1. Doing better is the only way to get those covenant blessings back. Since this is impossible there is seemingly no gospel in this text at all. That is, unless we remove ourselves from the picture.
  2. Jesus comes for those who are affected by the long darkness of sin and destruction. Jesus breaks the power of this present darkness with His Word, more specifically His preaching.
  3. The reason why Jesus is such a good deliverer is because He has already gone the way we have to go from death to life.
  4. In the servant song of chapter 42, God responds to the people. He responds by choosing His humble Servant to bring the right way to God’s people and to all the nations.
  5. Sometimes the answer God gives to our “ask” means the end of what we want and the advent of what He wants for us and the world.

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