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December 9, 2007
 
Introduction:
Johann and , Paul and Ann, Henry and Odelia, Lonnie and Sandy, Kevin and Lynlee.
That is as far back as I can trace my genealogy.
There are some stories are represented in those names.
My uncle did some research about the Ueckert genealogy.
He discovered that our family originated in Germany and came to America because of Johann Frederick Ueckert.
He was in the army.
Here is an amazing story.
My great granddad Ueckert got in an argument was shot and killed in a gun fight in 19… 
 
Have you been to a family reunion lately?
We went to one this last year.
It was the Cox reunion.
My great grandparents were Coxes and their daughter, Odelia, married Henry Ueckert.
Family reunions are full of stories and story telling.
After my great-great grandfather died, there was a man who began to come around and help my great-great grandmother.
One day he stole every thing he could carry from the house along with my great-great-grandmother’s daughter, Letha, who was a little girl around eight years old.
He took her and as many valuable as he could steal and left town making his way to a train station to leave the area.
This was in the early 1900’s.
As the discovery of what happened was made, my great-grandfather and another relative left to hunt this man and rescue Letha.
They intercepted them on the train and a fight ensued.
My uncle was shot and injured but my great-grandfather was able to rescue his niece from the kidnapper.
Every family has lots of amazing stories.
Stories of families, stories of people, our stories are all stories that fit into a much bigger story, the story of God.
Matthew 1:2-17 are names that represent all kinds of stories.
Matthew 1:2-17
/2 //Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,// //3 //and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,// //4 //and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,// //5 //and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,// //6 //and Jesse the father of David the king.
And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,// //7 //and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,// //8 //and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,// //9 //and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,// //10 //and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah,// //11 //and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.// //12 //And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,// //13 //and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,// //14 //and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud,// //15 //and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,// //16 //and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.// //17 //So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations./
Each one of those names is a story, a story of choices, choices that relate to a greater story, some choices great and some choices not so great.
Each one of those names represents part of God’s story, where the choices that people made, particularly the poor ones, did not undo the sovereign story of God but actually were folded into the providential plan of God to unveil the greatest of all stories, the story of Jesus Christ.
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Stories
A. Abraham
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Our list begins with Abraham.
What an amazing story.
Abraham was invited by God to become a great nation.
There was a problem though.
Sarah, his wife was barren, unable to have children.
You know their story.
God told them he would give them a son.
They were old, far beyond childbearing age and Sarah had been barren all their lives.
They try to take matters in their own hands and create a great deal of confusion and heart ache.
In spite of what Abraham and Sarah did, God’s plan remains in tact.
He delivers on His promise and Isaac is miraculously born to Sarah.
A great story that is a part of a much greater story.
B.
What about the story of Judah’s family?
1.
Now this is a messed up story.
It seems like there is at least one messed up story in every family.
Recently I was at a family gathering for another family and Lynlee and I unsuspecting sat down at a table with a man and his newly married wife.
They had a hard look about them that comes from some hard living but they greeted us with smiles.
Lynlee begins to engage in some conversation and I am sitting next to this man.
It only took a little engaging to get him going.
He began talking about his life and what he had done and been through.
Everything sounded fairly normal but we could tell that something just wasn’t right.
It became all too clear when he started talking about being lost in the desert.
He was lost in the desert and either died from the lack of food and water or passed into a coma, he is not sure which.
And while he was either dead or in a coma some angelic hosts (later I found out that he has also told the story with aliens) came to him and saved him and reworked the molecular structure of his brain so that now even though he doesn’t have any more than a 6th grade education, he is able to have great wisdom and understanding.
Let’s just say, that was a very interesting story.
Every family has at least one of those kinds of stories.
2. Judah’s family is no exception.
Judah’s first born son Er was wicked and the Lord judged him and put him to death and this left his wife, Tamar, a widow.
Judah’s second born married this widowed daughter-in-law, Tamar, and then God put him to death as well.
Judah, reluctantly, told Tamar that he would give his third son to her in marriage when he was old enough but he didn’t want to because he was afraid he would die too, if he marred her, the husband killer.
So Tamar tricks Judah.
They could be on Jerry Springer show.
Without going into details that would be hard to explain this morning, Perez, Judah and Tamar’s son, is in the lineage of Jesus.
Now that is an amazing story.
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Do you remember the story of Israel’s conquest over Jericho, marching around the city and blowing the trumpets, the walls falling down?
Salmon, in our genealogical list, was a man in Israel who was a part of the incredible conquest of Jericho, a hero of sorts.
Do you remember Rahab?
She was a prostitute in Jericho.
Not exactly what every dad wished for his son to marry.
But Rahab became a follower of the Lord Most High, the one true God.
She trusted and followed the Lord and became a part of Israel.
God changed her life and Salmon made her his wife.
Salmon married Rahab.
Amazing.
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Solomon – The wisest king to ever reign in Israel was Solomon.
What a story.
He was the second born in his family.
His older brother died in judgment because his father, David, had an affair with his mother, Bathsheba, which resulted in his brother’s conception and his mom’s first husband’s murder.
Talk about an amazing story.
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Josiah
1. Josiah was six years old when his grandfather, Manasseh, died.
Manasseh was the wickedest king Israel had ever seen.
His son Amon, Josiah’s dad became king when Josiah was 6. 
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The next two years were certainly years of horror and confusion for Josiah.
His dad, Amon, was evil and led the people into evil.
After two years of leading God’s people further into sin, Amon’s servants conspired against him and murdered him in his house.
When Josiah was eight years old his father was murdered in their house.
Josiah’s dad’s murder now meant that Josiah was the king.
What in the world was going on in Josiah’s heart and mind?
Can you imagine?
He had seen his father run after false gods and murdered in their house.
And now at eight years old, the weight of the kingdom and the tragic loss of his father rested upon his shoulders.
Josiah’s life is an amazing story to say the least.
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