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The Best Christmas Tree
The shoot from Jesse's stump is our coming king.
Lee Eclov

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Series Subject: The kingship of Jesus and the nature of his kingdom

Series Purpose: To show that Jesus is our coming king, to describe his peaceable kingdom, and to explain why we have reason to celebrate during Christmas

Series Relevance: After years of exile, Israel longed for the coming Messiah. Isaiah prophesied that God would send a perfect king to restore his people and inaugurate God's peaceable kingdom. Jesus is the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. He brings new life to the Davidic dynasty, as he was filled with the sevenfold Spirit of God. He establishes God's peaceable kingdom by making all things new and satisfying the ancient curse of sin. In the end, God will draw believers from every people group to himself through Jesus. Not only that, but he will deal faithfully with the remnant of Israel in the Last Day. As we wait for the kingdom to be present in full, we experience the peace of the kingdom through our relationship with Jesus Christ. Christmastime provides the perfect opportunity to renew our loyalty to King Jesus, and his great mercy gives us reason for joy.

Series Big Idea: Jesus is the king God prepared perfectly to bring new life and make all things right. He inaugurates God's peaceable kingdom by changing even our most natural desires and satisfying the curse of sin. One day, Jesus will redeem believers from all nations, along with the remnant of Israel. As we wait for his return, we have reason for joy this Christmas season if we have experienced God's salvation.

Title: The Best Christmas Tree

Subtitle: Jesus is our coming king.

Text: Isaiah 11:1–5

Subject: The kingship of Jesus

Purpose: To show how Jesus is perfectly anointed to fulfill God's purposes

Relevance: After years of exile, Israel longed for the coming Messiah. Isaiah prophesied that God would send a perfect king to restore his people. Jesus is the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy. He brought new life to the Davidic dynasty, as he was filled with the sevenfold Spirit of God. He came to teach justice and righteousness, and he will return again one day to judge all peoples. As we wait for his return, Christmastime provides the perfect opportunity to renew our loyalty to King Jesus.

Big Idea: Jesus is the king God prepared perfectly to bring new life and make all things right.

• Some say that Christians trace their interest in Christmas trees back to Germany in 725 A.D.
• In the pre-Christian era, the oak was the sacred tree for the Germanic peoples.
• Legend has it that the missionary to the Germans, St. Boniface, chopped down the sacred Donar Oak in order to stop sacrifices near Geismar.
• St. Boniface is said to have replaced the oak with a fir tree, the angular shape of which he used to teach the pagans about the Trinity.
• If we were to get our idea of a Christmas tree straight from the Bible, it would look more like that oak stump than the fir tree.
• The prophet Isaiah lived about 700 years before Christ.
• Israel was on the precipice of God's judgment, and Isaiah was the prophet of doom.
• The final verses of Isaiah 10 depict the Assyrians rampaging toward Israel.
• Assyria has made Israel a nation of withered branches and dead stumps; but God promises that Assyria will be chopped down.
• As the prophet gazes across this barren landscape, he sees a sign of life.

• Isaiah prophesies that a "shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse."
• Jesse was the father of David, the king who inaugurated a royal dynasty of 20 kings that ruled 500 years, until Jerusalem fell in 586 B.C.
• After Jerusalem's fall, Israel would have no more kings.
• The situation seemed to thwart God's promise from 2 Samuel 7:16, that David's kingdom would last forever.
• After 600 years, a king is born from Jesse's long-dormant stump.
• Mary and Joseph, both descendants of David, are forced by Roman decree to return to Bethlehem, the home of Jesse and the birthplace of Jesus.
• The shoot that rises from the stump of Jesse bears fruit; the childless king becomes the father of a greater nation than Abraham's.
• The Lord of lost causes, who stirs life from a dead stump, is undaunted by the grave itself.
• If there is a dead stump in your life, ask King Jesus to grow there.

• Isaiah 11:2–3a describes Jesus as the king with a sevenfold spirit.
• Revelation 5:6 also describes Christ the Lamb in this somewhat cryptic way: "He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the sevenfold Spirit of God sent out into all the earth."
• In other words, Jesus was perfectly and completely filled with the Spirit of God.
  • Illustration: Jesus Enjoyed a Full Measure of the Spirit [see Illustrations and Quotations below]
• These verses portray the coming Messiah as fully equipped for governing.
• Jesus' perfect wisdom and knowledge were evident in his parables, the Sermon on the Mount, his prayers to the Father, his answers to trick questions, and his perfect reading of hearts.
• Jesus Christ is the king with unerring insight and infinite wisdom to balance justice and mercy, law and grace, and time and eternity.

• Because he possesses the infinitely perfect Spirit of God, Jesus knows what is going on deep within each person (Isaiah 11:3b).
• Based on what he sees with infallible accuracy, Jesus will set things right and render perfect justice (4a).
• Jesus does not favor the poor because they are more righteous, but because they seldom enjoy true justice.
• Jesus used Isaiah's words from 61:13 to announce his entrance into ministry.
• What made Jesus perfectly righteous was not only that he kept all of God's laws without fail, but also that he was as merciful as God is.
• For those who will not be poor and needy before this king there is only the hammer of his judgment (4b).
• Righteousness and faithfulness are the marks of our king.

• Israel waited 600 years for their Messiah King, and by the time he came many had given up hope.
• We have been waiting all these centuries for our great king to come again.
• While we wait, this king reigns within our hearts and is quietly conquering hearts around us.
• Now is the time to renew our loyalty and trust in King Jesus.

Jesus Experienced a Full Measure of the Spirit
There has never been but one manhood capable of receiving and retaining the whole fullness of the Spirit of God.

Title: Peace on Earth

Subtitle: Jesus establishes God's peaceable kingdom.

Text: Isaiah 11:6–9

Subject: The peaceable kingdom of God

Purpose: To show how Jesus restores peace to our broken world

Relevance: The promise of peace is something every heart longs for. Jesus, our coming king, establishes God's peaceable kingdom on earth by making all things new and satisfying the ancient curse of sin. As we wait for the kingdom to be present in full, we experience the peace of the kingdom through our relationship with Jesus Christ.

Big Idea: Jesus inaugurates God's peaceable kingdom by changing even our most natural desires and satisfying the curse of sin.

• One phrase of Scripture that all people—whether secular or religious—appreciate is the angels' declaration of "peace on earth."
• The birth of Christ cements our hope that one day Christians will live in Christ's peaceable kingdom.
• In Isaiah 11:1–5, the prophet describes the kind of king Christ will be.

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