Wednesday Sep 26, 2018
The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 18: "Jerusalem and Tyre" (Isaiah 22:1-23:18)
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Sunday Sep 23, 2018
“Holy Days and Holy Festivals” (Exodus 23:10–19)
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
“Holy Days and Holy Festivals” (Exodus 23:10–19)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, September 23, 2018
Exodus 23:10–19 (NIV)
10 “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, 11 but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.
13 “Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips.
14 “Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
15 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.
“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.
16 “Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.
“Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.
17 “Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.
18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.
“The fat of my festival offerings must not be kept until morning.
19 “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the Lord your God.
“Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
1. God gives his people the gift of rest, and all are free to enjoy it (10–12).
a. The land was to rest every 7th year (cf. Lev. 25:1–7; 18–22; Deut 15:1–10).
i. As an act of devotion – relinquishing the land to the real owner of the land, the LORDii. As an act of faith – trusting God to provide and relying on the bountiful harvest from the previous yeariii. For the sake of the Pooriv. For the sake of Creation
⦁ The ground⦁ The wild animals
b. Every 7th day of the week was a day of rest.
i. For your sakeii. For the sake of the animals of burdeniii. For the sake of the slave – heaviest manual labor burdensiv. For the sake of the foreigner – migrant workers
2. God gives his people the gift of festivals, and all may enjoy them in true worship and praise to God (13–19).
a. The worship of God is to be whole-hearted and exclusive (13).
i. Whole-hearted obedience.ii. Exclusive – not even a mention of other gods.
b. The worship of God is scheduled by His Word (14, 17).
i. The Festival of Unleavened Bread was a memorial to celebrate God’s deliverance of his people from bondage in Egypt (15).
⦁ Application: Worship should be a remembrance and celebration of God’s redeeming grace.
ii. The Festival of Harvest was a time to honor God with the best (firstfruits) of what he has blessed his people with (16a).
⦁ Application: Worship is a time of giving God the best of what we have in order to honor him for his grace.
iii. The Festival of Ingathering was a time at the end of the year to honor God in celebration for his bountiful provision (16b).
⦁ Application: Worship is a time of thanksgiving in remembering what our God has done for us.
c. The worship of God is regulated by His Word (18–19).
i. Ancient Prescriptionsii. Modern Implications
Main Idea: God has established regular times of rest so that his people may be refreshed, and God has regulated worship so that he may be fully honored by his redeemed people.
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
“Root, Shoot, and Branches” (Romans 11:16–24)
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
Sunday Sep 23, 2018
“Root, Shoot, and Branches” (Romans 11:16–24)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, September 23,2018
Romans 11:16–24 (NIV)
16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
1. Be humbled that you, a Gentile, have been graciously united to Christ (16–18).
2. Be steadfast in the faith by which you remain united to Christ by the power of God (19–22).
3. Be joyful over the prospect of the Jews turning and believing and being united to Christ (23–24).
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 17: “Babylon, Edom, and Arabia” (Isaiah 21:1-17)
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
Wednesday Sep 19, 2018
The Prophecy of IsaiahLesson 17: “Babylon, Edom, and Arabia” (Isaiah 21:1-17)
1. The Prophecy against Babylon (Isaiah 21:1-10)
Isaiah 21:1–10 (NIV)
21 A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea:
Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland,
an invader comes from the desert,
from a land of terror.
2 A dire vision has been shown to me:
The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot.
Elam, attack! Media, lay siege!
I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.
3 At this my body is racked with pain,
pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;
I am staggered by what I hear,
I am bewildered by what I see.
4 My heart falters,
fear makes me tremble;
the twilight I longed for
has become a horror to me.
5 They set the tables,
they spread the rugs,
they eat, they drink!
Get up, you officers,
oil the shields!
6 This is what the Lord says to me:
“Go, post a lookout
and have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots
with teams of horses,
riders on donkeys
or riders on camels,
let him be alert,
fully alert.”
8 And the lookout shouted,
“Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;
every night I stay at my post.
9 Look, here comes a man in a chariot
with a team of horses.
And he gives back the answer:
‘Babylon has fallen, has fallen!
All the images of its gods
lie shattered on the ground!’ ”
10 My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,
I tell you what I have heard
from the Lord Almighty,
from the God of Israel.
2. The Prophecy against Edom (Isaiah 21:11-12)
Isaiah 21:11–12 (NIV)
11 A prophecy against Dumah:
Someone calls to me from Seir,
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
12 The watchman replies,
“Morning is coming, but also the night.
If you would ask, then ask;
and come back yet again.”
3. The Prophecy against Arabia (Isaiah 21:13-17)
Isaiah 21:13–17 (NIV)
13 A prophecy against Arabia:
You caravans of Dedanites,
who camp in the thickets of Arabia,
14 bring water for the thirsty;
you who live in Tema,
bring food for the fugitives.
15 They flee from the sword,
from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow
and from the heat of battle.
16 This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. 17 The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” The Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
“Justice and Mercy” (Exodus 23:1–9)
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
“Justice and Mercy” (Exodus 23:1–9)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, September 16, 2018
Exodus 23:1–9 (NIV)
23 “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness.
2 “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, 3 and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.
4 “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. 5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
6 “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. 7 Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
8 “Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
9 “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
1. God’s people must be known as truth-tellers (seekers of justice) (1–3, 7–8).
a. Don’t speak falsehood unintentionally (by not having all the facts) (1a).
b. Don’t intentionally bear false witness (1b).
c. Don’t bend the truth or justice for the sake of the crowd (2).
d. Do not bend truth or justice, even if it is for a good cause (to help the poor) (3).
e. Do not distort justice by receiving false testimony and then dispensing punishment on an innocent person on the basis of that false testimony (7).
f. Do not distort truth or justice for the sake of personal gain (8).
2. God’s people must be known as kindness givers (dispensers of mercy) (even to those we don’t like or who mistreat us). (4–6, 9)
a. We must be kind and helpful even to those we don’t like or those who mistreat us) (4–5).
b. We must have our eyes open to the needs of those who are often marginalized in society (6, 9).
⦁ The poor (6)
⦁ The foreigner/immigrant (9)
Main Idea: God’s redeemed and sanctified people must be seekers of justice and dispensers of mercy.
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
"Salvation for the Nations" (Romans 11:11-16)
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
Sunday Sep 16, 2018
“Salvation for the Nations” (Romans 11:11–16)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, September 16, 2018
Romans 11:11–16 NIV 11 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12 But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring! 13 I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
1. Israel has been hardened and has fallen, but their fall is not ultimate (v. 11a).2. In God’s all-wise, gracious plan, Israel’s failure has brought salvation to the Gentiles (vv. 11b–12).3. In God’s all-wise, gracious plan, the salvation of the Gentiles will stir up jealousy among Israel (vv. 11c–14).4. So, the ultimate goal of God’s all-wise, gracious plan is to bring Israel back into the fold of his salvation in the end (vv. 14–16).
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 16: “Egypt and Cush” (Isaiah 19:1–20:6)
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
The Prophecy of IsaiahLesson 16: “Egypt and Cush” (Isaiah 19:1–20:6)
1. A Message concerning Egypt (19:1–25)
a. Judgment against Egypt and Its Leaders (19:1–15)
i. A Rebuke of Egypt’s Idols (19:1–4)
Isaiah 19:1–4 (NIV)
1 A prophecy against Egypt: See, the Lord rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear. 2 “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian— brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. 3 The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists. 4 I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
ii. A Rebuke to Egypt’s Ecology and Industry (19:5–10)
Isaiah 19:5–10 (NIV)
5 The waters of the river will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and dry. 6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither, 7 also the plants along the Nile, at the mouth of the river. Every sown field along the Nile will become parched, will blow away and be no more. 8 The fishermen will groan and lament, all who cast hooks into the Nile; those who throw nets on the water will pine away. 9 Those who work with combed flax will despair, the weavers of fine linen will lose hope. 10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.
iii. A Rebuke to Egypt’s Leaders (19:11–15)
Isaiah 19:11–15 (NIV)
11 The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise men, a disciple of the ancient kings”? 12 Where are your wise men now? Let them show you and make known what the Lord Almighty has planned against Egypt. 13 The officials of Zoan have become fools, the leaders of Memphis are deceived; the cornerstones of her peoples have led Egypt astray. 14 The Lord has poured into them a spirit of dizziness; they make Egypt stagger in all that she does, as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit. 15 There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm branch or reed.
b. Egypt’s Submission and Restoration (19:16–25)
Isaiah 19:16–25 (NIV)
16 In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the Lord Almighty raises against them. 17 And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the Lord Almighty is planning against them.
18 In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.
19 In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the Lord at its border. 20 It will be a sign and witness to the Lord Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the Lord because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. 21 So the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the Lord. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and keep them. 22 The Lord will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the Lord, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.
23 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. 24 In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. 25 The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.”
2. Isaiah’s Sign against Egypt and Cush (20:1–6)
Isaiah 20:1–6 (NIV)
1In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it—2at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot. 3Then the Lord said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush, 4so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame. 5Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame. 6In that day the people who live on this coast will say, ‘See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’ ”
**The outline for this lesson has been adapted from Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Book of Isaiah: A Historical and Theological Survey, Encountering Biblical Studies (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007).
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
“A Holy Society” (Exodus 22:16–31)
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
“A Holy Society” (Exodus 22:16–31)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, September 9, 2018
Exodus 22:16–31 (NIV)
16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. 17 If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
18 “Do not allow a sorceress to live.
19 “Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.
20 “Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.
21 “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
22 “Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. 23 If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. 24 My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
25 “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. 26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset, 27 because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in? When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
28 “Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
29 “Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats.
“You must give me the firstborn of your sons. 30 Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.
31 “You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts; throw it to the dogs.
Main Idea: God’s people should seek to live as members of a holy society, with proper love and respect for one another and full devotion to the Lord.
1. A member of God’s holy society should seek the long-term wellbeing of others, and so there can be no pleasure without responsibility (16–17).
2. A member of God’s holy society must respect God’s sovereignty and authority and not seek to manipulate people and the outcome of events through illegitimate means (18).
3. A member of God’s holy society must respect the created order and not seek self-pleasure through perverted means that result in the dehumanization of God’s image bearers (19).
4. A member of God’s holy society must worship God and God alone and not engage in false worship (20).
5. A member of God’s holy society must show appropriate care and compassion for the most vulnerable in society (21–27).
a. By treating foreigners with respect (21)b. By upholding true justice for widows and orphans (22–24)c. By showing compassion to the poor in the lending of money (25–27)
6. A member of God’s holy society must honor God and his appointed human representatives (28).
7. A member of God’s holy society must honor God by offering to him the firstfruits of all that God has graciously given (29–30).
8. A member of God’s holy society must respect the created order and the dignity of human beings by not eating like a wild scavenger (31).
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
“The Remnant Chosen by Grace” (Romans 11:1–10)
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
Sunday Sep 09, 2018
“The Remnant Chosen by Grace” (Romans 11:1–10)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, September 9, 2018
Romans 11:1–10 (NIV)
11 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? 4 And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.
7 What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, 8 as it is written:
“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that could not see
and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.”
9 And David says:
“May their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
10 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and their backs be bent forever.”
1. The Question: Has God Rejected His People Israel? (1a)
a. Why would Paul Ask this Question?
1. Israel pursued a righteousness (justification) of works through the law and did not pursue it by faith.2. Israel rejected the gospel and did not believe in Jesus, their Savior and Messiah.3. Israel has persisted in stubborn unbelief, even though the gospel of Jesus Christ has been preached to them.
b. So, because of their persistent unbelief and stubborn pursuit of justification through the works of the law, has God finally and ultimately rejected his people, the nation of Israel? Is he through with them?
2. The Response: God has absolutely NOT rejected Israel as his people. He is not through with them (1b-4).
a. What is the proof that God has not rejected his people?
i. Paul, a Jew, is a living example that God has not rejected his people. God’s gracious salvation found Paul (1b).ii. It is unthinkable that God would reject the people that he himself foreknew (2a).
1 Sam 12:22 For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own.
iii. In Elijah’s Day, it appeared that the whole nation was steeped in apostacy and that God was through with them. But God, in addition to faithful Elijah, had reserved 7,000 other men who had not bowed the knee to Baal and fallen into apostacy (2b–4).
3. It is God’s typical pattern to bestow his gracious salvation on a remnant chosen by grace. (5-6)
a. The examples of Paul and the 7,000 in Elijah’s day demonstrate a pattern by which God chooses by grace a remnant out of Israel on whom he bestows salvation.b. Other examples from Scripture could be pointed out.
i. Noah and his family.ii. The ones Paul has already referenced in Rom 9:
1. Isaac not Ishmael2. Jacob not Esau
iii. The exiles who returned from captivity.
c. So, the present situation is no different from the way God had worked in the past.
i. God’s choice of Israel as a nation was never intended to be a guarantee that every ethnic Israelite would be eternally saved.ii. Rather, God has always operated on the basis of gracious, unconditional election by which he saves a remnant.iii. The unbelief of many Jews and their rejection of Jesus as their Messiah is not surprising from a biblical-historical point of view. It fully fits with the pattern of Israelite unbelief throughout their history.iv. So too does the gracious salvation of God of an elect remnant. This pattern is visible throughout Israel’s history as well.v. Although there appear to be almost no unbelieving Jews, God has preserved a relatively small but definite, number.
d. Grace in order to be grace has to exclude every other human consideration.
e. So, God’s election of a remnant of Israelites by grace is sufficient demonstration that God has not completely abandoned Israel and his eternal purposes for her.
4. The rest of Israel has been judicially hardened by God so as not to see and believe the gospel.
a. Why judgment?
i. They pursued righteousness/justification by works of the law not by faith.ii. They rejected Jesus as their Messiah. They stumbled over the stumbling stone instead of being built on the cornerstone.
b. Israel has been judicially hardened in the past because of their rebellion:
i. Verse 8: From Isaiah 29:4, 10 and echoes of Isaiah 6:9.
Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth; out of the dust your speech will whisper. (Isa. 29:4 NIV)
The LORD has brought over you a deep sleep: He has sealed your eyes (the prophets); he has covered your heads (the seers). (Isa. 29:10 NIV)
He said, "Go and tell this people: "'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.' (Isa. 6:9 NIV)
ii. Verses 9–10: From Psalm 69.
Psa 69:22 May the table set before them become a snare; may it become retribution and a trap. Psa 69:23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
c. Why was Israel judicially hardened?
i. They deserved it because of their rebellion and stubborn unbelief.ii. Their hardening opened up the door of grace to the Gentiles (11:11ff.)
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
The Prophecy of IsaiahLesson 15: “Messages against Syria, Israel, and Cush” (Isaiah 17:1-18:7)
1. A Message against Syria (17:1-3)
17 A prophecy against Damascus:
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
but will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted
and left to flocks, which will lie down,
with no one to make them afraid.
3 The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
and royal power from Damascus;
the remnant of Aram will be
like the glory of the Israelites,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
2. A Message against Israel (17:4-11)
A Time of Weakness for Israel (17:4-6)
4 “In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;
the fat of his body will waste away.
5 It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
gathering the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
6 Yet some gleanings will remain,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,
four or five on the fruitful boughs,”
declares the Lord, the God of Israel.
Revival to Come to Israel (17:7-8)
7 In that day people will look to their Maker
and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
8 They will not look to the altars,
the work of their hands,
and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles
and the incense altars their fingers have made.
The Desolation to Come (17:9-11)
9 In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.
10 You have forgotten God your Savior;
you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
and plant imported vines,
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest will be as nothing
in the day of disease and incurable pain.
3. A Message to the Nations (17:12-14)
12 Woe to the many nations that rage—
they rage like the raging sea!
Woe to the peoples who roar—
they roar like the roaring of great waters!
13 Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,
when he rebukes them they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,
like tumbleweed before a gale.
14 In the evening, sudden terror!
Before the morning, they are gone!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
the lot of those who plunder us.
4. A Message against Cush (18:1-7)
18 Woe to the land of whirring wings
along the rivers of Cush,
2 which sends envoys by sea
in papyrus boats over the water.
Go, swift messengers,
to a people tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers.
3 All you people of the world,
you who live on the earth,
when a banner is raised on the mountains,
you will see it,
and when a trumpet sounds,
you will hear it.
4 This is what the Lord says to me:
“I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,
like shimmering heat in the sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5 For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,
and cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6 They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey
and to the wild animals;
the birds will feed on them all summer,
the wild animals all winter.
7 At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord Almighty
from a people tall and smooth-skinned,
from a people feared far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
whose land is divided by rivers—
the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.
Sunday Sep 02, 2018
“God’s Word to the World” (Romans 10:14–21)
Sunday Sep 02, 2018
Sunday Sep 02, 2018
“God’s Word to the World” (Romans 10:14–21)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, September 2, 2018
Romans 10:14–21 (NIV)
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. 18 But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:
“Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.”
19 Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says,
“I will make you envious by those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.”
20 And Isaiah boldly says,
“I was found by those who did not seek me;
I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.”
21 But concerning Israel he says,
“All day long I have held out my hands
to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
The Proclamation and Reception of the Gospel (14–15, 17).
The Hearing and Rejection of the Gospel (vv. 16, 18–21).
Main Idea: Believers have a responsibility to proclaim the Gospel, and hearers have a responsibility to accept the Gospel.