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ISAIAH
1:1-31 - God invites us to ‘come’ to Him and receive salvation - ‘though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow’.
He also warns us - there will be judgment ‘if you refuse and rebel’ (18-20).
God speaks to us of His great purpose of salvation: ‘God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him’.
He tells us that we can be saved through faith in Christ: ‘Whoever believes in Him is not condemned’.
He calls us back from the way of unbelief and judgment: ‘Whoever does not believe is condemned already because he does not believe in the Name of the only Son of God’ (John 3:17-18).
In Jesus Christ, there is ‘great salvation’.
Make sure that you receive God’s salvation.
‘How shall we escape if we neglect or ignore such a great salvation?’
(Hebrews 2:3).
2:1-22 - God calls us to worship Him - ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord...’ - and walk in His ways - ‘Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord’ (3,5).
We are moving towards the Day when ‘the pride of men shall be humbled and brought low’, the Day when ‘the Lord alone will be exalted’ (11,12,17).
How are we to get ready for the Return of our Lord Jesus Christ?
God calls us to keep on worshipping Him.
We are to encourage one another to keep on walking with God.
‘Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching’ (Hebrews 10:25).
Let our pride be humbled and let the Lord be exalted as we await Christ’s Return in ‘faith’, looking to Him alone for our ‘salvation’ (1 Peter 1:7-9).
3:1-26 - God’s Word calls us to make our choice.
We must choose between the way of ‘the righteous’ and the way of ‘the wicked’.
There is a great difference between the two ways - ‘Tell the righteous it will be well with them... Woe to the wicked!
Disaster is upon them!...’ (10-11).
We still need to hear the words of Jesus: ‘Enter by the narrow gate... only a few find the narrow gate, the hard way that leads to life’.
His words are not popular.
Many people dismiss His words as old-fashioned.
They don’t like this kind of talk: ‘the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it’ (Matthew 7:13-14).
They say, ‘ Jesus said such ‘nice’ things about love.
Why does He spoil it all by saying things like this?’.
When will we start listening to all that Jesus says - and not only the ‘nice’ things we like to hear?
4:1-5:17 - ‘Those who are left... will be called holy’ (4:3).
The world speaks of God’s people with contempt - ‘the holy people who need to learn to live in the real world’.
When God calls His people ‘holy’, He speaks in a very different way.
He speaks with affection.
He looks upon us with love.
We are special to Him.
We are precious in His eyes.
God loves us and He calls us to be holy.
We are to live as those who have been set apart for God.
We are not to live for this world only.
There is something else, something greater than this so-called ‘real world’.
There is a world that is unseen and eternal, heavenly and glorious.
This is our higher calling, our call to holiness.
Let us ‘look to the things that are unseen and eternal’.
Let us ‘press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus’ (2 Corinthians 4:18; Philippians 3:14).
5:18-6:13 - God reveals His holiness: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts’ (3).
In His holiness, we see our own sinfulness: ‘I am a man of unclean lips’ (5).
God is perfectly holy: ‘Your eyes are too pure to look on evil’ (Habakkuk 1:13).
When we look at ourselves in the light of God’s perfect holiness, we see the truth concerning ourselves: ‘All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God’ (Romans 3:23).
There is no room for excuses.
We must confess our sin.
We must pray for God’s forgiveness: ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner’ (Luke 18:13).
To those who come to Him with a true confession of sin, God speaks His Word of forgiveness: ‘your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven’ (7).
The Lord has saved us.
Let us serve Him.
Let us pray, ‘Here am I! Send me’ (8).
Let us share the Good News of His forgiveness.
7:1-25 - Isaiah looked ahead to the coming of ‘Immanuel’ - ‘God with us’ (14; Matthew 1:23).
We look forward to the Second Coming of Immanuel: ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them.
They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God’ (Revelation 21:3).
The Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ presents us with a challenge: ‘When the Son of man comes, will He find faith on earth?’ (Luke 18:8).
He calls us to ‘stand firm in our faith’.
We must not ‘shrink back ‘ from Him.
We must ‘believe and be saved’ (9; Hebrews 10:37-39).
Jesus says, ‘I am coming soon’.
Let us pray, ‘Come, Lord Jesus’.
Let us pray that our ‘love’ for Him will not ‘grow cold’.
Let us pray for strength to ‘stand firm to the end and be saved’ (Revelation 22:7,12,20; Matthew 24:12-13).
8:1-22 - ‘Immanuel... God is with us’ (8,10).
Jesus Christ has come to be with us so that we might go to be with Him.
He has come from heaven to earth so that we might go from earth to heaven.
He died for us that we might live with Him.
He does not return to heaven alone.
He ‘brings many sons to glory’: ‘Here am I, and the children the Lord has given me’ (18; Hebrews 2:9-10,13).
Jesus speaks to us of the glory of the Father’s House’.
He shares this glory with us: ‘I go to prepare a place for you...
I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also’.
He invites us to enter this heavenly glory.
He is ‘the Way, the Truth and the Life’.
Without Him, we cannot enter heaven: ‘No one comes to the Father except through Me’.
Through faith in Him, we receive ‘eternal life’ (John 14:1-3,6; 6:40).
9:1-10:4 - The prophecy has been spoken - ‘To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given...’.
The prophecy has been fulfilled - ‘Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you: He is Christ the Lord’.
Jesus Christ is our great Saviour.
He is our ‘Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace’ (9:6: Luke 2:11).
Jesus Christ has brought to us a great salvation.
Through faith in Him, we enter God’s heavenly and eternal ‘Kingdom’ (9:7: Luke 1:30-33).
This is ‘Good News of great joy’ - for ‘all the people’, for ‘all generations’.
Let us rejoice in the Lord, as Mary, the mother of Jesus, did - ‘My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour... for the Mighty One has done great things for me...’.
Let us join with the angels in saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest...’ (Luke 2:10; 1:46-50; 2:14).
10:5-34 - ‘A few, the remaining few of Jacob, will return to the Mighty God...’ (21).
So few people take time to worship the Lord.
Are we to become discouraged?
No! We must take encouragement from God’s Word: ‘The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame’(17).
We must continue to pray for God’s blessing.
‘Let the flame burn brighter in the heart of the darkness, turning night to glorious day.
Let the song grow louder as our love grows stronger; let it shine!
let it shine!’.
‘Shine, Jesus, shine, fill this land with the Father’s glory; blaze, Spirit, blaze, set our hearts on fire.
Flow, river, flow, flood the nations with grace and mercy; send forth Your Word, Lord, and let there be light!’
(Mission Praise, 743,445).
May God give us grace to ‘truly rely on’ Him, ‘the Lord, the Holy One of Israel’ (20).
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