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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Matthew 1:1-17
The voice of the prophets has been silent for four hundred years. For God "the fulness of the time was come" (Galatians 4:4). He is about to speak "by His Son" and to reveal to His people, to the world, as well as to each one of us personally, the good news of the gospel (Hebrews 1:1-2). It is summed up in a few words: the gift of His Son.
But how can we, with our limited intelligence, come to know such a Person? God has made provision for this in giving us four gospels so that we might consider the glory of His Son under different aspects, just as different lighting effects might be used to display a valuable object. Matthew is the gospel of the King. Here a genealogy is necessary to place the Messiah at the outset within the setting of the promises made to Abraham and to prove irrefutably His title as Heir to the throne of David (Galatians 3:16; John 7:42). In this long list some infamous names (Ahaz, Manasseh, Amon . . .) have not been erased from the record. Before revealing the Saviour, God once more makes it clear that in every generation, whether it be a patriarch, a king, or a woman of doubtful repute, everyone needs the same salvation and the same gospel. You have need of it yourself, dear reader, as much as anyone else.
