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Verse 5 The new creation
The new creation is the work of the same one who accomplished the first creation - he called the world into existence, stretched out the heavens (expansion of the universe - big bang)
He breathed life in the mankind, and is capable of new life in the new man
Verse 6 - the servant’s commission
Servant CAN refer to Israel, and does in many passages.
But here it cannot.
Israel cannot be a covenant to the gentiles.
Called in righteousness.
The unrighteous cannot stand in God’s sight.
Unrighteousness is why the first creation failed.
A new covenant is needed
Grasped your hand (strengthened, held).
The almighty power of God is strengthening this servant, who comes in the name of the Lord
A covenant for the people
Laban and Jacob - definition of covenant.
How to get along.
You do this, I will do that.
Keep the laws and commands, and I will be your God and you will be my people.
But that failed, and death entered.
Rather than simply giving new conditions, a new covenant is needed.
The Servant IS the covenant.
“How to get along with God, and receive his blessings” - Christ alone.
he IS the covenant.
All the blessings of God are only there, in him.
This is the “mediator” - who mediates between God and man in his two natures, united in one person
“one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, recognized in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation;”
The person of Christ is the covenant between God and man
When the covenant comes, and relationship with God is restored, the result is light.
Christ unites us to God, and therefore we have light.
Light includes hope, peace, knowledge, love - all the fruits of the spirit
Verse 7 - the purpose
When death is overcome and the covenant with God is restored, darkness is overcome
Open blind eyes.
Naturally, we don’t know what we are doing here, where we are going, where we fit.
Adam sought to be God, and ended up blind - just a purposeless one day after another.
Trying to find something to hold on to.
And we all follow suit.
Sin is blindness, because it turns us into ourselves.
Sight looks out upon those things that are NOT ourselves - to God and to neighbor.
And by understanding God and our place among our neighbors, we understand ourselves.
Blindness seeks to put our own hearts on the throne, and ends up lonely, desperate, fearful,
But when God opens the eyes, we have purpose, we have a future, we have hope.
We have someone other than ourselves that gives us a foundation, a cornerstone, a meaning to our existance.
Prison - opening the doors of the prison-house.
We are kept in the prison awaiting death.
But when death is done, the law has no more hold on us.
Verse 8 The name of the Lord.
Idols cannot give freedom from bondage.
They cannot release a soul from the power of sin.
They cannot bring Israel back from Babylon.
And notice here - God’s plan of redemption is to reveal himself.
It is his nature to communicate himself.
He begot the Son, he breathes forth the spirit, he reveals himself by his word and spirit and through that he begets the church.
And so God - who declared the former things.
The captivity, the exile, the destruction of Jerusalem - also declares the new things.
A new era comes.
And he brings it to pass by his word through his Servant…who is gradually being revealed
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