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Matthew 1-2….the genealogy chapter. You can’t ask for a more exciting start to lent than reading this, can you? Okay - how about something out of Numbers?
I’ve actually preached a sermon out of the genealogy. It started as a joke/bet. Then I started studying it. Reading it again reminded of a couple of things.
1. 4 women are named. Huge deal.
2. None of these women were on the “girls to bring home and meet mom” list.
3. Joseph was either a stud or clueless. Marries a girl who’s pregnant with someone else’s child. Believes her crazy story.
4. I’m leaning toward stud. He moves to Egypt - no family or job, just moves. He moves to Galilee.
5. How messy and inconvenient the first number of years of Mary and Joseph’s life together. The ’scandal’ rumors, the moving around, the hub-bub about this baby that couldn’t take care of himself.
Good start - what did you see?
4 responses so far ↓
1 kris // Mar 2, 2006 at 8:17 am
thank you for acknowledging ‘out loud’ that throughout history, women have been included in God’s plans.
(oh, that sound is me jumping off my soapbox);-)
2 AK // Mar 2, 2006 at 8:29 am
Was this Rahab the same one that hid the spies?
3 Grant // Mar 2, 2006 at 9:45 am
ak - yep…it sure was.
4 Catbird // Mar 3, 2006 at 8:27 am
I love that previously in the Old Testament, Rahab’s name is almost always followed by “the prostitue” and likewise, Ruth “the Moabitess”(i.e. foreigner); no one needs reminding that Bathsheba was an adulteress, and Mary got pregnant out of wedlock.
None of these traits are mentioned when looking through the lens of Jesus’ entrance to our world.(i.e. genealogy)
I love it that he was the Redeemer even before He was nailed to the cross.
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