Sermon Tone Analysis

Jesus and the other New Testament Apostles and saints quoted Isaiah often.

One that I often quote is when Paul wrote to the Roman believers about how only the gospel message has the power to bring salvation to those who have never heard about Christ and so it is imperative that we take that message to them.

They can be saved no other way, Paul says.

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Here, Paul is quoting Isaiah when teaching on how someone can come to faith and be saved, and that is where we have come today in our journey through the OT.

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Isaiah describes Israel’s salvation, God as warrior will fight for them and save them,

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And this is how the Great Warrior (the Messiah) will save them...

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Isaiah prophesied 700 years before Christ that the Messiah would suffer and die and would bear our sin and intercede for us.

And after his death he would receive the many as a portion and the mighty as spoil.

Jesus died and rose again for us, bearing our sins and interceding for us, and will rescue us as his own, or will bring death to those who reject him.

We only have this life to choose.

Jump over to the last couple chapters of Isaiah, chapters 65-66 and as Isaiah is coming to a close we see him prophesying about a new creation

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God looks favorably on this kind of person.

We want to be this kind of person

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He goes on to describe people within the nation have chosen, some to follow Him, some who follow false gods.

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God looks favorable on those who are humble, submissive in spirit, and tremble at His word.

He then listed people who chose to serve Him and people who chose to serve false gods and live lawless lives.

God lets us choose to worship Him or reject Him, but God chooses punishment and reward.

It is up to us to decide if we will worship God or not.

It is not up to us to choose the consequences of our decision.

We are loved by God, but we will also stand before Him when we die.

Don’t forsake His love.

Don’t reject Him.

We must all choose to worship the God who actually exists, and made us, or to reject Him.

Everyone must choose.

It’s too important not to address.

He goes on to talk about how He will punish and execute judgment against all those who reject Him, and that brings us to the last three verses of Isaiah.

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Three things --

Verse 22 — The Messiah has come and ushered in the new kingdom, but not completely yet.

What no one realized was that the kingdom would come in two stages.

Jesus came, died for our sins and redeemed us, and brought the kingdom into our midst.

The kingdom of God is now among us, but He did not fulfill everything that He has promised to fulfill YET.

He said he would come a second time to finish establishing the kingdom, which will include judgment of all sin, and death, and the creation of a new heavens and earth and a complete establishment of the kingdom.

But for now, he is being patient, allowing more and more people the opportunity to come into existence and have an eternal relationship with the Father.

Verse 23 — He desires His kingdom and family to be made up of all people on the earth, not just the Israelites.

He told the Israelites that they were a chosen people set apart for the purpose of showing the rest of the nations how to enter the kingdom of God and be saved.

Verse 24 — But God gives us free will to choose to submit to Him as our king or to reject His rule over us.

And we have one life to choose.

One life, where no one is promised a certain number of years.

We never know how long we will be here so we must decide.

The scripture says, Today is the day of salvation

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Father, we love You.

We don’t deserve Your love, but are eternally grateful for it.

We love You, Father.

Help us to be faithful to the mission that You have given us.