Bible Lesson: Titles Of The Church:
Church Title: The Branch.
Bible Text:
Isaiah 60:21 KJV
Thy people also
shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, The
Branch* of my planting, the work of My hands, that I may be
glorified.
*Branch-Hebrew: Netser (Nay-tser): Greenness, a shoot, a
descendant, branch.
Branch, referred to, family roots, family tree, family ancestry, etc.
The Branch,
referring to The Messiah.
The perfect
God/Man The Lord Jesus, is referred to as Man, Servant, Priest and
King.
Isaiah 4:2 KJV
In that day
shall The Branch* Of The Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the earth
(A Man)
shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
*Branch-Hebrew: Tsemach (Tseh-makh): A sprout, branch, bud,
that which grew.
Jeremiah 23:5,6
KJV
5 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.
6 In His days
Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His
name whereby He shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.
Jeremiah
33:15-17 NLT
15 “In those
days and at that time I will raise up A Righteous Descendant (The
Branch Of Righteousness KJV) from King
David’s line. He will do what is just and right throughout the
land.
16 In that day
Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will live in safety. And this will
be its name:
‘The Lord
Is Our Righteousness.’
17 For this is
what The Lord says: David will have a descendant (King)
sitting on the throne of Israel forever.
Revelation 19:16
KJV
And He hath on
His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King Of kings, And
Lord Of lords.
Zechariah 3:8
KJV
Hear now, O
Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee:
for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my Servant The Branch.
Zechariah
6:12,13 NLT
12 Tell him,
‘This is what The Lord Of Heaven’s Armies says: Here is The
Man called
The Branch.
He will branch out from where He is and build the Temple of The Lord.
13 Yes, He will
build the Temple of The Lord. Then He will receive royal honor and
will rule as
King
from His throne. He will also serve as Priest
from His throne, and there will be perfect harmony between His two
roles.’
The followers
of The Lord Jesus, were called after Him...
Matthew 2:23 KJV
And He came and
dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Acts 24:5 KJV
For we have
found this Man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all
the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the
Nazarenes:
Jesus was called a
Nazarene, and so His followers were called “the sect of the
Nazarenes.”
Acts 11:25,26 NLT
25 Then
Barnabas went on to Tarsus to look for Saul.
26 When he
found him, he brought him back to Antioch. Both of them stayed there
with the church for a full year, teaching large crowds of
people. (It was at Antioch that the believers (Followers
of Christ) were first called Christians.)
The Messiah was
called The Branch, and His people were also called The Branch.
Isaiah 11:1 NLT
Out of the
stump of David’s family will grow a shoot (The Messiah)— yes, a
new Branch bearing fruit from the old root.
A tree may be cut
down, leaving only a stump, but from the stomp, many times a new
branch, a new tree will grow.
Isaiah 60:18-22 KJV (Prophetic
View)
18 Violence
shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within
thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates
Praise.
19 The sun
shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the
moon give light unto thee: but The Lord shall be unto thee an
Everlasting Light, and thy God thy glory.
20 Thy sun
shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for
The Lord shall be thine Everlasting Light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended.
21 Thy people
also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever,
The Branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be
glorified.
22 A little one
shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I The Lord
will hasten it in his (its) time.
John 15:1-8 NLT
1 I am The True
Grapevine, and My Father is The Gardener.
2 He cuts off
every branch of Mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and He prunes the
branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
3 You have
already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.
4 Remain in Me,
and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is
severed from The Vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain
in Me.
5 “Yes, I am
The Vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in Me, and I in
them, will produce much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
6 Anyone who
does not remain in Me is thrown away like a useless branch and
withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.
7 But if you
remain in Me and My words remain in you, you may ask for anything you
want, and it will be granted!
8 When you
produce much fruit, you are My true disciples. This brings great
glory to My Father.
Hebrews 12:3-11
KJV
3 For consider
Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not
yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have
forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children,
My son, despise not thou the chastening of The Lord, nor faint when
thou art rebuked of Him:
6 For whom The
Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
7 If ye endure
chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he
whom
the father
chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be
without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye
bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore
we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them
reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto The Father
Of Spirits, and live?
10 For they
verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He
for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.
11 Now no
chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
John 13:15 KJV
For I have
given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
The Branch, has given us His life as an example of holiness and
service, what less can we do?
Romans 11:16 NLT (Read the chapter)
And since
Abraham and the other patriarchs were holy, their descendants will
also be holy—just as the entire batch of dough is holy because the
portion given as an offering is holy. For if the roots of the tree
are holy, the branches will be, too.
Proverbs 11:28
KJV
"... the
righteous shall flourish as a branch.
