Sermon Tone Analysis

Well, hello, and every could be with you stay.

Even if it has to be digitally.

Just explain what's going on.

My name's.

Matt.

I'm one of the leaders here.

I hope City.

I've been, I've been traveling just before Christmas and I knew there was a risk.

We wouldn't make it out of quarantine in time.

So I'm just recording the toll for the 26 ahead of time.

And perhaps I'll be with you in person.

If I'm not, then this is this is your digital version of me being present and I'm hoping to be with you.

I'm online from home today.

Now, I'm seeing what it has to you, teach I send Christmas time is the special opportunity to do something a little bit different, which is what we've been doing for the last few weeks.

In this morning.

I want to do something a little different as well.

When we last looked at Galatians, that is this lecture in the Bible that we've been studying for some time.

Now, we came across a quote, from an even more ancient part of the Bible from the prophecy of Isaiah.

And I'm thinking about how it fits.

The bigger story of Isaiah, the big sweep on seeing how it was fitting together and I wants to share some of that with you.

And so over the past week.

I've been thinking about how that connects to the story of Christmas.

And this morning.

I want to take you with me on a bit of a voyage of exploration.

Now I can feel a little bit intimidating.

Really is a pretty big chunk of the Bible is about sixty Pages.

I'm about 60 chapters don't 60 pages.

That is someone writing down what the Lord is saying to them and have their responding to that.

There's not just storytelling like our Christmas narratives or instructions like the letter to the Galatians that we've been reading.

It's a bit more of a stretch to get what's going on in a bit more of a challenge to bridge from there to here.

I'm because it was ancient writing.

How's the applying to us at the same time?

There is some amazing stuff in there.

So high in fact you sometimes called the Faith gospel because it has so much to say to us about the good news of Jesus in the pit of my we're going to look at in particular this morning was originally spoken to the ancient people of Israel about 500 years before Jesus's birth, as we study that together, but it stretches out beyond the Jewish people.

And it tells of a wider story that doesn't just involve a involved as well.

And we'll find it.

Connects to the Christmas story.

I connect my tighty, really connects to the real hope that we have at Christmas.

So let's read together from Isaiah, chapter 51.

I'm going to read the first 5 verses, and if you got one of the blue Church Bibles and then you can find us on page 7:39.

So Isaiah chapter 51, so the cat for the big 51-page 7:39 and I think It's going to be Hannah reading for us.

But with the land of coronavirus, you never know quite what's going to happen.

I saw a chapter 51 and Page 739.

Thank you.

Whoever is going to be frost now.

I'm going to stop recording there for me.

You know what?

We've got a Life sticker.

So going to make two separate recordings one before the reading and one after.

So yeah, in that shot over on the left, you should be able to hover over line and then take the label off yet for them.

I saved it on desktop.

So just so you can just leave it.

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Yeah, I will just start another recording and then you and then I'll just tie them up a little bit after it's all but face and Audio Level.

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Can we do that again?

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Hold on a minute and okay.

Thank you.

So, what is that all about?

What did it mean to its original audience?

Was it mean for us today?

Well, it's a Cole to look back bicycle to look out and it's a cold to you.

Look forward to look ahead.

But before we dig into that, who is God calling to hear?

Well, the grocery just read tells us it's those who pursue righteousness.

It's those who seek the Lord.

That's what verse 1 tell.

The size is speaking to a faithful.

Remnant, a small kind of the leftover survivors of a disaster seats in about 6:05 BC.

I'm the massive and irresistible Babylonian Empire.

Defeated Gods, ancient people Israel Houghton three successive waves of the XX on more and more of the population of the nation.

Ultimately they destroy Jerusalem and they destroy the temple, the heart of their religion, the carrier.

Over the poorest people away into exile.

It's written to a people in a time when hope was in short supply.

I mean, could there be there defeated?

They're humiliated there scattered?

And yet still some of those exiled held on to their faith, they held on to their way of life and they held on to their gone.

Now, that's who's being spoke to hear.

So, so what's that got to do with us?

We'll stick with me and we will get back to that.

But our first goal here is the coal to look back to Abraham.

There told your father and to Sarah, who gave you birth.

When I told him, he was only one man, and I blessed him and I made him many.

Can look back to Abraham.

Your father, go tells this faithful Remnant.

I look back to Sarah, who gave you birth of Abraham, and Sarah were there.

Little father in the little mother.

This is hundreds and hundreds of years later, Abraham, and Sarah.

The founding couple of the Jewish people.

Why should we look back to them, twice?

The original audience, look back, because we see and they, so go take a single couple.

And make the money.

It says, if you know the story, the original audience would have done.

You know, this is no ordinary.