The commercials have begun reminding us of various gifts we can give for Christmas. It is curious how one such gift is can help one discover their ancestry.
What is it about this time of year that causes us all to want to know our ancestry, where we came from, and the history of our families?
Opening up to read in the Gospel of Matthew, we find that, he too, was interested in ancestry:
“This is a record of the ancestors of Jesus the Messiah, a descendant of David and of Abraham.” (Matthew 1:1, NLT)
Matthew did not take us back to the beginning of mankind. He did not start with Adam and Eve. And this is the only Gospel account which does include the ancestry of Christ.
Ancestry was obviously important as the Old Testament is filled with genealogies and yet, in the most important of all genealogies, Matthew does something entirely different. Why?
Won’t you join me at Woman to Woman Ministries HERE as we look at what Matthew was hoping to convey to us through the mention of this ancestry.
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