Scripture: Isaiah 40 I. God is comforter. A. The comfort (vs. 1) God wants to bring to Jerusalem is to breathe new life and strength intoHis defeated and demoralized people. God still calls Jerusalem “my people.” So, God says in vs.2, “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem.” Some translators say this means, “Speak to the heart.” Oneword…

Scripture: Isaiah 38 & 39 I. You trust God alone in both personal crisis and national crisis A. The personal crisis for King Hezekiah is that he is going to die (vs. 1). He was one of the best kings in the nation of Judah’s history. 2 Chronicles 29:2: “And (Hezekiah) did what was right in…

Scripture: Isaiah 36 & 37 I . You need to respond to a challenge with dependence on the LORD. A. We see the challenge King Hezekiah and Jerusalem faced in vs. 1 and 2 of chapter 36in 701 BC. The king of Assyria told Hezekiah and Jerusalem to surrender now. At thisexact spot in 735…

Scripture: Isaiah 33 I. God will be known in saving His people. A. In Isaiah 33 God’s people in Jerusalem were in danger – surrounded by the Assyrians. The Assyrians were called destroyer and traitor. They were bullies and cheaters. We see their cheating ways in 2 Kings 18:14 in King Hezekiah’s words to the…

Scripture: Isaiah 30 I. Why is God waiting? A. He is waiting for your repentance and faith. Jerusalem and its leaders did not trust in God. The LORD in vs. 1 calls the people of Jerusalem “stubborn children, who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my…

Scripture: Isaiah 29 I. You can be saved by the grace of humbling yourself. A. In Isaiah 29:1 God calls Jerusalem by a nickname: Ariel. Ariel means altar hearth. Fire always burned in that hearth as a symbol of the burning holiness of God. Jerusalem had the privilege of being close to God because the…

Scripture: Isaiah 25 and 26 I. You can sing in enemy territory because God will be exalted. A. The words of Isaiah 25:1 are similar to the words that the people of Israel sang after they had defeated the Egyptians in Exodus 15:2: “The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become…

Scripture: Isaiah 22 I. Your sin of self-sufficiency is seen in trusting yourself rather than God. A. Isaiah’s prophecy of judgment in Isa. 22 begins with a moment of joy for Jerusalem (vs. 1-2). Jerusalem was scared by the military successes of Assyria within the country of Judah. 2 Kings 18:13: “In the fourteenth year…

Scripture: Isaiah 19 & 20 I. When God comes near, there is judgment. A. The judgment of God in Isaiah 19 and 20 is about to fall on Egypt. “The LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt” (Isa. 19:1). When God judged Egypt in the days of Moses, we read what…

Scripture: Isaiah 11 and 12 I. 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…