How To Face An Uncertain Future – Part 1
Isaiah 41:1-29 (1-8)
February 18, 2024
This morning we move into the 41st chapter of Isaiah.
• I remind you again that Isaiah is speaking prophetically to a group of people 100 years after his time.
• He is speaking to those refugees who are now living in Babylon in what we call “The Exile”.
And in this chapter Isaiah is addressing an event
That has everyone in Babylon just a little terrified.
That event is “The Medo-Persian Invasion”.
• Though Nebuchadnezzar did terrorize the known world and conquer many kingdoms and take many captives, Nebuchadnezzar is now dead.
• Following Nebuchadnezzar Babylon had a host of instability in their leadership.
• Several assassinations and short reigns.
• The last ruler of Babylon would be Belshazzar, Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson, whom you see in Daniel 5.
• He’s the one who received the handwriting on the wall and was killed that very night.
The point being, as Isaiah writes, Babylon’s days are numbered.
You have two world rulers who have united:
• Darius the Mede
• Cyrus of Persia
• And they have set their gaze on Babylon.
And as the reality of the coming invasion sets in,
The level of fear and anxiety in Babylon begins to rise.
IT IS FEAR FOR ALL WHO LIVE THERE
• Will the Medes and the Persians spare anyone?
• What do we do?
• How should we respond to the news?
THINK ABOUT IT.
• You are living in a nation that has been designated by God for destruction.
• You know that the nation God has ordained to conquer you is on its way.
• How do you handle it?
This isn’t so far-fetched even in OUR DAY.
If you are willing to read Romans 1 honestly and accurately there can be no doubt that our nation is currently suffering under the wrath of God.
When we read about God giving a nation over to
idolatry, homosexuality, and depravity of thinking…
Only a blind fool would fail to see our nation in this list.
Romans 1 says that when a nation is given over
To such ideology and behavior
That this is evidence that you are under God’s wrath.
It’s like the old revivalist Vance Havner used to say, “It’s Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve and if God doesn’t judge America He’s going to have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
WE KNOW THIS.
In some ways we feel like Habakkuk.
• He was the prophet whose soul was tormented by the evil in his day
• And he was grieved that God wasn’t seemingly doing anything to stop it.
Habakkuk 1:1-4 “The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. How long, O LORD, will I call for help, And You will not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save. Why do You make me see iniquity, And cause me to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; Strife exists and contention arises. Therefore the law is ignored And justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; Therefore justice comes out perverted.”
• Habakkuk was frustrated with God for seemingly giving over his land to immoral
paganism.
• Habakkuk wanted God to so something.
God responded:
Habakkuk 1:5-6 “Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing something in your days— You would not believe if you were told. “For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.”
God’s response to Habakkuk was, “I am doing something, I’m about to send Babylon in to destroy your nation.”
At the end of the prophecy Habakkuk recounted
The type of anxiety and fear this revelation caused.
Habakkuk 3:16 “I heard and my inward parts trembled, At the sound my lips quivered. Decay enters my bones, And in my place I tremble. Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, For the people to arise who will invade us.”
I think we understand that type of feeling,
Though perhaps not yet as intensely as Habakkuk did.
Well now we are about 60 or 70 years after the time of Habakkuk.
• Babylon did come and they did destroy Judah.
• But now it is Babylon who is under God’s judgment
• They are waiting for the Medes and the Persians to come and destroy them.
AND THERE IS FEAR AND ANXIETY.
It is the type of fear and anxiety that you might be prone to have
When you consider what the future of our nation might be.
As I said…
I don’t think it’s hard at all to put ourselves in their shoes.
So here we have a people living in tension,
Waiting for the day of invasion to come.
And in the midst of this terrifying scenario
God calls for a town hall meeting.
• He calls for all to come as God seeks to have a discussion with them all.
• He wants to speak to pagan Babylonians
• He wants to speak to other refugees from other nations.
• He wants to speak to the Jewish captives of Babylon.
• He wants to address them all.
What God has to say is remarkable,
And again it is meant to bring comfort to His people.
We’re going to break this chapter down into 5 points.
#1 GOD’S CONVERSATION
Isaiah 41:1-4
You notice first that Isaiah is addressing the “Coastlands”.
This is his way of speaking to everyone who is currently in Babylon.
• This is a general audience.
• This is a message for all peoples.
• Everyone in Babylon is invited to come and hear what God has to say.
As I mentioned, it is a town hall meeting of sorts.
“Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new strength;”
I hope you see THE GRACIOUS INVITATION that is taking place here.
We just learned at the end of chapter 40 a very valuable truth.
Isaiah 40:31 “Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.”
We saw it last Sunday night that God offers “new strength” to those who will wait on Him.
• If you will place your hope and trust and expectation on God…
• If you will look to God for your salvation and deliverance…
• Then God will supply you with “new strength”
It is a supernatural strength, beyond human ability,
That allows you to face hardship and to continue to endure.
In many ways it is like “hope” that drives you for another day.
And the point of Isaiah 40:31 is that this hope or “new strength”
Is the immediate benefit of placing your trust in God.
That was the offer Isaiah made to Israel in chapter 40.
But now, we get to chapter 41 and we find that
God is extending that offer to all in Babylon, not just the Jewish refugees.
“Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new strength.”
Here is that same offer.
Only this time God uses different language as to the requirement placed upon the people.
• Where as chapter 40 told Israel to “Wait for the LORD”
• Here the coastlands are told to “listen to Me in silence”
That is to say, “You need to stop following your own logic, and you need to pay attention to what I’m saying without argument.”
James gave similar counsel:
James 1:19-20 “This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.”
• Be quick to listen to what God has to say.
• Be slow to speak in opposition to it.
• And be slow to get angry when God tells you something you don’t want to hear.
It speaks of a heart that is eager and open and submissive
To what God has to say.
That is God’s invitation to all the peoples of Babylon.
• Cast aside your own thinking…
• Cast aside your own logic…
• Close your mouth and listen to what I have to say.
The end result of heeding and obeying My word is that you will also “gain new strength.”
So FIRST, you need to come and listen to Me.
Then “Let them come forward, then let them speak; Let us come together for judgment.”
This is NOT God saying, “Come here so I can judge you.”
This IS God saying,
• “Gather to Me, listen to what I have to say,
• answer Me when I ask you,
• and then you can make a decision based on what I have said.”
So let’s listen to what God has to say in this town hall meeting.
He starts with a question:
(2) “Who has aroused one from the east Whom He calls in righteous to His feet?”
We don’t see his name yet mentioned.
• That won’t happen until 44:28,
• But God is referring here to Cyrus of Persia.
And God is asking, who got Cyrus all stirred up?
• Who is behind his rise?
• Who is the One motivating his conquest?
We ask questions like that in our own political climate.
• Who is calling the shots?
• Who is really in control?
• Whose agenda is pushing all of this?
And then God gives a little news report
On exactly what this Cyrus is up to.
(2b-3) “He delivers up nations before him And subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, As the wind-driven chaff with his bow. He pursues them, passing on in safety, By a way he had not been traversing with his feet.”
God recounts that Cyrus is A FORCE to be reckoned with.
• He conquers kings and make them like dust.
• He scatterers people like chaff.
• He pursues his enemies while he seems to travel in some sort of protection.
And again the question is:
Who is behind all of this?
Who is sending and empowering and protecting Cyrus that he would be so successful in his conquest?
(4) “Who has performed and accomplished it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? ‘I the LORD, am the first, and with the last, I am He.’”
GOD IS BEHIND IT.
“I’m doing this”, God says.
We just learned in the last chapter that the power of nations belongs to God.
Isaiah 40:15-17 “Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust. Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering. All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.”
• God is the One who causes one nation to rise and another to fall.
• God appoints the length and glory of their reign.
• It’s all on His calendar for His purposes.
And now He announces that He is bringing Babylon to an end
And bringing Medo-Persia to the forefront.
Again, we know this about God.
Romans 13:1 “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.”
Not so long ago it was God who was raising up Babylon.
Jeremiah 25:8-9 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.”
• That is what God told Habakkuk too.
And before Babylon it was God raising up Assyria.
Isaiah 10:5-6 “Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation, I send it against a godless nation And commission it against the people of My fury To capture booty and to seize plunder, And to trample them down like mud in the streets.”
You see it.
Daniel announced that Medo-Persia isn’t even the last.
• God has plans for Greece to topple them
• And then Rome to topple them,
• And that holds true down throughout the ages.
And it will be of great help to you today church
If you will see the current political landscape
Through the same lens.
I know it is hard to wrap our minds around such truths.
AFTER ALL,
• Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria was a vile godless pagan.
• Nebuchadnezzar was a vile godless pagan.
• Darius the Mede is going to require everyone to pray to him and no one else.
• Cyrus is no worshiper of God.
• Alexander the Great is a pagan
• The Roman emperor’s were not godly men
And yet, we see that throughout history
God used them and brought them to power on the world’s scene.
And that trickles even to our own day and the current world leadership.
• It is hard for us to come to grips with a reality where it is God who put Joe Biden or the corrupt around him into office.
They love abortion, they love homosexuality, they love money,
They love deceit, they think backward about everything.
AND WE WONDER: How in the world it could be God’s will for such godless people to be in power?
That was Habakkuk’s question when God told him that He was brining the Chaldeans.
Habakkuk 1:12-17 “Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. You, O LORD, have appointed them to judge; And You, O Rock, have established them to correct. Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, And You can not look on wickedness with favor. Why do You look with favor On those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they? Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them? The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook, Drag them away with their net, And gather them together in their fishing net. Therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they offer a sacrifice to their net and burn incense to their fishing net; Because through these things their catch is large, And their food is plentiful. Will they therefore empty their net And continually slay nations without sparing?”
It’s a hard reality to process.
That God would use and even bring to power the wicked.
UNLESS you come to grips with the reality that
They could in fact be God’s judgment.
We see it in the Bible that one of the ways God judges a nation
Is by giving that nation foolish leaders that lead it to ruin.
BUT THE POINT OF GOD HERE is that judgment is on its way and I’m the One doing it.
• I am the One “who has performed and accomplished it”
• I have decreed this “from the beginning”
• This is all part of My plan.
• The rise and fall of nations is My prerogative.
NOW YOU WOULD THINK that there is one question that should be circulating in this town-hall type meeting.
• If it is God who is sending Cyrus…
• If it is God who has orchestrated this coming invasion…
• THEN WHAT DOES GOD WANT FROM US?
We think of the wise King of Nineveh
Jonah 3:6-9 “When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. “But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. “Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”
This ought to be the next leg of the conversation.
God’s announcement should be met with
Humility and repentance and seeking God’s face.
Well, let’s see how this town hall responds…
God’s Conversation
#2 GOD’S OBSERVATION
Isaiah 41:5-7
Here is the response of the coastlands.
(5) “The coastlands have seen and are afraid; The ends of the earth tremble; They have drawn near and have come.”
Well that’s not a terrible start.
• At least the people showed up to hear what God had to say.
• At least they are rightly grasping the severity of the situation.
I mean we saw Israel ahead of the Assyrian invasion
Totally disregarding the danger:
Isaiah 22:12-13 “Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth. Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”
That was a terrible response to God’s announcement of judgment.
So at least they are listening and are serious minded.
So, now that you have heard the revelation of God, what do you have to say?
(6-7) “Each one helps his neighbor And says to his brother, “Be strong!” So the craftsman encourages the smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil, Saying of the soldering, “It is good”; And he fastens it with nails, So that it will not totter.”
Well that was a terribly wrong response!
• Instead of telling God they were sorry.
• Instead of asking God for guidance and forgiveness.
• Instead of calling for a fast or repentance.
• The each turn to their neighbor and say “Be strong!”
God calls to submission and repentance and instead
These people do what false religions have done for years…
They determine to work harder to fix the problem themselves.
Instead of looking upward to God, they look inward to their own strength.
It’s the tower of Babel where men have a plan to save themselves through their own ingenuity and human effort.
You can fill in the blank of all the different types of works men have tried to do over the years to save themselves, but here it shows up in idolatry.
• These men hear that God is sending judgment
• Instead of repenting and crying out to God for His “new strength”
• They tell each other to “Be strong!”
Don’t seek God’s strength, find your own!
And use that strength to make the best idol you’ve ever made in your life!
“So the craftsman encourages the smelter, And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil…”
It is an entire community of men steeped in religious work
And all encouraging the other to do well!
And then when the idol is completed,
They look it over and say, “It is good”
That is a blasphemous statement.
• It is to mimic God’s good creation.
• There is none good but God alone.
These men worked really hard to make a god
That they put on the same level with God.
IT IS A DEFIANT BLASPHEMY!
And again, don’t miss THE IRONY that Isaiah loves to throw in there.
“And he fastens it with nails, so that it will not totter.”
• It continues to be the universal power that all of these idols have.
• It is the one thing they can actually do; stand upright without falling over.
• I can’t tell you what a big help that is going to be when Persia arrives.
If you think this is not the mindset of OUR CULTURE
Then you are not paying attention.
I can tell you that
• God is judging the United States and that our corrupt leaders are evidence of
that.
Even secular news agencies will warn
• Of potential wars or potential blackouts or potential pandemics or potential
economic collapses.
But what do men do upon hearing such warnings?
• Do they run to God?
• Do they repent in dust and ashes?
• Have you seen revival break out in our land; in our churches?
No, they organize a political campaign to change it.
They stockpile supplies to survive a blackout.
They buy gold or silver or precious metals to store under their mattress.
Instead of addressing the source of the judgment
They work hard to figure out a way to beat it on their own.
That is missing the point!
But that is the observation of God.
He told them He was sending judgment but instead of reconciling with God they trust in their own efforts and ingenuity.
BUT LISTEN, THAT IS THE UNREDEEMED.
That is how the unredeemed respond.
And they are in very grave danger before God.
But that is NOT true for
Those who have determined to wait on the LORD.
Those who are trusting in Christ.
And that brings us to the third point.
God’s Conversation
God’s Observation
#3 GOD’S CONSOLATION
Isaiah 41:8-20
We just learned that
• The coastlands are in very grave danger before God.
• Their refusal to listen and repent is going to get them eternally judged.
• And that is a dark piece of information.
• That is gloomy news.
But that news is NOT universal.
We love how verse 8 begins, “But you, Israel…”
What is true for them is not true for you.
I have a different plan for you.
God’s people need not fear the judgment of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:3-4 “While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;
1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 “For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him. Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.”
We remember Jesus’ parable of the wheat and the tares.
The fate of the wheat is nothing like the fate of the tares.
Matthew 13:30 “‘Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Isaiah spoke of it:
Isaiah 35:4 “Say to those with anxious heart, “Take courage, fear not. Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save you.”
And yes church, you today can take this to the bank as well.
• It may certainly be true that God is judging the United States.
• It may certainly be true that our corrupt leaders are part of that judgment.
• It may certainly be true that a greater and more comprehensive judgment is
coming.
BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO FEAR IT!
• While the church does suffer persecution at the hands of godless men.
• While we are pursued and attacked by Satan.
• While we do suffer in this sin-stained vile environment.
• Those sufferings are because we are hated by the god of this world.
But what we are looking at here is the coming judgment of God
And the children of God do not need to fear that judgment.
Romans 8:1 “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Every ounce of wrath that God had toward us was settled on the cross.
• We have been reckoned righteous through the life and death of Jesus.
• Our sins have been removed from us as far as the east is from the west.
• We now have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
THE PEOPLE OF GOD DO NOT NEED TO FEAR CYRUS.
And how true this will prove to be.
• For Cyrus will destroy Babylon,
• But he will issue a decree for Israel to be able to go home and rebuild her temple.
AND THIS IS WHERE THE COMFORT COMES FROM.
THIS IS THE SOURCE OF OUR CONSOLATION.
In this world of corruption and evil that God will most certainly judge,
You do not have to fear that judgment.
GOD HAS A DIFFERENT MESSAGE FOR YOU.
And we want to begin looking at it this morning.
In verses 8-20 there are 4 promises of God
That are meant to console His people in the face of the coming judgment.
• 4 promises that were true of Israel and that are now true of us.
• You can hang your hat on these
• Even as you live inside the borders of a nation under judgment.
1) I HAVE CHOSEN YOU IN COVENANT (8-9)
“But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, Descendant of Abraham My friend, You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its remotest parts And said to you, ‘You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you.”
Just start out and look at the list of titles and realities that God lists here.
• “My servant”
• “Jacob whom I have chosen”
• “Descendant of Abraham my friend”
• “You whom I have taken”
• “I have chosen you”
• “and not rejected you”
It is two verses of straight reassurance.
Let’s start with the statement, “Israel, My servant”
This is NOT a title of disdain, it is rather a reality that God has taken responsibility for the well-being of Israel.
• She is under His protection.
• She is under His provision.
• She is God’s responsibility.
When Jesus spoke of servants,
• He called them the greatest among you.
• And we find His particular interest in how they are cared for and treated.
Matthew 24:45-51 “Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time? “Blessed is that slave whom his master finds so doing when he comes. “Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. “But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’ and begins to beat his fellow slaves and eat and drink with drunkards; the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
A wise man does not injure them or harm the Lord’s servants.
The vengeance of the LORD will be swift on those who do.
We also see the phrase, “Jacob whom I have chosen,”
What do you mean chosen?
• Well certainly we remember God choosing Abraham from all the families of the earth and promising to bless and multiply his descendants.
• We should remember that Abraham had two sons, Ishmael first and then Isaac, but Isaac was the one God chose to bless.
• Jacob had two sons in the womb, the elder Esau and the younger Jacob, but it was God who chose Jacob over Esau in the womb.
Paul comments saying:
Romans 9:11-12 “for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, “THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER.”
And it is Moses who reminds the people:
Deuteronomy 7:6 “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.”
Out of all the peoples and all nations, God chose you to be His people.
Moses continued:
Deuteronomy 7:7-8 “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.”
• It wasn’t because of their intrinsic value that God chose them.
• It wasn’t because they were bigger or stronger or smarter.
• Their selection was nothing but pure grace.
Those whom God chooses,
He chooses out of grace, not because they deserved it.
We see the same in the New Testament:
1 Corinthians 1:26-29 “For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God.”
Jesus said it:
John 15:16 “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.”
God’s people are God’s people
Because God wants them to be His people.
IT’S NOT LIKE
• We came and talked God into accepting us,
• And even though He really didn’t want to, He let us come.
• And even though we kind of irritate Him, He lets us stay.
No, God desired you.
God chose you.
And part of that choosing requires the payment on your behalf.
GOD HAD TO REDEEM YOU.
There was a monstrous sin debt that had to be satisfied.
Atonement had to be made.
AND GOD DID THAT!
We remember that story of Hosea and Gomer.
She was the unfaithful wife, but Hosea was sent to redeem her.
Hosea 3:1-2 “Then the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.” So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.”
The fact that it took all of his money and part of his grain indicates the enormous cost.
AND WE ALSO:
1 Peter 1:18-19 “knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.”
THIS IS WHY GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD NOT FEAR.
• You are not in danger.
• I have chosen you to be My servant.
• You are mine.
• I have redeemed you.
And more than just a servant.
“Descendant of Abraham My friend”
It all points to the reality that God views His children differently.
Now, there is a lot more to be said here and we will return to it tonight,
But this morning let’s just close with this reassuring thought.
IT IS TRUE – Sin has infested this world and God is judging it.
• What is more, He is coming to judge it even more thoroughly.
• Sinners will weep and languish over what God is bringing upon them.
BUT… His judgment is not for His children.
• He has chosen us
• He has redeemed us
• He calls us friend
Church, you do not have to fear the coming judgment of God.
All the judgment you deserved
Was already poured out on Christ on the cross.
So while this world is in chaos
And is scrambling to create a god that will help them overcome,
All you need to do is trust in God.
Isaiah 40:31 “Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.”
