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| Sheila Walsh: Jesus Came for All | 5 Minutes with Jesus | December 6, 2025
- But the birth of jesus changed everything.
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- The outcast became the welcomed in.
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- Those with little value were given a seat at the table.
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- And those of the past were given a future.
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- Every christmas afternoon when i was a child,
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- My mum, my nanna, brother, sister and i would drive to be
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- With my aunt and uncle and my two cousins.
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- While their village was only nine miles away.
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- But i never made it past mile eight without being carsick.
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- I'd get out of the car my mum would get out to,
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- And we would walk the last mile together.
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- It is something so sweet now, but that memory never once
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- Did my mum complain.
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- I suggest somebody else should walk with me.
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- She just got out of the car
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- And we walked the last mile together.
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- We all want that in our lives.
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- Someone who walks beside us in our weakness.
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- She'd also prepare me for the annual painful question
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- From one of my uncle's relatives.
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- Do you not have a wee dog yet?
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- That question
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- Was always followed up by an equally painful opinion.
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- I think you've put on a wee bit of a weight.
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- My mum would look across the room and wink.
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- We all have them in our family,
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- Those relatives, extended family who could deflate a balloon
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- From a mile away.
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- Barry's mum was one of four sisters,
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- And i never knew a time when they were all speaking
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- To each other.
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- It was always one on the out,
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- You know, with jesus.
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- That is no doubt.
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- Matthew begins his gospel with a genealogy
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- Of christ, a passage not often read out in church.
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- He does it not as philip, because it's manuscript
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- Was short,
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- But to make a bold, outrageous statement to his audience.
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- This is a record of the ancestor of jesus, the messiah,
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- A descendant of david and of abraham.
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- Or to matthew's jewish audience.
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- It couldn't be a more audacious claim.
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- This itinerant rabbi from nazareth,
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- Who was arrested for blasphemy, tried and executed,
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- Was a direct descendant of their greatest king.
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- King david and of abraham.
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- A pagan man brought out of obscurity
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- And into covenant with almighty god.
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- The prophets wrote of someone who was coming to deliver
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- God's people.
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- And although they would never see him with their own eyes,
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- They wrote that he was on the way.
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- Matthew's opening declaration couldn't be clearer.
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- We've waited for generations.
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- We have waited. and now he's here.
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- I would imagine that anyone
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- Who has researched their family tree
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- Would be thrilled to discover see royalty in their lineage.
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- So, declaring that christ came from the line of abraham
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- And king david would make anybody proud.
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- Matthew doesn't stop there.
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- This is not an edited list of the shining lights in christ.
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- History
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- Includes those who would always be on the out to any proud.
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- Two women,
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- For example, were never included in family genealogies.
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- In those days,
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- Only men were listed as the head of each household.
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- Women had little value in the culture of the day.
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- New testament scholar michael green writes
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- That every jewish man's prayer each morning
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- Was one of gratitude that he was not born a slave,
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- A gentile, or a woman.
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- But the birth of jesus changed everything.
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- The outcast became the welcomed in those with little value
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- Or given a seat at the table.
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- And those of the past were given a future.
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- The fact
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- That there are four women included in the line of christ
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- Was a door thrown open to anyone,
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- Literally anyone, who would come and kneel at his feet.
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- Because each of these women came with a shocking backstory.
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- Remember tamar?
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- Her husband had died and she was desperate for a child.
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- The elder brother in law, according to jewish custom,
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- Should have married her, but he refused.
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- The other son was too young.
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- So tamar tricked her father in law into sleeping with her.
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- She disguised herself as a prostitute
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- And he fell for her trap.
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- When he saw that she was a widow and she was pregnant,
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- He determined to have her put to death
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- Until she revealed the truth to him.
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- You are the father.
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- I mean, those are the kind of family stories
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- You keep in the closet, but not with jesus.
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- Then there's rahab, a prostitute living in jericho.
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- We don't know much about her story
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- Of why she ended up living this life,
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- But she took a risk to help two israeli spies,
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- And she and her family were spared.
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- Even james, one of jesus brothers, wrote about her
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- In his letter on faith.
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- He wrote, rahab, prostitute is another example.
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- She was shown to be right with god by her actions.
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- When she heard those messengers and sent them safely away
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- By a different road, then bathsheba.
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- And you remember what happened to bathsheba?
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- David saw her bathing and called for her.
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- And when you're summoned by the king,
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- You don't have much choice but to comply.
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- We know that her husband, uriah, was part of david's
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- Special forces, a fiercely loyal, trusted man
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- Who would be killed to cover david's sin.
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- But did you know that sheba was a hit?
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- The false granddaughter a hit.
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- The fellow was one of david's closest friends and advisors.
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- When he walked to worship with the king
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- Sunday bathsheba's life that christ owned her.
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- And then ruth,
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- If she might have been the most surprising of all.
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- She was from moab, the sworn enemies of israel.
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- Because of ruth's refusal to abandon her mother
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- In law after the death of her husband and two sons.
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- She left moab and accompanied me back to israel.
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- She married boaz, and in doing so
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- Became the great grandmother of king david.
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- As we celebrate the birth of christ, we celebrate
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- Hope offered to every one of us, no matter our backstory.
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- The black sheep used and abused, the broken
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- And the hopeless are welcome to the table.
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- In christ we have covered by his righteousness
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- And given a new name.
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- Daughter or son of the king.
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- Birth of jesus changed everything.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord jesus, i want to thank you
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- That you invite us to come as we are that with you.
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- Our history does not determine our destiny.
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- That when we have placed our trust in you,
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- We've given a new hope and a new beginning.
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- Thank you for including so many of the stories
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- That are hard to read in your word,
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- So that we know when we walk through our own hard places.
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- You are with us in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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