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Who is in your lineage, your story?
Ancestry.com
and other services like it.
Finding out background.
Looking back to look forward.
This Advent, we’re following along with the story of Jesus’ lineage in order to get a full picture of where he comes from and what his life means in the context of God’s unfolding story.
Jesus’ birth is a miraculous, once in all time event.
AND yet, it is also a part of a much grander, wider narrative, a story God is writing that even includes us.
So to situate Jesus’ story in the lineage of God’s people, which the hearers of this gospel would have known.
14 generations X 3 — 6 X 7
Six sets of seven generations, the number of almost completion, leading us to see the 7th of the 7th generation beginning in Jesus.
Joseph’s paternal lineage — Important in tracing back the line to David, a fulfilment of the prophetic tradition’s call for the Christ to arrive.
Let’s talk about some of these people...
Abraham…no children until old age, displaced/migrant worker, messy family dynamics even when he does have kids.
Jacob…wanderer, outcast, prodigal who returns home
Judah…and his brothers: the tribes of Israel.
The hopeful culmination of the early work God does in the line of Abraham…and, a messy bunch who sell their brother into slavery and then have to beg for his mercy when they come to Egypt.
Tamar…not Judah’s primary wife or concubine…she’s his daughter.
She conceived twins by him.
Lineage born by deception and disguise.
She highlights the plight of women in this culture, who had power only through marriage and offspring.
She subverts this system to save herself after being outcast and is seen in Judah’s and the eyes of their ancestors, as righteous for her desire to continue the line of her family.
Then we have Rahab, mother of Boaz.
Rahab was known as a harlot, a prostitute, in the city of Jericho.
She aids the spies from the Hebrews who are scouting out the promised land, as they have come to it following their journey through the wilderness from Egypt to Palestine.
She saves the spies and helps in the overthrow of Jericho, a key victory in the Hebrew people taking over the land of Palestine, the land God had promised them.
Rahab mothers Boaz by the Abrahamic descendant, Salmon.
Boaz is the
We also have Ruth, an outsider, a Moabite.
Boaz was an influential landowner, a Moabite himself.
Isaiah’s image of regeneration
What kinds of regeneration do we see in our heritage, our lineage?
Who passed on the faith to you?
How are you passing it on to others?
Names in the list — triumph, hardship, exemplars and outcasts.
Is there room for us in this story?
Would you let yourself be seen in this story?
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