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The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The birth of Jesus stands as a pivotal moment in the history of the world, marking a dramatic turning point in God’s plan to redeem creation from sin and death. Much to the world’s surprise, redemption had arrived … in the form of a lowly baby. Aimed at stirring your affections for Jesus, this meditative book will lead you on a step-by-step journey through the Gospels’ birth narratives, clearing...

Matthew’s narrative loses no time in moving from the introductory genealogy, which established Jesus’s ancestry in conjunction with Abraham and King David, to an account of Jesus’s birth. As we saw in the previous chapter, the legal and biological connection to Abraham and David was necessary for Jesus to be the fulfillment of the Old Testament promises God had made to Abraham and David concerning their seed, but by itself, descent from Abraham and David was
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