Scripture: Isaiah 11 and 12I. You have hope of a coming king.A. Who is this branch of vs. 1 who would bear fruit? Jesus. He is a shoot from the stump of Jesse, King David’s father. God had made a great promise to King David in 2 Samuel 7:12-13: “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”B. Jesus would be anointed with the Holy Spirit (vs. 2). What gifts would Jesus have as king because He was filled with the Spirit? Verses 2-5 say Jesus would have the gifts of wisdom, power, reverence for God, faithfulness and righteousness. In short, Jesus would be the perfect king. And Jesus would come not just as Judah’s king. He would come to fight for Judah as a warrior (vs. 4-5).II. You have hope of a curse reversed.A. Jesus would bring with him a kingdom that would restore and secure the harmony of the Garden of Eden, before Adam and Eve and all of humanity fell into sin. In Isaiah 11:6 we see that Jesus will bring peace to all of creation – even animals. Jesus would come as the new Adam. In Genesis 1:28 God had commanded the first Adam to be fruitful, to fill the earth and subdue it and to rule over the animals. Jesus the King is now putting that mandate back on track.B. God is angry with humans because of our sin and rebellion against Him (Isa. 12:1). But God’s anger has turned away from His people. The angry God has become your Savior. The curse has been reversed! How? At the cross, God’s anger and God’s judgment fell on Jesus for your sin. And when you trust that Jesus died for your sins, you can sing with God’s people the words of Isa. 12:2: “Behold, God is my salvation.”III. You have hope of a cosmic joy and peace.A. There was hope for the whole world in Isaiah’s message. In Isa. 11:10, the prophet says that “in that day, the root of Jesse (King Jesus), who shall stand as a signal for the peoples – of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.” People then from every nation, all the nations listed in Isa. 11:11, will rally around the flag of King Jesus. Who are we making God’s great deeds of salvation known among? The peoples (Isa. 12:4). We learn in Isa. 12 that worship is mission and mission is worship. Worship leads to you telling other people about Jesus.Application:Let us live then with faith not fear, with hope not despair, with trust in God and not in man.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by J.A. Motyer, Tim Chester, Derek Thomas and David Jackman.Sermon Discussion Questions1) How does the description of the Branch in Isaiah 11 focus our hope? What are the characteristics of the Branch and how are they true of Jesus?2) In what ways does the rule of Jesus reverse the curse of the Fall of Adam and Eve? How and where does God’s anger get removed from humanity?3) What will the worship of Jesus necessarily lead to? What can Jesus do for all those who feel like they are living in exile?
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Scripture: Isaiah 11 and 12I. You have hope of a coming king.A. Who is this branch of vs. 1 who would bear fruit? Jesus. He is a shoot from the stump of Jesse, King David’s father. God had made a great promise to King David in 2 Samuel 7:12-13: “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”B. Jesus would be anointed with the Holy Spirit (vs. 2). What gifts would Jesus have as king because He was filled with the Spirit? Verses 2-5 say Jesus would have the gifts of wisdom, power, reverence for God, faithfulness and righteousness. In short, Jesus would be the perfect king. And Jesus would come not just as Judah’s king. He would come to fight for Judah as a warrior (vs. 4-5).II. You have hope of a curse reversed.A. Jesus would bring with him a kingdom that would restore and secure the harmony of the Garden of Eden, before Adam and Eve and all of humanity fell into sin. In Isaiah 11:6 we see that Jesus will bring peace to all of creation – even animals. Jesus would come as the new Adam. In Genesis 1:28 God had commanded the first Adam to be fruitful, to fill the earth and subdue it and to rule over the animals. Jesus the King is now putting that mandate back on track.B. God is angry with humans because of our sin and rebellion against Him (Isa. 12:1). But God’s anger has turned away from His people. The angry God has become your Savior. The curse has been reversed! How? At the cross, God’s anger and God’s judgment fell on Jesus for your sin. And when you trust that Jesus died for your sins, you can sing with God’s people the words of Isa. 12:2: “Behold, God is my salvation.”III. You have hope of a cosmic joy and peace.A. There was hope for the whole world in Isaiah’s message. In Isa. 11:10, the prophet says that “in that day, the root of Jesse (King Jesus), who shall stand as a signal for the peoples – of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.” People then from every nation, all the nations listed in Isa. 11:11, will rally around the flag of King Jesus. Who are we making God’s great deeds of salvation known among? The peoples (Isa. 12:4). We learn in Isa. 12 that worship is mission and mission is worship. Worship leads to you telling other people about Jesus.Application:Let us live then with faith not fear, with hope not despair, with trust in God and not in man.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by J.A. Motyer, Tim Chester, Derek Thomas and David Jackman.Sermon Discussion Questions1) How does the description of the Branch in Isaiah 11 focus our hope? What are the characteristics of the Branch and how are they true of Jesus?2) In what ways does the rule of Jesus reverse the curse of the Fall of Adam and Eve? How and where does God’s anger get removed from humanity?3) What will the worship of Jesus necessarily lead to? What can Jesus do for all those who feel like they are living in exile?
Scripture: Isaiah 5I. God’s heart breaks when we don’t produce good fruit.A. By grace God had given Israel a good land. God had left nothing undone for His people. God expected good fruit to come from His people. But the vines only yielded wild grapes (vs. 2, 4). Literally, Judah produced stink-fruit. Judah produced a stinky crop of death and decay. Whose fault was it? God’s or Judah’s? We get the answer in verse 4 when a broken-hearted God asks the question: “What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it?”B. Judah had wasted every opportunity and despised every privilege given her by God. So, what was God going to do to His people, His vineyard? He was going to destroy it (vs. 5). What kind of fruit is your life producing? God gave you the Holy Spirit to give you the power to produce good fruit that we see in Galatians 5:22-23: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.II. God’s hand is raised in judgment when we don’t produce good fruit.A. Since Judah produced stink fruit, God announced a series of six woes. Woe means that great sorrow or distress is coming. Rich people in Judah had defrauded the poor by adding house to house (vs. 8). What was God’s judgment? Many houses shall be desolate (vs. 9). If you take a house from the poor, God will send foreigners to take all your big houses. The only thing that got Judah out of bed was wine. They were self-indulgent. How would God judge them? They would lose their land and go into exile (vs. 13). They would go to Sheol, the land of the dead (vs. 14).B. Judah was a slave to its sinful appetites (vs. 18). Another woe is pronounced in vs. 20 on those who call evil good and good evil. They turn moral values upside down. Another woe in vs. 21 is spoken to those who are wise in their own eyes. They put themselves in the place of God and exalt their own opinions. Finally, in vs. 22-23 a woe is given to those who are heroes at holding their liquor and who corrupt the justice system by taking bribes and convicting the innocent.C. God can whistle for nations to judge His people like one might whistle for their dog (vs. 26). When God whistled, Assyria would come very quickly in judgment. Isaiah 5:30 has two references to darkness. What is going to win? Will it be light? Or will it be darkness? On the day that Jesus died for our sins, darkness fell. Matthew 27:45: “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” But because Jesus went into the darkness for us, we can now walk in the light and enjoy the sunshine of God’s love and presence.Application:Ask God to fill you with His Spirit to produce the sweet and delicious fruit God wants.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by J.A. Motyer, Bob Fyall and David Jackman.Sermon Discussion Questions1) Why does God sing a sad song over His vineyard? What has gone wrong? What is going to happen?2) What is the essence of each sin that God speaks about in His six woes to Judah? How does God respond to His people’s sins?3) What response does God want from Judah when He tells them of the upcoming Assyrian invasion in vs. 25-30? How does the threat of God’s judgment bring hope to us?
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Scripture: Isaiah 11 and 12I. You have hope of a coming king.A. Who is this branch of vs. 1 who would bear fruit? Jesus. He is a shoot from the stump of Jesse, King David’s father. God had made a great promise to King David in 2 Samuel 7:12-13: “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.”B. Jesus would be anointed with the Holy Spirit (vs. 2). What gifts would Jesus have as king because He was filled with the Spirit? Verses 2-5 say Jesus would have the gifts of wisdom, power, reverence for God, faithfulness and righteousness. In short, Jesus would be the perfect king. And Jesus would come not just as Judah’s king. He would come to fight for Judah as a warrior (vs. 4-5).II. You have hope of a curse reversed.A. Jesus would bring with him a kingdom that would restore and secure the harmony of the Garden of Eden, before Adam and Eve and all of humanity fell into sin. In Isaiah 11:6 we see that Jesus will bring peace to all of creation – even animals. Jesus would come as the new Adam. In Genesis 1:28 God had commanded the first Adam to be fruitful, to fill the earth and subdue it and to rule over the animals. Jesus the King is now putting that mandate back on track.B. God is angry with humans because of our sin and rebellion against Him (Isa. 12:1). But God’s anger has turned away from His people. The angry God has become your Savior. The curse has been reversed! How? At the cross, God’s anger and God’s judgment fell on Jesus for your sin. And when you trust that Jesus died for your sins, you can sing with God’s people the words of Isa. 12:2: “Behold, God is my salvation.”III. You have hope of a cosmic joy and peace.A. There was hope for the whole world in Isaiah’s message. In Isa. 11:10, the prophet says that “in that day, the root of Jesse (King Jesus), who shall stand as a signal for the peoples – of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.” People then from every nation, all the nations listed in Isa. 11:11, will rally around the flag of King Jesus. Who are we making God’s great deeds of salvation known among? The peoples (Isa. 12:4). We learn in Isa. 12 that worship is mission and mission is worship. Worship leads to you telling other people about Jesus.Application:Let us live then with faith not fear, with hope not despair, with trust in God and not in man.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by J.A. Motyer, Tim Chester, Derek Thomas and David Jackman.Sermon Discussion Questions1) How does the description of the Branch in Isaiah 11 focus our hope? What are the characteristics of the Branch and how are they true of Jesus?2) In what ways does the rule of Jesus reverse the curse of the Fall of Adam and Eve? How and where does God’s anger get removed from humanity?3) What will the worship of Jesus necessarily lead to? What can Jesus do for all those who feel like they are living in exile?
