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One of the great truths that is evident throughout the Scriptures is that God speaks to His people. He speaks in order to reveal His Character, His Ways, and His Purposes for your life. God speaks. The question among the Hebrews, however, is: "We are speaking, but is God listening?" Chapter 59 is still…

Satisfaction guaranteed! You hear the promise all the time. It’s become a staple of selling in T.V. commercials and radio ads. The phrase satisfaction guaranteed is often used as an advertising slogan more than a legally binding contract. The implication is that the product or service is so reliable…

In verse seven of Isaiah chapter 63, the Prophet begins to remind the Jews of the mercies of the Lord. They are undeserved mercies that a faithful God has performed on behalf of His own people. "I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the LORD…

The speaker in the opening verses of chapter 61 is not identified, but one can hardly doubt that it is the Servant-Redeemer. Therefore Isaiah 61:1-11 is considered the fifth and last of the Servant poems. In any case, the speaker claims to have been anointed with the Spirit for the purpose of being God’s…

Almost 500 years ago, a pugnacious Augustinian Monk named Martin Luther tacked a document to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg, Germany as a protest against the sale of indulgences by the papacy. It turned out to be the spark that ignited what history has called the Protestant Reformation.…

Chapters 56-66 are the third section of Isaiah’s book. You might remember way back when we began our study of Isaiah, I gave you the background of the Prophet and his book. I told you at that time that most critical scholars believe that the Book of Isaiah has multiple authors. Most accept a two-author…

Self-deception is a process of denying or rationalizing away the relevance, significance, or importance of opposing evidence and logical argument. Self-deception involves convincing oneself of a truth (or lack of truth) so that one does not reveal any self-knowledge of the deception. Biblical instances…

From surveying the distant peaks of messianic prophecy, Isaiah returns to his own day momentarily. He takes the leadership of Judah head-on and squarely puts much of the blame for the nation’s moral and ethical ills on their shoulder. /"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character…

In Isaiah 45:11, God decrees His superintendency over all of history: “ ... What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.” (Isaiah 46:11, NIV84). God will do all that he has planned by providentially bringing his decrees to pass! This is known as the Doctrine of Predestination.…

Isaiah calls upon the people of Judah to remember the former things. They are to remember two things: 1) the events of long ago. They are to remember the course of their own history— from their exodus from Egypt, to the conquest of Canaan, to their backsliddenness under the Judges, to the kingdom under…

As we come to the last passage of the last chapter of the Prophet Isaiah, we are given a glimpse of God’s sovereign purpose for His people throughout history. The mission of Zion has always been to declare the glory of God to all the inhabitants of the earth. Throughout the millennia, the glories of…

In her book “Let Me Grieve, But Not Forever,” Verdell Davis tells the story of her husband’s death, and finding the hand of God in that tragedy. Her husband and three other men were killed when their private plane crashed in Montana. They had been there attending a Focus on the Family men’s retreat.…

Isaiah calls upon the people of Judah to remember the former things. They are to remember two things: 1) the events of long ago. They are to remember the course of their own history— from their exodus from Egypt, to the conquest of Canaan, to their backsliddenness under the Judges, to the kingdom under…

After the call to come and receive God’s satisfying salvation free of charge, the Prophet Isaiah instructs us to come in repentance also. We are called to repent of doing things our way because God’s ways and our ways are immeasurably different. Those who come to the Lord in repentance, ready to live…

We being the final section of Isaiah’s prophecy tonight. Chapter 65 begins God’s response to the prayer requests of the Judeans that began back in chapter 63. God answered the prayer of his people by offering a perspective on his past relationship to them. He then gave them a promise of better things…

Unmistakably chapter 53, speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ. Only men with blinded eyes, and deafened ears, and hardened hearts, and darkened minds can read Isaiah’s 4th Servant Song, compare it to the Passion Week of Jesus, and not see in Isaiah 53 an obvious prophecy of the life of Jesus. Every detail…

Did God create the Heavens and the Earth in the manner that the Book of Genesis attests to? The Prophet Isaiah believed so. Yahweh—the covenant-keeping God of Israel—is the author of creation, and continues to maintain His creation. God has created the heavens and, having created them, has stretched…

Unmistakably chapter 53, speaks of the Lord Jesus Christ. Significantly, the Jewish Targum interprets this portion of Isaiah’s prophecy as referring to the Messiah. Every detail of the prophet’s words corresponds so closely to the person and work of the Lord Jesus that no one with normal powers of thought…

Thanks to the Hubble space telescope, we can look further out into the universe than we ever have before, and in the process we are discovering infinity. For example: With the hubble space telescope we can now see objects in outer space that are so distant and so dim that their luminescent power is 2…

The 52nd and 53rd chapters of Isaiah bring to a climax the teaching about God’s Servant. You may possibly remember that when we got to Isaiah 42—that was back in April—we began the second section of Isaiah’s prophecy. It opens with a series of poems—four the be exact—that we call Servant Songs. Our text…

On the Lord’s day, following the resurrection of Jesus, two of the Lord’s Disciples were walking from Jerusalem to their hometown of Emmaus. The name of one of them was Cleopas (Luke 24:18). Cleopas and his companion were despondent and disillusioned because of the death of Jesus. They had heard reports…

In Isaiah 45:11, God decrees His superintendency over all of history: “ ... What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.” (Isaiah 46:11, NIV84). God will do all that he has planned by providentially bringing his decrees to pass! Throughout the history of the Christian…

Some of you are familiar with the name Josh McDowell. He is one of the pre-eminent Christian apologists of our era. A number of years ago, he was invited to speak at Ohio State University convocation center to present the gospel of Jesus Christ. But when he got there, he was treated to a rude reception.…

Some years ago at an annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry Rankin told the following story about one of our missionaries. A Hindu trader in India once asked a missionary, "What do you put on your face to make it shine?" With surprise the missionary answered, "I don't put anything on…

Have you ever found yourself eavesdropping on a conversation? Perhaps you were in a restaurant and in the booth behind you a couple was speaking a little loud and they were difficult to ignore. Sometime, in such situations, you hear interesting stories. In our text for this evening, we find ourselves…