This Servant will rectify the broken relationship between God and His people and undo the curse of sin on God’s creation. and there is not even a single atom outside his sovereignty. The book of Isaiah is divided into three parts: The first section, Chapters 1-35, deals with Isaiah's times. Isaiah 42:8. by Brian Evans, Truth Taught -God’s Servant brings forgiveness of sin for God’s people. A SERMON ON ISAIAH 43:1-17 by Rev. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. Passage: Isaiah 42:1-9. Is God really in control?”. Isaiah 42:1-7. I think God loves us. Looks forward to the coming of the Messiah. A lot of people asked a similar question after the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Sermon Isaiah 42:1-9 What God Is Up To Dr. Mickey Anders On a recent television program, the television personality Star Jones was asked about her response to the tsunami on December 26. Everyone say that God protected this child. Isaiah 40:21-31 On May 25, 1979 American Airlines flight 191 took off from Chicago’s O’Hare airport and then, just seconds after takeoff, crashed killing 258 passengers and 13 crew members. A sermon based on Isaiah 42:14-21 Sunday, March 3, 2002 – Lent 3A Most of you are probably familiar with the story of Helen Keller. Why was Jesus called Emmanuel, God with us? You see without Christ it’s always winter but never Christmas in our land. When God tells Isaiah that this Servant whom He loves, He is the One who will carry our divine justice, He will restore to God all that was stolen when Adam sinned. God is a loving God. It is entitled, “One,” and was written by Cheryl Sawyer: God says that we are here to share our love for those around the world, and we are surely one with those who suffer. Prepare your messages on God's Word in Isaiah with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series. he will bring forth justice to the nations. . It is the righteous God who has chosen to make us righteous. Pastor Robin Fish. and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; 4 He will not grow faint or be discouraged. I can’t know it; you can’t know it; and God can’t know it. I decided some time ago that the future is unknowable. I want to wrestle with this issue in public with you. God brings comfort to us.”. The Sunday After New Years Shaped by the Cross Lutheran Church God then turns in the second doxology (42:8-9) to reveal that God is doing “new things”. When we see the word "behold", it is saying, come closer and take a better look. He is speaking to his contemporaries. Then you ask, did you find my painting? And I will tell you how most classical Christian theologians deal with this kind of issue. But we’ve entered in the middle of the story of God’s people, so the point will be lost if the preacher doesn’t state … Continue reading "Commentary on Isaiah 42:1-9" There is something about the way God made the world that God could not prevent the tsunami. . Wesley's Isaiah 42:19 Bible Commentary 42:19 My servant - The Jews, who will not receive their, Messiah. Why was the Son of God made to take on flesh? iii. Intro: Ill. And I think there are some things God cannot do. I just know the Bible affirms the oneness of God and yet God is three.”, If you are comfortable with that explanation, I want you to stick with it. God controls everything. Do you see how tenderly Jesus restored the man with the withered arm? If you knew it was going to happen, and you did nothing, you are morally guilty. In preparation for communion, I would like to lead you in a brief study in the servant song in Isaiah 42. God took his hands off the world and declared that there would be some things that just happen. Biblical Commentary Isaiah 42:1-9 EXEGESIS: THE WIDER CONTEXT: THE SERVANT SONGS Chapters 42-53 of the book of Isaiah contain four Servant Songs. Chosen: A Sermon on Isaiah 42:1-9 “Chosen” Isaiah 42:1-9 The Baptism of the Lord January 13, 2007 I spent a part of my vacation with my children in a certain magical kingdom in the south. It cannot redeem what was lost. Intro: Ill. He had taken his wife and two children on a pilgrimage to a Roman Catholic Church called “Our Lady of Health in Vailankanni, a shrine famed for its healing powers. Like the man who wants his painting back, God wants His image back. Jesus was born to be God with us. We can cling to both extremes and just conclude that it is a mystery, or we can let go of one or the other in some way. StoryShare He did not come to earth to serve us but to serve His Father. In verses 3 & 4, Isaiah says, “A bruised reed he will not break; a dimly burning wick he will not quench.” To me that speaks of the love of God. Why do bad things happen? Our men’s groups examined this passage and said it contrasts God’s love and God’s strength, which is exactly the problem of evil or theodicy. who spread out the earth and what comes from it. How can I take care of this boy and his education now?”, Did God spare the boy and not the rest of his family? Personally, I can let go of some of the sovereignty of God. I encourage you to wrestle with this question, struggle with it and come to your own conclusion. In Isaiah 42:1-9, God promises comfort and that comfort will come in the form of a Chosen Servant. He will not cry forth, Nay, He will not He lift up Nor make His voice heard on the outside. Every painful circumstance in our lives can be traced back to sin as its source. Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Isaiah 42. This exposition consisted of readings from Isaiah 42:1-17; Isaiah 43:18-25; Romans 10:1-19. In return, they lost their lives to the sea. The sheer enormity of the Asian tsunami disaster, the death, destruction, and havoc it has wreaked, the scale of the misery it has caused, must surely test the faith of even the firmest believer.” He goes on to say, “I hope I’m right that there is no God. And one of the great thrills and pleasures of the trip had to do with roller coasters. . Copyright 2005, Dr. Mickey Anders. We hear the first one, Isaiah 42, today. Preach on topics including returning to God, the source of salvation, repentance, the call of God, and fervent prayer offered to the God who answers. 7 to open the eyes that are blind. The Messiah will not exert His authority like an earthly ruler. This passage in Isaiah shows God speaking into the pain of exile to send a servant who will bring justice, and not to Israel only but to all nations. Many times the word hen is used in the OT to denote the fact that a person may be used by God to accomplish a task. Some people say, “God is punishing the wicked. But listen to the rest of that story. God chose to create the world with freedom and for us to have free will. Isaiah 42:12. How does he put these two things together? are beyond question.”. I have taken you by the hand and kept you" (Isaiah 42:6). L. Judisch. To really see what is going on in Isaiah 42 we must see what was happening in Isaiah 41. He will not break a bruised reed, or snuff out a smoldering wick … [Isaiah 42: 1-4] On a recent television program, the television personality Star Jones was asked about her response to the tsunami on December 26. This section is set against the backdrop of the Assyrian period. I’m willing to bet that most of you know more than you think you do. till he has established justice in the earth; who created the heavens and stretched them out. Scripture – Isaiah 42:1-9 Sermon Preached by Gregory Knox Jones Sunday, October 13, 2013 How well acquainted are you with the Book of Isaiah? There was an eight-year old boy named Anthony Praveen, and suddenly he sat up and was wide awake. Do you see how powerfully Jesus takes us by the hand? No, He cares for the weak and wounded. The law is good for an ordered society but laws only go so far. God cares. God is not the kind of God to take a bruised reed and break it or to take people who are poor and humble and wash them away with the tsunami. How could God pronounce death on the human race because of their sin and yet forgive us? Their response is very close to the way Christians respond. (Anders), All Rights Reserved | © 1997-2020 Richard Niell Donovan. God has created the world with freedom. I believe God is with us in time. The translators try but the richness is somewhat lost in English. And we also believe from the Bible that God is benevolent; In Isaiah 42:1-9, God promises comfort and that comfort will come in the form of a Chosen Servant. Biblical Commentary Isaiah 42:1-9 EXEGESIS: THE WIDER CONTEXT: THE SERVANT SONGS Chapters 42-53 of the book of Isaiah contain four Servant Songs. He does so one image bearer at a time. He is the One who will perfectly submit to the Father’s mission and will restore God’s people back to Him. Why have you done these sinful things that caused you to be broken? There was an old theological question, “Can God make a boulder so big that God cannot lift it?” It is a logical contradiction. God is in control of everything, They needed comfort from God and from God’s people. John Piper Aug 31, 2012 2.2K Shares God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Learn more about Desiring God Desiring … Isaiah 42:1 "Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, [in whom] my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles." 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, Here is a remarkable picture of the Lord Jesus given to the Prophet Isaiah by God. He will bring forth judgment to the nations. Isaiah 41 Isaiah 43 The Book of Isaiah Chapter 42. The Servant is God's agent to do God's work in the world. Notice how He does it. I think it’s a part of freedom in the world. In almost every case, Christians brought more pain and little comfort. Stretch out your hand and it was healed. Now for his enemies. God’s justice is on one side and God’s foreknowledge is on the other. Isaiah 42:1-4. 10 And a man was there with a withered hand. my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. Series: Isaiah’s … Subscribe to the GBC Sermon Podcast. He said, “Christians always seemed to make matters worse.” One day a Christian would come to the hospital and say, “God is punishing you.” Another Christian would come to the hospital and say, “No, it’s not God; it’s Satan.” Another would say, “God hand picked you so that you would give God the glory through this experience.” Another would say, “It’s not God nor Satan; you just happened to get in the way of an angry mother bear.” Theories of pain only confuse and do not help. He had to have God’s Spirit in order to accomplish His ministry tasks. As we begin, we must see first that Jesus is God’s Servant. Another classic theological statement would be that God did not do this, but Satan did. Here Matthew gives us an example of how Jesus proved to be the Servant that Isaiah wrote about in Isaiah 42. 11 He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? While God is thus graciously dealing with men, he determines to make an end of the powers of evil. He was caught in the storm and was almost buried alive, but he sat up and was well. 1 - 9. He is divinely determined. Posted on December 24, 2017 The issue is one called “theodicy” in theological terms, and it deals with the problem of evil? It was the result of sin. He offered the “greater good theology.” He could typically explain evil as something that God allowed in order to bring about a greater good from it. We have to just have to let go of that constant desire to control it and realize we will never know.” It sounds a lot like Christian theology. Today, I want us to look to our Lord Jesus and His role or task that He had. So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. Another response is merely to look to Jesus. Isaiah 42:7.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. It was interesting to see how other religions responded. LCMS Sermons - Pastor Robin Fish Sermon on Isaiah 42:1-7. He told everyone in his church that he was going to a seminary, and he arranged for his associate pastor to preach for him. Too often we display the image of sin rather than the image of God. Jesus described Himself as a servant in Matthew 20:25-28, Matthew 23:11, Mark 9:35, Mark 10:43-45. “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”. But for me, I keep coming back to that problem — if I knew it was going to happen and I didn’t do something about it, that would make me a bad person. Can we hold God to a lesser standard of justice than we hold ourselves to? Isaiah 42:1-9 "The Compassionate Servant" Introduction In our Bible passage Isaiah is talking about hurting people. The exegesis, all compiled in one place for me, is, I think, the thing I appreciate most! he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted. from the prison those who sit in darkness. [declares God -- and we are not!] Would you be morally guilty? Messiah is God’s chosen vessel, selected and anointed to accomplish God’s work among His people. But is the response of generosity worth 140,000 lives? . They were swept away. How does Jesus go about fixing lost sinners? His way is quiet and humble. He said that every person he interviewed confessed that their experience brought them to the wall with God, but every one had a devastating indictment of the church. Christians must avoid offering explanations In the previous chapter we read behold the idolaters are nothing and their carved images are nothing and now we read in answer to the misplaced worship due to idolatry, Behold My Servant. Therefore, I have no grounds for assuming that natural disasters are ever God’s will. That is not God’s love. God can do everything. 6 “I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people. Our sermon ideas on Isaiah will help you preach a powerful message on the God of salvation. Smedly Yates June 29, 2014 Isaiah Isaiah 42:10-13. Throughout Isaiah he speaks of One in which the Spirit would be upon. What we need to realize is the justice cannot ever make right what is wrong. This painting is valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Isaiah 42:1-7 “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. Case in point, here, God specifically speaks of King Cyrus 200 years before he is even born. I was surprised by I think the role of comfort is to say, “I don’t know why but I know God loves! and be silent where the Scripture is silent. For me, if I get to the place where I am pushed to decide, then I will let go of God’s power rather than God’s love. I am willing to let go of some of the all-knowing aspect of God so that I can keep God’s love supreme. Then you say, I really don’t care about that too much I want what was stolen, returned. but at the same time I confirm that God’s goodness and love I was surprised by 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: 18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen. The One Isaiah said stretched out the heavens as He created everything is so intimately connected to His covenant people that He would also have this man to stretch out his hand. ISAIAH 42: 1-7 Douglas McC. When God says that He has placed His Spirit upon Jesus He indicates that His presence is with Jesus in a very special way. We don’t even know why we are here. LCMS Sermons - Pastor Mark Schlamann Sermon on Isaiah 42:1-7. Let me put it this way, suppose you knew in advance that this tsunami was going to happen. The way in which God proves this is that the One He sends, His Servant, our Lord is not a dead idol but a powerful servant and specifically One who is sent by the true God who speaks of things that have not yet happened. OUR TENDER LORD. 10 - 16. nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; and a smoldering wick he will not quench, 21 and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”. So this family came to the shrine, made their offering at the church, and went into the sea to bathe, according to their custom. Thanks again!”. We have looked at the promised birth of our Savior from Isaiah’s Prophecy. It can’t redeem what was lost when the law was broken. Messenger - My messengers, the singular number being put for the plural, namely the priests and other teachers whom I have appointed to instruct my people. God very clearly makes His point. Isaiah tells us that He gently goes after bruised reeds and smoldering wicks as a symbolic picture of bruised and smoldering people. Logically, you have to come to one conclusion or the other. If God could have, I insist that God should have. Jesus at His baptism is officially endorsed by God with the Holy Spirit. SUPPORT MISSIONS AT GBC. Isaiah 42:1-9 What God Is Up To? Many theologians have wrestled with that question and finally threw up their hands and said, “I don’t know. Russell B. Smith. How could God be just and merciful to sinners at the same time? Here is what a few commentators said who took us at our word. He says. Bible Sermons Online, Sermon Preached by 1 Maurice Roberts, Inverness: God's Grace to Blind Sinners, Isaiah ch.42 v.16. One of the Scripture texts, associated with the Baptism of Our Lord, is the wonderful reading from Isaiah 42, our First Lesson for today: Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight … He will make justice shine on the nations. The end of verse four surprised me because it says, “The coastlands wait for his teaching.” God cares for the coastlands. This is a sermon on Isaiah 42:1-9 ***** Sermon on Isaiah 42:1-9 ***** By: Rev. It’s no surprise that when Jesus began His ministry He entered the place of worship and as the week’s Rabbi who was selected to bring God’s Word to the people He opened up to this text in Isaiah and read it sat down and declared that this passage was being fulfilled in their hearing (Luke 4). He came to restore all things. Isaiah 42, Sermon Bible Commentary, One of over 110 Bible commentaries freely available, this 12 volume, chapter by chapter commentary of 4,800 sermon … So, Jesus came to grant salvation and grace to us sinners and, at the same time, maintaining God’s holiness. There is something here that our English Bibles really can’t bring out. xvii., No. Behold My Servant whom I shall uphold, My Chosen One with whom My soul will be satisfied. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. God allows some disasters so that people will respond with a great outpouring of help and love for the victims. God loves everybody. I am not willing to make God a bad person. We see in this, the prophecy of the coming Messiah. He wants all His people to reflect His image perfectly. https://gccwaverly.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/sermon-12-24-17-122417-4-35-pm.mp3, Sermon: Salvation Through the Son of David Isaiah 11, Sermons: God’s Gospel, For All Times and All People (part 1) Paul’s Three Passions. After a few days the police call and tell you that the lead they had paid off and the thief was found and they assure you justice will be carried out. How does He go about bringing the redemptive justice God desires? Maybe God allows Satan to be at work, but God does not cause these actions. Isaiah 42:14-16 The solemn practical truth of the text is that God can do the most terrible things and the most gentle; that power belongeth unto God and also mercy; that He is either glorious as heaven or fearful as hell. SermonAudio.com - Isaiah 42 Sermons. 12 Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! • The first song (42:1-4) tells of the call of the Servant to and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. He is a classic Calvinist and believes that God is in control. If God knew, and God could, but did nothing, then there is a legitimate problem. When Helen was only a few months old a disease left her both blind and deaf. Chapter Overview: The person and office of Christ appointed by the Father, ver. 3. Initially, we might think that Jesus is to be some sort of divine attorney or a divine policeman who goes around performing justice acts. God is not in the business of extinguishing a burning wick. He will not need to proclaim His power like other men. Both advents in view. Philip Yancey began his career interviewing people who faced all kinds of tragedy. Browse Sermons on Isaiah 42. Nature is not the way God intended it to be because humans brought sin into the world. Just because He is unfaltering in His relentless pursuit of God’s mission, He doesn’t go about it like an aggressive dictator. Have you heard about what we’re up to in Papua New Guinea? Don’t change. The grandmother said, “They went to offer their hair to [Mother] Vailankanni. In my book, he would be as guilty as sin…”, Another writer wrote, “If we say ‘The heavens declare the glory of God,’ surely the tidal wave proves his incompetence.”, Another writer in Australia said, “Responsibility for the tsunami must be sheeted home to God. I would even suggest that God doesn’t know what we are going to decide. I cannot let go of the fact that the Bible says, “God is love.” Jesus shows us love and compassion in every way. Adrian Dieleman. Messianic Prophecy. I think God cannot make a world that is free and still be constantly tweaking the laws of nature a billion times a day to insure everybody’s safety, comfort and success. He will not break a bruised reed, or snuff out a smoldering wick … [Isaiah 42: 1-4] How can God be one and three at the same time? In order to redeem us Jesus aggressively goes forth to become those very things to save us and restore God’s image in us and as He does so He will not grow faint or be discouraged in the process because those are the very things that He came to do. . You can be like Billy Graham who after the 9-11 tragedy said, “I have never found a fully satisfactory answer to the question of why God permits evil in the world.” You too can say, “I don’t know why, but that is Okay.”, But it bothers me, and I have trouble with that view. The classic position was probably best expounded by Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. So our Lord was given the Spirit of God in order to accomplish God’s work. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him. Rather than God’s people dying due to the curse Jesus redeems us and our sin is put to death. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. And many followed him, and he healed them all 16 and ordered them not to make him known. According to the Washington Times, his father was a day laborer. Thus begins Isaiah 42, and thus Isaiah introduces us to one called the servant of the Lord. Her response was, "I am just so thankful." Now I want to address my own wrestling with this issue. Sundays at 10:15 AM. The Bible says there will be earthquakes and terrible natural calamities. Isaiah 42:9.— Ibid., vol. We hear the first one, Isaiah 42, today. The book of Isaiah is divided into three parts: The first section, Chapters 1-35, deals with Isaiah's times. Just let it be a mystery. 986. God is there for us. • The first song (42:1-4) tells of the call of the Servant to Browse all sermons. Bible / Our Library / Bible Commentaries / Wesley's Explanatory Notes / Isaiah / Isaiah 42; Share Tweet. Isaiah 42: 1—10 Sermon notes Christmas is over and for many it is a time of recovery from the pressures of celebration, from the trials of family, from the financial expense of the 'Retail spirit of Christmas'. The way I like to frame the problem of evil is this, “Does God know everything that is going to happen? The question a lot of people are asking is, “Why did God do this?”, This is particularly tough question. A bruised reed shall not break The tenderness of Christ to weak and ignorant persons is here and in the next clause expressed; by whom young converts or weak believers seem to be designed; who are compared to a "reed", because worthless with respect to God, whom they cannot profit; and in the view of men, who reckon them as nothing; and in themselves, and in … Everything changes… Used by permission. Isaiah 42:5-9: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. The Lion and the Lamb. Isaiah 42 . Scripture quotations from the World English Bible. We are all broken, we are all bruised reeds and smoldering wicks but Jesus is the divine Redeemer who takes broken people with barely any image of God left and heals them and adds fuel to the smoldering wick and ignites the flame of God’s image once again. A new song to God for his gospel, among the Gentiles, ver. I want to conclude this morning by asking you to turn to Matthew 12:9. But many Christians say the tsunami hit the Muslim part of the world because it is a false religion. And suppose there was some way that you could have done something about it, and yet you didn’t. Let's begin by being honest: we hardly have a … He will restore proper image in us, which will restore proper worship of God over against the false worship of idolatry. Like reeds, they are bruised. Therefore, I think there are some things God does not know. It was interesting to read how Muslim’s responded. OUR TENDER LORD. Repent and be saved.” Some say, “God is trying to tell us something. to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon. I am thankful that God has spared me from that disaster.” Did God spare Star Jones, and then choose not to spare the other 140,000 people? This Servant will rectify the broken relationship between God and His people and undo the curse of … Isaiah 41 is God’s condemnation of Judah’s Idolatry. (Critical scholars call this portion of the book “Deutero-Isaiah.”4) These chapters contain prophecies of comfort for Israel written by Isaiah from the perspective of the Exile and the return. When He comes across one of God’s people who are broken He doesn’t step on them or say why have you acted this way? I have called you in righteousness. we have to believe that God has power and omnipotence; Everything that happens is not God’s action because Satan is loose in the world. The government who passes laws cannot legislate transformation. Sermon from 17th March 2019 in the morning at St John’s Houghton with St Peter’s Kingmoor Church in Carlisle. The Servant of the LORD - “Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations. There is a reason for this, but we don’t know what the reason is. Only Jesus is the right Man for the job, only Jesus can pull it off. Isaiah 42.1-9 | Acts 10.34-38 | Matthew 3.13-17Preached on: 2020-01-15 He does it in our text for today and in chapter 61. A bruised reed He will not break, The Servant is God's agent to do God's work in the world. Isaiah 42:3. Legal justice cannot undue the past. There was a wonderful poem written after September 11 which reminds us of our unity and how we are tied with those around the world who suffer. A lot of people buy into Augustine’s theology. This text is the first of four so-called “Servant Songs” in this section of Isaiah. Listen again to God's promise in our text: "I am the Lord. Is that the kind of God we have? You see Justice in the legal sense did not make right what was wrong did it?[1]. Lectionary Reflections Isaiah 42:1-9 Baptism of the Lord First Sunday after Epiphany January 12, 2014 . If a person’s faith is rooted in the New Testament, as mine is, then the picture of God is rooted in Jesus Christ, and Jesus didn’t go around causing natural disasters. 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