Jesus' lineage flows through a people whose disobedience caused them to be banished to exile in Babylon. But even when God brought them back home, their worship yet again became nothing more than giving God the leftovers of their lives. As they are plunged into darkness for the last time, Jesus' genealogy is a reminder that God is forever faithful to a people who never could be on their own.

God ordained a line of kings from which Jesus would come to prove that no other man could uphold the throne forever.

Matthew's gospel proves Jesus to be the Messiah of God's people. He was the promised seed of Abraham and their promised coming King.

Maturity in Christ is the aim of our lives, individually and as the church. It is the final state of who we are as believers for all eternity.

The Scriptures are the living, active, God-breathed, inspired sacred writings. Nothing else compares, or has the ability to prepare us for every good work.

The world doesn't recognize the work of the Spirit in creation, in the origin of life, or in the authorship of Scripture. But perhaps the greatest work of the Spirit, that in salvation, is often missed even by the church.

When Jesus came to preach the gospel to the poor and the blind and the oppressed captives, his good news was for their spiritual sinful condition.

The glory of God is not only the purpose of life, it's the end to which all things exist. And when God gives us glimpses of that glory, we begin to understand that He is uniquely set apart from creation.

Paul ends his letter with a plea for the believers at Crete to be intent to lead in good works. As members of the body of Christ who have been gifted by His Spirit, we have also been called to these good works.

God has ordered our salvation in such a way that we unmistakably understand that He saved us by the necessary means of regeneration by His Spirit and justification by His Son.