The Purpose of the Chosen Servant of God II

Isaiah 42:6–7 ESV

“I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

Prayer

This is where we left off establishing the purpose for the Chosen servant

Called in Righteousness

Taken by the hand

Kept by the Lord

Covenant for the People

Light to the Nations

Chosen Servants are called and led in a manner of being held by the hand as the Lord brings them into their victory

Is 49 tells us how this verse is a reference to how we are to walk in the Lord

The process

Open the eyes of the blind

this is the work of salvation

The work of salvation is an imperative that one cannot see the Kingdom of God unless one is born again.

This is the evangelistic work that must happen before the next two steps

Prisoners from the Dungeons

One of the major functions is to bring out from the dungeons the prisoner

Cistern as a place that is built for the self that has been made into a Jail

There is no formal guard it is a space of utter disconnection

Jer 2:12-13 Be appalled (laid to waste, left in ruin) O heavens… two evils committed

They have forsaken me, fountains of living water

They hewed out cisterns for themselves… (they did it to themselves)

they can’t hold water.

they choose the world of the Dead

This is what it is to walk in the Land of the Dead because we refuse to be submerged in the depths of the river of living water and the only person keeping us in their is the self

One of the roles is to bring these out of their cistern… their jail… but how can they come out of what they cant see

From Prison those Who Sit in Darkness

While jails and prisons can appear to be the same they are different

Prisons have guards you’ve lived in the jail for so long there are now guards appointed to keep you

The intent was never for humanity to be kept in prison

Bayit (house of)

Consider those have been in prison… how many of you have been in prison?

It is embarrassing

Institutionalized

Scripturally it can be proven everyone of us has been in or is in a prison

Hebrews 13:3 ESV

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

Some who feel so called to literal prisoners and those who are actually called to the spiritual prisoners

As though you are there with them and the mistreated since you are in body

body (works of the flesh which are a prison)

Paul in another address says Wretched Man am I… who will deliver me from this body of death.

Notable Prisoners

Simeon-trade for provision

Samson- Judge in Prison

Micaiah- Prophet

Jehoiachin- King

Hanani-Seer

David- King

Jeremiah- Prophet

John- Beloved Apostle

Peter- Apostle

Paul- Apostle

2 Timothy 4:6 ESV

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

The greatest of all who became a prisoner to set us free

JESUS… put on this fleshly prison

Philippians 2:6 ESV

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

It is the work of bringing the prisoners who are now sitting in; Terror Ignorance Sadness Confusion Evil

The House of Stocks

When Jealousy arises in the house of the Lord and the church begins to eat their own

My brother James aptly pointed out this week “…our fight is not against one another it is against the devil…”

Jeremiah 20:1–2 ESV

Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the Lord.

This is a common struggle in the church when the house is out of water

Take notice Pashhur was a priest… Jeremiah a Prophet

the priest was disconnected and when the word of God arrived showed up it offended him.

Pashhur beat Jeremiah… “Do not break a bruised reed… do not quench the faintly burning wick.”

Stocks

Bayith ha Mahpeket

‌The house of stock… in the house of the Lord?

Located at the Benjamin Gate or Sheep Gate…

This prison causes people to become bound hand and foot inside the house of the Lord

The Minister jealous of your anointing seeks ways to

undermine your work

second guess your decision

question if God actually called you

Restricts when how where you can serve

demands sacrifice on top of sacrifice

Not just the minister the congregation does this to ministers

all of their effort is not good enough

your on the hunt for what they’re doing wrong

cut off from the ability to have sustainability

bring more work to bog them down

places an unrealistic expectation on the minister

they show pseudogratitude to satisfy their conscience

the underhanded “I love you…but” as they cut the minister down behind their back.

the House of Stocks is one that binds you hand and foot to

Structure that is: a crooked posture, distorted, and places you in a posture of discomfort

Consider the work of gaslighting… or the work of turning your words and actions against you

How many people today are bound in stocks that are in need of being let out…

The most heart wrenching part of this it happens in the house of the Lord at the gate of where the offering is being rendered…

Leave your offering and go and be reconciled… lest your accuser hand you over to the judge and the judge to the prison… you will not leave until every least cent is paid

Bringing order to the house of the Lord is two fold in this area and requires the right aligning of the congregation and leadership…

Stop eating each other.