The Majesty of God
Gerald Harris
Isaiah 40:1-31
In May I was in Israel and we went to the Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947. The best preserved of the scrolls and the only one that is most complete is the Book of Isaiah. It is one thousand years older than the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible known to us before the scroll's discovery. That discovery gave additional validity to the authority and accuracy of the Word of God.
1. The Will of God
A. To Provide Comfort
In Isaiah 6 we learned that God called Isaiah to condemn His people. Now, we are going to skip all the way to chapter 40 where Isaiah is called to comfort His people. He begins in verse one by saying, ''Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people.''
In chapter 5 we discovered that the Lord had warned the Israelites of impending judgment. In that chapter we considered six ''woes''. Isaiah is sometimes called the book of ''Woe''. Isaiah 28:1 says ''Woe.'' Isaiah 29:1 says ''Woe''. Isaiah 30:1 says ''Woe''. Isaiah 31:1 says ''Woe''. Isaiah 33:1 says ''Woe''. ''Woe'' means ''misery, distress, despair, affliction.''
The nation has been destroyed. The temple lies in ruins. The people have been carried away into captivity in Babylon and they sit in despair and in slavery in a faraway land. So, in Isaiah 40: 27 Isaiah cries out, ''Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord.'' They feel that the Lord has forgotten them and is indifferent to their need.
But God had forgotten them no more than he had forgotten the Israelites when they were in Egypt in Moses day. The Israelites had been in Egypt for 430 years laboring under the merciless hand of the Egyptian taskmasters, but one day, God spoke to Moses through a burning bush. He asked Moses to deliver the Israelites out of the land of bondage. But God started his conversation with Moses by saying, ''Surely, I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt.''
So, let me say this: Nobody has ...
Gerald Harris
Isaiah 40:1-31
In May I was in Israel and we went to the Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947. The best preserved of the scrolls and the only one that is most complete is the Book of Isaiah. It is one thousand years older than the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible known to us before the scroll's discovery. That discovery gave additional validity to the authority and accuracy of the Word of God.
1. The Will of God
A. To Provide Comfort
In Isaiah 6 we learned that God called Isaiah to condemn His people. Now, we are going to skip all the way to chapter 40 where Isaiah is called to comfort His people. He begins in verse one by saying, ''Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people.''
In chapter 5 we discovered that the Lord had warned the Israelites of impending judgment. In that chapter we considered six ''woes''. Isaiah is sometimes called the book of ''Woe''. Isaiah 28:1 says ''Woe.'' Isaiah 29:1 says ''Woe''. Isaiah 30:1 says ''Woe''. Isaiah 31:1 says ''Woe''. Isaiah 33:1 says ''Woe''. ''Woe'' means ''misery, distress, despair, affliction.''
The nation has been destroyed. The temple lies in ruins. The people have been carried away into captivity in Babylon and they sit in despair and in slavery in a faraway land. So, in Isaiah 40: 27 Isaiah cries out, ''Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord.'' They feel that the Lord has forgotten them and is indifferent to their need.
But God had forgotten them no more than he had forgotten the Israelites when they were in Egypt in Moses day. The Israelites had been in Egypt for 430 years laboring under the merciless hand of the Egyptian taskmasters, but one day, God spoke to Moses through a burning bush. He asked Moses to deliver the Israelites out of the land of bondage. But God started his conversation with Moses by saying, ''Surely, I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt.''
So, let me say this: Nobody has ...
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