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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 60
ISAIAH 2:3 – 42:6 - PART 2
All right, Isaiah chapter 40 verse 1 and if you’ve ever listened to Handel’s Messiah this will just jump off the page won’t it?
Isaiah 40:1
"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." Well, who are God’s people? Israel. See, this is what we have to constantly remind folks of - that God is dealing only with the nation of Israel so far as the promises are concerned. He deals with the Gentile world only in judgment because of their treatment of His people.
Isaiah 40:1-2a
"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people (Israel) saith your God. 2. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,…" Peace. Never. All right, so pray for the peace of Jerusalem, the soon return of our Lord and Savior.
Isaiah 40:2b
sin." It’s man’s sin that brings on all of his problems and Israel in particular. All right, so "Jerusalem has actually received double her problems because of Israel’s sin."
Isaiah 40:3
John the Baptist. Never does Jesus tell anybody to stop keeping the Law. He never tells the Jew to stop sacrificial worship. The Kingdom was available. Well, leave that with God’s Sovereignty. Isaiah 40:4
Now, that’s all symbolic language of what the King and this glorious Kingdom would accomplish for the nation of Israel.
Isaiah 40:5a
Romans 3:19
Israel, the Jew! But it doesn’t stop there) that every mouth may be stopped, (not just in Israel) and all the world may become guilty before God." Yes, the Law was given to Israel. Only Israel was put under the system of the Law, but the moral Law condemned the whole human race. Nobody is exempt from Israel’s moral Law. It’s Israel’s Law, but nevertheless it is universal in its condemnation.
Romans 3:20
"Therefore by the deeds of the law (or the keeping of the Ten Commandments, whether it’s Israel or it’s the rest of the world) shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law (the Ten Commandments, God’s moral law for the whole human race) is the knowledge of sin." That people stop. I’ve never stopped." What’s the stop sign? Law! When the Law says stop, then you’d better stop. All right, now then, back to Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah 40:6
Isaiah 40:7
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass." Isaiah 40:8-9
Behold your God!" Why? Isaiah 40:10-11a
Now, 41 is a good chapter to read in your spare time. It, again, shows the omnipotence, the greatness, and the glory of Israel’s God. But now in chapter 42 verse 1:
Isaiah 42:1a
"Behold my servant,…" Now, remember, Mark’s Gospel is a total revelation of the servant-hood of Christ. Matthew depicts Him as the King. Luke depicts Him as the Son of Man. John depicts Him as the Son of God. Isaiah 42:1
God hasn’t cast the Gentiles out of His thinking, but it had to be according to His design. Israel is constantly left with choices. All right, so here we see that God is going to bring forth judgment or rule to the Gentiles. Isaiah 42:6
"I the LORD (Jehovah) have called you in righteousness, (Now, we’re dealing with the nation, Israel.) and will hold thy hand, will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, (a relationship between Israel and the God of Abraham and the covenant promises) for (what purpose?) a light of the Gentiles." Israel! Israel, because of all these covenant promises. Now, let’s jump up to Matthew. Matthew chapter 9 verse 35. It’s in Christ’s earthly ministry now. Matthew 9:35a
"And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, (that is of Israel) teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,…" The Gospel of the Kingdom, and He associated with that since He was God and He had the power of God.
Now, verse 5, and it’s a verse that a lot of people don’t like. Matthew 10:5-6
Next verse:) 6. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Why? Israel has to be brought the Kingdom first and then the King could come and then Israel could evangelize. Matthew 10:7
Israel is put on trial – can they believe who He is? All right verse 52:
Acts 7:52
If you don’t like what we preach, if you don’t want to agree with us we’ll kill you. All right, so Stephen, of course, is put to death, and he was the last real trumpet sound of God dealing with the nation of Israel. All right, but now look; what does God have to do? Israel, as a nation, has dropped the ball. All right, now look what God does. Jump up with me to Acts chapter 9 verse 15, and when you deal with people who don’t understand this let them read this verse. the Gentiles,…" Simon (Peter) hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them (the Gentiles) a people for his name.

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