St. Paul Lutheran Church, Matteson, Illinois & Pastor Troester

Responding to the questions of others, Jesus shows us again God's good, complete and blessed ways, and how we fall short, be God provides a Savior for us.

Jesus teaches us how to treat each other in humility as we forgive as we are forgiven.

The outcome and blessing of those who have benefited from the saving work of God's Suffering Servant.

The fourth of the Servant Songs of Isaiah concerning Jesus Christ, God's Servant on our behalf.

God calls us to see light, to wake up to the work He is going to do, which is done by God's Son, Jesus Christ, The Servant of the Lord, Who suffers and dies, but rises from the dead to win the victory over our enemy of Death.

We may think that God has spoken enough words of comfort through Isaiah, but God knows how "slow of heart to believe" we are, and so God pleads for faith in His power to redeem us.

Isaiah writes about our sin and then the reason that the Servant of the Lord, Jesus Christ, came to suffer and die and rise again.

The prophet Isaiah speaks of the Servant of the Lord, who is Jesus Christ.

We see God eternal, all knowing and all powerful, and yet the Good Shepherd who saves us.

God conquers all enemies. He lasts forever.

Infinitely merciful and patient, God does not tire to repeat Himself. Again and again God promises to deliver His fallen creatures and goes to great lengths to persuade doubting and fainting souls to believe the proclamation of their liberation.

God's mercy endures.

The mercy of God along with God's call to repentance and warning of His wrath.

This the first of four Servant Songs in Isaiah, referring to THE Servant, Jesus Christ.

In the courtroom of life there is one Judge-God, and yet in His Grace, God has provided the perfect Defense in His only Son, Jesus Christ, who takes our punishment and we are declared "not guilty" by faith.

The comfort that only God can give, to be announced by Isaiah, and John the Baptizer (about Jesus) and now by God's people (the Church). We wait in certain and sure hope for that complete and eternal comfort of God, and live now in joyful service for God and others.

King Hezekiah puts his hope in the king of Babylon and Isaiah calls him out.

The king of Assyria threatens Israel and King Hezekiah, so Hezekiah prays to the LORD, Who promises to save them and send the king of Assyria away--and God does it!! "Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me." Psalm 50:14-15

The enemy threatens Israel, with a call to not trust God.

Isaiah 11 God is going to cut down the nations against Him and against the people of Israel, to save them and protect them. In chapter 10 God promised to save a remnant of the people who have not rejected Him, like a shoot the grows out of a stump. v. 1 - Jesus is that shoot, born from the line of Jesse, the father of King David. He was cut down on the cross, but rose from the dead, alive and grow...

God reigns over all and nothing happens with His knowing or His plan. The Children of Israel have been unfaithful to God and despite many warnings through the Prophets, now God will punish them with the nation of Assyria. Yet God controls how far Assyria may go, and when Assyria goes too far, God brings them down. God is His grace, saves a Remnant of His People, through whom the Messiah, Jesus Chr...

Again, this is a lesson first recorded in Advent, before Christmas. Chapter 8 ends with the call to fear God and wait for the Lord. Now Chapter 9 Isaiah tells us about what God has planned for the future, fulfilled in what Jesus did. Jesus is the child who is born who will reign forever.

The video is one that we used back before Christmas this past year and is a good reminder of Isaiah's message from God. In December we focused on the chapters of Isaiah where God foretold His plan to send Jesus, the Messiah, so that we might have hope. I pray that it is a blessing to you and me as we read through more of Isaiah, the prophet of God.

Isaiah sent to King Ahaz with a message of hope from God, but unfortunately Ahaz refuses to have faith in God for deliverance. God still fulfills the promise for deliverance by sending Jesus.

There are blessings when we follow God, but destruction and death when we follow our ways.