(Isaiah 43:3-8)
For I am the LORD your God,
the holy God Of Israel, who saves you.
I will Give up Egypt to set you free;
I will give up Sudan and Seba.
I will give up whole nations to save your life,
because your are precious to me
and because I Love you and give you honor.
Do not be afraid- I am with you!
“From the distant east and the farthest west
I will bring your people home.
I will tell the north to let them go
and the south not to hold them back.
Let my people return from distant lands,
from every part of the world.
They are my own people,
and I created them to bring me glory.”
God says, “Summon my people to court.
They have eyes, but they are blind;
they have ears, but they are deaf!”
Saturday, January 23, 2010
28.2 God Saves Us From Pain Or Suffering
(Isaiah 25:1-9)
LORD, you are my God;
I will honor you and praise your name.
You have done amazing things;
you have faithfully carried out
the plans you made long ago.
You have turned cities into ruins
and destroyed their fortifications.
The palaces which our enemies built
are gone forever.
The people of powerful nations will praise you;
you will be feared in the cities of cruel nations.
The poor and the helpless have fled to you
and have been safe in times of trouble.
You give the shelter from storms
and shade from the burning heat.
Cruel men attack like a winter storm,
like drought in dry land.
But you, LORD, have silenced our enemies;
you silence the shouts of cruel men,
as a cloud cools a hot day.
LORD, you are my God;
I will honor you and praise your name.
You have done amazing things;
you have faithfully carried out
the plans you made long ago.
You have turned cities into ruins
and destroyed their fortifications.
The palaces which our enemies built
are gone forever.
The people of powerful nations will praise you;
you will be feared in the cities of cruel nations.
The poor and the helpless have fled to you
and have been safe in times of trouble.
You give the shelter from storms
and shade from the burning heat.
Cruel men attack like a winter storm,
like drought in dry land.
But you, LORD, have silenced our enemies;
you silence the shouts of cruel men,
as a cloud cools a hot day.
Here on Mount Zion the LORD Almighty will prepare a banquet for all the nations of the world- a banquet of the richest food and the finest wine. Here he will suddenly remove the cloud of sorrow that has been hanging over all the nations. The sovereign LORD will destroy death forever! He will wipe away the tears from everyone’s eyes and take away the disgrace his people have suffered throughout the world. The LORD himself has spoken.
When it happens, everyone will say, “He is our God! We have put our trust in him, and he has rescued us. He is the LORD! We have put our trust in him, and now we are happy and joyful because he has saved us.”
When it happens, everyone will say, “He is our God! We have put our trust in him, and he has rescued us. He is the LORD! We have put our trust in him, and now we are happy and joyful because he has saved us.”
28.1 No Other God Saves Like Our God
(Deuteronomy 33:26-29)
People of Israel, no god is like your God,
riding in splendor across the sky,
riding through the clouds to come to your aid.
God has always been your defense;
his eternal arms are your support.
He drove out your enemies as your advanced,
and told you to destroy them all.
So Jacob’s descendants live and peace,
secure in land full of grain and wine,
where dew from the sky waters the ground.
Israel, how happy you are!
There is no one like you,
a nation saved by the LORD.
The LORD himself is your shield and your sword,
to defend you and give you victory.
Your enemies will come begging for mercy,
and you will trample them down.
People of Israel, no god is like your God,
riding in splendor across the sky,
riding through the clouds to come to your aid.
God has always been your defense;
his eternal arms are your support.
He drove out your enemies as your advanced,
and told you to destroy them all.
So Jacob’s descendants live and peace,
secure in land full of grain and wine,
where dew from the sky waters the ground.
Israel, how happy you are!
There is no one like you,
a nation saved by the LORD.
The LORD himself is your shield and your sword,
to defend you and give you victory.
Your enemies will come begging for mercy,
and you will trample them down.
27.4 Hymn To The Majesty Of God
(Psalm 8)
O LORD, our LORD,
your greatness is seen in all the world!
Your praise reaches up to the heavens;
it is sung by children and babies.
You are safe and secure from all your enemies;
you stop anyone who opposes you.
When I look at the sky, which you have made,
at the moon and the stars,
which you set in their places-
what is man, that you think of him;
mere man, that you care for him?
Yet you made him inferior only to yourself;
you crowned him with glory and honor.
You appointed him ruler over everything you made;
you placed him over all creation:
sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;
the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.
O LORD, our lord,
your greatness is seen in all the world!
O LORD, our LORD,
your greatness is seen in all the world!
Your praise reaches up to the heavens;
it is sung by children and babies.
You are safe and secure from all your enemies;
you stop anyone who opposes you.
When I look at the sky, which you have made,
at the moon and the stars,
which you set in their places-
what is man, that you think of him;
mere man, that you care for him?
Yet you made him inferior only to yourself;
you crowned him with glory and honor.
You appointed him ruler over everything you made;
you placed him over all creation:
sheep and cattle, and the wild animals too;
the birds and the fish and the creatures in the seas.
O LORD, our lord,
your greatness is seen in all the world!
27.3 Adoration Of The God Creator
(Revelation 4:6b-11)
Surrounding the throne on each of its sides, were four living creatures covered with eyes in front and behind. The first one looked like a lion; the second looked like a bull; the third had a face like a man’s face; and the fourth looked like an eagle in flight. Each one of the four living creatures had six wings, and they were covered with eyes, inside and out. Day and night they never stop singing:
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, and who is to come.”
The four living creatures sing songs of glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever. When they do so, the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever. They throw their crowns down in front of the throne and say,
“Our Lord and God! You are worthy to receive glory, honor and power. For you created all things, and by your will they were given existence and life.”
“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, and who is to come.”
The four living creatures sing songs of glory and honor and thanks to the one who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever. When they do so, the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever. They throw their crowns down in front of the throne and say,
“Our Lord and God! You are worthy to receive glory, honor and power. For you created all things, and by your will they were given existence and life.”
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