King of All Kings
Read: Matthew 1:1-17
Reflect: The Gospel of Matthew focuses on the Kingship of Jesus. How does this genealogy prove Jesus’ kingship?
Request (Prayer): Give thanks to God for sending the true King: Jesus.
If you look at the headline of your Bible, there are different sections that have been broken into different groups that gives us a better understanding of what we will be reading. From Matthew 1:1-17, the headline reads, “The Genealogy of Jesus Christ.”
And that is exactly what it is, the generations from the beginning of time, all the way up to the birth of Jesus.There was a day last week that we also covered the genealogies of Christ, and we looked at the importance of these genealogies being in Scripture, and now there is a new perspective to the genealogies that will be mentioned in today’s devotion.
When reading genealogies, there is a way for us to read them as looking at the family tree of kings, and how this genealogy leads us to the greatest King ever, Jesus.
As King, Jesus rules and reigns from others in the past who were also kings. But what’s the difference between all of the kings before Christ? Their time on the throne came to an end. Christ’s rule and reign as King never ends! These genealogies are a path to prepare the reader to see the greatest King who ever lived, Jesus.
There is a lot of significance in reading these genealogies, and specifically, the one of Christ. This list of names shows the family in which Christ came from, being that Mary is His mother, and Joseph being His earthly father. The family He came from was full of sinners, people who did great things for God and people who didn’t do anything at all, yet those people are mentioned in Scripture, and those people were of the earthly family of Christ.
In the midst of all the sinners, in the midst of the kings in which Jesus took the throne from, Jesus still rules and reigns above them all as the greatest King ever. This comes to show that Christ will always be King, and will always be the greatest ruler that ever lived!
