Dec. 07, 2025

Pastor Rick Robledo – December 7, 2025

• Time span between the end of the Old Testament and the start of the New Testament is __________________ years!

• 4 interesting points about Jesus’ Genealogy as recorded in the Book of Matthew.
1. Matthew traces Jesus’s genealogy through ___________________.   Luke traces Jesus’s genealogy though _______________________.

1. Matthew mentions __________ ____________________ in the genealogy.

1. It is not a __________________ __________________. Some names are ________________ ______________.

1. It is listed in ______________ _________________ of _______________ ____________________________.

The Heart of a Father

1. Joseph was a __________________________ and  ___________ ____________, ____________________ to the ____________.  

Matt 1:19a – “Joseph her husband was faithful to the law,”

1. Joseph was __________________ and __________________.

Matt 1:19 - “Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.”

Matt 1:20 - "But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹ 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.” 

Luke 2:21 - "on the 8^th day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived. 

1. Joseph was ______________________________. 

Matt 1:22-25 - All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:²³ “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

²⁴ When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. ²⁵ But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.

Matthew 2:13-15 - When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.  ¹⁴ So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, ¹⁵ where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”  

1. Joseph was a _____________________________.

1. Joseph was a _____________________________.