INTRO: Welcome to Christmas morning. Last Sunday I spoke to you on Matthew 1:1-17. We are looking at Joseph, Mary's betrothed. This is the genealogy of Jesus Christ. In these verses we have the descent of Joseph. He is a descendent of David and Abraham and all those in between. I pointed out from these verses that Jesus Christ is Messiah by covenant promise, He is Messiah by legal descent, and he is Messiah by timely birth.
When I originally spoke on this text, there was a group of ultra orthodox Jews, the Lubavitcher Hasidim who believed that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the Messiah. In 1993 Schneerson suffered a severe stroke but still the Lubavitcher Hasidim were undaunted. In 1994 he died and many of his followers believed he would be resurrected. Schneerson was not Messiah by covenant promise nor by legal descent nor by timely birth; and he was not Messiah by resurrection. I can tell you on the basis of this genealogy that you and I serve the true Messiah. We do not wait for His first coming, He has already come!
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