The Savior Of The World – part 2
Isaiah 42:1-25 (5-9)
February 25, 2024
At this point
• We know about the coming of Cyrus.
• We know that the coastlands are up in arms about it.
• We know that God has sent Cyrus.
• We know that the nations have turned to idols for deliverance.
But as we pointed out this morning,
In spite of our rebellion, God loves the world.
And here in Isaiah 42 He is offering for the nations (coastlands)
To be saved by Israel’s Savior.
He is offering them a Savior who can actually save.
We started looking at this chapter this morning.
#1 THE SAVIOR ANNOUNCED
Isaiah 42:1-4
God is announcing to the world a general overview
Of the Savior that He has selected to save the world.
1) His Calling – “My chosen one”
2) His Communication – “He will not cry out” (meek)
3) His Compassion – “a bruised reed He will not break”
4) His Commitment – “He will not be disheartened or crushed”
5) His Consummation – “the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.”
This One is God’s certified Savior,
Not just of Israel, but for the whole world.
Isaiah 49:5-6 “And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him (For I am honored in the sight of the LORD, And My God is My strength), He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
There is a Savior!
• A real One
• Who really does save
It’s why we hold to a PARTICULAR atonement or an ACTUAL atonement
We DON’T BELIEVE that Jesus is nothing more than a potential Savior who must depend on the cooperation of man to save anyone.
No, we believe He is a Savior, sent by God to save sinners,
And He will actually save all those whom God gives Him.
THERE IS NOTHING POTENTIAL ABOUT IT.
Unlike those idols of the nations, Jesus is a real Savior.
That was the Savior Announced
#2 THE SAVIOR APPOINTED
Isaiah 42:5-9
Now we move beyond that initial announcement
ISAIAH BEGINS TO DISCUSS
The actual commissioning of this Savior to the world.
We are not unfamiliar with other commissioning passages.
Zechariah 11:4-5 “Thus says the LORD my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter. “Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them.”
• We remember that preincarnate conversation between the Father and Son as the Father commissioned the Son to go and pasture the flock of Israel.
God sent Him into the world to save sinners.
Isaiah 42:5-9 is another one of those passages.
It speaks of God’s sovereign intention
To send Christ into the world as a Savior of it.
This is very important stuff for you to know and understand.
• It will deepen your understanding of the heart of God and the work of Christ.
• I don’t mind sharing credit for much of this info with John Owen from his book
“The Death of Death”
Let’s break this segment down a little more as this is so helpful to us.
And we’re going to do that tonight by asking a few questions.
This is the commissioning of the Savior into the world.
1) WHO APPOINTED HIM? (5)
“Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,”
And let’s camp here for a minute
Because it is important to stop and think on this a while.
What is being introduced to us here is that
The entire PLAN of salvation was in fact INITIATED by “God the LORD”
THE SAME GOD “Who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.”
The God who made everything and everyone
And who gives live and breath to all
Is the God who is here now actively working
To save the world He created.
This is why throughout the Bible we often see God referred to as “Savior”. Because salvation is His plan.
1 Timothy 1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope,”
• You see it also in Titus 1:3 – “God our Savior”
Upon news of being the mother of the Christ, Mary prayed:
Luke 1:47 “And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.”
We know it is Christ who came to this earth and who died,
But often times even the Father is referred to “Savior”
That is because saving sinners is His plan.
If God had not determined to save men He would not have sent Christ.
But God did because God is in fact a Savior.
Salvation is instigated by the God who “SENT” His Son into the world.
John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”
Romans 8:3-4 “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
Jesus even refers to Himself as “sent”
John 5:37 “And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.”
God is the author and instigator of salvation.
• Jesus did not come in rebellion to His Father.
• Jesus did not come independent of His Father.
• It is the Father who, motivated by love, sent Jesus into the world.
And as God determined to save this world which had rebelled against Him, it was God who then “SELECTED” Christ.
We saw that this morning.
Isaiah 42:1 “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations.”
But not only there do we read of this.
Psalms 2:7-8 “I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.
Psalms 110:1,4 “The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet…The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”
Those two verses inspired the entire book of Hebrews.
It is God who appointed Christ to be the Savior whom He would send.
Jesus is His chosen Savior.
It was God who actually “INAUGURATED” Christ into the office of Savior.
That is what we are talking about here in Isaiah 42:5-9
Not only did God decide to save the world
Not only did God select Christ to be that Savior,
But God then inaugurated Him or ordained Him into the office of Savior.
Hebrews 3:1-2 “Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house.”
At His birth angels announced Jesus as the Savior.
Luke 2:10-11 “But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
The angels then attributing this to God’s doing in verse 14
Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”
It is God who ordained Him as the Savior.
This happened again at His BAPTISM.
Matthew 3:17 “and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”
And again at His TRANSFIGURATION.
Matthew 17:5 “While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!”
WE KNOW
• It is God who gave Christ a body.
• God visibly sent the Spirit to light on Him.
• That God testified of Him by raising Him from the dead
• And by catching up into Heaven.
God clearly selected Christ and ordained Him to be the Savior.
This is the love of God for the world.
• He did not sit passively by waiting for someone else to do it.
• He was not indifferent as to whether or not it happened.
God so loved the world that…
• He determined to send a Savior.
• He then selected who that Savior would be.
• He commissioned that Savior into the world.
But the point being is that God is the appointer of this.
God is the cause.
God is the instigator of salvation.
Man did not start this.
Man did not cause this.
GOD DID THIS.
And it is not lost on us HOW GOD IDENTIFIES HIMSELF here.
(5) “Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it,”
God reveals Himself as the creator of all things.
• He refers to what we know as “General Revelation”
• And He refers to Himself as the creator of all peoples.
And we see something of where His love for the world comes from.
• He created it.
• He cares for His creation.
Do you remember when God told Jonah to preach of Nineveh’s destruction?
• Nineveh then repented
• Jonah was angry at God for not following through and destroying them.
Do you remember what God said?
Jonah 4:10-11 “Then the LORD said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight. “Should I not have compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?”
God asked Jonah if He did not have the right to have concern over His creation?
You can care for a plant you didn’t create,
Do I not have the right to care for the city that I did create?
• Can I not care for the people in it?
• Can I not care for the infants in it?
• Can I not care for even the animals in it?
Of course He can!
And He does!
God loves His creation and seeks to save it.
This was the foundation of Paul’s preaching in Athens.
Acts 17:22-27 “So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I observe that you are very religious in all respects. “For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;”
And what we realize is that God cares for all of His creation.
God has love for all of creation.
And this love has motivated Him to select
And commission a Savior to the world to save it.
It is not only for Jews, but also for Gentiles.
God is prompted to save the world.
• He is the instigator of all of this.
• He is the source.
• He is the cause.
• He is the APPOINTER
SO: Who appointed this Savior? God did.
2) WHAT DID HE APPOINT HIM TO DO? (6-7)
“I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.”
You may be seeing some similarity there to what Jesus proclaimed about Himself when He entered the temple in His hometown.
Luke 4:16-21 “And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read. And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written, “THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME, BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES, AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND, TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED, TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.” And He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him. And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
But that quotation was actually of Isaiah 61:1, not 42:6-7
Even though the similarities are obvious.
But it still speaks volumes of what God sent Christ into the world to do.
HE SENT CHRIST INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE IT.
John 3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”
When God sent this Christ into the world, surely Christ already possessed all the natural perfection of deity.
• John says that we saw His glory.
But we also see that in this body which God gave Him, God also bestowed on Him the fullness of all that was required that He might save.
Colossians 1:18-19 “He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,”
The whole “fullness” was on Christ (that is His human body)
To give Him all that was necessary to save.
John 17:2 “even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.”
So not only did God select Him and send Him,
God also equipped Him to be able to do what He called Him to do.
This was alluded to in verse 1 with the words, “whom I uphold”
This is what we read in the first part of verse 6.
“I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You,”
• It was God who equipped Christ in His earthly body.
• It was God who gave Him all the necessary power and authority to save.
God promised Him, just as we read,
That He would protect and assist Christ in this work.
We know Christ had trials.
We know Christ was hated.
And yet, God promised Him even in the midst of this hatred that He would “hold You by the hand and watch over You”
God promised Him that even though
He would be rejected by the builders
That He Himself would still be the corner stone of salvation.
Psalms 118:22-23 “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone. This is the LORD’S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.”
Psalms 2:2-6 “The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us tear their fetters apart And cast away their cords from us!” He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them. Then He will speak to them in His anger And terrify them in His fury, saying, “But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
God promised Christ that in His mission
He would watch over Him to make Him successful,
And Christ counted on these promises in His ministry.
1 Peter 2:22-23 “WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;”
Christ knew that God had determined to save the world through Him
And that God would not fail in that promise.
God had promised Him success.
Isaiah 53:10-12 “But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.”
• Jesus was promised the satisfaction of His soul.
• He was promised that His saving mission would be a success.
• And Jesus counted on this.
You only have to look at His high priestly prayer to see His confidence in God’s saving plan.
John 17:4 “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.”
Even before Jesus died, He knew His Father’s mission was accomplished.
AND WHAT IS THIS MISSION?
WHAT WAS HE SENT FOR?
(6b-7) “I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon and those who dwell in darkness from the prison.”
What a statement by the Father to the Son!
“I will appoint You as a covenant to the people”
Let’s think on that for a moment.
We know what a covenant is.
It is an agreement; a promise from God.
We know about the old covenant at Sinai
Which the people never could keep
And thus brought great wrath on themselves.
But God promised to Israel a NEW COVENANT.
Jeremiah 31:31-34 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
• God promised a day when He would do what they could not.
• He spoke of a day when He would accomplish salvation for them.
And the anticipation must have been great.
Then Jesus shows up and makes statements like this:
Matthew 26:27-28 “And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.”
Jesus said, that His blood was the new covenant.
Again, what does this mean?
TURN TO: HEBREWS 9
Hebrews 9 is what I like to refer to as “The Parable of the Day of Atonement”
• The writer of Hebrews walks you through what you were supposed to learn form that great feast in Israel.
On that day you had a priest who took the blood of a goat and entered behind the second veil where he supposedly made atonement for the people.
(READ 1-7) – That was the Day of Atonement.
And you say, what did all that mean?
Well FIRST OFF, it meant you did not have access to God.
(READ 8-10)
• That veil reminded you of the separation you had from God.
The priest went back there on your behalf to make atonement.
• The only problem was that it never fully worked
• Because you had to keep doing it year after year after year. (Hebrews 10:1-4)
BUT THEN CHRIST SHOWS UP.
He said the new covenant was in His blood.
(READ 11-14)
SO CHRIST SHOWS UP
• When He went before God He didn’t go into some manmade symbolic holy of holies, He went into the real one.
• And He didn’t take symbolic goats blood, He took the real stuff, His own blood.
• And “He obtained eternal redemption”
That is to say, He actually purchased our pardon.
Not potential, but actual.
“He sought me and bought me with His redeeming blood”
(15a) “For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant…”
So we see that Christ died to usher in this new covenant.
This covenant, He said, was in His blood.
The writer of Hebrews shows us how His death effected this.
-TO RELEASE THE WILL (READ 15-17)
• You never collect the inheritance until after the benefactor dies.
• If there is no death there is no transfer of inheritance.
• If we are to gain Christ’s inheritance He had to die.
-TO RENEW THE COVENANT (READ 18-21)
• When Moses made the first covenant, He ratified it in blood.
• He sprinkled the blood on the people as a sign to say, may this be the penalty of breaking the covenant.
• Christ was forming a new covenant which had to be signed in blood.
-TO REDEEM SINNERS (READ 22)
• The sins of those whom Christ was redeeming had to be paid for
• Blood is on the only accepted currency.
• “The wages of sin is death” and Christ had to die.
So you see how Christ came and rescued us from the old covenant and ushered us into the new covenant through His death.
• He died in our stead.
• He paid for our sin.
• He transferred the inheritance to us.
But in Isaiah we learn that He did this FOR MORE THAN JUST ISRAEL.
“I will appoint You as a covenant to the people” (that is the nations)
It is not just Israel whom God will redeem through Christ,
But people from every nation, tribe, and tongue.
Christ is not just the savior of the Jews, but the Savior of the world.
He shed His blood to purchase men from every nation.
And it is God who appointed Him for this.
It was God’s commissioning for Him to do this.
In fact, it is God who actually laid the sins of the people on Christ.
It is God who appointed that He should die for the sins of His people.
Isaiah 53:6 “All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.”
Isaiah 53:10 “But the LORD was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.”
• It is God who appointed Him “as a covenant to the people”
• It is God who determined that He should bear their sins.
God also appointed Him “as a light to the nations”
What does this mean?
It is expounded in verse 7
• “To open blind eyes”
• “To bring out prisoners from the dungeon”
• “And those who dwell in darkness form the prison”
You have those who, by reason of their sin,
• Were walking in the darkness of deception,
• Captive to their sin,
• With no hope of ever escaping the coming doom.
Ephesians 2:1-3 “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.”
AND THIS WAS US!
Ephesians 2:11-12 “Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,” which is performed in the flesh by human hands— remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”
We were slaves of sin and doomed to suffer.
• We had no hope.
• We had no promises.
• We had no covenant.
But God commissioned Christ into the world
That He might be “a covenant to the people…a light to the nations.”
Worshiping manmade idols had brought no salvation,
God selected and sent Savior to fix all of that!
He opened our eyes!
He set us free!
He gave us hope!
“Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray,
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free;
I rose, went forth and followed Thee.”
Isaiah 49:6 “He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations So that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
Matthew 4:15-16 “THE LAND OF ZEBULUN AND THE LAND OF NAPHTALI, BY THE WAY OF THE SEA, BEYOND THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE GENTILES— “THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED.”
This is the saving plan of God!
• He determined to save.
• He selected a Savior.
• He sent that Savior.
• He supplied that Savior with all that was needed.
• He laid our sins on that Savior.
• And that Savior saved!
He did so
• By coming in human form
• By fulfilling the Law and earning a righteous standing.
• By offering up His own righteous body on the cross
• By offering up His righteous life to God
• ON OUR BEHALF
He became the Savior, not only of Israel but of Gentiles as well.
GOD SAVED SINNERS THROUGH HIM!
THIS WAS GOD’S DOING!
Psalms 118:22-24 “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone. This is the LORD’S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
So we see who appointed Christ.
We see what He appointed Him to.
One more question:
3) WHY THE NATIONS? (8-9)
“I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images. “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
Now let’s back up and remember what we saw back in chapter 41.
• God called for that town hall meeting where He asked the coastlands if they knew why Cyrus was coming?
• God revealed that He was the One who was sending Cyrus and the implication was that the nations should have sought mercy from God.
• But instead of seeking God, they sought to be saved by some idol of their own imagination and construction.
• They ran to that idol.
• They prayed to that idol.
• They cried to that idol.
• They trusted in that idol.
• They worshiped and praised that idol.
And yet we know that our God is a jealous God!
So why did God intervene so as to come and save?
“I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images.”
There is no other Savior but Me!
• I am the One who instigated salvation.
• I am the One who selected the Savior.
• I am the One who sent that Savior into the world.
• I am the One who equipped Him with the power to save.
• I am the One who made Him a covenant and light.
I AM THE SAVIOR!
And now you would bow down to some hunk of stone or metal or wood and praise it for being your salvation?
MAY IT NEVER BE!
I will save and I will be glorified as the Savior!
And God says that I am telling you now so that you will have no doubt when it happens.
(9) “Behold, the former things have come to pass, Now I declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
AND SO CHURCH DO YOU SEE WHY YOU WERE SAVED?
Do you see why even Gentiles were included?
Do you see why God chose to save even the nations?
SOLI-DEO-GLORIA!
That is not to diminish His love whereby He loved the world,
• Rather we are called to glorify Him for loving the world.
That is not to diminish His mercy whereby He forgave sinners,
• Rather we are called to glorify Him for forgiving sinners.
That is not to diminish His power whereby He performed salvation,
• Rather we are called to glorify Him for being able to save us.
That is not to diminish His wisdom whereby He conceived of salvation,
• Rather we are called to glorify Him for having such wisdom.
Certainly no idol had such love.
Certainly no idol had such mercy.
Certainly no idol had such power.
Certainly no idol had such wisdom.
But know this in the very depth of your soul.
God saved you so that you would glorify Him!
So that you would magnify His great love!
So that you would magnify His great mercy!
So that you would magnify His great power!
So that you would magnify His great wisdom!
HE SAVES US FOR HIS GLORY!
That we would be a redeemed choir encircling the throne
Giving praise and honor and glory to Him forever and ever!
In fact, that is the next stanza of Isaiah 42!
(42:10-13) “Sing to the LORD a new song, Sing His praise from the end of the earth! You who go down to the sea, and all that is in it. You islands, and those who dwell on them. Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, The settlements where Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud, Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains. Let them give glory to the LORD And declare His praise in the coastlands. The LORD will go forth like a warrior, He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry. He will prevail against His enemies.”
THIS IS OUR CALLING CHURCH!
You are saved because God determined to save you!
• He selected Christ.
• He sent Christ.
• He equipped Christ.
• He accomplished salvation through Christ.
You are free because of what He did!
You have hope because of what He did!
Stop running to idols.
Stop trusting in other things.
Trust in Him.
AND GIVE HIM THE GLORY!
