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Amen. So in case anyone was wondering, the Gospel of Matthew is our new Bible study. So that'll be, well, at least 28 weeks, although some of those chapters are a bit long, so it might go into a bit more than that. But we're going to be going through the Gospel of Matthew. And well, well done there, brother Jamie, because that's a bit of a tough genealogy at the beginning. I had a couple of guys where he was running late in traffic, had a couple of guys lined up and they really thought I really didn't like him because I was getting him ready to read out that without any preparation either. And that can be a bit tough, some of those names, especially whether it's a Greek version of them as well, isn't it? So it's not what you're used to either. But yeah, so we're going to be going through the Gospel of Matthew and it's obviously the first book in the New Testament. It's actually just a bit of a fun fact for you. It's the second largest book in the New Testament by verse amount. The first is actually the Gospel of Luke and it was written by Matthew the Publican, although some modern scholars seem to think they know better nowadays. But I have no doubt it was written by Matthew the Publican and it was likely written somewhere between 50 AD and I would say 70 AD, although some say longer, but I would say considering the destruction of Jerusalem and there's no sort of additional after that, I would say somewhere between there. And it's sort of general theme as people would widely say is Jesus the King. That's kind of a theme of the Gospel of Matthew, but there's many other themes in there that we're going to see as we go through it. So let's get started with verse number one, which reads, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. And before we get going properly, let me just go to the Lord and the word of prayer as well. Father, I thank you for this great chapter of the Bible, this great book of the Bible. I pray that you help me over these coming weeks, especially just to preach it accurately and preach it clearly, to expound it as you'd want me to. And starting today with this first chapter and obviously this genealogy and the following verse as well, just to help me to just give a good account of it and to preach all these things being filled with your spirit. Help people to have attentive ears here and help those who aren't here just to get here to be able to hear what your word has to say to them. In Jesus' name we pray all of this. Amen. Okay, so it's introduced as a book of the generation, which is a time period, the days when he was walking the earth of Jesus Christ. So the son of David, what does that mean? What's the son of David? Well, turn to Jeremiah 23, as there are many prophecies in the Old Testament of Jesus Christ, particularly him being of the seed of David. The son of doesn't mean his direct child, obviously, but rather one of his descendants. You could be a grandson or a great-grandson, they're all sons of. Jeremiah 23 and from verse 5 we're going to look at in a second, is talking of a time in the future long after the downfall in his days of Jerusalem. And it says here from verse 5, Behold the days come saith the Lord that I will raise 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 the Lord our righteousness. And under David a righteous branch is obviously talking of a descendant. Jesus Christ is that king and is constantly referred to as the son of David by the believers. You know, if you turn to Matthew 9.27, it's one of many examples when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying thou son of David have mercy on us. Okay, so and that's something you see time and time again in the Gospels in being referred to as the son of David. Being the son of David makes him obviously the son of Abraham too, yeah. David was of the tribe of Judah who was one of the 12 sons of Jacob, Abraham's grandson, yeah. And Jesus fulfills again the promise to Abraham in Genesis 22.18 which reads, And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice. And obviously that's talking about Jesus Christ there and we see that explained clearly in the book of Galatians. So continuing on from there, we see the supposed line to Christ where it says, and again I say supposed where it says, Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren. So obviously you're back in, sorry, Matthew chapter one here. Judas being the Greek version of Judah in case you're wondering, okay. So we're seeing here now the Greek versions of these names and Judas begat Phares and Zara of Tamar and Phares begat Esrom and Esrom begat Aram. So Phares and Zara were twins born by Tamar who was Judah's late son's widow. Now this is, I don't know if you know much about this story but it's like something off the Jerry Springer show. What's that English version? I was trying to think of this. What's that guy? Was it Jeremy Kyle? Wow. What terrible view. But if you're ever at home in the daytime or you are in the old days, I mean a lot of people end up watching the Jerry Kyle show and that was car wreck TV, wasn't it? And it was basically like the British version of the Jerry Springer show. And when you look at, I mean the situation with Judah in this story and we're not going to go there just for sake of time and I'm sure a lot of people do know this story. I think it's Genesis 37, 38, something like that if you're interested. But basically, you know, okay this is a quick summary of it. So Judah's, one of his Judah's sons is completely wicked. I think he's heard the first one. So he gets laid. Then you've got his next son Odin is told to raise seed to his brother. He refuses. He gets slain as well. And then he says okay well the youngest son when he's old enough he's going to, you know, take on this Tamar. Well what happens is he then just doesn't fulfill that promise. Tamar thinks well what am I going to do? I know. I'll dress up as a harlot, yeah, and basically con Judah into, you know, into sleeping with me. So she does this. He goes in. She then takes a pledge of him because he's got nothing to pay. So she says well take your signet and stuff and stuff. And then this Tamar she, you know, she goes away and then Judah finds out that she's pregnant. Now by the way during this she's been had her face covered so he doesn't know that it's Tamar. So Judah ends up saying what this wicked woman who was obviously of, you know, his son's widow says right I'm going to, we're going to burn her I think he says. We're going to burn her for playing the whore. Well what happens is she then says well look by this, by whoever this ring and staff is, you know, the man whom I'm pregnant by and it turns out to be Judah he says oh no I've been rumbled. And she ends up from all of this giving birth to Phares and Zara, yeah, who end up being in this kingly line that we're seeing to Joseph who was supposed to be Father Jesus Christ. So absolutely crazy isn't it? Now turn to Ruth chapter 4 because it, you know, it's not just that well okay, you know, these things happen. There actually seems to be a bit of a blessing involved when they talk about Phares and Zara or at least Phares. And what this story does and with the others that we see in, you know, as we go through is it just goes to show that, you know, God can still use imperfect people and very imperfect situations. I mean utterly scandalous situations, the sort of situations like we said that would make Jeremy Carr have even more viewers on a lazy daytime viewing. And look, he can use those situations ultimately for, you know, for his will to be done. Now in Ruth 4, Boaz is announcing his impending marriage to Ruth and the people are blessing them. Ruth chapter 4 and verse 11 and it reads, and all the people that were in the gate and the elders said we are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is coming to thine house like Rachel and like Leah which too did build the house of Israel and do thou worthily and afraid to be famous in Bethlehem and let thy house be like the house of Phares whom Tamar bare unto Judah of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this young woman. So Phares who was born from this messed up chain of events is a house or family line that is aspired to be like. And it's basically because I think, you know, Ezra Moore, Ezra's line continues to nation that was prince of the children of Judah and when you look at it, he was basically head of the tribe of Judah which had an army of 186,400 we see at that time. So they went on to some pretty great things and this came from this absolutely wicked situation and yeah, you know, there they're saying let your house be like the house of Phares and it's not because of where he came from, it's just due to basically the success and the prosperity that came from them. And that was through I think Aram or Ram we see then a minidab to nation, go back, sorry, that's where we are in Matthew 1, and it says in Matthew 1 and verse 4, an Aram which is in the Hebrew Ram begat a minidab and a minidab begat Naison and Naison begat Salman, so that's that Naison that we're talking about on I think it's known as nation in the Hebrew. And Salman begat Boaz of Rahab, that's Boaz and that's talking about Rahab the harlot, so again we've got another harlot now in the kingly line and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth and Obed begat Jesse, now so we've got Rahab, if anyone knows the story of Rahab the harlot from Jericho, you've got Ruth who was a Moabiteess who you know basically a very wicked nation and again these are ladies clearly mentioned here okay and they're not you know he didn't have to mention these ladies did he he could have just gone through the genealogy but he's clearly making a point of these bizarre basically circumstances and at the least just people that would have been massively frowned upon and look it's this is you know this is a line to well at least a line to Joseph here we have this Moabiteess in Ruth and it's in the line to David and ultimately to Christ and that's also the line to Mary by the way in Luke 3 so even to the actual human sort of the 100% human part of Christ even though he is also 100% God and yeah she's David's great-grandmother great David's great-grandmother was Ruth we have Rahab here which is Rahab the harlot and then it goes on to saying Jesse begat David the king and David the king begat Solomon further had been the wife of Uriah so straight into more scandal and it's funny isn't it because you can read through this this Gospel of Matthew just reading these yeah yeah yeah of that one of that one and you're just kind of skimming through all right come on let's get on to some more important things but when you really look at it and look down here God's making this clear point of these what is it four ladies there isn't it four ladies in that line who look I mean these are scandals where it says here of her that have been the wife of Uriah so basically he didn't even say a name now but we're talking about Bathsheba and we're talking about Bathsheba that King David looked upon and I was saying this I was talking about this with someone the other day I was saying look for me Bathsheba I don't see her as just his poor woman that just happened to be oh well the King David called her over to his house no she was bathing in view of his rooftop she then gets she's a married woman she then gets summoned to his house and she would have been well within our rights to say no thank you she would have been well within our rights to said no there's no no suggestion that he forced her either and she willingly committed adultery while her husband was on the battlefield and look I mean there's a lot of wickedness there isn't there but but she's in the kingly line isn't she she's in the kingly line and look there's a lot of scandal there isn't there there's a lot of scandal there and Solomon ultimately okay I know that the first child died but Solomon was was born from what started as an adulterous relationship he also pictures Christ at some points one of course you know Jesus Christ is a hundred percent pure I'm not saying he's not but what we are seeing there I believe is a clear point in this genealogy that look it doesn't matter what your background is yeah it doesn't matter what happened before you came to Christ it doesn't matter what you know what sort of oh well this is just the way I am this is the way I was raised well I'm just a sinful person look God can still use you yeah yeah and and look there's no excuse it's not saying oh well you know I'm just this is who I am God look God wants us to try God wants us to try and live right I'm not saying that but what I am saying is that look if you're saved you can do great things for God and it doesn't matter what you've done it doesn't matter where you've been before God can still use you and and here God uses people to eventually at least show that kingly line to Joseph who was supposed to be the father of Jesus Christ at least gave that credibility through what was considered to be that human line and and also these people I mean the ones we've just seen earlier until Bathsheba were in the line to David as well and amazing really isn't it amazing when you see that so you've got Tamar Rahab Ruth Bathsheba all mentioned in this line and then after that we see a continuation of the kingly line so we see it says in verse seven Solomon begat Roboam that's Rehoboam from the Hebrew and Roboam begat Abia and that's Abijam and Abia begat Asa and Asa begat Josaphat that's Jehoshaphat and Josaphat begat Joram also known as Jehoram and Joram begat Ozias now is an interesting point in this genealogy it's just missed out Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah and again that's something when I've read through this many times they haven't noticed that at all you know just read through because unless you just have off in your mind exactly which king came after which king it's jumped basically from Joram to Ozias which is Azariah okay it's just missed out three kings there why why are those three kings missed out because it seems to just be this clear is it because the Bible made a mistake is it was there some sort of error there okay there are no errors in the King James Bible not one error and people will try and suggest it's an error well turn to second Kings eight where we see that Jehoram or Joram married the daughter of the wicked King Ahab so he he married the daughter of the wicked King Ahab who was the king of Israel at the time says in second Kings 8 and verse 16 so second Kings 8 16 and in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign 32 years old was he when he began to reign he reigned eight years in Jerusalem and he walked in the way of the kings of Israel as did the house of Ahab for the daughter of Ahab was his wife and he did evil in the sight of the Lord now her name is Athaliah and she is basically as wicked as Ahab and her mother Jezebel okay this is a really wicked woman and we're not going to go into what she does and you might be thinking well there are many wicked men and women you've just said that God can use anyone can't he in scripture so so why did he remove them why did he remove these these three kings well go over to chapter nine where the word of the Lord is given to Jehu so second Kings chapter 9 and from verse 4 it says second Kings 9 4 so the young man even a young man the prophet went to Ramoth Gilead and when he came behold the captains of the host was sitting and he said I have an errand to thee O captain and Jehu said unto which of all of us sorry unto which of all us and he said to thee O captain and he arose and went into the house and he poured the oil in his head and said unto him thus saith the Lord God of Israel I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord even over Israel and thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the Lord at the hand of Jezebel for the whole house of Ahab shall perish and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel and I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah and the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezebel and there shall be none to bury her and he opened the door and fled so Ahab's house is to be cut off yeah you see that there turn over to chapter 10 where Jehu is told that his family will then reign in Israel okay so we just saw there in verse 8 the whole house of Ahab shall perish I'll cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel then 2 Kings 10 and verse 30 it says and the Lord said unto Jehu because thou has done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes and has done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel and it seems that whilst blessing Jehu until the fourth generation the children of Ahab were cursed until the fourth generation the first being his daughter Athaliah that we just spoke about and then followed by Ahaziah, Joash and Amaziah and these are the three that are then excluded from the line which also lines up with Exodus 20 verse 5 which says thou shalt not bow down thyself to them talking about idols there nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and that for me is why the four generations from evil Ahab are cut out of the kingly line okay and that's why that's there that's why they're cut out they're just completely removed out of it it goes on to say and Isaiah begat Jotham back to where we are Matthew 1 verse verse 9 and Isaiah begat Jotham and Jotham begat Achaz and Achaz begat Ezekiel now that's Azariah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah there continues and Ezekiel begat Manasseh and Manasseh begat Ammon and Ammon begat Josias which is Josiah and Josias begat Jeconias and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon now these are all kings that you'll recognize the names of kings of Judah there and like I said they cut out those three or sorry he cut out those three out of this line they in his I think in his eyes they just didn't really count because of that they were cut out of this kingly line now it then says and Josias begat Jeconias that's where we were in verse 11 his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon and again I don't know if you've noticed this but here we have another name omitted turn to second Kings 23 because in between Josiah and Jeconiah is Josiah's son Jehoiakim well where's Jehoiakim why is he not mentioned second Kings 23 and from verse 30 second Kings chapter 23 and from verse 30 Josiah's just died and it says and his servants carried him and remember I said in between Josiah and Jeconiah is Josiah's son Jehoiakim okay that's the one omitted so Josiah's just died and his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem buried him in his own sepulchre and the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him okay and made him king in his father's stead Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign he reigned three months in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Hamutl the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord according to all that his father had done his father had done and Pharaoh Niko put him in bands at Riblu in the land of Hamath that he might not reign in Jerusalem and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold and Pharaoh Niko made a Lyokim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father and turned his name to Jehoiakim and took Jehoahaz away and came to Egypt and he came to Egypt and died there now Jehoahaz obviously doesn't have any line coming from him okay so this was sort of like a short stint he gets taken away now Pharaoh Niko has made a Lyokim king basically in the room of Josiah's father and turned his name to Jehoiakim so why is he not mentioned so Jehoahaz is you know he's imprisoned he's died he ordains his next son as king but that's not how it works is it okay Pharaoh the Pharaoh of Egypt doesn't get to decide who is king of God's nation yeah he doesn't get to decide who's king of Judah neither by the way does the king of Babylon that made then Mattaniah king and turned his name to Zedekiah and again omitted God does it his way doesn't he okay and this is again this is two cases where these two people these two men that the world tried to make they tried to decide who is king of Judah discounted okay not there at all not mentioned at all and you know when I look when I was looking at this it made me think of the world's way of trying to influence who God ordains in his churches as well because throughout history the world has tried to tell us how and who God should make you know leaders whether they want to call him priests vicars pastors bishops you name it because you can go to university and study theology for years or go to a Bible college or whatever the virgin is and the world's far they're concerned you're now qualified to lead a church aren't you you're qualified to lead God's people the world has decided who's qualified the world's decided who who who should be there based on what standards they give and people believe that out there believe me people believe that because you know just talking to people in the world about what we do here and what I've been training to do here and yeah what about have you got a degree in theology have you not been to the world's universities have you not been to some sort of world basically at least at least modeled on on the world's universities bible college or something like that and and people think that don't they but God has set his own set of qualifications isn't he yeah God has his qualifications that's what we care about here don't we I was saying this the other day turn to 1st Timothy 3 I was saying this the other day where you know with believers like us who believe the word of God we're a little bit more wary and suspicious of someone that has been to university haven't we or someone that has been to a bible college for us so whoa wait a second well because we believe what the word of God says 1st Timothy 3 where God lays out the clear qualifications for a bishop and no we're not talking about some queer priests with a different colored dress or a funny hat that's different to the other priests hats yeah like some of these institutions call the bishop well the bishop is basically when in we're talking about the bible here not talking about our you know so-called version of christianity in the world a bishop is just used interchangeably with elder use interchangeably with the word elder which we we use the word pastor it basically means overseer ruler director something like that 1st Timothy 3 from verse 1 says this is a true saying if a man desire the office of a bishop he desireth a good work a bishop then must be blameless a husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach so basically like I'm saying that the world has its own idea and the world tries to instill who should lead a church yeah or at least what they call a church but single men going to bible college how does that line up with scripture at all doing theology degrees or anything similar to train as a pastor or whatever version it's absolutely ridiculous because they're missing the first part of it I mean when you talk about verse 2 in the qualifications the husband of one wife and they're going there somehow apparently they're already being earmarked or they're earmarking themselves a lot of the time for some sort of role in the church and they don't even meet the first qualification and then they a lot of the time they're going there because it's some sort of dating ground a lot of the time so they they all go there the ladies go there to study to play the piano or something yeah if it's like someone at least if it's one that's claiming to be like bible-based it isn't trying to train them for the ministry at least in in terms of you know some sort of position of authority in the church but at least they'll train them for some sort of children's ministry or something else again completely unbiblical and they go in there it's just some sort of dating hookup place absolutely bizarre isn't it but it is ridiculous but again because it's modeled on the world isn't it because it's modeled on the world it's a world trying to tell you what you need to do you need to do some sort of higher education because that's the world that's the world's way isn't it that's the world's way of qualifying and people believe that and sadly how sad is it when christianity and and there are bible believing christians that try and follow the world's way what about divorced men the bible says the husband of one wife divorced men second wives whatever else disqualified we're not trying to say they're they're you know they're they're worse people than the people that aren't we're just trying to say that they're not qualified to lead a church they're not qualified but again how many are there out there guys on their third wives fourth wives and let's be honest once it goes to second wife the chance of it ending is a lot higher straight away third wife it goes even higher and and these guys they're completely they're unqualified they're unqualified but the world says it's all right doesn't it because the world says divorce the right why do they need to be vigilant because it says here the husband of one wife vigilant because church isn't just a fluffy place where everyone meets up and tells everyone how lovely they are yeah because it's a battleground and i say this many times but it is it's a battleground it's a spiritual battleground and and someone you know a pastor has to be vigilant yeah and wow when you start when you start talking to parson obviously i talk to our pastor thompson a lot wow like they just see things they see things from thousands of miles away they see problems they see issues they're vigilant to things that that you know most people don't have a clue about it's amazing it's amazing but they need to be that and i believe that god starts blessing with that as well but they need to be vigilant and they need to have an idea of that because it isn't it's not just you know back sappy and everything else and you know i don't want to just keep going on about this because look you know it's just because because most people are new to a real church and they are they're new to a real church okay there's you know some of us have been at churches we were hoping might just about qualify as a real church they're new to a real church doing things for god and going out and getting people saved and look and unfortunately the church then becomes a battleground that's why someone has to be vigilant that's why they have to be sober of good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach that all these things are the clear qualifications aren't they it's why god's way yeah god's qualifications are essential aren't they because it is a battleground because it is it's such an important role it's such an important job and it's not for pharaoh nico or for Nebuchadnezzar to decide who's going to lead god's people is it and look that goes for for you know that goes for churches obviously as well it's not just you know and we're not i'm not trying to say that someone leading a church like this is like the king of king of juda but look it also goes for the structure of a church so i've been dealing a lot with the charity or at least going you know trying to inquire and trying to work out how we can how we could have set this up to to comply with the charity commission the government here wants to force basically all charities to register with the charity commission it used to be only over a certain income yeah now it's basically over like five grand a year yeah so basically pretty much any charity has to register with the charity commission but to register with the charity commission the church structure can't be a biblical church structure so basically the way they they they set it out and i you know i've been studying this and it's really hard to just get some biblical advice because you can imagine you're basically going to false christianity and they're just confused they're like well you just nominate some trustees just get the church to vote you know or something like that well yeah but that's not biblical right yeah well you just get three just find three trustees what do you mean find three to that's three they don't have any say on the chair that's not god's way god doesn't go oh just pick three guys and just go right now you have like equal say on on the church's policies on on the church's direction it's nuts isn't it because that's not how god god does it there's a chain of command isn't there yeah so what you do because you know and for me it was hard it was you know i'm looking i'm i don't want to go against god but i don't i don't want to then like it feels a bit dishonest just have like sort of nominal trustees but you know but they don't get a say on anything but we're pretending they do because again it's then it's just a bit dishonest isn't it so you you're a bit stuck aren't you so basically what we are we're going to be a not-for-profit company so no gift aid yeah and and that means that we can't get back the tax that people have paid on the things but who cares about money you can't you you can't just just go against god's biblical structure to then get some extra tax breaks and to then be monitored by a charity commission and and really really eventually there's no you know that that separation for a church and state will just get oh well you only you know you just have to be part of charity what's the charity commission it's it's a government institution isn't it and it's government institution and what what will come out what will come out from that next next it'll be well part now we've got a new rule if you're part of the charity commission there can be absolutely no discrimination in any of our charities yeah now you're part of the charity commission uh leaders of the charity commission have to qualify when it comes to churches they have to have the necessary qualifications in some sort of bible college or university that you can see it can't you yeah you can see them right we have to have whenever you get someone in a job if this grows and we end up having people doing other jobs and stuff you have to advertise it out and you have to give fair you have to give fair and equal opportunity to all the perverts to all the sickos out there to to qualify you know to at least apply can you imagine gonna sit down why do you think you're qualified to be a deacon well you know you can imagine it can't you it's not it's coming to a town near you soon isn't it it's that we're not far off that but but again what is it really really it's a world dictating dictating how we should do things and god doesn't put up with that and god basically they didn't even get they weren't even mentioned in that kingly line yeah because the girl the the the world cannot say that and you know and like i say with all this bible college stuff it doesn't matter how long you've been brainwashed by dispensationalism how long you've been puffed up by going back to the greek and all the other junk they do there if you don't meet god's requirements yeah then look maybe in years to come when you're up there in heaven your impersonation of a church will also be forgotten right all these people out there all these pop-up false churches whether they're you know the ones that are saved the ones that have just disregarded all of that maybe god just looks down and just thinks i ain't even a church i ain't even counting you at the least is he even counting them when he when when we're up there and we're talking about the great churches the great churches of the 2020s sure foundation baptist church uk he's smashing it up in the uk we might talk about that but is he going to talk about that in europe yeah but is he going to talk about that church which the guy was like yeah well i went to bible college i didn't have a wife yeah i didn't have anything on this list but but but i studied at bible the world said that i was qualified well we had three trustees yeah who said i was we had the whole church vote on on on things of god so you know it was all right wasn't it no i don't think so back to verse three there where you are says not given to wine no striker not greedy a filthy luca but patient not a brawler not covetous so hear that yeah here there's a list of things here because there was there's the opposite now so you also had and and this is something that that many i think you know uh many pastors some of us will have listened to have talked about as well you had the nifb newly saved christian wannabe pastor tick box yeah the tick box was get wife get kids ready to be a pastor no sorry get wife get kids skim read the bible ten times ready to have kids ready to have uh ready to get a church right well here i am you know and that's that's you know that's that's out there yeah there are people that were out there like that and and the truth was is that a lot of them they had absolutely no idea absolutely no idea what the job entails they were just watching people like pastor anderson past here menes shouting from behind a pulpit thinking looks fun i could shout about sodomites i could shout about whatever else but look those men you know there's some work that those guys do on a day-to-day basis which you don't see yeah well look there are people that then just disqualified the rest of this not given to wine no striker not greedy a filthy luca but patient not a brawler not covetous so if you're getting in fights all the time you're greedy of money you're impatient you're flying off the handle every five minutes well you're not qualified are you yeah maybe you could work on those things maybe you could get qualified but look it's not just having kids okay and many people just look at that well because there's so many false pastors out there that don't have kids so people are just looking at going well they don't even have kids well i've got kids i mean i might as well be look i'm more qualified than him yeah you might be but you're still not qualified yeah and look these are there for a reason aren't they all of these are there for a reason they're important not covetous not covetous how important is that in a position handling money in a position where you're where you're leading a church in a position where you where where as we know a little leaven leaven of the whole lump you've got a pass that's covetous because eventually it will come out won't it and whether or not they go into full-on thievery or they're just always talking and always just coveting things and talking about whatever stuff eventually it's going to rub off on others as well isn't it not covetous one that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity isn't that clear though yeah his children plural it's so clear and of course we see that as well in the titus account as well as this titus you know again goes through very similar qualifications for a bishop having his children plural in subjection with all gravity and i'll just say that because again i was at a church and the guy you know i was saying something about i can't remember he's asked me about a church i just said oh some friends of mine weren't really too keen because it seemed like the guy only had one one kid what do you mean i said well he wasn't qualified you know and again this is my pastor so then i'm thinking oh man it's another thing that we don't agree on okay what's going to come now he's like well you know i mean i'm just what you know by that you know i'm wondering are you saying he's going are you saying that if there was someone who's just a really good preacher you know a young lad just because he doesn't have kids he he can't lead i said well that's what the bible says the bible says children and he was just sight flabbergasted how could you believe what the bible says basically yeah having his children plural but it's not just having children it's in subjection with all gravity now yeah he said one that ruleth well his own housing and and again yeah he needs to he needs to rule for starters because there are sadly again i've been to churches i've seen these guys they don't seem to be able to rule anything but it's not just rule it's also rule well because then you got the opposites i rule my house i rule my house everyone does exactly what i say i don't really rule it very well because everyone hates them they're just scared of them or something you know look you've got to rule well yeah you've got to rule well ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity and again in subjection isn't sinless because then you've got you've got the ones who don't give a damn about any of the false churches or at least no not even false don't give a damn about the churches where these guys don't even seem to care about this sort of stuff but man they want to attack a pastor because his kids did something and got punished for it and didn't do it again oh but you know that's disqualified him isn't it no look their children aren't going to be perfect but they should be in subjection yeah they should be getting punished and they should be able to to deal with being punished yeah crazy isn't it if a man not out of all his own house how should he take care of the church of god look that's look what training that is isn't it having kids having kids you know is is such an important training for for ruling a proper church a proper church not a novice that's being lifted up with pride he fall into condemnation of the devil and that puts to death they get saved get to bible college doesn't it or get saved get married have a couple of young kids right off we go you know and and sadly so many so many people are one of those two extremes moreover you must have a good reporter then which are without unless you fall into reproach in the snare of the devil because there are those that are outside that are looking to criticize you for anything aren't there okay and that's talking about just obvious blatant sin there as well and things which they can criticize you about which aren't just the things of jesus they will criticize you for not having a theology degree from a university so look god didn't recognize those kings of judah ordained by the world okay god didn't recognize that his qualifications are what matter and and the reason i go into this and it's just because obviously there's a lot of false each out there obviously there's a lot of misconceptions out there as well and people just just can't a lot of people can't get away from that and obviously there are those here or maybe not here but people that will watch in the future people that come to our church that maybe one day might desire the office of a bishop and if they do then the most important thing is to go through those qualifications isn't it and think yeah is that for me and also understand that that those qualifications are for a reason because the job is is a massive massive job i mean look i'm not i'm not a pastor but but i've been doing a pastor's job here fortunately with the help and guidance of a pastor i have never done a job like it in my life there is nothing that compares so for anyone sitting there watching thinking oh yeah looks easy that just preach a few sermons have a bit of a shout nothing i've never i've done some hard jobs yeah i've been in hard situations i've been in scary situations in my life i've been in crazy situations in my life nothing compares to the day-to-day running and week and only weekly running i've done up until today in terms of solely weekly coming on a sunday nothing like it and it's not to get a violin out look it's a blessing it's great to be close to god and to be able to do this job but but look anyone who thinks i wouldn't mind that in the future honestly you need to really really understand that it is a massive responsibility it's a massive job and it comes with massive pitfalls and sacrifices with it as well and and you know and and that's why it has to be done god's way because without god without god's blessing on it he's not going to recognize it is he and without god recognizing you you're in trouble and by the way on that note as well um that includes self-ordination okay just for any of those that still have been tempted by that you know in the past well just just you know make ourselves a church well there's nothing that qualifies we'll just be a church right yeah i'm going to be oh i have a house chair no again it's not god's way yeah and that includes people that just decide like these these uh mcfail guys who've just decided to just you know well no no we've we've worked out a bit better now in fact you don't actually have to be ordained you don't have to be sent out because we're just going to self-ordain now i would say if you've been doing such a great work surely someone would actually want to ordain you wouldn't they when you can't find anyone to ordain you barring who's that clown um out there that now recognizes it fanning is it yeah barring people like that who again just wanted to self-ordain yeah when you can't find anyone other than self-ordain people willing to ordain you that's usually for good reason isn't it yeah there's usually a problem there yeah and and self-ordained pop-up churches all that sort of junk again that it's not god's way and it won't succeed in the long run yeah okay let's go back to where we were in matthew chapter one and verse 12 where it reads and after they were brought to babylon so now the line continues but there's no more king in judah so you're going to look through these names and go oh do i know these look no there's not really an account of any of these people now so and and jacob begat joseph the husband of mary of whom was born jesus who is called christ so joseph as i said as was supposed the father of jesus was from a line of kings yeah it's from a line of kings which without the knowledge of the virgin birth would have qualified jesus at least in that line of kings yeah but of course it was a virgin birth yeah it was a virgin birth jesus was a hundred percent god as well as being 100 man but it's an interesting thing that joseph was not only of the line of a line of kings but i believe i believe joseph was a great man yeah and when you look through and and you know sometimes i thought about this recently i just thought to have been entrusted joseph and mary were chosen to basically raise the lord jesus christ from a baby and i believe that they were probably two of the best parents out there yeah and i believe that that was he was a great man and we see in a minute that he needed to be a great man just for the for even to have worked at the beginning and he came from a line of kings and that's what as well you could look well you know really this is talking about joseph isn't it that line is really talking about joseph joseph is a guy in this line and joseph i think is is a great guy and he's of a kingly line it says in verse 17 so all the generations from abraham to david are 14 generations and from david until the carrying away onto into babylon are 14 generations for the carrying away into babylon unto christ of 14 generations now the birth of jesus christ on this wise when as his mother mary was a spouse to joseph before they came together she was found with child of the holy ghost so we see those 14 generations like i said but that's with those excluding of those those three and then also that other that other in between so four kind of generations there but we got these fourteens that sort of round round number there and then it comes to jesus christ there now then it says now the birth of jesus christ on this wise when as his mother mary was a spouse to joseph before they came together she was found with child of the holy ghost now this isn't an engagement because there's a lot of false teaching out there that a spouse oh well they they were just again no they were married okay they were married a spouse is married they hadn't consummated the marriage okay and i'm sure you know the adults here understand really what i'm saying they hadn't consummated it they were they were married but they hadn't come together okay that's the point verse 19 then joseph her husband being a just man and not willing to make her a public example was minded to put her away privately what does put away mean okay divorce okay now he was willing wait a second doesn't the bible say no divorce well let's just have a quick look at matthew five i know we've gone through this a bit recently but matthew five and from verse 31 matthew 531 jesus speaking says it has been said whosoever shall put away his wife let him give for a writing of divorcement but i say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced comitteth adultery now that cause of fornication is what this would have been had it had she not been with child of the holy ghost so fornication remember is outside marriage it's not saying oh well it's okay with adultery look in old testament law she she should have been killed for adultery okay theoretically had she committed adultery but but here putting away saying that's a one time it's okay was but was basically was finding out that she had been in fornication when he thought that she was marrying that she was marrying uh sorry that he was marrying that she was marrying uh sorry that he was marrying a virgin okay that that's the only time it's okay so okay so we have we have joseph here being a just man because many men back to where you are matthew 119 many men would have made a republic example wouldn't they so wouldn't many men have just looked at that and just said wow like this is you know this um this lady i can't believe she's done that and they would have just just let her have it wouldn't they and bearing in mind bearing in mind what what the consequences at least should have been had they not been under roman rule and not being basically told that they couldn't they couldn't carry out the death penalty but can you imagine the social stigma because look nowadays it might not be a big deal and we look at this maybe through the lens of of you know 21st century britain and just think well you know what's the big deal yeah oh okay so look like she'd been with someone else okay yeah you can see why he might want to break up with her look that is a massive deal yeah that is scandalous that that was such a big deal that like i said had it not been under roman rule and then being banned from putting anyone to death she would have been up for being stoned and i'm a bit unsure anyone wants to talk to me afterwards how that would have worked with her being with child i'm not sure there actually but but had she not been a hundred percent then she would have been liable to have been getting stoned to death and look joseph was a just man yeah that's what it says it's not saying well joseph was a bit weak joseph was a bit soft joseph well he was just you know a bit of a pusher no joseph was a just man and he didn't want to make a big example of her he didn't want her to basically just be ostracized and be you know at least in everyone else's eyes worthy of death but instead he he was going to do it quietly yeah privately privately he was going to put her away quietly he was going to just do a quiet divorce and but well turn to deuteronomy 22 because i just want to show you this quickly deuteronomy chapter 20 22 and from verse 13 we're going to look because this explains explains what really would have happened had it been under under the law of god 22 13 deuteronomy 22 and verse 13 says if any man take a wife and go in unto her and hate her and give occasions of speech against her and bring up an evil name upon her and say i took this woman and when i came to her i found her not a maid then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokes of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city and the gate and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders i gave my daughter unto this man to wife and he hated her and lo hath given occasions of speech against her saying i found not thy daughter a maid yet these are the tokes of my daughter's virginity they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city and the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him they shall immerse him in a hundred shekels of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel because he had brought up an evil name upon a virgin of israel and she shall be his wife he may not put her away all his days but if this thing be true and the tokes of virginity be not found for the damsel so this is if basically yeah it's true she has committed this act of fornication then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die because she has walked folly in israel to play the whore in her father's house so shalt thou put evil away from among you that's a bit different to our wicked world views isn't it yeah let's talk you about killing her to put that evil away from among you because it's it's wicked it is evil it it's such that that sort of sin just destroys families destroys really the fabric of society doesn't it it and that that's how god views it god views it that they should be stung to death and you can see why why look it was a big deal it was a big deal that you can imagine he's about to marry this this young lady that he thinks is a virgin that sorry he's married this young lady that he thinks is a virgin they're about to come together and suddenly she's she's found with child she's pregnant he must have been devastated destroyed he's probably just thinking what on earth have i done like you can imagine like what what what am i going to do am i going to raise this child what you know she obviously loves her he's thinking i mean how's she going to actually even trying to explain that i don't even know what he'd do well let's see what happens because verse 20 go back to where we were matthew chapter one and verse verse 20 but while he thought on these things behold the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a dream saying joseph thou son of david fear not to take unto thee marry thy wife for that which is conceived in her is of the holy ghost so by the way it's marry thy wife yeah it's not take her to be your wife take unto thee marry thy wife yeah because they're already married okay joseph didn't rush into it did he notice that but while he thought on these things he thought when he sings didn't he and that's a great lesson for everyone here isn't it because sometimes you know a lot of us here i think we'd be quick to try and deal with that situation wouldn't we straight away fuming livid just flying off the handle wall you have to turn to ecclesiastes 5 2 says be not rash with thy mouth let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before god for god is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few and he obviously didn't utter anything hasty he's thinking on these things yeah and there's nothing wrong with that isn't there take your time to think on things some people always want answers straight away from people look there's nothing wrong with saying look i need a bit of time to think about this i need a little bit of time to dwell on this joseph did that and thank god that he did and that's why he was the right person for this as well wasn't he because he didn't just fly off the handle he didn't just leg it he didn't just make a public example of her verse 21 says and she shall bring forth the son and thou shalt call his name jesus for he shall save his people from their sins jesus meaning savior they must have had a spelling error there they meant to put yeshua didn't they or yahweh or whatever other rubbish he's going what is it yahushua is that another one there's a yahushua or so what is that all of them anyone got any other weird combinations of y's h's and sh sounds no just to sound like you know you really know jesus really well i know i've got a special name for him is it any different to the jehovah's witnesses oh they've got a special name for god yeah they got their own special name haven't they but well at least the jehovah's witnesses have one of his correct names because he's clowns they're just coming out with it they just make it up as they go along absolutely it's absolutely not i don't you just hate it whenever you see any comments or like a youtube video so you start seeing people talking about your way and you're just like it's all right unsaved because let's be honest it's very like man you start calling him the wrong name and stuff because it's the name of jesus every nisha bow isn't it absolutely ridiculous but no he um he said and you shall call his name jesus yeah jesus now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which has spoken of the lord by the prophet saying behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name emmanuel which being interpreted is god with us now turn to isiah 7 but obviously keep a finger there which is what is being quoted here for an interesting truth and it's not a truth i don't think probably anyone here really needs to know but it's still an interesting truth anyway that you see here so isiah chapter 7 and verse 14 isiah 7 14 we've just read behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son they shall call his name emmanuel which being interpreted he's got with us isiah 7 14 says therefore the lord himself shall give you a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name emmanuel so notice how we've just read a virgin shall be with child and the isiah 7 14 says behold a virgin shall conceive interchangeable so conception is being with child right yeah pretty clear isn't it and i don't think we need to go to many other verses in the bible i think everyone here is a bible believing christian understands that that life begins at conception yeah so where he said he said a virgin shall be with child he was quoting isiah 7 14 which said behold a virgin shall conceive interchangeable and again what a crazy world we live in we live in a crazy world where i mean do they what even is the accepted time when they consider it to be alive they consider that little baby to be alive because the bible's clear here that they're with child at conception yeah at conception now i just you know it's something that that obviously i've been thinking about a bit recently and something i just wanted to mention quickly as well because we here are all bible believing christians right we all believe that life begins at conception don't we okay so therefore if life begins at conception when when a lady has conceived what does she have inside her womb a child okay a child and obviously yeah we're not going to say it's exactly the same as having you know you know getting to know a child getting to know a baby as they get older and older but that lady has a child inside her womb and when a lady has a miscarriage that is absolutely horrendous isn't it isn't it horrendous it's absolutely horrific and look something i've experienced and others here i know have experience as well and and i don't think a lot of us really quite understand like what that really is and i say that because whereas bible believing christians claim to to acknowledge and understand and yeah it's life begins at conception and we experienced it obviously as you know very recently and when i say we majorly my wife i'm not trying to compare myself to her and i'll be honest it was quite bizarre the response we got from a lot of people that claim to be bible believing christians people that couldn't even acknowledge it people that couldn't even say a word to her that she just lost her child like what is that about people like could not even say a thing like how like how do you call yourself a bible even christian belief like imagine and again i'm not saying it's the same but imagine we'd lost our little boy james but you would imagine i would imagine i would be shocked if anyone here didn't just say just just some work because you're just like and it's not it's not that we wanted sympathy by the way we wouldn't have even told anyone the only reason we put it on the group is because she was in a really dangerous situation and she basically had to be rushed off with the blue lights on because she she rapidly lost blood pressure she lost pints of blood it was really serious it was a 10 week old child in terms of from conception okay that's the reason that we asked for prayers okay otherwise look at the time we probably would have kept it more private okay at the time we were really scared waiting for the ambulance to come googling wow okay this is extreme now you know what was going on and i'm not saying everyone knew that but with without any of that the fact that everyone knew and it was just bizarre and i'm not just saying the church to other people we know as well just bizarre the response that people literally just could not say well all the response you got were just like weird like people coming up to her and like just like hey how you doing it's like what like and look if if if it maybe it's just people just don't understand it they claim to understand yeah life yeah because we're we're christians yeah life begins at consent we know that yeah you know we hate abortion everything else and then they just say yeah this is a miscarriage isn't it just a miscarriage or maybe maybe they just literally just just despise her so much they can't say that or maybe they just just don't understand social norms and maybe that's something that we need to teach from the pulpit more it's just just being being just having empathy like and again it doesn't you don't have to be crying with me you don't have to be like sending just just a word just like a sorry so you know sorry to hear that that's all it needs isn't it yeah and and look just something that we thought about and something look we we know the truth don't we yeah we know the truth but but then when it comes to the crunch why is it that we we can all be so cold and heartless about these things can't we and it is bizarre bizarre like we were just like wow like and i'm not look i'm not look i'm not gonna start like listing because there are people that none of you even know we're just like what like and and just nuts really odd really odd and again it's not because we wanted sympathy it was just interesting and obviously for my wife like that that is a massive thing and i have like i understand it a lot more now i know other people that have gone through it they've mentioned it and and i didn't understand it as much and and look it's a big deal okay if you really believe you really believe life begins at conception it's a big deal okay it's a big deal anyway let's continue um okay now like i say with that maybe it's just that people need to just maybe just some people haven't really been trained in just normal kind of just just showing like how you show a bit of sympathy for some just how you just kind of treat someone who's been through something maybe people just need a bit of practice with that maybe maybe i need to kind of show you that a little bit more from from behind the pulpit because it was bizarre really bizarre okay so okay then joseph where are we um no sorry where are we so yeah we've just had a look at um we've just had a look at isiah 7 14 okay so back to matthew yeah what does what does emmanuel mean we've just seen it in in verse 23 there what does emmanuel mean god with us god with us so the first chapter of the new testament and what's jesus just been called god first chapter of the new testament yeah god with us anything to be confused about there oh well it's just kind of like it just feels like god is with us no god with us yeah that's why he's called emmanuel because he's god yeah and again like sometimes you know sometimes you get these obviously you get the muslims don't yeah they love it don't they where does it where did he well it says it in the first chapter of the bible yeah of the new testament it says god with us yeah that's what he's called emmanuel okay verse 24 then joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the lord have bitten him and took unto him his wife okay now this was hard for joseph wasn't it okay regardless of god's angel commanding him like i said imagine the stigma as well because you can think oh well well he got he got commanded though so that's all right isn't it you know you we all just do what god commands us don't we yeah we do don't we everyone here does what god commands him doesn't he yeah no we don't yeah and especially when it comes to something like that because it would have been so easy to just go on yeah i'm going the other direction because that that would have been hard for him wouldn't it would have been really hard for him the whole situation and what's more you know he he's he's being told this sort of stuff as well that must have scared him just just everything like the responsibility like i said you know i was just talking about the responsibility of pastoring imagine imagine this it should be with a child and it's god with us you're just thinking what i know what's happening and look but he did it didn't he but how many men how many men do ignore god's commandments when it comes to their wives and i think for him he had a lot of a harder commandment here we're just told to love our wives aren't we husbands love your wives and how many men seem to find that impossible seem to find that so hard to just follow a simple commandment to just love your wife yeah and it's something that that you know we were talking about this recently just saying it's so simple isn't it it's so simple yeah how often do we just start complicating it just love them love your wife love your wife and look he fortunately joseph did do as the angel of the lord abided him and he took unto him his wife and knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son and he called his name jesus so he knew her not until okay until it's pretty clear isn't it until turn to matthew 13 and and again i'm preaching to the choir but no mary wasn't a perpetual virgin okay absolutely ridiculous isn't it unbiblical pagan mother goddess nonsense yeah absolute nonsense matthew 13 and from verse 54 says matthew 13 54 when he was coming to his own country he taught them in their synagogue insomuch that they were astonished and said whence hath this man this wisdom and these mighty works is not this the carpenter's son is not this is not his mother called mary and his brethren james and joseph and simon and judas he's talking about his brothers and his sisters are they not all with us when when then have this man all these things pretty obvious isn't it oh yeah well i don't know how they and they definitely weren't immaculate conceptions okay this was because he knew her not until okay pretty standard isn't it but unfortunately seems to be lost on the roman catholics but then they don't really seem to think much of the bible anyway more what the guy in the dress in rome says um back to back to matthew 125 and you are not till she bought for her first full son and he called his name jesus okay on that let's pray father i thank you for uh for a great chapter of the bible for the opening of the new testament and i hope that i preached it and preached it clearly and accurately today and i hope that you'll help us to apply some of what we've just seen and spoken about to our lives and i pray that you just help us to to just um you know to to think about these verses think about some of these truths the truths of of the people that you used in your you know in that genealogy through to joseph and um and just what that we can all you know in a matter of our failings no matter of our lackings we can all do things for you and uh we pray that that you know that you help us to to all just put that into action put that into practice this week to want to grow to want to want to serve you more to want to do more things for you and and for us all to get home safely and also to return safely on sunday for for another day in your house in jesus name for all of this amen