Thanks Isaiah 12 A study of Isaiahs God

Thanks? Isaiah 12 A study of Isaiah’s God & His servants

Thanks? • What’s the Reason? Isaiah 12

Thanks? Isaiah 12 • What’s the Reason? • Psychological and Physiological benefits? • Relational Benefits? • It’s Commanded?

Some have questioned why Isaiah placed these verses here. But, characteristic of this great prophetic writer, he alternated the message of judgment with the message of blessing. In contrast with the Messiah’s future reign of justice and righteousness the nation in Isaiah’s day was ruled by leaders who did not care about the people under them …. When these words were written, the Northern Kingdom was already in some disrepair.

Thanks? Isaiah 12 • What’s the Reason? • Psychological and Physiological benefits? The coming fall of Israel (in 722 B. C. ) should • Relational Benefits? have warned Judah that God is active in the • It’s affairs of. Commanded? His people. Judah should have realized that she too would be destroyed if she persisted in the activities that characterized the North.

Thanks? • What’s the Reason? Isaiah 12

Thanks? Isaiah 12 • What’s the Reason? • Experiential Reality C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity: "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. "

Thanks? Isaiah 12 • What’s the Reason? • God Gives us Perspective from the Past • God Provides for Us in the Present • God Gives us a Promise for the Future

Thanks? • What’s the Reason? • What’s our Response? Isaiah 12

Thanks? Isaiah 12 • What’s the Reason? • What’s our Response? • Greatness Experienced becomes Greatness Expressed • We come and we Go