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Christ Comes to Those Who've Messed Up
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(Scriptural meditation begins at 1:49.)
Matthew's genealogy of Christ includes many with colourful sexual histories--Rahab, the prostitute, Tamar who tricked her father-in-law into sex, the married Bathsheba who slept with adulterous King David, Solomon of many wives and concubines--from such the Lord Jesus Christ came.
And we who fail, though in less spectacular ways, we too belong to his lineage by faith. To such as us, he comes.
Our failures are the cracks through which his light enters
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1. Christ Comes to Those Who've Messed Up (00:00:00)
2. Scriptural meditation (00:01:49)
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