expository sermon isaiah 59 19 21 god got your back
6. Now that's in Isa. We respond by dedicating ourselves to serve Him (Isaiah 59:20,21; Titus 2:13,14). These full-text three point sermons by Dr. L. Ronald Durham transcend race, denomination, and culture, providing powerful sermon ideas and up-to-date application, especially in the midst of COVID-19 and judicial protest. According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His
adversaries, Recompense to His enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay. These separating iniquities are
described in some detail. INJUSTICE, in verse 8. 19. He makes new things; He is not in the box we try to place Him in. The fundamentals of Christianity are kept out of sight: the doctrines of original sin, of salvation by faith, and of the operations of the Holy Spirit, are either wholly exploded, or received only in such a way as to reduce them to barren sentiments, devoid of efficacy on the soul — — — Nor are the professors of godliness freed from the baneful influence of error. 2. 1. The world is an instrument of temptation and danger. Indeed, that is a prevailing theme in the prophecy of Isaiah. By displays of the glory of Christ, love is inflamed. Thus in every age, “those who have not had root in themselves, have endured but for a while, and in the time of persecution have fallen away [Note: Matthew 13:21. “Our help is indeed laid upon One that is mighty.” The Lord of Hosts himself stands forth for our help: he erects his standard; and calls us to fight under it. 2. Once you sin yourself away from God you cannot cover yourself; you cannot pardon
yourself; you cannot dig yourself out of that pit! But the word is probably derived from נוּס nûs to flee, in the Piel נוסס nôsēs “to impel, to cause to flee.”. THEY WERE GUILTY OF MURDER; SHEDDING INNOCENT BLOOD:
"Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their
thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths." The answer comes in verses 1-3. God's name. These people would conceive evil, engage in perversity and
violence, then offer burnt offerings to try and cover the sin they had chosen. 7. Jerome (the Vulgate) renders it, ‹When he shall come as a violent river which the Spirit of the Lord (spiritus Domini, or the wind of the Lord, that is, a strong wind) drives along. This world is not the believer’s resting-place. 01 ... How The Fallen Are Restored - 1 Kings 19:1-21 Back In The Saddle Again - 1 Kings 19:15-51 When God says, "That's Enough!" When the enemy shall come in like a flood - This all the rabbins refer to the coming of the Messiah. "But your iniquities have separated
you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will
not hear." It is matter of consolation however, that the more strenuous his exertions are, the more will God himself put forth his power to maintain and advance his work: and we are well assured, that, “when he worketh none shall hinder.” That the passage before us refers to the Millennial period is certain; because St. Paul cites it in that very view [Note: Compare ver. The expression of it. Even the earth itself is our ally in contending with the foe. He will not hear because of their iniquities and sins. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. No religious leader, past or present. How many “bright stars have been swept away by the dragon’s tail [Note: Revelation 12:4. The Spirit of the Lord is nearer to the soul than the enemy. In what way the Spirit of God withstands him—. 2. Gewillig of gedwongen zal men voor den Heere buigen en het zal vervuld worden wat voorspeld is, dat de kennis des Heeren de aarde zal bedekken als de wateren den bodem der zee. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his” mouth.” That great promise has been abundantly confirmed in countless lives. Our defence. (E. Not profaning the Sabbath (Isaiah 58:13-14). Title: Isaiah 7:14 God with Us. He is slipping away, so severely ill that one foot is already in the grave when -- through the prophet Isaiah -- God tells him that he indeed is doing to die. The blessings consequent on His coming. like a flood = like the flood: the Nile in its overflow. How hard must Noah have found it to preserve himself unspotted in the midst of the antediluvian world; and Lot in Sodom; and Micaiah or Elijah in Israel [Note: 1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 22:6; 1 Kings 22:13.]! The persons specially interested in His coming. Or against his own people; and so it may have either. “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away at the flood. An Expository Series From The Book Of Ephesians. (1 Jno. 1. IV. You cannot weave together
some sort of web that will eliminate the sin or hide it. The standard of heaven is lifted up against the hosts of hell. III. The Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth Rev. 5. He said in verse 12 about the people of God in
Judah - "our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as
for our iniquities, we know them." 4. Continuing with verse 3, if you'll look down through the passage, Isaiah is
specific in identifying their sins:
VIOLENCE AND LYING: "...your hands are defiled with
blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue
has muttered perversity." Het geeft te kennen dat die vijand zou aanrukken met talrijke heirlegers, die het ganse land als overstromen. Wij houden ons aan de Staten-Overzetting. "Do not pass Go. This promise of the Spirit must not discourage watchfulness, but mustâ. She pled with him not to go. Praise God for the substitute! Sometimes he comes in with a flood of manifold corruptions upon the visible Church. Displays of the glory of Christ inspire the soul with courage and strength to oppose the enemy, when he comes in like a flood. It is justly called “the rod of his strength.” See what God wrought in one single hour by this sword in the hand of a poor fisherman: he reached the inmost souls of three thousand rebels, and rescued them out of the hands of their inveterate foe. #3 - There Is No Covering, No Atonement and No Solution To
This Problem EXCEPT THE REDEEMER, JESUS CHRIST. “Cometh in like a flood.” There are times in the human soul when evil seems to rush on it as an overwhelming torrent. It involved recompense to His enemies. who has combated without a wound? 5. Enjoyed by His people. Lowth, giving a different sense to the Hebrew for “enemy” from that in Isaiah 59:18, and a forced meaning to the Hebrew for “Spirit of the Lord,” translates, “When He shall come as a river straitened in its course, which a mighty wind drives along.”. It leads us to consider, I. ]!” St. Paul, when arraigned before Nero as a criminal, was left alone: all his followers forsook him; and he was left without any other countenance or support than what he received from the Lord himself [Note: 2 Timothy 4:16-17.]. 1:6-10). 1. See especially the notes at Isaiah 45:6. The hostile peoples will accept their chance, and will come down upon the returning company in destructive array I “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” We, too, are exiles returning to the homeland. When they shall pour out a deluge of evils upon the Church. Between the enemy and ourselves there shall be erected the standard of the Lord. 2. This website is dedicated to sharing God's truth with the men of God who minister to others. The problem is this wall of separation between man and
God, which is man's iniquity and sin - vividly set forth in this passage. Micah said, about the heads and rulers of the house of Jacob -- They abhor
justice, and pervert all equity (Mic. I want to call our attention to the next chapter, Isa. But he attacks usually by means of others. It’s truly a delight to help develop messages which caters to bringing day-light to your sermons preparation. There are many triumphing in glory, against whom the floods did run with as great violence as they do now against thee. The prevalence of it.âDr. Its business, customs, &c., are sources of danger. There is no reason why it should be here regarded as denoting ‹the Spirit of God,‘ - the great agent of enlightening and reforming the world. Lyth, D.D. Water rushing down a wadi may be in view. "They way of peace they have
not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves
crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace." THEY HAD NO SHAME: "Their webs will not become
garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works; their works are works
of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands." Isaiah does this in some detail in chapter one; then comes back to this
theme at various places in the book. To preach the death of Christ is to: PREACH HIS BURIAL . You cannot resist that flood by your resolutions, by your pledges, by your endeavours; you may as well throw up your hands at once and cry with Jehoshaphat, “We have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon Thee.” At such times we may always count upon God. 7-15. So they will fear the name of the Lord from the west And His glory from the rising of the sun, For He will come like a rushing stream Which the wind of the Lord drives. The sum is, the whole world, either a synecdoche of the part for the whole, or if you divide the world through the poles, the one half will be east, and the other west, and so compriseth the whole world. He has put off His helmet and His breastplate, and divested Himself of His garments. This was during the age before Jesus came and this was God's response to the sin
Isaiah has described. For my own part, I am more inclined to the former opinion, that, even to the utmost boundaries of the earth, the name of God shall be revered and honored, so that the Gentiles shall not only tremble, but shall serve and adore him with true repentance. 3. In other words, that trouble gets God’s attention. All have sinned and turned aside (Isaiah 59:9-14). 6. Jehovah exposed the quarrel of His Church with her enemies. The Spirit of the Lord lifts up the Standard in every renewed manifestation and discovery of the glory of Christ, especially after a dark night of desertion, temptation, and despondency. So
shall they fear The name of the LORD from the west, And His glory from the
rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD
will lift up a standard against him. II. Exposition Of Isaiah 59. Deliverance in the Bible is the acts of God whereby He rescues His people from peril. WHY THIS ENEMY IS LIKENED TO A FLOOD. There is a desert to traverse, a wilderness to cross, waters to pass through, mountains to climb, and we know not how we may safely reach our journey’s end. De Heere zegt het hier tot steun en sterkte van zijn volk, dat Hij zelf de banier zal oprichten. 59 read. I. 2. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it. I don't know exactly how God did this, or exactly when God did this. We are warned against a real, living, subtle, wicked, powerful enemy (1Pe ). . If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the
truth is not in us. But with these people
Isaiah was writing about - in that time - God saw "no intercessor." In the actual incarnation, obedience and death of the Son of God. Dr. James D. Kegel. Game over. But when a governor, or a professor of religion, lends himself to the propagation of wickedness, it will, like an impetuous torrent, bear down all before it, and inundate the land. Continuing with verse 9 - this word "therefore" introduces the consequences, and
there are more confessions. It
is challenging, fascinating and edifying to spend hours in a study of those
passages - then go to the New Testament and see those things fulfilled in the
coming of Christ, His life, suffering death and exaltation to the right hand of
God. And if you don’t have faith, you cannot please God. I'd like for us to make a little journey through the chapter, in the hope we
will learn these things and behave with trust and love for God, and the Savior
who came in His name. Here it means, then, that the mighty wind impels or drives on the compressed waters of the stream, and the whole passage means that Yahweh would come to deliver his people, and to prostrate his foes with the impetuosity of a violent river compressed between narrow banks, and driven on by a mighty wind. 2. It was so in the days of Pagan persecution; it was so in the days of mediaeval darkness; it was so just before Wyclif, our morning star, and Luther, the minor sun, protested against the evils of their time; it was so at the end of the eighteenth century, when the parsons were dissolute and drunken and fox-hunting; and when Socinian heresy filled Nonconformist pulpits, and when the masses of the people were drenched in stupidity and sin. “The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”. The defeat. Christ sends His Spirit. 1. c. 1. p. 68. , that is, in the ministry of the word; "so shall they fear", &c.; then multitudes shall serve the Lord, and worship him. We shall take the general statement of the text as referring to THE CONFLICT WHICH IS RAGING IN THE CHRISTIAN’S INNER MAN. We cannot disregard God; walk in disobedience and ignore His instructions and
think it has no impact with Him, or that it doesn't matter. 1-8. Faith Through The Storm James 1:2-8 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, (3) knowing that the testing of your … 11-21. Do not let us attempt to do it for ourselves. 3. They are expressed in the singular number, because of their unity in their designs against Christ and His kingdom, and because they attack under one principal leader and commander, namely, the god of this world, whose kingdom Christ came to overthrow.. 2. But if in either of the other two senses, viz. 3. The word which in our common version is rendered ‹the enemy‘ (צר tsâr from צרר tsârar to press, compress, bind up together; intrans. III. 5. It is therefore intended to heighten the description of the divine power, by which the vast strength and dreadful fury of the enemies are repelled, receive a different direction, and fall to pieces. Sin has the same effect today. Isaiah 7 – Shear-Jashub and Immanuel A. He doesn't stand above the
people and claim no participation, or sinless perfection. II. One of the best statements of this is found in Isa. Let us now take two or three instances in which this great truth is conspicuous. The conjunction ו vau, prefixed to רוח ruach, seems necessary to the sense, it is added by the corrector in one of the Koningsberg MSS., collated by Lilienthal. The battle between good and evil is really fought within our own hearts. It shall fear and worship God, and make his name renowned, laying aside their idolatries; whether you refer it to the deliverance of his people out of Babylon, when they shall hear how God hath executed vengeance on his enemies; or to the redemption by Christ, and his calling of the Gentiles, Malachi 1:11. III. The rising of the sun â The eastern parts. This is the sad condition people get themselves into through the crooked path of
sin, described here in Isaiah 59. When the enemy shall come in like a flood. (E. The waters paid no heed, and the mighty flood advanced. Now notice how Isaiah describes the problem
Beginning in verse 16...
God saw that THERE WAS NO MAN, "no intercessor." Now, what are some of these flood times in life when the enemy comes against us in overwhelming power? God's glory. If you have trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are preaching that He is your substitute when you take the Bread and the Cup. Isa . I want us to see what this passage says about God, and what it says about
sin. 1. Applyâ, 1. God reacts with mercy (15b-21). The enemy is already defeated and baffled by thy glorious Head and General; thou hast only a shattered enemy to grapple with. From this
chapter we learn about God ... about sin ... about the effect of sin ... man's
vain efforts to cover it - and God's answer to the whole problem in the Redeemer
who came. (J. S. This enemy is called by different names. The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him,] i.e., Against strong temptations, corruptions, persecutions. In the Old Testament, deliverance is focused primarily on God’s removal of those who are in the midst of trouble or danger. The Spirit of the Lord is stronger than the enemy. “The Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” The soul that gives itself up to Divine guardianship has an impregnable fortress. Truth
had fallen in the streets. Do we
think that justice will catch up with us, or that righteousness will overtake
us? So it is when we are tempted to sudden passion. Floods are mighty, violent and rapid in their motion. What a sorry thing that men have nothing better to do, than to
wait around for word of some evil to do ... some blood to shed ... some life to
destroy. Names of God - Study Resources; G1 - alpha - Strong's Greek Lexicon (KJV) Spurgeon's Morning and Evening; David Guzik :: Hechos 9 – La Conversión de Saulo de Tarso; David Guzik :: 1 Corintios 7 – Principios Sobre el Matrimonio y la Soltería; A Summary of Each Bible Book - Study Resources; Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Matthew 7:6 20. with Romans 11:26.]. Erskine. Hij is het opgerichte teken Gods, waarbij alle degenen, die in waarheid in Hen, geloven, verenigd zullen worden, maar waarbij ook alle zijne vijanden zullen vallen. Self-confidence insures defeat. Displays of the glory of Christ, by the Word and Spirit of the Lord, dispirit the enemy, though coming in like a flood. The text, after having plainly bidden us thoroughly realize our position, and after suggesting to us our weakness, bids us turn to our only help, a Helper mysterious but Divine. 4. Christ. This is Christ, the Messiah; and everything in Isaiah 59; everything in verses
1-19 demonstrate the need for a redeemer. Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. against the Babylonians, then the meaning is, God himself shall as it were carry the standard in the midst of Cyrus’s army, the Medes and Persians, and that with a great deal of fury, intimated here by the, Spirit of the Lord; for spirit is often used among the Hebrews for the passions of the soul, as anger, wrath, fury, &c. Or, as a violent blast or gale of wind, shall help forward the violence of the torrent; and if so, then. All
through the prophesy of Isaiah he described the problem between God and His
people ... but never was there any hint that the problem was on God's end! The onslaught may be so impetuous as to defy all power of resistance. The people Isaiah wrote about and prophesied to were
walking in darkness, had no fellowship with God and so THEIR SINS SEPARATED THEM
FROM GOD. Inspired by the Holy Spirit. 3. For my part, I join both, so as to include the whole period after the return of the people along with that which followed down to the coming of Christ; for this prophecy was not fulfilled but in Christ, and what is said here cannot apply to any other. There was and is no weakness at all in
God. The certainty of this promise of driving back the enemy--it is not a maybe, but a shall be. No one calls for justice, Nor does any plead for truth. nasas. Once God delivered Israel by making a path through the … In His personal agency. 2. The Church of God, or His saints in this world, have many enemies. Now available for INSTANT DOWNLOAD to your email. And we, too, are full of uncertainties and fears. ... Isaiah 59:19-21, Deuteronomy 20:1-4. The Text 1. There are not wanting some who turn the grace of God into licentiousness, and boast that they are freed from the law, not as a covenant only, but as a rule of life. His advent. And who has passed this ordeal unhurt? ].” It is scarcely credible to what a degree he “blinded the minds” of men in later ages, by the superstitions of Popery; and with what rapidity he established the heresies of Pelagius, Arius, and Socinus. Zó Umbreit: De macht, die niet te stuiten is van den voorttrekkenden God, als den eeuwigen Rechter, wordt ons onder het beeld van een vollen, in zijn enge bedding zaamgepersten stroom, dien een sterke wind opjaagt, voorgesteld. "