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The Story Of Salvation According To Matthew 1

 



The name “Jesus”, like the Hebrew name Joshua, means “the LORD (Jehovah) saves”. The word “Christ” is from the Greek language and means “anointed one”. Its meaning is the same as “Messiah” taken from the Hebrew. 


The Messiah was to be anointed by God – that is, set apart and consecrated by God, to fulfill the promises of the Old Testament. He was to be prophet, king, and priest.


According to the Old Testament the Messiah had to be a descendant of Abraham, the father of the Jewish nation, and of David, Israel's greatest king. To show that this was true of the Lord Jesus, Matthew gives this genealogy in Matthew 1 which shows how Jesus relates to David and Abraham by Ancestry.

 

Jesus as to His human nature was descended from David who lived a thousand years before Him, and from Abraham who lived nearly two thousand years before Him.



The women whose name showed up on this genealogy (Rahab, Bethseba and Ruth) teaches us of God's wonderful grace and mercy towards sinful people. He did not only save these women from their sins, He brought them into the family line of the Messiah. Rahab was a prostitute. Bethseba was the one qho committed adultery with King David. Ruth was a Moabitess (a country other than Isreal). This says that no matter how sinful a man is, once saved, God by His grace includes them in His divine plan.


Mary was the mother of Jesus, but Joseph was not His father, except in the legal sense. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was the Son of God. Joseph was His legal father, but God was His real father. That is, His human nature was produced in Mary by the creative power of the invisible Spirit of God. This does not mean that God came to Mary in some physical form, some kind of incarnation.



 This was not necessary and it did not happen. The Lord Jesus had a divine nature and a sinless human nature joined together in one personality. He was both fully God and fully man.


The Lord Jesus came to save sinful men from their sins. His people are all those who receive Him by faith as Lord and Savior.

The birth of Jesus was the birth of Salvation for all men.





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