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                     The Righteous Branch - Part 1
                              Isaiah 11:1
                              01/01/2024


        1    There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of
             Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear
             fruit.  (ESV)

        Today is the eighth day of Christmas, the day the church
   remembers that Jesus was circumcised and named according to the
   ceremonial laws given by God to Moses.  As Jesus shed His first
   drops of blood on our behalf, He took upon Himself the guilt and
   punishment of our sin.  Even on the eighth day of His life, Jesus
   was our Savior from eternal death.

        Seven hundred years before Jesus was born, the prophet
   Isaiah spoke of the Savior as coming from the family of Jesse,
   King David's father.  Even though the events which followed
   Isaiah's prophecy seemed to show that King David's dynasty was
   obliterated, there remained descendants of the King who were poor
   and humble.

        Isaiah wrote: ``There shall come forth a shoot from the
   stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.''
   Both Matthew and Luke show that Jesus was descended from David.
   The angel Gabriel told the virgin Mary, ``And behold, you will
   conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name
   Jesus.  He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most
   High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father
   David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of
   his kingdom there will be no end.''1

        Happy New Year, the long-promised Savior is born and has
   taken on your sins and mine.  May our Lord grant you a blessed
   new year, and may you grow in faith towards God.  Amen.

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   1. Luke 2:31b-33 (ESV)