Jesus Is The Branch

[Ella85]

Isaiah 11:1-10

King James Version (KJV)

11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
2 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 of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.



"He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch" (Proverbs 11:28).
It is used to describe God's people as they came out of Egypt and were planted as a vine in the land of Canaan (Psalm 80:7-12). Christ states that He is the vine and His disciples are the branches (John 15:1), illustrating how disciples must have fruit in Him or be cut off.

 

[p_rehbein]

Romans 11:16) For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 .) And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 .) Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 .) Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 .) Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 .) For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 .) Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 .) And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

 

[4enlightment]

It is kind of hard to explain the spiritual nature of the realm of God into physical understanding because it doesn't have any limits at all in the spiritual realm, and which the physical has its limitations. When a man and a woman become one, they are still two it is because we are limited; but the spirits can join together to become one and be complete. No matter how hard a man and woman press themselves together to become completely one, they can't because of their limitations; but in spirit they can. If they decide to create a son from their physical soul and which the son is apart of both of them, but the son is still separated from them physically and spiritually, because the two has different views and opinions and they weren't one at all. But when some being that comes from out of God, is God; the two are alike, but they are not to be consider as separate beings, because His son will be an exact duplicate of God and which God can change into any physical form at will and any other dimensional being of the other dimensions or you can say heavens. The spirit is somewhat like how we perceive air; the air from the north can combine itself to the air in the south, but you can't tell the two apart because they both are the same. It says , "Bless is He whom comes in the name of the Lord;" it is saying that His name or title is Lord because God had put apart of His spirit inside of a physical being because the people can only relate to a God that they can see because trying to understand His spiritual nature is mind-blowing like trying to understand cosmology.

John 3:34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

Romans 6:19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.

John 3:12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

1 Corinthians 15:49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.

Hebrews 9:1 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.

Haggai 2:5 ‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’