Sermons on Salvation
Isaiah 31:1–9
When trouble comes, where do we look for help? In Isaiah 31:1–9, Judah was tempted to trust in the military strength of Egypt rather than in the living God. Isaiah exposes the folly of this choice: the Egyptians are merely men, their horses are flesh and not spirit, but the Lord is God. The help Judah truly needed could come only from Him. And God promises to provide it. He will defend Jerusalem, deliver His people, and cause Assyria to…
Isaiah 30:27–33
We often think of God’s judgment and God’s salvation as opposites. Scripture, however, repeatedly shows that God’s judgment upon the enemies of His people is part of His saving work. In Isaiah 30:27–33, the Lord comes in terrifying judgment against Assyria—and His people respond with songs, gladness, tambourines, and lyres. The destruction of the power that threatened them means their deliverance. But Isaiah’s vision reaches beyond the historical fall of Assyria. The judgment of Assyria anticipates the final judgment, when…
Isaiah 29:17–24
The Deaf Shall Hear the Book | Isaiah 29:17–24 Isaiah 29 presents one of Scripture’s clearest pictures of the sovereign grace of God in salvation. After describing the spiritual blindness and deafness of God’s people, Isaiah looks ahead to the coming of the Messiah, who would open blind eyes and deaf ears so that sinners might truly hear the Word of God and believe. In this sermon, we examine how Isaiah’s prophecy finds its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, whose ministry…
Isaiah 29:1–8
Isaiah 29:1–8 — The Unexpected Judgment and Deliverance Jerusalem was known as Ariel, the place where sacrifices were offered to God. Yet Isaiah declares that because of the people’s pride and hypocrisy, the city itself would become a sacrifice under God’s judgment. The Lord would humble his people, bringing them low into the dust. But judgment is not God’s final word. In one of Isaiah’s great reversals, the God who disciplines his people also rises to save them. Just as…
Isaiah 28:1–6
In Isaiah 28:1–6, the prophet Isaiah warns Ephraim—and through Ephraim, all of God’s people—that pride always leads to destruction. The “glorious beauty” of the proud fades like a dying flower, and those intoxicated with the glory of this world will eventually be brought low under the judgment of God. Yet woven into this warning is a glorious promise of salvation. While the proud fall, God preserves a righteous remnant for whom the Lord himself becomes “a crown of glory and…