8 “When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to men.”

22. Matthew 9:9 “As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth…”

23. Matthew 9:12 “On hearing this, Jesus said, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”

24. Matthew 9:13 “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”