My sermon notes for Sunday morning, April 5th. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided to help you follow the sermon as we walk through the Word each week. To see the sermon each week please visit http://www.fbcap.net.
Isaiah 9:8-10:34 – Favor in the midst of Judgment
INTRO:
The invasion is on the horizon. Judgment looms upon God’s people, yet there is a promise of favor.
- Syria (Damascus) will fall
- Israel (northern kingdom) will fall
- Assyria will fall
- Judah (southern kingdom) will fall, yet a remnant will remain.
God will provide a “remnant that will lean on Him” 10:20. Our hope today is in that same promise of favor. I a day with so much uncertainty, we can be certain that God has provided a way… that we also may LEAN ON HIM.
9:8 – 10:4 – Judgment on Israel
- vv. 8-12 – Pride throughout the land. Capital cities tend to be the “hotspot.”
- vv. 13-17 – impacts both the leaders and the “insignificant.” Permeates the entire society.
- vv. 18-21 – wickedness unchecked spreads like a wildfire. COLUMN OF SMOKE.
- vv. 10:1-4 – The ruling class designed laws that went against the “law of God”
10:5-19 – Judgment on Assyria
- vv. 5-11 – God uses “tools” to implement His wrath/judgment.
- They have their motives. God has His motives.
- v. 12 – a theological overview of this section. HIS WORK IS FINISHED. HE WILL PUNISH.
- Man’s ARROGANT heart.
- vv. 13-14 – The words of the Assyrian leader demonstrate his arrogance in his own wisdom and strength.
- vv. 15-19 – Yet, they were just a TOOL in the hands of God. God will strike them down. As SICK PERSON with a disease. A FORREST being cut down.
Truths to embrace:
- Evil will only prosper for a season.
- God uses the unregenerate of the world to carry out His purposes and plan.
- The most powerful are nothing without God.
- ALL IS NOT LOST. GOD HAS A REMNANT
The Remnant – 10:20-34 – THE LORD’S REMNANT
The people of the remnant – VV. 20-21
Those that LEAN OF THE LORD – v. 20
- HOLY ONE
- in TRUTH
Will return to MIGHTY GOD – v. 21
- Isaiah 9:6
- They are His. His covenant people.
The God of the remnant – vv. 22-23
DESTRUCTION DECREED, overflowing with RIGHTEOUSNESS – v. 22
- The remnant will lean on the Lord, yet all these things have been decreed from the Lord.
FOR THE LORD OF GOD OF HOSTS WILL MAKE A FULL END, AS DECREED. – v. 23
The promises to this remnant – vv. 24-34
All knowing. All wise. All good. All righteous.
DO NOT BE AFRAID. – v. 24
My FURY WILL COME TO AN END – v. 25
Remember his faithfulness – v. 26
- LORD OF HOSTS (God of the armies of heaven)
- MIDIAN. OREB. THE SEA
Trust His justice – 27
- Judgment, yet deliverance.
- YOKE was his judgment from Assyria, yet the yoke will be broken and God will judge Assyria.
Bask in His glory – v. 34
- FALL BY THE MAJESTIC ONE
Truths to embrace:
- God is an all powerful, all wise, all loving, and all righteous.
- His ways are not our ways and there are many things we will never understand.
- WE CAN TRUST HIM.
- Remember – God chose Noah and spared his family the flood
- Remember – God chose Abraham and gave him Isaac
- Remember – How God chose Jacob over Esau.
- Remember – How God spared Jacob’s son Judah (through Joseph in Egypt) and chose him to be the lineage for King David.
- Remember – How God choose and spared David
- REMEMBER HOW JESUS CAME AS OUR KING…from the lineage of DAVID.
- Romans 8:35–39 – [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? [36] As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” [37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, [39] nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (ESV)
- Regardless of the circumstances around us… we need to BELIEVE ON, COME TO, TRUST IN, LIVE FOR, AND FOLLOW AFTER JESUS CHRIST.
- Then we come to understand we are SET APART AS A HOLY REMNANT UNTO THE LORD.
ISAIAH RESOURCES
Monergism.com – A great theological library.
https://www.monergism.com/scripture (click on Isaiah)
Grace To You – Pastor John MacArthur
https://www.gty.org/library/bible-introductions/MSB23/isaiah
Bible.org – Allen Ross