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Joy Advent, 2021
“The Joy of Salvation”
Isaiah 12:1-6*
Pray
Hook
What day?
The greatest day of your life.
-What has been the greatest day of your life?
-When you got that one gift for Christmas?
-When your crush said they liked you back?
-Had an amazing day with friends or family at an amusement park.
-When you graduated from High School or college?
-When you got married.
-Started the job you always wanted.
-Had a child.
-Had grandchildren.
What was the best day you ever had?
Illustration - Best day for our family.
The day Alissa was born.
-Not only do I remember how happy I was when Alissa was born.
-I’ll never forget how happy my oldest daughter was, who was 6 years old.
-She came in the room smiling so big you could see the last molars in her mouth.
These days cause us to rejoice … to have joy.
-We’ve all had amazing days.
-The day our passage is talking about is the day that you will see Jesus face to face in heaven.
-It will eclipse your best day on earth.
-All of the promises of salvation will be realized.
As we will see.
This prophecy about the future applies to us today and to Christmas.
-This prophecy of the future is also lived out today.
Transition - ???
Our passage today starts out talking about a special day in verse 1.
This applies directly to this passage because this prophecy is talking about the first day of you being in heaven with God.
-Final and full salvation in heaven with Jesus.
-This passage also applies directly to our salvation today.
In verse 1, Not only “in that day will I give thanks.”
but
Today I will give thanks!
Why?
God has turned my life upside down.
I have been redeemed.
I have been set free from the enslavement.
Vs. 1, Shown Mercy - delivered from sin and satan.
What is the day in verse 1? - The day of salvation.
There is a great thankfulness.
Why are you to be thankful?
-You were brought from darkness to light.
Transition - First …???
Shown Mercy
Why were you shown mercy?
Why were you spared the punishment that you deserved?
-vs. 1, You were by nature a child of wrath.
What is wrath?
God intensely hates all sin.
God’s wrath is the good and appropriate response when the perfection that He created is broken.
God’s wrath is the loving response toward what has ruined His creation that He cares for.
Illustration - When you hear about a young child who is neglected or abused in some terrible way - we not only feel sad and hurt for the child, but some of us get angry at what happened.
God’s has an intense and right anger toward the sin of the unsaved.
Can we be perfectly honest.
In our culture, in the US, we have stopped believing in sin.
We certainly have stopped believing that sin deserves punishment.
-Most Christians are no different.
-Most Christians are humanists and believe that when a child is born, he or she is born with a bent to be morally good.
-The Bible tells us that we are born selfish.
-Augustine tells in his book “Confessions” of how a baby will see another baby nursing, get jealous and cry - because he is not being fed at that moment as well.
-We don’t have to teach our 2 year old to say, “No”.
-The point is that selfishness is the broken human condition.
-We all need a savior.
-Transition?
Why was I under God’s wrath?
-Have you ever tried to talk to a person and they stick their fingers in their ears and yell so they can’t hear you?
Romans 1:18-19, This person suppress the truth.
They push the truth away.
There are a gazillion ways we do this:
We get busy, we rationalize, we ignore God, we allow our family to be the pearl of our affection.
-For SOME people, who chose not to come to church, they do so to suppress the truth in their life.
Pause
Transition -This is where God’s great kindness enter the story.
God gives mercy to His children.
- His Children do not get what is deserved.
Anger Turned away - The reason God’s anger turned away from the Christ Follower was because His Son, while on the cross, endured the wrath of God that was pointed toward you.
Jesus took on Himself the wrath you deserved.
-On the first day in heaven with Jesus, this will all be crystal clear.
-Now, we see it too & it brings joy.
-If you are in the family of God you are under the New Covenant.
-Now that you have surrender your life to Jesus, God relates to you completely (move arms) differently.
-No longer does God relate to you out of His wrath.
-He gladly and gives you grace.
-End of verse 1 says, He comforts you.
He desires to comfort you because He is your child.
end of verse 1 says, “Your anger is turned away and you comfort me.”
How is a child comforted?
-He is loved and held close.
-He is spoken to with gentleness and his tears are wiped away.
Listen to the heart of God
Dan Ortlund’s Book, Gentle and Lowly
“What helium does to a balloon, Jesus’s yoke does to his followers.
We are buoyed [lifted] along in life by his endless gentleness and supremely accessible lowliness.
He doesn’t simply meet us at our place of need; he lives in our place of need.
He never tires of sweeping us into his tender embrace.
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