THE BOOK OF ISAIAH MEGATHEMES IN ISAIAH Holiness
THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
MEGATHEMES IN ISAIAH
Holiness • God is highly exalted above all His creatures. • God is perfect and sinless in all His motives and actions. • He is in perfect control of His power, judgment, love, and mercy. • His holy nature is our standard to measure our morality. • We learn: • Because God is without sin, He alone can help us with our sin. • It is only right that we regard Him as supreme in power and moral perfection. • We must never treat God as common or ordinary. • He alone deserves our devotion and praise. • He is always truthful, fair, and just.
Punishment • Because God is holy, He requires His people to treat others justly. • He promised to punish Israel, Judah, and other nations for faithless, immorality and idolatry. • True faith had declined into national pride and empty religious rituals. • We learn: • We must trust in God alone and fulfill his commands. • We cannot forsake justice nor give in to selfishness. • If we harden our heart against his message, punishment will surely come to us.
Salvation • Because God’s judgment is coming, we need a Savior. • No man or nation can be saved without God’s help. • Christ’s perfect sacrifice for our sins is foretold and portrayed in Isaiah. • All who trust God can be freed from their sin and restored to him. • We learn: • Christ died to save us from our sin. • We cannot save ourselves. • He is willing to save all those who turn from their sin and come to him. Salvation is from God alone. • No amount of good works can earn it.
Messiah • God will send the Messiah to save His people. • He will set up His own Kingdom as the faithful Prince of Peace, who rules with righteousness. • He will come as sovereign Lord, but He will do so as a servant who will die to take away sins. • We learn: • Our trust must be in the Messiah, not in ourselves or in any nation or power. • There is no hope unless we believe in Him. • Trust Christ fully and let Him rule in your life as Your sovereign Lord.
Hope • God promises comfort, deliverance, and restoration in His future Kingdom. • The Messiah will rule over His faithful followers in the age to come. • Hope is possible because Christ is coming. • We learn: • We can be renewed because there is compassion for those who repent. • No matter how sinful our situation or how evil the world is. • We must continue to be God’s faithful people who hope for his return.
The Book of Isaiah (The 5 th Gospel)
The Birth of Jesus • Isaiah 7: 14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. ”
Jesus the Son of David • Isaiah 11: 1 -2 “There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. ”
John the Baptist Isaiah 40: 3 “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God. ”
The ministry of Jesus Isaiah 61: 1 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, Because the Lord has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound. ”
The Incarnation Isaiah 35: 4 -6 “Behold, your God will come with vengeance, With the recompense of God; He will come and save you. ” Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then the lame shall leap like a deer, And the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness, And streams in the desert. ”
There would be a Son called God Isaiah 9: 6 -7 “For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end. ”
The Messiah would be rejected Isaiah 53: 1 “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ”
The Child growth & Jesus on the cross Isaiah 53: 2 “For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. ”
His humanity Isaiah 53: 3 “He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. ”
He carried our grief ( the result of sin) Isaiah 53: 4 “Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows. ”
The wounds of love & Our healing Isaiah 53: 5 “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. ”
He carried our sins Isaiah 53: 6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. ”
His obedience Isaiah 53: 7 “He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. ”
His death Isaiah 53: 8 “He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. ”
His burial Isaiah 53: 9 “And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. ”
The pleasure of salvation Isaiah 53: 10 “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. ”
He is numbered with the transgressors Isaiah 53: 12 “Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors. ”
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