{"id":160,"date":"2009-04-12T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2009-04-12T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T19:47:17","slug":"the-sprout-from-the-stump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/the-sprout-from-the-stump\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sprout from the Stump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyber-chapel.org\/sermons\/isaiah\/mp3\/isa_11_1_acts_13.mp3\">message <\/a>explores the relationship between the <strong>promotion <\/strong>of the Messiah as ruler over Israel and his <strong>resurrection <\/strong>from the dead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Isaiah hints at this theme in his graphic image of the Messiah as a sprout rising from the dead stump of Jesse&#8217;s family in 11:1. It anticipates a widespread prophetic theme that the Messiah will be, not just the son of David, but the restoration of David himself, epitomized in a pun on the verb &#8220;to raise&#8221;\u00a0 in Jer 30:9 and Ezek 34:23. Paul makes this pun the main focus of his first major recorded sermon in Acts 13. The Lord&#8217;s resurrection uniquely qualifies him to be ruler over all the earth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because he has himself successfully passed the bar of divine judgment, his <strong>integrity <\/strong>as judge of all the earth is unimpeachable.<\/li>\n<li>His ability to conquer death makes his <strong>power <\/strong>beyond challenge.<\/li>\n<li>His resurrection is evidence of the effectiveness of his redemptive work, &#8220;raised again for our justification&#8221; (Rom 4:25), and thus guarantees his <strong>grace <\/strong>toward all those who place their trust in him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s message explores the relationship between the promotion of the Messiah as ruler over Israel and his resurrection from the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon-summary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MwJP-2A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyber-chapel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}