Sermons on Isaiah (Page 3)
Hope & Humility – Isaiah 2
Hope in God’s Promise; Humility in God’s Presence This next section of Isaiah’s prophecy starts out in v2 with the phrase “In the last days” Which is what we think of when we think about prophecy – future – but, it’s important to remember that biblical prophecy is not merely concerned with the future and when it is it is not merely predictive – as in, clues when certain things will happen at certain times, or signs that certain things were…
Seeing Ourselves – Isaiah 1
Do you ever feel spiritually dried up? Or that your enthusiasm for God and your thoughts about God aren’t what they ought to be? That you need to be reinvigorated with new spiritual vibrancy and life? That you don’t see God in the way you used to, or the way you ought to? Isaiah is the book to do this. Because Isaiah gives us new eyes to see. Isaiah’s prophecy has a fairly typical introduction for a prophetic book of…
The Holiness of God – Isaiah 6:1-7
In Isaiah’s vision of the Lord on his throne, the angels cry “Holy, holy, holy”. What does it mean that God is holy? Have we lost a sense of the holiness of God? How do we respond to being in the presence of a holy God? How are we able to stand in his presence? The holiness of God causes us to worship him, humble ourselves, and realize our need for atonement, which comes to us in the cross of…
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace – Isaiah 9:1-7
Christmastime is a time of anticipation. One writer put it this way .. Christmastime is a time when Christians stand on tiptoe. You see this kind of anticipation in young children, when they can’t wait to rush downstairs and open their gifts to see what they got. They get to see if they really got what they were hoping and praying for, the desires of their heart. In Isaiah 9, we read that God is making a promise to His people,…