While we usually spend our Christmas’s talking about the birth of our Savior Lord Jesus Christ and how angel Gabriel, Mother Mary, Joseph, the Shepherds and the Wise Men were involved in his birth, let’s take this opportunity to discuss about something which is rarely read and seldom preached. We are going to discuss about Names and Genealogies. Whether we know or not, we all have a family genealogy whom we came from. Most of our family genealogies are explained to us by our parents and grandparents. Where we came from? What’s our native place? Who is our grandparents and great grandparents? What kind of people were they? How did they live? What were the great things they did? And we also have few old pictures of them which tells us a lot about our family at that time. If I try to explain my family genealogy to you, you would not be interested and you would be bored. It would be the same, if you try to explain me your family genealogy. But for those who are in the family genealog...
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. - Revelations 22:5 There are four books in the Bible which talk about the life of Jesus Christ. We call those books as The Gospels. Out of which Matthew, Mark and Luke together are known as Synoptic Gospels, because they include many of the same incidents, often in a similar sequence and in similar wording; and two gospels written by Matthew and Luke narrate us the birth and genealogy of Jesus Christ. We need to understand that Christmas is not the birth of God. It’s not the starting point of his existence, but Christmas is the day when God took the form of a man. Hence I guess John started his gospel with the genealogy and the birth of Jesus on a different note. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Matthew starts with, Jesus being a des...