JOSEPH

 *18/10/2020*


*THIRD SUNDAY SERVICE*


THEME: *ANGELS: MESSENGERS OF GOD*


TOPIC: *ANGELS MINISTERED TO MANY PEOPLE*


SUB-TOPIC: *JOSEPH*


Text: Matthew 1:20-21


*#husband of Mary#*

Matthew 1:1-17 establish Jesus as a legal son of Joseph; Matthew 1:18-25 deny that Joseph was Jesus' physical father.

The first was necessary to establish Jesus' lineage to David and His royal right to be King.

The second was necessary to establish His qualifications to be the Saviour of all people: Jesus was God's Son and not merely Joseph's.

Matthew elaborated on Jesus' kingship while Luke detailed His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1:35

*The Holy Spirit will come upon you:* This is a direct declaration of Jesus' divine conception. The child's conception means He is uniquely set apart, *the Holy One*, a phrase which is here not so much a title as a description of *Jesus' sinless nature*.


*#go to and return from Egypt#*

Matthew 2:13; 2:19

The exodus from Egypt was a great act of salvation, and had a strong place in the memory of the Jewish nation. So Matthew introduces Jesus as the new Moses who comes to inaugurate a new era of God's salvation: the age of the Messiah. Matthew probably intends us to see parallels between Moses and Jesus. Both came from Egypt as great deliverers of their people, and both fled murderous rulers. God's people had been led down to Egypt by one Joseph; now another Joseph was to take God's son down to Egypt.


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