Who are you a branch of?
Zechariah 1-3/John 9-12
How to get the most out of Hungry Bible
OT
3:8 Listen to me, O Jeshua the high priest, and all you other priests. You are symbols of the good things to come. Soon I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.
NT
9:39 Then Jesus told him, “I have come to judge the world. I have come to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.”
:41 “If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied. “But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.”
10:14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me.” Jesus Words
OT Flash Points
My Servant, the Branch
NT Flash Points
The Branch arrives
Branch?
“I say whatever the Father tells me to say”
Also Son and Lord of David
Perspective
Redemption creates the need it satisfies
A system wholly separate from our life until it absorbs us
1Cor 2:14
But people who aren’t Christians can’t understand these truths from God’s Spirit
It all sounds foolish to them because only those who have the Spirit can understand what the Spirit means
This rules out the consumer mentality, trying to satisfy our spiritual hunger outside our actual experience
That requires true contrition, not shopping – “Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God…” 1Peter 5:6