by Justin Marple | Aug 21, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 39 is how Isaiah wants us to remember Hezekiah. We are not to remember him as a good king but as mortal (Isaiah 38) and especially as fallible (Isaiah 39). Not even just able to make mistakes, but that he made mistakes and one huge one at that. The big...
by Justin Marple | Aug 14, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 38 includes a poem by King Hezekiah after he was told that he would die from his illness but then he prayed and God gave him another 15 years. If you could read this book without having heard the good news about the coming of Jesus Christ and you see the...
by Justin Marple | Aug 7, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 37:8-38 (only reading selected verses of 8-20, 33-38) includes the prayer of Hezekiah when he called on the living God to defend Jerusalem against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who had mocked the true God. The prayer is counter-cultural. In the Ancient Near...
by Justin Marple | Jun 26, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 36:1-37:7 continues the argument about trusting in the nations or trusting in the living God. The question, “In whom do you now trust?” is one that Isaiah could ask as well as the Assyrian army field commander. Both criticize Judah for trusting in...
by Justin Marple | Jun 19, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 35 tells us about the Highway of Holiness, the same highway that John the Baptist would call for in the words of Isaiah 40. Putting a highway through the desert wastes of that part of the world is much like trying to put in a straight highway in West...
by Justin Marple | Jun 12, 2011 | 2011 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 34 speaks of being set apart as an offering to God in a negative sense. That is, Isaiah sees that the nations will become their own sacrifice for sin slaughtered by the sword of the Lord. The nations are devoted to the Lord for destruction as an offering...
Recent Comments