All right, Brother, Matthew 1, I can't hear when Brother Adam is talking, so I'm not sure what he said, but I recall one year that I preached, around Christmas time, I preached on the resurrection, and around Easter, I preached on Christ's birth. We don't put any significance on these on this Christmas day being Christ's birth. And I was determined I was not gonna preach on this this week. And then the Lord showed me what I know. The more time went by, the more I was leaning toward this and was looking at this more and more. And one reason is I wanna be very simple

And it's easy when you're trying to prepare to preach, it's easy to think, you know, well, I've preached on that before, things like that. And, you know, I'm really convinced that we could preach the same verse from here to the end. And if the Lord blessed it, we'd be blessed by it because, and you wouldn't, and you would, you would have new things you see in it because, It's just how it is. The word of God is so full and deep, and we don't even really scratch the surface. And at the best, we just know a little bit. And so really, it's a prideful thing to think that, well, I've preached that before, I've heard that before. Paul said, To repeat the same things to you, to me, is not grievous. To you, it's safe. And we're not trying to come up with something new to preach. The Lord's people would be looking for a new pastor if he starts preaching some new things. We want to hear the old message. We want to hear the message that's as old as eternity, that does not change.

I want to preach to you from this passage, Matthew 1, verses 18 through 25. I'm just going to give you the highlights. We read it. Joseph was espoused to Mary. They weren't married, but this was binding like marriage. And she was found with child of the Holy Ghost, and Joseph because he was a just man, because he knew something of the grace of God. He was not gonna embarrass her publicly. But the angel of the Lord came to him and told him that to take her to wife because this one in her womb is of the Holy Ghost. It's of the Holy Ghost. And this is the verse right here that I want to focus on, verse 21. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

Why this name? Why this name? I can't refer to him as Jesus, just Jesus. And I think when he gives you a reverence, you know, you call him the Lord Jesus. Whenever, if I was going into the office of the president, I wouldn't call him by his first name. I'd call him Mr. President or King, whatever they call a king, your highness, what have you. But you just have a reverence for him. But we hear this name a lot. We hear this name a lot. But why this name? Why is this the name of the Lord Jesus? Why Jesus? Well, it tells us right here, this is why, for, because, he shall save his people from their sins. Now that's the gospel. That is the gospel. His name is Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. That tells us clearly who salvation is of. Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord Jesus.

Now, I just want to look at three things here. The first point is the title. Why this name? For he shall save. His name is Jesus, for he shall save. Secondly, who shall he save? His people from their sins. He shall save his people from their sins. And then I have a last question I'm gonna ask when we get to it. So you just stay with me and we'll get to that. Here's my first question. Why this name? Why this name? And I thought of this too as I was looking at this. I wanna be simple. I wanna preach to the youngest one here. so they can understand it. I wanna preach to Emily who's got a newborn she's looking after. I want her to be able to care for a newborn and it be so simple she can hear it and understand what's being said. I wanna be simple.

Why this name? Call his name Jesus, for he shall save. For he shall save. That's what Jesus means. It means savior. He shall save.

This time of the year, people talk about a baby that was born over 2,025 years ago. And they talk about a baby, the little baby Jesus. Who is that one? Who is he? That one is God. That's who he is. That's God. Jehovah is salvation. That's the Greek lexicon gives us the meaning of Jesus. Jehovah is salvation. That baby is Jehovah. That's who that baby was, Jehovah. We'll say, well, that's the Son of God. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are one God. That's one God. When he was in this earth, he was in the bosom of the Father. He said, I, my father, one. One. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. One.

And verse 22 tells us this was spoken of the Lord. This one who's in Mary's womb is the one who spoke to Isaiah. This was spoken of the Lord, and he gave him this prophecy. And he said, behold, verse 23, a virgin shall be with child. and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which is being interpreted, God with us. He's God. He didn't come into being when he was born. He was the creator who brought everything else into being. He's the eternal God. He's not little baby Jesus. He's God. He's God. in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

In Luke, we've seen this, and as we're going through Luke, that the angel said, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee, and so that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. There's the three persons of the Trinity. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the highest, the Father, and that holy thing is the Son of God.

Try you and God. Well, but he's not only God, he is a man. He is a man. He's the holy man. He's the holy man. Most everybody knows he was born of a virgin, but why was he born of a virgin? He had to be holy. Holy, had to be holy from the womb. We gotta be holy in the womb. He was holy in the womb, representing his people. We were conceived in sin. He couldn't be born of a man for that very reason. He was of the Holy Spirit. I was shaping an iniquity. He was not. I was conceived in sin. He's the holy one in the womb. We were estranged from the womb. We go astray speaking lies because we're sinners. He's holy from the womb and all he did that which pleased God.

This man, his body was conceived in Mary's womb of the Holy Ghost. He's the Holy One. He's the Holy Man. It had to be so in order for him to be fit to represent us. He's God and he's Holy Man in one person. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the glories of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

And it's, men will say, well, I don't understand that, I can't explain that. If you wait to believe God till you can understand and reason the things this book's teaching, you'll never believe him. Great, without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. God in the flesh. God sent forth his son. That's who this was, the son given, made of a woman, the child born. He's the son given, the child born. He's the root of David, who produced David, and he's the offspring of David, as a man came through David. He's in the form of God and thought it not right to be equal with God, but he came down and took the likeness of men.

Now, and he said to her, thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save. Now, for him to save, he had to be God and man. But now let's focus on why he's called Jesus. For he shall save. He shall save. He didn't say He will try to. He didn't say He wants to. If He gets sinners to cooperate with Him, He will. He didn't say He came to make salvation possible. He said He shall save. If any of those things were true, His name wouldn't be Jesus. I don't know what the name for a failure would be, but it wouldn't be Jesus. Jesus is savior, he shall save.

You know, when he walked this earth, the Lord Jesus really did make lame men walk, just with a word. And he gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf. He fed that multitude over 5,000, just the men were 5,000, probably 10 or 15,000, he fed them with a few fish and loaves and created something that wasn't there. He made water into wine. The sea was raging, and he spoke and made the sea calm. They made the storm stop. He sent the storm so he could stop the storm. That's who he is.

They came to arrest him, and they had that great multitude of soldiers. And it says in the scripture, multitudes. Speaking of those soldiers, multitudes. But the scripture says, he knowing what was coming, he knew what was coming, so he went forth to them. And he walked to them and he said, who do you seek? And I can just see, you know, soldiers can be pretty confident. And I can see these confident, proud soldiers saying, Jesus of Nazareth. And he said, I am. That's the name he spoke back there in the bush. He said, I am. And when he did, they fell backwards. They got to see who they were dealing with. They got a little glimpse of it. They fell backwards.

When Peter took that sword out, he said, Peter, he cut that soldier's ear off. And the Lord said, put your sword up, Peter. Shall I not drink the cup my father gave me? healed the soldier's ear. So he's all powerful. This one that's walking this earth, he said, no man takes my life from me. It was part of what he was doing that he had to be willing. He had to do this willingly to please God. If a man's trying to obey God and he's not doing it willingly, he's just doing it outwardly, he's not obeying. That's why we don't have to put laws on getting God's people to come and sit and hear the gospel preached. They want to. The Lord's made them willing. If a man came to hear the gospel and he didn't want to be here, he's not here. He's not here because his heart's not. But our Lord Jesus was willing to go to that cross, and he had to be. He was willing. No man takes my life.

Look at Isaiah 42. He shall save. There's no possibility he wouldn't. He shall save. Now look here at these shalls. This is not maybe, he's not trying. He shall, look here, Isaiah 42. Let's just pick up at verse three. A bruised reed shall he not break. That's us, brethren. The smoking flack shall he not quench. He shall bring forth judgment unto truth. That's what he accomplished at Calvary. He shall, he shall not fail or be discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth. And the Isles, the Gentiles, his people scattered throughout the world shall wait for his law. Look down here at verse 13. The Lord, there he is, he's God, the Lord shall go forth as a mighty man. He shall stir up jealousy like a man of war. He shall cry, yea, roar. He shall prevail against his enemies. And look at what he accomplished, verse 21. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake. He will magnify the law and make it honorable.

Who gave Isaiah that word? The one that it's being spoken about. Gave Isaiah that word. His name is Jesus, for he shall save. He shall save.

Now here's the next question. Who shall he save? Now, I think I was gonna try to put this into a couple of points right here, but then I got to looking at this and I thought, who shall he save? It says, he shall save his people from their sins. And the reason that I couldn't divide this into two points is because His people and their sins, how you gonna talk about us without talking about what we are? We're the sinner. Here you got the sovereign God-man who is the Savior, and here you got those He came for. He shall save His people from their sins.

We're the sinner. We're the sinner. His people need salvation. Now what does God mean when he says you need salvation? What does he mean when he says we need to be saved? He means A to Z, everything included. He doesn't mean that you just need to have your eyesight corrected. He said from the sole of the foot to the top of the head, wounds and bruises and putrefying sores, just a wreck. just tore up from the floor up. You are just nothing but sin. That's who he came to save.

We sinned in Adam and we sinned in ourselves. We were sinning in the womb. We were sinning when we were born. We were sinning when we were infants. We were sinning when we were toddlers. We were sinning when we were teenagers. We were sinners when we grew up. I saw a video this week of a of one of these road rage incidents, and it was one man got out, was fighting another man, and the other man, he ends up running his car into this guy's truck, and then they get out and squabble a little more, and then the one guy gets in the other man's vehicle and takes his vehicle. And here's what thought to me, came to me. We'll say to a young person, Now let's be adult about this. Well, there you go. There they are. That's us right there. That's what we are. Sin, sin, sin, sin. We could not save ourselves. We couldn't contribute. We cannot do one thing involved in this thing of salvation. We cannot.

His name is Jesus for he shall save his people from their sin. Paul said, this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. A sinner is a ruined person. A sinner is a helpless person. He told them, I did not come to call the righteous. People say, I need to I need to turn over a new leaf, and I need to clean myself up, and I need to get myself prepared to come to the Lord. If you do that, you're going to disqualify yourself. When John said, bring forth fruit, meet for repentance, brethren, That is being able to recognize you can't save yourself. You know, people, one of the big things that you hear priest is denying yourself. And what they mean by that is, don't drink this, don't eat that, don't go to this show, don't read that. They mean that. Denying yourself is denying yourself any part in your salvation at all. because no part of it can contribute. And that's what a man can't deny. He can't deny that self. It takes the grace of God to make a man deny himself entirely. This is a people that the Lord chose and trusted to his son. And his son entered covenant to save him. God the father promised the son, and the son promised the father, and the spirit promised in this covenant

That's why they're called children of promise because God promised to save them. Go with me to John chapter 10. John chapter 10. The Lord Jesus didn't come into this world to lay down his life and not know who he was laying down his life for. If you go back in the old covenant and you read about the high priest, when the high priest went about doing this work of making the offerings, he had the names of the 12 tribes of Israel on his heart, on his chest, on his breastplate. Christ knew who he was coming to save. He came to save his people. They were his by God's sovereign choice, and he came to save them.

John 10, 15, he said, as the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not right here in this nation Israel, they're not in this Jewish fold, them also I must bring. What he declared by that was, my people are chosen by God's grace. That's what he's saying. I have some who are among Israel, not all of them are my chosen people, but some are, but I also have some among the Gentiles. And look, Them I must bring, who's gonna bring them? He, I must bring them, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one foal, and there shall be one shepherd. There shall be, there'll be one foal, and there'll be one shepherd. The Lord Jesus is the one who does this work.

Now you mark John 10, I'm gonna come back to it just a minute, but listen. This thing of salvation, salvation and righteousness and holiness and redemption is not by us. We saw that this morning. That's to frustrate the grace of God. It's not by us, it's by God's mercy, it's by God's grace. We're sinners saved by the mercy and grace of God. And that is all in Christ Jesus. When he makes us know we're the sinner, that's when we say amen. We rejoice that it's Christ who came to do the saving.

Now, we've seen who he is. He is the God-man who shall save. No possibility he's gonna fail. We've seen who he's gonna save. His people from their sin. That's the only thing we can say about ourselves. We're the sinner. That's all we did, we sinned.

All right, here's my third question. I said I had a third question. Did he accomplish it? Did he accomplish it? Well, his name is Jesus. Because he shall save his people from their sin, he accomplished it. When he cried out on that cross and he said, it is finished, he was declaring, I have accomplished it. When he was in the mount and Moses and Elijah were speaking, He was talking about the decease he should accomplish, and that's what he did. He went to that cross, and he bore our sin, and he bore our curse, and he bore the justice, that condemnation that we earned. and he declared God just, he declared God the justifier, God was pleased because he magnified the law, he honored the law, and when he did that, he washed away every sin of his people. He put away all the sin of his people completely.

Let me tell you how thoroughly that is. Romans 6 says, when he died, our body of sin was destroyed. Before God, the sinner that you and me see that we are don't exist. We see it and we know it, but in Christ, when Christ bore the justice of God and said, it is finished, and he gave up his spirit to the Father and died and was buried, our body of sin was destroyed before the law. He didn't shed his blood to give you a chance. His blood accomplished the salvation of his people.

Go back there in John 10 with me. Now those Pharisees, the Jews that were trying to save themselves, they came to him and they said to him just exactly what proud sinners always say to the preacher. John 10, 24. The Jews came around about him and said to him, how long dost thou make us to doubt? If you're the Christ, tell us plainly. If wise, intelligent, studied scribes and prudent men as we are can't understand, then surely it's your fault. That's what they were saying to him.

This is the truth. This is the word. This is the prince of preachers speaking. Spurgeon's not the prince of preachers by the way, Christ is. This is him. There's no doubt that he was speaking plainly. But listen to what he said. Verse 25, he said, I told you and you believe not. The works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. I've told you, there's one witness, my works bear witness, there's other witnesses. But you believe not because you are not my sheep, as I said unto you.

Well, they weren't his sheep because they didn't believe. That's not what it says. It says, he said, you don't believe because you are not my sheep. You know why you do believe? We saw this morning in Galatians 4, because you are sons, because you are sheep, God sent his spirit and gave you life to believe. He didn't try to save them.

Now here's why I'm reading this passage. He said, I know who my sheep are and I lay down my life for my sheep. He redeemed his sheep, but we still gotta be born again. We gotta be brought to know him and confess we're the sinner and he's the savior. How's that gonna happen? He tells us right here, verse 27. My sheep hear my voice.

Here's what he does. What's taking place right here. He brings his sheep into a place like this and he sends forth the gospel. and his sheep hear the voice. You hear it audibly, but now how are you going to hear it effectually? And I know them. He knows them. He enters in and he creates life where there was no life. I know them. They hear my voice and I know them. It's the word that speaks that gives you life. It's not my word, it's his word. He's gonna speak through the preacher, but he's gonna speak it into your heart, and he's gonna know you inwardly, and when he does that, here'll be the result.

They follow me. How do you know that's what that means? Because he just said in a sentence before that, this is why you don't believe. You're not my sheep. I didn't do this in you. I didn't try to do this in you. He don't try. He said, My sheep hear my voice. Why? Is it because his sheep just are so good at hearing? No, it's because he don't fail to make them hear his voice. And I know them, I give them life, I create life in them, and they follow me.

And I give unto them eternal life. And they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. And I'm gonna show you something here now. Those Jews that act like they didn't understand what he said and was blaming him for it, when a man does that, if you're preaching and you hear a preacher and you see a man saying, well, he just don't speak plainly, I can't listen to him. Oh, if that man's preaching the gospel, he knows what he's saying. That's what the problem was. They knew what he was saying. And how do you know? They took up stones and tried to kill him. Remember what Herod did to John the Baptist? Locked him in prison. He heard him. He knew what he was saying.

But they can't make themselves believe until the Lord speaks that word and gives you life, and then you'll follow it. And this is the gospel, he's, I won't have you turn there, but you, Isaiah 40, he said, told his preacher, comfort ye, comfort ye my people. Speak comfortably to Jerusalem. That's who I'm preaching to. That's who I'm preaching to. Everybody's, the general call's going forth, everybody hear it, the goats gonna hear it too. But I'm speaking to Jerusalem, I'm speaking to his people. He said, comfort them, speak to their heart.

And here's the message, cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished. that her iniquities pardon because she's received of the Lord's hand double for all her sin. And what's he gonna do through that message? Verse 11 says, he shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and gently lead those that are with young. That's what he does through that message.

Is he got the power to do it? The next verse says, This is the one who created heaven and earth. This is the one who spoke heaven into his ears, made it, spanned it, much like you do the little flip on your iPad. This is the one who sits on the circle of the earth and inhabits her grasshopper. He never sleeps, he never slumbers. He's sending his gospel forth, he's making an affection, he's gathering his flock like a shepherd. He's carried us by this same gospel, he's leading us by this same gospel, and he won't fail to save all his people.

When he went to that cross, he was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities, and with his stripes, we are healed. And then he comes and tells you, and through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him, by him, by him, all that believe are justified from all things from which you could not be justified by any of the works of the law, by any. And I pray God's grace, I pray that he'll speak and make you hear his voice and know him and follow him.

And you that do, he said, be comforted, be comforted. His name's Jesus, for he shall save his people. You that he's called, it's not over. We still got some wilderness to go through. But the good news is nobody's going to pluck you out of his hand. Justice demands it. His sovereignty demands it. His name demands it. He's Jesus, for he shall save his people from our sin. Amen.

Brother Adam.