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Intro
Bad story of getting what you pay for
parts
Chapters 1-39 deal basically the events leading up to their captivity.
The rest of the book deals with the predictions of the coming Christ and the redemption of God’s people.
In this season many churches celebrate advent.
This week we lit the second candle of lent - the candle of preparation.
And while we need to spend the whole year preparing for our coming Christ we take particular care during this time of your to remember.
Explanation
The Israelite nation during the time of Isaiah was heading towards a time of captivity...
Command has always been simple
Dt 30
However they were not...
Isaiah describes the current state of Israel and the trouble that is coming.
Here is the issue .. the story for Israel is the story for our personal lives… at times we forget who he is and do things just to please ourselves.
We try to be righteous but we never quite get there.
If God is just punishment must come - whether in this world and in the next.
THe day of judgment is coming.
But He promises never to leave us.. and there will be a time when we come through the other side.
But we need to hear 4 voices to prepare ourselves.
The voice of his comfort.
The voice of His Coming re
The voice of His Continuance
The voice of Declaration
Propositional Statement
Get ready, the Lord is here.
Comfort
Comfort, comfort my people,
says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and proclaim to her
that her hard service has been completed,
that her sin has been paid for,
The struggles we have are real and they are hard
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
The world we live in is corrupt.
Ro 8:
We in fact are in desperate need of grace and mercy
grace- getting what we don’t deserve
mercy - not getting what we do deserve
double for all her sins.
Christ paid the penalty for our sins in full.
The blessing to come far outweigh the sufferings of the moment.
So let us prepare.
The blessing to come far outweigh the sufferings of the moment.
1 Pe
Coming
3 A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
the way for the Lord[a];
make straight in the desert
a highway for our God.[b]
4 Every valley shall be raised up,
every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level,
Just like John the Baptist prepared the Jews for the coming Messiah we need to prepare our hearts for his indwelling as well.
the rugged places a plain.
Any voids or areas of deficiency or need (valley) that need to be filled?
Any problems or barriers (mountains and hills) that need to be brought down or made low?
5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,
Any broken relationships that make the way rough and need to be smoothed out?
and all people will see it together.
Any crooked or wicked way, any twisted behavior that needs to be straightened out?
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
Any sin or unholy behavior that keeps you separated from fellowship with God?
Continuance
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And I said, “What shall I cry?”
“All people are like grass,
and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.
7 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
because the breath of the Lord blows on them.
If there is one thing i tire of in this world is my own fickleness.
One day things can be great, the next not so much.
I used to feel like there was something wrong with me until I looked around and found that everyone else is in the same boat.
Surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
In James we read out of the same mouth comes blessings and cursings
but the word of our God endures forever.”
In Romans Paul writes about the good he wants to do but can’t and the evil he doesn’t want to do he does.
But His Word is forever.
We can get strength from who he is.
1 Pe 1:
Declaration
9 You who bring good news to Zion,
go up on a high mountain.
You who bring good news to Jerusalem,[c]
lift up your voice with a shout,
lift it up, do not be afraid;
say to the towns of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
10 See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power,
and he rules with a mighty arm.
See, his reward is with him,
Part of our preparation is the bold declaration of His presence.
and his recompense accompanies him.
11 He tends his flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
The declaration: Here is your God!
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