Conception, Coming, and the Gospel of The Childbirth (Matthew 1:18-25)

[Sung Psalm: 80]

Last week, Pastor Jon showed us how the genealogies of Matthew 1 are all about “Anticipation, Advent, and the Gospel of Adoption,”

It seemed fitting to show the connections between the genealogies and the narrative of the birth of Jesus, by talking about “Conception, Coming, and the Gospel of The Childbirth.”

Matthew has highlighted the fact that Jesus is “the son of David, the son of Abraham.”

And as Jon showed us so beautifully last time, Jesus is only the son of David by adoption.

He cannot trace his biological descent from David. Rather, Joseph adopts him and raises him as his own son.

Some might be tempted to say, “But that’s not right! The son of David should be a real son of David!”

But why?

The first man, Adam, was a son of God by adoption. If God could adopt Adam as his son and give to Abraham an inheritance – and adopt Solomon, the son of David, as his son, and give to him an inheritance – then why should not the last son of David be a son by adoption?!

And indeed, as we will see today, there was no other way for God to save his people from their sins!

He became all that we are by nature, so that we might become all that he is by grace!