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Translation and Sermon by Nate Wilson for Christ the Redeemer Church, 19 May
Judging
from the presumptive candidates of the major parties for U.S. President, it
appears that the Republicans are not interested in change and the Democrats
are. “If you're tired of the same old politics and want
something new… it’s time for a Change in Washington” – these are catchwords in Obama’s campaign. Will
he be able to deliver transformation to our country? I’ve heard quips that the
change they are after is really the change that is still rattling around in our
pockets! George Otis’ “Transformation” videos make a strong case that
significant change comes through prayer and spiritual awakening, not politics,
and, while Isaiah and George Otis may not necessarily be on the same page when
it comes to the Charismatic movement, this second half of Isaiah chapter 60
focuses on a transformation that will be brought about by God’s hand.
During Isaiah’s time, there was a felt need for
things to change for the better. They had been under the thumb of Syria and
then Assyria and were about to come under the control of Babylon. They were
worshipping false gods and God was angry at them for it. They knew no peace
because they were not upholding truth, righteousness, and justice in their own land.
Things were bad. They needed a change, but only God could give them that
change. Listen to the 4 fabulous transformations God promises to His people:
15.
Instead of your being forsaken and being hated and no one passing through,
now I will position you for majesty forever, a joy
of generation and generation!
16. And you will suck the milk of nations; the
breast of kings you will suck!
And you will know that I, Jehovah, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
17. Instead of the bronze I will bring gold, and
instead of the iron, I will bring silver,
and instead of the wood,
bronze, and instead of the stones, iron!
And I will place peace for your police and
righteousness for your tax-collectors.
18.
Never again will there be heard violence in your land, devastation, or
destruction in your borders,
but you will call your walls Salvation and your
gates Praise.
19. Never again will the sun be for you for daily
light, and the brightness of the moon will not shine for you,
but Jehovah will become for you everlasting light,
and your God your glory!
20.
Never again will your sun go, and your moon will not withdraw itself,
for it will be Jehovah who becomes for you
everlasting light,
and the days of your mourning will be completed.
21. And your people – all of them – will be
righteous;
forever they will take over the land as the branch
of His planting, the work of His hands,
for beautification.
22.
The little one will become a thousand, and the insignificant one a vast nation.
I am Jehovah; in its time I will implement it
rapidly.
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“Forsaken”
relates to exile
o 27:8. By her measure, by
exiling her, You will contend with her; He removed them with His hard wind in a
day of the east wind… 10. For the fortified city is isolated, a home exiled and
forsaken, like the wilderness.
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“Hated”
o by God in 1:14.
Your new moons and your meetings my soul hates...
o 54:8 also refers to
God’s “flood of wrath” upon Judah
o It is right for
God to hate sin. 61:8 For I the LORD love justice; I
hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense…
Zec 8:17 do not devise
evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these
things I hate, declares the LORD."
§ If you have ever
done what the Bible says is wrong,
§ robbed/taken
anything that was not yours,
§ told a false
oath/a lie,
§ or even thought
something bad towards someone else, devising evil in your heart against them,
§ you have sinned,
and God’s hatred is directed toward you.
§ There is nothing
you can do to make God like you again.
§ The wages of sin
is death (Rom. 6:23).
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No
one “passing over” was prophesied in 33:8 Highways were desolated;
passing over the way has ceased. He has broken covenant; he has despised
cities..
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But
God promises a reversal of all of this:
o Whereas no one
was passing through, the first half of this chapter has pictured people
streaming in to be with God’s people from all over the world 62:10
- Pass through, pass through the gates, Clear the way for the
people; Build up, build up the highway… lift up a standard over the peoples.
o Whereas Joy was
taken away
§ 24:8 The mirth
of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the
mirth of the harp is stilled… (10) The chaotic city is shattered; every
house is shut up so that none can enter… all happiness has grown dark; the
gladness of the earth is removed. 12 Desolation is left in the city; gates
battered, and ruin.”
§ there will be a
transformation that will bring “joy” to children and grandchildren for
“generations,”
§ Isa 62:5 …
as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, So your God will rejoice over
you. Isa 65:18 "But be glad and rejoice forever in what I
create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing And her people for
gladness. (cf 66:10)
o Whereas they
were hated:
§ they will become
“majestic” - the “pride” (NAS) & “excellence” (KJV) of the world,
§ v.16 they will
be embraced. “Nursing” at breast as picture of intimacy. They are now
loved and nurtured by kings - the greatest people in the world! (49:21ff,
66:11)
§ and they will “know”
God no longer as the one who hates them but as the one who loves
them!
§ How does
this change come about in God’s attitude? We saw in the last chapter already
that since no man could save and satisfy God’s wrath against sin, God brought
“His own righteousness” out to deal with the problem of sin; Isa 59:16 And
he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore
his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
In other words, God brought out His own son, Jesus to suffer death – the
punishment for sin – on our behalf, so that we could know God – not as the one
who “hates” us because of our sin but – as our “Savior, our Redeemer, and our
Mighty One.”
A)
Savior:
Isa 45:17 Israel [Not speaking of the physical Jewish nation
but of all the people of God in all nations] will be saved in the
LORD with an everlasting salvation: you will not be ashamed or
confounded world without end… [so] 22 Look unto me, and be saved,
all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
B)
Redeemer:
refers
to what Jesus would do to purchase a people for God
1.
Isa
59:20 And the Redeemer shall
come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
2.
Isa
62:12 And they shall call them, The
holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt
be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
3.
“From
heaven He came and sought her to be His holy bride; with His own blood he
bought her and for her life he died” (From Samuel J. Stone’s hymn “The Church’s
One Foundation”)
C)
Mighty
One –
1.
First
used by Jacob when blessing his son Joseph: Gen 49:24 arms of his hands were made strong by the
hands, of the mighty God of Jacob
2.
Also
used in the introduction to Isaiah’s prophecy 1:24 and 49:26b all flesh shall know that I the LORD am
your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
What
a fantastic change from desolation and shunning to experiencing intimacy and
majesty! And this change is accomplished by Jesus for His church.
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What is all
this about building materials in v.17?
o
There were many
bronze fixtures in the O.T. temple. Iron
was in general use for tools/nails with sharp edges. Wood and stone
were used to build houses and protective walls.
o
Vs. 6&9
have already mentioned gold being brought in as tribute from the
nations to God
o
Replacing
bronze fixtures for gold and replacing the iron with silver, etc is a picture
of opulence! Instead of middle-class, these people will be upper-crust!
It presents a stunning picture to the imagination, a picture which resembles
(by an analogy of precious stones to the precious metals) the new Jerusalem
which God is preparing for His people to live in eternally in heaven.
o
Now, imagine
the security of a city whose walls were made entirely out of metal. In Isaiah’s
day, such a city would have been indestructible!
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I will set
peace as your officers/overseers /governor/administrators
o
This is the
authority who “visits” you, reminds you of the law, and enforces the law, which
is why I translated it “police”
o
Instead of God
“visiting” them with punishment (cf
Isa 10:3; 13:11; 26:21; 29:6; 57:21; 59:8), God’s people could expect
peace.
o
“Peace” is not
an adjective describing the officers (as in “your officers will be
peaceful”) but rather the object which is placed by God to be the
officers. In other words, God’s personified “peace” and “righteousness” will
take over the government and take over the role of the police. No longer will
human rulers be needed.
o This reminds me of Isaiah’s prophecy of the coming rule of Jesus in 9:6 For
unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be
upon his shoulder: and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father,1 The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the
increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,…
o We do not even have to wait
until heaven to experience this reign of peace; Isaiah
has already spoken this truth in a prayer to God: 26:3a A steadfast
mind you will guard in perfect peace, for it trusts in You… (cf Isa 57:19 & 66:12).
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And
Righteousness will be your tax
collectors/taskmasters/ruler/magistrates/overseers
o
Isaiah says in
v. 17 that those people who lit. “squeeze you / press you” to pay taxes will no
longer be the ruthless Assyrians from the outside or the landlords
of your own people who “drive their employees too hard” (same root word
in Isa 58:3 as “press/tax/rule” here) and drove righteousness away by their own
sins. Now, as 58:16-17 says, God would bring to bear His own righteousness...
(Isa 61:10-11)
o
In I Samuel 8,
Samuel tried to keep the Jews from instating a king by shocking them with a
prophecy that a king would take a whole 10% of their income. Nowadays we spend
half of our income on taxes. There’s been a lot of talk in the Republican Party
primaries about reducing our taxes and even abolishing the IRS. How wonderful
it would be if righteousness were consistently applied to our tax system!
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Whereas the
Israel of Isaiah’s day was full of the poverty of “Violence, Devastation/ruin/
wasting, and destruction” (Isa 59:6b Their works are works of iniquity, And
an act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to
evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of
iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways.)
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And
whereas God would bring continued violence, devastation, and destruction upon
the nation during the exile (51:19; 1:28; 30:13),
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A
change to a secure, prosperous state is promised for the future:
o
Isa
30:26 The light of the moon will be
as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter,
like the light of seven days, on the day the LORD binds up the destruction of
His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.
o
This was
fulfilled in part by righteous leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah after the exile
(who did away with charging interest on loans in Neh. 5), but theirs was not a
complete fulfillment. They could hardly be called peaceful times, and the
language here in Isaiah speaks of blessings beyond this physical world:
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“You will
call your walls Salvation” – Walls are what protect us from our enemies. Salvation
is what protects us from our enemies. To live within the walls of this changed
community is to be saved.
o The enemies are
not the nations outside because Isaiah has already said that the nations would
build up the walls of Zion (v.10) and find a place within those walls (56:5),
our enemies are Satan and sin and death.
o
Means
of change: It took a man who had “done no violence” (as Isa 53:9 and I
Peter 2:22 describe Jesus) to take the punishment for our sin and thus save us
from the wrath of God.
o I already
mentioned in my sermon on Isaiah 26 that this wall of salvation is Jesus. “We
have a wall…”
Throughout Isaiah, Salvation is personified as God, such as in Isa 12:2 “Behold,
God is my salvation” This is Old Testament language for “Jesus saves”
§ Mat 1:21
"She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He
will save His people from their sins."
§ 1Th 5:9
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation
through our Lord Jesus Christ,
§ Act 15:11
" we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus..."
§ Act 16:31
"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you &
your household."
§ (cf. Luk 19:9 2Ti 1:9 2Ti 2:10 2Ti 3:15 Rom 10:9 1Ti 1:15)
o “Glorious
things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He whose words cannot be
broken formed thee for His own abode. On the Rock of Ages founded, what can
shake thy sure repose? With salvations walls surrounded, thou mayest smile at all thy foes!” (John Newton)
o God will be
praised by those within the gates (45:25), and people from all over the world
will speak the praises of God’s people and God’s salvation because of their
beauty and majesty (26:2, 54:12, 42:8-12, 60:11, 62:7)
Verse
19 begins the same way the first commandment does “There shall not be for you
another God before me” perhaps a reminder not to worship the sun or moon, but
there is more. This promises that we will have no more sun or moon. Is that
supposed to be a blessing? Only if we get some better source of light in
exchange!
1.
One day the Sun and Moon will one day be done away with:
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Isa
13:10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not
give their light; the sun will be dark when He goes forth, and the moon
will not shine its light. (11) And I will visit evil upon the world, and
iniquity upon the wicked, I will finish off the arrogant proud, and humiliate
the pompous pride of the ruthless. (cf. Ps. 72:7)
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Joel 2:31 The
sun will be turned into darkness And the moon into blood before
the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. 32 and it will come about that
whoever calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; (quoted by all four
Gospel writers in reference to Jesus: Mt. 24:29, Mk. 13:24, Acts 2:20, Rev.
6:12)
2.
Instead, God will be your light:
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This
began to be fulfilled in the first coming of Christ:
§ Isaiah has
already spoken of the coming of Jesus to earth as a baby as the coming of the
light of God to the earth and to the nations in 9:2 (cf
Mt. 4:16), 42:6, and 49:6
§ In the New
Testament John also described Jesus as the light of God. He quotes Jesus
saying, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." (John 9:5)
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By believing
in Jesus that light illumines us in a spiritual sense
§ John 8:12 Again
Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows
me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
§ Isa 50:10 Who
is among you that fears the LORD, That obeys the voice of His servant, That
walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the
LORD...
s
The
Bible speaks of another time in the future when God will replace the light of
sun and moon:
o Isa 4:5 then the LORD will create over the whole
area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness
of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
o Rev
21:23-27 the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the
glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb [the symbol for Jesus
in John’s revelation]. 24 By her light will the nations walk,
and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into her, 25 and
her gates will never be shut by day--and there will be no night there.
26 They will bring into her the glory and the honor of the nations.
27 But nothing unclean will ever enter her, nor anyone who does what is
detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
3.
God will be your Beauty/Glory
s
Instead
of looking for beauty in their “anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments, etc.”
(Isa 3:18)
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they
will glory in their redeemer, Jesus,
o the Branch of
the Lord who would become their glory in (Isa 4:2),
o the One who
would become their beautiful crown (Isa 28:5),
o the Salvation
that was coming near (Isa 46:13)
4. “Your mourning/sorrow will end/be
completed”
s
The
beginning of this fulfillment would be in the rebuilding of Jerusalem in 539
BC:
Isa 57:18 I
have seen his [Israel’s] ways, yet I will heal him, and I will lead him, and I
will complete comforting for him and for his mourners
s
The next
level of fulfillment would be when Jesus came in the first century AD:
Isa 61:3
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes,
the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of
the LORD, that He might be glorified. Jesus claims that His presence
in Palestine fulfilled this (Lk 4:18 - we’ll look at
this more in depth next week, Lord willing).
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In the new
heavens and new earth, we will also have the presence of Jesus to wipe away our
tears and bring and end to all sorrow:
Rev 7:17 for the Lamb in the center
of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the
water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes. (cf. Rev.
21:4)
1. Spiritually in terms of sin (spiritual
weakness) changed into righteousness “all of them will be righteous”
a. This righteousness of the
inhabitants of the city of God has already been mentioned in:
i.
4:3 And he
who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy
ii.
26.2 Open,
gates, and the righteous nation will go, keeping faith.
iii.
35.8 And
there will be a highway and the road, and it will be called “The Way of the
Holy.” An unclean man will not pass over it...(cf
Rev. 21:27)
b. How did they get righteous?
i.
53:11 told us: my
righteous Servant [Jesus] will make righteous the many, and their iniquities He
Himself will bear [which He did on the cross]
ii.
How did they
grab onto that righteousness? By believing in Jesus: Paul explains in Gal
3:6-14 Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS
RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith
who are sons of Abraham. 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would
make the Gentiles righteous by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to
Abraham, saying, "ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU." 9 So
then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer…
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse
for us--for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"-- 14 in
order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles,
so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
iii. The righteous are called “the
branch of my/his [God’s] planting” and “the work of my/His hand” to underscore
that our life in the city of God as people who believe in Jesus and are made
righteous did not come of ourselves, we were made by God, our
righteousness came from Him, and we didn’t do anything to deserve or
earn it.
This phrase “plant” is applied to God’s people throughout the Scriptures (e.g. Ex. 15:17, Ps. 44:2, Ps. 80:8, Isa 5:2, Isa 40:24, Isa
61:3, Jer 2:21, Jer 11:17, Jer 24:6, Jer 31:28, Jer 32:41, Jer 42:10, Amos
9:15), and in Mt. 15:13, Jesus applies this planting process spiritually to God
planting faith in a person.
2. Physically illustrated in v. 21 in
terms of “taking over the land”
a. The phrase “take
over/inherit/possess the land” comes from God’s covenant with Abraham: Gen 15:6 And he
believed in the LORD;
and He [the Lord] counted it to him [Abraham] for righteousness. 7 And He
said unto him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.
b. David picked up on this
promise and passed it on to Solomon: 1Ch 28:8b …keep and seek for all the commandments
of the LORD your God: that ye may possess
this good land, and leave it for an
inheritance for your children after you forever.
c. However, Israel did not walk in this righteousness, so they did not
get this promise: Isa 14:21 Prepare slaughter for his sons in the iniquity of
their fathers; they must not rise and take over the earth, and fill the
face of the world with cities. Rather, wildlife got it! Isa
34:11 Pelican
and porcupine will possess her, and owl and raven will sit in her. And
He will stretch over her a line of desolation and stones of chaos.
d. But a new
seed of people made righteous by faith will gain the promise: Isa 57:13b But the one who takes refuge
in me will possess the land, and he will take over my holy mountain!
e. Just as Jesus
said in Mat 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit
the earth.
f. Not literal
Palestine but spiritual: Rom 4:13-24 For the promise to
Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not
through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith… so that
the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those
who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of
Abraham, who is the father of us all… 21 [Abraham was] fully assured that
what God had promised, He was able also to perform. 22 Therefore IT WAS ALSO
CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 23 Now not for his
sake only was it written that it was credited to him, 24 but for our
sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised
Jesus our Lord from the dead, (cf 1Co
6:9-10, Heb 6:12)
g. Jesus called this
inheritance “eternal life” in Mat 19:29, and while it is now only a spiritual
reality, it will become a concrete reality in the world to come, as he
promised to John in the Revelation (21:7) “He that overcomes [by
continuing to trust Jesus - I John 5:4] shall inherit all things; and
I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”
3. This change is also
illustrated in terms of a “small,” weak, “insignificant” number
of people becoming a “thousand,” a “vast/numerous/mighty nation”
a. Again, Abraham is alluded
to as one man who had very few children, yet became the father of
all the Arab nations physically. Spiritually, he is also the
father of all who believe God in truth. (Gen 18:18 …Abraham shall surely
become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the
earth shall be blessed in him – applied to those of his faith, not
of his blood in Gal 3:8)
b. The concept of the “remnant”
from Isaiah 10-46 is also in view. God starts with a few faithful people
and grows from there
Mic 4:7 I will make the lame a remnant And the
outcasts a strong nation, And the LORD will reign over them in
Mount Zion From now on and forever.
c. So it is with the kingdom of
God, as
Jesus explained in His parables, it starts as small as a mustard seed,
but will grow into the largest tree (Mt. 13:31), it starts like a pinch
of yeast and influences the whole loaf (Mt. 13:33), it is like a seed
that is sown in the ground and grows into a stalk of grain that produces a hundred
seeds. Little flock, you look small, but God will use you to develop a vast
and mighty people of faith in Jesus in every nation on earth. Do not be
discouraged!
4. This change is under God’s
control and will happen at the right “Time”
a. Throughout Isaiah, the word
“time” seems to refer to a visitation of God’s punishment or of God’s blessing:
i.
earlier “times”
of “anguish” in Isa 9:1,
ii.
a present
“time” of “distress” in 33:2-6,
iii.
a future “time”
when Jesus will “come” in 48:16 (cf. 49:8),
iv.
The appointed
time is a key concept in the New Testament coming of Jesus
1.
Gal 4:4 when
the appointed time had come, God sent forth His only begotten son
2.
Mk. 1:15 the
time is fulfilled (John the Baptizer)
3.
Matt 26:18 My
time is at hand (Passover)
v.
and also a
future “time” when the nations will worship God in Isa 18:7 in the heavenly
kingdom.
b. How does God “hasten” it?
i.
The
commentators I read (E.J. Young & Franz Delitzsch) suggest that this does not have to do with
moving the event forward in time so much as it has to do with rapidly
fulfilling the promise – acting suddenly – when the time does come.
ii.
I’m sure you’ve
all had that roller-coaster experience of waiting forever for God to put all
the pieces together on something that you want to happen, and then when the
time comes, Whoosh, it all comes together quickly and things really take off!
iii.
The point is
that God is in control and He will be timely. But did you know God tells us the
WE can also hasten the day?
iv.
2 Pet.
3:10-15 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the
heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up
and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be
exposed. 11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what
sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because
of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies
will melt as they burn! 13 But according to his promise we are
waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be
found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. 15 And
count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother
Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
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Do you need
transformation in your life? It will not come through political
candidates or through doing more activities or through diets or plans from books
(although these are all fine things we may invest in); the real transformation
will come through trusting Jesus to take away our sin and following Him.
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Have you been
following Jesus but your beginnings feel small? Be patient and persevere
in trusting Jesus; don’t be discouraged, your “change will come.” (Job
14:14)
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v.21 says that
the purpose of all these blessings is so that God will be glorified. Are
you doing anything to stand in the way of God being praised and admired? Stop
trying to get people to admire you and instead turn and admire your
Savior and Redeemer, your Mighty One!
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Have you
forgotten the hope of heaven? The age to come when you will be majestic,
when your tears will be all wiped away,
where the streets are paved with gold,
where righteousness and peace will reign forever,
where the Lord will be your everlasting light,
where you will be important?
Keep looking forward to that hope! Luke 18:7-8 will not God bring about
justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over
them? 8 I tell you that He will bring about justice for them
quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?
s
All the fun and
glamour of the world portrayed in the media is nothing compared to
eternal life in Jesus! This is where the joy and security and beauty is! Do you
believe that?
s
Isa
2:5 Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
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