871 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 3 Book 73 - Incarnate Christ (God Becomes Man) - 3

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 73 INCARNATE CHRIST: GOD BECOMES MAN - 3 Genesis 3:15 and Galatians 4:4 All right, good to have everybody back again. We’ll go for program number three. For those of you in the studio audience, you can be turning to Matthew chapter 1. Again, we want to welcome our television audience. How we thank you, and we just praise the Lord for all your kind letters and your financial help. We couldn’t do it without you. A lot of people wonder, you know, where do you get the money for this? It comes in voluntarily, mostly twenty-five to a hundred dollars. But anyway, the Lord supplies, and like I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again, we will never ask for a dime, never have and never will. If we run short, we’ll just cut expenses. That’s the way it’s going to work. All right, we want to keep going on Christ, the God-Man, the Incarnate. And like I mentioned in the very first program, you won’t find that word in your Bible. It’s been coined by Bible scholars and so forth. I looked it up again to be on the safe side just before I left this morning; the word incarnate simply means God-Man, or God who became human. And if I’m not mistaken, I stand to be corrected again. But if I am not mistaken, of all the religions in the world, and I don’t like to call Christianity religion, but for sake of my illustration, of all the religions of the world, I don’t think there is a single one that teaches resurrection from the dead as we do. They know nothing of resurrection. Their word is Reincarnation. In other words, if you take the Hindu religion, you can start out as the very lowest of the low, and if you do pretty good, you’ll be reincarnated and come back as what? Something a little better, over and over until finally they attain a “god” position. Well, that’s reincarnation, and that is not a scriptural concept. We do not teach a reincarnation. We teach only resurrection from the dead. Now, if you’ll remember when the Apostle Paul was confronting the intellectuals of his day up there on Mars Hill, what was the one thing that upset them so? Resurrection from the dead. They said whoever heard of such a thing? Yet the very basic premise of our faith is the resurrection from the dead—for salvation believe in your heart that Jesus died for your sins, was buried, and rose again the third day, as found in I Corinthians 15:1-4. Which is another thing, why did God have to become human? So that He could die. And why did He have to die? So that He could be resurrected from the dead and impart eternal life. Well, that’s all coming in the next half hour or two, or whatever it’s going to take. All right, let’s go to Matthew chapter 1 and take a brief look at the genealogies of Christ from two different viewpoints. And why two? Well, we have to look at it from the father’s side, or what we would call the male element, and then Luke is going to show us from the mother’s or the female side. Matthew chapter 1 is the genealogy of Joseph. Even though he was not the physical father, he was the legal father. That’s what we have to look at. Matthew 1:1 “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, (See that? It’s His genealogy.) the son of David, the son of Abraham.” Now the scoffer never stops to think; they just ridicule. But if you’re a Bible student, immediately you should ask yourself the question, why does this stop with Abraham? Why didn’t it go on back through Noah and Seth and all the way to Adam? Well, because the promise of the King, which was a spiritual element, only came from Abraham on. There was no concept of a King and Kingdom between Genesis 1 and Genesis 12. Consequently, since Matthew is going to present Jesus Christ as the King, the Messiah, the Redeemer, the spiritual side of the coin, we only go back to Abraham. Isn’t it amazing? Exactly as it should be. That’s the supernatural part of this Book. And like I said, the scoffer never sees that. He doesn’t look that far. He won’t study. But you have to understand that for a reason Matthew’s genealogy only takes us back from the time of Christ’s birth to the beginning of the Jewish race. The promises of a covenant people and a Redeemer and so forth go to Abraham. All right, here we have the generations of Jesus Christ. Matthew 1:1b-2 “…the son of David, the son of Abraham. (Here it begins.) 2. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;” And so on and so forth all the way up through (I’m not going to read all the generations), until we come all the way up to verse 16. Matthew 1:16-17 “And Jacob (Not the same Jacob of Genesis. This is just a common Jewish name.) begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, (but not the father of Jesus) of whom was born (speaking of Mary) #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible