Christ The Branch

Q: What does the Bible say about the coming of the Messiah?

Isaiah 11 prophesies the coming of the Messiah, describing Him as a branch from the stem of Jesse. The Bible reveals the coming of the Messiah in Isaiah 11, where it states, 'There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,' pointing to the lineage of David. This passage emphasizes Jesus as the righteous branch who brings salvation and justice, fulfilling God's covenant promises. Additionally, prophecies throughout the Old Testament, including Isaiah 7:14 and Isaiah 9:6, elaborate on His miraculous birth and divine nature as 'God with us' and the 'Mighty God.' Each prophecy affirms that the Messiah's coming was decreed by God and would bring hope and restoration to His people.

Q: How do we know Jesus is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy?

Jesus fulfills Old Testament prophecy through His birth, lineage, and the characteristics ascribed to Him in scripture. The New Testament confirms Jesus as the Messiah and fulfills the prophecies made in the Old Testament. Scriptures such as Matthew and Luke provide genealogies connecting Jesus to David, highlighting Him as the prophesied 'son of David.' Acts 2 and 13 reference Psalm 132:11 affirming that God swore to set one of David's descendants on the throne, which is ultimately achieved in Christ. Furthermore, Jesus' life, actions, and His attributes—as described in Isaiah 11—corroborate the truth of His messianic role, demonstrating that God has orchestrated His plan of redemption.

Q: Why is understanding Jesus as the righteous branch important for Christians?

Recognizing Jesus as the righteous branch underscores His role in salvation and God's faithfulness to His promises. Understanding Jesus as the righteous branch is vital for Christians as it encapsulates the fulfillment of God’s promises to His people. Through Christ, believers gain assurance of justification and righteousness before God. Isaiah 11 portrays Christ as one who will execute judgment and justice in the earth, reinforcing that faith in Him leads to salvation because He embodies the righteous character of God. By acknowledging Jesus as the righteous branch, Christians are reminded of their identity in Him, their reliance on His completed work for salvation, and their future promises rooted in His faithfulness.

Q: What role does the Spirit of the Lord play in the life of Jesus according to Isaiah?

Isaiah describes the Spirit of the Lord resting upon Jesus, granting Him wisdom, counsel, and power for His mission. In Isaiah 11, it is stated that 'the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him,' indicating that Jesus is anointed and empowered by the Holy Spirit for His mission on earth. This anointing includes attributes like wisdom, understanding, and might, which empower Him to fulfill the role of the righteous Savior effectively. The Spirit equips Jesus for His prophetic, priestly, and kingly offices, ensuring that He perfectly executes God’s plan and demonstrates divine authority. This understanding encourages believers to rely on the same Spirit for guidance and empowerment in their lives as they follow Christ.

Q: How does the prophecy of the branch relate to God's covenant promises?

The prophecy of the branch is integral to God's covenant, fulfilling His promise to David and demonstrating His faithfulness. The prophecy of the branch in Isaiah 11 is deeply rooted in God’s covenant with David, where He promised an everlasting kingdom through his lineage. This is seen in 2 Samuel 7 and Psalm 89, which articulate God's unbreakable covenant commitment. The 'righteous branch' symbolizes the fulfillment of this promise as Jesus emerges from the line of David, confirming that God's decrees come to fruition as He promised. For Christians, this underlines the faithfulness of God to His Word and reassures believers that their salvation is secure in Christ, who upholds the covenant of grace established for His people.

This evening we want to take a look at Isaiah 11, and I'm entitling the message from what it says in verse 1. And there shall come, there shall come forth. And here again is the prophecy of the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse.

That's the tribe of Judah. That's David's father, and a branch shall grow out of his loins, his roots, and the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom, understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord." Describing our blessed Redeemer, the branch. He is called in the book of Jeremiah, the righteous branch. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days, Judah shall be saved. Call his name Jesus, he shall save his people from their sin, and Israel shall dwell in safety.

This is the name whereby he shall be called, The Lord, our righteousness. And then we read in Jeremiah 33, where she shall be called, that is the bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. The bride of Christ wears his name. She shall be called the Lord, our righteousness. And we know what that means.

That's one of those seven names, Jehovah Sidcanu, Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Rapha, We had that in our bulletin not too long ago. I hope you saved that and put it in the back of your bulletin. I told you a story before, getting a little sidetracked here. I told you a story before about a preacher friend of mine who was out in his yard working and those people came along from the watchtower group who called themselves Jehovah Witnesses. And they came up and started talking to my preacher friend and they told him that they were the witnesses of Jehovah. He said, oh, he said, what do you know about Jehovah Jireh? What? What do you know about Jehovah Sid Canu? What? What do you know about Jehovah Rapha? And they said, we don't know any of those. He said, you're not a Jehovah witness. He said, I'm a Jehovah witness. They didn't know any of those seven names. He went down to all those seven names. We don't know. God's people know, don't they?

Now we've seen in our study through Isaiah, the prophet had told us about the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember in Isaiah 714, a virgin shall bring forth a child. A virgin shall give birth to a child. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a son. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel, God with us.

We looked at that a few weeks ago. Not too long ago, we looked at Isaiah 9, 6, where the Lord keeps telling us about the coming Messiah. For unto us a child is born, a son is given, and government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. The Messiah is coming.

The child was born, but the Son of God was given of God. And then here in Isaiah 11, the prophet declares unto us that the Lord Jesus Christ should come through the house of David, Jesse's son, and through David himself. It's interesting, we're gonna see in Jeremiah, excuse me, in Genesis 49, when Jacob was dying and he blessed all of his sons, when it came time to bless Judah, He declared, Jacob declared the Messiah would come through the tribe of Judah, that was a kingly tribe. And here's what he said, the scepter shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh come, Shiloh is the son of peace or the prince of peace.

Christ is called in Revelation 5, 5, remember from our study? The Lord, he's called the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. No doubt you can trace the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's given in Matthew and in Luke. You can trace it right back to David, Abraham, Adam. Now let's take a look at verse 1, and there shall come forth a rod A rod of strength and power out of the stem, a root of Jesse, and a branch shall grow up out of his loin.

The Lord Jesus Christ, the body that was prepared for him to use and to dwell in to accomplish our salvation came through the family of David. Just as God said it would, you know what happened? And there shall come forth. God said it and that settled it, right?

Made of a woman in the fullness of thee time, God sent forth his son made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law. In Roman chapter one, remember we studied, he was made of the seed of David, made of the seed of David and declared to be the son of God. Now, he's not made the son of God, he's made of the seed of David, but he's declared to be the son of God.

It's interesting, both Peter and Paul quote from Psalm 132 verse 11, where it said, The Lord has sworn in truth unto David, Psalm 132 verse 11, He will not turn from it, of the fruit of the body will I set upon the throne, the fruit of thy body I will set upon the throne, the everlasting throne, talking about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Both Peter in Acts chapter 2 and Paul in Acts chapter 13 both quote that scripture and apply it to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the fulfillment of all scripture.

Now I like the positive language of Holy Scripture, there shall come and it came to pass and there shall come and in that day There shall be a root of Jesse down in verse 10. Why shall it come to pass? And there shall come. How can we speak in such positive terms that this is gonna happen? Because God has decreed it to be so. Everything God has decreed in eternity in time will come to pass. He said, I've spoken it. I purposed it. I'll bring it to pass. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. We studied in Psalm 2, God said, I'll set my king upon my holy hill, Zion.

God, that's God's doing. That's God's doing. It says there in verse 1, he shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse. The Lord Jesus Christ in his humanity has a very meager beginning. Born in a cow stable. Think about that. The king of kings, the lord of lords. There's no place for Joseph or Mary in the end. They put them up in a barn. The lord was born in a barn. The god Panmediato. A rod out of the stem of Jesse or a twig out of the sprig. of a tree.

The Lord Jesus Christ in his humanity was born very low, born lowly, as a lowly servant. Both Joseph and Mary, if you run their lineage back, both Joseph and Mary were the tribe of Judah, house of Jesse, family of David. Turn over here to Isaiah 53. Be familiar with this one, Isaiah 53. A lowly beginning. He thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but he took upon himself the form of a servant. Isaiah 53, 1. Who hath believed thy report? To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall go up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. He had no form, no comeliness when we see him. There's no beauty in him that we should desire him. He's despised, rejected of men, a man of sorrows, appointed with grief. We hid as it were our faces from him. He's despised, and we esteemed him not.

Can anything, can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Come and see. Come and see. He had a very lowly beginning, but he shall be, what it says there, a fruitful branch and a branch shall grow. That's a fruitful branch. A branch shall grow. We're gonna study, Lord willing, on Sunday in Genesis 2, we're gonna talk about the tree of life. The tree of life, the Lord Jesus Christ is that tree of life. Life is in him.

He shall be a fruitful branch, a fruitful branch of the Lord. Turn a couple pages back to Isaiah chapter four. Isaiah chapter four, verse two. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped the vigil and it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion and he that remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy even everyone that is written among the living in Jerusalem when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and shall purge the blood of Jerusalem from the mist thereof by the spirit of judgment and bring the spirit of burning, burning.

He's a fruitful branch. The Lord said, I'm the vine, you're the branches. Divide in me. We studied in Revelation 22, verse 16, which says, I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify unto you the things in the churches. The Lord said, I'm the root and offspring of David. The bright and morning star. And that's what He is. Look at verse 2 and 3. I love this description of the fruitful branch of the Lord, the Lord our righteousness.

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, the Spirit of counsel, might, the Spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord, as you'll make Him a quick understanding. or shall make him to sense or smell in 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, but with righteous judgment, righteous shall he judge the poor and the meek. So he has a spirit of wisdom. Proverbs chapter 8 sometimes, you read it, it's all about my, God said, my wisdom.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God. In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. In Him. He is a wise, skilled Savior. He knows how to get the job done, doesn't He? He knows how to get the job done. You remember Isaiah 42 verse 4 where it says, he shall not fail nor be discouraged. The Lord Jesus Christ, he gets the job done.

He said, one of the first things that he said that's recorded in scripture, the words out of his mouth as a 12 year old boy. Remember what he said, I must be about my father's business. And he always was about his father's business. He said, I came, my meat is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish His work. He finished the work of redemption for us and left nothing for us to do. I'm thinking about this song today. It just came into my mind. Upon a life I did not live. Upon a death, I did not die. Another's life, another's death, I rest my hope eternally." Upon what he did, upon his faithfulness, upon his faithfulness.

And he said, the spirit of understanding. He has all understanding and wisdom. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning. He finished the work of God for us. Our blessed Savior has perfect, complete knowledge of all things. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning. He has perfect knowledge of all things. He knows all the terms of the covenant of grace and how to perfectly execute those terms of the covenant for us. He's called the surety of the everlasting covenant, which is a better covenant established upon better promises. Aren't you glad that he is faithful? that he has all understanding and power able to save to the uttermost as a surety of the covenant.

And then it says, the spirit of counsel shall rest upon him. The spirit of counsel shall rest upon him. You remember in Isaiah 9, 6, he's called the mighty counselor, isn't he? The almighty counselor. He revealed unto us the way of salvation. He's hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto us.

Peter, whom do men say that I am? They say different things. Peter, whom do you say that I am? Oh, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. You're a blessed man, Peter. Flesh and blood did not reveal that to you, but my Father. He's the almighty counselor. He's the counselor we need. And then he says the spirit of might, the spirit of the almighty God. He has all power in heaven and in earth. Aren't you glad He has all power? Aren't you glad all things are under His control? That He rules and reigns over all things? He's the one that is in Isaiah 61, don't turn when we read it to you, in Isaiah 61 where it says, that He is mighty to save. Isaiah 63, I think it is. I that speak in righteousness, I'm mighty to save. Isaiah 63, 1.

And then he says, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of knowledge. He has the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom. He has all wisdom and power, understanding. He knows all things. The spirit of counsel. He's a mighty counselor. He's the almighty God. He has the spirit of knowledge. He knows all things. He knows all things. How does he know all things? The foreknowledge of God arrives from the fact that he's decreed all things. He knows all things because he's decreed all things. He is omniscient, all-knowing. He knows our thoughts afar off.

This is the God with whom we have to do. Let me read this to you and don't turn on me to read it to you. Psalm 139. O Lord, thou hast searched me, verse 1, and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting, my uprising. Thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, art acquainted with all my ways. There is not a word in my tongue but, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. He knows all our thoughts. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. We read that recently, didn't we? Where is that found?

Hebrews 4, verse 13. Hebrews 4, verse 13. And then it says, The spirit of the fear of the Lord, Jehovah His Father, shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of the Spirit of the Lord, Jehovah his Father, shall rest upon him as the God-man mediator. He had the highest regard and esteem to the holy will of God.

In the garden he prayed, Father, not my will, thy will be done. You know, when the Lord, when the Lord, you read that prayer, and I, in Matthew chapter six, when he was teaching his disciples to pray, The Lord's prayer is not Matthew 6, that's the disciples prayer. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.

And then he says, Lord, feed us. Lord, forgive us. Lord, lead us. And Lord, deliver us. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. We are to pray, Lord, Thy will be done. And then ask for grace to submit unto it. That's what our Lord did. Look at verse 3 and 4 now. And He shall make him quick. And that's an old English word, I guess. But the marginal reference says there, scent or smell. He is a scent of understanding.

In the fear of the Lord, And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, either reprove after the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness shall he judge the poor. His judgment is always righteous. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meat of the earth.

And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, at the breath of his lips, What did God do to Adam? He breathed into him the breath of life. With the breath of his lips, he shall slay the wicked. But with the breath of his mouth, he gives life too. You have to be quick until we're dead.

All power is given unto me in heaven and earth. Verse three and four, that he should be the very exact He is very exact in his administration of his government and the exercise of his power committed to him. The acts of his government are true and righteous altogether. His government, there shall be no end and shall not increase or decrease. With righteousness he shall judge.

Now, let's look at a couple of things here. It says there he has quick understanding. That is, he has a keen sense of smell. He can smell a phony. He can smell a hypocrite. And he undressed those Pharisees, didn't he? Our Lord had a sharp, discerning spirit. You remember in Isaiah 65, we studied that not too long ago. Or it says there, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou. You remember what the Lord said?

There's smoke in my nose. He smells a phony. He knows a hypocrite. He said in Matthew 23, those Pharisees, they said, you're like a bunch of whited supplicants. You look pretty good on the outside, all polished up with the veneer of self-righteousness. But what is within that grave? Dead men bones. He knows our frame. He knows that we're but dust.

His judgment and reproving and rebuke are with righteousness, it says in verse 4. But with righteousness shall He judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth. He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, with the breath of His Word, With the breath of his lips, you slay the wicked.

His judgments are not by outward appearance, but with equity, impartiality, and fairness. We read in scripture several times, he's no respecter of person, Jew or Gentile, male or female, young or old. The Lord will justly save or justly condemn every sinner whom he wisely saves or wisely condemns. Everything he does, he does in justice and righteousness. He will save sinners, but he has to be a just God and Savior. He will save sinners, but not at the expense of his justice, not at the expense of his holiness. Justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne. The wages of sin is death. Thank God there's a second part to that. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The poor and the meek, or the needy sinner, He will justify and save them by His grace. He's nigh unto them of a broken heart, saving such as be of a contrite spirit. You remember in Psalm 40, we read this several times in the Psalm, David said, I'm poor and needy, Yet the Lord thinks upon me. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor. Those who are poor in spirit, they're blessed of God.

And reproved with equity for the meek. Blessed are the meek, they shall inherit the earth. You remember? Matthew chapter 5. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he'll slay the wicked. Depart from me, he said. You remember those people said in Matthew 7, Lord, we preached in your name. Lord, we've done many wonderful works in your name. Lord, we've done this and Lord, we've done that. And we did these things in your name.

Depart from me. I never knew you. He called their work workers of iniquity. So he will reprove them with the breath of his lips and he shall slay the wicked. There's a day of judgment coming. The day of wrath is coming. The day of judgment is coming for those outside of Christ. God is a consuming fire. That gets us down to verse 5. Every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Look at verse 5.

And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins. and faithfulness. I love those two words, righteousness and faithfulness. That describes the branch, the righteous branch, doesn't it? Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? Yes, he surely will. He always has and always will. He's the king of kings and he's the king of righteousness. He's the king of peace that operates in all things with an absolute holiness. He is the faithful King.

Our salvation, our salvation, as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, our salvation is based upon His faithfulness, not ours. I got a letter, email, from a listener on Sermon Audio, and she listened to that message, and remember in that message I was pointing out that we're justified by the faith of Christ. Remember, I read several scriptures. We're justified by the faith of Christ. We're not justified by our faith. Our faith, as God given, lays hold upon Christ, who justifies us by his grace.

But the lady wrote me a letter, email, and asked a good question about, is our salvation based upon our faithfulness or his? Well, I wrote her back and I said, it's based upon his faithfulness, not ours. Our faith did not die for our sin. Faith does not accomplish salvation. Faith received, and faith is a gift of God, faith receives Christ who accomplish salvation. It's the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, not our faithfulness, it's his, it's his. The Lord Jesus Christ faithfully executed all of his office as the Messiah, prophet, priest, and king. A prophet to reveal, a priest to redeem, and a king, what does a king do? A king reigns. He reigned. Verse 6 down through verse 9, we see here, we see here the grace of God in action. The grace of God in experience.

The wolf Because of his faithfulness, because of his righteousness, because of his reign, the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb. Now, naturally, the wolf is a predator. And the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the little goat, and a calf, and a young lion. and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them." This is the fruit of grace. This is the fruit of the Spirit. The cow and the bear shall feed, and the young one shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like an ox. Changes of nature. And the suckling child shall play on the hole of an asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den.

And 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 water cover the sea." There's going to be a day in which God is going to make a new heaven and a new earth where all things will be peaceful. Like the paradise that God created for Adam and put Adam in that Garden of Eden. Before the ugliness of sin entered in. Adam had a beautiful paradise.

There was no blood. The animals lived and got along together. Everything was at peace. He had no mansion. He had this beautiful garden. The sky was the roof. The grass was the carpet. The environment was perfect. A perfect man in a perfect environment.

That's what we're going to have in the new heaven and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. He's going to make a new heaven and a new earth. God's grace sent into the lives of His people produced peace. When the Prince of Peace reigned, there's peace in the heart. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. And this is what we experience in the new birth. When the Prince of Peace invades our heart, our mind, our will, and our affections, he makes us new creatures in the Lord Jesus Christ. God is able to save us and humble us in his sight and to make us well together in peace.

I think of that man, the wild man of the tombs who was running wild and cutting himself and they tried to bind him with chains and he'd break them loose and he was just a wild, crazy man and nobody could do anything with him until one day he met the Lord Jesus Christ.

And they came and they found that man sitting at the feet of the Lord, Jesus cried. He was no longer naked, he was clothed. He was no longer running wild, he was sitting. And he was no longer crazy, he was in his right mind. And they come to Jesus and see him that was possessed with the devil, that had a legion, sitting and clothed. in his right mind and they were afraid of him.

That's the experience of grace. The grace of God makes us new creatures in Christ. I think of the story of Saul of Tarsus. That man hated the Lord Jesus Christ. He's breathing out threatening of slaughter against the Lord's people. Remember in Acts chapter 9. He held the coat of those who stoned Stephen to death. And he stood there with delight as Stephen was stoned to death. And then he made havoc of the church, arresting believers and hauling them into prison, giving consent to their death.

But one day he met the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. And God unhorsed him and put him in the dust. And then old Saul of Tarsus cried out, Lord, what will you have me to do? He said, well, you go down and I'll send you a man with a message, and he'll tell you what to do. And later on in that chapter, we find the apostle Paul now, Saul of Tarsus, that religious, self-righteous Pharisee.

Now he's preaching those things he once destroyed. How do you account for such a radical change? One time he hated the Lord Jesus Christ, now he loves the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, grace makes us to love those things we once hated and to hate those things we once loved.

Newborn babes in Christ shall not be harmed nor destroyed by the wild and tricky of the devil or false teachers. They cannot be deceived. They're kept by the power of God. They're kept from falling by His power. They shall not hurt nor destroy, verse 9, in all my holy mountain.

For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea, verse 10. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for a sign, a banner, a signal of the people to which shall the Gentiles seek. Talking about seeking salvation where it's found in Christ. and his rest shall be glorious." Glorious rest. And that's what we have in the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, come unto me and rest, and I'll give you all things, all blessings in Christ. The righteous branch, he shall be called and we shall be called. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon him.

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What does the Bible say about the coming of the Messiah?

How do we know Jesus is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy?

Why is understanding Jesus as the righteous branch important for Christians?

What role does the Spirit of the Lord play in the life of Jesus according to Isaiah?

How does the prophecy of the branch relate to God's covenant promises?

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What does the Bible say about the coming of the Messiah?

How do we know Jesus is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy?

Why is understanding Jesus as the righteous branch important for Christians?

What role does the Spirit of the Lord play in the life of Jesus according to Isaiah?

How does the prophecy of the branch relate to God's covenant promises?

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