Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.
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… But this is where he made the mistake. Isaiah chapter 11, verse 1 and 2. There shall come forth a rod, capital L. See that? It means we're speaking about somebody. from the stem of Jesse. You guys know who Jesse is. And a branch, the branch and the rod are the same one, shall grow out of his roots, Jesse's roots. Verse 2. The spirit, can you look at the screen in my finger? The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom, understanding, spirit of counsel, might. the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord. Watch, this is important. Of course, it's referencing Jesus. Who is the branch? We know this from the Bible. Jesus is the branch. Isaiah is speaking. If you don't know, 743 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, God is speaking through Isaiah, the great prophet of Israel, and he's announcing that the Messiah is also named the branch and the rod. and upon the Messiah, the manifest seven spirits of God will be upon him, but the spirits are these. …
… on that day, the great day of the Lord, a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, so from the root of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. So Isaiah is anticipating the Messiah, the Mashiach, the anointed one, that will come from the line of David. And he'll have these gifts, namely, a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, the spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord. This is the root of this great tradition, which comes up now from the Bible into the fathers and through the great theologians. Think Gregory the Great, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, all of them speculate upon these gifts of the Holy Spirit. And you want to trace it even further, come up to the last confirmation homily I gave, which would have been just a few weeks ago as we record these words. And I talked to the kids about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. …
… Isaiah 11, I just have to look at that for a moment because it's such a wonderful promise. A shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him, a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. He will delight in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what his eyes see, nor make a decision by what his ears hear, nothing superficial, but with righteousness He will judge the poor and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth." You don't need to worry about that. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked. And righteousness will be the belt about His loins, and faithfulness the belt about His waist. Isaiah gives a lot of other wonderful aspects of the kingdom we don't have time to look over, but we know that when the king comes, every knee will bow to him. …