The Bible has much to say about grace. Grace is God's unmerited favor given to us because God desires us to have it. Today, I want to talk about God's grace in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. The more you learn about grace the more you realize that grace is indeed amazing. The Gospel of Matthew was written by Matthew the tax collector. The Gospel according to Matthew is written to demonstrate the fact that Jesus is the Christ, the predicted Messiah, the King of the Jews, who was rejected by his own people, who was accepted by the Gentiles, and who someday will return to reign as King of kings and Lord of Lords. It is the story of the King who comes, the King who is rejected, and the King who will return. The presentation of the King. If a king is to be heralded as a king, then it must start with the proof that he comes from the royal line. Matthew is doing that in Matthew 1:1-17. The Jews were tenacious about their pedigrees. And if anybody was going to be presented to them as a king, it was absolutely essential that he have the pedigree to prove it.