This Sunday we are looking at Jesus Comes To Us As:
A Stem from a Stump... a tremendous picture in Isaiah 11 where Jesus is from the stump of Jesse:


Who was Jesse? Jesse was the father of King David, and David prefigured the
Messiah. But isn’t it interesting that I have to explain to you who Jesse was? Messiah
didn’t come from the Caesars or the Romanovs or the Hapsburgs or the Dale Earnhardt
dynasty. The Savior of the world came into history through an unknown family and
inherited a defeated throne. But from those origins, unimpressive by any standard, God
gave us a new David. God wants us to know where we can find our only hope. And it’s
not in the laboratories of science or the lecture halls of philosophy or the corridors of
human power. The only hope of the world was born in a stable in a remote corner of the
Roman Empire 2000 years ago. He was a nobody. How was that little boy qualified to
rule the world? That’s where Isaiah goes next. --Ray Ortlund