Hello Ladies ~ We are starting a little series, a study about four women in the lineage of Jesus Christ.
May we all be blessed and inspired as we learn about these four women and their roles in God’s plan for the whole world.
Four Women That God Chose to be in the
Lineage of His Son, Jesus Christ
"My Strength is Made Perfect in Weakness," says God
by Shari Hervold
What are some of the excuses that you've offered for not doing something that was asked of you, something in your heart of hearts you really felt like God wanted you to do? Some of you think that God only uses "good girls," you know those women with no "unspeakable sins" in their past, or women with certain abilities and capabilities. When we think like this we are totally limiting God and His ability to enable us to do anything that He wants us to do. In fact, those really are not only lame excuses, but excuses driven by self-centered instead of God-centered thought patterns.
Think with me of the women that God chose to be in the lineage of his son, Jesus Christ. If we go to the first chapter of Matthew and read the genealogy of Jesus, we note that there are forty men named and only four women. Now, what is astounding isn't that there are only four women, but that women are mentioned at all. Women were simply not granted the status of appearing in genealogies. God had ordained that the Messiah would come through the lineage of David, so we would expect that any child would have a pure-blood Hebrew mother, an upstanding woman without a blemish to her name. Yet, when I look at the names of these women, I again take a double-take, for not all were what we would characterize as "good women." For the next four posts here on the blog we will look at each one briefly to learn more about her life and the circumstances under which she was chosen to be in this august lineage.
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Ancestry of Jesus Christ
Matthew 1 Amplified Bible (AMP)
1 - The book of the ancestry (genealogy) of Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the son (descendant) of David, the son (descendant) of Abraham.
2 - Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,
3 - Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Aram,
4 - Aram the father of Aminadab, Aminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahsson the father of Salmon,
5 - Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,
6 - Jesse the father of King David, King David the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of Uriah, Bathsheba.
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To be continued.
