Bible Readings:
Isaiah 32, 33
Sermon Outline:
Isaiah 33:22 (NKJV)
22(For the Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Lawgiver, The Lord is our King; He will save us);
Isaiah 32:17 (NKJV)
17The work of righteousness will be peace, And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
I Memorization, meditation and question
II Context and Doctrines
Isaiah 32:1–2 (NKJV)
1Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, And princes will rule with justice.
2A man will be as a hiding place from the wind, And a cover from the tempest, As rivers of water in a dry place, As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 32:15–16 (NKJV)
15Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.
16Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
III Implications and applications
The Westminster Confession of Faith (A. D. 1646)
7.2. The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, wherein life was promised to Adam; and in him to his posterity, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.
7.3. Man, by his fall, having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of grace; wherein He freely offers unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ; requiring of them faith in Him, that they may be saved, and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life His Holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to believe.
7.4. This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in scripture by the name of a testament, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ the Testator, and to the everlasting inheritance, with all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed.