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Intro
Intro
Group Intro
- Goal
We are to eagerly hunger for spiritual nutrition in greater degrees - Spiritually mature
Regardless of your background or where you are in your relationship with Jesus, you are called to grow
- What we do
Scripture
Prayer
Community
Review
3rd Servant song
The mystery of glorification and suffering of the servant
The servant’s life of suffering
The purpose of suffering -
Substitutionary atonement
Resolves the tension of the OT - God is Just and the Justifier
The servant’s death of suffering - No complaint, willing
Mystery revealed
This was God’s plan - Not just an angry old man
Sin was taken, but righteousness is also given
Leads to this restored people
Out of His unique, ultimate suffering, Christ is uniquely, ultimately glorified
Lesson Intro
With a wondrous truth like this, what is left to be said?
We have seen the core of the gospel, why Jesus came, how to be made right with God.
Is that not enough?
In some ways it is hard to imagine what more needs to be said after ch.55 concludes.
Why did Isaiah add anything more?
What more could be added to the promises of return to the land and the forgiveness of sin by the pure grace of God? ... Something about the theology of chs.
1-55 is not complete.
- Oswalt
* * * In some ways it is hard to imagine what more needs to be said after ch.55 concludes.
Why did Isaiah add anything more?
What more could be added to the promises of return to the land and the forgiveness of sin by the pure grace of God? ... Something about the theology of chs.
1-55 is not complete.
- Oswalt
Particularly in the reformed tradition, it is easy to focus exclusively on justification in the chain of salvation.
But that is one link.
Questions brought up and addressed in 56-66
How should we now live?
In what way and by what power?
Who receives this grace?
Will it extend past the traditional recipients?
How will it reach them?
Will this grace mean it is ok to be apathetic?
In historical terms, what was the purpose of the exile and return?
The great temptation of the return will be to rest in the glories of unconditional election and strong hope.
But to do that would be to miss the point of election and to frustrate the hope.
Oswalt
* * * * * The great temptation of the return will be to rest in the glories of unconditional election and strong hope.
But to do that would be to miss the point of election and to frustrate the hope.
Oswalt
There is ultimately a tension in the book that needs to be resolved
7-39 - Live a righteous life because sin brings destruction
40-55 - You will receive grace that depends on nothing
Wrong answers to this problem
Can I be elect and then live however I want?
Am I back to square one?
Are those who have been delivered from their sins by the grace of God simply doomed to profane God's name again?
Oswalt
To bring back the starting question of , How will this sinful, broken Israel be that holy Israel fulfilling God's mission?
* * * * o bring back the starting question of , How will this sinful broken Israel be that holy Israel fulfilling God's mission?
Characteristics of a waiting people (Motyer) in 56-66
Positive characteristics -
Motyer, J. A. (1996).
The prophecy of Isaiah: an introduction & commentary (p.
462).
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
This is the year of the Lord's favor - the year of Jubilee
Good news to the poor, liberty to the captives, comfort all who mourn - bad situations will be made good
Called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified - we will stand like 300yr old live oaks as a testimony to God
Strangers shall tend your flocks, but you shall be called the priests of the Lord - We will have our needs met and we will focus on God and doing his work, fulfilling our purpose
Negative characteristics -
Your hand are defiled with blood, your lips have spoken lies
A Redeemer will come to those who turn from
Human inability for holiness is contrasted with God’s ability to glorify them
There is a final glory in the future in , , & 65
The mixed life of God’s people now
The Christian life has more tensions, more gray areas, seeming contradictions
This comes from living between the already and not yet
To be more precise, it is not so much gray as it is black and white mixed together
Truth mixed with error
WCF 25.5 The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error: and some have so degenerated, as to become no Churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan.
Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on earth, to worship God according to His will.
Not endorsing or accepting error, but acknowledging its presence
It is not just churches, but denominations, our grasp of theology, our lives and relationships
Comes from two sources
Some is false teachers
Wolves in sheep’s clothing -
Nearly every NT book addresses false teachers
Some is immaturity and the nature of living in between Calvary and Zion
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.
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