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...
by Justin Marple | Jan 15, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 44:6-22 mentions that the craftsmen of idols are only human. This reminds me of the excuse people often use, “I’m only human.” This excuse has been abused because it is not a valid excuse for our sinful behavior. All of us have made...
by Justin Marple | Jan 8, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 43:8-44:5 tells us about a new thing, a new creation — a new Exodus, that God would accomplish. People today might mistakenly think that the first Exodus event was a much more spectacular one than the new Exodus accomplished with the death and...
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