JOSEPH’S STORY (4 OF 4)
Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25
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Joseph’s Story (4 of 4)
Series: Advent: The Dawn of Hope
Collin Wimberly
Matthew 1:18-25
INTRODUCTION:
Joseph gets left out of the Christmas story quite often doesn’t he? It’s as if he gets kinda lost in the shuffle. It’s kind of like men at a wedding. Have you ever noticed how unnecessary men are at a wedding? The ladies have on their beautiful dresses and flowers. The newspapers will tell you all about how the ladies are dressed. It never tells you how the men were dressed. It never tells you about what kind of flower he had braided in his hair. Men could be barefooted at a wedding and it really wouldn’t make any difference.
Joseph is like that, he just kind of falls through the cracks of the story.
But Joseph is a vital part of the Christmas story and message.
Did you realize that we have not one recorded word from Joe?
He seems to be a man of few words.
That’s alright. The Gettysburg address had only 266 words, a recent government order concerning the purchase of cabbage had 26, 911 words! Sometimes less is better, right? Especially when it comes to Sunday Morning sermons, right?
Let’s take a look at the Christmas story through the eyes of Joseph.
In doing so, you and I will encounter a godly man, the kind of man any man in this room would like to be. We will hear the gospel message, straight from the mouth of an angel.
I) JOESPH’S DILEMMA-
Probably they were both young.
Betrothed- Solemnly promised in marriage, much more serious and binding than present day engagement. Their marriage would probably have been arranged by their parents. For this first year they would each continue to live separately. ‘‘before they had come together.’’ They lived separately but did not engage in sexual relations.
This was as binding legally and religiously as present-day marriage, legally they were regarded as husband and wife. One of the main purposes of this was to prove the purity of the bride. If she came up pregnant during this time, she was ...
Series: Advent: The Dawn of Hope
Collin Wimberly
Matthew 1:18-25
INTRODUCTION:
Joseph gets left out of the Christmas story quite often doesn’t he? It’s as if he gets kinda lost in the shuffle. It’s kind of like men at a wedding. Have you ever noticed how unnecessary men are at a wedding? The ladies have on their beautiful dresses and flowers. The newspapers will tell you all about how the ladies are dressed. It never tells you how the men were dressed. It never tells you about what kind of flower he had braided in his hair. Men could be barefooted at a wedding and it really wouldn’t make any difference.
Joseph is like that, he just kind of falls through the cracks of the story.
But Joseph is a vital part of the Christmas story and message.
Did you realize that we have not one recorded word from Joe?
He seems to be a man of few words.
That’s alright. The Gettysburg address had only 266 words, a recent government order concerning the purchase of cabbage had 26, 911 words! Sometimes less is better, right? Especially when it comes to Sunday Morning sermons, right?
Let’s take a look at the Christmas story through the eyes of Joseph.
In doing so, you and I will encounter a godly man, the kind of man any man in this room would like to be. We will hear the gospel message, straight from the mouth of an angel.
I) JOESPH’S DILEMMA-
Probably they were both young.
Betrothed- Solemnly promised in marriage, much more serious and binding than present day engagement. Their marriage would probably have been arranged by their parents. For this first year they would each continue to live separately. ‘‘before they had come together.’’ They lived separately but did not engage in sexual relations.
This was as binding legally and religiously as present-day marriage, legally they were regarded as husband and wife. One of the main purposes of this was to prove the purity of the bride. If she came up pregnant during this time, she was ...
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