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For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, like a root out of the dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, nor beauty that we should desire Him.

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Hi there and welcome to Proverbs 31 Wannabe. My name is Alexis Heaslip and on this podcast we talk about what it means to be a Proverbs 31 woman of faith and how we sometimes miss the mark. I’m sorry for not posting last week. This has been going around my house and even last night my son was sick, so prayers for that. I didn’t have an enemy to record, but I’m back today. I am so excited because I did prep this last week, hoping to have been able to record this episode. But here I am the joys of being a mom right. Sometimes our plans do not go as expected, but today we are going to be continuing this 16 part series on connecting the dots between Messianic prophecy from Old Testament to Jesus in the New Testament. There is a lot of scripture to go over and these next couple of points. I’m pretty sure. Yes, I have four main points I want to talk about today, so let’s dive on in y’all. So last time we were talking together, we were talking about how our Messiah would become into Jerusalem, being proclaimed as this mighty prince through humility. But not everyone was happy about this and we are going to be seeing how this unhappiness leads to some hatred and rejection. So the first big point that we are going to be talking about, this Messianic prophecy, this theme that is woven throughout the whole Bible, is that our Messiah, the Redeemer of the world, will be hated without cause. And we see this in many parts of the Old Testament. But I have two passages to look at. So if you’ll turn with me in your Bibles, to Isaiah, chapter 49, verses 5 through 7, and I’m reading in the Tree of Life version, let’s start at verse 5 together. So now it says Adonai, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, to gather Israel back to him. For I am honored in the eyes of Adonai and my God has become my strength. So he says it’s too trifling a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. So I will give you as a light for the nations that you should be my salvation to the ends of the earth. So this is the intention that the Lord has for Messiah. But do the people see this? Do the people accept this? Do the people respond well to this? Let’s see what verse 7 says. This says Adonai, the redeemer of Israel, their holy one, to the one despised, to the one the nations abhor, to a servant of rulers. Kings will see and arise. Princes will also bow down Because of Adonai he was faithful, the holy one of Israel who has chosen you. So what’s really interesting about this verse is that it shows us what God’s plan is for the Son, what the Father’s plan is and what his will is that the Son will be a ruler and a light of the world. But it also tells us that he will be despised and abhorred. But even though he is despised, he will overcome because Adonai, our Father, is faithful. And I think that’s really important for us to know and to understand is that a lot of the world rejects our Messiah Jesus every single day, but in the end he is the ultimate light, and the light cannot be covered. And we see this again reflected in, excuse me, the book of Psalms. If you’ll turn with me to Psalm 69, and we are going to be looking at verse 5, which tells us those who hate me without a cause outnumber the hairs on my head. People are my enemies who would destroy me with lives. What I did not steal must I restore. So, as you can see, this Psalm of David is reflecting on how David was despised without a cause, and so also our Lord Messiah was despised without a cause, because David’s life is like a reflection of the things that our Messiah was going to go through as well. David and Jesus were both despised without a cause, and yet they were called to restore the very people who hated them, and we see this throughout the New Testament. The first verse I want us to look at is in the book of Mark, which chapter 9, verse 12, I’m almost there myself. This verse tells us Now, he told them. Indeed, elijah comes first, he restores all things. And how is it written that the Son of man must suffer much and be treated with contempt? Here Jesus is clearly saying that I’m going to suffer, you guys, I am going to suffer. This is not meant to be pretty, but if you remember, the disciples just couldn’t wrap their heads around it. And over and over again in the Gospels, jesus tries to tell the disciples that he is going to be hated. We see this reflected in Luke, chapter 17,. If you’ll turn with me there, verses 20 through 36, I’ll read this with you because it’s a really powerful passage of Scripture. Then Yeshua answered and said Weren’t ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Remember? Jesus healed the ten lepers, but only one came back. Just some context in verse 17 is where this is coming from. Now, when Yeshua was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said the kingdom of God does not come with signs to be seen. Nor will they say look here or there, for behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst”. Then Yeshua said to the disciples the days will come when you will long to see of the days of the Son of man, and you will not see it. They will say to you look, look, look here, look there. Do not go and chase after them, for just as the lightning flashes from one part of the sky and lights up another part, so will the Son of man be in his day, but first but first. He must suffer much and be rejected by an entire generation, by this entire generation. As it was in the days of Noah, so will it also be in the days of the Son of man. They were eating, drinking, marrying and being given into marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It will be just as the same. In the days of Lot, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building, but on the day Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed them all. Things will be on the same day when the Son of man is made fully known. In that day, the one who is on the roof and his possessions in the house must not go down to take them away. In the same way, the one who is in the field must not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it. I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken along and the other left. There will be two women grinding and grinding at the same place. One will be taken, the other left. There will be two in the field One will be taken along and the other left. As you can see, this is a really, really powerful passage of scripture and a powerful message that Jesus taught. But even with this proclamation of what the coming of the Son of man will be like, we hear that, just like the days of Noah, the entire generation will be rejecting and hating God, and that’s so sad that their eyes were blind to the truth until it was too late. And that, to me, really breaks my heart and really puts the Great Commission into a new perspective. Because there are so many people who are living in this darkness, going day by day, not knowing who the Son of man is, who Jesus is, and I don’t want to be silent in my faith, I don’t want to be timid in my faith, because if we’re not voicing our faith, then others might not come to know him and on the day of his return they’d be left behind, and that would just break my heart. And we hear this concern and the sadness of being hated without a cause echoed again in the book of John. If you’ll turn with me to John, chapter 15, verses 18 through 25, and these powerful verses, which I’m sure many of you have heard before, echo this sentiment. If the world hates, you know that it has hated me before you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own, but you are not of the world, since I have chosen you out of the world. Therefore, the world hates you. Remember the word I spoke to you a servant is not greater than his master. If they persecute me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for the sake of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. He who hates me also hates my father. If I had not done works among them that no one else did, they would have no sin. But now they have seen and have hated both me and my father. So this is fulfilled in the word written in their scripture. They hated me for no reason. When the helper comes, whom I will send to you from the father, the spirit of truth who goes out from the father, he will testify about me, and you also testify because you have been with me from the beginning. You see, my friends, not only will Messiah be hated without cause, but those who follow him will also be hated without cause, because the world does not want to hear the truth. The world would rather live in the darkness so that they could keep on doing whatever they want without consequences. But that’s not what we are called to do. We are called to deny ourselves, take up the cross and follow him. And it’s hard to do that, and people would rather live the easy life and hate God and pretend that he doesn’t exist and not know him, rather than following God. So not only is he hated without a cause, he is also undesired and rejected by his own people, which is so heartbreaking but true. If you’ll turn with me to Isaiah 53, the so well-known passage among Christians but hidden in the Jewish communities, which is, I think, really interesting. I was listening to this podcast by Messianic Jew and he was saying growing up, they never read the scripture because the rabbis didn’t want to talk about it, because it caused too many controversies, and I think that’s just really, really interesting that they know deep down that this points to Messiah Jesus. So they choose to ignore this powerful passage of scripture and are still rejecting him to this day. And Isaiah 53, verses 2 and 3, tell us For he grew up before them like a tender shoot, like a root from the dry ground. He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, nor beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief, one from whom people hid their faces. He was despised and we did not esteem him. Boy oh boy, do I have so much to say about Isaiah 53 as a whole. And if you want to do an in-depth study on Isaiah 53 about our suffering servant, check out my Bible study that I have written and it’s called Our Suffering Servant a six-week study in Isaiah 53. We will do a complete, deep dive into this really powerful, important passage of scripture to learn how our Messiah suffered and was rejected for our sake. And if you want to learn more, I will have the link in the show notes. So just surface level, to talk really quick, he was despised and rejected by men. Many people thought that the Messiah would come as a mighty warrior or a king who was handsome and strong and buff or like the typical Disney prince that we think of. But that was not the case. Okay, he was not handsome, he was just an average run-of-the-mill Joe blow from a small little town of Nazareth. And can anything really good come from Nazareth? That’s what people thought. And he was despised. And we see this also, this theme of being rejected and rejection of Messiah, later on in Isaiah and Isaiah 63, verses 3 through 5, which tell us this I have trodden the wine press alone From the people’s. No man was with me. I trod them in my anger and I trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood battered my garments so I stained all my robes. For a day of vengeance was in my heart and my year of redemption has come. I looked, but there was no one to help. I was amazed, but no one was assisting. So my own arm won victory for me and my wrath upheld me. The people turned their backs on God and, as we’ll see, even Jesus’ own family rejected him. And it wasn’t until after the resurrection that Jesus’ brothers realized who he even was, and we’ll get to that in just a minute. But we see that reflected again back in Psalm 69, in verse 9, how Jesus Messiah was a stranger not only to his own physical brothers, who he grew up with and who he loved, but also to his disciples, and how they all scattered and ran from him. Psalm 69, verse 9, tells us I’ve become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s children, and we see this so reflected in the gospels in the book of Mark. If you’ll turn with me, I know we’re flipping back and forth, but I think it’s important that we do. In the book of Mark, if you’ll turn with me to chapter 6, verses 1 through 6, the title of this section is responding to rejection and I feel like it’s so fitting. And now Yeshua went out from there and he came to his hometown and his disciples followed him. When Shabbat came, he began to teach in the synagogue. Many listeners were amazed, saying where did this fellow get these things? What’s this wisdom given to him? Such miracles are done by his hands. Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Miriam and the brother of Jacob and Joseph and Judah and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him. Then Yeshua began saying to them a prophet is not without honor. Except in the hometown, among his relatives and in his own house, he was not able to do any miracle, except that he laid hands on a few sick people and healed him, and he was astonished because of their own belief. Isn’t that just so sad? I feel like if I was Jesus and I’d grown up with all these people, including his own brothers and sisters, and they objected to him and took offense at him, that would have just broken my heart. But isn’t that so true about how, when we have someone who’s close to us who’s not a believer and they constantly reject the truth of the gospel, it breaks your heart over and over and over again? And that’s probably how Jesus felt too. And we see this echoed in all of the gospels, and in Luke, chapter 9, verse 58, we read this heartbreaking verse. But Yeshua said to him Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head. He is a stranger to his family and the book of John. We see this echoed again throughout. First, we see it in John, chapter 1, verses 10 and 11, which tell us he was in the world and the world was made through him, but the world did not know him. He came to his own, but his own did not know him. His own did not receive him. Again, in John, chapter 7, we read this Therefore, his brother said to him leave here and go to Judea so your disciples also may see the works you’re doing. No one who wants to be well known does everything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world, for not even his brothers were trusting him. Not even his brothers trusted him. And this passage continues. Therefore, yeshua said to them my time has not yet come, but your time is always at hand. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil. You go on up for the feast. I’m not going to this feast because my time has not yet fully come. And after he said those things, he stayed in Galilee. His brothers were openly hostile toward him. How heartbreaking that much be. But it wasn’t just his brothers. He was also rejected by Jewish leadership. But through this rejection comes this beauty, and we have a lot to talk about with this third point. So Psalm 118, if you’ll turn with me back to the book of Psalms and I kind of went down on a rabbit hole at this point and I wasn’t expecting to. So I hope you enjoy this, because I learned a lot from these little verses that are so familiar and and yet there’s still so much to learn about them, about how Christ’s rejection brings ultimate joy. So, psalm 18, verses 22 through 24 they’re super famous verses, but let’s read them together. The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, the cornerstone. It is from Adonai. It is marvelous in our eyes, this is the day that Adonai has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. Although Jesus is rejected by the people, whether it be the leaders, the Jewish leaders, or his brother, he ends up being the cornerstone of the faith, because he is Messiah and Redeemer and we are to rejoice in that. And there are three different passages of scripture in the New Testament that really exemplify this point Matthew 21, 33 through 46, mark 12, 1 through 12 and Luke 20, 23 and 24. Is this parable of the vineyard? I’m going to just look at one of these passages, and I’m a bit biased to Matthew and Luke, but today we’re gonna look at Matthew because it flushes things out more than the version in Luke. So let’s turn to Matthew 21,. And we’re gonna start at verse 33. Listen to another parable. There was a master of a household who planted a vineyard. He put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it and built a tower. Then he leased it to some tenant farmers and went on a journey. Now, when fruit season drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. But, grabbing his servants, the tenants beat up one, killed another and stoned another Again. The master sent other servants, even more than the first, even more than the first, and they did the same. Finally, he sent his son to them, saying they will respect my son. But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves this is the heir. Come on, let’s kill him and get his inheritance. So, grabbing him, they threw him out of the vineyard and they killed him. Therefore, when the master of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants? He will bring those miserable men to a miserable end, they said to him, and will lose the vineyard to other tenants. He will give him his share of the fruits in their seasons. This is where it gets interesting. Yeshua said to them have you never read the scriptures? The stone which the builders rejected, it has become the chief cornerstone. This came from Adonai and it is marvelous in our eyes. Therefore, I say to you the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to people producing its fruits. Whoever falls on the stone will be shattered, but the one upon whom it falls, it will crush him. When the ruling Kohanim and the Pharisees heard Yeshua’s parables, they realized he was talking about them. Although they were trying to seize him, they feared the crowds because they regarded him as a prophet. This is so powerful because it makes people realize and it made the prideful Pharisees and priests realize if you’re just full of pride and you think you’re looking good and you’re more concerned about how you look to others, but you’re not actually producing fruit, you will be crushed in the end and the kingdom of God will be taken from you. And this powerful, stunning message we see this throughout the New Testament and it really makes you want to do some self-reflection. I don’t know about you, but it makes me want to do some self-reflection. Am I just doing things to look good in front of other people or do I have a genuine faith that’s producing fruit and bearing fruit? And Peter in the book of Acts reflects on this and gives the whole gospel message and just a couple of verses. If you’ll turn with me to Acts, chapter four, we’re gonna look at verses eight through 12. So let’s start at verse eight together. Then Peter filled with the Ruach Hakodesh. The Holy Spirit said to them, rulers and elders of the people if we are on trial today for a command mitzvot done for a sick man as to how this fellow was healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that the name of Yeshua Hamasiyak Hanathrati. Yeshua Jesus, the Messiah of Nazareth, whom you have crucified, who God raised from the dead, this one stands before you whole. This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you, the builders, that has become the chief cornerstone. There is salvation, and no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. That is the entire gospel in a nutshell. You think you have salvation Through your good works are, from looking good or forgiving money and looking great and being applauded by your peers. No, the only way for redemption is through Messiah Jesus, and it’s not just for the Jews. This redemption is not just for the Jews, it is for anyone who comes to him. And this was a radical thought, because a lot of the Jewish people were proud people and did not believe that the Gentiles were worthy of God’s love. But Paul Tells us this how Jew and Gentile are one in Messiah, in Ephesians, chapter 2. Let’s start at verse 11. Therefore, keep in mind that once you, gentiles in the flesh, were called uncircumcised by those called circumcised, which is performed on flesh by hand, at that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the Commonwealth of Israel and Strangers to the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now, in Messiah Yeshua, you who are once far off have been brought near by the blood of Messiah, for he is our shalom, he is our peace, the one who made the two into one and broke down this middle wall of separation. Within his flesh, he made powerless the hostility the law code of mitzvot contain in regulations. He did this in order to create within himself one new man from the two groups making shalom and To reconcile both to God and one body through the cross, by which he put the hostility to death. He came and proclaimed shalom to you who were far away, and shalom to those who were near, for through him, we both have access to the father by the same Ruach, the same spirit. So, then, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow Citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household. You have been built on the foundation Made up of the emissaries and prophets, with Messiah Yeshua himself being the cornerstone in him. The whole Building being fitted together is growing into a holy temple for the Lord. In him, you also are being built together into God’s dwelling place in the Ruach in the spirit. Jesus Christ, our Messiah, is everyone’s cornerstone, even though the Jewish leaders rejected him. He is for Jew, he is for Gentile. If you Accept Jesus, you are grafted into Israel and you are free Again. This is echoed Beautifully in first Peter, chapter 2, verses 4 through 12, which tell us this as you come to him, a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious you also as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up Spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Messiah Yeshua. For it says in scriptures Behold, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen, precious cornerstone. Whoever trust in him will never be put to shame. Now the value is For you who are you keep trusting. But for those who do not trust the stone which the builders rejected, this one has become the chief cornerstone and A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble because they are disobeying the word. To this they were also appointed. But you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a People for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of the darkness Into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have been shown mercy. These verses are so powerful, so, so, so powerful, because it demonstrates us that God so loved the world. Not just the Jewish leaders said he gave his one and only son so that whoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life. Eternal life and this leads to a really upsetting point, because he came for everyone, but yet everyone plotted against Jesus, the Jewish people and the Gentiles, and they plot it together. And we see this Not only in the New Testament, but it’s predicted in the Old Testament as well. For example, psalm 2, verses 1 through 3, tell us this why are the nations in an uproar and the people’s matter vanity? The kings of the earth set themselves up and rulers conspire together against Adonai and Against his anointed one. Let’s rise up their chains, let’s rip their chains apart, excuse me and throw their ropes off us. So this Psalm is just, you know, a small demonstration on how not just the Jewish people, who knew the word of God but rejected it over and over and over again, from look at the prophets, all the examples of the prophets, but also non-Jewish nations, and how they treat it as Adonai. They conspired and Plotted and went an annihilation of not only the Jewish people but the Jewish God. And and we see this in the New Testament how, even though Gentiles and Jews, the relationships were messy at best and Volatile mostly at best their mutual hatred, hatred for Jesus as Messiah, brought different factions of Jews together and brought the Roman government to conspire Against Jesus. And this was not the normal. There were Herodians and Pharisees and Sadducees and all these different groups of Judaism, and they had varying beliefs about who God was, but they teamed up together. And we see this one example in Mark 3, verse 6. The Pharisees went out right away with the Herodians and began plotting against him and how they might destroy them. The Pharisees and Herodians hated each other, but they had Even more hatred towards Jesus Because they didn’t like what he had to say, and so they teamed up along with other groups like the Sadducees and Even the Romans, who all Jews hated. But yet the Jewish leaders had so much pride that they were willing, in their vanity, to team up with Rome to destroy Jesus. One example is in Acts, chapter four, if you turn with me, verses 23 through 31. And these verses show us this prayer for courage that Peter and John had, and I think it’s really beautiful. And in this prayer I won’t read all of it, but Peter prays for courage and calls out Herod and Pilate, for truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with Gentiles and peoples of Israel, were gathered together in the city against your holy servant, jesus, who you anointed. That’s Acts, chapter four, verse 27 specifically. So we acknowledge that Jew and Gentile alike, people who hated each other, pilate and Herod, who did not get along, all came together and teamed up against Jesus. And I want us to end on this note, because there’s so much more to talk about. It shows you how the truth scares everyone. The truth can scare people and frustrate people and enrage. People who are in power, who normally don’t get along, but because of their desire to stay in control, to stay in power, will team up and fight against the truth. And we see this happening in our world all the time, whether it be with politicians, whether it be with those in any position of power, whether it be in the business world or the political world. You see how, when people want to be able to live their life, live their truth without anyone interfering, and someone with faith comes in and shines the light of Jesus on a dark and ugly situation, people will team up and fight against it. This is happening in our government. This is happening in our hospital system. I just heard the other week of this family in Montana who lost custody of their daughter because their daughter, at 12 years old, was wanting to transition and they didn’t support their daughter. So the hospital and social services work together with the courts and has taken their daughter away from them against their will and is allowing this child to transition. And we as Christians need to be aware as to what is going on. And this family is not only trying to fight it, but the court has gag ordered them so that they can’t talk about it, and they’re bravely talking about it anyway. I’ll link an episode to a podcast below by Ali B Stuckey about, and she actually interviewed the family against the court’s wishes. And now the families, the parents, are potentially facing jail time for speaking up against this outrageous behavior. And we as Christians, if you think that this couldn’t happen to you or me, think again, because this is happening all across the United States, this is happening in Europe, this is happening everywhere. So we, as parents, need to be strong in our faith. We need to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. Teach these things to our children, talk about it all the time, stay with our children and be on guard, because the world is fighting and teaming up so hard so that darkness rules, but when we have faith in Jesus, no matter what is happening, we can overcome. Thank you for listening to Proverbs 31 1b. We hope you enjoyed the show. If you liked what you hear, please give us a comment. We would love to hear from you guys. If you have any questions, leave us a comment, rate us, find us anywhere on social media. We have X, we have the TikTok, we have threads, instagram. You can find us anywhere. We would love to hear from you guys. Email us, find us on our website. We just would love, love, love to hear from you guys, especially my listeners who live in other countries, and I see some of my listeners live in countries that aren’t Christian countries. Hi guys, I hear you, I see you, I know you’re listening. Thank you for listening and I pray that, through my imperfect abilities as just a woman who loves God, that you’re able to hear the truth of the gospel and if you have the courage. I pray that you accept Jesus in your heart and you share this love of God with others. Until next time. This is Alexis Heaselip, and I pray you have a fantastic rest of your day, god bless.