Advent Week 2 - Peace - Preparation for the King

The Alley Church Podcast

Matthew 1:18-25

This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).

When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.

Emmanuel - God with us - Fully God / Us = fully Human= God with us = incarnation. The whole point of Christmas~!~ GOD… CAME…TO US as one of US so we could know GOD and be saved.

Named Jesus (yay sus) = "Jehovah is salvation" because Only God could save us from our sin. Only as a human could He live the life I should have lived and die the death I should have died. He is God and we must believe that fully so we can live the full life He has designed for us to live. There is no halfway living if you truly believe he is God. He came to bring us PEACE and today we are going to learn a lot about that word, b/c w/o Emmanuel = no peace