Sermon: Seek and Read from the Book of the Lord: Judgment and Salvation

April 24, 2016

Seek and Read from the Book of the Lord: Judgment and Salvation

Isaiah 34-35

Pastor Tony Felich

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Isaiah 34:8  For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. [9] And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch. [10] Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. [11] But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. [12] Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be nothing. [13] Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches. [14] And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there the night bird settles and finds for herself a resting place. [15] There the owl nests and lays and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate. [16] Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. [17] He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.            

There is a high price to pay for rejecting or ignoring God’s Word and a high reward for believing and applying it.  

• God will judge the rebellious “nations” (34:1-15)  

• Do NOT ignore or reject God’s Word (34:16-17)  

• God will save His people (35:1-10)