Isaiah served God as a prophet and as a watchman. Preachers are watchmen, too. They watch for danger from without the church and trouble from within. Let every watchman answer the earnest enquiry, ‘Watchman, what of the night?’ Let every believer ask that question with humble honesty. Let us all remember the principal Watchman over our souls is our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. Mat 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: Mat 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came,...
The Lord Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for sinners like us. Isaiah warned his age not to rely upon the strength of flesh and spiritually all believers must learn the same lesson both for salvation and in their pilgrim journey. The Lord teaches us to trust not in our own abilities but in Him. More information available at Website: www.newfocus.church Magazine: www.go-newfocus.co.uk New Focus Church Online : www.youtube.com/@NewFocusChurchOnline...
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto ...
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Saviour who was sent to Egypt; what a great Saviour He is! Isaiah’s audience must have been filled with amazement to hear the prophet speak of Egypt’s salvation and Assyria’s deliverance. These are the blessings of gospel days when God’s elect shall be redeemed to God by Christ’s blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Here Isaiah teaches us about the Lord’s elect, a scattered and peeled people. He shows us how the Lord Jesus Christ is an ensign and a trumpet to call God’s remnant people from amongst the nations. He teaches us how to interpret enduring trials and he confirms the promises that we shall be presented to God as a holy, perfect people in Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Holy One of Israel and the eyes of His people discern and discover Him by faith to be the giver of grace and bringer of peace. In Christ we have complete redemption, complete pardon and the perfect justifying righteousness of God. Christ is our full, free and sufficient salvation.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the subject of Isaiah’s prophecy. It is He whose kingdom is established in mercy, who sits on a throne of truth and who dispenses righteousness to His people. May the burden of Moab continue to speak to lead the Lord’s little ones under the protection of His wings.
In his pride the King of Babylon set himself up as God, claiming divinity and personifying the religion of man’s fallen, sinful heart. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the true morning star. Salvation and healing are to be found only in the power of Christ’s death and resurrection.
Isaiah records a series of 'burdens'. These burdens reveal the character of God; His holiness, sovereignty and distinguishing love. They also teach us how we should understand the unfolding of world events. They also point us to the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaiah's message is still relevant today for the people of God!
It is our privilege to praise God for the excellence of the Lord Jesus Christ and the greatness of all His accomplishments. It is also our privilege to declare His doings to those around us in the world. May God give us grace and opportunity, with comfort and joy as we worship Him and serve His cause.
Isaiah rejoiced in the glorious person of the Messiah, seeing in Him many wonderful pictures of divine salvation and spiritual life. Here are seven names and roles explained by Isaiah to the people of his day by which the loveliness of the Lord Jesus Christ is explained, and by which Isaiah shows he grasped the worldwide effect and success of the gospel.
The Lord’s elect people are a remnant people who have escaped from judgment and death through the sacrifice and deliverance of their Saviour. The remnant stay upon the Lord in truth, they return to the Lord, and they prove the Lord faithful. These lessons Isaiah taught to the encouragement and comfort of the Lord’s elect then, and they shall remain and encouragement for all time for the Lord’s church from every nation. The elect are be saved because of the appointing and anointing of our Saviour...
The Lord’s people of Isaiah’s day and during the following years waited patiently for the coming of the promised child, the Son of God. Today we are blessed to have seen in all its glory the wonderful work of redemption and grace by the Lord Jesus Christ. Both they, and we, look to Christ by faith, trusting in the power and efficacy of His blood.
Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, comforted the Lord’s elect people, His children, in the Old Testament as well as He comforts us today. Then He gave signs, made promises and sometimes showed Himself to His people to encourage them through their trials. In today’s service we consider Immanuel’s land, Christ our Sanctuary, and a wonderful revelation of Christ and His gathered people to a waiting, watching prophet.
When God sent Isaiah and his son with good news to wicked king Ahaz, the king mocked the message and the messenger. Ahaz denied God's goodness and determined to save himself by his own means. There is a judgment coming for all who reject God's gospel. Yet all through the difficult years ahead the Lord's elect were comforted by the fact that sooner or later a remnant will return, Immanuel would be born of a virgin and God's way of salvation fulfilled.
Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus Christ ‘high and lifted up’. This is our glorious, victorious Saviour. Isaiah saw Him as He truly is: the sovereign God, the King in His Kingdom, ruling and reigning according to His good pleasure. Here are seven views Isaiah received in seeing his Saviour in this way. May we thus see Him, too.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever, and everywhere in scripture where the Lord Jesus Christ is found is as relevant yesterday, today and forever. Isaiah preached many years ago but his message is relevant to us today, warning of judgment to come for the wicked and God’s faithfulness in Jesus Christ to the elect remnant.
The Lord Jesus Christ was foreseen by Isaiah. He looked forward to a time when the beauty and glory of the Messiah would be seen through all the earth. With this prophecy he encouraged and comforted the elect of his own day as he anticipated the fruitfulness of Christ in bringing many sons to glory.
The Lord Jesus Christ is always pleased to comfort, defend and represent His people whom He loves with an everlasting love. He calls us ‘righteous’ because we are pure, clean and holy in Him. He calls us, ‘my people’ because He owns us as our Creator, Redeemer and Bridegroom. He calls us ‘the poor’ because we are the blessed poor whom He has fitted to receive all the riches of His grace and glory.
The Lord Jesus Christ in His death and resurrection established His kingdom, sent forth His ministers and is not victoriously gathering God’s elect from all the nations of the world. Isaiah saw this great work of the last days seven centuries before Christ came. He encouraged the Lord’s people of his age with this prophecy. We should be encouraged in its fulfilment.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the subject of all the scripture and the message of redemption and salvation is clearly seen in Isaiah’s prophecy by those to whom the gospel is revealed. Isaiah tells us the Lord God has a remnant people chosen by grace whose sins shall be purely purged and who will be washed and made clean in the blood of Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord our Shepherd. David knew this and writes beautifully and preciously of his personal relationship with the Lord Jesus his Shepherd. What better way to begin our New Year than being reminded, ‘The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want’ and shall be, ‘all the days of my life’.
The Lord Jesus Christ was announced by the angel with these words, ‘Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.’. The gospel takes away our fear. It brings good tidings of great joy because our Saviour, Christ the Lord is born.
The Lord Jesus Christ came into the world in ‘the fulness of time’. That is, He came when God had prepared all the circumstances for His manifestation. The people, the places, the timing and the events of Christ’s birth were not left to chance but purposefully organised so that everything promised, prophesied and appertaining to Christ’s birth would be exactly as God had planned.
The Lord Jesus Christ’s coming was promised and prophesied. The Old Testament believers had lots of knowledge about the Messiah’s coming and many glorious aspects of Christ revealed to them concerning His nature, character, work and accomplishments. Our Saviour’s name ‘shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace’.
The world had not long been created when Satan in the form of a serpent tempted Adam and Eve to disobey God’s command. The result was not the blessedness man hoped for but shame, guilt and expulsion from the presence and fellowship of God. Yet, even in the very process of declaiming sin and bringing judgment our Lord God gave mankind hope by pointing forward to a Seed who would destroy the works of the devil. It pleased the Lord that our Redeemer be bruised, yet our Saviour in turn has by His su...
At the Saviour’s ascension we are told Christ was received up into heaven, that is, He was received with praise, glory and worship as the victor returned from the fight. As believers we look forward to the day we shall be caught up by Him, ever to dwell with Him, our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Our Saviour’s great commission to His disciples was that they preach the gospel to every creature. It was the gospel for free, sovereign grace that must be preached. The message of particular redemption, complete forgiveness and justifying righteousness for God’s people by the death of Jesus Christ. That is the gospel. Nothing else will do. May the Lord give us boldness to continue to preach the same gospel to our generation that the Apostles preached to theirs. 20 November 2022
Our Saviour’s Resurrection Day visits totalled five and each of them was designed to help, support, encourage and comfort His people for the challenges they faced. Being visited by the risen Christ is a privilege granted exclusively to the Lord’s elect and a gift discovered by faith each time the gospel is preached to the heart of a child of God.
