Sermons on Isaiah (Page 3)
Blessed Are the Persecuted
2 Thessalonians 1:5-10; Isaiah 66 Turn in your copy of the scripture to 2 Thessalonians 1. Today, we’ll look at verses 5-10. Remember that verses 3-12, I believe, are one long sentence, a run-on sentence. We looked at two verses last week, the signs of grace and the life of the believers. They’re bearing up. under hardship and they are loving one another and growing in their faith. Today we want to look at Paul’s encouragement to them. You know,…
For My Sake
Isaiah 43:22-28; Isaiah 44:1-5 So turn to Isaiah 43, 21. We’ll read 21 through 44, verse five. Actually, it’s verse 22 of chapter 43. It says, yet you did not call on me, O Jacob, but you have been weary of me, O Israel. You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings or wearied you with frankincense. You have not bought me sweet cane with…
Another Exodus
Isaiah 43:14-28 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 43 tonight. We’ll look at 14 to 21. I believe it says 28, but I chickened out on those other verses. So they’ll come next week. So Isaiah 43, 14 to 21, where we are in Isaiah, big picture is we’re past 1 through 39, which was the God yelling at all the nations section. Now we’re in 40 to 66, where God is in a thousand ways saying, this is how I’ll be…
True Religion
Isaiah 43:8-13 Isaiah 43, beginning of verse eight. This is like a courtroom scene, and I think you’ll see it as kind of the witnesses are gathered and the testimony is required. This is God who says, bring out the people who are blind yet have eyes, who are deaf yet have ears. All the nations gather together, all the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to…
God Speaks Tenderly
Isaiah 43:1-7 Isaiah 43, one through seven. So Israel, you know, God’s been yelling at them, I’m going to punish you and all the rest. You know, you’re deaf, you’re blind, you’re hardheaded, you’re knuckleheaded, all those things. But now he’s going to comfort them in 43, one to seven. So we’ll take a peek at some of these terms of endearment. So Isaiah 43.1 says, but now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who…
Listening? Seeing?
Isaiah 42:18-25 Amen. Some of y’all are wondering the method to our madness. Usually, most often, the hymn we sing after prayer time is also the hymn we sing after the creed in the morning. I didn’t realize when we moved out of the sanctuary in August that we’d be so long away from our Psalter hymnal, and I miss it. But I was digging through this week and found that, which is one of the doxologies we used to…
A Covenant for the People
Isaiah 42:1-13 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 42. Remember, we’re on the backstretch of Isaiah. We’re definitely past the halfway point, 66 chapters, I believe. But once we finished 39 and got into 40 forward, we are now looking forward to better days. The first 39 chapters, a lot of judgment, a lot of doom, a lot of gloom. This nation is going to get it. That nation’s going to get it. Israel’s going to get it. Judah’s going to get…
God or Idols?
Isaiah 41 Amen. Turn in your copy of the scriptures to Isaiah 41. Isaiah 41 is an interesting passage where God the king wants to raise his beef with Israel. I made a covenant with you, told you if you do this, it’ll go well. If you don’t do this, it won’t go well. You’ve broken the covenant. You’ve not kept up your end of the bargain. And so he’s what we call a covenant prosecutor, giving them his case,…
The God We Trust
Isaiah 40:12-31 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 40. Isaiah 40, we looked at the first 11 verses last week, and tonight we’ll look at verses 12 to 31. Last week, we noted the turning point from chapters 1 through 39, a bunch of doom and gloom and judgment. Every nation listed, every nation going to get it for being sinners. Now we come to the last 26 chapters. Comfort, God promised. Peace, he told them. And then he mentioned preparing the…
Comfort
Isaiah 40:1-11 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 40. Tonight we’ll be looking at verses one through 11. Isaiah 41 through 11 should be very familiar to you. We just read in Mark chapter one, the quotation from Isaiah 40 that appears in Mark’s gospel with the the arrival of John the Baptist to prepare the way of the Lord. Isaiah 40, beginning at verse one, comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and cry to her that…
Covenant of Redemption
Isaiah 53; Philippians 2 Philippians chapter two and one through 18. The apostle Paul says, so if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from rivalry, conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his…
Sickness & Pride
Isaiah 38-39 Amen. Turn to Isaiah 38 and 39. Last week, we looked at 36, 37. There’s a four chapter break, if you will, between two major sections of the scripture of the book of Isaiah. But also we looked at the Israelites, the people of Judah surrounded by Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, Hezekiah’s prayer. And then tonight we look at Hezekiah’s sickness, but also his pride. And so let’s hear God’s word together. 38 and 39. 39 is…