Adopting Advent: Son of David (Matthew 1:1-17)

The Christmas story is an adoption story!  The Apostle Paul says Jesus had to be born so that we could be adopted by God (Galatians 4:4-5).

But according to God’s covenant with David (2 Sam. 7), being born wasn’t enough. It was necessary for the Messiah to be a son of David. But the Apostle Matthew’s genealogy doesn’t establish Jesus as the natural, biological son of David. Rather, it shows that Joseph, who is not Jesus’s biological father, is the descendant of the King. Jesus became the Son of David through adoption.

That we might be adopted by God, Jesus had to be adopted by Joseph.

This shows us 3 truths: 

1. God has a plan (and it's good!)
2. God keeps his promises (often in unlikely ways!)
3. Adoption is close to God's heart (and it should be to ours as well!)