We
will continue this week to look at Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah
that are fulfilled in the New Testament by Jesus.
Isaiah
9:6-7
For
to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon
His shoulders, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and of
peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to
establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this
time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of host will do this.
The
Messiah would come as a male child.
This
is fulfilled in Luke 2:7 where it says, “And she gave birth to her firstborn
son and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there
was no place for them in the inn.”
The
Father said that the Messiah would be a male and Jesus came as male.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is believing God, taking Him at His word
because He is a faithful God who fulfills everything He says.
The
Messiah will be:
The
Wonderful Counselor – Jesus’s teaching has an eternal character about it
The
Mighty God – The miracles Jesus did show Him as the Mighty God
Everlasting
Father – Jesus says in John 10:30 that He and the Father are one
Prince
of Peace – In Ephesians 2:14 Paul says that Jesus is our peace
Jesus
fulfilled all of the things that Isaiah said the Messiah would be.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is letting Jesus be who He really is in your
life.
The
Messiah would have a zeal for God.
In
John 2, when Jesus cleanses the temple, in verse 17 it says, “His disciples
remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume Me.’”
Jesus
had a zeal for the will and word of God. We are to share that same zeal or
passion for the will and word of God.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is having a passion to know and do the will of
God and to obey God’s word.
Psalm
2:7
I
tell you of the decree: The Lord said to Me, “You are My Son; today I have
begotten You.”
The
Messiah is uniquely God’s Son.
Matthew
3:17
And
behold a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well
pleased.”
The
Father declares that Jesus is His Son.
The
word Son here does not mean offspring. It means of the same substance. Jesus
and the Father are of the same substance. Jesus is God in the flesh.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is knowing and serving Jesus as God.
Isaiah
61:1-2
The
Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to bring
good news to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God.
The
Messiah would bring a message of forgiveness and hope to all people.
In
Luke 4:18-19 Jesus reads this passage from Isaiah and in Luke 4:21 Jesus said,
“Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.
Jesus
is saying that He had come to proclaim this message that Isaiah said the
Messiah would proclaim, and He did.
Raise
the Roof and Remove the Walls is us as the church, God’s people, proclaiming
the message of Jesus.
As
God’s People Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,
Joe
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