I
have been studying the Old Testament a lot over the past several months. I am
teaching out of Isaiah and Ecclesiastes and reading through the prophetic books
in the Old Testament.
There
are two things that have come out of my study as I have shared it with others.
#1:
People say that they don’t know the Old Testament very well.
#2:
People say that the Old Testament and New Testament are not really
connected.
So,
over the next several weeks I want to show the prophecies in the Old Testament
about the Messiah and their fulfillment in the New Testament.
Isaiah
11:1-5
There
shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots
shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of
knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And His delight shall be in the fear of the
Lord. He shall not judge by what His eyes see, or decide disputes by what His
ears hear, but with righteous He shall the poor, and decide with equality for
the meek of the earth, and He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
and with the breath of His lips He shall kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be
the belt of His waist, and faithfulness the belt of His lions.
The
Messiah would come from the line of David, and would be a righteous judge.
This
is fulfilled in Jesus. In Matthew 1:1 It says, “The book of the genealogy of
Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the son of Abraham.”
Jesus
is from the line of David.
In
Luke 4:18-19 Jesus reads from the book of Isaiah a passage about the ministry
of the Messiah.
In
Luke 4:21 Jesus says, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Jesus
claims that the Spirit of God is upon Him and that He has come to proclaim good
news to the poor, proclaim liberty to the captive, recovery of sight to the
blind, set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to proclaim the year of the
Lord’s favor.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is believing that Jesus comes from the line of
David and is our righteous Judge.
Isaiah
7:14
Therefore,
the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and
bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
The
Messiah will have a unique birth, which itself would be a sign from God.
This
is fulfilled in Luke 1:34 and 35. In verse 34 Mary asks how she can bear a son
when she is a virgin. In verse 35 the angel Gabriel explains that the Holy
Sprit will come upon her and by a miracle Mary will have a son who will be the
Son of God.
In
Matthew 1 Joseph is told that the child Mary will have is from God and in verse
23 He will be called Immanuel.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is believing that Jesus is the Son of God and
He is Immanuel, God with us.
Micah
5:2
But
you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for Me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming
forth is from of old, from ancient days.
The
Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, yet He would have a prior existence.
This
is fulfilled in Matthew 2:1 where it says, “Now after Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the
east came to Jerusalem.”
Jesus
was born in Bethlehem.
But
according to John 1:1 Jesus is the Word and He was with God in the beginning
and He was God.
Jesus
the Son of God, God in the flesh, is the eternal God and was given a body as He
became human in Bethlehem.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is believing that Jesus born in Bethlehem is
the eternal, one and only God who became flesh.
With
Jesus the Eternal God Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,
Pastor Joe
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