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Isaiah foretold the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian captivity to King Hezekiah at the end of chapter 39.
Yet, in chapter 40 God called for the prophet to comfort His people with a message that will be needed more than 150 years later.
Therefore, Isaiah is giving comfort to the people by investigating the awesomeness of God.
The people are called to look (behold, gaze upon, stare at) their God, (LORD God)
Look, He is coming to Conquer
Look, He is coming with Console
Feeding
Gathering
Carrying
Gently leading
The prophet then ask a series of rhetorical questions, knowing that only God is the answer to his questions.
GOD’S UNIQUENESS: SCIENCE
Who, (WHAT SURVEYOR) measured “the waters” (seas, rivers, oceans, lakes, and ponds) in the hollow of His hand?
Who measured the heaven with a span?
Who, (WHAT MATHEMATICIAN) calculated the amount of dust?
Who weighed the mountains and hills and perfectly proportioned or balanced them?
He then moved to questions about God’s UNDERSTANDING
GOD’S UNIQUENESS: AS SOVEREIGN
Who directs God’s Spirit
Who taught God
Who instructed God
He tells them to Look at the INSUFFICIENCY of the following
Insufficiency of Nations (drop in a bucket and counted as dust v15, as nothing v17)
Insufficiency of the Islands, coasts, regions (lifts up like a very little thing v15)
Insufficiency of all the wood of Lebanon (v16)
Insufficiency of all animals for sacrifice (v16)
Now the prophet ask a direct question in light of what he has said.
Who can compare to God showing the insufficiency of idols.
No-one and nothing is comparable to God
NO MATTER WHAT YOU COVER THE IDOL
There is nothing that escapes God
He is ABLE to conquer and console
Psalm 86:10 NKJV10 For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.
Psalm 86:10 NKJV10 For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God.
Psalm 135:5–6 NKJV5 For I know that the Lord is great, And our Lord is above all gods.
6 Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places.
1 Kings 8:23 NKJV23 and he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
Implications of God’s uniqueness
God alone is to be waited on
God alone is to be worshipped
Exodus 20:2–3 NKJV2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
Men have tried a number of things to change men’s heart
tried money
tried education
tried financial penalty
tried incarceration
At best these things may curve but cannot cure!
But The Lord
took my way that was bent toward wickedness and bent it toward righteousness
The Lord took my deceptive heart and gave my a devoted heart
He took my corrupt heart and gave me a clean heart
He took my greedy heart and gave me a gracious heart
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