Followe Bible Study Day 1

Matthew chapter 1:
Today my Youth group, a.k.a. Fusion started off with a online bible study called Follower. During this bible study we will be striving to learn more about Jesus since we call ourselves followers of Christ.
Starting off Matthew it has a list of Jesus' family to prove that Jesus is the Messiah. When i first read Matthew and even this time i thought it was crazy how Matthew goes on and on about who's the father or son of who. It seems useless but i believe that back when Matthew wrote this he wrote it so that there was plenty of evidence of Christ being the Messiah and no one could deny it.
I like also how in Matthew he gives you a brief summary of how Mary gave birth to Jesus when she was a virgin and how Joseph wanted to divorce her secretly until he had an angel come speak to him in a dream telling him that the baby was a gift from God to them and that he would save people from their sins.
I was blown away to see how Joseph reacted when he woke up and immediately accepted what the angel had told him. That shows and proves to me that Joseph was faithful in God to believe that he was spoken to by an angel giving him a message from God.
I hope those who do this study have the same mentality i have to just learn more about Jesus Christ so they can become more like him!

Enjoy!
Ryan