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How is the Messiah ever going to claim the throne because He’s the King of Judah and nobody in this line can claim the throne of Israel. So this was mentioned before God revealed the answer. Now if you will look there in chapter 23 and verse 5, look in verse 5, here is the answer to the problem. But God didn’t tell you how he was going to do it yet, but it’s an answer because he says, I’m going to have someone come that will be my righteous branch.

In the words, everybody that is a tree that brings forth bad fruit, he’s going to cut down. So that means all have sinned and all will be cut down. The axe is laid to the root of the tree and everybody is a sinner, so everybody is cut down. But God says, I’ve got a tender plant that’s going to grow up and this little plant is going to grow up into be a tree, a fruitful tree, a righteous tree, and all of his fruit will be good fruit.

He won’t have any bad fruit. And He’s the one that’s going to be my righteousness. Let there in verse 5, Behold the days come, sayeth the Lord that I will raise up unto David, a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name, whereby he shall be called Lord our righteousness. Now in the New Testament we have several places where the Bible says Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God.

The righteousness of God has come down. And Bible says that this righteousness is unto all but upon all of them that believe. So So God’s righteousness is what we need. And so God says, I’m going to bring my righteousness into the world and his righteousness is going to be his son. Now look very quickly in the book of Psalms. Just look there in the book of Psalms chapter two. And then you’ll notice something written here in verse 2nd Psalm.

And look in verse one. verse one says, why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the year have set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed, against the Lord, capital LORD, Jehovah, and His anointed. That’s His Christ. This is the one that’s going to come into the world. So here in the second Psalm, have a verse that talks about God having a son. And this is the righteous branch that’s going to come.

And the reason that he has to be of a virgin-born child is because the child cannot have an earthly man as its father. Because of the line, there is a curse put upon the line. And unless God works out of miracle, there’s no way anyone after that can claim the throne of Israel. So how was God going to perform this miracle? Well, I’m glad you asked. Now, if you’ll notice there in chapter two, look in verse seven. In verse seven, he says, I will declare the decree, the Lord have said unto me, Thou art my son.

day have I begotten thee.” Now when you read the book of Hebrews in chapter 1, you’ll know that this son is talking about Jesus Christ. So did David, who can God use to write this psalm here in a thousand years in advance? Know that God had a son and that the son was the anointed one was the Messiah and that the son was coming into the world. And why do the heathen rage? So when you read the book of Acts in chapter four, believe it is, that it says that the foolish people gathered themselves together against his anointed and talking about them.

And then in the book of 1 Corinthians in chapter two, it says, if the princes of this world were so wise, why did they crucify the Lord of glory? But you see, God prophesied in advance and tells us that he had a son. And that’s why he says down here in verse 11, serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling and look at verse 12, kiss the son. Lest ye he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled, but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Remember a promise that was made to Abraham in chapter 12 of the book of Genesis that when he called him out of the early account, he says, I will bless them, but blessed him, cursed him which cursed him. And in all the families of the earth will be blessed because of the, that the seed that comes from you Abraham and Abraham and all the way down the line there’s going to be some child that’s going to be born down the road in whom the world will be blessed because of this child.

Well this is what he’s saying, blessed and that word blessed when you read it in the book of Galatians in chapter 3 is a reference to believing on Jesus Christ because he would be the one to make the payment for the sins of the world because it makes this statement that the scripture forced seeing that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in these shall all families of the earth be blessed. And this blessing is the righteousness of God that comes upon the believer.

It is the lost man being justified by faith. So here in Verse 12 of Psalms 2 is the gospel that you’re justified, saved, made righteous by faith alone in the sun. See, God told about it, but people don’t seem to catch it. Now, take your Bible and look there in the book of Proverbs, looking Proverbs. In chapter 30, I believe, the book of Proverbs, and notice there in chapter 30 and verse 4, he makes a statement in verse 4, who hath the sinned up into heaven or descended?

Now this is found in several places in the New Testament, who hath gathered the wind in his fist, who hath bound the waters in a garment, who had established all the ends of the earth. What is his name? And what is his son’s name? If thou can’t tell? Well, he’s named after his father. You know most people name their kids after them. That one never it says a child is born unto us. A son is given and his government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful counselors, the mighty God, the everlasting father the Prince of Peace.

That’s what he’s going to be called. How can you call him the everlasting Father unless he has an everlasting Son? So evidently they might be the same age, but then can anything have age if it lasts for eternity? Betty asked me a nice interesting question today. I’m not sure if I can remember it right. But if we live here for so many years and we live in eternity for so long, when is middle age? Can you imagine somebody would ask me a question like that?

When is middle age? Well, I don’t really know. But compared to eternity, it’s not that long. Not gonna be long at all. So the Bible tells us that this is what’s going to take place. Now go back there to the book of Jeremiah. back to Jeremiah and see if I can find that verse that I wanted to show you. And Jeremiah, look in chapter 30, no, 36. Jeremiah 36, and just take a look at this word.

Because I showed it to you earlier, but I wanted to show it to you one more time because it’s so important. In verse 30, therefore, thus saith the Lord, of Jehokim, King of Judah, he shall have none to set upon the throne of David. So we know that this was going to happen. He’s not going to be able to set upon the throne. So God had said, this is what’s going to take place. Now look there in Jeremiah chapter 39.

Jeremiah 39. And notice up there in verse 6. In verse 6 says, then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah and Riblah before his eyes. Also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. So who is going to claim the throne? You see, he took the king and this is what else he did. In verse 7, moreover, he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with change and carried him to Babylon. And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with fire and break down the walls of Jerusalem.

So this is what he did, and he slew his own sons right before his eyes. And then after he slew him so that he could see what he did to his sons, then he burned out his own eyes. He put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in chains. Now did that happen? No, that happened because he was rebellious. He didn’t have to do what he did. He would not believe the prophet of God. He would not believe the word of God.

already done seeing what and heard what God did to with Syria in the northern 10 tribes, but they didn’t think it would happen to them. Well, we’re bad, but we’re not that bad. Oh, we’re bad, but we’re not that bad. Well, God, I guess God’s the one that determines how bad something is. So when you read the whole book of Habakkah, the book of Habakkah is just about this, Lord, why are you doing what you’re doing? I mean, you’re going to use this nation to whoop us?

Well, we’re better than them.” And God says, I’m going to take them as a rod and I’m going to whoop you with it. And then when I get through, I’m going to whoop them for whooping you. God moves in strange and mysterious ways as wonders to perform. He paints his feet upon the clouds and rides upon the storm. So as you go down through here, you can see some of they saying, but now how is God going to get out of this jam?

He’s in a jam. Can you believe that God’s trap? How is he going to get a son born through the line from Solomon, David, and Solomon on down the line and get on the throne? Well, there was a way. Go back to Matthew. back to Matthew. And remember that there’s two things that has to be accomplished. One, there is a lineage of Jesus Christ found in the book of Matthew. And this is the lineage that goes all the way down to Joseph.

And this is from like Abraham and in David and then Solomon. And from Solomon on down the line to where we have Jehaniah who has an accursed line. And then lo and behold on Diner Road we just read it Joseph. But Joseph couldn’t be the king. So how is Jesus going to be the king of Israel when he has to come from this line? So that’s why over in the book of Luke it talks about something just a little bit different.

See it goes all the way back to Adam. And going back to Adam because Jesus not only has to have a miraculous birth, he has to be the Son of God, yes, but he has to be the Son of Man, to redeem man. All of man goes all the way back to the first man, Adam, and comes all the way down the line. But when you get to David, David had two sons. He had Solomon and he had Nathan.

And you see Joseph came through the line of Solomon. Mary came through the line of Nathan. So by these two individuals, Joseph and Mary getting together and being married but not in a relationship, Jesus could be born. But if he’s going to be born, it has to be a miracle birth. This is why a hundred and something years before the curse was down. The Bible says, therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. A virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us.

She has to have a virgin birth, means that she’s not to be touched by a man. So therefore the Bible says the Holy Spirit will come upon her and overshadow her and that holy thing shall be called the son of the highest. So it was God who fathered the child. Jesus was a son of God. And you have her in the right line from Solomon, because God promised that through the line of David and through the line on down to Solomon, he confirmed it again.

But then it came through this line because of the lineage, because he has to be of the son of David, and he is. But by Joseph being in the right line, he has a curse put upon him, but Jesus is considered his son legally, but he wasn’t his father. So therefore Jesus could be the son of God, the son of man. He can claim the throne of David. and rule in Israel and be the king, just like God promised.

And nobody else could. Nobody else has the right to claim the throne except Jesus. So that’s why you have these two genealogies. One mentioned in the book of Matthew and one mentioned over there in the book of Luke. Go over there to the book of Luke. Look in Luke chapter 3, the book of Luke and chapter 3. Luke chapter 3 tells you about the genealogy of Mary here and it makes a statement in verse 23 and Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age being and get this as was supposed, the son of Joseph as was supposed.

He wasn’t his son, but he was supposed to be his son. That’s why later on when Jesus says, my father, my father, you can tell my father, my father, and it says, if Abraham were your father, if Abraham were your father, you would believe on me and they said to him, we be not born of fornication, which was a slap in his face like you, because they knew his mother. They knew his dad. They knew Joseph. And they knew that she was found with child before they got married.

So you’re an illegitimate child. How would you like to live with that stigma and you know it’s not true, but people believe What about Mary? What that would have been like for her? I have to live with that. Okay, Mary, explain what’s going on now. You what? Yeah, you have a baby and you never had a relationship to know. Would you have a problem trying to explain that? Or if somebody else was to say that, would you have trouble believing that?

Well, it says here that the Son of Joseph make the statement, which was the son of Helai, and we believe this is talking about the son in law. And which was the son of Matat, and goes on down through Levi, all these things goes all the way down. And lo me, hold you, come down there to verse 31, look in verse 31. Which was the son of Mele, which was the son of Mina, which was the son of Matatha?

He says, which was the son of Nathan? Nathan, wow, Nathan, see there? See David had more than one son, he had a bunch. And there was Solomon, Nathan. So he’s in the right line. So he says here, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David. And you notice down here in the last part of 33, the son of Judah. Judah going on back down, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac. So he has to be in the right line, the right family.

So Mary was in the right line, but the king was supposed to come through the tribe of Judah through the line of Solomon, but he is in the right line, but it can jump over that curse because you see he He wasn’t of Jack and I as seed. He cursed the seed. So the Holy Spirit placed a holy seed inside of Mary’s womb. And that seed had no curse upon it. He didn’t have him in a sinful nature. Therefore he can claim the throne of Israel.

And then you see up there in verse 38, which was the Son of Enos, which was the Son of Seth, which was the Son of Adam, which was the Son of God. So Jesus Christ has to be a Son of God. and he has to be the Son of Man. So when you read the Gospels, you’ll hear Christ talk about the Son of God, the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Son of Man. Because you see, to pay for our sins, he has to be God because only God was perfect.

But he has to be a man because he has to be a near kinsman redeemer. For example, if I had lived in Israel times Old Testament times and there was James over there and he was a rich landowner and I’m poor, starving half the death and I ain’t got anything and I said look how about me making a deal with you? I’ll work for you five years and I’ll be your servant for five years but whenever you know I paid my debt then I’m free to leave.

If I can pay for it often early then fine I can pay it but I I got to work five years if I don’t. And I can only be redeemed by a near kinsman. My brother. So I got a brother sitting here and he’s my near kinsman. So after I’ve done and worked two years, man, I’m struggling, I can’t hardly make it, can’t pay my bills and I’m really in the heart of Herzville. And my brother who has a compassionate heart, see the near kinsman not only has to be a near kinsman, He has to be willing to pay it.

You are willing, yes. He has to be willing to do it. He has to be able to do it. And so he can come and he can pay my debt and I can go free. That’s being redeemed. But that was the law in Israel. And it was called a redeemer. So the one that has to pay for the sins of the world has to be a kinsman of the human race. So Christ has to come into the world and be a person, a human being, but He has to be able to pay the price, but the price for our sins is death.

He has to be willing to pay that price. And then is He willing to pay that price for the whole world. And because He was willing, He loved the whole world, He was willing to make that payment for all the sins of all the world. And he died on the cross and he came back from the dead. And all that we have to do is be lead that he did. Now, if little man was willing to pay and wanted to pay it, he could be, I can keep working for him as long as I want to do.

I’ll be done. A little stupid, but I can reject what’s been done. No, no, no, I’ll do it myself. And there’s a lot of people that don’t know how simple it is to be saved. that all they have to do, all they can do is simply believe that when Christ died, He died for them, He paid for my sins. And that’s all you have to believe. It’s the best news in all the world. So this is why you find the two genealogies mentioned, one through Mary in the book of Luke and one through Joseph in the book of Matthew, and why Jesus had to have a virgin birth because he could not have a sinful nature by man and God had put a curse upon the line.

Therefore by a virgin birth the Holy Spirit placed the seed within the woman and Jesus could be born of the right line because he was accepted as the son of Joseph legally even though he was not the father and therefore he can claim the throne of his Father, David. Look up here. Can y’all follow this? You follow? I can repeat it again. This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin upon us. Now God, He loves us, hates our sin.

And for us to pay for it is eternal separation from the Lord. And that’s why we need a redeemer, someone to pay our sin debt. What God says to go to heaven and it’s perfect place. You can’t go unless you’re perfect. And just to think for a moment, if there was no hell, if there was no hell, and you had to live in this world forever, eternally like you are. Did you know just not being able to get in?

Knowing that it’s there, that there’s a heaven and all that wandering glory and joy and peace and happiness and all that, For all eternity, just not being able to gain in would be punishment enough. But there’s more punishment than just not getting into heaven. It’s going into hell. So the Bible says that God loves us and He wants us to go to heaven. But to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. So God says I’m going to send my righteousness into the world.

So Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God that came into the world. That’s why God wants us to accept the righteousness. sent down, He does not accept the righteousness we send up. So Christ came into the world, born of a virgin, had no sin, didn’t have to die. But because He loved us and hated our sin, He took our sin, paid for them to cross and came back from the dead. And said, if we would believe that He did it for us, see, we have a redeemer.

We have somebody who is willing to pay this price for us so that we don’t have to be a slave of sin for all eternity. You see, whenever you die and you go to hell, you’re still a slave to that old sinful nature, that old flesh nature for all eternity. Don’t you think you’re still going to be filled with bitterness and hatred and all those sinful things that you could do forever and ever and ever. But once you trust Christ as your Savior, He puts this payment to your account.

You get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for you. That’s the best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? It heads by nice clothes and no one looking around. If you’re here tonight or watching by internet, friend, I want more than anything else in the world for you to understand that the Lord loves you. And He proved that by making a payment for your sins. He died in your place so that you wouldn’t have to pay for your sins.

We did it, we ought to pay it, but he made a payment for us. Would you believe he did it for you? I did, I believe he did it for me and I believed that 53 years ago. I know I have eternal life, I know I’m going to have one night die because I can’t earn, I can’t work for it. It’s the gift of God. So it has about nice clothes and no one looking around. If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you right now say Lord, I know I’m not sinned and I believe Christ died, paid for my sin, And I will trust him right now as my Savior.

Friend, if you’ll believe that and trust him, would you let me know by just slip your hand very quickly and put it right back down? Not gonna embarrass you, not gonna have you forward, but right where you are. You know what it all. Our Father, we thank you so much for giving us your word so that we can know these things. To know and understand why it had to be a virgin birth. Why there had to be two genealogies mentioned.

And how come we can have such confidence faith in your word and to be able to embrace it as truth and to know that we have eternal life because we believe this message. We died for our sins. We thank you for that in Christ and then we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, You can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing tool free, 1-800-576-3771.

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