Notes on Matthew
. Ch.1 1. Matthew immediately sets about proving to his audience, of predominately Jewish origin, the authenticity of Jesus Christ to sit on David’s throne, as Messiah. 5. Jesus Christ was perfect; but he did not come into a perfect world…nor did he come into a perfect family line: He came to redeem that which was unredeemable…to bring good out of what was intended for evil: I am a first generation Christian, coming from an ancestral line that I don’t even want to talk about anymore. But whenever I look at Jesus’s “family tree” I realize I am in very good company: We have… Rahab: a Canaanite harlot Ruth: a Moabite outcast (from a nation birthed out of incest - and the sworn enemies of Israel) King Solomon (born from an adulterous relationship) Joseph: the unrecognized heir of a dissolved royal family, of a disgraced, dispersed, defeated nation, now under foreign rule… And the list goes on… Yeshua came down to the place where we are, to become one of us (Ph...