Preaching (2215)
  1. The love of God here is amazing. Jesus warns them of God’s judgment in order that He might save them from sin.
  2. God turns a song meant to catch us in our sin into the love song of our savior. Easter’s distant triumph song.
  3. Jesus Christ is the only one whose “standing in the breach” satisfied God’s just wrath for debts and sins while at the same time bringing the saving mercy and life that God desires for all people.
  4. The Kingdom we have been planted in is not a scramble to the top, but a dive to the bottom, to serve, to receive, not to lord it over and acquire and do.
  5. For those who hear the Father’s Word of forgiving love in Christ, the “I will not” changes to an, “I will.”
  6. We expect God to be at least as fair our society. But that is not how God operates.
  7. The worthy life is not payment for citizenship. It is the life of a citizen who knows where home is... and who has built the house!
  8. Isaiah uses commands and rhetorical questions to invite Israel to have faith in the future deliverance of God and to trust in the finished work of His “suffering servant.”
  9. Hymns were a means by which people were brought into direct contact with the Gospel that brought justifying faith. Set to music, they could readily memorize it, take it home with them, and rehearse its messages around the hearth and at work.
  10. Joseph could not give them the complete assurance they required. They needed someone greater than Joseph, and so do we!
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