A Kingdom Vision Outline Week 3

Thoughts:

Isa 6

God’s Glory Revealed in:

Righteousness / Holiness

Grace to Isaiah

Isaiah’s confession of Sin (His and the people)

Both ME, WE, and THEM

Atonement for Sin

Isa 42

Justice to the Nations

Spirit filled, chosen, delighted in servant

Humble, not making his name known

Compassionate and caring for the lowly

He will identify with them

Covenant to People / Light to Nations

restoration of the land / salvation to the ends of the earth

God’s Glory

Only God could do this

Worship of Him alone / not Idols.

Racial Justice in America

Racism is antithetical to God and his purposes (to the Nations, Isa 42:6, Gen 12:3)

Injustice:

God will bring Justice (Isa 42:1, 3, 4)

This is ultimate comfort (Isa 40:1, “Comfort, Comfort my people”

written to those who are being oppressed.

Only God can bring Justice

Human Sinfulness = Sinful Systems

True Justice only comes from God

The best human justice is based on God’s justice

Secular Justice vs. Biblical

all humans are sinful

Both and / not either or

How does God bring justice?

Suffering Servant — Transformed Hearts.

Outline 4

Isa 6 review/overview (glory, grace, idolatry)

Racial Justice

Three Parts of Isaiah

Isa 42

Racism — God is for all peoples — racism antithetical to God’s purpsoes

Justice

Comfort: Jesus will bring justice

Pursue Justice like Jesus

In humility (Isa 42:2)

(care for poor) - Isa 42:3

Jesus experienced injustice (Isa 42:4, Isa 53)

For all peoples.

How did he bring Justice?

Final Judgment (all are bad, only one good)

Covenant — Jesus makes a way (Isa 42:6)

Light to nations (salvation to end of earth) Isa 42:6, 49:6

Breaks idolatry and restores worship to God (Isa 42:7-8)

Injustice is rooted in idolatry (worship of false God)

racism rooted in idolatry

Our greatest need is spiritual deliverance from worship of idols and demons (spiritual darkness)

Jesus does this at Cross / Atonement of Isa 6

Justice at Cross or in Hell

We need to confess our own sin

Application

Have to be wise and discerning

Only the Church can approach biblical justice

Secular Justice cannot b/c it doesn’t taken into account the true picutre

human beings are not born good in need of slight corrections

we are sinners in need of a savior

We need to believe in the God of justice and that justice is based on his character.

We need to take a both/and approach not an either/or

narrow path not wide

My sin and their Sin

individual and systemic

We need to live as Jesus lived

for the poor, marginziled, orphans and widows, for the oppressed

We need to lay down our lives as he did

set aside our ‘privelege and status’ to serve those in need, this has always been the way of the church

We stand for justice as he did, but we do so biblically.

We need to repent of our idolatry

Fear to speak out or be wrong

sin in our hearts, unwillingness or laziness

We have to walk the hard and narrow path

we’ve got to read and be discerning

find authors you trust.

Outline

Justice on Earth

ONly Jesus will bring the JUstice we long for

No system on earth is without sin, becuase they are all made from sinful people.

some secular approaches do not hold a biblical worldview

doesn’t mean their views are wrong

just means they don’t take into account human sinfulness

human beings are not basically good needing some policies, they are bad in need of a savior.

addressing both and not either or

2. BW - God

Outline 2

Intro — review of series in Isaiah 6

God’s Glory in Rightesousness and then Grace

Isaiah’ Mission and willingness

Idolatry and God’s Word

Pandemics revealing and removing idols.

Racism

Isa 42

Middle section in Isaiah, 1-39, 40-55, 56-66

Having a Kingdom Vision in regards to the sin of racism.

God’s Global Purposes

Isaiah 6:3 CSB ...his glory fills the whole earth.

The ESV Study Bible Chapter 6

his glory. This is a technical term for God’s manifest presence with his covenant people.

The ESV Study Bible Chapter 6

ESV footnote suggests that the seraphic cry shares this anticipation.

English Standard Version

Or may his glory fill the whole earth

Point: God’s plan is that his Glory will one day fill the whole earth.

How? Isaiah 49:6

Isaiah 49:6 CSB 6 he says, “It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Therefore: God’s Plan has always included all peoples —> Racism antithetical to God’s purposes in the world.

This is not a surprise: See:

Genesis 12:3 CSB 3 I will bless those who bless you, I will curse anyone who treats you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

Support: This is exactly what we will see in the end: Revelation

Revelation 7:9 CSB 9 After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands.

Repentance from Sin

The root of racism is Idolatry

You cannot Worship the God of the Nations and your RACE at the same time.

It’s ultimately self-worship

Romans 3:29 CSB

29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

The Gospel runs counter to this on every front.

Jesus was an Poor, Ethnic Jew from a meaningless town under the oppression of the Roman Empire.

Healing