JESUS THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE
Isa 59:1-4, 15-21
GOD KNOWS YOUR SINS
V:1. Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short
to save,
nor his ear too dull to hear.
2 But your iniquities have
separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
A. In these first two verses.
God indicates to us His omnipotence,
His omnipresence, and His omniscience.
1. Too short to save: His omnipotence, all power
2. Ear to dull to hear: His omnipresence, everywhere all the
time
3. Your iniquities have separated you: His omniscience knows
everything
B. By God's grace, we are
protected from our enemies and given
Eternal life
1. God hears our conversation and judges
them as evil or good.
2. The evil that we do separates us from
God.
3. Perhaps our prayers are not effective
because of our sins.
GOD JUDGES THE EVIL THAT
YOU PLAN
V:3. For your hands are stained with blood,
your fingers with guilt.
Your lips have spoken lies,
and your tongue mutters wicked things.
4 No one calls for justice;
no one pleads his case with integrity.
They rely on empty arguments and speak
lies;
they conceive trouble and give birth to
evil.
A. Those who don’t know Lord
and those who reject His teaching
are self-centered and only interested in
promoting
their own agendas.
1. When we are not God-centered, we are
under the influence
of the
devil and his demons.
2. The more we get from God the more evil
our desires are.
WE WERE CHOSEN TO BE GOD’S
ROLE MODELS
B. The Jewish people were
elected by God to be His role models.
1. Freed from Egyptian control, they reject
God’s priesthood.
2. In I Samuel 8:7, they rejected Samuel
and his sons as judges and
demanded a king so they could be like
the surrounding nations.
3. This was a milestone in Israel
ruler.
This took place around 1098 BC
4. Instead of having God as their King,
they chose to
have a man as their King
5. Almost 400 years later, God warns Israel
destruction of their nation as a result
of their sins.
6. Israel
C. The Church was designed by God to be the
role model for the
world.
1. As long as we worship the Lord we have
nothing to fear
2. He ordained us to preach the Gospel of
Jesus Christ.
3. We are to follow His commands in
dealing with each other.
4. When we show love and compassion to
our neighbors,
God returns the favor to us.
Mark 4:24
"Consider carefully what you hear,"
he continued. "With the measure
you use, it will be measured to you —
and even more.”
THE TRUTH SHOULD PREVAIL
Isa 59:15-21
V:15 Truth is nowhere to be
found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.
The Lord looked and was
displeased that there was no justice.
16 He saw that there was no
one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm worked
salvation for him,
and his own righteousness
sustained him.
A. The nation of Israel
and decided to chastise the whole nation.
1. Evil thoughts and actions, and injustice
were common.
2. God is not pleased when we know to do
right and refuse
to follow His guidance,
James 4:17
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought
to do and doesn't do it, sins.
3. When we fail to what is right, God will
chastise us.
James 5:1-2
Now listen, you rich people, weep and
wail because of the misery that
is coming upon you.
4. God is not pleased when
we see injustice and we want take a stand
for His righteousness.
5. To keep our mouth shut
when we see injustice enables the
oppressor.
Isa 1:17
learn to do right! Seek justice,
encourage the oppressed.
Defend the cause of the fatherless,
plead
the case of the widow.
B. When we don’t stand for
righteousness, God in His own time
Will step in right all wrongs
1. We lose the opportunity to strengthen
our faith when we remain
silent.
2. Gal 6:9-10
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at
the proper time we will
reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10
Therefore, as we have
opportunity, let us do good to all people,
especially to those who
belong to the family of believers.
SEE JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND
SAVIOR
V:17 He put on righteousness
as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation
on his head;
he put on the garments of vengeance and
wrapped himself in zeal as in a
cloak.
18 According to what they
have done, so will he repay wrath to his enemies
and retribution to his foes; he will repay
the islands their due.
A. Jesus is the Lord of our
salvation.
1. He put on human flesh to bring justice
to His elect, and to
provide the way to the Kingdom of God
blood.
2. His mission statement is found in Isaiah
61
Isa 61:1-2
the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the
prisoners,
2 to proclaim the year of the Lord 's
favor
3. Victory over His enemies and salvation to
the elect
was completed in His first coming with
His
death on the cross.
4. The judgment of His enemies, Satan, and
His demons, will
be completed after His second coming.
5. While we await Jesus second coming, the
breastplate of rightness
covers our hearts, and the helmet of
salvation covers our minds.
WILL YOU BE READY WHEN
JESUS RETURNS?
V:19. From the west, men will
fear the name of the Lord,
and from the rising of the sun, they
will revere his glory.
For he will come like a pent-up flood
that the breath of the Lord drives along.
20 "The Redeemer will come to Zion
to those in Jacob who repent of their
sins,"
declares the Lord .
21 "As for me, this is my covenant
with them," says the Lord . "My
Spirit, who is on you, and my words that
I have put in your mouth will
not depart from your mouth, or from the
mouths of your children, or
from the mouths of their descendants from
this time on and forever,"
says the Lord.
A. This part of the prophecy
will not be fulfilled until the 1000 year
reign of Christ on the earth.
1. After Christ's second coming, there will
be a 7 year tribulation
period, after which Satan will be bound for
1000 years.
2. Doing that 1000 year reign of Christ,
Satan will not have
influence over man.
3. The devil is allowed to
roam seeking who he may devour until
the second coming of Christ.
Rev 20:2
He seized the dragon, that ancient
serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and
bound him for a thousand years.
B. At the coming Judgment day, everyone
shall worship Jesus
Isa 45:23
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out
of my mouth in
righteousness, and shall not return, That unto
me every knee shall bow,
every tongue shall swear.
1.
Those who accepted Christ as Lord and Savior will worship
in His Glory.
Rev
20:6
Blessed
and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The
second death has no power over them, but
they will be priests of God
and of Christ and will reign with him for
a thousand years.
THE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE
John 14:23
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he
will obey my teaching. My
Father will love him, and we will
come to him and make our home
with him.
THANK JESUS FOR OUR HOPE
IN HIS RETURN
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst. Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
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