My Dysfunctional Family - Audio
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I'm Tom and lead pastor here at Chris, we're super glad you're with us. We're doing our series for Christmas, it's called My Dysfunctional Family. It turns out that at Christmas, especially the holidays, it's put in our face just how crazy our families are and how dysfunctional they are. And I'm dysfunctional, you're dysfunctional, and you have relatives that are even more dysfunctional. And it's great, it's a lot of fun, it's exciting, except that it's not. And so I think there's something where we're looking for healing in a lot of cases, a new start, a move towards functionality. The good news for us, the good news is that Jesus' family is at least as and maybe more messed up than ours. And so let's check it out, this is from Matthew 1, we're going to be talking about Ruth, you can see there. This is the genealogy of Jesus, the Messiah. These are the people that Jesus comes from, this is his family, son of David, son of Abraham. I skipped down there to this section we're going to be looking at today, Salomon, the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz, the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed, the father of Jesse, Jesse, the father of King David. Now it might not strike you as odd, but in the ancient world when you did a genealogy, they were a little bit more sexist and so they only mentioned dads, they only mentioned fathers, they were never women in ancient genealogies. So it's very odd, it's very strange that Matthew brings these out, we saw last week with Judah and Tamar, some of these women are a little bit scandalous. And Ruth is no different. We did Rahab a few months ago and so if you want to go back and look at that, you can. But I want us to hear the story of Ruth today, but here's what I'm going to warn you. It's told like a holiday Christmas romance movie on Netflix. So if you saw Hot Frosty as I was forced to, you know that this is going to be kind of rose-colored, all right, what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the mask off a little bit and let you know what's actually going on behind the scenes and so you'll get hopefully a richer understanding of why Ruth was scandalous and what made her story of redemption so powerful. So I'll be skipping through Ruth if you have a Bible you can follow along, but we're going to start out in Ruth 1. The man, his name is Ellie Malek, which is Hebrew for God is king. His wife's name was Naomi and the names of his two sons were Melon and Killian. They were Ephraim might, Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah, and they went to Moab and lived there. No, went to Moab and lived there, okay, hold on, what's that, all right now, Emilek, Naomi's husband died and she was left with her two sons. They married Moabite women, one named Orpa and the other Ruth. We'll go back to this text in a second, but so Ellie Malek means God is king. He's a Jewish guy. His wife Naomi is also Jewish. They have two sons, Jewish. They all move to Moab. If you're wondering about what Moab is like, check this out, the name Moab, we're told in Genesis, comes from the son of Lot. This is a scandalous story because a lot, he was living in a cave with his two daughters. By the way, this is a slightly rated R, so if Jake, if you can't handle that, get out of here.
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Every intimate relationship is dysfunctional. Jesus redeems our intimate relationships, making them fully functional.