Reading: Luke 3:21-38

This is a difficult portion to read without having the mind glaze over and wander. (I suppose it would be much more interesting if I could quickly associate a little personal history with each name.)

“And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli” (23).

Then it struck me: Jesus is one end and Adam is the other.

Jesus fathered no sons. No children at all, in fact. He left no physical line of descendants. The geneology is closed and final. No more sons.

That was the plan.

Being human with all the accompanying needs, drives and emotions, I don’t doubt Jesus was tempted to adapt (that is, abandon) the original plan. But He didn’t, even though surely there were times He really wanted a wife and a child. Or at least a woman.

So this difficult reading leads me to further gratitude for Jesus’ self-denial.

For me.

What (and how much) would I give up for Him?

Will my gratitude go that deep?

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2 thoughts on “No More Sons”

  2. In my work I spend a lot of time talking to 18-25 year olds. A large number of them are convinced that Jesus married Mary Magdelene and had children by her. This, no doubt, is due to the tremendous influence that the quasi-historical-fiction novel “The Da Vinci Code” has leveraged upon a generation which is under the spell of neo-paganism. The sad part is that many of these claim to be Bible believing Christians, and they are blind to the fact that the Bible clearly teaches that Christ had no physical descendants. Just this morning I was reading the Messianic prophecies in Isaiah where it clearly states that the “suffering servant” will be “cut off from the living” and “will have no descendants.”

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