2. build your family tree and watch your story emerge

3. Reasons For Matthew’s Ancestry
It proves Jesus was a very real, historical person.
It proves this story of God is not fiction.
It forces us to accept that God’s story has intersected with our stories.

4. Facts About Matthew’s Gospel
Matthew’s gospel was the most widely used gospel in the first two centuries.
In the earliest sequencing of the books of the NT, Matthew was typically listed as the first book.
Matthew’s gospel began with a genealogy.
Matthew reveals the important and significant role that genealogies played in Jewish culture.

5. A Retelling of the Biblical Story
Creation, the Fall and a Promise
God Chooses a Family
A Kingly Ruler from Judah
The Exile
OT Comes to an End…Waiting

6. Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham
Jesus is the one foretold of, he is the one the world has been waiting for all these years!