All right. Well, good morning
and welcome to our continuing study in the book of Luke chapter
three. And today we'll be looking at
the close of the chapter verse 23 through 39. And Mostly this has to do with this
genealogy of Christ that's written here. It's fairly lengthy and
there's about 75 names that are given here. We look at them and there are
names that are They're intrinsic to the character and nature of
Christ. And we're not going to look at
all of them today. We're going to look at six of them out of
the 75 that are there. And throughout the studies that
we've been involved here in Luke and other books that we've always
tried to make strong the connection with the Old Testament gospel
and they are in fact that just the same as Christ is the same
yesterday and today and tomorrow that says in Hebrews and before
Abraham was I am from John 8 58 that the closing chapter of Luke's
Gospel here, if we skip forward to chapter 24, when Jesus is
talking to those two on that road to Emmaus. He said to them, beginning at
Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the
scriptures, the things concerning himself. And so it is with the
verses that we have before us in the close of chapter three.
And we have two things that we're gonna look at here in verse 23
through 38. One is, it gives us the age of
Christ brought to our attention. And two, the genealogy of our
Lord is recorded by Luke and which record was given him by
the Holy Spirit and by the Jews. And they were very strict in
recording these matters in their journals being sons of Abraham. They're very proud of their lineage
and their heritage and being sons of Abraham as it were.
And by their standards and by way of their being a holy record
and keepers by the determinate counsel and direction of God
Almighty. These very names that we're going
to look at a few of. Starting in verse 23, it says,
and Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, being,
and then it's in parentheses here, it says, as was supposed,
the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, which was the
son of Methath, which was the son of Levi, which was the son
of Melchi, which was the son of Janan, which was the son of
Joseph. And I'm not going to read all
of those names. We're going to kind of skip through
here in a bit and look at six of them out of the 75. I always
kind of feel like our pastor when he said, when I first looked
at the book of Leviticus, it was just tedious reading. But
when you start looking for Christ in it, it comes alive and it's
full of the gospel. And that's kind of the way these
these genealogies are. Why are they there? Why did God
put them there? He put them there for a purpose
that we would know certain things and that would reveal certain
things to us about Christ and His fulfilling everything that
we could not fulfill for ourselves. So regarding his age, it says,
and Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age. And then
this parenthetical phrase here, as was supposed, the son of Joseph. And in modern English, this as
was supposed, maybe gives us a little bit of an incorrect
view of what was trying to be gotten across here. in the days
that it was written, as was supposed the son of Joseph, which was
the son of Heli. As was supposed, if we look that
up in today's dictionary, it would give us a rendition of,
to assume something is true, or to consider a possibility. I suppose that could be true,
kind of like that. But the actual Greek words from
which that is taken is two words. As is one word and was supposed
is another Greek term. as is rendered as which how or
that is or according or as it were it's really a it means a
statement of a fact is what it's saying there as and was supposed
is when you look that up it says to properly to do by law so it
it means more correctly if we might read that as which birth
and parentage was recorded according to law and custom. Because this
is a genealogy, understand, it's not trying to cast aspersions
as to who is really the parent of Jesus. And even though the
Jews later on said, well, we'd be not born of fornication. And
if you'll recall back to the beginning when Mary was found
with child, and Joseph wanted to put her away privily, and
the Lord said, no, no, this is from the Holy Spirit, and unto
you is going to be born a Savior. It kind of gets you off on the
wrong foot, as was supposed the son of Joseph. Well, Joseph was
really his stepfather and in this Verse 23 said that Joseph was
the son of Heli. And in Matthew chapter one, it
said, Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was
born Jesus, who is called Christ. So in the two different gospels,
you have that Jacob is being listed as the father of Joseph. And in Luke here, it's Heli. Well, Heli was the father of
Mary. And the Jews would not, generally in their recording
of genealogies didn't list the mother or the woman's name in
the genealogy. And so, as their custom was not
to record that wife's name, so in Luke we have the name of Heli
listed, which is really the father-in-law of Joseph, and it wouldn't have
been the custom to record the name of Mary. But in the Holy
Spirit giving us this lineage, Both of these families intersect
at David. Both Joseph's family, we can
trace it right through to David in Matthew's genealogy,
and we can trace this one right back to David, and they intersect
there. They kind of split up in the
sons of David, one being through Nathan and one being through
Solomon. The Matthew genealogy ceases
back at Abraham. while Luke's goes all the way
back to Adam. And that's significant because it reveals two things.
It reveals the relationship to the covenant. Abraham is listed
in this one as well. But the focus of Matthew ended
at Abraham. And this one goes all the way
back to Adam, the seed of the woman. That's why it's this way. So we have this. Jesus being
about 30 years of age, that was the age according to law that
a priest was assigned duty in numbers. Chapter four, verse
one, and the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying,
take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi after
their families by the house of their fathers from 30 years old
and upward, even unto 50. all that enter into the host
to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. So Christ
was not a priest after the order of Levi, but he was a priest
after the order of Melchizedek. But the typology is there and
the Levites were types of Christ, not the other way around. And
so he was of the tribe of Judah, not the tribe of Levi, but he
is our high priest. after the order of Melchizedek.
Melchizedek was long before the Levitical priesthood. As noted in our message series,
The Fabric of Grace, and in particular the lesson about Joseph and the
Code of Many Colors, we noted that Joseph was a type of Christ.
in that series that we talked about him. And we learned that
in Genesis chapter 41, that Joseph was 30 years old when he stood
before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the
presence of Pharaoh and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
And this kind of picture of him, the beginning of Christ's ministry.
He's 30 years old, makes his appearance, He's baptized by
John. The Holy Spirit comes down on
Him. There's a voice from Heaven that
says, this is My beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. So, this typology that we find there
in Genesis 41. From Daniel, the Holy Spirit
revealed the precise time when the Messiah would appear and
when he would be cut off, but not for himself. Daniel chapter
9, verse 25, 26, from the going forth of the commandment to restore
and build Jerusalem. And he gives that timeline there. And side note to folks to tune
into the Ezra series by our pastor Norm Wells, where it's written,
the walls and the streets shall be built, even in troublous times,
here in Daniel 9.25. Ezra, in his lesson, Norm tells
about how the obstacles and the people that were in opposition
to the building of the temple and the walls, and they tried
to stop it. But we found nothing can stop
or interfere successfully with God bringing home His church,
even though there's always opposition and troublous times, as Daniel
said in 9.25. And as per the correct timing,
according to God Almighty in Galatians chapter 4 verse 4,
It says, when the fullness of time was come, when God's appointed
time, when that time came, God sent forth his son, made of a
woman, made under the law. And we've just read those scriptures
where he fulfilled all these aspects of the law that came
up. And so the law was satisfied,
and it had to be satisfied. Now, as we go on, we're going
to look at some of these names. As was supposed, the son of Joseph,
which was the son of Heli, which was the son of Metat, which was
the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi. So all these interesting
names and what they mean, I didn't look all of them up, but I just
spent time on six of them. But I suppose there's a story
behind every single name there. because the Lord God determined
it. All these names represent people
that God had sent in order to accomplish His purpose. And this
specifically to bring about His beloved Son in taking on Himself
the form and likeness of a man that He might die to save a people
from their sins. All aspects of the beloved Son,
who He is and what He accomplished that were pleasing to the Father,
And a few of these names we're going to look at, given in the
lineage of Christ, call our attention to the things concerning Himself
in all the scriptures as we read in Luke chapter 24. All directing
our attention to Emmanuel, God with us. taking on the form of
a servant made in the likeness of men from Philippians chapter
2 verse 7. So it's interesting. I always
find it interesting to look at these names and they had a meaning They had a purpose according
to God. And we're going to again look
at six names out of about 75 generations here. The son of
Heli, and we mentioned earlier that Matthew's account records
the father of Joseph as Jacob in Matthew 1. And the custom
of the Jews not to list the name of the mother in the genealogy.
And the consensus then is that Matthew gives the lineage of
Christ through Joseph. The stepfather in Luke gives
us the lineage through Mary. which by custom was listed under
her husband Joseph and her father Heli. And it's noteworthy that
both lineages intersected David by different sons. Nathan on
one, and Solomon on the other. In Luke chapter 3 verse 31, It
says, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David, which
was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the
son of Boaz, in the Old Testament that's Boaz, which was the son
of Salmon, which was the son of Naason. And in Matthew 1,
verse 5, and Salmon beget Boaz of Rakeb, and Boaz beget Obed
of Ruth, his Gentile wife, interesting there, a Moabite wife in this
lineage. And Obad beget Jesse, and Jesse
beget David the king, and David the king beget Solomon of her
that had been the wife of Uriah. So he has these sons by different
mothers, David did, and one lineage goes through to Joseph, and one
lineage goes through to Mary. And they both intersect here
And it's important because it was stated in the Law and the
Prophets that that would happen. In Matthew 1.1 it says, The book
of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of
Abraham. He's often referred to as the
son of David. In Acts chapter 2, Verse 29,
Men and brethren, let me speak freely unto you of the patriarch
David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is
with us unto this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and
knowing that God had sworn an oath to him, that of the fruit
of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ
to sit on his throne. And if we could turn back to
2 Samuel chapter 7, We can read that. 2 Samuel 7,
verse 11. And since the time that I commanded
judges to be over my people Israel, and have cause thee to rest from
all thine enemies, also the Lord telleth thee that he will make
thee in house. And when thy days be fulfilled,
and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed
after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will
establish his kingdom, and he shall build a house for my name.
and I will establish the throne of His kingdom forever. I will
be His Father, and He shall be My Son. If He commit iniquity,
I will chasten Him with the rod of men and with the stripes of
children of men. But My mercy shall not depart
away from Him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before
Thee. And Thine house and Thy kingdom shall be established
forever before Thee. Thy throne shall be established
forever." According to all these words and according to all this
vision, So did Nathan speak unto David. And so this prophecy that
it came to the Lord speaking to David and promising him a
throne forever. And David, his reply is sort
of typical of what we find. He said, who am I, O Lord? Who am I to deserve these things? What is my house? Why me? It's because of the sovereignty
of God, and just because God purposed it to be so, and just because it pleased God to
do so, and for no other reason. He replies on through the end
of the chapter that he just marvels at the fact that God would do
this. He doesn't quite understand it,
but he says, if the Lord has spoken
it, Let thy servant be blessed forever. And that's the way we have to
look at our salvation. And we say, why me Lord? And
it's because He's loved us from eternity. And then we move on down to Acts
chapter 13. And in verse 16, Paul's preaching,
and he's preaching to these Jewish men, and he says, you man of
Israel, and he kind of gives the history of things back in
the Old Testament. And he gets to this part about
David, and he said, after Israel desired a king, God gave them Saul of the tribe
of Benjamin. And then in verse 22, and when
he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their
king, to whom also he gave testimony and said, I have found David,
the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, which shall fulfill
all my will. Of this man's seed hath God,
according to his promise, raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus. You know, we think about David
and some of the things he did, and
yet God looks at him through Christ and says, He's a man after
My own heart. And it's kind of hard for us
to... grasp that, but that's the basis of all of our righteousnesses,
imputed righteousness through Christ, the man after my own
heart. In Romans, again, Paul's writing
in Romans chapter one, And he tells a little bit about himself.
He says, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle
and separated unto the gospel of God, which he had promised
afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning his
son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of
David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of
God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection
of the dead." And so he brings out this direct line back to
David in two of these messages that he presents about the gospel
in the Old Testament. How Christ would come through
the seed of David in the city of David. At the
time appointed by God. At the fullness of time. There's entire books written
about just this one name and this one aspect, and I'm just
kind of highlighting a few verses to kind of bring them into focus
for today's lesson. So, by no means is it an exhaustive
search of everything, but a couple more
verses regarding this in 2 Timothy 2.8. Remember that Jesus Christ,
of the seed of David, was raised from the dead, according to my
gospel. And again, that's Paul writing to Timothy. Revelation
22-16, I am the root and offspring of David in the bright and morning
star. That's the very words of the
Lord Himself. I am the root and offspring of
David in the bright and morning star. And then, back a few pages
to Revelation 5, verse 5, and it records this, One of the elders
saith unto me, Weep not, Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah,
the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose
the seven seals thereof. So there's two names recorded
for him. And he's the lion of the tribe of Judah and the root
of David. And from that, we're going to
segue into verse 30 back in Luke chapter three. the son of Judah. Verse 30, which was the son of Simeon,
which was the son of Judah, which was the son of Joseph, which
was the son of Jonah, which was the son of Eliakim, which was
the son of Malia, which was the son... and on it goes. in Anyway, these two names, Joseph
and Judah. Joseph, remember earlier we mentioned
that he was a type of Christ. And Judah, we just read from
Revelation that he was a lion of the tribe of Judah. In Genesis
49.9, when Joseph was blessing He said, Judah is a lion's welt
from the prey. My son, thou art gone up. He
stooped down and he couched his lion as an old lion. Who shall
rouse him up? all these names that are descriptions
and typology that we find in the Old Testament regarding Christ. And another name that we'll look
at, found back in a couple of verses before in Luke 3, 28,
actually this name is found in verse 24 and 28, and it's a common
name that we find a lot in the Old Testament. Melchi and Luke 3.28, which was
the son of Melchi, which was the son of Adi, which was the
son of Cossam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the
son of Ur. And again, there are two Melchis
listed in this genealogy, one in verse 24 and this one in 28. Now, what's interesting about
this, the Greek rendering of this Hebrew name is Melchi, And
in the Hebrew, it's Melek is the way it's, you know how we
find the different renderings from the Hebrew to the Greek
like Elijah's Elias and so forth. Well, Melek in the Old Testament
is Melchi in the New Testament. And a lot of times when we read
these names, we pronounce them a little bit differently than
this. And we'll look at that in a minute. But it's interesting
that this word Melchi in English is translated as my king. Twice
it's getting here. My king. In the genealogy here
it's listed my king twice. You might remember from our message
some time back that was entitled Melchizedek King of Righteousness. Actually, that name is a compound
word name. Melchizedek is the way it's probably
more correctly pronounced. It was from Hebrews. It says, being understood as
king of righteousness. King of Peace. Again in the Hebrew that is Melech,
the King of Right. In Genesis 14, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought
forth bread and wine, and he was the priest of the Most High
God." And our pastor brought a little bit of that out, that
Abraham paid tithes to him because he was the one that deserved
it. And he willingly brought him
tithes. And in Hebrews chapter 7, it
says, for this Melchizedek, King of Salem, priest of the Most
High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings
and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of
all, being, by interpretation, king of righteousness." And that's
what Melchizedek means, king. Zedek is the righteousness part. And after that also, King of
Salem, that's what it said in verse 1, Melchizedek, King of
Salem, priest of the Most High God, King of righteousness, King of
Salem, which is King of peace. Without father, without mother,
without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of
life, but made like unto the Son of God, and abideth a priest
continually." And so, twice in Luke we're reminded that Jesus
Christ, our Lord, is my King to all the redeemed. When we
see that name, we should know that, but we don't right off
the top because it's in a different language and it was translated
differently, but that's what it means. My King, and to the
redeemed He is. to the others? No. In Luke 19, some day we'll get
to Luke 19.14, where it says, the citizens hated Jesus. And
they sent a message after Him saying, we will not have this
man to reign over us. He will not be our King. Well,
some day, He'll be their King, and every knee will bow to Him,
but they won't do it out of love. And this name, it's interesting. This is a very interesting name
in the Old Testament. And we find it a lot. And I just had a one example
here that I wanted to use because it's also in our genealogy here. And this name also found as part
of names of other key persons in this sovereignly decreed lineage. that includes the Gentiles, because
remember we mentioned that Boaz begat his son out of Ruth, it
said. Well, in Ruth chapter 2, and
we went through this study here not long ago in another lesson. In Ruth chapter 2, after Naomi, her husband, died,
and the sons of her daughters, her sons died, and she and Ruth
ended up going back to her old home. In Ruth chapter 2 verse
1, and Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of
wealth, of the family, and we always say a limeleck. but it's
actually Eli Melek, God King. Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's,
a mighty man of wealth of the family of Eli Melek, and his
name was Boaz. And so we come to the son of
Boaz in verse 34. Or verse 32 rather, excuse me. David again in verse 31, which
was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the
son of Boaz, which was the son of Solomon. Imagine that David
said, well my grandma was a Moabitess, a Gentile. And I imagine as none
of these people, I think David and a few of them knew what role
they were playing because God had spoken to them directly and
told them like David, I'm going to raise up a king and his throne
is going to be forever out of Europe. A lot of these names,
you just wonder if they knew what part they were going to
play. Who knows what part? We have relatives back in the
ages that we don't even know their name. We don't have this
record like is given us here of all the things that God has
brought about to accomplish bringing His redeemed into this world
and then intersecting them with the gospel of His Son. So it's pretty amazing. And so
now we pause on verse 34. which was the son of Jacob, which
was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was
the son of Terah, which was the son of Nacor. So Abraham is the
name that we're going to look at now because it's probably
the most well-known. Genesis 17, one says, when Abraham
was 90 years old and nine, the Lord appeared unto Abraham and
said unto him, I am the almighty God. Walk before me and be thou
perfect. And I will make My covenant between
Me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.' And Abraham
fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying, As for Me,
behold, My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of
many nations. Neither shall thy name any more
be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham, for a father
of many nations have I made thee. And so we see this connection
with Abraham meeting the Lord Himself and being spoken to. And in John chapter 8 verse 56,
Jews are kind of accosting the Lord and they're having this
debate about being sons of Abraham. And Jesus said, your father Abraham
rejoiced to see my day. He saw it and he was glad. And
then a couple of verses later in verse 58, and he says, before
Abraham was, I am. I am the eternal. That Abraham
saw me, Abraham knew me, Abraham saw my day, saw what I would
do, and he rejoiced in it. In Galatians
chapter 3 verse 6, Paul records for us here by the
Holy Spirit, even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted
to him for righteousness. And we know that in Ephesians
1.19 that we don't even believe according to our own being able
to muster it up. We believe according to the working
of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ when He raised
Him from the dead. Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him
for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith,
the same are the children of Abraham. And the Scripture foreseeing
that God would justify the heathen through faith preached before
the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be
blessed." So, back before the law, back before anything with
Moses, he'd met with Abraham, pulled him out of a heathen nation,
spoke to him. and told him what would happen,
and Abraham believed. Now, we can't hardly go without
looking over to Hebrews chapter 11. and remembering that Paul said,
you know, they are not all Israel, which are of Israel, but those
that are of the promise are counted for the seed. And then in Hebrews
11, the faith chapter, in verse 8-19 has to do with Abraham.
And there are several things in there that are recorded that
are from the Old Testament that draw our attention to the types
and shadows that the Lord was presenting and that He used Abraham
to do. So, verse 8, By faith Abraham, by total reliance
on Christ for salvation, Abraham, when he was called to go out
into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance,
obeyed, and he went out, not knowing whether he went. That's
always scary to go someplace where you've never been. I'm
not always comfortable going someplace where I've never been,
because I don't know the way. I like it. If I've been there
once already, then I'm comfortable going there again. And it's not
scary or anything. But to go by faith, just because
God says, OK, I want you to leave here and go to there. By faith
he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country dwelling
in tabernacles or tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with
him of the same promise. For he looked for a city which
hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Through faith
also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered
of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful
who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of
one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky
in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable."
All these, the seed of Abraham. Therefore, these all died in
faith. Not having received the promise,
but having seen them afar off, Abraham saw my day and rejoiced
in it, and was glad. And they confessed. that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. They had a different
view of being here. And sometimes we get so tied
into the world and we think, well, this is all there is, and
this is why we're here. And Abraham and all those said,
well, we're just passing through. They say that such things are
plain, declare plainly that they seek a country, that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth. And truly, if they had
been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they
might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire
a better country that is a heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed
to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city.
By faith, Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and
he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten
son." What a picture of God the Father, and just giving a little
glimpse into, can you imagine the agony that Abraham must have
felt when he knew that he was going to have to offer up the
son that he'd waited for, that had been promised to him. By faith, though he did, of whom
it was said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called, accounting
that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, from whence
also he received him in a figure. What a picture of God the Father
offering up His begotten Son. This is My beloved Son in whom
I'm well pleased. And knowing that He would be
able to raise Him up and raise Him from the dead. A key part
of the Gospel, the resurrection. So now we come to, back in chapter 3, Verse 37, which was the son of
Methuselah, the oldest man, the one that lived the longest, which
was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the
son of Melaleel, which was the son of Canaan. Now Enoch is pretty
famous and he's called the seventh from Adam. in his generation. And since they lived a long time,
it's very likely that they were acquainted. And the Old Testament
doesn't really say very many things about him that we have
record of here, but apparently those that wrote the New Testament
had more information. In Genesis chapter five, verse
21, Enoch lived 60 and five years and begat Methuselah. Verse 22,
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were
three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with
God, and he was not, for God took him. So he didn't live a
really long time comparatively speaking with the others of that
era. But the book of Hebrews gives
us a little more insight. In Hebrews chapter 11, by faith,
again the total reliance on Christ for salvation, and that's the
only way that Enoch walked with God. and was with God. Total reliance on Christ for
salvation. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not
see death and was not found because God had translated him. For before
his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. because
this is my beloved son, in thee I am well pleased." And seeing
he sees all the church through his son in whom he's well pleased,
Enoch was able to have this testimony that he pleased God by having
faith in the total reliance on Christ
for salvation. That pleases God. When we cast
aside all of our other things that we use, that we would rely
on for our relationship with God, and cast all those aside
and put total reliance on Christ and Him alone. Jude tells us,
this is interesting, here in Jude chapter 1, Jude tells us
Enoch was a mighty preacher of the gospel of grace. which we
always think of him that he was translated. When you translate
something, you change it from one thing to another, like the
language we translate. This is translated from Greek
to English. It's from one thing to another.
We have translators that change radio frequencies coming from
Portland. They get to a translator here,
and they're changed to another frequency and then rebroadcast
over the valley here. So in Jude chapter 1, Jude writes
in this epistle that he writes, and he's warning about all these
people that they're against God, they're against Christ. And he's
warning the church. In verse 4 he says, "...there
are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained
to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our
God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God and
our Lord Jesus Christ." And he goes on, and he calls them raging
seas and all kinds of things that are just awful. And then,
you come down to verse 14, and he says, "...and Enoch also."
The seventh from Adam prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the
Lord cometh with 10,000 of his saints to execute judgment upon
all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all
their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of
all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against
him. And so Enoch preached the doctrine
of grace, the gospel of grace, the total reliance on Christ
for salvation. And then finally, the last name
that we're going to look at is Adam. which was the son of Enos,
verse 38, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam,
which was the son of God. So we have to go to Genesis to
the fall to see the need for the one who would come and deliver
us from the bondage of sin. Genesis 2.16, and the Lord commanded
the man saying, put him in that garden. He said, of every tree
of the garden thou mayest freely eat. And the only one commandment
he had, verse 17, but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. For in the day that thou
eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. And we know the rest of
this report here that the serpent beguiled the woman. And when
she saw that the tree in verse 6 of chapter 3 of Genesis, when
she saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant
to the eye, and a tree to be desired to make one wise." Isn't
that all the fake offerings of sin? It always promises something
on the surface, but it never works out that way. It looks good on the outside,
but inside it's awful. She took the fruit thereof and
did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did
eat. Now it tells us in 1 Timothy
2, verse 13, it says, Adam was first formed, then Eve, and then
regarding this, what we just read in Genesis, and Adam was
not deceived. He sinned willingly. He knew
that God had said, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely
eat, except this tree thou shalt not eat of it. But the woman
being deceived was in the transgression. And when she ate, nothing happened. But when he ate, spiritual death
came upon them. And they looked at themselves
and they said, we're naked. We lost our covering. And then as a result, Genesis
3.15, the Lord speaking to them says, And I will put enmity between
thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall
bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. And then we
find in verse 21 of chapter 3 that, unto Adam and also unto his wife
did the Lord God make coats of skin and clothed them. Took care of the problem that
they had created. And that's what we find being the son Cain versus Abel. And we find Enoch versus the
multitude deny all that, and so on. It goes all the way down to verse
23 where we find Jesus, as was supposed, the Son
of Joseph. So, this lineage being traced
all the way back to Adam, it's recorded in Romans 5.14, Nevertheless,
death, spiritual death, reigned from Adam to Moses. even over
them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come." That's why it's
significant that we have Adam here in this genealogy. He was
the figure of him that was to come. For as in Adam, 1 Corinthians
5.22, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive. He said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. In John 17, he said, thou has
given power to give eternal life to as many as thou hast given
him." Made alive. In 1 Corinthians 15.45, and so
it is written, the first Adam was made a living soul, the last
Adam was made a quickening spirit. By one came death, by one came
life. And that, friends, is why we
have all these names, all these 75 names here written for us
in Luke for us to ponder and consider. And when we look at
them, it changes from being just a tedium in reading a bunch of
names, beget, so-and-so, beget, so-and-so, beget, so-and-so,
to finding out He's my King. He's the Lion of the tribe of
Judah who's able to open the seals. He is the messenger of
the covenant of grace that was with Abraham from before the
foundation of the world. So all these names have significance.
I'm sure if we looked up every single name and looked at the
true meaning of them that we would find a lot more. The time
that we have allotted to us today. This is the ones we're going
to cover these six and so as always my friends You shall know
the truth and the truth shall make you free So be free