Isaiah 43:1-7
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Pastor Tim Brown, Calvary Chapel Fremont, Wednesday September 9, 2009
Isaiah 43:1-7
1a-b He created Jacob, but He formed Israel. Form: used of potter squeezing clay… Jacob was created in a moment, Israel was formed over a lifetime. Jacob was used to winning. He wrestled the birth- right from Esau and wealth from Laban. He was used to fighting to get what he wanted. Wrestling w/ angel/couldn’t win/limped away w/ a loss that was really his biggest win. Jacob formed into Israel. Jacob was accustomed to wrestle w/ man, but not w/ God. But it wasn’t until he wrestled w/ God that he began to be what God created him to be.
God is wanting to form and transform your life, but you are so busy wrestling w/ people and circumstances to get what you want or to protect yourself that you have sense of what God is wanting to do. I am wrestling w/ a particular person over a particular thing and I read this passage in devotions this morning and I immediately began to wrestle w/ God.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so abandon the quarrel before it breaks
out. PR. 17:14
I wrestled w/ God because I am in the right/other person is in the wrong and so why shouldn’t I press my point and pin my opponent? But God is speaking to me and saying: Abandon the quarrel.
1-2 But now… Our text opens w/ a word of contrast. C42 had left God pouring out on Israel the heat of His anger. God doesn’t want to leave His people this way – in bondage/hopeless/unfulfilled. The fire of His punishment is not His last word. He desires to bless the nation Israel as He had blessed the man Jacob.
God isn’t going to begin a work and abandon it. Jesus: not leave you as orphans/come to you. Paul: He who began a good work in you…
Do not fear for I have redeemed you. What had Israel to fear? That the Lord had forgotten her – that her sin was so great and the offense was so deep that God was done w/ her forever.
God claims you as His own. So many Valentine’s Day cards read: “You’re still the one and I would do it all over again.” God is saying to Israel: “You’re still the one!”
There are those who sometimes are concerned that they have committed the unpardonable sin. Their sin has been so great, their guilt has been so deep and relentless, the fruit has gone from their lives and they conclude that they have been drop-kicked out of the kingdom. Look at Israel – the length/depth/persistence/insanity of her sin; look at the length of her punishment. No doubt, there were those who thought that Israel had ceased to be. But God was not done w/ Israel – and God is not done w/ you. Even as God brought Israel out of Egypt to possess and build, so He will bring her out of Babylon to repossess and rebuild. Hosea/Gomer. Hosea to Gomer: “You’re still the one.”
God says in v1, “You are Mine,” and in v2, “I am yours.” The Lord promises protection from difficulties. Judgment into the fire is now followed by deliverance out of the fire and the waters.
The waters that Israel passed through were the waters of identification. Paul: Israel baptized into Moses in the cloud/sea. Moses became undisputed leader (a few exceptions). Before Jordan River, Joshua was leader of Israel, but in Joshua 3, the Lord tells Joshua that He is going to exalt him in the sight of Israel and confirm his leadership by the river crossing. The Red Sea/Jordan River helped to establish relationship between Israel and her leaders. The waters of baptism are waters of identification. We are baptized into Christ Jesus. He is our Leader and Lord!
After each pass through the waters the enemy was defeated. Red Sea – army/power of Egypt/Pharaoh. Jordan River – reproach of the wilderness wanderings. Baptism – guilt/condemnation of sin. Don’t fear the waters, for each time you pass through, you leave something behind - the bondage of Egypt, the reproach of the wilderness, the condemnation of sin.
Whatever waters you are passing through – God claims you as His own and the enemy will be defeated.
The fire that Israel passed through was the fire of purification. (The fire of punishment, 42:25, becomes the fire of purification.) Promise: when you pass through the fire, it won’t leave a mark on you – 3 Hebrew children. Mythbusters – walking on coals – the carbon/ash provide an insulation between heat/feet.
Isaiah was speaking of a generation that would repeat the footsteps of the generation that was delivered out of Egypt. Exodus generation/Zerubbabel generation/Jesus/Jesus generation
Even as Israel had to pass through the waters of the Red Sea and the burning wilderness to come into Canaan, so w/ the generation restored from the Babylonian captivity. They had to cross the Euphrates and the desert separating them from Israel.
Jesus– out of Egypt/waters of baptism/trial in wilderness/witness. Jesus passed through the waters of baptism into the burning wilderness and was there sustained by God for 40 days.
Here is a roadmap of the Christian life: blood/water/fire/witness.
Vv1-2: redemption. How is redemptions possible? Substitution.
3-4 The Lord substitutes others for Israel. There is no redemption w/o substitution. God removed other nations to make room for Israel in Canaan under Joshua, so the Lord will take other nations to make a way for Israel’s return to the land after the Babylonian captivity. Instead of the Persian Empire plundering and impoverishing Israel, Egypt, Cush, and Seba will feel the brunt of their military ambitions. They would serve as compensation to Persia for loosing the captives of Israel.
For God to take you to Himself, He had to give up something else. God gave His only begotten Son. God gave Egypt/Cush/Seba to Cyrus in exchange for Israel. Who/what does God give His Son to in exchange for us? What is it that held us? Sin. God gave Jesus to the full consequences of sin on our behalf. The price He paid was the condemnation of His Son in our stead. Redemption calls for substitution.
The price He paid points to the value He places upon His justice. He could not be consistent w/ His nature and take sinful man to Himself unless sin had been dealt with/put away – until man was no longer sinful. The blood of Jesus satisfied the claims of His justice and washed away the sin of man. He had to give up His Son to become sin for you/me. He became sin…that we might become the righteousness…
1-2 Redemption
3-4 Substitution
5-7 Restoration
These verses point to a world-wide regathering to Israel that looks beyond the restoration from Babylon. Here, in this passage that speaks of return from Babylon, the prophet speaks of an even wider net that the Lord will cast when the time comes necessary for Him to do so.
1: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. 5: Do not fear, for I am with you.
Whatever held you/whatever hinders you has been broken.
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Isaiah 43:1-7
1a-b He created Jacob, but He formed Israel. Form: used of potter squeezing clay… Jacob was created in a moment, Israel was formed over a lifetime. Jacob was used to winning. He wrestled the birth- right from Esau and wealth from Laban. He was used to fighting to get what he wanted. Wrestling w/ angel/couldn’t win/limped away w/ a loss that was really his biggest win. Jacob formed into Israel. Jacob was accustomed to wrestle w/ man, but not w/ God. But it wasn’t until he wrestled w/ God that he began to be what God created him to be.
God is wanting to form and transform your life, but you are so busy wrestling w/ people and circumstances to get what you want or to protect yourself that you have sense of what God is wanting to do. I am wrestling w/ a particular person over a particular thing and I read this passage in devotions this morning and I immediately began to wrestle w/ God.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so abandon the quarrel before it breaks
out. PR. 17:14
I wrestled w/ God because I am in the right/other person is in the wrong and so why shouldn’t I press my point and pin my opponent? But God is speaking to me and saying: Abandon the quarrel.
1-2 But now… Our text opens w/ a word of contrast. C42 had left God pouring out on Israel the heat of His anger. God doesn’t want to leave His people this way – in bondage/hopeless/unfulfilled. The fire of His punishment is not His last word. He desires to bless the nation Israel as He had blessed the man Jacob.
God isn’t going to begin a work and abandon it. Jesus: not leave you as orphans/come to you. Paul: He who began a good work in you…
Do not fear for I have redeemed you. What had Israel to fear? That the Lord had forgotten her – that her sin was so great and the offense was so deep that God was done w/ her forever.
God claims you as His own. So many Valentine’s Day cards read: “You’re still the one and I would do it all over again.” God is saying to Israel: “You’re still the one!”
There are those who sometimes are concerned that they have committed the unpardonable sin. Their sin has been so great, their guilt has been so deep and relentless, the fruit has gone from their lives and they conclude that they have been drop-kicked out of the kingdom. Look at Israel – the length/depth/persistence/insanity of her sin; look at the length of her punishment. No doubt, there were those who thought that Israel had ceased to be. But God was not done w/ Israel – and God is not done w/ you. Even as God brought Israel out of Egypt to possess and build, so He will bring her out of Babylon to repossess and rebuild. Hosea/Gomer. Hosea to Gomer: “You’re still the one.”
God says in v1, “You are Mine,” and in v2, “I am yours.” The Lord promises protection from difficulties. Judgment into the fire is now followed by deliverance out of the fire and the waters.
The waters that Israel passed through were the waters of identification. Paul: Israel baptized into Moses in the cloud/sea. Moses became undisputed leader (a few exceptions). Before Jordan River, Joshua was leader of Israel, but in Joshua 3, the Lord tells Joshua that He is going to exalt him in the sight of Israel and confirm his leadership by the river crossing. The Red Sea/Jordan River helped to establish relationship between Israel and her leaders. The waters of baptism are waters of identification. We are baptized into Christ Jesus. He is our Leader and Lord!
After each pass through the waters the enemy was defeated. Red Sea – army/power of Egypt/Pharaoh. Jordan River – reproach of the wilderness wanderings. Baptism – guilt/condemnation of sin. Don’t fear the waters, for each time you pass through, you leave something behind - the bondage of Egypt, the reproach of the wilderness, the condemnation of sin.
Whatever waters you are passing through – God claims you as His own and the enemy will be defeated.
The fire that Israel passed through was the fire of purification. (The fire of punishment, 42:25, becomes the fire of purification.) Promise: when you pass through the fire, it won’t leave a mark on you – 3 Hebrew children. Mythbusters – walking on coals – the carbon/ash provide an insulation between heat/feet.
Isaiah was speaking of a generation that would repeat the footsteps of the generation that was delivered out of Egypt. Exodus generation/Zerubbabel generation/Jesus/Jesus generation
Even as Israel had to pass through the waters of the Red Sea and the burning wilderness to come into Canaan, so w/ the generation restored from the Babylonian captivity. They had to cross the Euphrates and the desert separating them from Israel.
Jesus– out of Egypt/waters of baptism/trial in wilderness/witness. Jesus passed through the waters of baptism into the burning wilderness and was there sustained by God for 40 days.
Here is a roadmap of the Christian life: blood/water/fire/witness.
Vv1-2: redemption. How is redemptions possible? Substitution.
3-4 The Lord substitutes others for Israel. There is no redemption w/o substitution. God removed other nations to make room for Israel in Canaan under Joshua, so the Lord will take other nations to make a way for Israel’s return to the land after the Babylonian captivity. Instead of the Persian Empire plundering and impoverishing Israel, Egypt, Cush, and Seba will feel the brunt of their military ambitions. They would serve as compensation to Persia for loosing the captives of Israel.
For God to take you to Himself, He had to give up something else. God gave His only begotten Son. God gave Egypt/Cush/Seba to Cyrus in exchange for Israel. Who/what does God give His Son to in exchange for us? What is it that held us? Sin. God gave Jesus to the full consequences of sin on our behalf. The price He paid was the condemnation of His Son in our stead. Redemption calls for substitution.
The price He paid points to the value He places upon His justice. He could not be consistent w/ His nature and take sinful man to Himself unless sin had been dealt with/put away – until man was no longer sinful. The blood of Jesus satisfied the claims of His justice and washed away the sin of man. He had to give up His Son to become sin for you/me. He became sin…that we might become the righteousness…
1-2 Redemption
3-4 Substitution
5-7 Restoration
These verses point to a world-wide regathering to Israel that looks beyond the restoration from Babylon. Here, in this passage that speaks of return from Babylon, the prophet speaks of an even wider net that the Lord will cast when the time comes necessary for Him to do so.
1: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. 5: Do not fear, for I am with you.
Whatever held you/whatever hinders you has been broken.
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