Sermon Tone Analysis

Isaiah 63:7-14

Isaiah 63:7–14 (NLT)

Praise for Deliverance

7 I will tell of the Lord’s unfailing love.

I will praise the Lord for all he has done.

I will rejoice in his great goodness to Israel,

which he has granted according to his mercy and love.

8 He said, “They are my very own people.

Surely they will not betray me again.”

And he became their Savior.

9 In all their suffering he also suffered,

and he personally rescued them.

In his love and mercy he redeemed them.

He lifted them up and carried them

through all the years.

10 But they rebelled against him

and grieved his Holy Spirit.

So he became their enemy

and fought against them.

11 Then they remembered those days of old

when Moses led his people out of Egypt.

They cried out, “Where is the one who brought Israel through the sea,

with Moses as their shepherd?

Where is the one who sent his Holy Spirit

to be among his people?

12 Where is the one whose power was displayed

when Moses lifted up his hand—

the one who divided the sea before them,

making himself famous forever?

13 Where is the one who led them through the bottom of the sea?

They were like fine stallions

racing through the desert, never stumbling.

14 As with cattle going down into a peaceful valley,

the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.

You led your people, Lord,

and gained a magnificent reputation.”

When something good happens to you you can’t wait to tell as many people as possible .

When we were first in love, we told everyone.

First married had to tell everyone about our love.

Because it wasn’t no man or woman like this one.

Those who have children is the same.

Each time you gave birth you had to tell of the story of the significance of their birth.

You may have told the story of how you made it through a college exam that no one thought you would get out of not even God.

Perhaps you achieved that something in life that you could not figure out how it was going to happen i.e, purchasing your first home, new car, going on a lifetime vacation, paying off a debt, or even moving into retirement.

Maybe the doctor came and diagnosed you with an unfavorable report.

But, you are here today that God is a healer.

You may have been caught in a bad relationship that you question not only if you would get out of it with your mind in tact but also alive.

God is good to us in so many ways and sometimes we forget what our responses should be on the regular.

We keep good news to ourselves and pass the bad stuff on.

When it should be the opposite.

Each day God opens our eyes and grants us another opportunity, new mercies, new possibilities, new to live that’s our cue that we are to praise Him.

Praise him in not only what He’s done but what He’s going to do.

We have to get up believing what he says will happen.

The local newspaper and news broadcasts tells us what’s happened and usually its more bad than good .

But, the Word of God tells us what’s going to happen.

In the face of my enemies he tells us in Ps. 27; Though a host encamp all around me they stumbled and failed.

In the face of those who tell you what you cannot do something- Ph. 4:13 “ For I can do everything through Jesus Christ who gives me the strength”

Everything that God does is good.

It’s reasons and rationale is far greater than ours.

We don’t have to understand it all but it’s still good.

I do not fully understand why we as a black people have had to suffer under the brutality of the middle passage, slavery, Jim Crow, KKK, White Citizen Council, lynchings, Racial Riots, bombings of churches and homes, businesses, segregation of resources for schools and neighborhoods, the mis-education of our people, economic suppression and oppression of black people.

I do not understand why to be black or brown in this country is to be looked upon as if you’re less than in the site of God.

Why we have had to have amendments added to the US Constitution allowing us the same rights as those of our white brothers and sisters.

But, down in my heart I still believe God is in charge and He’s going to work it out for the good of them that love the Lord.

We have a story and that story is being given to us by God from the moments we touched the Caribbean Islands, Bahamas, Brazil, Haiti, and Jamestown.

We have something to tell.

Our faith did not shrink because we felt God had forsaken us but our story keeps on getting stronger because of what and how is working through us day by day.

The author of this book was Isaiah the son of Amoz (Isa.

1:1).

The name “Isaiah” means “Yahweh is salvation.”

Though more is known about Isaiah than most of the other writing prophets, the information on him is still scanty.

Probably Isaiah resided in Jerusalem and had access to the royal court.

According to tradition he was a cousin of King Uzziah but no firm evidence exists to support this.

He did have personal contact with at least two of Judah’s kings who were David’s descendants (7:3; 38:1; 39:3).

Isaiah was married (8:3).

He had two sons, Shear-Jashub (7:3) and Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (8:3).

Some have supposed from Isaiah’s commissioning (chap.

6) that he was a priest, but no evidence in the book supports this.

The year of Isaiah’s death is unknown but it was probably after Hezekiah’s death in 686 B.C. (and therefore probably in Manasseh’s sole reign, 686–642) because Isaiah wrote a biography of King Hezekiah (2 Chron.

32:32).

Isaiah’s death would have occurred after Sennacherib’s death (Isa.

37:38), which was in 681 B.C. Since the prophet’s ministry began sometime in Uzziah’s reign (790–739 B.C.) Isaiah ministered for at least 58 years (from at least 739, when Uzziah died [6:1], to 681, when Sennacherib died).

According to tradition dating from the second century A.D., Isaiah was martyred by King Manasseh.

Justin Martyr (ca.

A.D. 100–165) wrote that Isaiah was sawed asunder with a saw (cf.

Heb.

11:37).

Isaiah.

The Hebrew prophet of the 8th cent.

bc He exercised influence at the court of the kings of Judah, and took a prominent part esp. in foreign politics.

Called to the prophetic office in the year of King Uzziah’s death (c.

740; Is. 6:1), he continued his prophetic work till the Assyrian invasion of Judah in 701 bc Tradition relates his death by martyrdom in the reign of Manasseh (c.

690–c.

640).

In his teaching Isaiah followed *Amos and *Hosea in asserting the supremacy of *Yahweh, the God of Israel, and in emphasizing His moral demands on His worshippers.

He laid special stress on the Divine holiness (ch.

6), giving to this conception a strong ethical content.

The prophet is here, in the name of the church, taking a review, and making a thankful recognition, of God’s dealings with his church all along, ever since he founded it, before he comes, in the latter end of this chapter and in the next, as a watchman upon the walls, earnestly to pray to God for his compassion towards her in her present deplorable state; and it was usual for God’s people, in their prayers, thus to look back.

I.

Here is a general acknowledgment of God’s goodness to them all along, v. 7. It was said, in general, of God’s prophets and people (ch.

62:6) that they made mention of the Lord; now here we are told what it is in God that they do especially delight to make mention of, and that is his goodness, which the prophet here so makes mention of as if he thought he could never say enough of it.

He mentions the kindness of God (which never appeared so evident, so eminent, as in his love to mankind in sending his Son to save us, Tit.

3:4), his loving-kindness, kindness that shows itself in every thing that is endearing; nay, so plenteous are the springs, and so various the streams, of divine mercy, that he speaks of it in the plural number—his loving-kindnesses; for, if we would count the fruits of his loving-kindness, they are more in number than the sand.

With his loving-kindnesses he mentions his praises, that is, the thankful acknowledgments which the saints make of his loving-kindness, and the angels too.