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Introduction
[READING - Luke 2:1-7]
[PRAYER] Christ Is All, a Puritan prayer…
O Lover to the uttermost,
May I read the meltings of Thy heart to me
in the manger of Thy birth,
in the garden of Thy agony,
in the cross of Thy suffering,
in the tomb of Thy resurrection,
in the heaven of Thy intercession.
We pray in your holy Name, “Amen.”
Many celebrate Christmas by decorating their homes with all sort of ornamentation.
A Christmas tree with lights.
Garland across the mantle.
A nativity scene with Jesus in the manger.
If you were to ask some of them why they chose to decorate with Jesus in a manger, they might say, “It’s just nice.
Like the lights on the tree or the garland across the mantle, Jesus is the manger is just a nice decoration.”
Like lights and garland, Jesus in the manger doesn’t make any claims on us.
He doesn’t get in our business.
He doesn’t confront our sin.
He won’t get us killed.
In the manger, Jesus is manageable.
But you know that is completely wrong, don’t you?
You know that Jesus in the manger of His birth isn’t just nice decoration.
You know that Jesus in the manger is the birth of the King.
Jonathan Edwards said, “…this feeble infant, born thus in a stable, and laid in a manger, was born to conquer and triumph over Satan, that roaring lion.
He came to subdue the mighty powers of darkness, and make a show of them openly, and so to restore peace on earth, and to manifest God’s goodwill towards men, and to bring glory to God in the highest…”
Let me ask you, when you look at Jesus in the manger, what do you see?
You should see your King!
Think of what we’ve sung this morning…
Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King!
Come to Bethlehem and see Him whose birth the angels sing; Come, adore on bended knee Christ the Lord the newborn King.
Hark! the heard angels sing, “Glory to the newborn King!”
Come and behold Him, born the King of angels!
This morning I want to show you your King in Isaiah 11:1-10.
These words were sent by God through the prophet Isaiah long before the manger of Christ’s birth, but they tell us what king of King was born to us on that first Christmas morning.
[CONTEXT] Coming to Isaiah 11, understand that God has used Assyria, a powerful and wicked nation, to bring judgement on His rebellious people in Judah.
However, Assyria failed to realize that it was just the rod of discipline in God’s hand and so became prideful.
God would bring judgment on Assyria as well describing in Isaiah 10 like this…
Assyria had been the axe in God’s hand.
Now, God promised to use the axe on Assyria.
But whereas there is no promise of redemption for Assyria, there is the promise of redemption for Judah—redemption that will come through the line of King David.
Before Isaiah 11:1, one writer sets the scene of Judah’s humility like this…
“Bare stumps as far as the eye can see.
No branches waving in the wind, no birds flitting around, no life, no movement, no sound.
The world is dead.”
(Ray Ortlund, Jr.)
And then we read in Isaiah 11:1-10…
Who is this King that will come out of this wasteland?
This shoot of Jesse, this branch from the line of David?
You know, that it is Jesus!
And these verses tell us what kind of King He is!
[TS]…
Major Ideas
First, Jesus is the legitimate King (Isaiah 11:1)
[EXP] God chose the descendents of Abraham as His people.
He was their King, but eventually they wanted a king like the other nations, so God gave them a King Saul.
Saul, however, was not devoted to God and was replaced with King David, an imperfect man but still a man after God’s own heart.
God promised King David that his son, Solomon, would sit on Israel’s throne and there would never be an end to the Davidic kingdom.
In Jeremiah 33:17 God promised…
In the days of Joseph and Mary, people understood that this promised son or descendent of David was to be the Messiah, the Christ, the anointed of God who would sit on Israel’s throne forever.
If Jesus is the legitimate King, He must be the shoot of Jesse; the righteous branch of David.
This is why Matthew begins His gospel with the genealogy of Jesus, which shows that Jesus is the descendent of David.
Matthew 1:1-6 says…
And the genealogy of Jesus keeps going until we get to “Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah,” (Matt.
1:16).
Isaiah 11:1 says that the legitimate king of Israel has to be from the line of David.
Matthew 1 says that Jesus is that legitimate King!
[TS] …
Second, Jesus is the Spirit-filled King (Isaiah 11:2).
[EXP] David was empowered by the Holy Spirit, so its only fitting that this righteous branch of David is Spirit-filled.
Matthew 3:16 shows us that this is Spirit-filled King is Jesus.
Because Jesus is the Spirit-filled King He is filled with…
…wisdom and understanding,
…counsel and strength,
…knowledge and fear of the Lord (Isa.
11:2).
He is the perfectly wise, perfectly capable, and perfectly holy King!
[TS]…
Third, Jesus is the judging King (Isaiah 11:3-5).
[EXP] As King, Jesus is the perfect Judge.
Second Timothy 4:1 says that Christ Jesus to judge the living and the dead.
Second Timothy 4:8 says that Jesus is the righteous Judge.
He will judge according to divine knowledge and wisdom, according to divine perspective.
He will not be limited or misled by what He sees and hears but will judge with righteousness and fairness.
The will judge the poor with righteousness just like the rich.
He will judge the afflicted with fairness just like the powerful.
Righteousness will be upheld and wickedness slain when Jesus the King comes to judge!
[TS]…
Fourth, Jesus is the peaceful King (Isaiah 11:6-9).
[EXP] Verses 6-8 give us multiple pictures of the peace King Jesus brings.
Because of Jesus predators will not prey and the vulnerable will not be victimized.
They will not hurt or destroy in all His holy mountain—i.e., in all creation—because the knowledge of the Lord will fill the earth like the waters of the sea.
The knowledge of the Lord refers to knowing God for who He is and who we are in light of Him.
It refers to revering Him for His holiness and being in awe of Him for His love.
One day all who are His shall know YHWH this way because they will know Him through Jesus.
As Jeremiah 31:34 says…
[TS] …
Fifth, Jesus is the standing King (Isaiah 11:10).
[EXP] Isaiah 11:1 and Isaiah 11:10 both mention the shoot or root of Jesse, which pointed to Jesus.
But notice that v. 10 says that Jesus will stand as a signal for the peoples.
This signal is a banner, and earlier in Isaiah (cf., 5:26) the signal banner was used to rally the nations against God’s people.
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