Under the Family Tree | Week 1

Series: Under the Family Tree
Date: December 5, 2021

An account of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: Matthew 1:1

 

Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers,
Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Aram, Aram fathered Amminadab, Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon, Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab.
Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered King David. David fathered Solomon by Uriah’s wife.  Matthew 1:2-6

Judah  Genesis 37

Tamar Genesis 38

Rahab Joshua  2 

The people in the family tree of Jesus are part of the story and they are the point of the story. 

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree, do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith.    Romans 11:17-20 

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— not from works, so that no one can boast.  Ephesians 2:8-9 

There is nothing about your story that can keep you from God. 

There is nothing about your story that can bring you to God.