JESUS IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
Isaiah 9:1-7
DOOM AND GLOOM WITHOUT GOD
V:1. " Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as
was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the
way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations."
A. The absents of God's rule in the life of a person is
darkness.
1. A person not
under the rule of God is under the rule of Satan.
2. Darkness in
the life if the nation of Israel
in favor of a
human king.
3. Eventually
they became under the rule foreign kings who worshipped idol
gods.
B. The promise land
was divided into the southern and northern kingdoms.
1. The northern
kingdom indicated by the tribes of Zsbulun and Naphrali
became under
the rule of the Assyrian in 732 BC.
2. By rejecting
God's rule, they gave up their freedom to an ungodly kingdom.
3. Hardship in
our lives results from disobedience to God's commands.
4. The Jordan
river runs north south throughout the promise land.
5. The Assyrians
used that route to take control of the Northern Kingdom .
and
devastated the area.
GOD BRINGS LIGHT TO POOR IN SPIRIT
V:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a
great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath
the light shined.
A. Jesus made His home in the Northern Kingdom
around the sea of Galilee.
1. Under the Assyrian
rule the Galileans became rough and crude people.
2. The Jews found
it hard to believe that the Messiah would come from that
area.
John 1:46
"Nazareth
B. Even though Israel
Jesus began His
ministry among the poor in Galilee .
Matthew 4:23:
" And Jesus
went about all Galilee , teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the
gospel of the
kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease
among the
people."
1. Jesus began His
great ministry among the poor, and underprivileged.
2. The educated
leaders of Israel
John 7:41-42
Others said,
This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee ?
Hath not the
scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the
town of Bethlehem
3. When you don't
know the scripture for yourself, a cloud darkness is over your
life.
4. The Old
Testament contains the history of the Nation of Israel which you
have to
understand to have a clearer understanding of the Gospels.
5. You can easily
be misled by those who preach what they don't know.
6. Light is in
the Word of God.
JOY COMES THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS
V:3. " Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not
increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as
men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
A. The prophet Isaiah gave Israel
captivity in Babylon Jerusalem
1. He also gives
them hope of their deliverance out of captivity as
free men.
2. God chastises
those that He loves.
B. After a period of chastisement, God delivers those He
love back in right
fellowship with
Himself.
1. Under Assyrian
and Babylonian captivity, there was no joy among the
people.
2. Because of their
sin against God, many Israelites lost their lives in battle.
3. After being
released from captivity , their numbers were decreased but
the joy of
freedom returned to them.
VICTORY IS IN JESUS
V:4.-5 " For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden,
and the staff of his shoulder, the rod
of his oppressor,
as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise,
and garments rolled in blood; but
this shall be with
burning and fuel of fire."
A. God allows and controls the trouble in our lives.
1. In order to get
us ready for deliverance. God make us appreciate His
love and
control.
2. The Israelites
took God for granted during long years of freedom.
3. They came to
better appreciation of God rule over their lives.
4. God designs and
uses our trouble to draw us to Him in prayer.
B. It was God and God alone that released Israel
1. God
commissioned the Babylonian Kings to take Israel
captivity and to release them captivity.
2 Kings 24:2
The Lord sent
Babylonian, Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him. He
sent them to
destroy Judah
his servants
the prophets.
2. The Lord
controls those who trouble us and the time in which our trouble
will end.
2 Chronicles
36:23
"This is what
Cyrus king of Persia
The Lord, the
God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has
appointed me to
build a temple for him at Jerusalem Judah
among you — may
the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up."
JESUS WAS BORN IN THE FLESH TO BE OUR KING
V:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and
the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace.
A. God's plan of redemption for us is complete with all the
details of our
redeemer.
1. God gave us His
son as our redeemer.
2. He could have
chosen any one, but He chose the one who is without sin.
B. All authority
over heaven and earth was given to Jesus.
1. Jesus is the
only door to salvation.
2. No one can
come to the Father without Jesus.
C. Jesus is
Wonderful.
1. No human
being can do the things that Jesus does.
2. John 1:3-5
Through him
all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been
made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the
light of men. 5 The light shines in the
darkness, but
the darkness has not understood it.
D. Jesus is our
Counselor.
1. Jesus is
omniscience.
2. John 1:1-2
In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. 2 He
was with God in the beginning.
3. Any need we have can be supplied by Jesus.
4. Any question we have can be answered by the
Word of God.
E. Jesus is the mighty God.
1. Jesus is
omnipotent.
2. Jesus has
power over life and death.
3. Jesus said
John 10:17-18
"For
this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may
take
it
again. 18 "No one has taken it away
from Me, but I lay it down on My own
initiative.
I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.
This
commandment I received from My Father."
F. Jesus is Alpha and Omega.
1. He has no
beginning and no ending.
2. Revelation 1:8
"I am the
Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and
who
is to come, the
Almighty."
G. Jesus is the Prince of Peace.
1.It is through
Jesus death on the cross, that peace is made with the Father
for all
believers
2. As recorded in
John 14:27, Jesus said:
" Peace I
leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world
gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not
be afraid."
ETERNAL LIFE
IN JESUS
V.7 "Of the increase of his government and peace there
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it,
and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
A. Our eternal life rest with our faith in the death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1. John 3:16-17
"For God
so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son
into the world
to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever
believes "
2. Jesus is our
heavenly king.
1 Timothy 6:14-17
Lord Jesus
Christ, 15 which God will bring about in his own time — God, the
blessed and
only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone is
immortal and
who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see.
To him be honor
and might forever. Amen.
THANK GOD FOR JESUS
Rev. M. Mitchell
asst Pastor Of Greater
Macedonia Baptist Church
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