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In his book, In the Grip of Grace, Max Lucado tells the story of a man who adopted a troubled teenage girl.
Everyone in town knew the girl’s reputation.
She lied.
She cheated.
She refused to obey any authority.
She often turned destructive.
Why would anyone want to adopt her? Still the man took her into his house, gave her a special room of her own, and treated her like his daughter.
She treated him just like everyone expected.
One day she ran home from school, raced into the house, and started looking everywhere for money.
Finding none, she went on a rampage, disrupting and destroying everything in sight.
When the man returned home from work that evening, a ruined house greeted him.
The entire place was turned topsy-turvy.
Many precious possessions lay shattered on the floor.
The neighbors watched to see the girls expected expulsion.
They came to him with advice: /“Don’t finalize the adoption papers.
Send her back.”/
The man steadfastly refused all such advice.
/“Send her back,”/ neighbors and friends repeated.
/“After all, she is really not your daughter.”
“I know,”/ the man admitted.
/“But I already told her she was.”/
Isaiah chapters 1 through 11 describes God’s people at their worst.
They are liars, cheats, and disobedient to authority.
Every sin we could imagine is laid out before us.
Judgment has ruled most of Isaiah’s first 11 chapters—judgment on disobedient people, on greedy rulers, on luxury-loving women, and even a on cruel enemy nation called by God to punish God’s people.
Sandwiched around most of the judgment speeches have been promises of hope.
These promises centered particularly in a baby boy who would enter the world and be everything the present leadership of Israel was not.
The first part of Isaiah’s prophecy teaches me that, I am a sinner; that I deserve all the judgment God has described, all the punishment that he could possibly dole out, I deserve.
Like the people of Israel, I turn to Yahweh and ask “Are you going to exile me from your presence for ever?”
The answer comes back, “No, my son.
I told you, you are my child.
I meant it.
Come, see my salvation and celebrate with me.”
Isaiah chapter 12 teaches us how to celebrate God’s salvation.
We sing!
The message comes in four parts:
* Singers need a song
* Singers sing of salvation with private jubilation
* Singers sing of salvation with public proclamation
* Lessons
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I. SINGERS NEED A SONG
* /“Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid.
The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”/
(Isaiah 12:2, NIV)
#. somehow, many church goers seem to have picked up on the idea that /“singing in church is for singers”/
#. nothing could be further from the truth
#. the truth is that /“singing is for believers”/
#. the relevant question is not, /“Do you have a voice?”/ but /“Do you have a song?”/
#. whether it's a praise chorus or a hymn, an anthem or an amen, whenever Christians gather together to worship God, you'll find them singing
#. we know that singing must matter to God, because He talks so much about it
#. the Bible contains more than 500 references to singing, including 50 direct commands to sing to God
#. but why?
What's the purpose of singing?
#. the general answer is that singing is for God's glory and our good
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but let me give you some specifics ...
!! A. WE SING BECAUSE GOD HAS PUT A NEW SONG IN OUR HEART
* /“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.
My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.”/
(Psalm 28:7, NIV)
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Christians are a new creation in Christ
#. the Apostle Paul reminds us in Ephesians 2:1-5 that we were once dead in trespasses and sin, but because God is rich in mercy He has made us alive together with Christ and raised us up with Him
#. in one great, supernatural act on God’s part, we have been regenerated by God the Spirit, atonement has been made for our sins by the sacrifice of God the Son, which has justified us in the sight of God the Father
* ILLUS.
In the early 1920, Albert Ketchum wrote a popular song entitled, /“Why Do I Sing About Jesus.”/
Listen to the first stanza: /"Deep in my heart there’s a gladness; Jesus has saved me from sin! Praise to His name, what a Savior!
Cleansing without and within!
Why do I sing about Jesus?
Why is He precious to me?
He is my Lord and my Savior; Dying, He set me free!"
* /". . . the righteous sings and rejoices."/
(Prov.
29:6, NASB95)
* /"Praise the Lord in song, for He has done excellent things; Let this be known throughout the earth."/
(Isa.
12:5, NASB95)
#. the real question is not Why do we sing, but rather, How can we keep from singing?
* ILLUS.
In his book, Psalms of the Heart, George Sweeting tells the story of John and Elaine Beekman.
God called them to missionary work among the Chol Indians of southern Mexico.
The Beekmans traveled first by mules and then by dugout canoes to reach this tribe.
They labored 25 years with other missionaries to translate the New Testament into the language of the Chol Indians.
Today the Chol Church is thriving.
More than 12,000 Christians make up the Chol Christian community.
What's interesting is that when the missionaries came, the Chol Indians didn't know how to sing.
The culture had virtually no musical tradition.
With the coming of the gospel, however, the believers in the tribe became known as "the singers".
Sweeting writes: /"They love to sing now, because now they have something to sing about."/
#. we sing because God has put a new song in our heart
!! B. WE SING BECAUSE GOD WAS ANGRY WITH US BUT IS NO MORE
* /“In that day you will say: “I will praise you, O LORD.
Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.”/ (Isaiah 12:1, NIV)
#. the opening verse of Isaiah 12 is startling—it literally reads: /“I thank you, O Yahweh, because you were angry with me”/
#. one day the citizens of Judah when they will acknowledge that God was rightfully angry with them
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there was a time when He afflicted them for their unbelief and idolatry
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only by afflicting them could He help them understand their need to turn to Him in true faith
* /“It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the LORD, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”/
(Jeremiah 36:7, ESV)
#. a time is coming, however, when He will comfort them and will no longer be angry with them
#. in that day God will turn away from His anger, stay His wrath, and instead console and soothe and calm His people
#. that day is the day when The Anointed One will reign over the remnant of Jews who have survived the harvesting of Israel
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