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: Exodus 25:1-9 | John 1:14-17I. You experience God living in you by stirring up your heart.A. How could Israel know God was living among them as they made their journey toward Canaan? A tent that was called the tabernacle. Before God would live in this tent, His people would need to provide the materials for the tent. Who would give toward God’s home? Only those whose hearts were moved (vs. 2). If you want to experience God living in you today then, you need a heart that is regularly stirred up with love for Him.B. Sometimes our hearts get cold, don’t they? When you have a cold heart, you are more likely to act yourself into a feeling than you are to feel yourself into an action. If you do the actions of love, the feelings will come back again. If you have no sense in your heart that God loves you, you will conclude God is not living in you. So, stir up your hearts to do the loving actions toward God which will remind you again of how much God loves you and you love God.II. You experience God living in you by costly giving.A. God wanted the people to give some costly gifts for his tent (vs. 3-7). In Genesis 2:12 we read a description of what was found in the Garden of Eden: “And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.” When the people saw the tent where God lived, He wanted them to look back. He wanted them to look back to the paradise of Eden when God first lived with His people on earth.B. The tabernacle tent then pointed back to Eden, but it also pointed forward to our true home which would come through Jesus who would tabernacle among us (John 1:14). While we wait for heaven, where is God living now? He lives in us in the person of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 3:16: “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”III. You experience God living in you by detailed obedience.A. The whole point behind this tent is found in Ex. 25:8: “And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.” God wanted to live with His people on earth. The tent needed to be made according to God’s exact specifications (vs. 9) so that we might learn how we can live in relationship with our good and holy God. But we don’t follow God’s commands and rules just because we love rules. The rules are a means to an end. And the end is a relationship with God. We maintain that relationship through Christ’s blood shed on the cross for us.Application:Continue to experience God living within you by trusting that Christ paid for your sin.Sources:The BibleCommentaries by D.A. Carson, Tim Chester and J.A. Motyer & “The Lamb of God” by Nancy Guthrie.Sermon Discussion Questions1) What can you do to stir up your heart for God in times when your heart is cold? What are some actions of love for God that you might do this week?2) What costly gifts has God given you? When you give a costly gift to someone, how does that make you feel about that person?3) Why is obedience so important to God? How can we stay close to God even when we fail to obey His commands?
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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?
