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Our Loyal God Isaiah 54

Our Loyal God Isaiah 54. A study of Isaiah’s God & His servants. Our Loyal God. The Book of Judgment (1-39) -God deals with the nation’s unfaithfulness. Isaiah 39:6-7

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Our Loyal God Isaiah 54

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  1. Our Loyal God Isaiah 54 A study of Isaiah’s God & His servants

  2. Our Loyal God The Book of Judgment (1-39) -God deals with the nation’s unfaithfulness Isaiah 39:6-7 Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon…your sons…will be taken away, and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.

  3. Our Loyal God The Book of Judgment (1-39) The Book of Comfort (40-66) -The nation’s call to hope and redemption Isaiah 40:1 Comfort, O comfort My people," says your God.

  4. Our Loyal God The Book of Comfort (40-66) • The Promise & Purpose of Peace (40-48) • The Prince of Peace: Messiah (49-57) • The Program of Peace: Messiah’s Kingdom on Earth (58-66)

  5. Our Loyal God The Prince of Peace: Messiah (49-57) • Messiah brings light and restoration: light to the Gentiles when Israel rejects; restoration to Israel at the appointed time (49:1-26). • Israel is put away over her sins, but the Servant of the Lord is obedient and by His suffering can comfort the weary (50:1-11). • Chosen Israel, the promised nation, should look in faith to the Lord for another return to the land (51:1-16). • Israel should awake because dominion will replace slavery when God comes to rule in Zion (51:17-52:12).

  6. Our Loyal God The Prince of Peace: Messiah (49-57) • The Suffering Servant: blessings of redemption come to all because the Servant’s offering for all (52:13-53:12). • Future blessings for the people of God (54:1-17). • Grace will be extended to all sinners who trust in the Lord (55:1-56:8). • Among the redeemed in the prophesied kingdom, wicked leaders and corrupt idolaters will not be found (56:9-57:21).

  7. Our Loyal God Future blessings for the people of God (54:1-17) • The Lord assures His people of restoration and renewal (54:1-10). • The Lord assures His people of prosperity and security (54:11-17).

  8. Our Loyal God Future blessings for the people of God (54:1-17) • The Lord assures His people of restoration and renewal (54:1-10). A. The restoration will bring dominion (1-3). B. The restoration will be in peace & safety (4-10).

  9. Our Loyal God A. The restoration will bring dominion (54:1-3) Isaiah 54:1-3 Shout for joy, O barren one, you who have borne no child; Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud, you who have not travailed; For the sons of the desolate one will be more numerous than the sons of the married woman, says the LORD.

  10. Our Loyal God A. The restoration will bring dominion (54:1-3) Isaiah 54:1-3 Enlarge the place of your tent; Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pegs. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess nations, and they will resettle the desolate cities.

  11. Our Loyal God A. The restoration will bring dominion (54:1-3) Note: barren mother imagery POINT: Under the imagery of a barren woman who has now been allowed to have children (Hannah, Elizabeth), “Mother” Jerusalem(Judah) is told she will have many children who will multiply and reestablish dominion in the land.

  12. Our Loyal God Future blessings for the people of God (54:1-17) • The Lord assures His people of restoration and renewal (54:1-10). A. The restoration will bring dominion (1-3). B. The restoration will be in peace & safety (4-10). (Hint: the heart of Chapter 54)

  13. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety Isaiah 54:4-10 Fear not, for you will not be put to shame; Neither feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; But you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.

  14. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety For the LORD has called you, like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even like a wife of one's youth when she is rejected, says your God. For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.

  15. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety For this is like the days of Noah to Me; When I swore that the waters of Noah should not flood the earth again, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor will I rebuke you. For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken, says the LORD who has compassion on you.

  16. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety Two Exhortations: 54:4 • Fear Not! • Don’t Feel Humiliated! Why? • You will not be disgraced. • You will forget the shame of your youth. • You will forget the reproach of your widowhood.

  17. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety These promises are based on the relationship that exists between the nation and God (54:5-6) For your husband is your Maker, the Lord of armies is His name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer the God of the whole earth shall He be called.

  18. Our Loyal God The theme of creation is brought forward here again in “your Maker,” that is, the One who brought Israel into existence, but now He is compared to a “husband”. Thishusband is being described as the sovereign Creator, the Lord of armies, the Holy One of Israel, the Redeemer, and the God of the whole earth. Any people related by covenant to such a One as all that need not fear anyone—except God Himself. Allen Ross

  19. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety Isaiah 54:7-8 is the speech of the Lord to assure Israel of her future peace: For a brief moment I have forsaken you, but with great compassionwill I gather you; In an outburst of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting lovingkindnessI will have compassion on you.

  20. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety The prophesied Babylonian Captivity (70 years) is seen as “a brief moment” from God’s perspective. However, His anger against their sin is brief as His lovingkindness and compassion restores them. Key words introduced: 54:7-8 • Compassion • Lovingkindness

  21. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety Isaiah 54:9-10 For this is like the days of Noah to Me; When I swore that the waters of Noah should not flood the earth again, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor will I rebuke you. For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken, says the LORD who has compassion on you.

  22. Our Loyal God B. The restoration will be in peace & safety Noahic Covenant cited (54:9) Covenant of Peace (New Covenant) cited (54:10) The essential “ingredients” of God’s covenants: • Lovingkindness • Compassion

  23. Our Loyal God • Lovingkindness Hebrew = "hesed" Found 245 times in the OT Relational Term: covenants; deals; arrangements between people & God and people Key Concepts: loyalty and kindness (within a relationship).

  24. Our Loyal God • Lovingkindness Hebrew = "hesed" Loyal demonstration of kindness and goodness to those with whom you are in a relationship.

  25. Our Loyal God • Lovingkindness Between People: Jonathan & David 1 Samuel 20:12-17 Then Jonathan said to David, "The Lord…be witness! Will you not show me the lovingkindness of the Lord, that I may not die? And you shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever." So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David…

  26. Our Loyal God • Lovingkindness Between People: Jonathan & David 2 Samuel 9:1-7 Then David said, "Is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the kindness of God for Jonathan’s sake?" "Mephibosheth, a son of Jonathan who is crippled in both feet.”

  27. Our Loyal God • Lovingkindness Between People: Jonathan & David And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and you shall eat at my table regularly.”

  28. Our Loyal God • Lovingkindness Between God and His People Isaiah 40:6-8 A voice says, "Call out." Then he answered, "What shall I call out?" All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field…The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.

  29. Our Loyal God • Lovingkindness Between God and His People Micah 7:18-20 Who is a God like You? …He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in unchanging love. He will again have compassion on us… You will give truth to Jacob and unchanging love to Abraham, which You did swear to our forefathers from the days of old.

  30. Our Loyal God • Compassion (as seen in Isaiah 54:7, 8, 10) Often seen as a side-kick of "hesed" Hebrew = "rachamin” Word Picture: intense expression of the "womb" Key Concept: tender mercy/compassion felt in your "womb" for those "from your womb".

  31. Our Loyal God 2. Compassion (and Lovingkindness) Between God and His People Psalm 103:2-4 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities; Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit; Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion.

  32. Our Loyal God 2. Compassion (and Lovingkindness) Between God and His People Lamentations 3:20-23 Surely my soul remembers and is bowed down within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is Thy faithfulness.

  33. Our Loyal God 2. Compassion (and Lovingkindness) Between God and His People Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken, says the LORD who has compassion on you.

  34. Our Loyal God Future blessings for the people of God (54:1-17) • The Lord assures His people of restoration and renewal (54:1-10). • The Lord assures His people of prosperity and security (54:11-17).

  35. Our Loyal God The Lord assures His people of prosperity and security (54:11-17). His powerful closing argument & summation: Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me," declares the Lord.

  36. Our Loyal God Some final thoughts… • The sting of sin is real but God’s lovingkindness and compassion salves the wounds. • God restores the brokenhearted. • God is loyal. • God is kind & compassionate. • God is an excellent covenant partner.

  37. Our Loyal God Isaiah 54 A study of Isaiah’s God & His servants

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