Sermon Text: Isaiah 7:1-16
Sermon Title: “The Greater David: A New Hope”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: If our Hope is in Man, If our Hope is in Circumstance, We’ll End up Hopeless. So, Hope in God!SLIDE 2 – 2 Samuel 7:12-15 – “When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul.”SLIDE 3 – 2 Chronicles 13:5 – “Don’t you realize that the Lord, the God of Israel, made a lasting covenant with David, giving him and his descendants the throne of Israel forever?”
SLIDE 4 – Sermon Point 1 – Hope Fades: King Ahaz is a Son of David … But Not the Greater David (vv. 1-12)SLIDE 5 – 2 Chronicles 28:5-6 – “The Lord his God gave him [Ahaz] into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force. For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.”SLIDE 6 – Psalm 2:1-3, 6 – “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, ‘Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us’ … ‘As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.’”SLIDE 7 – Hebrews 11:1, 6 – “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen … And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”SLIDE 8 – Psalm 2:8-9 – “Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”SLIDE 9 – 2 Chronicles 28:1-4 – “Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done, but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals, and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.”
SLIDE 10 – Sermon Point 2 – Hope Restored: King Immanuel is the Greater David … And He Comes with a Sign (vv. 13-16)SLIDE 11 – Hebrews 2:1-4 – “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.”
SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 13 – Being in the House of God is not Enough for Salvation, You Must Put Your Trust in Christ.SLIDE 14 – The God Who is with Us, Reveals the God Who is For Us.SLIDE 15 – Our Ultimate Hope Must be in the Leader God Made His Promise of Hope Through.
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