Preaching, Revival and Prayer

Intro Psalm: Psalm 86

Scripture Reading: 2 Timothy 2:14-17a

Communion Passage:

Good Morning Church! I was Glad when they said to me let us go and worship in the house of the Lord!

Intro:

Preaching is the Method …

-We need to ask: who is “me”?

-God? Isaiah? Zion? The Servant? Someone else?

-Isaiah 61.2 quoted by Jesus in Luke 4.16-21

-Who are the poor? Those who are so broken by life that they have no more heart to try; those who are so bound up in their various addictions that liberty and release are a cruel mirage; those who think that they will never again experience the favor of the Lord, or see his just vengeance meted out against those who have misused them; those who think that their lives hold nothing more than ashes, sackcloth and the fainting heaviness of despair. These are those to whom the Servant/Messiah shouts ‘Good News’.- Oswalt 565

-Both good news and vengeance, or is vengeance good news?

… by which God brings Revival ...

-Revival in particular is: Shame replaced by honor - 4-7; the covenant promise of God’s blessings - 8-9; the renewal of Salvation - 10-11; and desolation replaced with delight - 62:1-5

… while we watch and pray

-In just two verses we see that prayer is: (from Motyer)

On your walls, O Jerusalem,

I have set watchmen;

all the day and all the night (ceaseless)

they shall never be silent. (vocal)

You who put the LORD in remembrance, (God Focused)

take no rest, (Disciplined)

and give him no rest (urgent and pressing)

until he establishes Jerusalem (sustained)

and makes it a praise in the earth.