{"id":2210,"date":"2016-08-14T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T15:25:20","slug":"isaiah-49-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 49-52"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaiah 49-52<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapters 49 and 50 are the second and third chapters in Isaiah that speak about the Messiah.\u00a0 The first is 42 and the final one is Chapter 52:13 – 53:12.\u00a0 Glory follows suffering.<\/p>\n

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Chapter\u00a049 opens with the Servant of Jehovah describing his own ministry.<\/p>\n

Listen to me, O coastlands,\u00a0and hearken, you peoples from afar.\u00a0The Lord called me from the womb,\u00a0from the body of my mother he named my name.\u00a0He made my mouth like a sharp sword,\u00a0in the shadow of his hand he hid me;\u00a0he made me a polished arrow,\u00a0in his quiver he hid me away.\u00a0And he said to me, “You are my servant,\u00a0Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”\u00a0But I said, “I have labored in vain,\u00a0I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;\u00a0yet surely my right is with the Lord,\u00a0and my recompense with my God.”\u00a0 And now the Lord says,\u00a0who formed me from the womb to be his servant,\u00a0to bring Jacob back to him,\u00a0and that Israel might be gathered to him,\u00a0for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,\u00a0and my God has become my strength — ” (Isa 49:1-5)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not hard to see in this section the events our Lord fulfilled in the days of his flesh. This passage is addressed to the Gentile peoples of earth, reaching far beyond Israel to the “coastlands,” the continents of earth.<\/p>\n

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  1. Called by God: The Lord called me from the womb,\u00a0from the body of my mother he named my name.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Equipped by God: He made my mouth like a sharp sword,\u00a0in the shadow of his hand he hid me;\u00a0he made me a polished arrow,\u00a0in his quiver he hid me away.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Owned by God: he said to me, “You are my servant,\u00a0Israel,<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Rewarded by God: in whom I will be glorified.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Labored for God: But I said, “I have labored in vain,\u00a0I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;\u00a0yet surely my right is with the Lord,\u00a0and my recompense with my God.” <\/strong>Verses\u00a04-5 speak of his experience of rejection by the people to whom he came. At first his ministry was sensational. He attracted crowds everywhere he went. But soon he began to experience rejection and apparent failure, so that in the end he had to say, “All have forsaken me.” This is reflected in these words, “I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity.” Even in those words, however, there is a confidence that God will recover and do his will<\/li>\n
  6. Working for God: And now the Lord says,\u00a0who formed me from the womb to be his servant,\u00a0to bring Jacob back to him,\u00a0and that Israel might be gathered to him,\u00a0for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,\u00a0and my God has become my strength<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Sustained and Rewarded by God: for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord,\u00a0and my God has become my strength<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Verses\u00a08-13 continue the description of what God has called his servant to do. There is a remarkable promise in Verse\u00a06, where\u00a0Yahweh<\/em>\u00a0looks on to the worldwide ministry that the Servant will have.<\/p>\n

    “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant\u00a0to raise up the tribes of Jacob\u00a0and to restore the preserved of Israel;\u00a0I will give you as a light to the nations,\u00a0that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”\u00a0 Thus says the Lord,\u00a0the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,\u00a0to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations,\u00a0the servant of rulers:\u00a0“Kings shall see thee and arise;\u00a0princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;\u00a0because of the Lord, who is faithful,\u00a0the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.” (Isa 49:6-7)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I believe the point of this passage is clearly that God was not going to expend such a precious part of Himself to reach on the nation of Israel.\u00a0 God\u2019s plan was always for the Messiah to reach to the end of the earth.\u00a0 But there is a clear description of what I have often called God\u2019s value system or economy.\u00a0 What are the things that God values?\u00a0 To answer that question, look to what He rewards.\u00a0 Also, the life of Christ reflected very clearly what God values because Jesus had the heart of His father and look and see where it led Him:\u00a0 It lead Him to the cross.<\/p>\n

    In Verse\u00a014 of this chapter, Israel (or Zion, a name for Jerusalem) cries out,<\/p>\n

    But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,\u00a0my Lord has forgotten me.” (Isa 49:14)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you believe this sounds like a child who sees that Mom or Dad loves their siblings and can\u2019t imagine that they are also loved by their parents.\u00a0 In our world, we usually prefer one over another.\u00a0 We can\u2019t see how someone could love two people equally.\u00a0 But God is not like people.\u00a0 The Jews, seeing God\u2019s gift being provided to the nation, is under the impression that God had forgotten them.\u00a0 They cannot understand the wanderings through the centuries, the nameless horrors of the Holocaust, and other persecutions. But\u00a0Yahweh<\/em>\u00a0reminds them, in Verses\u00a015-16:<\/p>\n

    “Can a woman forget her sucking child,\u00a0that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
    \nEven these may forget,\u00a0yet I will not forget you.\u00a0Behold, I have graven you on the palms of my hands;\u00a0your walls are continually before me.” (Isa 49:15-16)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    That is God’s word that he will not forget his promises to Israel. Paul takes this up in Chapters\u00a09, 10 and 11 of Romans, and asks the question, “Has God cast off his people whom he knew?” (Rom 11:2a). His answer is, “Absolutely not.” God will fulfill these promises.<\/p>\n

    Here Jehovah reminds them, “Though you may feel neglected and forgotten, I cannot cast you off. I will never forget you, ‘Can a mother forget her sucking child?'” Mothers can forget their children.\u00a0 We live in a world where a Mother\u2019s love seems at times dubious. But even if a Mother could forget her child, God cannot: “Behold, I have inscribed you, engraved you on the palms of my hands.” \u00a0Last week I was in a home with a little girl who had fallen on her hands and had poked a small hole in the palm of her hand.\u00a0 I have regretted not mentioning to her that we are engraved in God\u2019s hands.\u00a0 Interesting picture when you think of the meeting in the upper room and Jesus shows the scars on His hands from the resurrection.\u00a0 Those wounds in his hands were marks of love and their very names were engraved in his hands.<\/p>\n

    This entire section is a great word for hearts that are burdened with loneliness. Not sure if you have ever felt like God has forgotten you, that he has turned his back on you? Maybe you attribute this to some sin that you think might have been the last straw.\u00a0 It might even be for a decision that you thought would distance you from grace for the rest of your life.\u00a0 It is not that unusual, and probably more so among women, that people feel that God has forgotten them, or perhaps God has chosen not to forgive them.<\/p>\n

    But God has a ministry to the discouraged and defeated ones. What I think is that we are a little like that spoiled child from verse 14.\u00a0 In order to find our encouragement, we must remember how God has acted in history towards the ones He has chosen.\u00a0 The greatest example of that is the nation of Israel. Here in Isaiah, God declares that He will restore and do a work that will leave them amazed and baffled at the wonders that he produces. If we continue to read Verse\u00a019, God says to Israel:<\/p>\n

    Surely your waste and your desolate places\u00a0and your devastated land —\u00a0surely now it will be too narrow for your inhabitants,\u00a0and those who swallowed you up will be far away.\u00a0The children born in the time of your bereavement\u00a0will yet say in your ears:\u00a0“The place is too narrow for me;\u00a0make room for me to dwell in.”\u00a0Then you will say in your heart:\u00a0“Who has borne me these?\u00a0I was bereaved and barren,\u00a0exiled and put away,\u00a0but who has brought up these?\u00a0Behold, I was left alone;\u00a0whence then have these come?” (Isa 49:19-21)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Hear the amazement in the people who are alert enough to see what the power of the Lord has accomplished.\u00a0 The increase of population, the return of prosperity, and the blessing of God upon the people! That is the encouragement of the OT, that in it we find a God who doesn\u2019t forget His chosen. And of course, we have our own stories too, but it is when our own landscape is spotted with desolate places and devastated land we need to look to how God has dealt with others in the past. God has changed their lives and blessed their hearts beyond their dreams.<\/p>\n

    That is a huge part of the good news, that God doesn\u2019t abandon His chosen ones.\u00a0 The rest of Chapter\u00a049 describes in beautiful words this promise to his people. Look at 49:23b, and think about this promise.\u00a0 Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Chapter\u00a050 continues with God’s answer to the charge of forgetting his own people.\u00a0Yahweh<\/em>\u00a0asks in the opening verse:\u00a0 Thus says the Lord:\u00a0“Where is your mother’s bill of divorce,\u00a0with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it\u00a0to whom I have sold you? (Isa 50:1a)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Though the people felt like God had forgotten them, divorced them, and cast them off, God says, “All right, prove it! Where is your bill of divorce? Where is a bill of sale to these people whom I have allegedly sold you?” They cannot produce it, of course, because it has not happened. But God says to them, “Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,\u00a0and for your transgressions your mother was put away.\u00a0Why, when I came, was there no man?\u00a0When I called, was there no one to answer?” (Isa 50:1b-2a)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    First God declares that He didn\u2019t sell them into the slavery they were about to enter.\u00a0 It was not God’s fault that they will be made to wander through the nations of earth enduring terrible trials and horrible treatment.\u00a0 This verse asks, “Where were you when I came? Why when I called did no one answer?” He is speaking, of course, in view of the future ministry of Christ.\u00a0 “He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not. He came to his own home, and his own people received him not<\/strong>,” (John 1:10-11).<\/p>\n

    This rejection did not happen because of any lack of power on God’s part. The passage goes on to claim that God has ample power to deliver. The problem is human pride; that obstinate resistance to being helped which we all feel in our hearts at times. It is an unwillingness to admit that we need anyone. That is why the gospel can only be received by those who have been humbled, those who understand their lack and their need.<\/p>\n

    But the prophecy does not stop with that. The passage goes on k tell us what God does to overcome that our pride. How does He deal with this? How does He remove this block? Listen to this picture the life of our Lord: \u00a0The Lord God\u00a0has given Me the tongue of\u00a0disciples, That I may know how to\u00a0sustain the weary one with a word.\u00a0 He awakens\u00a0Me\u00a0morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. The Lord\u00a0God\u00a0has\u00a0opened My ear; and I was\u00a0not disobedient Nor did I turn back.\u00a0 6\u00a0<\/sup>I\u00a0gave My back to those who strike\u00a0Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting. (Isa 50:4-6)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Two remarkable things are described here by the servant. He says, first, “Morning by morning God taught me truth. I listened to my Father.” Remember the many times Jesus said in his ministry, “The things that I say unto you I have heard from my Father.” Again and again he made that claim. He had the ear of a learner. He pored over the Scriptures. He saw himself in them. He understood what his work would be. There came dawning into his heart the revelation that he was to endure anguish, pain and rejection. But, as he says, “I was not rebellious. I was willing to go ahead. I gave my back to those who strike Me, and My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.”<\/p>\n

    One author wrote: \u201cIt is good for us to remember frequently the sufferings of Jesus, the sheer physical agony that he went through. Think of the Upper Room and the Last Supper when he said his soul was “exceeding sorrowful unto death” (Mark 14:34); the shadows of Gethsemane among the olive trees; his loneliness, his prayers, his disappointment with his disciples; his bloody sweat, the traitor’s kiss, the binding, the blow in the face; the spitting, the scourging, the buffeting, the mocking, the crown of thorns, the smiting; the sorrowful way and the burdensome cross he had to bear. Think of his exhaustion, his collapse, the stripping of his garments, the impaling on the cross, the jeers of his foes and the flight of his friends; the hours on the cross, the darkness, his being forsaken of God, the terrible cry of anguish, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matt 27:46, Mark 15:34). And then at the end Christ states, “It is finished” (John 19:30). This is all seen in anticipation by the prophet and was all fulfilled in Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

    But that is not the end. It is well to remember what the book of Hebrews says, ”We have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities,” (Heb 4:15a). He has been through it all. “He was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin,” (Heb 4:15b). \u00a0Jesus knew it was a wise to call us to remember His treatment \u2013 which is one of the reasons why we are called to share the cup of communion. To remember, but we shouldn\u2019t just remember the first Sunday of every month; we should keep that in our thoughts very often because it is a purifying and a sanctifying reflection.<\/p>\n

    The chapter closes with a word of warning and a word of encouragement. First the word of encouragement: Who among you fears the Lord\u00a0and obeys the voice of his servant,\u00a0who walks in darkness\u00a0and has no light,\u00a0yet trusts in the name of the Lord\u00a0and relies upon his God. (Isa 50:10)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    That is the word for all who feel forsaken. God cannot and will not leave you. He will deliver you. But what about those who do not trust Him, those who insist on trying to work it out their own way?<\/p>\n

    Behold, all you who kindle a fire,\u00a0who set brands alight!\u00a0Walk by the light of your fire,\u00a0and by the brands which you have kindled!\u00a0This shall you have from my hand:\u00a0you shall lie down in torment. (Isa 50:11)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    That is not spoken out of anger or vengeance.\u00a0 God is speaking truth here.\u00a0 It is as if we were trying to warn a child not to stick their fingers in the light socket. Not because we are mad, but because we want to help them to assist the pain, even the possible death of their actions.\u00a0 God is saying, “If you turn to something else, if you try to work it all out yourself, if you ‘build your own fire’ and try to warm yourself by other means, the results will not be good.\u00a0 \u00a0You will lie down in torment. Trouble, unrest, and unhappiness are the end of the road that you are traveling on when you light your way with a flame that is not of the Lord.<\/p>\n

    Chapters\u00a051 and 52 give specific steps which believers can take when they feel discouraged and forsaken of God. This section is gathered around two different phrases, “Hearken to me,” and “Awake, awake,” each of which is repeated three times. These provide remarkable insight into God’s program for the discouraged.<\/p>\n

    \u201cListen to me, you who\u00a0pursue righteousness, Who seek the\u00a0Lord: Look to the\u00a0rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug.\u00a0 2\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cLook to\u00a0Abraham your father and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When\u00a0he<\/em>\u00a0was but<\/em>\u00a0one I called him, then I blessed him and multiplied him.\u201d. (Isa 51:1-2)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In other words, if you are discouraged we are to look back to where we have come from! Israel was to look back to Abraham, back to the time before he left Ur of the Chaldees. When you are discouraged, look back. You may not be what you want to be, or even what you ought to be, but thank God you are not what you were! Remember Paul’s words to the Corinthian believers, “. . . neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God,” (1\u00a0Cor 6:9b-10). But the apostle continues, “And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God,” (1\u00a0Cor 6:11). Look back. Has God changed you? Has he altered your inner life and changed your heart?<\/p>\n

    Then also look ahead, God says.
    \n\u201cPay attention to Me, O My people, and give ear to Me, O My\u00a0nation; For a\u00a0law will go forth from Me, And I will\u00a0set My\u00a0justice for a\u00a0light of the peoples. 5\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cMy\u00a0righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, And My\u00a0arms will judge the peoples; The\u00a0coastlands will wait for Me, And for My\u00a0arm they will wait expectantly.\u00a0 6\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cLift up your eyes to the sky, Then look to the earth beneath; For the\u00a0sky will vanish like smoke, And the\u00a0earth will wear out like a garment And its inhabitants will die in like manner; But My\u00a0salvation will be forever, And My righteousness will not wane.\u00a0 (Isa 51:4-6)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Have you ever wondered how the Apostles put all this together in terms of understanding God\u2019s bigger plan?\u00a0 I believe that once God gave them a richer, deeper understanding of the OT, it all became obvious to them, with the help of the Holy Spirit of course.\u00a0 Truthfully, there is no way we can understand God\u2019s larger plan outside of His assistance to comprehend.\u00a0 Here God is telling Isaiah to look ahead! A new day is coming! God has a plan and we are not headed for darkness and despair, we are headed for peace and light and glory; for power and ministry such as we could never dream. That is what God is saying. It will not last forever. We are headed for light, for peace, and for glory.<\/p>\n

    Verse 7 adds another “Hearken.” Do not only look back and look ahead, also look around!\u00a0 “Hearken to me, you who know righteousness,\u00a0the people in whose heart is my law;\u00a0fear not the reproach of men,\u00a0and be not dismayed at their revilings.\u00a0For the moth will eat them up like a garment,\u00a0and the worm will eat them like wool;\u00a0but my deliverance will be forever,\u00a0and my salvation to all generations.” (Isa 51:7-8)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    We live in a world where people make a pretty good living churning up fear.\u00a0 It is best interest of the world news to show turmoil, death and destruction.\u00a0 But God is saying here that no one needs to fear. There is an invisible destruction going on in the lives of those who revile and reproach God and His people. An unseen judgment is already taking place, one which is called here, the judgment of the moth and the worm. The days of destruction by moths seem to have long passed but I remember there were things that smelled like moth balls.\u00a0 There was even a Jerry Seinfeld story about moths that destroyed some clothes they were trying to sell.\u00a0 That is the picture here the moth and the termite which destroys foundations. That is why we are told again and again in the Scriptures not to fear cruel and violent people, because God is undermining them. \u00a0God is at work in way and places they don\u2019t see.\u00a0 The psalmist says in Psalm 73, “He has set their feet in slippery places,\u201d We ought to pity them as their foundations are being slowly destroyed.<\/p>\n

    But God\u2019s slow and assured judgment is not enough for these impatient hearts.\u00a0 In response to this, Israel cries out with desire to see this happen immediately. “Awake, awake, put on strength,\u00a0O arm of the Lord\u00a0<\/strong>[that is, the Messiah];\u00a0awake, as in days of old,\u00a0the generations of long ago.\u00a0Was it not thou that didst cut Rahab\u00a0<\/strong>[Egypt]\u00a0in pieces,\u00a0that didst pierce the dragon\u00a0<\/strong>[Pharaoh, king of Egypt]?\u00a0Was it not thou that didst dry up the sea,\u00a0the waters of the great deep;\u00a0that didst make the depths of the sea a way\u00a0for the redeemed to pass over?\u00a0And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing;\u00a0everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;\u00a0they shall obtain joy and gladness,\u00a0and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. (Isa 51:9-11)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Don’t you feel this way at times? Don’t you want to say, “Lord, I’ve had it. Come soon.” That is how the Bible ends: “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” But God puts great value on waiting on Him.\u00a0 He insists that we must wait, but he does not leave us comfortless during our waiting.<\/p>\n

    “I, I am he that comforts you;\u00a0who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,\u00a0of the son of man who is made like grass,\u00a0and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker,\u00a0who stretched out the heavens\u00a0and laid the foundations of the earth,\u00a0and fear continually all the day\u00a0because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy?” (Isa 51:12-13a)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    “I will comfort you,” says God, “I will come in my own time. But in the meantime I have a work for you to do.” He tells us what that work is in Verse\u00a016:<\/p>\n

    “And I have put my words in your mouth,\u00a0and hid you in the shadow of my hand,\u00a0stretching out the heavens\u00a0and laying the foundations of the earth,\u00a0and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.'” (Isa 51:16)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    God wants to tell others of this wonderful way of deliverance, of the encouragement he has for those who are discouraged of heart. “I have put my words in your mouth,” he says, so that we can share with others what he has done for us. He calls then to Israel to awaken itself.<\/p>\n

    Rouse yourself, rouse yourself,\u00a0stand up O Jerusalem,\u00a0you who have drunk at the hand of the Lord\u00a0the cup of his wrath,\u00a0who have drunk to the dregs\u00a0the bowl of staggering. (Isa 51:17)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Through the rest of the chapter God describes Israel’s task, to speak to the nations, to wake up and to tell the world about God. There is a third call to “Awake” in Chapter\u00a052, where God again says he will truly bless this nation.<\/p>\n

    Awake, awake,\u00a0put on your strength O Zion;\u00a0put on your beautiful garments,\u00a0O Jerusalem, the holy city;\u00a0for there shall no more come into you\u00a0the uncircumcised and the unclean.\u00a0Shake yourself from the dust, arise,\u00a0O captive Jerusalem;\u00a0loose your bonds from your neck,\u00a0O captive daughter of Zion. (Isa 52:1-2)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    What will happen in the earth in the day when Israel recognizes her Messiah? Paul tells us in Romans that the whole world is awaiting that day of discovery. That is reflected here in verse 7:<\/p>\n

    How beautiful upon the mountains\u00a0are the feet of him who brings good tidings,\u00a0who publishes peace, who brings good tiding of good,\u00a0who publishes salvation,\u00a0who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” (Isa 52:7)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This is what we must declare. This is the message that a truly joyous believers declares with every drop of hope and love they display to the rest of the world. We must show it on our faces, and let it be heard in our voices. God will come and the terrible times will end. We (and Israel) will one day hear the welcome summons:<\/p>\n

    Depart, depart, go out thence\u00a0<\/strong>[from the time of trouble],\u00a0touch no unclean thing;\u00a0go out from the midst of her, purify yourselves,\u00a0you who bear the vessels of the Lord. (Isa 52:11)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    That is what is required of Christians today. We are not to go along with all the mistaken ways of the world, chasing illusions, and seeking things that will not satisfy. Rather, we should cleanse ourselves, for the promise is, For you shall not go out in haste,\u00a0and you shall not go in flight,\u00a0for the Lord will go\u00a0 before you,\u00a0and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. (Isa 52:12)<\/strong><\/p>\n

    We are so often like the Israelites at the Red Sea: the water before us, Pharaoh’s army chasing us down from behind. We are not sure where to turn or what to do.\u00a0 But then the word of the Lord comes, “Stand still, and see the salvation of your God,” (Ex. 14:13). That is the way out. Trust in your Lord. He will open a way through whatever stands as insurmountable before you.<\/p>\n

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