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1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be…

Isaiah 51-53 Good evening church! Open your Bibles with me to Isaiah chapter 51. We are continuing on in this amazing prophecy together and over and over again discovering Jesus in this old testament book. Just a reminder that Isaiah itself is structured very much like our bibles. There are 66 books…

Isaiah’s prophecy is a wake-up call. Yahweh, the Ever-living God is everything, idols are nothing. Give up your idolatry. Return to God with a whole heart, listen to His voice, and He will turn your wastelands of sin into gardens of eternal life. Because there is so much talk about turning from idols,…

Introduction 1 “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the Lord : Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. 2 Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.”…

Read text: Isaiah 51:9-11 Awake! Put On strength! Thank God for His Mighty Arm! That Arm who embraces the hurting. Who supports the weak. Who defends the downtrodden and those who seem utterly without help in a hostile world. Who is the Mighty Arm of God? It’s Jesus! He is the one who executes the Father’s…

A story has been told of a time when the Lord told a man he had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of the man’s cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. This the man did, day after day. For many months he toiled from sun up to sun down,…

Sometimes it is aweful hard to be thankful. I see this played out in the lives of my boys. Sometimes they just have a rough day. Their brothers have been teasing them all day, they can’t find their favorite toys, mom has forced them to do school all day, and to top it all off for supper that night their…

I Have Engraved You on the Palms of My Hands Isaiah 49:8–16 (ESV) 8 Thus says the Lord: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages, 9 saying to the…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

Leader Guide ESV, Unit 15, Session 1 © 2019 LifeWay Christian Resources. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute within the license agreement with purchaser. Edited by Rev. Lex DeLong, M.A., Jan. 2023. Summary and Goal In the previous unit, we explored why God would judge the sins of His people.…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

Introduction Well good morning once again. It’s good to be with you today. Go ahead and turn in your Bible to the book of Hebrews, chapter 3. We are going to be diving into verses 7-19 this morning. As you do that I want to call your attention to a couple of additional announcements. On June 26 we are…

Summary Revelation 21-22 is John’s climactic vision of the new Jerusalem and new earth. In Part 1 we looked at how Israelites thought about the concept of “temple” and how that concept led John to conflate the expectation of a new temple and see fulfillment of that expectation in a city (the new Jerusalem)…

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Summary Revelation 15 and 16 deal with the seven bowl judgments meted out against all those who follow the Beast. The passage contains several images drawn from the Old Testament that telegraph the victory of Jesus and the Father over the Beast and the chaos system of Babylon. This episode explores those…

Summary of Rev. 12 study The imagery of Revelation 12 is familiar to many Bible readers. A woman with twelve stars around her head gives birth to the messiah child, after which that child is caught up to God and his throne, the response to which by Satan (the Dragon) is a spiritual war. The astronomical…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

God keeps sending forth the Gospel of Christ to sinners -- from the Beginning to the End of the World!

Jeremiah Major prophet - BC 627 -580 Name means “Yahweh Exalts”. Known as the crying prophet Why do you think his nom de plume is the Crying prophet? Preparing the people for the enviable fall of Jerusalem Descendant of Abiathar - banished by Solomon. Baruch is his scribe Call and Mission of Jeremiah…

9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs…

Every new beginning comes from another beginnings end (2x). Whether the passing of one season to the next, from one day to another, or one week transitioning to the next, we see the design of life point to the opportunity for a fresh beginning. Whether its new morning mercies that are delivered each…

Introduction: Do you keep up with the news? What was in the news this week? What were the big headlines? Chaos in this election season; Political corruption; Murders; Pandemic. Reporting and journalism is a competitive business, and these days seems to be lopsided, at least depending on who you listen…

Introduction This is a poem that is central to Philippians and Christian theology We find this poem sitting between two major themes. That which comes before the poem is about the unity of the church and that which comes after the poem is about the holiness of the church Paul seems to put this poem right…