2819 Church - THE KING IS HERE | A Royal & Ratchet Family Tree | Matthew 1:1-17 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

In the opening weekend of “THE KING IS HERE” Pastor Philip A. Mitchell walks us through the genealogy of Christ. Welcome to the official Youtube channel for 2819 Church. This channel features powerful and life-impacting messages from Philip Anthony Mitchell and guest communicators. As you listen to these sound biblical messages you can expect to be challenged, stirred, matured and inspired in your faith and walk with God. For more information about us visit 2819Church.org.

It's about to be the greatest year of your life. You can leave that on the floor if you want. I'm taking all of that for me. For some of you, man, I'm talking to you right now. You've been through too much. And you survived too much. And you've come through too much. And you've worked too hard. I said, I prophesied to you, it's about to be the greatest year of your life You sacrifice too much and you pray too much and you sold too much and you believe too much I'm gonna take that for me Fill up you pray too much You've sold too much You've sacrificed too much. You've sacrificed too much. You've gave

up too much. You've worked too hard. This year is going to be a reaping year for you in the name of Jesus. You're going to reap in the name of Jesus. This ain't no prosperity gospel and I ain't prophelying. I'm talking to people in this room. This is going to be a harvest year for you

in the name of Jesus. I'm taking that from me. The scripture says, feed, time, and harvest. For some of y'all, we've already done that first two parts. I take that for me I've been through too much lost too much and gave up too much

and been stabbed too much been abandoned too much, been abandoned too much, been shed too many tears, been bruised my knees too often. I just feel what, for me, what the Spirit says to me, I give it to you. 23 is going to be a harvest year. Whenever y'all ready, be seated. I'm waiting on you

Amen Yo, the Lord responds to faith That he's not deaf He can hear everyone who's serious about the word that's going forward. Like, Lord, I want all of that for me. I receive all of that for me. I'm not sitting here in this room by accident on this day. I'm taking all of that for me. He ain't deaf.

Too much. Somebody just said too much. Come on, somebody shake your head like too much. Too much. Welcome my 2819 family. In the room and online, wherever you're watching in cities around the country, in a few pockets around the world, to our family local and to our family abroad, we welcome you to the first gathering of our harvest year. I'm going to keep saying that. This is our harvest year in the name of Jesus.

And I believe this is going to be a radical year where God is going to give us new brothers and sisters, a mighty harvest of new disciples, new brothers, new sisters, new mothers, new fathers. That there'll be no place to stand left in this room by the end of the year from the harvest

that's going to come in in the name of Jesus. And I want to encourage some of you in this room who've been sitting in these gatherings for years and complaining that nothing's changing. Nothing's changing because you're not changing. And if you want things to change, you need to change. You need to stop presuming upon God

and some things that you're responsible for. So I'm going to lean on you right here in the beginning, no cap, that you got to do some work this year. For some of you, this is the year for you to be known. I know what it feels like to not want to be known, to want to come in and slip out and remain anonymous because you're afraid that if people knew your lifestyle or what you was about, you'll be judged. Ain't no judgment here. Man, the person with the microphone got issues. I repent of my own sin from the platform. We all are work in progress.

We all got issues. We all got mess. Ain't nobody perfect except the one who hung on the cross. So for some of you, this is the year for you to be known. Come out the dark. Man, one of the greatest things you will ever have is friends, relationships, shoulders to lean on. Come out the dark man one of the greatest things you ever have is friends relationships Shoulders to lean on so when you cry you don't cry alone

And when you got to pray you don't got to pray alone And when you're in trouble you don't fall down alone This might be the instead of running in and running out you jump into a squad You join a small group and you be known you have friends You have shoulders for when you go through and don't matter about your money or your socioeconomic status problems is coming for everybody and when problems come you know what you need not money you need shoulders you need ears that can listen you need

people that won't judge you and will make you feel ashamed because you got issues for some of you this might be the year, man, to jump on a team. Do a common thing where other people serve. For some of you, this is going to be the year, man, you come off some of that green gods. You support 2819. You be a faithful giver. You see what God does in your finances as you honor him and keep him first. For some of you, this might be the year of perfect attendance where you don't miss a gathering for

some of you this might be the year where you take notes and instead of listening to me talk every week you actually go home and apply what's being taught and say wow God I heard this message. I did what I heard. Something actually changed in my life. Ain't nothing changing with wishful thinking. It's hard work and application. Tweet that.

Ain't nothing changing with wishful thinking. It's hard work and application. After today, at least seven days, for some of you this will be the first time you fast for seven days. You consecrate, you turn down your plate. You turn your face towards God. You see what God does in seven days. He might speak to you and give you a brand new vision for the year.

He might make your vision greater for the year. He might take the business idea you have, the ministry idea you have, and make it even greater. He might drop something in your spirit you didn't even think of. Amen, family? So today is the opening weekend of a brand new series called the king is here and this is the first leg of teaching through a series through the book of Matthew every Sunday this year Jesus will be our explicit focus every Sunday this year Jesus will be the message every Sunday this year Jesus will be the message every Sunday this year Jesus will be proclaimed every Sunday this year we will look at Jesus and marvel at Jesus and be in awe of Jesus and keep Jesus and wonder about Jesus and scratch

our heads around Jesus and learn to like Jesus and love Jesus and surrender to Jesus and be tight with Jesus and be empowered by Jesus 52 weeks of Jesus all Jesus we ain't going nowhere else I said the king is here never been done before don't know what God is gonna do but every Sunday this year the message is Jesus so you gonna camp out in one book for the whole year yes really one whole year in a book? Yes. Oh, they're going to get bored. We're going to see. We're going to find out.

I ain't never been done before in Atlanta. We're about to find out. You tell everybody, we're going to be camped out in one book for a year. Oh, Jesus, until December 31st. Spread the word. It's about to get real in here. Spread the word. This first series is focused on Matthew chapters 1 through 4. Who was Matthew?

Why was his book so important? Why are we camping out in this book? Before I talk about this Matthew, I want to shout out to one of my best friends in 30 years, another Matthew in the room, MG the Mortgage Guy. Shout out to my brother in the room. The most influential mortgage loan officer in the nation.

If you're looking for a crib, MG the Mortgage Guy on everything. Been rocking with that dude since we was in the streets at 12, shooting and selling dope. God has been very good to both of us. But this Matthew. Thank you.

Yo. Yo. Yo. We shouldn't be here today. this matthew who was he why did he write this book why is the book he wrote so important this matthew who i'm going to be talking about uh was a jew who lived in the first century a.d uh he was a man unfortunately was very corrupt man. He worked as a subcontractor for the government of Rome, at one time the most powerful nation on earth. They ruled the world for 1500 years from Africa to India. Matthew had a job as a subcontractor working for the IRS,

for the government of Rome, as a tax collector. So he was responsible for collecting taxes from the Jewish people. And most of the tax collectors of his days were very corrupt men, so they would overcharge people on their taxes. They would pay Rome what was owed them, and they would pocket the rest. This Matthew, who we're going to be talking about, because he was corrupt, enriched himself as a tax collector. He was an extremely wealthy man. Dope crib, dope clothes, dope shoes, cologne. He had all the accoutrements of what the average person did not have in his day. As a Jewish tax collector, not only was he wealthy, but men in those days who were tax collectors were despised by their own people.

So he was unloved. He was unliked. Listen to me. He was hated. He probably had no friends. No social equity. Parents probably was disconnected from him. Probably had no girlfriend.

To history's knowledge, he had no wife. He was single. We don't know if he ever had a female mate. He was despised by the people around him, probably lonely, a loner, an outcast, a person who would come into a room full of people and still feel isolated. You know what it feels like to be in a room and feel lonely. Jesus one day was walking by Matthew's office. He looked Matthew in the eyes and he said, Matthew, I want you to follow me. And from his own record, he heard the words of Jesus. He left everything in that tax booth and he followed the Lord Jesus Christ. A decision that changed his life forever, changed his legacy. Because of that, we're talking about him some 2,000 years later. I wonder where Matthew would be had he not made that decision to follow Jesus. We don't know, but his life was changed. A former outcast as a Jew wrote the one gospel that's dedicated to Jews,

that God has a great sense of humor. He took an outcast Jew and made an outcast Jew write the only gospel dedicated to Jews. Because God knows how to take the foolish things of the world, the things that people think can't be done, and use it to make people confused. How could God take an outcast Jew and use him to write the only gospel dedicated to Jews? And so although the book is actually anonymous, Matthew is credited with writing the book, the authorship around the year A.D. 55 or A.D. 60. It is the second of four Gospels that was written, the first Gospel that was ever recorded, the narratives of Jesus Christ. In this book, we have preserved for us four narratives of Jesus Christ.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Mark was written first. Matthew was written second, taking some of Mark's works and expounding on it. When we look at Mark's gospel, we see Jesus as a servant. So he's pictured as an ox in biblical literature. In Matthew's gospel, we see Jesus as a coming king. So he's pictured like a lion in biblical literature. In John's gospel, he's pictured as divine or the son of God. So we see ego in biblical literature. And in Luke's gospel, he's called the son of man. So we see the picture of a face showing that he was human.

He understood the things we go through. He had problems. He had challenges. He has felt everything that you felt. But it is Matthew's gospel among the four. It is the longest gospel, the most detailed gospel, because as a tax collector, Matthew was trained in record keeping, and he was a skilled writer. It is the gospel that the church used for 1700 years as the primary text for instruction in discipleship. Now this makes sense to you. Let me repeat this. Matthew's gospel was the document that the church used for 1700 years as the chief document for discipleship of followers of Jesus.

So they wanted to ground people in the faith. For 1,700 years, they used the book of Matthew to create for people, watch this, a firm foundation. 1,700 years,

they used the book of Matthew as their primary document. So for us, we're going to use Matthew for one year to lay a brand new foundation in our church. For one whole year. You're going to look back on this year, and I promise you, your life is going to be radically changed. You'll never be the same after this year. Pastor Phillip, you're wilding out. Yes, I'm wilding all the way out.

We're going to make a document that the church used for 1,700 years to create a new foundation for our church. Not that we had a bad one, but we're about to have a greater one. We're going to explore the teachings of Jesus that leads us into human flourishing, better relationships,

how to do business, how to do marriage, how to handle money, how to handle problems. We're going to get teachers that are going to teach you how to flourish in life're gonna get teachers gonna teach you how to flourish in life it's gonna give you awareness of the kingdom you belong to that you are citizen of America and a citizen of a greater kingdom it's gonna

raise your awareness of that kingdom solidify your identity so you're not confused about who you are it's to embolden you in the area of mission. You're going to know that you exist for a purpose. You can't read this book or study this book and not be changed. Your life will be transformed. So I want to open up the book with this

first message titled A Royal and Ratchet Family Tree. Yes sir! Oh yeah! a royal and ratchet family tree. We're going to start our teaching through Matthew with this first message called a royal and ratchet family tree. A lot of us could, we could just sit right there like, that's me right there.

Ain't anybody. A royal and ratchet family tree. Spirit of the living God. We feel your presence in the room and in the chat. Walk in the aisles and the road. We feel you like the hairs on the back of our neck. We know that you are alive and that you are present in the room.

Help me, this weak vessel, teach the truth of this eternal word to display the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Help me, Holy Spirit, to teach. In Jesus' name I pray.

Amen. First message in the series, one year through Matthew, a royal and ratchet family tree. If you got kids in this room, there's going to be some parts of this message that's going to go beyond PG. That's why we got a children's church.

So I gave you a disclaimer. Don't send me no DM or no emails. It's a part of this message that's going to go beyond PG. Family, I just want to start, you know, with some honesty from the very jump that as I was thinking about this message, I thought to myself that, you know, I some honesty from the very jump that as I was thinking about this message, I thought to myself that, you know, I've never met a forward-thinking person that did not like the word new. Now, I know some people that are stuck in tradition and stuck in old ways,

and they don't want to move on from where they are, but I personally have never met a forward-thinking person that did not like the word new. Consequently, most of us are attracted, naturally drawn with some sense of excitement and anticipation when we hear the word new or whenever we see something that's tagged with the word new. A new idea creates excitement and anticipation. A new business creates excitement and anticipation. A new ministry creates excitement and anticipation. A new name, holla, creates excitement and anticipation. A new boo, a new spouse, a new boyfriend or girlfriend creates some measure of excitement and anticipation. However, one of the greatest anchors for the emergence of anything that is new

is the necessity for the case of its legitimacy. Let me repeat myself. That although we get excited about things that are new, one of the most important anchors to be attached to anything that is new is the anchor for the legitimacy of the thing that is new. Whenever something emerges that is new, we ask ourselves questions. Is this for real? Are they for real? Are they capping or are they keeping it real? When a new product comes to market, investors want to know, is the product for real? When a new business comes to market, investors want to know, is the product for real? When a new business comes to market, angel investors and venture capitalists want to know, is this new company for real? Can we invest in this new company? When a startup company is seeking its first rounds of investment,

man, investors want to know, man, is this company real? Is it legitimate? Is it going to last? When a man or woman pops up with a new ministry, people always want to know, are they legitimate? Is the company legitimate? Is the new brand legitimate? Is this new company, is this new idea, is it legitimate? We know that it is new, but is it legitimate? We know it is new, but watch this, can it be trusted? Right? When a luminary figure emerges with claims that the world has never heard

before, there's naturally going to be speculation around the legitimacy of that figure. So the greatest thing that can happen for the argument of legitimacy is not when a person argues about their own legitimacy, but one of the greatest things that can anchor legitimacy is when other people argue for the legitimacy of another person. This is why when we write new books, we always seek out people to give us a review. So we throw 10 people on the back of a new book, and what are we asking them to do? We're asking them to legitimize the offer that what they're telling us, watch, can be trusted. So one of the greatest arguments for legitimacy is not what comes out of the mouth of the person who is new, but one of the greatest arguments for legitimacy is what comes out of the

mouths of other people who establish the legitimacy of another person. Yo, that person right there, they're for real. Or that dude right there, he's for real. Or Shorty right there, she's for real. Or that brother right there, man, he's for for real it's what other people say oftentimes is the best anchor for the legitimacy of somebody else you can talk a good game about you but what does other people say about you you can tell me the iPhone is dope but what does other people say about the iPhone that is better than Android and if you're smart and saved you got an You can tell me the iPhone is dope, but what does other people say about the iPhone? That it's better than Android.

And if you're smart and saved, you got an iPhone. That we rebuke people that turn the group chat green. The market has spoken. Apple is the best phone on the market it is legitimate we don't care what Apple has to say what does the people have to say about the product Chipotle ain't dope because it's dope

it's dope because we say it is so one of the best things to establish legitimacy is not what comes out of the mouth of the person that's arguing is what's coming out of the mouths of other people that's arguing for the legitimacy of the person that emerged in the first century a.d a slim gal Galilean came walking over a Judean countryside claiming to be the son of God. Claiming to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. Claiming to be the embodiment of all of the Old Testament prophecies. Claiming to be the one that people were talking about for thousands of years, claiming to be the fulfillment of everything from the Old Testament. He came claiming to

establish a kingdom that was going to last forever. He came claiming to be this person who died in the first century AD, the Son of God. Now Matthew in the first century was an eyewitness of that person. He was friends with that person for three and a half years, traveled with that person for three and a half years, ate food with that person for three and a half years, broke bread with that person for three and a half years, moved around the country with that person for three and a half years, laughed with that person, joked with that person, listened to that person for three and a half years. Moved around the country with that person for three and a half years. Laughed with that person, joked with that person, listened to that person,

saw that person for three and a half years. Matthew, around the year AD 60, is an old man. It's 30 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Matthew now is looking back over his life. He's thinking about everything he saw, everything he heard. He's thinking about everything he saw, everything he heard. He's thinking about when Jesus raised a man from the dead. He's thinking about when Jesus touched

eyes and made people who are blind to see. He's thinking about when Jesus touched people's ears and made them. So he's looking back at all of the miracles, all of the teachings, all of the things that Jesus did, and he's thinking to himself, man, truly this dude who I was running with for three and a half years, he was not just a prophet like Muhammad or Confucius or Joseph Smith. He was not just an ordinary man. Something was different about this dude that I was running with for three and a half years. I got to sit down and tell a story about him. So in the year AD 60 or 65, Matthew as an old man, before he was beheaded, martyred for what he believed and saw, sat down and he took a pen to parchment and he began to write what became the book of Matthew,

his narrative about the life of the person of Jesus Christ and in his attempt oh my god to convince Jewish people that the person y'all been writing about for thousands of years actually came and you rejected him like he was a sucker. Matthew, a Jew, now wanted to convince Jewish people that the man y'all been talking about for generations actually came and lived and taught and died and rose and is still alive. And is directing the course of history. That man that y'all rejected, I want to reintroduce you to that man since y'all rejected him. So Matthew takes a pen and parchment in the year A.D. 60 or 65, a few years before he was beheaded. And he writes the book of Matthew.

And listen, watch how he starts the book of Matthew to Jewish people. Matthew chapter 1, verse 1. The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Pause. Now, nobody in this room got excited because most of y'all are black. I'm going somewhere with this. So we in the room, we hear the beginning of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of Abraham, the son of David.

And we say, all right, cool. But if a Jew heard that, they would have been like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The son of Abraham? The son of David? The beginning of the genealogy of Jesus Christ? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Matthew, you got to prove that to us, Matthew. You're saying some really outlandish stuff right now. You're trying to tell me this Jew who came was the son of Abraham and the son of David? And then what you're about to write to me is the beginning of his family tree? Genealogy means family tree like ancestor.com? The purpose of a genealogy is to trace lineage back to ancestors. The purpose of a genealogy is to establish birthright. The purpose of a genealogy is to say you have

ownership and inheritance. In the days of Jesus, if you wanted to be a priest or pastor, you needed to produce an accurate genealogy linking you all the way back to the tribe of Levi. If you wanted to own land because somebody died, you needed to produce a genealogy to say this land belongs to me. You can't roll up on somebody and say give me that land. No. Produce the genealogy. Somebody died, you wanted the inheritance, you couldn't claim that inheritance. You had to produce a genealogy saying,

you are the rightful owner of that inheritance. So genealogies were necessary to prove ownership and inheritance, and the scriptures are littered with genealogy. The longest one in 1 Chronicles, almost nine chapters. Now, why is this important? Because in the Old Testament days, hundreds of years before Christ came into the world, the last prophet who ever preached was not Philip, but a man I named my son after named Malachi. Malachi was preaching hundreds of years before Jesus was born, and his primary message was honor. He was speaking on behalf of God. All y'all people, if I'm a father, where is the honor due me? Put some respect on my name. That was Matthew. So that was Malachi's whole message from God

through the people. If I'm a father, put some respect on my name. Watch. Honor me. So his whole message was to God's people and to the priest, show me some respect, show me some honor. Now watch this. How important is honor to God? After Matthew died, God didn't say another word in the earth for 400 years. I'm going somewhere with this. After Malachi died and his ministry was over, God didn't say another word in world history for 400 years. So in your Bible, when you flip from Malachi to Matthew, that little white page is 400 years of silence in which in world history, God said nothing in the earth. He didn't send a prophet. He didn't send up a preach. He didn't send a minister. He didn't send no one. For 400 years,

God shut his mouth on humanity. He said nothing. Y'all gonna think about honor for 400 years. He goes silent for 400 years. During those 400 years, three world empires fight for dominance. By the time the 400 years is done, Rome has emerged as the world empire. Go outside the Bible. Google. Rome emerges as the world empire during those 400 years. Rome rules for 1,500 years from India to Africa. Rome gives people modern technology. They create roads

and streets, watch this, and mail systems to make messages travel easy. They dominate the whole entire world. They create provinces around the whole world and they create systems for any message to travel the whole world with ease.

God, who gave a dream to a man named Daniel, saw in a vision the succession of world empires, Rome being in that dream. That God showed a man a dream that Rome would dominate the whole world. Because the Bible is not just a religious book. It's full of prophecies that have come to pass. It is the only accurate religious book with prophecies that have come to pass. Not the Pearl of Great Price. Not the Koran. Not anything you got from Google.

The Word and the Word of God only has prophecies that have accurately come to pass. God gave a man named Daniel a vision of a statue and part of the statue had the empire of Rome. Now Rome has come to pass. Rome creates all of the things that are necessary for the gospel to spread. Come on. God is the best chess player of all time.

He's the best chess player of all time he's the best chess player of all time how he moves the pieces of things around the world to bring about his purposes and his will want to make sure by the time his son emerge message of him can travel around the whole world So Matthew's open line, look at Matthew's open line. It says in Matthew chapter 1, the beginning of the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Now pause. You read this in English and all you see is the word genealogy. But this word genealogy in Greek is the same Hebrew word that we have for the English word Genesis, which means the beginning. Another word we get is new thing. So what is Matthew saying? He's not only about to introduce Jesus' family tree,

but he's telling Jews, watch, after 400 years of silence, a new thing has dawned. A new thing has come into the world. A new kingdom has come into the world. Something cataclysmic has happened that is so new, it's about to change everything forever. This is the best brand new thing ever the world has ever known. He's not saying here is just a family tree of Jesus. Here is the beginning of something brand new, something y'all been waiting for for thousands of years, something that's going to topple every other kingdom in the end. So this in Hebrew and Greek really says the genesis of Jesus or his kingdom. Not that he's a created being, but the beginning of his rule forever. So Matthew introduces God's kingdom through Christ as a new beginning. Here is the kingdom of heaven coming new to the kingdom of earth, a spiritual kingdom that would eventually dominate the whole

world in the end. It is the beginning of the reign of a brand new king. He's going to rule forever. Watch. You all who are saved are citizens of that kingdom. Let me talk to you for a second, since you're so confused about your identity. Everyone who's placed their faith in Jesus Christ, you're not only a citizen of the country you were born in, you are a citizen of the kingdom. Matthew's gospel teaches us about the laws and the principles and the government and the economy of that kingdom. Some of you are not flourishing because you don't understand the kingdom you live in. Some of you are struggling really bad because you don't know how to work the principles of the kingdom you live in.

Some of you are complaining about your lifestyle because you don't know how to operate the economy of the kingdom you live in. You can't go to another country and don't understand their laws, their customs, their currency. You would get locked up. You can't travel to the Netherlands and act like an American if you don't work their laws and principles you're not going to flourish in the same way all of you who are saved you've been not only saved out of the world or saved from hell and damnation you've been saved into a kingdom and if you don't understand the king and the kingdom you belong to you won't know how to work the laws and the principles of the kingdom some of you are complaining not knowing if you just tweak one principle, something in your life will change. If you don't know the principles, you don't know how

to work them. If you don't know the laws, you don't know how to work them. If you don't know the regulations, you don't know how to work them. If you don't know what was promised to you, you won't know how to claim it. That's like you complaining about being impoverished, but you got an inheritance in the bank, but don't know how to use the ATM card because you don't read. You don't read. You don't know your contract, so you don't know what's available to you. Man, who am I talking to? you don't read the contract so you don't know what's available to you you don't know what to claim cuz you ain't read the contract you don't know how to fight cuz you ain't read the contract you don't

know what you can make a demand on cuz you ain't read the contract you don't know how to fight because you ain't read the contract. You don't know what you can make a demand on because you ain't read the contract. You don't even know who your savior really is because you ain't read the contract. You don't even know the kind of force you got behind you because you ain't never read the contract. You don't know what happens when you pray because you ain't read the contract. You don't know what happens when you pray because you ain't read the contract you don't know what happens when you fast because you ain't read the contract you don't know how to work your money because you ain't read the contract

you don't know how to discern a good business partner from a bad business partner because you ain't read the contract so you keep getting shafted because you don't have no discernment when you walk in a room because you ain't never read the contract you don't even know you're full of the Holy Spirit the person that knows everything

you were dwelt by the Holy Spirit the person that knows everything but you don't know how to work your sixth sense because you ain't read your contract. So how'd you know not to sign that deal? Because I know my contract. That's why because of my contract, watch, I already know what to say no to before I walk into a room. My no's already predetermined because I know

the contract. I got standards because I know the contract. I know what to accept and what not to put up with because I know the contract. No, they don't want me to teach. Let me finish. They don't want me to teach. Let me finish. They don't want me to teach.

Thank you. I'm going to try, sister. Let me. So when you understand the contract, you know how to work the principles, you acquire what's called human flourishing. So now watch what Matthew does. I'm almost done. He tags three titles to Jesus. First, he calls him the Christ. So not only he said a new thing is coming, but he gives him three titles. He calls him number one. He calls him the Christ. The word Christ is not Jesus' last name. It's not like Philip Anthony Mitchell.

His last name is not Christ. He was Jesus from Nazareth. He had no last name. The word Christ is the Greek word for the Hebrew word Messiah, which means the anointed one. The promised one. The one who was spoken of for thousands of years through the Old Testament. See, the world is filled with multiple religions, but Matthew is saying much.

There's only one God, he has only one son, and there is only one eternal kingdom, and he is the man. He is not a Christ, he is definitive article, the Christ. Let me go over here. Matthew's saying, I know there's multiple religions in the world. It don't matter

how many religions there are. Matthew's trying to say there's only one God. He has only one son. There's only one road to heaven, and he is Jesus the Christ. Not a Christ, the Christ. Not a Christ. The Christ. The definitive

article. So he calls him Jesus Christ. Jesus the Messiah. Jesus the anointed one. The second tag he gives to him, he calls him the son of Abraham. Now, we're not Jewish, but why is this so important? Abraham was the father of the Jewish nation.

The progenitor of the Jews. Watch. God gave Abraham a promise in his lifetime. He said, Abraham, I'm going to give you a son. Not the biological boys you have. Another son is coming in your lineage, watch, and through him and him only, every person on the planet can and will be blessed.

Now, bad preachers take that line and then make it prosperity gospel to say, if you sow a seed, God is going to make you rich. Lies. When God said to Abraham, through him, all of the nations of the world will be blessed. That is through the son I'm going to give you, Abraham. Every human being will have a chance to enter into my kingdom, be blessed by my principles, and then live with me in heaven

and in glory forever. Through him and him only, everyone has the opportunity to be blessed. So God promised Abraham a son through which that son would be the Messiah to bless the whole world. Matthew says to all you Jews, Jesus is the son of Abraham. He is the one that's been promised. Then Matthew gives him another title. He says he is the son of David. To a Jew, they will understand David was the greatest history of Israel. David was the greatest king in the history of Israel. Now watch. God gave David a promise in his lifetime. He said, David, you rule right now. Watch. But when you die, a person is coming through your lineage. Watch this. He's going to sit on your throne. Watch. And of his kingdom, there will be no end. Now watch. David had a son named Solomon.

He died. And Solomon had a son. He died. And that son had a son. He died. And then they died. And then they all died. But one son came through that lineage who is not dead but alive,

who called himself the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And Isaiah said of his kingdom, there will be no end. So Matthew writes to this Jewish audience, that man that Isaiah told us about 700 years ago it was Jesus he is the son of David

the king who will rule forever how about that for starting a family tree that's a gangster way to start a family tree now let's finish up then he goes on to verse 2 that's a gangster way to start a family tree. Now, let's finish up, okay? Then he goes on to verse 2. Pause, let me just say this.

If you missed the principle of the text, the gem is God keeps his promises. If he said it, he don't lie. So if there's anybody who's legitimate, it's God Almighty. Now let's finish up. Verse 2 through 17. That's how you start a family tree.

Now he goes on with the rest of the family tree. Watch. Royal and ratchet. Then he says, Abraham was the father of Isaac. Y'all know Abraham? He had a son named Isaac who he waited 25 years for. And Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob, who was a corrupt dude, so corrupt, God had to change his name to Israel. And Jacob was the father of Judah, who was a womanizer. You're going to see why I'm doing this. Talk about your family. What about Jesus' family?

Talk about your family. See, your past ain't got nothing to do with your future. Your past don't got to hinder your future. I don't care where you came from future I don't care where you came from I don't care if you're the product of a bottle of Hennessy and a broken condom Your past don't have to hinder your future My father was a bottle of Hennessy and my mother was a broken condom It don't matter It don't got to hinder your future

Alright them. It don't matter. It don't got to hinder your future. Alright. Abraham who was a liar and the father of Isaac. Isaac the father of Jacob who was so corrupt God had to change his name. Jacob the father of Judah who was a womanizer. Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah

by Tamar. Wait till I come back to that. And Perez the father of Hizron. And Hizron the father of Ram. And Ram the father of Amminaderah by Tamar. Wait till I come back to that. And Perez, the father of Hizran. And Hizran, the father of Ram. And Ram, the father of Amminadab. And Amminadab, the father of Nashon. And Nashon, the father of Salmon. Not salmon. Salmon.

No salmon and white wine. Salmon. Was the father of... Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, a prostitute. Talk about your family. Salmon was the father of Boaz by Rahab, who was a whore and a prostitute. Boaz was the father of Obed by Ruth. And Obed was the father of Jesse, who did not believe in his own son David.

Who did not properly affirm his own son. Talk about your family. And Jesse was the father of David the king, who was a murderer and an adulterer. And David was the father of Solomon who had a thousand women and went crazy at the end of his life. Your family tree, right? Solomon by the wife of Uriah who was murdered by David for his wife. Solomon was the father of Rehoboam who had bad counselors and he listened to the wrong people. Rehoboam was the one that split the kingdom in half. He was the father of Abijah and Abijah the father of Asaph. Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat was the father of Joram. Joram the father of Uzziah who died and because

of his death Isaiah saw the Lord. That sometimes things have to die for you to see. Sometimes things got to die for you to see. Like I don't have no clarity kill something and then you might see better watch and jotham was the father of ahaz who was evil and he was the father of hezekiah who was who was who was a coward king and hezekiah was the father of manasseh who was a coward king. And Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, who was wicked. Manasseh was the father of Amos. And Amos was the father of Josiah, who was a good man. Josiah, the father of Jeconiah,

underlined him and his brothers and at the time of the deportation of Babylon. And after the deportation of Babylon, Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel and Shealtiel was the father of Zerubbabel, who was a priest who helped rebuild the temple. Zerubbabel was the father of Abihud and Abihiel was the father of Zerubbabel, who was a priest who helped rebuild the temple. Zerubbabel was the father of Abihud, and Abihud was the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim was the father of Azor. Azor was the father of Zodak, not Kodak, Zodak. Not Kodak, black, Zodak. Not Bodak, yellow, Zodak. And Zodak was the father of Achim, and Achim was the father of Eliahud,

and Eliahud was the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar was the father of Mathen, and Mathen was the father of Eliahud. And Eliahud was the father of Eleazar. And Eleazar was the father of Mathen. And Mathen was the father of Jacob. And Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, whom was born. Jesus was born, who was called the Christ. Let me finish up. Thank you, daughter. So all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations. From David to the deportation was 14 generations, and from the deportation of Babylon to the Christ,

the Christ, not a Christ, the Christ was 14 generations. Now, I want to draw your attention to a few powerful elements of this genealogy, and then I'm going to be done. First, I just want you to notice the literary structure. Matthew is a genius. He creates three groups of 14 generations, three groups of 14 people. Now, if you trace history, he excludes some people. He omits some people, so he does not put everybody. They're not writing to create an accurate history line. They're writing, he's writing to show the important people in each three stages of Jewish history. The first stage from Abraham to David, one error. From David to the deportation, one error.

From the deportation to the Christ, one error. And he fills in all of the important people in between in those errors. So I want you to see that Matthew creates a detailed list of key people in three eras, and he uses, watch, 14, 14, and 14. Consequently, David's name in Hebrew has a numeric acrostic, 6, 4, and 4, that if you put it together, it means 14, and David is the 14th person mentioned in the family tree. Matthew's a genius. Matthew's a genius. Also, the significance of this genealogy, he's trying to anchor Jesus all the way back to Abraham. Now, I want you to notice something of the members of the family tree. Some of them were great people like Abraham. Some of them were evil

people like Manasseh. Some of them were ordinary people like Jesse. All of them had issues. Jesus did not come from a stellar family. He came from a mixed family with good people, evil people, ordinary people, unknown people, famous people, because your family tree does not have to determine what's going to happen in your life. So if you came from a great family, listen to me, if you came from a great family, take it to the next level with your last name. And if you came from a dysfunctional family, change your generation, change your legacy. Say, this crap right here is going to stop with me. Now, almost finished. This is, I got to bring this to your attention before I close. I want you to notice that Matthew, watch,

writing in a patriarchal society, this is huge, mentions four women. This is abnormal because no other genealogy in the Bible mentions women. They all mention men. The father of another father, the father of another. There's no genealogy that mentions women. Now pause. This is dope. All my ladies, lean in. Why does Matthew mention four women in the genealogy? He breaks, oh my, this is, Matthew, if you got a baby, you probably want to take him out. I'm about to go past PG, okay? Matthew breaks writing protocol and he throws four women in the genealogy. Now pause. You can't just read those names and you got to scratch your head

because he didn't throw four righteous women in there. Matthew, he tossed four women in there who got controversial backgrounds, controversial stories. They got stories surrounding their name. Some ratchet stuff with all of these women and immorality and stuff surrounding their name. Like, some of y'all don't know their history, so let me break it down for you. The first woman he mentions is Tamar. Oh, that's a dope name.

Hold on though. Do you know what Tamar did? There was a man named Judah. He was a womanizer. He had three sons. Tamar was married to the first son. Watch. The first son was so evil, God killed him. But he had no children with Tamar, so there was no lineage to continue. So what's supposed to happen is that she's supposed to marry the next son, a man named Onan. And Onan is supposed to have a baby with Tamar according to the custom so that a son could come through the lineage. But Onan knows because of leverage marriage,

if I have a son with Tamar, the son is going to get the throne and I won't. So the scripture says, not Philip, okay, you ready? That every time he go in, he pull out and he spills his semen on the floor. The Bible ain't sanitized. So the scripture says, Onan keeps sleeping with Tamar, but right before he pull out and he spills all his semen on the floor, he won't bust inside of Tamar, he won't give her a baby. Why? Because he don't want her child to get thrown because he want to throw.

God says you're so wicked, God kills him for spilling his seed on the floor. Now watch. Tamar has no son. And now Judah won't give Tamar the third son. He's like, oh, you're lying. So Tamar dresses a prostitute. She goes, she hang out at the bar in the corner. Judah comes strolling through downtown. He see Tamar hanging out by the bar. He say, yo, let's go to this hotel. He takes Tamar to the hotel, sleeps with Tamar, gets her pregnant in the hotel. And she says, listen, before you leave, give me your ring and give me your staff. That's like, give me your identification.

Promise me you're going to give me some goat. So I'm going to give you a goat. Okay, but I need some collateral. Give me your ID. Leave your ID with me so to give me some goat. Say, I'm going to give you a goat. Okay, but I need some collateral. Give me your ID. Leave your ID with me so I can get my goat. She takes his stuff. Now she comes back and says, Judah, you owe me something. He says, man, let the woman who did this be killed.

And then she pulls out his ring. And then when she sees the ring, Judah says, wow, this woman has been more righteous than me. That is, she posed as a prostitute to get pregnant, and by that one act, she continues the line of Jesus. Tang, I'm over my time. I need like 15 minutes. I need like 15 minutes. This is mad gangster.

Yo, I need 15 minutes. If she don't pull the prostitute card, the line of Jesus is cut off. It's going to mean something to you in a second. He mentions Rahab, another prostitute. When the spies of Jerusalem comes into her hometown, she hides them in her house. A prostitute says, listen, when y'all come back to take the land, kill everybody but not me

and my family, and preserves her family. A prostitute, a hoe, is entered into the line of Jesus because she hides two dudes in her crib. He mentions Ruth, a woman from the hood, from a place called Moabite, where nothing good comes from. She's from a ratchet neighborhood from the projects. Ruth marries a dude who dies. She stays with the mother-in-law. She goes to the mother-in-law's town called Bethlehem. She slips underneath the sheets of a man named Boaz. I'm like, yo, marry me. Mad scandalous. Like, yo, she just slips in under the sheets.

Have y'all not read? She just slips in under his sheets. And he's like, yo, who's that? She's like, yo, marry me. Like, what the, what you doing here? She's under his sheets like, yo, marry me. Like, yo, you mad bull. I need 10 minutes. And then he mentions a woman not by name called Bathsheba, a woman who was bathing naked. When David saw her, he was like, dang.

Kills her husband, takes the wife for himself. Now watch. Why in God's name would Matthew mention such ratchet women in a genealogy who got drama surrounding their man? Why would he do that? I'm almost done. Why would Matthew break all protocol to put four ratchet women in a royal genealogy? Why would he do that? Because you got to keep reading. Because he mentioned a fifth woman who also got scandal around her name. Her name was Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was engaged to a man named Joseph and comes up pregnant as a virgin. Joseph is like, yo, who you been boning? Mary's like, yo, it's the Holy Spirit. Joseph is like, I don't believe that. We going downtown. So the

scripture says he tried to divorce her quietly. Why? Because now there's stories surrounding her name that Mary was unfaithful to Joseph. But God sends an angel to Joseph and says, no, no, no, she's not pregnant by some other dude. She's pregnant by the Holy Spirit. The person that's in her will be the son of God. Is it possible that to legitimize

the son of Mary, a woman who was considered ratchet, that Matthew and his genius would throw four other women in there with ratchet stories to show all the Jews that if God could walk through all these other women, if God could walk through two prostitutes, an adulterer, and a woman who slips on the sheets, if God can work through those kind of people,

you better believe he can work through Mary to bring about the son of Jesus. That you cannot discredit who God can work through. He saved the line of Jesus through two prostitutes. A woman slipping on the sheets and an adulteress. But you think everybody got to be perfect to be used by God.

You got to have the perfect background. The perfect story. The perfect family tree. Everybody in your family got to be righteous and right. Peace! Peace! family tree. Everybody in your family got to be righteous and right. This gives me hope for my own dysfunction in my own past. That it does not matter where you came from. It only matters what you do it right now and where you're going yo I'm done I'm done I'm done

let me just close with some gems from the family tree of Jesus. Seven of them. They ain't coming up on the screen. I just want to tell you them real quick. You know what we learned from the family tree of Jesus? I'm done. We see how God works through generations to accomplish his will.

He works through generations to accomplish his will. You know what else we've learned from the family tree of jesus we see that when god looks down on humanity he doesn't see a faceless mass of people he sees names of people he knows personally he knows matthew he knows philip he knows don he knows you personally he knows inez he knows jat. He knows Jatana. He knows you personally, Taylor. He knows you. He knows where you are, what you've been through, what you're going through. He knows you personally.

You know what else we learn from the family tree of Jesus? We see how God uses righteous people and evil people and famous people and unknown people for his glory and for his purposes. You know what else we learn through the family tree of Jesus? We see that a dysfunctional family tree does not hinder your future. You know what else we see in the family tree of Jesus? We see how God uses ordinary people through history to bring about great missions in the earth. You know what else we see through the family tree of Jesus?

We see how God can use people deemed unworthy by others to be associated with Jesus. Have you ever felt unworthy? Have you ever felt like, man, there's no way God can use a person like me. You know what I've done? You know what I've been through? You know what I've said?

You know what I've done? You have no idea what I've... There's no way God can use a person like me. But the last one I want to give you and I'm done. Probably the most important thing we see in the family line of Jesus. This one means everything to me. We see how important your faithfulness in your generation

is. Because you have no idea how your decisions in this life and how your faithfulness is going to impact the children coming behind you, their children and their children. My children, look, their lives have been completely, look, their lives have been set on a course because of the decisions I've made, the actions I've taken. You have, listen to me, this is serious, you have no idea the impact you could have on the people coming out of your loins behind you by the decisions

you make today your faithfulness is important today that's why you need to run your race it's important for you to run your race to be faithful in your generation to take your baton of faith and hand it off to the next person. Listen, some of y'all are building businesses and building things that's going to change your generations forever. You have no idea. That's why you got to do you while you're here now, according to God's purposes for your life. You have no idea how your faithfulness is going to impact people coming behind you. So I want to say to somebody as I close, your life counts.

That's what we see in the genealogy. I'm closing. I'm talking to you, my brother. I'm talking to you, my sister. I'm done. Listen to me. Don't move. Listen. Listen to me. Look right at me. Christian, look right at me.

Unbeliever, look right at me. Look at me. Look at me unbeliever look right at me look at me look at me your life matters and what you do with it it matters it counts for something we are unwise to live every day aimlessly without any kind of goals or vision. Your life matters. Your decisions matter. Your actions matter. What I do with this one life I get, it matters.

Can I go deeper? You have no idea how your decisions is going to shift your whole family forever. Watch this. I'm going to talk to me. You take this for you. There's going to be some kids four generations from now, they're going to remember Philip Anthony Mitchell. They're going to say it was that dude, my great, great, great grandfather,

who changed everything for our family, left us an inheritance, built wealth, gave us a legacy of faith. Fill in your blank. Your life matters. Your life matters. All y'all women that be talking about, I want my Boaz, I want my Boaz, I want, his mother was Rahab the prostitute. Even your child

is gonna matter. That's why you got to play your part. I'm done. Some of you have come from great families. And some of you have come from dysfunctional families. But the greatest family you will ever be a part of is the family of God. It is the greatest family. Now every head bowed and every eye closed.

I'm done. Nobody moving. Some of you have come from dysfunctional paths but the greatest family you'll ever be a part of is the family of God. Some of you have come from great families. Praise God for your name and your wealth, but the greatest family you will ever be a part of is the family of God. Why? Because every family is going into eternity, and the only family that's going to survive the judgment, the only family that's not going to end up in eternal damnation, the only family that's not going to hell is those who are

in the family of God. Does not matter your past, your background, or where you came from. You need to at some point in time insert your life into the family of God. That's your only insurance when you die. Your money can't help you when you die. Your connections can't help you when you die. Your status can't help you when you die, and you're going to die. And the only family that's going to end up in heaven and live in glory forever is those who are connected to the family of God. Today, right now in this moment, I'm going to give you an opportunity to place your name in the family of God you say how I gotta go to church every week nope I gotta be religious nope I gotta be perfect nope all you gotta do is keep it real just keep it real with no cap here it is here is the gospel you and I

are sinners we have broken God's laws, and we were born in sin. The scripture says if anyone dies in sin, they're going to be separated from God for all eternity. But God in his love, not wanting you to die and be damned, sent his son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who died a sacrificial death in your place. He took upon himself all your sin, all your mistakes, all your failures. Then God says, if anyone would turn, trust, believe in, and put their faith in Jesus, I from heaven will forgive them of their sins, and I will put them in my family tree. I will make you my son, my daughter. That can happen for you right now. It's happening to you right now in your seat.

I want to pray for everyone who says that's it. I want to live my life with purpose. I want my name in God's family. I want to be able to pray, and God hears my prayers. I want to walk out of here knowing, I can peel on my head tonight, that my name is part of God's family. If I'm talking to you, I want to be able to pray and God hears my prayers. I want to walk out of here knowing, I can peel on my head tonight, that my name is part of God's family. If I'm talking to you, I want to pray for you. I'm not going to embarrass you.

I'm not going to bring you down here. Nobody can't see you. This is between you and God. It's private. If you say, preacher, that's me. I want to be a part of God's family. I want to repent of my sins. I want to live a life of purpose.

I'm leaving here a brand new man, a brand new woman. If that's you, I'm going to count to three. And when I say three, I just want you to throw your hand up and throw it back down. Nobody's going to see you, okay? Three, God, one, God is calling you. Two, you can leave here a brand new man, a brand new woman. Three, throw your hand up in the air. Leave it there. I see that hand. Leave it there. I'm trying to count. I see that hand, one. See that hand, daughter, two. I see that hand, three. I see that hand. Leave it there. I'm trying to count. I see that hand one. See that hand two. I see that hand three. I see that hand four. See that hand five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. I see that hand. Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. I see that hand. Twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three. I see that hand. Twenty-four,

twenty-five, twenty-six. I see that hand. 27, 28, 29, 30. I see that hand. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36. I see that. 37, I see that. 38, I see that hand. 39, I see that hand. 39, I see that. 40, I see that hand. 40, I see that hand. Put your hands down. Right there in your chair. Everybody just pray this prayer so they don't got to pray alone. Just say, Lord, forgive me of all my wrongdoing. I'm sorry.

I repent of my sin. I put my faith in you now. In Christ's name, amen. Now, Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray for every person that just put their faith in you. A prayer don't save them. Only the Holy Spirit does that sovereignly from what you preordained before the beginning of time. I pray you fill them with your spirit, seal them as a son and daughter. I pray you change their family tree forever. Father, you said when one sinner repents, all of heaven rejoices.

So right now we rejoice with all 40 people that just put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Come on, we rejoice right now. We rejoice. Somebody help me praise. Somebody give God praise for all 40.