Misc Originals – David Warmke - The Genealogy Of Jesus (Guitar)

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[Chorus]
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The genealogy of Jesus we got two

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One in Matthew one in Luke

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Both true , both the same but different

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Two paths back to he House of David, the House of God
[Verse 1]
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Matthew the first, a whole chapter

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Got them men but also them women

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Not upstanding ones , but ones shamed, outcasts

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Not the Norm for a Jew to write a genealogy
[Verse 2]
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Judah mother Tamar, cult prostitute in disguise

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Salmo  mother Rahab , a gentile prostitute

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Boaz mother  Ruth, a forbidden Moabite

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Solomon mother wife of Uriah, Beersheba you know that story

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Finally, Mary, pregnant out of wedlock not by her husband
[Verse 3]
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All Shunned women by the culture of that day

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Their listing an accident, I think not

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There listing is a message, Jesus came for all

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Especially the outcast, the forgotten, the downtrodden
[Chorus]
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The genealogy of Jesus we got two

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One in Matthew one in Luke

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Both true , both the same, both different

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Two paths to the House of David, the House of God
[Verse 4]
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Now Luke takes us all the way from Jesus to Adam

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Jesus son of Joseph to Adam son of God

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He starts with Jesus and go’s all the way back

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Not just to Abraham, but all the way to God
[Verse 5]
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Now Matthews was written for he Jews

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Luke for the Gentiles, it has lots of holes in it

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It shows natural line not the L Levirate of line Matthew

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Both correct, both showing Jesus as the Son David the Son God
[Chorus]
D                           Am
The genealogy of Jesus we got two

C                     G
One in Matthew one in Luke

D                           Am
Both true, both the same but different

C                                            G
Two paths back to the house of David, the house of God