Eastside Baptist Church, Winfield, Alabama

“The Infinite Wisdom of God” (Romans 11:33–36)

“The Infinite Wisdom of God” (Romans 11:33–36)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, October 7, 2018
Romans 11:33–36 (NIV)
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!         How unsearchable his judgments,         and his paths beyond tracing out! 34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?         Or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Who has ever given to God,         that God should repay them?” 36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.         To him be the glory forever! Amen.
1. 3 Exclamations: God’s Salvation Plan for History Is Infinitely Wise (v. 33).
a. O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
b. O, how unsearchable are his judgments!
c. O, how his paths are beyond tracing out!
2. 3 Questions: God’s Infinitely Wise Plan Is Not Fully Capable of Being Understood by Finite People unless He Chooses to Reveal It (vv. 34–35).
a. Who has known the mind of the Lord?
b. Who has been God’s counselor?
c. Who has ever given to God [in advance] that God would be indebted to them and need to repay them?
3. 1 Declaration: Everything That Is and That Happens Has Its Source, Support, and End in God (v. 36a).
a. All things are…
i. From him - sourceii. Through him - supportiii. For him – end/goal/purpose
4. 1 Doxology: Our Infinitely Wise God Is Worthy of Eternal Glory (v. 36b).
a. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Main Idea: The revelation of God’s salvation-historical plan for Jews and Gentiles should cause us to marvel at his infinite wisdom and fall down in worship before the all-knowing, all-sovereign God.

The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 19: “The Little Apocalypse”: The Earth’s Destruction (Isaiah 24:1–23)

The Prophecy of IsaiahLesson 19: “The Little Apocalypse”: The Earth’s Destruction (Isaiah 24:1–23)
The Earth’s Destruction (24:1–23)* 1. General Aspects of the Destruction (24:1–6)
a. The Lord Is in Charge (24:1)
 24 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth
and devastate it;
he will ruin its face
and scatter its inhabitants—
b. The Lord Doesn’t Play Favorites (24:2)
2 it will be the same
for priest as for people,
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.
c. The Lord Judges Thoroughly (24:3–6)
3 The earth will be completely laid waste
and totally plundered.
The Lord has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up and withers,
the world languishes and withers,
the heavens languish with the earth.
5 The earth is defiled by its people;
they have disobeyed the laws,
violated the statutes
and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse consumes the earth;
its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,
and very few are left.
2. Specific Aspects of the Destruction (24:7–23)
a. Gloom and Despair (24:7–13)
7 The new wine dries up and the vine withers;
all the merrymakers groan.
8 The joyful timbrels are stilled,
the noise of the revelers has stopped,
the joyful harp is silent.
9 No longer do they drink wine with a song;
the beer is bitter to its drinkers.
10 The ruined city lies desolate;
the entrance to every house is barred.
11 In the streets they cry out for wine;
all joy turns to gloom,
all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.
12 The city is left in ruins,
its gate is battered to pieces.
13 So will it be on the earth
and among the nations,
as when an olive tree is beaten,
or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.
b. Glory to God (24:14–16a)
14 They raise their voices, they shout for joy;
from the west they acclaim the Lord’s majesty.
15 Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord;
exalt the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
in the islands of the sea.
16 From the ends of the earth we hear singing:
“Glory to the Righteous One.”...
c. Universal Upheaval (24:16b–23)
...But I said, “I waste away, I waste away!
Woe to me!
The treacherous betray!
With treachery the treacherous betray!”
17 Terror and pit and snare await you,
people of the earth.
18 Whoever flees at the sound of terror
will fall into a pit;
whoever climbs out of the pit
will be caught in a snare.
The floodgates of the heavens are opened,
the foundations of the earth shake.
19 The earth is broken up,
the earth is split asunder,
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth reels like a drunkard,
it sways like a hut in the wind;
so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion
that it falls—never to rise again.
21 In that day the Lord will punish
the powers in the heavens above
and the kings on the earth below.
22 They will be herded together
like prisoners bound in a dungeon;
they will be shut up in prison
and be punished after many days.
23 The moon will be dismayed,
the sun ashamed;
for the Lord Almighty will reign
on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and before its elders—with great glory.
* The outline for this study was drawn from Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Book of Isaiah: A Theological and Historical Survey (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007).

“All Israel Will Be Saved” (Romans 11:25–32)

“All Israel Will Be Saved” (Romans 11:25–32)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, September 30, 2018
Romans 11:25–32 (NIV)      25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:      “The deliverer will come from Zion;           he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.      27 And this is my covenant with them           when I take away their sins.”       28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. 32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
1. Israel’s current hardening is partial and temporary (v. 25).
a. It is partial because there is a remnant that is being saved in the present time. b. It is temporary because God is currently demonstrating his mercy to the Gentiles. But this temporary hardening will give way to a great salvation among the Jewish people.
2. Israel’s future salvation is promised and guaranteed by God’s mysterious grace (v. 26a).
a. Future—“will be”—after the full number of Gentiles (elect) have come in.b. Full—“all”—all Israel will be saved.
i. As in the present time, not all Gentiles are believing in Jesus, but there is a fullness of Gentiles that is being drawn to Christ in salvation.ii. So also, in the future, this promise is not necessarily a guarantee that every single ethnic descendant of Abraham (or of Jacob) will be saved.iii. This is a promise that a great number, a vast majority, of Israelites will at some point in the future receive a softening and drawing that will result in their salvation.
c. Faith—the Gospel demands that this future salvation of Israel cannot happen apart from faith in Christ.
3. This future salvation of Israel is confirmed by OT Scripture.
a. As it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. (Rom. 11:26 NIV)
i. Isa 59:20 "The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their sins," declares the LORD. ii. Isa 45:17 But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will never be put to shame or disgraced, to ages everlasting.
b. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins." (Rom. 11:27 NIV)
i. Isa 59:21 "As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the LORD. "My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants from this time on and forever," says the LORD.ii. Isa 27:9 By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing. iii. Jer. 31:31–34 31"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, " declares the LORD. 33 "This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
4. This future salvation of Israel is rooted in God’s unswerving faithfulness to his promise and his election (vv. 28–29).
5. The future salvation of Israel manifests God’s impartiality to all people, as the capstone of the drama of salvation history (vv. 30–32).
6. The revelation of this profound theological mystery has a specific purpose: to promote humility among the Gentile believers and remind them that they stand only by grace.

The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 18: "Jerusalem and Tyre" (Isaiah 22:1-23:18)

The Prophecy of IsaiahLesson 18: "Jerusalem and Tyre" (Isaiah 22:1-23:18)
1. A Message against Jerusalem (22:1-25)1
Jerusalem’s Siege (22:1–14)
22 A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:
What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,
2 you town so full of commotion,
you city of tumult and revelry?
Your slain were not killed by the sword,
nor did they die in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled together;
they have been captured without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.”
5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day
of tumult and trampling and terror
in the Valley of Vision,
a day of battering down walls
and of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam takes up the quiver,
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
8 The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
and you looked in that day
to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9 You saw that the walls of the City of David
were broken through in many places;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
11 You built a reservoir between the two walls
for the water of the Old Pool,
but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.
12 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
called you on that day
to weep and to wail,
to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
13 But see, there is joy and revelry,
slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine!
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
“for tomorrow we die!”
14 The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
Shebna and Eliakim (22:15–25)
Shebna: Leadership for His Own Gain (22:15-19)
15 This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
“Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna the palace administrator:
16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a grave for yourself here,
hewing your grave on the height
and chiseling your resting place in the rock?
17 “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
and hurl you away, you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
19 I will depose you from your office,
and you will be ousted from your position.
Eliakim: Leadership to Serve Others (22:20-25)
20 “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat of honor for the house of his father. 24 All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25 “In that day,” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.
2. A Message against Tyre (23:1-18)
Call to Lament (23:1-7)
23 A prophecy against Tyre:
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For Tyre is destroyed
and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
word has come to them.
2 Be silent, you people of the island
and you merchants of Sidon,
whom the seafarers have enriched.
3 On the great waters
came the grain of the Shihor;
the harvest of the Nile  was the revenue of Tyre,
and she became the marketplace of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;
I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
5 When word comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.
6 Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, you people of the island.
7 Is this your city of revelry,
the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
to settle in far-off lands?
Tyre's Judgment and Future (23:8-18)
8 Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants are princes,
whose traders are renowned in the earth?
9 The Lord Almighty planned it,
to bring down her pride in all her splendor
and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
10 Till your land as they do along the Nile,
Daughter Tarshish,
for you no longer have a harbor.
11 The Lord has stretched out his hand over the sea
and made its kingdoms tremble.
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
that her fortresses be destroyed.
12 He said, “No more of your reveling,
Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed!
“Up, cross over to Cyprus;
even there you will find no rest.”
13 Look at the land of the Babylonians, 
this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians have made it
a place for desert creatures;
they raised up their siege towers,
they stripped its fortresses bare
and turned it into a ruin.
14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish;
your fortress is destroyed!
15 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:
16 “Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”
17 At the end of seventy years, the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18 Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord, for abundant food and fine clothes.
Tyre's Ultimate Fate
 
1 The outline for this lesson was taken from Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Book of Isaiah: A Historical and Theological Survey (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2007).

“Holy Days and Holy Festivals” (Exodus 23:10–19)

“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.

“Root, Shoot, and Branches” (Romans 11:16–24)

“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).

The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 17: “Babylon, Edom, and Arabia” (Isaiah 21:1-17)

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.

“Justice and Mercy” (Exodus 23:1–9)

“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.

"Salvation for the Nations" (Romans 11:11-16)

“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).

The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 16: “Egypt and Cush” (Isaiah 19:1–20:6)

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).

“A Holy Society” (Exodus 22:16–31)

“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).

“The Remnant Chosen by Grace” (Romans 11:1–10)

“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.)

The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 15: “Messages against Syria, Israel, and Cush” (Isaiah 17:1-18:7)

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.

“God’s Word to the World” (Romans 10:14–21)

“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.

The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 14: “Judgment on Assyria, Philistia, and Moab” (Isaiah 14:24-16:14)

The Prophecy of IsaiahLesson 14: “Judgment on Assyria, Philistia, and Moab” (Isaiah 14:24-16:14)
Outline1• Judgment on Assyria (14:24-27)• Judgment on Philistia (14:28-32)• Judgment on Moab (15:1-16:14)
Judgment on Assyria (14:24-27)
Isaiah 14:24–27 (NIV)
24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,
“Surely, as I have planned, so it will be,
and as I have purposed, so it will happen.
25 I will crush the Assyrian in my land;
on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke will be taken from my people,
and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
26 This is the plan determined for the whole world;
this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
27 For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?
His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
Judgment on Philistia (14:28-32)
Isaiah 14:28–32 (NIV)
28 This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:
29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,
that the rod that struck you is broken;
from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,
its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture,
and the needy will lie down in safety.
But your root I will destroy by famine;
it will slay your survivors.
31 Wail, you gate! Howl, you city!
Melt away, all you Philistines!
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,
and there is not a straggler in its ranks.
32 What answer shall be given
to the envoys of that nation?
“The Lord has established Zion,
and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.”
Judgment on Moab (15:1-16:14)
Lament over Moab’s Condition (15:1-9)
Isaiah 15:1–9 (NIV)
A prophecy against Moab:
Ar in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!
Kir in Moab is ruined,
destroyed in a night!
2 Dibon goes up to its temple,
to its high places to weep;
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.
Every head is shaved
and every beard cut off.
3 In the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the roofs and in the public squares
they all wail,
prostrate with weeping.
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,
their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
and their hearts are faint.
5 My heart cries out over Moab;
her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.
They go up the hill to Luhith,
weeping as they go;
on the road to Horonaim
they lament their destruction.
6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up
and the grass is withered;
the vegetation is gone
and nothing green is left.
7 So the wealth they have acquired and stored up
they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.
8 Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;
their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,
their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.
9 The waters of Dimon are full of blood,
but I will bring still more upon Dimon—
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab
and upon those who remain in the land.
Moab’s Coming Judgment (16:1-14)
Moab’s Desperate Plea for Help (16:1-5)
Isaiah 16:1–5 (NIV)
Send lambs as tribute
to the ruler of the land,
from Sela, across the desert,
to the mount of Daughter Zion.
2 Like fluttering birds
pushed from the nest,
so are the women of Moab
at the fords of the Arnon.
3 “Make up your mind,” Moab says.
“Render a decision.
Make your shadow like night—
at high noon.
Hide the fugitives,
do not betray the refugees.
4 Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;
be their shelter from the destroyer.”
The oppressor will come to an end,
and destruction will cease;
the aggressor will vanish from the land.
5 In love a throne will be established;
in faithfulness a man will sit on it—
one from the house of David—
one who in judging seeks justice
and speeds the cause of righteousness.
A Lament for Moab (16:6-14)
Isaiah 16:6–14 (NIV)
6 We have heard of Moab’s pride—
how great is her arrogance!—
of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;
but her boasts are empty.
7 Therefore the Moabites wail,
they wail together for Moab.
Lament and grieve
for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.
8 The fields of Heshbon wither,
the vines of Sibmah also.
The rulers of the nations
have trampled down the choicest vines,
which once reached Jazer
and spread toward the desert.
Their shoots spread out
and went as far as the sea. 
9 So I weep, as Jazer weeps,
for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,
I drench you with tears!
The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit
and over your harvests have been stilled.
10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;
no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;
no one treads out wine at the presses,
for I have put an end to the shouting.
11 My heart laments for Moab like a harp,
my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.
12 When Moab appears at her high place,
she only wears herself out;
when she goes to her shrine to pray,
it is to no avail.
13 This is the word the Lord has already spoken concerning Moab. 14 But now the Lord says: “Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”
 1 The outline for this lesson was adapted from Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering the Book of Isaiah: A Historical and Theological Study, Encountering Biblical Studies (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007).

“Respecting Personal Property” (Exodus 22:1–15)

“Respecting Personal Property” (Exodus 22:1–15)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, August 26, 2018
Exodus 22:1–15 (NIV)
22  “Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
2 “If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; 3 but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed.
“Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft. 4 If the stolen animal is found alive in their possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—they must pay back double.
5 “If anyone grazes their livestock in a field or vineyard and lets them stray and they graze in someone else’s field, the offender must make restitution from the best of their own field or vineyard.
6 “If a fire breaks out and spreads into thornbushes so that it burns shocks of grain or standing grain or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make restitution.
7 “If anyone gives a neighbor silver or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. 8 But if the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges, and they must determine whether the owner of the house has laid hands on the other person’s property. 9 In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any other lost property about which somebody says, ‘This is mine,’ both parties are to bring their cases before the judges.  The one whom the judges declare guilty must pay back double to the other.
10 “If anyone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to their neighbor for safekeeping and it dies or is injured or is taken away while no one is looking, 11 the issue between them will be settled by the taking of an oath before the Lord that the neighbor did not lay hands on the other person’s property. The owner is to accept this, and no restitution is required. 12 But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner. 13 If it was torn to pieces by a wild animal, the neighbor shall bring in the remains as evidence and shall not be required to pay for the torn animal.
14 “If anyone borrows an animal from their neighbor and it is injured or dies while the owner is not present, they must make restitution. 15 But if the owner is with the animal, the borrower will not have to pay. If the animal was hired, the money paid for the hire covers the loss.
1. Punishment for the Theft of Personal Property
5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, "As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this must die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity." (2 Sam. 12:5-6 NIV)
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount." 9 Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. (Lk. 19:8-9 NIV)
2. Liability for the Destruction of Personal Property
3. Resolving Disputes over Personal Property
Several principles emerge from these laws that may be applied to our walk as Christians:
1. Theft is wrong and is incompatible with walking the Christian life.
Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need. (Eph. 4:28 NIV)
2. The Bible advocates the principle of the ownership of personal property.
3. Personal property is to be respected as an expression of love of neighbor.
4. Stolen property was to be fully restored by the thief (plus double or even 4 or 5-fold). Nothing short of full restitution was accepted.
5. Proper care and diligence should be given when entrusted with the property of another. Carelessness or negligence that results in the loss or damage of another’s property means that the borrower is responsible for full restitution.
6. Property is never on par with human life. One may kill a thief if one reasonably feels endangered by the thief, but one may not kill a person for the sake of a stolen sheep. The defense of human life is the highest moral law, and it trumps lower laws.
7. When people live in society together there will be disputes and conflicts. As such, an equitable method for resolving property disputes is essential for society to function.
And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. (Matt. 5:40 NIV)
“If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? But instead, one brother takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers! The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.” (1 Corinthians 6:1–8, NIV)

“Salvation for Everyone Who Believes” (Romans 10:5–13)

“Salvation for Everyone Who Believes” (Romans 10:5–13)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, August 26, 2018
Romans 10:5–13 (NIV) 5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”  6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’”  (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’”  (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.”  12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 
1. Striving for a right standing before God by obeying the Law of Moses is a never-ending, never-succeeding struggle (5).
Lev 18:5 Keep my decrees and laws, for the person who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD.
2. The Gospel that offers a right standing before God by faith is readily available and accessible (6–8).
Deut 30:12–14 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
3. The proper response to the Gospel message which results in salvation is a full trust in and acknowledgment of the Lordship of the Risen Christ (9–10).
4. This Gospel message that brings salvation to all who believe in Christ is available to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, social class, or moral worthiness.
Isa 28:16 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation; the one who relies on it will never be stricken with panic.
Joe 2:32 (3:5 in Heb.) And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.
Main Idea: You can never hope to achieve a right standing with God on the basis of your own good works, so stop striving and start trusting in the Risen, Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, regardless of who you are or where you are from.

The Prophecy of Isaiah - Lesson 13: “God and the Nations: Babylon” (Isaiah 13:1-14:23)

The Prophecy of IsaiahLesson 13: “God and the Nations: Babylon” (Isaiah 13:1-14:23)
Structure of Isaiah 1-271
 
 
Outline2⦁ Why the Oracles against Other Nations?⦁ God’s Judgment of Babylon (13:1-14:23)
Why Oracles against other Nations?⦁ Challenges to the Messianic Kingdom
⦁ The challenge of earthly kingdoms⦁ The challenge of other gods
⦁ Challenges to God’s Sovereignty
God’s Judgment of Babylon⦁ Why Begin with Babylon?⦁ Babylon’s Destruction (13:1-22)⦁ The Taunt Song against Babylon’s King (14:1-23)
Why Begin with Babylon?⦁ Assyria would seem to have been the most natural choice of where to begin. They posed the greatest threat at the moment.⦁ Isaiah knew Babylon’s eventual role in history and its threat to Judah. Assyria would invade Judah, but Babylon would succeed.
Babylon’s Destruction (13:1-22)⦁ The Work of Many Nations
⦁ Nations would form a coalition to bring Babylon down.⦁ Those who had suffered under Babylonian rule would have the joy of participating in ending it.
⦁ The Day of the Lord
⦁ Not a twenty-four-hour day but rather a period of time in which God works his purposes in a particularly distinctive way in the heavens and on earth.⦁ The Day of the Lord usually has one or more of these three key elements:
⦁ God’s judgment against unbelievers⦁ The cleansing and purging of God’s people⦁ The salvation of God’s people
Isaiah 13:1–22 (NIV)
13 A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
2 Raise a banner on a bare hilltop,
shout to them;
beckon to them
to enter the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded those I prepared for battle;
I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath—
those who rejoice in my triumph.
4 Listen, a noise on the mountains,
like that of a great multitude!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations massing together!
The Lord Almighty is mustering
an army for war.
5 They come from faraway lands,
from the ends of the heavens—
the Lord and the weapons of his wrath—
to destroy the whole country.
6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty. 
7 Because of this, all hands will go limp,
every heart will melt with fear.
8 Terror will seize them,
pain and anguish will grip them;
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at each other,
their faces aflame.
9 See, the day of the Lord is coming
—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—
to make the land desolate
and destroy the sinners within it.
10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
will not show their light.
The rising sun will be darkened
and the moon will not give its light.
11 I will punish the world for its evil,
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty
and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make people scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the Lord Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.
14 Like a hunted gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd,
they will all return to their own people,
they will flee to their native land.
15 Whoever is captured will be thrust through;
all who are caught will fall by the sword.
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
17 See, I will stir up against them the Medes,
who do not care for silver
and have no delight in gold.
18 Their bows will strike down the young men;
they will have no mercy on infants,
nor will they look with compassion on children.
19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,
the pride and glory of the Babylonians,
will be overthrown by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 She will never be inhabited
or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads will pitch their tents,
there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
21 But desert creatures will lie there,
jackals will fill her houses;
there the owls will dwell,
and there the wild goats will leap about.
22 Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds,
jackals her luxurious palaces.
Her time is at hand,
and her days will not be prolonged.
The Taunt Song against Babylon’s King (14:1-23)⦁ Good News for Judah (14:1-2)
Isaiah 14:1–2 (NIV)
The Lord will have compassion on Jacob;
once again he will choose Israel
and will settle them in their own land.
Foreigners will join them
and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
2 Nations will take them
and bring them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations
and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives of their captors
and rule over their oppressors.
 ⦁ The Taunt Song (14:3-23)
Isaiah 14:3–23 (NIV)
3 On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, 4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:
How the oppressor has come to an end!
How his fury has ended!
5 The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers,
6 which in anger struck down peoples
with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued nations
with relentless aggression.
7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;
they break into singing.
8 Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon
gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
no one comes to cut us down.”
9 The realm of the dead below is all astir
to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—
all those who were leaders in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
all those who were kings over the nations.
10 They will all respond,
they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us.”
11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,
along with the noise of your harps;
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms cover you.
12 How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
to the depths of the pit.
16 Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:
“Is this the man who shook the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17 the man who made the world a wilderness,
who overthrew its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.
19 But you are cast out of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,
with those pierced by the sword,
those who descend to the stones of the pit.
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
20 you will not join them in burial,
for you have destroyed your land
and killed your people.
Let the offspring of the wicked
never be mentioned again.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children
for the sins of their ancestors;
they are not to rise to inherit the land
and cover the earth with their cities.
22 “I will rise up against them,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,”
declares the Lord.
23 “I will turn her into a place for owls
and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
⦁ Who is the object of this taunt? Who is the “Morning Star, Son of the Dawn” (vv. 12-14)?
Lessons from these Oracles to the Nations3⦁ God is opposed to the proud.⦁ God judges wickedness.⦁ God is sovereign over the nations.⦁ The LORD is the only true God.⦁ The LORD’s people should trust in him, because only he can deliver them.
                                                                                          
1 Taken from John Goldingay, Theology of Isaiah.2 Outline is from Bryan E. Beyer, Encountering Isaiah.3 Adapted from Raymond C. Ortlund, Jr., Isaiah: God Saves Sinners.

“An Eye for an Eye” (Exodus 21:12–36)

“An Eye for an Eye” (Exodus 21:12–36)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday PM, August 19, 2018
Exodus 21:12–36 (NIV)
12 “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. 13 However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. 14 But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.
15 “Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.
16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.
17 “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
18 “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist and the victim does not die but is confined to bed, 19 the one who struck the blow will not be held liable if the other can get up and walk around outside with a staff; however, the guilty party must pay the injured person for any loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed.
20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
22 “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
26 “An owner who hits a male or female slave in the eye and destroys it must let the slave go free to compensate for the eye. 27 And an owner who knocks out the tooth of a male or female slave must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth.
28 “If a bull gores a man or woman to death, the bull is to be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will not be held responsible. 29 If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death. 30 However, if payment is demanded, the owner may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded. 31 This law also applies if the bull gores a son or daughter. 32 If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels  of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.
33 “If anyone uncovers a pit or digs one and fails to cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, 34 the one who opened the pit must pay the owner for the loss and take the dead animal in exchange.
35 “If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally. 36 However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.
1. It is Morally Evil to Directly Harm or Injur Another Person, without Just Cause (21:12–27).
a. Certain Violent Acts Deserve the Death Penalty
i. Murder or Intentional Manslaughter (6th command) (12–14)
ii. Violent Acts or Curses against Parents (5th command/6th command) (15, 17)
iii. Kidnapping/Slave Trading (6th command/8th command) (16)
iv. Excessive Beating of a Slave that Results in Death (6th command) (20–21)
v. Manslaughter of an Unborn Child (6th command) (22–25)
b. Other Violent Acts that Result in Personal Injury May Receive Lesser Penalties.
i. Unintentional or Accidental Manslaughter (13)
ii. Fighting or Brawling that Results in Personal Injury (18–19)
iii. Punishment of a Slave that Results in Personal Injury (26–27)
2. It is Morally Evil to Indirectly Harm or Injur Another Person, Due to Negligence (21:28–36).
a. Willful Negligence that Results in the Death of Another Person is Equivalent to Manslaughter and Is Punishable by Death (28–29).
b. The Life of the One Guilty of Willful Negligent Manslaughter May be Redeemed by a Payment of Money and Damages (30–32).
c. In Cases of Willful Negligence that Result in Injury or Damage to Another Person’s Property, the One Who Suffered Loss Must Be Fully Compensated by the Negligent Party (33–36).
Main Idea: Love for One’s Neighbor Requires Valuing the Life, Personal Health and Welfare, and the Property of our Neighbor.
Principles:a. All human life is precious, from the youngest unborn child and the lowest class slave to the wealthy nobleman and privileged royalty.b. All punishment must be in accordance with the crime. The level of punishment should match the level of the crime. Too low a penalty, and the seriousness of the crime is devalued and victims become downtrodden. Society becomes violent and crime is running rampant, because evil is not punished with sufficient severity. Too harsh a penalty, and the justice system is filled with violent abuse, misused power, and the oppression of the vulnerable.c. We should respect the personal property of our neighbors and provide restitution when our actions (whether negligent or not) cause damage or injury.d. Gross disrespect for the dignity of a parent is so perverse that it warps the soul. Someone who does this will have no respect for any other person’s rights and will be a menace to society.e. God’s people should embrace an ethic of valuing human life and valuing one another’s property that is higher than the ethic of the surrounding culture.f. We must take appropriate care with our animals and property so that they do not endanger the life or wellbeing of another person.

“Whose Righteousness?” (Romans 10:1–4)

“Whose Righteousness?” (Romans 10:1–4)Pastor Cameron JungelsEastside Baptist ChurchSunday AM, August 19, 2018
Romans 10:1–4 (NIV) 1 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
1. Our Passion for the Gospel Must Include a Compassion for Lost Souls (1).
2. Our Pursuit of God Cannot Be Based on Sincerity (Zeal) Alone; It Must Be Accompanied by Truth (2).
3. Our Position as Justified Before God Cannot Be Attained by Our Own Good Works; It Can Only Be Granted on the Basis of the Righteousness of God (3).
4. Our Perception of the Law of God Must Include an Understanding of Its Proper Goal: Christ (4).