Salvation Of GOd

first lesson

Salvation for the Gentiles

Worship (). The nation had gone into Captivity because she had disobeyed the Law of God, particularly the fourth commandment: “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy” (). This commandment was a special “sign” between God and the Jews (31:12–18; ); it was never given to the Gentiles. The Jews were rebuked for the careless way they treated the Sabbath during their wilderness wanderings () and when they lived in the land (). Even after their return to the holy land after the Captivity, the Jews continued to violate the Sabbath ().

Main Theme

observed the sabbath day

  “Keep justice, and do righteousness,

For My salvation is about to come,

And My righteousness to be revealed.

2 Blessed is the man who does this,

And the son of man who lays hold on it;

Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,

And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”  

What is Justice of God:

Justice of God—that perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous laws on his creatures and executes them righteously. Justice is not an optional product of his will, but an unchangeable principle of his very nature. His legislative justice is his requiring of his rational creatures conformity in all respects to the moral law. His rectoral or distributive justice is his dealing with his accountable creatures according to the requirements of the law in rewarding or punishing them (). In remunerative justice he distributes rewards (; ); in vindictive or punitive justice he inflicts punishment on account of transgression (). He cannot, as being infinitely righteous, do otherwise than regard and hate sin as intrinsically hateful and deserving of punishment. “He cannot deny himself” (). His essential and eternal righteousness immutably determines him to visit every sin as such with merited punishment.

Righteousness is part of His attributes

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What is the righteousness of God ?

A) What is right and pleasing to God

[ ] 6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

B) Obedient to God’s law [ ]

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What is salvation of God?

Deliverance from the power and effect of sins [ ]

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THE GREATEST COMMAND OF GOD

1) Love God with all your soul and might

A) [ What does God demand from you all?

B) [ ]Moses demanded us to leve God

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D) [ ] Jesus declared.

56:1 Observe justice and do righteousness Justice and righteousness are the fundamental virtues embodying the ideal standards of God, both legal and ethical. Waiting in anticipation for the coming deliverance of the Messiah does not replace the people’s responsibility to live rightly. Right attitude and intent are more important to God than right actions for the wrong reasons.

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 It is in fact impossible for one to enjoy the goodness of God, and at the same time to insult Him by transgressing His commandments

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3 Do not let the son of the foreigner

Who has joined himself to the Lord

Speak, saying,

“The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”;

Nor let the eunuch say,

“Here I am, a dry tree.”  

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56:4 the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths A eunuch was often (though not always) a castrated male official. The prohibition against emasculated men entering the assembly of God in would have excluded them from worship. The image of the eunuch as a “dry tree” in probably alludes to his inability to have children.

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4 For thus says the Lord:

“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,

And choose what pleases Me,

And hold fast My covenant,

5 Even to them I will give in My house

And within My walls a place and a name

Better than that of sons and daughters;

I will give them an everlasting name

That shall not be cut off.

6 “Also the sons of the foreigner

Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,

And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—

Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,

And holds fast My covenant—

7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,

And make them joyful in My house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices

Will be accepted on My altar;

For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,

“Yet I will gather to him

Others besides those who are gathered to him.”  

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56:6 the foreigners The grandchildren of foreigners who joined Israel were given the right to enter the assembly of Yahweh (). Yahweh now emphasizes that His true servants are those who follow the covenant and love Him, not necessarily those linked to Israel by blood.

servants The singular “servant” motif in is replaced by an emphasis on Yahweh’s true followers as His servants. The atoning work of the Servant in ch. 53 makes salvation accessible to all who genuinely follow Yahweh. The sacrificial system is less important than the ethical system now that atonement has been accomplished and faith brings salvation. Eunuchs and foreigners represent formerly excluded members of the community. These groups represent the new reality: salvation is for everyone.  

a house of prayer for all peoples The idea that foreigners would pray to Yahweh is found in Solomon’s prayer dedicating the temple in . The motif of Gentile nations coming to acknowledge Yahweh and worship Him alongside the people of Israel is found throughout Isaiah (see ; ; ; ; ).

Israel’s Irresponsible Leaders

9 All you beasts of the field, come to devour,

All you beasts in the forest.

10 His watchmen are blind,

They are all ignorant;

They are all dumb dogs,

They cannot bark;

Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

11 Yes, they are greedy dogs

Which never have enough.

And they are shepherds

Who cannot understand;

They all look to their own way,

Every one for his own gain,

From his own territory.

12 “Come,” one says, “I will bring wine,

And we will fill ourselves with intoxicating drink;

Tomorrow will be as today,

And much more abundant.”  

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second lesson

Christ Heals the Crippled Woman

What is infirmity ? ,

it is the disease and sickness often sent as a punishments

Examples of an infirmity in the bible

1. Barrenness, as suffered by Sarah, Hannah, and Elisabeth

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2. Blains and boils, as suffered by the Egyptians during the sixth plague, by King Hezekiah, and by Job

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3. Botch (may have been syphilis), as suffered by the Egyptians

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14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”

15 The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? 16 So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” 17 And when He said these things, all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him.  

  The woman bent double (13:10–17)

Far from avoiding Sabbath-day healing, our Lord seemed to specialize in it! He was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath and a woman was there who had a disease which seemed to have a demonic origin. A ‘spirit of infirmity’ had bent her double for eighteen years. What a terrible trial for her! How much suffering and discomfort she had to endure! Christ drew attention to this fact in verse 16, when he said ‘think of it …’ However, the day of her release had arrived. Jesus did not ask for her request; he simply set her free from her infirmity. He laid hands on her, and immediately she was made straight and glorified God.  

LESSON LEARNED FROm THE CHAPTER

1) Obey the sabbath day worship

2) Stay away from the evil deeds

3) Seek the Lord while He may be found [ ]

Zaccheus seek the Lord [ ]