by Justin Marple | Mar 4, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 49:14-50:3 tells us that after the return from exile and the work of Jesus on the cross there will be a population explosion for the church that would take Israel by surprise. Indeed, within a couple hundred years after the death of Christ our faith had...
by Justin Marple | Feb 26, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 49:1-13 marks the beginning of a new section in Isaiah. The previous eight chapters highlighted the deliverance from Babylonian captivity that would be brought through Cyrus the Persian. But this chapter shifts to the greater deliverance from slavery to sin...
by Justin Marple | Feb 19, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
After lamenting what could have been if Israel had only really heard (i.e. obeyed) God, Isaiah 48 gives us the command, “Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea…” (48:20). This is not a command to physically leave Babylonian captivity but a command...
by Justin Marple | Feb 12, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 47 shows us Babylon as a young woman in her prime thinking that she is invincible — that she will live forever and that those things that happen to other people would not happen to her. She pretended that there is no God who sees what she is thinking and...
by Justin Marple | Feb 5, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 45:14-46:13 shows us the powerlessness of idolatry, which cannot even be compared to the power of the true God. This explains the pleading of the nations with Israel, “Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.” But the...
by Justin Marple | Jan 22, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 44:23-45:13 uses the image of God forming and molding Jacob/Israel in the womb of his mother Rebekah to describe the LORD forming and molding the nation of Jacob/Israel. Not only did he do this metaphorically for the whole nation, but he literally formed each...
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