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Last week we looked at Mary and her incredible Faith.
We learned some powerful lessons from how she lived in obedience to God.
Today we are going to learn a life changing lession from Mary’s Fiancee - Joseph.
Mary had been told by the angel that she would concieve Jesus through a miracle.
Evadently she had not filled Joseph in on this information.
Our passage satrs with her being pregnant already and Joseph finding out.
So Mary is still a virgin and she is now pregant with Jesus.
But Joseph was not filled in on all this, Mary diddnt tell him and the angel has not yet visted him.
Church, sometimes God deliberatly keeps you in the dark for a season to test your faith.
So before poor Joseph is filledin, he makes the normal and logical conclusion that Mary must has been unfaithful to him.
And since its NE VER a good idea to marry a loose woman or a loose man (He’ll change.. no he wont darling…) Joseph dicies to call off the marriage.
How many of you would agree that, for poor ignornat Joeph this is a very emotional turn of events?
The Woman he loves, the woman he has sked to spend his life with, the woman he is soon to marry - has just insulted him to the highest level by sleeping around.
Cheaters - people get angry.
This is an emotional, volitile, highly charged situation.
And in this pressure pot, as all eyes are on Joseph - he does something that my praywer is we would all do in painful and emotional situations like this:
What does Joseph do?
Joaseph does what more people need to learn to do nowadays - He takes time to think things through.
He does make a quick=, rash, emotional decision, he thinks itb through.
this whoile wonaderful christiuas sort could have taken a horrible turn here.
Imagine if Joseph had made the same decision his great, great, great, great grabndfather had made?
Joseph was of the tribe of Judah, i tribe named afyer Juda himself, one of Partirchs himself.
One day Juda found out that his own daughter in law had commited fornication and look at his response:
Imagine Joseph, filled with wrath and anger and hurt amnd pain and called “Let he burn!!!”
And he could have done so, it was well within his rights!
When we make dicesions when we are angry or upset we alweays ask “whats is the worst thing I can do to get ewven” - for Joseph he could have had Mary stoned.
And think of the fallout.
think of how devestating the wonderful story of christmas would have been.
A young woman and her innocent child - killed in anger.
But instead, chritmas is known as a time of love and grace and peace - all because Joseph, stopped to think.
A thinking Man
Joseph was a thinking man, and a just man.
The length of a persons fuse tells you the depth of a persons intellect and spirit.
A wise, just man will take time to think, to weigh, to consider.
But an angry bafoon will always blow up.
Thats not my opinion, that the Gosepl truth.
Joseph controlled his nager and as a result made a righteous decision.
We actually live in an emotional epedemic of outrage culture.
people are always angry, always boilingh over, always offended.
And in this crazy wold of emotional anger - Joseph stands out like a lone bright star of maturity and patience.
Look what him taking the time to think accomplishes.
Joseph does not let his broken heart make the decision.
He also does not let his prideful mind make the decision.
But by giving thought and prayer to the issue, the righteousness of God is produced.
He is still not going to marry her, Christian grace and meekness does not mean that we are to be doormats, but he decides to end the marriage quietly and discreetly - which does 2 things.
1: Even although he was wronged by Mary (at least he still belives this to be the case), this is still the woman he loves and love always protects.
If you love someone, you will always protect them, even when they wrong you.
Husbands and wives who constantly run their spouses down and complain to whoever will hear about their wife or husband - you are acting so evil, and your heart is so bitter.
This appilies to whom we say we love.
To often we live in the eye forn an eye attitude.
But that is not what Jesus tught us as Christians.
And the Second thing that happends as a result of Josephs grace is:
He gets a special visitatiuon from God which saturates him in peace.
You can have peace or get even but not both.
Are you a joseph or a juda?
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