isaiah 34-35
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My slot in a short series on Isaiah 1–39 at Above Bar Church, Southampton, UK. It's a whistlestop tour - this is the 10th in a series of 11 sermons.TRANSCRIPT
Come near, you nations, and listen;pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,the world, and all that comes out of it!
Isaiah 34:1
Come near, you nations, and listen;pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,the world, and all that comes out of it!
Isaiah 34:1
All the host of heaven shall rot away,and the skies roll up like a scroll.All their host shall fall,as leaves fall from the vine,like leaves falling from the fig tree.
Isaiah 34:4 ESV
hostility between Israel and Edom
Numbers 20:14–21; 1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:11–14; 1 Kings 11:17–25; 2 Kings 8:20; 14:7
We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
Tim Keller
36
We love idols. We trust idols. We obey idols. We look to idols to love us and provide value, beauty, sense of significance and worth.
Tim Keller
37
Hell is just a freely chosen identity, based on something else besides God, going on for ever.
Tim Keller
It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud. The matter is serious: let us put ourselves in His hands at once – this very day, this hour.
C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
In that day they will say, ‘Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us.This is the Lord, we trusted in him;let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.’
Isaiah 29:5
They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Isaiah 35:10