Keith Simon
speaker
1,783 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Keith Simon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Matthew is being selective.
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He's choosing, he's including the names he wants us to see, the ones that reveal something essential about who Jesus is.
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So both men edited a genealogy.
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But here's the big difference Herod edited his genealogy to show
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How great he was.
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Matthew edited Jesus' genealogy to show how gracious he is.
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From the very first page of the New Testament, Matthew wants you to see one thing: Jesus is a friend of sinners.
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Matthew is telling us in this list of names in the genealogy what the angel will tell Joseph just a few verses later, she will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
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to catch the grace packed in to this list of names.
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Let me just pull out a few.
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So first there's Abraham.
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To understand Abraham, you have to understand the world he was pulled out of.
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Just a few chapters before God calls him, Genesis gives us this verdict.
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The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil
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all the time.
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Into that moral chaos, God intervened.
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He reached into the life of one man, Abraham, and through Abraham blessed the whole world.
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But don't romanticize Abraham.
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Before God grabbed hold of him, Abraham was a pagan.
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God opened his eyes, God gave him a new heart, God gave him the faith to believe the promises he'd made to him.
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