THE FIRST AND SECOND COMING OF JESUS
Isaiah 11:1-10
THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS
V:1 "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; his roots a Branch will bear fruit."
A. We are all rooted in our parents, grandparents and all
descendants.
1. We are all connected
to past generations
2. What ever
happen in past generations shapes and molds us for the future
work of God.
3. Our past tells
where we come from, but does not define where we are going.
B. Isaiah connects the genealogy of Jesus to Jesse the father of King David.
1. The sins of
Jesus forefathers led to the Babylonian
an Assyrians captive.
2. God ended His
punishment of Israel
3. God's promise
of an everlasting King is found in the covenant God made with
Abraham some 1200
years earlier.
a. Genesis
17:6-7
" I will
make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come
from
you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting
covenant between me and you
and your
descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the
God of your
descendants after you."
b. God made a
covenant with King David that there would be an everlasting
kingdom
from his generation, 300 years earlier than the time of Isaiah.
2 Samuel
7:16
"Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your
throne will
be established forever.'"
4. Between the past promises of God and the
trials and tribulations of our past
is the
positioning of God for our future.
C. From the birth of Jesus came the Church .
1. From the
Church came believers from all nations
2. We never know
how many people our faith in Jesus will
draw to Him.
THE EQUIPPING OF JESUS FOR THE MISSION
V:2-3. " The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him — the
Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power ,the
Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord —
3a. and he will
delight in the fear of the Lord.
A. It is the spirit of the Lord that equips us for His
works.
1. Anyone who has
accepted Jesus as their personal savior has the indwelling
of the Holy Spirit.
2. The Spirit of
wisdom and understanding.
a. Those who
have faith in Jesus have access and an understanding of
God's
Word.
b. It is faith
in the Word of God that empowers believers.
Proverbs
1:7
"The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of knowledge,
but
fools despise wisdom and discipline."
c. Those who
follow Jesus are wiser than the world. The story
of Daniel
and the 3 other Hebrew boys indicate the success of
following
God.
Daniel
1:20
In every
matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned
them, he
found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his
whole kingdom.
3. The spirit
of counsel and power.
a. Any wise
counsel we have comes from the Lord.
b. The Word
of God is full of stories of men and women who
relied
on God to make decisions.
Job 12:13
To God
belong wisdom and power;
counsel and understanding are his.
4. The Spirit of
knowledge and the fear of the Lord
a. Jesus.,
even though He was God did not rely on Himself
when He
walked the earth.
b. Jesus
has full and complete understanding of His Word.
John
7:16-17
Jesus
answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me.
If
anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes
from
God or whether I speak on my own.
c. Jesus
reverence His Father. The first step
toward knowledge is the
fear of
the Lord.
d. It is a
blessing to believers to be able to abide in God's Word.
JESUS THE FINAL JUDGE
V:3b.-4. "He will not judge by what he sees with his
eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; 4 but with righteousness he
will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the
earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of
his lips he will slay the wicked."
A. Jesus, our Lord and Savior followed His own directions to
us.
1. The Just live
by faith and not by sight.
2. What we see and hear from man is often not
the truth.
3. A person can
be judges by His actions.
B. Jesus will Judge the heart of man.
1. The discussion
shifts from Jesus character to How He deals with us.
2. Jesus will
deal with us according to His righteousness.
3. His love for
us demands that He chastises us when we are wrong.
4. Believers are
justified and sanctified by His righteousness.
C. Those who will not accept Christ will be condemned for
their sins.
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THE REIGN OF CHRIST ON EARTH
V:5 "Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness
the sash around his waist."
A. Jesus came the first time to die for our sins.
1. Our faith in
Jesus is our way to salvation.
2. John 3:16
"For God
so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in
him shall not perish but have eternal life. "
B. Jesus will come again to judge the world
1. The discussion
now shifts to the millennium kingdom.
Rev 20:4
2. Jesus will
reign on earth for a thousand years.
3. All believers
will be taken up to reign with Him.
4. Non believers
will endure the tribulation .
5. Those who come
out of the tribulation, mainly the Jews will grow into
a new nation
under Christ rule.
A PERIOD OF
HARMONY ON EARTH
V:6-9. The wolf will
live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the
lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down
together and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will
play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the
viper's nest.
9 They will neither
harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the
knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
A. These verses describe a period of peace and tranquility.
1. This will occur
doing the 1000 year reign of Christ.
Rev 20:4
2. God will
reverse the hostile nature of animals toward man.
3. The survival instinct of animals will be
reduce to being satisfied by the
food produced
in the millennium period.
4. The animals
living together in Noah's ark was fore runner of this period.
a. Noah and
his family were under the control of God.
b. There was
no danger inside the ark.
c. Everything
needed for survival was provided by God.
B. Doing the millennium, Jesus will be king and ruler. Rev
20:4
1. His Word will
be made known to all mankind.
2. There will be
no need to teach the Word, because all mankind will
have full knowledge of it.
3. All believers
today have access and the ability to have full knowledge of
God's Word
through the power of the Holy Spirit.
THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH, THE FINAL RESTING
PLACE
V:10. " In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a
banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest
will be glorious"
A. This verse seem to be another time frame.
1. John 12:30-32
30 Jesus said, "This voice was for
your benefit, not mine. 31 Now is the time for
judgment on
this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32 But I,
when I am
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."
2. The millennium
kingdom ends with Satan being released for a short period
of time in a
last attempt to deceive God's people.
a. Satan is
bound and cast into the eternal hell.
Rev 20:7
b. The books
are open and Jesus judges all sinners and they are cast into the
eternal
hell. Rev 20 11-15
c. The Book of
life is open and all believers are judged and placed in
heaven to
be with Christ.
3. The old heaven
and earth is passed away and a new Heaven and Earth
is put in
place. Rev 21:1
a. This is the
resting place of Christ.
b. All
believers, Jews and Gentiles will worship the Root of Jesse , Jesus
Christ
forever.
THANK GOD FOR JESUS, OUR
LORD AND SAVIOR.
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
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