This Christmas sermon concludes a four-week series on "Promises Kept" by exploring the biblical concept of the Messiah from Genesis through the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew. The pastor traces the first messianic prophecy in Genesis 3:15 (the Proto-Evangelium) through thousands of years of biblical history, showing how God's people waited and wondered which descendant would be "the seed" that would crush the serpent's head. The sermon emphasizes that Jesus fulfills the three anointed offices of prophet, priest, and king, and represents the "seventh seven" in Matthew's genealogy—symbolizing complete rest, wholeness, and shalom. A central warning runs throughout: we often place "messianic expectations" on human relationships (children, spouses, parents, friends) that only Jesus can fulfill. When we make people our messiah, everyone loses, but when Jesus is our Messiah, we cannot lose. The sermon calls listeners to reorder their lives around Christ as the center, rather than seeking ultimate identity, belonging, and unconditional love from horizontal relationships.