Lectionary: Series A (64)
  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.
  6. We receive everything we need for our life and salvation from our Messiah Jesus. Think about how much He takes on just to have us.
  7. How does God meet you in unexpected ways today? How does God meet you with unexpected grace?
  8. There is a hiddenness to the splendor of the Messianic reign and rule of God for now that will only be seen fully on the final day.
  9. There is a hiddenness to this revelation of God’s reign and rule. It appears first like a shoot and ends with the reign of this Davidic messiah over a peaceable kingdom of opposites.
  10. We are all waiting eagerly for the Christmas Manger in Advent, but we must see the Word made flesh’s (strange the think about) final destination.
  11. A good shepherd takes the little lamb from the flock and holds it in their arms.
  12. The Day of the Lord will be the “day of the Lord’s sacrifice.” That is how He will handle wrath and sin, by bloodshed and sacrifice.
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