by Justin Marple | May 27, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 59 includes the phrase, “they weave the spider’s web.” It reminds me of the saying, “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Certainly Isaiah connects speaking lies with this spider’s web, though...
by Justin Marple | May 20, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 58 reminds us that the house of Jacob was very religious. Unfortunately, they were religious in the same way the surrounding nations were. The house of Jacob used Spiritual disciplines like fasting to try to get God to help them get what they wanted and not...
by Justin Marple | May 13, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 57:14-21 reminds me of the magnificat of the virgin Mary where it speaks about the humiliation of the proud and the exaltation of the humble. Mother Mary knows best — she willingly submitted to the will of God for her life and even today we call her...
by Justin Marple | Apr 29, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 56:9-57:13 compares the watchmen or elders or shepherds of Israel to sleeping dogs — thus I combined the metaphors of shepherding and sleeping dogs to say that they are sleeping sheep dogs. Most of the examples of their failures as sheepdogs has to do...
by Justin Marple | Apr 22, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 56:1-8 is a prophetic sermon encouraging Israel to keep covenant, represented by Sabbath keeping, while they wait for salvation to come through the suffering servant. Isaiah warns Israel that they should not presume their salvation based on their ancestry but...
by Justin Marple | Apr 15, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
You knew when you saw the title of this sermon that there must be some kind of catch. And the truth is — there is. The wine is not really free — it is very expensive wine and it took a very costly sacrifice in order to purchase it — the death of...
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