THE WORK OF MY KING
Isa 49:1-10, 20
V:1. Listen to me, you
islands;
hear this, you distant
nations:
Before I was born the Lord called
me;
from my birth, he has made
mention of my name.
A. Before you were born, God
planned your service
To Him.
1. He knew you by name and called you to the
mission
of
proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
2. God has a particular place and a
particular
people He wants you to minister to.
B. Your ministry will span
beyond where you are located
And to people may not know.
1. God has a way of bringing His chosen to
you from
far away places.
2. Before the pandemic, our Bible Study was
focused
in the church location.
3. Today with zoom, our Bible Study can reach
the entire
world.
4. My
lessons are posted on my blogs which have been
visited
by over 40,000 people from all around the world.
5. God will make a way for us to proclaim
the Gospel,
V:2 He made my mouth like a
sharpened sword,
in the shadow of his hand he
hid me;
he made me into a polished
arrow
and concealed me in his
quiver.
3 He said to me, "You
are my servant,
A. Once we accepted Christ as
our personal Savior,
God began a training program to get us
prepared
For the mission, He decided before our
birth.
1. He will train us in the Word through the
power of
Holy Spirit to influence the lives that
He will
Bring it to us.
2. God has design our education to be
effective in
the mission
B. The verbs sharpen and
polished indicated the trials and
Tribulations of our lives that builds and
strengthens our faith
In God's righteousness.
1. Once David was ordained to be king of Israel
age, it took 15 years being chased by
Saul before he was
ready for the job.
2. Joseph was gifted by God with dream
interpretation in his
teens.
a. He was sold into slavery by his
jealous brothers, taken to
b. He was accused of attempted rape by
Potifers sex craze
wife and thrown into jail.
c. He extinguished himself as a servant
of the jailer.
d. Through all that, he was faithful to
God and rose to
second in command of Egypt
3. God selected us to be his faithful
servants. He will
train us for the mission.
a. Our main job is to glorify God in our
service
V:4. But I said, "I have
labored to no purpose;
I have spent my strength in
vain and for nothing.
Yet what is due me is in the
Lord 's hand,
and my reward is with my
God."
A. We didn’t start this
journey as mature Christians.
1. We started as sinners saved by God’s
grace.
2. In our early years, we spent our time
pursuing
the desires of our flesh.
3. Our goals were patterned to build a life
according to
the world’s standards.
B. Once accepting Christ, we
are being groomed to follow
God’s divine plan.
1. The God we serve, protected us doing our sinfulness
and tolerated our behavior to the point where
He
drew us to Himself.
2. What God has for you is for you and
nothing can
change that.
3. God’s plan includes our spiritual growth
where
we store up treasures in Heaven.
4. It is what we do for Christ that
pleases God,
V:5 And now the Lord says —
he who formed me in the womb
to be his servant
to bring Jacob back to him
and gather Israel
for I am honored in the eyes
of the Lord
and my God has been my
strength —
6 he says:
"It is too small a thing
for you to be my servant
to restore the tribes of
Jacob
and bring back those of Israel
I will also make you a light
for the Gentiles,
that you may bring my
salvation to the ends of the earth."
A. The conversation to the
mission of Jesus Christ.
1. He stepped out of heaven, took on human
flesh
in the body of a virgin named Mary.
2. The mission of Jesus is to bring
salvation to all
mankind.
3. Jesus will not return until salvation
has been offered to everyone
on earth
Rom 2:10-11
but glory, honor, and peace to everyone
who works what is good, to the
Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For
there is no partiality with God.
4. We were born in the darkness of the
devil, shaped in the sin the
devil created
B. Those who follow the
commands of the Lord are strengthen to
do His will.
1. Jesus took on human flesh to redeem Israel
to the promised land.
2. While He was in the flesh, He was
strengthened by the Holy Spirit.
Mark 1:12-13
At once the Spirit sent him out into the
desert, 13 and he was in the
desert
forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals,
and angels attended him.
3. Even though Jesus was the same as God the
Father, He humbled
Himself to be obedient to the Father’s
commands.
4. Jesus set the example of service with the
reward of being honored
by the Father
5. Whenever you and I serve God He takes
notice
V:7. This is what the
Lord says —
the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel
to him who was despised and
abhorred by the nation,
to the servant of rulers:
"Kings will see you and
rise up,
princes will see and bow
down,
because of the faithful
Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, who
has chosen you."
A. God knows the end from the
beginning.
1. Throughout the Old Testament, never
learn to worship
God through any long period.
2. They dishonored God with the worship of
idols and mistreating
their
brothers and sisters.
3.
The Old Testament ended with a 300 year period in which there was
no prophet from God.
4. The New Testament began with Jesus being
rejected and crucified
by
the nation He came to redeem.
B. This verse looks forward
to the second coming of Christ
when Satan will be bounded for 1000
years.
1. Christ will reign during those 1000 years
and
Rev 20:2-3
He seized the dragon, that ancient
serpent, who is the devil, or Satan,
and bound him for a thousand years. 3
He threw him into the Abyss,
and locked and sealed it over him, to
keep him from deceiving the
nations anymore until the thousand
years were ended.
Rev 20:4
They came to life and reigned with
Christ a thousand years.
2. Christ will be honored by all mankind
from the time of the
eternal judgement.
Rom 14:11
It is written: “As surely as I live,'
says the Lord,
'every knee will bow before me; every
tongue will confess to God.”
V:8. This is what the
Lord says:
"In the time of my favor
I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I
will help you;
I will keep you and will make
you
to be a covenant for the
people,
to restore the land
and to reassign its desolate
inheritances,
9 to say to the captives,
'Come out,'
and to those in darkness, 'Be
free!'
"They will feed beside
the roads
and find pasture on every
barren hill.
A. This prophecy has not been
fulfilled.
1. Israel
the promised land.
2. It is obvious that the nation has been
favored.
a. Israel
May 1945.
B. Jesus ratified the
covenant with His voluntary death
On the cross
1. All sins, past, present, and future have
been atoned with
the blood He shed on the cross.
2. The atonement is the payment for our sin
required by the
Father.
Rom 5:11
And
not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom we have now received the atonement.
C. Jesus gave His mission
statement in His first message to Synagogue
In Galilee
Luke 4:18-19
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives,
and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised.
D. Abiding in Jesus we have all we need.
John 16:23
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you.
V:10 They will neither hunger
nor thirst,
nor will the desert heat or
the sun beat upon them.
He who has compassion on them
will guide them
and lead them beside springs
of water.
Isa 49:22
22 This is what the Sovereign
Lord says:
"See, I will beckon to
the Gentiles,
I will lift up my banner to
the peoples;
they will bring your sons in
their arms
and carry your daughters on
their shoulders.
A. God describes the abundance in heaven or
the Millennium Kingdom
The
true Israel
together.
1. At the second coming of Christ, the
Church will
taken to heaven to reign with Him.
1 Thess 4:15-18
15 According to the Lord's own word,
we tell you that we who are still
alive, who are left till the coming
of the Lord, will certainly not
precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord, himself will
come down from heaven, with a loud command,
with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet call
of God, and the dead in Christ will
rise first. 17 After that, we who are
still alive and are left will be
caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And so we will be with the Lord
forever.
2. After this, only nonbelievers will be
left on earth to go through
the seven-year tribulation.
a. Christ will do battle with Satan
and bound him into hell for
a thousand years .
b. During the thousand years, Christ
will reign on earth
and a new Israel
c. Under Christ's reign, there will only be
joy and peace.
B. The good news is Christ is
already reigning in our lives.
1. It is up to us, to let Him be King in
our lives
2. Matt 11:12
From the days of John the Baptist
until now, the kingdom of heaven
has been forcefully advancing, and
forceful men lay hold of it.
THANK GOD FOR KING JESUS
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
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