Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the morning mindset. I hope you're ready today in our

Advent celebration to align your mind with the truth of God. And as a result, get your

heart aligned and get yourself aligned as a whole being with the truth and the will of

God for your life today. We are going to be looking at the qualities of our Messiah Jesus

as he came to the earth that are qualities of righteousness. That's where we're going

to be today. Before we dive in, I want to thank a couple of people who have become partners

with us here at the morning mindset. These are people who support us on a monthly basis

for as little as $5. I want to thank Valerie and I want to thank Jonathan. Thank you for

coming on as partners of the morning mindset. If you're interested in finding out how

you can become a partner, you can look at the description of this episode or you can

go to carrygreen.com. All right, we are diving into the book of Isaiah, chapter 11, verses

one through 10. Now Isaiah is not a book that most modern day Christians are really familiar

with, but it is a prophetic book that God gave to his people when they were in a time of slavery

in Babylon. And it predicted at many points the coming of Israel's Messiah, which is what

Jesus was. He was their savior. He was their redeemer. And when he came as a child and

grew up and became a man and lived a perfect life, he was functioning and doing things in

a way that they did not anticipate because they had kind of read into all of the prophecies,

their own agenda of a political Messiah. And that day will come for sure, but it is not

in the manner in which they thought. Now let's read Isaiah 11 verses one through 10. And I think

you'll see how they had some confusion in their minds. It says, there shall come forth a

shoot from the stump of Jesse. Now who's Jesse? Well, Jesse is the father of King David.

So this is saying from David's line is going to come this Messiah and a branch from his roots

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