Pentecost (103)
  1. God turns a song meant to catch us in our sin into the love song of our savior. Easter’s distant triumph song.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.”
  4. Joseph could not give them the complete assurance they required. They needed someone greater than Joseph, and so do we!
  5. Like petulant children they bemoan their lot and continue to question their very existence. Nevertheless, God loves His wayward children.
  6. Jeremiah wants us to see there is life beyond Babylon, and it is a life beyond sin, guilt, and despair.
  7. God often chooses the foolish things in the world and the things that are considered naught to communicate His great grace for us sinners.
  8. We could only fear God because of the Law, but Jesus fulfilled the Law for us. He is the Messiah who has come to save all peoples and nations and that includes you.
  9. He is faithful. And just as He delivered Job and Peter, He is faithful to deliver you as well.
  10. This feast in Isaiah is the victory feast of God!
  11. The mystery of grace, though, is that He chose such a thing and then, in His naming, His declaring, His taking these wretches to Himself, they do, in fact, become His “treasured” possession.
  12. Jesus can ferret out the difference between the darnel/weeds and the wheat. It is on the threshing floor of Calvary where that work is done. There, the wheat and the chaff are separated.
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