Sermons on Isaiah (Page 2)

Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Isaiah 52.13 through Isaiah 53.12 is our passage. After a long stretch, you’re finally getting to something in Isaiah that you know might have been since chapter 9. Behold, the virgin shall conceive. That might be the last time there was something familiar to you. So here we are again at a good familiar passage. You’ll notice all kinds of things pop out at you, things that you know from the gospels, things you know from the book…

Isaiah 51:1-52:12 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 51, Isaiah 51 1 through 52 12, kind of a chapter and a half will be our passage for tonight. So last week we looked at servant song number three and next week when we get into 52 verse 13 and into chapter 53, you’ll see Servant Song number four, the one you are probably most familiar with. And then we are, believe it or not, getting in the homestretch, the backstretch of Isaiah.…

Isaiah 50:4-11 Let’s hear God’s word together. Isaiah 50, beginning at verse four. The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens. He awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious. I turned, not backward. I gave my back to those who strike…

Isaiah 50:1-3 This is the book of Isaiah chapter 50 verses 1 to 3. Thus says the Lord, or Yahweh, where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away, or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away. Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there no one to answer?…

Isaiah 49:14-26 Isaiah 49, 14 to 27 is our passage. And you’re probably wondering where in the world we are in Isaiah. So I’ll explain a little bit of that in a few moments. But let’s hear God’s word together. Isaiah 49, beginning at 14. So Zion, that would be the kind of the church in Jerusalem. Zion said, the Lord has forsaken me. My Lord has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her nursing child? that she should have…

Isaiah 49:7-26 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 49 and we are going to look at verse seven and then eight through 13. I know it says through 26, but I’ve chickened out. So Isaiah 49, seven through 13, seven or seven stands alone in a sense. Remember, um, we’re in the second servant song last week. The servant gave a little fuss. I’ve labored in vain. I’ve spent my strength for nothing in vanity. My right is with the Lord and…

Isaiah 49:1-6 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 49. I believe in your bulletin, it just says Isaiah 49, but our specific passage tonight will be verses one through six. So Isaiah 49, one through six in the book of Isaiah. Got two big breaks, chapters one to 39. Remember our funny way of saying it, chapters one to 39, God yells at all the nations. Every nation gets yelled at by God, one through 39. And then chapter 40 to 66,…

Isaiah 46-48 So Isaiah 46, 47, and 48. 46 verse one says, Bell bows down, Nebo stoops. Their idols are on beast and livestock. These things you carry are born as burdens on weary beasts. They stoop, they bow down together. They cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity. Listen to me, O house of Jacob, as are all the remnant of the house of Israel. who have been born by me from before your birth, carried from…

Isaiah 45:8-25 So as we prepare to read Isaiah 45, 8 to 25, remember Israel’s got two really big problems, or I should say Judah and Jerusalem. Israel, the northern tribes have been hauled off a while by Assyria into exile. But Jerusalem and Judah, they have two big problems. One is a spiritual problem. And only Jesus, the coming suffering servant, can save them from the spiritual problem, that’s sin. But they also have a geographical problem, and that’s…

Isaiah 44:24-45:7 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 44. We’ve got a couple of verses in 44. I know this looks all choppy and doesn’t make sense, but it really, really does. So 44, 24 through 28, and then the first seven verses of chapter 45. I think I’ve got this right in my head. The method to the madness in Isaiah is, Israel has two problems. They have a geographical problem. They’re not in the promised land. And why are they…

Isaiah 44:21-23 Let’s hear God’s word together. Isaiah 44, 21 to 23. God’s word says, remember these things, pointing back to idolatry. Remember these things, O Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you. You are my servant, O Israel. You will not be forgotten by me. I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud. I have blotted out your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. Sing, O heavens, for…