Prostitutes, Foreigners, & Adultery: Christmas You Never Knew

🎄 THE CHRISTMAS YOU NEVER KNEW - Week 1

Most people skip over Matthew's genealogy at Christmas. Big mistake.

In this message, we uncover the FIVE WOMEN Matthew intentionally includes in Jesus' family tree—and every single one has a scandalous story:

✓ TAMAR - posed as a prostitute to secure her place in the covenant family
✓ RAHAB - a Canaanite prostitute who hid Israelite spies
✓ RUTH - a Moabite from a cursed nation who had no right to belong
✓ BATHSHEBA - the victim of King David's adultery and murder
✓ MARY - appeared pregnant before marriage and lived under a cloud of scandal

Why would Matthew include these stories? Because from verse ONE, he's screaming: Jesus came for the scandalous, the broken, the outsider, the forgotten.

If God can use THEIR stories, He can use yours.

📖 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 1:1-17

🔑 KEY POINTS:
Matthew's 3×14 structure (and why David's name = 14 in Hebrew gematria)
The five women who shouldn't be in the Messiah's lineage
Why God works through human messiness, not in spite of it
The message: You BELONG in God's story

⛪ SERIES: NATIVITY - The Christmas You Never Knew
Week 1: Prostitutes, Foreigners, & Adultery (Matthew 1:1-17)
Week 2: When the Gentiles Got There First (Matthew 2:1-12) - Coming Dec 15
Week 3: The Prophets in the Waiting Room (Luke 2:25-38) - Coming Dec 22

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